It’s large because of traditional texas urban sprawl. If you compare it to dense big cities around the world, it’s only large because of how wide DFW is.
@@marcusmcgraw3519 uh no dude. DART is hard to use because its too radial and any trip not on the opposite side of the downtown interweaving takes twice as long as it should.
Fort Worth resident here, and this is true but it’s exacerbated by the absence of green space, tree cover, and abundance of parking lots and highways. Can’t do much about the highways, but if our governments prioritised green space and tree cover ambient air temps along sidewalks and paths would be manageable even in the summer.
Phoenix valley person here and the issue is similar except that it's even hotter here than Dallas area cities. There is some light rail, some buses and very little is unwalkable as everything is very spread out and unshaded. It's 115+ in the summer! We need shade!!!!
@@aerialbugsmasher Just because it's even worse in Arizona doesn't mean it doesn't suck ass here in Texas. The heat in the summer is one of the main reasons I want to move out of the state. Arizona is a desert, of course it's hot.
@@aerialbugsmasherI think they have every right to complain about the heat. Personally I grew up in Houston, but there’s really no reason people can’t dislike the heat just because it’s not some of the hottest in the world….. not everyone chooses where they live, they might have to live somewhere to support family or for a job, and frankly it’s human nature to complain about extreme hot or cold temperatures
I've lived in the Dallas area for almost 20 years - the situation with the highways up here is almost untenable. We're getting more frequent and more deadly crashes up here that shuts down the entire highway. I moved up here when Plano and The Colony were still mostly pasture, and seeing how much everything has grown so quickly has made housing costs skyrocket, especially in the last 10 years. We're long overdue for high speed rail between Dallas and Houston as well.
I am relieved to see someone else mention the highway situation. People these days are going nuts on the highways with dangerous driving and it feels like every day we have to deal with more crashes and traffic.
I lived in Dallas for 10 years and moved out of there about 20 years ago…but I would’ve NEVER move to Plano - IH 35 WAS CRAZY. I lived in Arlington and would see traffic only half way. I worked on the Pres. GB turnpike preliminary design efforts…
@@andyleo8418environmental regulations are not as strict in Texas as they are in California. That and the fact that Dallas can grow in any direction while LA can only grow East. Ohhh and California had about 100 years head start from Dallas since Dallas was establish around 1840s and LA at around 1700s
It's a shame that rail transport in Texas is in such a sorry state, because the state should be perfect for it: very flat and with large population clusters. There's a reason that Texas used to be a very rail-focused state back in the 1800s.
Amtrak screwed our intercity rail service back in the 1990s. DFW is the top rail transit metro in Texas, with the second-longest light rail system in North America, two streetcar systems, and three commuter rail systems. They used to have a dedicated busway network (although not nearly as big as Houston's), but it's now just an ordinary HOV/HOT lane network. EDIT: second-longest.
Also bicycling, the flat terrain and actually pretty moderate weather for about 70% of the year would make it a utopia. In its current state, it’s like a death wish. I wouldn’t recommend cycling to anyone, the roads and drivers are maybe the most hostile I’ve ever seen.
Who really cares at this point anyway, the "city" is so spread out at this point, you might as well tear down the high rises and make them into McDonald's parking lots and parking spaces.
Sprawl is also putting pressure on small rural cities, making them de-facto suburbs. Princeton, TX, a small town outside Dallas, had to halt new housing construction because they didn't have enough utilities/infrastructure to support new housing.
My buddy bought a house there a few years ago, a long with some other friends that did the same in some other similar cities near Princeton. Holy fuck driving over there, even from a neighboring suburb TAKES FOREVER!! I'm even on the northeast side of the metroplex and it can still take me 45-60 minutes to get there!
There's a town called Celina up in the north that I read articles about people moving there for the "small town feel." I wonder if they realize that if people keep moving there, it won't be a small town anymore...
And too much meth. I'm not making a joke either. City officials and county law enforcement are involved in it to some degree. That's the main reason for the halt in Princeton's growth. Full on suburb means the end of the meth trade out there.
There are apparently 100,000 people that commute between Dallas and Houston multiple times a week. 24,000 fly between the two cities on a daily basis. Yet, they are having difficulty getting funding for a high-speed rail line.🤷
That is because the oil lobbyists don’t want it. They want people to continue driving between the cities instead of there being a train to tie the places together.
The last time I was on public transit, I had a dude with face tattoos start screaming at the bus driver. The last time my brother was on public transit He had a crazy lady with multiple personalities debate between them whether or not to stab him. Why on God’s green earth would I take a train when I have a perfectly good Chevy Silverado? How do people in cities get their tools to job sites? How do you carry enough groceries in a little bag for four teenage boys plus daughters? I understand a crowded city like New York needs public transit , but we live differently from you guys so our transportation needs are different and I think that’s OK. What works for y’all doesn’t work for us
@ You buy groceries from a store 240 miles away? If you need a truck full of tools, don’t take a high-speed train. Not everyone is you. The train does have lots of leg room and space for luggage. You can take out a laptop and use the wifi. It also is much quieter than a plane. You can get up and stretch. The United States seems to have a lot of mental health issues that even a Chevy Silverados can’t fix. That is a whole other issue unique to the United States. High-speed trains are analogous to short distance flights, not local public transit. You are thinking of metro trains.
I'm in Dallas one week each month. It's too much freeways, traffic, chain restaurants, big trucks, and pollution. There's definitely a few cool neighborhoods, great people, and BBQ there, but it's just... not for me.
There are tons of great non-chain restaurants! It has one of the absolute most diverse food scenes in the country apart from NYC, the chain restaurants are just more visible because of their locations in free standing buildings rather than the mom and pop type local restaurants that are jammed into generic-as-heck 30 year old strip centers. Otherwise yeah, it is just too car dependent
I count it as among the better places for Chinese food in the US. A lot of it goes back to that “graphing-calculator company” that just happened to be the world’s best microchip company at one time.
It’s definitely a city that is a long ways away from finding itself culturally. It lost the country charm of Fort Worth and Nashville decades ago and doesn’t have anything to replace it and all the people moving from all over the country aren’t bringing any unified new culture either. For now Dallas will continue being mostly a city with great commercial/financial.
Traffic has gotten so bad that even my super-conservative "mass transit is for commies" relatives are starting to say "maybe we should expand mass transit here." The problem is all the "not in my neighborhood" people. For example, DART wanted to put a rail station in the Northpark Mall but the rich snobs in Preston Hollow and Park Cities complained out of fear it would bring "poor people" to their neighborhoods. The Galleria up north near Addison is dying and would greatly benefit from a DART station. However, the real problem is that DART is only good in taking you to and from Downtown Dallas to work. Currently, Dallas is trying to setup toll road after toll road in the area. Twenty years ago, the idea of toll roads was insane; now they are becoming common. I saved a lot of money when I worked in Downtown area and used DART. However, if you are working north of the Galleria, Las Colinas, or somewhere further north in Plano or Frisco, then DART is useless. If you look at the map, all the trains feed into roughly north-south into Downtown. There are no east-west trains. So, if I live in Lake Highlands and need to get to my job in Las Colinas, then I have to travel south to Downtown, then change trains to travel northwest to Las Colinas. Sadly, Dallas used to have an extensive trolley system like you see in San Francisco but ripped in all out to make more highways and roads for cars. Downtown Dallas has also been dying as it is not a place you want to be after dark. There is a tunnel network that was half-built in the 70s. However, not all the tunnels connect and it has gotten worse as certain tunnels are sealed off from the network. In theory, an air-conditioned tunnel network with small shops and restaurants is perfect during the 110+ degree Summers in the city.
