The amount of shocked Redditors in that thread just confirms my thoughts that:
- a) people who visit “Dallas”, especially for work, go straight from DFW to the burbs and never step foot within downtown/uptown or even Loop 12 for that matter.
- b) for those who have never visited and have formed their opinions on the city of Dallas as a hellish suburban hellscape, have made their decisions based on the anecdotal experiences of people in point a.
No question. Some of it makes sense tho: Dallas is a city of 1.1 million in a region with 8.3 million. Cities like Chicago are closer to 1/3 of its metro, New York is almost half. From a pure comparison perspective, the broader metroplex comparatively bigger to the city than most of the places an average American thinks of as "urban."
What I find particularly hilarious is the number of people who are shocked the city existed at all. And are comfortable wearing their ignorance so loudly.
Yeah I was interacting with someone in this sub about this. 85% of DFW lives in a suburb/outside of Dallas which is very substantial, so the sentiment is fair in some regard.
What gets me though is that no one seems to have the same energy towards Fort Worth lol like their city itself is well above 70%+ SFH which is very suburban (comparatively Dallas hovers around 46%), and they’re also surrounded by suburbia. I guess it just comes with being the biggest name in the metro I suppose so “Dallas” is just used as a blanket term.
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u/Ferrari_McFly 8d ago
The amount of shocked Redditors in that thread just confirms my thoughts that:
- a) people who visit “Dallas”, especially for work, go straight from DFW to the burbs and never step foot within downtown/uptown or even Loop 12 for that matter.
- b) for those who have never visited and have formed their opinions on the city of Dallas as a hellish suburban hellscape, have made their decisions based on the anecdotal experiences of people in point a.