I don't think a rail stop actually at NorthPark Mall would have been feasible, as there are no old [rail] trackbeds on that side of Hwy 75. The Park Lane station and a shuttle bus to the mall was about the most practical thing they could do. But, you are correct ... the DART rail system is mostly one big downtown hub with spokes radiating outwards, but the new east-to-west Silver Line project will be a great help to many.
Isn’t it weird how their tune changes when it starts to affect them directly? There’s lost more coming for them to complain about. Just remind them that they voted for all of it.
They arnt wrong. Look at plano and then look at parker road station. I wouldn't bring my family there as there are roaming gangs and alot of crime centered around these stations. Keeping south dallas from the rest of dallas is the most important thing for dfw.
@@superspooky4580 Letting your racism show in your "Keep South Dallas away from rest of Dallas" statement. If the stations are "home to roaming gangs" as you claim, then DART needs a large police presence. Dallas cannot continue to build more freeways (now toll roads) to alleviate their traffic problems. New York discovered this decades ago and now Dallas is having to learn the same lesson.
@@paulm.7422 It would have to be an underground subway system like what they did at Cityplace. In fact, given how built out Dallas is, a New York style subway system that connects major business and retail hubs is probably the only viable solution for the area.
Shhhhh 🤫 don’t let the secret out. Let all these weak people move on top of each other in miserable hot places. I’ll enjoy my cold and quiet winters. Plus the weather extremes put life into focus and make people kinder to each other.
@@crash.override dry heat is more tolerable but only barely, in my experience. Only really better because you can get in the shade and be cool again. But in the sun, 85° dry or humid is pretty comparable
I think it's around 7.5 million since the last census where we lost almost 300k+ people. But yeah really weird how the Census splits the Bay Area up into SF-Oakland and San Jose-Santa Clara Metro areas.
Pretty wild, considering I know they extend the New York metro area all the way into northeast Pennsylvania for some reason. Seems like the Bay Area should probably be one thing
The towns in Pennsylvania is part of NYC because Poconos is a popular weekend getaway for some NYer and you can actually take commuter rail from Port Jervis, the NY town across the border to NYC. I do agree, if they do this, they should lump Santa Cruz-Monterey into Bay Area, since people do commute from Santa Cruz to Bay Area and Monterey is a weekend getaway.
3:50 correction, Houston... Technically Spring, is the headquarters of ExxonMobil, while the north american headquarters of Halliburton is in Houston as well.
@@darunner2010 But Dallas was never the oil center of Texas. It did banking for oil and gas and attracted a lot of oil wealth as a place to live. This video oversells the extent to which oil and gas built Dallas much in the way that the television show did. I've lived in both (as well as SA and ATX) and I still don't understand why there has to be this level of acrimony. One city is better than the other in one respect and vice versa. Houston has vastly better museums and one of the best opera companies in the world; Dallas has some of the best concert halls anywhere and a better symphony. I'd take DFW over IAH any day. Food scene is significantly better in Houston, whereas Dallas has a mere one food hall AFAIK and Japanese dining for example doesn't even remotely measure up. Houston area has the best university in Texas, but the Dallas area is better educated last time I saw the numbers. And then we should acknowledge that FTW specifically has its own merits and people there resent being referred to as living in "Dallas". Texas is big enough for all of us. Live where you want. The vast majority of Texans do not live in D-FW, as it turns out. I will always love Dallas (and I lived in actual Dallas for over a decade), but Texas collectively offers much more. We should enjoy the benefits of the entire state. It's pretty great despite all its flaws.
@@texlad04The Meyerson Center is nicer than Jones Hall acoustically, but Jones Hall is more spacious and comfortable for patrons. I don’t think the Dallas Symphony is better than the Houston Symphony. They are in the same tier of orchestras. The Wortham is just fine acoustically and superior to the Windspear in that regard. Dallas’ Arboretum is light years ahead of the Houston Botanic Garden, but the HBG is only 2 years old and serves a different purpose than the Dallas Arboretum which excels in display gardens, not native gardens. If I could have one thing in Dallas it would be the Arboretum.
@ the acoustics are night and day. The bathrooms suck at Jones. The acoustics at the Meyerson are stunning. I was in the Dallas Symphony Chorus under Jaap and I don't regret the experience at all.
As a native DFW resident currently living in Fort Worth, the growth in the past 20 years that I’ve been paying attention is nothing short of incredible. What used to be ranches, fields, and 10-20 acre properties and houses is now turning into subdivisions and shopping centers. One thing that’s been particularly interesting has been that new growth since about 20111-2012 has been in denser neighborhoods, smaller lots, and more apartments and condos. We are way denser than we used to be 25 years ago.
There are several factual inaccuracies in this video, and I don’t understand why. Both Exxon and Halliburton have not been headquartered in Dallas for several years already, for example.
I really don't understand it myself. Energy has never been Dallas' leading industry. It's barely in the top 10 today, but he couldn't stop saying how much oil drove everything. Dallas is driven by insurance/financial services, information technology, and health care and has been for a very long time. Houston is the Texas Metropolis driven by energy.
@@robb0995Exactly! I was like he’s describing Houston! Dallas doesn’t have any oil at all. Dallas also got its start because of cotton. The Blackland Prairie is great for growing crops, unlike the Ft Worth Prairie which is only great for ranching (thus the Ft Worth Stockyards). The prairie is named for its rich black soil. Dallas was the largest inland cotton market in the world. In the 1920s, the Dallas Cotton Exchange Building was built as the city’s 2nd tallest building. It was demolished in the 90s. Historic Cotton Bowl Stadium is named what it is because of the city’s history associated with cotton. BTW the show “Dallas” was completely fake. The creator never been to Dallas when he wrote it. He said when he finally did, it turned out he was describing Houston. Dallas has ZERO oil rigs/wells and refineries! So, many of the shots used in the video are of places outside of the Metroplex or North Texas entirely.
@@robb0995 R.L. Thorton, a Dallas mayor, wanted Dallas to have the Federal Reserve Bank branch instead of Houston. He went to Washington D.C. and talked the Feds into giving it to Dallas. That meant that although the oil was in Kilgore, the oilmen had to go to Dallas to get the money. That is why Dallas had the oil money.
I use DART constantly and love it. (I use the interactive map feature, to see where the buses are, in real time). Being retired, I use a combination of DART and Uber - mostly during the day when buses are empty. The buses and trains are always clean and during Covid, hand sanitizer and individually-wrapped surgical masks were available. It's not perfect, but Dallas is a sprawling city. Yes, there is an issue with vagrants, but that applies to most public transportation systems, worldwide. One major issue is that Texans love their cars and there is a mindset ... taking public transport is for poor people! If I worked in downtown Dallas, I would never take my car.
Born and raised in Dallas, Texas. 68 years old and have been here the whole time except for 4 years serving in the United States Coast Guard. Leaving next year because it is totally out of control here! Can't wait! Dallas-Ft. Worth when I was a kid growing up (60's-thru 1975) was the greatest place on earth! Not anymore. Horrible here now!
Interestingly, Dallas has the most extreme climate of the Sunbelt cities. Summers there are blistering hot, over 100f for many days, almost as hot as Phoenix. They also have some of the coldest winters in the Sunbelt, with hard freezes in the 20s or even teens Fahrenheit every year, and even single digit temperatures once or twice a decade! California, Florida, and even other parts of Texas have milder, more pleasant climates than Dallas.
Dallas only reached single digits for the first time in decades in 2021. It is extremely rare for Dallas to get that cold. Even when Dallas does get cold snaps, it doesn’t last for more than a week. You’d be wearing shorts by then.
@@214dude2 Huh? It reached single digits again when I lived there in 2022 lol. There was a "bomb cyclone" back then. I swear Dallas people have horrible memory. Everytime they say "it only happens like once a decade".
@ It rarely gets to single digits in DFW. The last time that temps got that cold, other than the record breaking cold in 2021, was in the winter of 1995-1996, with a low of 8 degrees. That’s data straight from the National Weather Service. Dallas is not the Midwest or something. Winters here are mild af. There’s never a time where you’re wearing winter clothes the entire time. Heck, yesterday was 80 degrees and it’s a couple of days before Thanksgiving. Meanwhile, Chicago got its first snow earlier last week. I’ve worn shorts many, many, many times on Christmas Day. There are times where it has reached nearly 90 degrees in January.
I’m in Paris. Far North of all this mess. Problem is I’m afraid it will eventually get to us sooner than later! I’m all for growth and prosperity, but I do enjoy the perks of small town living. Our roads here are already pushed to the max for traffic it was originally intended for. We already see a lot of the MetroMess traffic that heads to Broken Bow and Hochatown, Oklahoma every weekend to get away from their issues! It’s insane the traffic volume going out FM 195!
You didn't put up the populations but it's impressive how much of a lead NYC has on every other city. If you combined the populations Dallas and Houston they'd still be an entire Seattle behind NYC.
… but, the rest of the country doesn’t care. NYC stands by itself as the largest city in the country and likely always will be. Common knowledge for anyone older than 12. The rest of the country doesn’t care and would likely never want to live there, that’s why discussions of rapidly growing areas are LOGICALLY compared to other similar areas. It’s like saying Kansas City isn’t as big as Tokoyo … 🙄 and the sky is blue.
Dallas is projected to be the largest metropolitan area in the US by 2100, with New York a distant 5th or so, even behind Austin. Granted that's a while from now, but New York should enjoy its status while it can.
As a longtime resident I gotta say, we're starting to have too many people. The urban sprawl is out of control and the prices of houses have gone up like crazy since covid. Traffic is so bad and it takes forever to drive anywhere now, but public transit can be real shitty too.
I moved from Connecticut to Dallas in 1986 when I was 23. I love the mountains, beaches, and history of New England, but its slow growth is depressing. Dallas is optimistic and growing, mainly because Texas is a “red” (conservative) state. And if you can make it through the heat of July and August, our weather is very nice. I’m extremely happy here. It’s home.
I have a friend living in New England now and it is frightening how provincial and close-minded people she describes there can be (she moved and stays there for family). Nothing can ever change or be built or improved. And then they have the gall to complain about the problems that causes. People vote with their feet even if they don't show up at the ballot box.
I think he means there are no real geographical advantages that the DFW area has, like almost every other major cities have. It’s a fact. It’s also phenomenal growth for an area like that. Even though, it’s somewhat centrally located.
Dallas is not the headquarters of Exxon Mobil or Halliburton. Both of those are headquartered in/around Houston. They may have office footprints but not HQs. However, there are several other large corporations with HQs or major bases of operations in Dallas
@@DanNikonthey’re the worst people I’ve ever met in my whole life. They pretend they’re important, just to take away your own value in the process. They’re full of themselves and they know it
I’m not an expert by no means, but I watched another video on TH-cam that I totally agree with. It was explaining how different not just Dallas but Texas cities in general are growing and talking about how it’s not perfect by no means but how it is worth watching and taking notes on. Rather then having just one big city center that everyone commutes to causing worsening traffic etc. Texas cities often have many different city centers in suburbs as well. Where people can not only work but have restaurants, biking trails, public areas with events and city concerts etc. I’m not arguing in favor of city sprawl by no means because I wish DFW and the US in general had better rail connectivity, BUT having different city downtowns in one metroplex is honestly very nice. We have the “big three”, Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, then the “sub big ones”, Denton, Carrollton, grapevine, Plano, Frisco etc.. Then we have our smaller ones that too have nice downtowns, Burleson, Waxahachie, Weatherford, Rockwall, Mansfield, The Colony, Midlothian etc I think you get the point.
if you "throw" in few more high-rise office towers in Los Colinas, that could indeed turn it into the "DeFacto" downtown of Irving, Texas! Moving to Irving from the ATL 19 years ago and driving through Los Colinas for the first time, I actually thought that was downtown Irving! Lol!
As someone who move out here from Atlanta. I notice that a lot. I actually prefer downtown fort worth over downtown Dallas lol. But it's good to have the options out here!
I would’ve loved for this video to focus on the rapidly growing/densifying walkable urban neighborhoods in Dallas proper. Uptown Dallas, Knox-Henderson, Lower Greenville, Bishop Arts in Oak Cliff, Deep Ellum, etc. Just about all of those neighborhoods have DART light rail access or streetcar service. I think Dallas is underrated for the amount of urbanization and high-rises that are currently going up within the city itself (not the suburbs). Uptown Dallas by itself is bigger than Downtown Ft Worth now and it is probably larger than the downtowns of San Diego, Phoenix, and San Antonio now too. If not, it will be in the next few years based on what is under construction.
The growth in Uptown is insane! A lot of dense high-rises. Oak Cliff’s Bishop Arts District is growing too fast. It’s a mixture of historic character/charm and new construction with old school streetcar era main streets on Bishop Avenue, Davis St, and largest one on Jefferson Blvd. I can see why ppl are so drawn to it. Both of those neighborhoods have streetcars, which are planned to be connected, through downtown.
@@1TewBuMyShoe dallas is a farm owned by the wealthy. Those places to listed are walkable alright. Only place ur gonna walk to is some cafe, club or overpriced restaursnt that will empty your pockets and move the money to the people who own the strip.
Exactly! The hate comments below refuse to acknowledge the neighbourhoods that are doing things right. I live in between the Mockingbird station and White Rock Lake and it's pretty much a 15min neighbourhood here.
@@DataDriven-ny8nf Yep, that streetcar connection will only strengthen those areas further. There has been a lot of new development spurred a long the Dallas Streetcar line in Oak Cliff, since it was built in 2015. That's not including all of the new deck parks under construction/planned, complete streets projects, or the $3 billion convention center reconstruction -- that will totally rebuild the southern part of downtown into a walkable mixed use district. With what's all underway... Downtown, Uptown, Victory Park, Oak Lawn, Turtle Creek, Harwood District, Knox-Henderson, Lower Greenville, Deep Ellum, Design District, Bishop Arts, Southwestern Medical District, Trinity Groves/West Dallas, The Cedars, and Old East Dallas will be connected before 2030 because of the current infrastructure upgrades and urban development projects underway. Just look at Old East Dallas! They're building a TON of apartments (5 over 1s), townhomes, multiplexes, etc. That area is being turned into a 15 min neighborhood right before our very eyes and they're building a new urbanist main street on Henderson Ave to serve all that new density (just think of a modern Lower Greenville). People who really think all of this growth is sprawl, really needs to get out of the suburbs and actually venture into the city. Densification and urbanization is occurring fast! That's only a small sample of what's happening. Since I can't post news links this is the Henderson Ave Development I am talking about. It will connect right to Lower Greenville and Knox-Henderson, which is a few blocks away from each other. Major mixed-use development breaks ground on Dallas' Henderson Ave A long-awaited development is coming to Dallas' Henderson Avenue, featuring the involvement of one of the neighborhood's original architects: According to a release, New York-based Acadia Realty Trust and Dallas development firm Ignite-Rebees will break ground on a 161,000-square-foot, creative, mixed-use development combining retail, restaurants, and innovative office space. The site consists of a quarter-mile stretch of Henderson Avenue between Glencoe Street and McMillan Avenue at the eastern end of Henderson Avenue, almost to the Sprouts. Designed by Dallas-based architecture firm GFF, the Henderson development will comprise 10 architecturally distinct buildings lined with landscaped walkways that are pocketed with multiple public spaces. The project will also include 500 subgrade parking spaces. It's expected to be completed by fall 2026. “This project will spark a renaissance of Henderson Avenue. In addition to becoming a mecca for cutting-edge retail, Henderson Ave. will soon feature an array of stellar new restaurants within the development and up and down the street that will make it one of the most exciting and interesting food and beverage destinations in Dallas,” Simon says. When the project is complete, Henderson Ave. will transform into one of the most appealing stretches of walkable retail in Dallas and feature dozens of the most exciting contemporary retail brands in North America, many of which will be new to Dallas."
That loud groaning you hear are all the Fort Worth residents who, once again, have had their city's contribution to the area's growth and importance minimized into literal seconds of an 11 minute video . . .
Residents of Tacoma, Long Beach, Wilmington DE, St. Paul and Ft Lauderdale all feel your pain. Unless the smaller city has a distinct sports franchise most people will just lump the secondary city in with the major city because they all root for the same sports teams(Mavs, Stars, rangers, Cowboys) All my New Jersey coworkers think that Ft worth is just another suburb of Dallas like Plano, Richardson or Arlington.
He did say Dallas Fort Worth metroplex at the start of the video which includes both cities in that 8 million population figure. Fort Worth has about 900k people and Dallas has about 1.3 million. When you add up all the surrounding areas you get the 8 million for the entire area. So it’s also areas like Frisco, Plano and Arlington that also contribute to the population of the metroplex but also don’t get fully represented by name.
Sprawl is definitely an issue in Dallas -- I grew up in the suburb of Duncanville southwest of the city, and it took me over an hour to get to the north part of town every morning. Even when I later moved more towards the center of the city, it would take forever to get from point A to point B, even at non-traffic hours. And that was in the early '00s, I came back to visit five years ago and the freeway system has gone insane.
The thing about the Dallas metro is it doesn't have any jurisdictional limits like Chicago and New York City which have their populations squeezed between three states. It also isn't limited geographically like Los Angeles which is wall to wall squeezed between mountains.
@darthbumblebee7310 Yes that is true. New York City is at a corner squeezed between the states of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Chicago is similarly squeezed up in the corner between Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin. There is a matter of jurisdictional limits though. Dallas is one hundred miles from Oklahoma and even further from Louisiana and Arkansas.
Idea for a future video, if you're looking for one: when should city limits be redrawn? Many cities in the US and worldwide are much bigger than their official borders would suggest, having absorbed vast quantities of surrounding suburbia into the city fabric, or even joined up with previous neighbouring cities. When does it stop making sense to administratively consider them as separate cities anymore? Famously, Los Angeles County contains 88 incorporated cities, although the administrative units of the Los Angeles metropolitan area are near-impossible to tell from each other on the ground. Dallas - Fort Worth is definitely an edge case, where it still makes plenty of sense to consider them two separate cities close to each other, but arguments could also be made for merging DFW into a single city. Where does the limit go? When should a city be a city within a metropolitan area, and not just a borough in a city?
I moved to the Dallas / Fort Worth metroplex in 1982 and it’s been growing crazy fast ever since. The houses have also gotten larger as better quality every decade. A lot of houses with two even three AC units each and a pool pump so don’t you dare say electric cars are the power demand problem, this has been going on decades before there were any EVs. Not to mention all the data centers.
@ The 80s and 90s houses were not very good quality or good style but in the last 10 they are very nice and much higher quality. No more 42% brick and the rest cement board and a bunch of fake cement keystones and quoins. The new ones are all brick and stone with tasteful accents. No more Frankenstein style McMansions. I waited decades to build and I’m glad I did.
@ I’m not seeing it. The 1950s house I had was crap compared to my 2018 one, especially foundation and framing. They didn’t have tension cable foundations in the good old days.
Texas resident here; moved to California in 2020 and returned back in 2024. Dallas is an amazing city. Austin is great too. The main thing about Texas, and Dallas, is we still support a middle-class lifestyle and jobs. California, for example, was either winners or losers. Thankfully I made way more than the general population but the taxes drove me back home.
As someone who grew up in the DFW area (Plano and Frisco) and has been away the past 10 years living in LA and in Europe, it baffles me how much is built every time i visit family every 6 months. While the growth is impressive, anything new just feels so sterile without any charm. The area still seems to try to sell itself (well maybe mostly the suburban areas) to young conservative families who just want good schools, a Starbucks and a house with an extremely high HOA. I legitimately get lost driving in the suburbs of both Dallas and Ft. Worth because they all honestly look the same to me, and with not many geographically defining features, it's hard to orient yourself. I have always thought the recent DART, TexRail and Silver Line extensions are great for the region, but sadly I have yet to meet any recent locals who actually use it (or want to use it) due to it's bad reputation.
The reason you never see it is because you're up in plano and Frisco. The cities with high usage are Richardson, Addison, and Dallas proper. Downtown has by far the highest ridership, but stations like SMU/Mockingbird and Cityplace/Uptown also have very high ridership. Also the silver line will at least be heavily utilized by Richardson and Addison, who are both developing immensely around their new stations, and Carrollton may see a boost as well since there's a major connection with the green line there. The really big flaw DART has had is that the bus network was trash for the past 20 years, but its had major reworks in the past 2 years and is slated for major improvements over the next 5. Overall, not great, but not the worst either considering how many mistakes were left over from the 80s.
Lower taxes are also a driving force Unfortunately, people realize only after they move to the Texas, Arizona, etc. what their Northern state taxes were paying for... Good transit, a functioning government, strong schools.
Dallas has some amazing schools. It can get a little chaotic but it does also have a functioning government that can actually add housing to keep living costs more affordable (although there was a spike during the pandemic due to extremely low interest rates but the home and rent prices are falling due to continued home production). I cannot understand the smug ignorance of people who say foolish things like this.
@@usernameryan5982 Hey! Stop! You're breaking the narrative that Texas is a completely dysfunctional conservative hell-scape! I just stepped over a needle walking out of the W 4 St-Wash Sq MTA stop in the wealthy area of Manhattan,. but yeah Texas is a mess!!! (I love both and they're both great btw)
The sprawl is absolutely insane. Highways, strip malls, chain stores, unwalkabale - it’s crazy. Yeah, you can have a big house and low taxes but it’s not worth it. I pay a ton of taxes in the northeast but i love my small/walkable Main Street towns, bus services to major cities, and 4 seasons.
I'm in Houston and it was the largest city in the state (pop) wise until the Pandemic. More people flocked to the DFW area than here. NOW you are are feeling what we felt here a while ago. Apartment complexes built over night, loss of your local free parking secret spots and such, lame craft restaurants, increasing traffic, etc. Just more people than the city can handle (in a sense). The bad part is that people will eventually leave as some have down here in Houston and you are leave with empty buildings, loss of the cool mom and pop restaurants, and other potential eyesores. I didn't even talk about the insanely high rents and housing, in what used to be reasonably priced areas. Crazy I tell you, just crazy!!!!
Bless you, Arlington person. The one friggin place that needs rapid transit is Arlington. It is insane. Actively fighting against it in the city is buckwild.
@@coolwiththecool3 that is not true. We don’t have a bus network but we have a ride share service called Via. You download the app, the Via minivan will come in 10-20 min and will take you anywhere in Arlington and to the TRE CentrePort station to con to the rest of the DFW. Via runs 6 days a week and the service may start to run 7 days a week in 2025. It’s not a traditional bus network but the service runs 6am-9pm M-Sat and it only cost $3. I now use my e scooter to get myself to the train station but Via was there for me when I didn’t have a scooter.
I’ve been in Dallas for 8 years. Miss the mountains out west for sure but if you travel on planes a lot and don’t have a regionalized job you can’t beat the CST time zone. It’s the best time zone to work in, no early hours PST. Also I’m a 3 hour flight from Seattle, LA, NY, Florida, San Jose, Costa Rica. You can’t beat its location.
Ever notice the big airport is called DFW and not Dallas? That's because it's not only not in Dallas, it's not even next to Dallas. It's roughly equidistant from both Dallas and Ft Worth, a ways to the north since that's where there was land available in the late 1960s. The point? Dallas is not at the center of the DFW metropolitan area and that's why it's not named the Dallas area. The DFW metropolitan area is very decentralized and Dallas doesn't dominate it.
Ohhhh Lord! Being born and raised in Dallas, I couldn't have clicked on this vid faster... Believe me, we have felt EVERY BIT of this growth... It's maddening. 😒 WE. ARE. FULL! 🤨
As someone who lives in the DFW area, it's really annoying that people just call the whole place Dallas and chalk it up to being one city, the area is many multiple cities that make up the metroplex
I live in Anna which is near Sherman. I'm considered to be in the part of the DFW Metroplex even though I am closer to the Oklahoma border than I am to Dallas. The DFW Metroplex's real charm is it's smaller sprawling cities like McKinney, Allen and Plano. Lots of local BBQ restaurants, nightlife and quality shopping areas.
I feel like this has a lot more to do with urban sprawl as opposed to it being just about Dallas itself. The city's growth has been stagnant for a few years, and has even taken a slight decline.
Dude, the only freaking city in the United States of America with over 8 million people in the city itself is NYC! That means all cities sprawl here! You’re not saying much! Also in the Sunbelt large cities, most people live in the burbs. It is what it is! If we wanted NY, we would freaking move there!
Dallas isn’t growing as fast because people can’t afford to live in the city. Dallas is the 2nd most expensive city in the state. People who can afford it are quickly gentrifying the city. Bishop Arts District in Oak Cliff, West Dallas, Old East Dallas, etc are examples. A lot of ppl can only afford to live in cheaper areas like Fort Worth and the suburbs.
The thing is the urban sprawl in many largely populated metros has stopped. Dallas is unique because it is one of the few large cities that is sprawling.
I was born and raised and still livin’ in this great state of Texas, and you've summed up why having transit options is so important in a large metropolitan area like the Metroplex. Traffic has become increasingly bad, leadin’ many people who used to live in the Metroplex to leave for places like my hometown of Abilene. When I asked those who had left why they made the move, the most common reason was the traffic. They still enjoy visitin’ the Metroplex, but they are willin’ to move two hours away just to avoid the congestion when runnin’ errands and slow down a little bit. Many people have relocated to our town due to new job opportunities in the health sector or the military. Others have moved here for retirement, particularly older adults. Additionally, some individuals may have come to attend one of our three local and private universities. Yes, all 3 universities are private. Alternatively, it seems that the urban sprawl of The Metroplex may have become overwhelmin’ to them, promptin’ them to seek a different lifestyle and settle down with their families in a quieter environment like Abilene. The Abilene area has experienced significant growth as people are leavin’ the Metroplex and the other three major cities-Houston, San Antonio, and Austin. Abilene is the closest city with a decent population of over 130,000, allowin’ residents to still commute to the Metroplex. However, we're beginnin’ to face some traffic issues as a result…Gotta love that Texas Sprawl
My wife and I moved 3-and-a-half years ago from a mid-sized town of 400k people to the DFW area (northwest Carrollton) and there are many things we immediately noticed, some good and some bad, that we still see often if not everyday. The good: 1) There's a lot to do and the culture is rich. There is a Korean district (K-Town) that has amazing food and cafes, and there are a lot of restaurants. Dallas has a wonderful arboretum and there are nature preserves and parks to visit in every town. Although these places are usually very busy on weekends and holidays. 2) If you like events, DFW has a lot to offer. There's AT&T Stadium in Dallas and Ford (Cowboys) Stadium in Frisco, comedy clubs and theaters. 3) If you like sunny weather, there is a lot of that here. Summers can be hot (110°F) and muggy which can feel gross at times. Although I'm used to hot summers, so that isn't too bad to me. 4) There are a lot of jobs and the economy is growing. If you're looking to get experience or transition into a career, DFW could be a good place to look. The bad: 1) Drivers seem to be almost always distracted. It's awful. The number of people with one hand on the wheel and the other holding a phone in front of their faces is so astonishingly high that it's no wonder there are so many accidents here. In this metroplex, I have almost been in more car accidents driving in parking lots of all places than I did in all my time driving in my last town. Just last week someone almost T-boned my car because they were going 35 in a parking lot looking at their phone and almost ran a stop sign with pedestrians nearby. Lucky for me he swerved enough to miss me and slammed on his breaks before speeding off again. I used to like driving, but living in DFW driving feels like a potentially fatal chore. 2) Traffic is always bad. The highways, freeways, shoulders, and even the quieter roads in town are usually busy if not congested. Even some neighborhoods are swarming with cars if there is road work on a main road. 3) DFW is in tornado alley, so flash flooding, hail, high wind and tornadoes (watches and warnings) aren't uncommon. Winters are also bitter cold, often reaching and staying below freezing in January and February. Damage from flying objects and hail damage to windows, roofs and cars is also pretty common if you park outside. 4) Housing is expensive, and property taxes are some of the highest in the country. Cost of living has gone of a lot since we moved here. DFW can be a lot. We don't plan to stay here much longer for what it's worth. We now have more of an appreciation for small and mid-town living.
It's a shame about the DART. I've ridden it a lot. But what's frustrating is it's designed with cars in mind still. To get to a DART station, you have to get to a highway. The DART runs along the highways, except for downtown, which is just 5 stations. It's not the worst, since you can take a bus to the stations, but the bus and DART schedules don't like up. For me, every time I take a bus, it arrives at the same time the train leaves, so I'll have to wait 10+ minutes for another train to come. Vice versa with the buses, I'll have to wait sometimes 30 minutes + for another bus, and then I just end up taking Uber for the last mile, since I'm next to a highway.
I don't understand why dart targets people who have cars either. I had to use dart in my early years and I can tell you dart has improved. However that's not saying much considering how expensive it has gotten. Its cheaper to drive than ride to most places since Dallas doesn't have parking or toll problems yet.
@TheMissingxtension The focus on cars is an issue of legacy. The system was planned in the 1980s, and no one really thought that it was a bad idea until recently. As for cheapness, buddy half the highways here are tolls or have express lanes if you want to not be in gridlock traffic at 3pm on a Saturday. Downtown parking is also expensive so that makes it cheaper still. Finally, at UTD the bus service is really good so many students elect to use that instead of paying for their yearly parking pass. Also, many businesses will provide DART passes (whether monthly or yearly) for their employees if the business is near a DART station or bus line, meaning it's literally free to use for some people.
I live in a smaller college town (permanent pop ~22k, +14k students) near DFW. The traffic in DFW is crazy and terrifies me. It’s not just DFW that’s growing, all the towns near it are also growing fast as a result of the sprawl. People who once lived on the edge of the city find themselves in the middle of it, so they move to a neighboring town.
@5:20 "The United States today is producing more oil than any other country in the world, except Saudi Arabia." *Wrong. As of November 2024, the US is the world's largest oil producer, producing 21.91 million barrels per day and accounting for 22% of the world's total oil production. The U.S. has held this position since 2018. Saudi Arabia produces 11.13 million barrels a day, about 12% of world production.* Of the US total, Texas accounts for 41.4%, followed (in descending order) by New Mexico, North Dakota, Alaska, Colorado, Oklahoma and California.
Its interesting that the Largest cities in Texas got more attention in recent years and it came from stories like companies moving the CEO's office from places like San Jose, Palo Alto and San Francisco for places like Dallas, Houston and Austin. Note its part contributor to the rise of Texas.
Dallas is a city that is part of the DFW metropolitan area. But there's a reason it's not called "the Dallas area" and that is that Dallas is off on one end, while Ft Worth, almost as big in population, anchors the opposite end. In between and around these two are dozens of other cities, some of them also large in their own right. The "Dallas area" is just the eastern half of the metropolitan area, or the Metroplex or whatever you want to call it. If this seems confusing then just take a quick glance at any map and it should become clear.
Dallas resident here. Sprawl is bad and definitely a lot of suburban housing. But, I will say, as you mentioned the city center is getting denser and a lot of housing is being built on the “walkable” area of the city
I'm not sure I would say sprawl = affordability. Housing economists at Up for Growth are noting that the expansive model of growth, while it can help affordability in the near term, has its limits, especially when you start running out of easily developable land.
Dallas is in the middle of the Great Plains, so lots of land. California cities on the other hand, no more room to sprawl as it’s geographically constrained by the coast to the west and the mountains to the east
I think the economist was taking about affordability in the near term for the sprawling city. Right now the whole nation (and much of the developed western world) is in an affordable housing crises. Any increase in supply is welcome
absolutely something I think about when I think about Dallas, but the problem is that I thought DFW would peak in 1996, then around 2005, then in 2012, and again in 2020. How DFW still continues to grow is beyond me at this point. it's insane.
But we're still in the near term so it is still affordable. I think it still has a ways to go before Dallas shoots itself in the foot and reaches the actual limit. And if the near term is still within current lawmakers' age span (or actual term more likely), then they won't care about long-term consequences.
@@machtmann2881In a couple years young native texans not going to be able to afford shit lol especially in the DFW we had the worst inflation out of the country this year
DFW resident for about 15 years here. I'd like to comment on housing. Yes, you can get more house for less money here, but housing costs are rising extremely quickly. Most houses from the 2010s-2020s have now more than doubled, if not almost tripled, in price. Housing prices continue to rise consistently. Additionally, I wouldn't say the weather is necessarily "better." We experience harsh heat in the summer and dry cold during the winter. You only get about a week or two of "good weather" scattered throughout the year. As for traffic, it’s not solely due to the number of people moving to Dallas, but also the sheer amount of ongoing construction to expand the roads. Great video and explanation, though-I loved it!
This is probably an unpopular opinion but, I think DFW metro area should be spilt up into two different metro areas. If Raleigh and Durham, Denver and Boulder, and New Orleans and St.Tammany parish all have been split, despite having significant ties, then why not give Fort Worth it's own metro?
Dallas and Ft Worth are economically linked. Ft Worth does not function as a separate city with its own economy. The vast majority of Ft Worth residents commute to Dallas for work. That why the US Census Bureau designated it as one metro area.
You may have a point however, I won't go as far as to say the vast majority of working residents commute to Dallas. I would also say out of the mentioned metros areas (above), all are somewhat economically linked, but Dallas and Ft Worth differs politically and culturally more than the otters.
@@princecharles757 The City of Fort Worth did a study and that’s what result said. Ft Worth does not have a big downtown where ppl go to work. There are suburban downtowns in Dallas County that have more office space than downtown Ft Worth.
I agree people always used DFW to say they are bigger or have a bigger population than Houston, but you’re using two different cities to claim that when Houston stands alone??
In my opinion, any analysis of Dallas must also incorporate an analysis of Houston. They are sister cities in almost every way, with codependent economies and mirror demographics/growth patterns. I think generally any of the big 4 cities in texas must be read within the context of the texas triangle, but especially Dallas/Houston.
@@Damianoutlaw Houston sprawls better than Dallaa. Dallas likes to pretend it's all unregulatrd and free, but it's zoned to hell and back. Houston is famous for its lax zoning. The club next to the church so to speak. Plus as I said many famous musicians are from Houston. Pimp C, Paul Wall, Chamillionaire, Mike Jones etc. Dallas has no music scene at all. Houston also has actual authentic Chinese and Vietnamese food. Dallas has little of this. Houston is better.
I've seen documentaries about American cities like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, but never paid attention to the city of Dallas and it's insane growth, I am sure that its growth is because of it's economic policy on housing and crude oil, other cities in the world can sit down and look at how they can manage urban growth in the years ahead with massive urbanization happening really fast, they can learn from cities like Dallas on how to manage and use urban growth in terms of size and population as an opportunity for economic boom for the nation.
I'm a Texas transplant, originally from my home state of Nebraska (I work in the semiconductor industry here in Dallas, which is unheard of back home). I basically got my engineering degree, got a job offer, and left home. I do like Dallas for a lot of things. But I do agree with a lot of natives here in the comments on the more negative things. I wholeheartedly agree that there are a lot of people moving here at a crazy rate... While I did contribute to the brain drain of the Midwest, I also contributed to the max exodus of people moving to Texas. I don't know how I exactly feel about contributing to those things. But I found a career that I enjoy and a city that isn't too bad for my liking.
As someone who’s seen many friends move to Dallas. It’s because it seems new and shiny. It’s seems fun, nice and lots to do. People avoid Houston because it seems run down. I’m not saying it is, but that’s the perception.
I've been in Dallas for 30 years, DFW for 40. The nightlife and real estate has changed dramatically to serve almost exclusively extremely high income earners. Everyone else is moving out into the surrounding burbs. Either way rent and cost of living has skyrocketed year after year anywhere within 2 hours of Dallas/Fort Worth.
No, it’s overrated if you look purely at the miles of track. Not only is it insanely unsafe (although you could say driving in Dallas is also very unsafe), the stations have the most horrific land use ever which is why it get abysmal ridership numbers. It also has way to many at grade crossings which lowers frequency and train length. There’s a reason why DART has something like a 13% fare to operating cost ratio compared to places like the Netherlands where it’s close to 90%. Everywhere you get off the DART except uptown and downtown, it’s nothing but large box stores, giant parking lots, and arterial roads where people drive 50 mph.
@usernameryan5982 You must be a NJB fanboy if you refuse to recognise improvements being made and you generalise the entire system and compare it to your precious Netherlands.
@@crowmob-yo6ryDART has the lowest ridership per mile of light rail in the country. Building lines that nobody uses is not improvement for transit, it builds excuses not to build transit. Insipid people like you can’t put two and two together though.
Transplant from the mountain west to Fort Worth here, and DFW is the worst of American urban planning on steroids. I will say, I spent a summer working in Dallas, and that made me like Fort Worth a lot more. It has more identifiable “soul” and the downtown is more walkable, although four lane one ways with no speed limits do make it feel less than comfortable and like most Texans, people like to run red lights and play chicken with pedestrians. Cops don’t enforce traffic laws here either. While the local zoning laws here are garbage, the big problem here is the state. Like everything in America, the culture war has ruined urban planning and transportation policy. The state GOP makes it a point to oppose any transportation funding that doesn’t go to highway expansions and regularly talks about how trains are a liberal communist plot to control people and keep them in ghettos. The state authorised $104 billion for highway expansions over the next decade, and to republicans here that’s “the free market” at work. Talk about building a train or bike lanes or making it safer to walk or even just enforcing traffic laws and all of a sudden you’re Joseph Stalin.
@ Nothing more fiscally conservative than spending hundreds of billions of dollars on handouts to construction companies for projects that make traffic worse in the short term, fail to improve traffic in the long term, and often require bulldozing businesses and neighbourhoods😤💪
No speed limit? Of course they have limits. If you think the lack of enforcement in Ft. Worth is bad, you would hate to see Sacramento and Stockton in CA. As far as the evil politicians go, only Jake Ellezy and Cara Mendelsohn exemplify the stupidity you described. Everyone in and out of power I've talked to wants to see better public transport, passenger rail, walkability and cycling infrastructure. Including some fiscal conservatives.
@@crowmob-yo6ry I hope that’s true. However, the governor and TxDOT don’t seem to have any interest in rail, public transit, walkability or bikeability. Hard to believe they do when hundreds of billions keeps getting allocated to highway expansions and pedestrian and roadway deaths remain near the top of national charts.
Downtown Fort Worth has a lot of potential, the problem is the Bass Family owns like half of downtown, and has favorites on what businesses they want. As a result, many businesses have left downtown, and it doesn't have much to offer outside of Sundance Square
Curious about the environmental impact of massive cities in the Sun Belt. Is it any more/less energy efficient cooling and connecitng a city in a Texas summer than it is heating one during a Midwest winter?
Having lived in both Chicago and Central Texas, a can assure you the weather in Texas is way worse. It's way too hot to go outside 6 to 8 months of the year and the sun feels like it incessantly scalds you if you even think about going outside. I can't even begin to describe how unimaginably terrible it is, it's like living in literal hell.
@lisasdfwhightechworld9946 Well they were idiots for putting themselves in such a hellish, inhuman situation. I'd kill myself before I'd suffer through a Texas summer without air conditioning. Life is too short for that much misery. Texas summers a million times more brutal than Chicago winters, even with air conditioning.
@@lisasdfwhightechworld9946 Yes people did suffer there, but that doesn't negate the fact that Texas is literally hell on earth. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
Lived there for 10 years before moving up north to Chicago. Definitely a decent city, cheap, and all the amenities you could want. However, as someone else said, way too many freeways, traffic, chains, and pollution. Not a lot of good nightlife or (other than some pockets) local neighborhood identities within the city like other places. It doesn't feel like you're living any specific place, you're just somewhere! 6/10, might live again
Perfect description. I would say that although there are a lot of chain restaurants, there are also a ton of smaller scale businesses that are also very affordable. The sprawl is just crazy while downtown is treated as a dumping ground encircled by like 5 freeways
I lived in DFW for 18 years until i retired. DFW metro has everything anyone could want. Entertainment, golf courses, five lakes, great restaurants, all the shopping you can ask for. It does get really hot in the summer. All the concrete and steel creates a heat island. The winters are mild yet , yet occasion ice storms create havoc on the freeways. Its culturally diverse and that makes it interesting. I left because i chose not to deal with the traffic. Everything is measured by drive time.
Everything in Dallas is soooooo spread apart and far away. Driving takes up like half your day there. I like visiting my friend there, but I would never live there.
I live in Sherman Texas, north of Dallas and they are building 10,000 new homes here. They say the new homes will ranch in price from 200,000 to 10 million. Texas instruments and other companies are building chip factories here. And I heard that BlackRock is building a stock exchange in Dallas. TEXAS has a diverse economy, and we no longer have to put all of eggs in the oil basket.
I've spent time in the Metroplex. There's a lot to like. But it's not affordable anymore. Property taxes are nuts (and offset or exceed what you might have paid in income taxes), the weather is crap but at least not as gross as Houston, it's mostly flat and ugly, and sprawl for days. Dallas at least has something resembling transit, but it has a long way to go.
@@1370802the person who rents out the home will have to pay those property taxes...so you'll still pay a similar amount of money but then also won't own it either
My family moved to the area in 1984. I moved to Dallas in 2001, and I’ve been here since then. The sprawl has definitely grown. I still like it here. Lots of diverse people, not too expensive, two great airports, many months of great weather. The heat is usually bad in July & August, but everywhere has A/C. I like having four seasons. 😁
It's a major junction for cattle and oil transfer. It's a major junction for transport via I-35 which spans from Mexico to Canada. It is a major junction for railroads. It's a major junction for travelling east-west. It has lots of flat land around for construction. Basically Dallas is in a prime location, and has benefited from business friendly governing.
There are a few points here that are perhaps correct in spirit, but no longer correct from a factual perspective. Exxon Mobil moved to Houston and Halliburton has dual headquarters in Houston and Dubai. Houston still has the largest concentration of oil and gas and petrochemical in the state of Texas. Whereas Houston has the foregoing, Dallas secured the FRB and has built out into a large financial hub. It's also sitting at a major hub of the communications infrastructure of the United States and is the home of Telecom infrastructure in North America. It's heavily involved in mortgage processing and has the admittedly less sexy than Austin IT services sector contributing a huge amount to the local economy. What you could also mention is that the Dallas area has built out a pretty significant cultural infrastructure, including the largest contiguous arts district in North America, I believe.
I moved to Plano in 1974 and left Dallas area in 1984 for East Texas and when I go back to North Dallas, I can’t recognize anything and the traffic was bearable in 74 but outrageous today
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The Dallas/Fort Worth/Arlington METROPLEX is the correct description for the DFW AREA, and as it's known by its residents. 🤠🐎🐂🐄✅🎆💪
8:36 hearing that DART is the second largest system in the US is very discouraging considering the absolute state of it as a local
It’s large because of traditional texas urban sprawl. If you compare it to dense big cities around the world, it’s only large because of how wide DFW is.
Homeless people ruined it
Dart is severely underrated
It's still a good system despite its problems.
@@marcusmcgraw3519 uh no dude. DART is hard to use because its too radial and any trip not on the opposite side of the downtown interweaving takes twice as long as it should.
DFW resident here. The caveat is summer times are blistering hot as the temperature often exceeds 100 degrees and cities here aren’t walkable at all.
Fort Worth resident here, and this is true but it’s exacerbated by the absence of green space, tree cover, and abundance of parking lots and highways. Can’t do much about the highways, but if our governments prioritised green space and tree cover ambient air temps along sidewalks and paths would be manageable even in the summer.
Yes it is, you people just complain about the heat all of the time
Phoenix valley person here and the issue is similar except that it's even hotter here than Dallas area cities. There is some light rail, some buses and very little is unwalkable as everything is very spread out and unshaded. It's 115+ in the summer! We need shade!!!!
@@aerialbugsmasher Just because it's even worse in Arizona doesn't mean it doesn't suck ass here in Texas. The heat in the summer is one of the main reasons I want to move out of the state. Arizona is a desert, of course it's hot.
@@aerialbugsmasherI think they have every right to complain about the heat. Personally I grew up in Houston, but there’s really no reason people can’t dislike the heat just because it’s not some of the hottest in the world….. not everyone chooses where they live, they might have to live somewhere to support family or for a job, and frankly it’s human nature to complain about extreme hot or cold temperatures
Houston is not far behind and yet there is still no rail service between the two. Crazy.
Two plans are in development: Amtrak's and Texas Central's.
Would love to see TX central come to fruition.
@@andypierce6593 With a better plan, sure!
Car culture that will get worse under Trump.
At least there's the road traffic is only 30 minutes from one place to another
I've lived in the Dallas area for almost 20 years - the situation with the highways up here is almost untenable. We're getting more frequent and more deadly crashes up here that shuts down the entire highway. I moved up here when Plano and The Colony were still mostly pasture, and seeing how much everything has grown so quickly has made housing costs skyrocket, especially in the last 10 years. We're long overdue for high speed rail between Dallas and Houston as well.
I am relieved to see someone else mention the highway situation. People these days are going nuts on the highways with dangerous driving and it feels like every day we have to deal with more crashes and traffic.
Wow that’s nice to hear thank you.
You obviously have never been to Los Angeles. Dallas traffic is nothing compared to it.
I lived in Dallas for 10 years and moved out of there about 20 years ago…but I would’ve NEVER move to Plano - IH 35 WAS CRAZY.
I lived in Arlington and would see traffic only half way. I worked on the Pres. GB turnpike preliminary design efforts…
@@andyleo8418environmental regulations are not as strict in Texas as they are in California. That and the fact that Dallas can grow in any direction while LA can only grow East. Ohhh and California had about 100 years head start from Dallas since Dallas was establish around 1840s and LA at around 1700s
It's a shame that rail transport in Texas is in such a sorry state, because the state should be perfect for it: very flat and with large population clusters. There's a reason that Texas used to be a very rail-focused state back in the 1800s.
Amtrak screwed our intercity rail service back in the 1990s. DFW is the top rail transit metro in Texas, with the second-longest light rail system in North America, two streetcar systems, and three commuter rail systems. They used to have a dedicated busway network (although not nearly as big as Houston's), but it's now just an ordinary HOV/HOT lane network. EDIT: second-longest.
Also bicycling, the flat terrain and actually pretty moderate weather for about 70% of the year would make it a utopia. In its current state, it’s like a death wish. I wouldn’t recommend cycling to anyone, the roads and drivers are maybe the most hostile I’ve ever seen.
Who really cares at this point anyway, the "city" is so spread out at this point, you might as well tear down the high rises and make them into McDonald's parking lots and parking spaces.
F no😂@@DanNikon
@@DanNikon Defeatism is NOT the answer.
Sprawl is also putting pressure on small rural cities, making them de-facto suburbs. Princeton, TX, a small town outside Dallas, had to halt new housing construction because they didn't have enough utilities/infrastructure to support new housing.
My buddy bought a house there a few years ago, a long with some other friends that did the same in some other similar cities near Princeton. Holy fuck driving over there, even from a neighboring suburb TAKES FOREVER!! I'm even on the northeast side of the metroplex and it can still take me 45-60 minutes to get there!
Running out of water also
There's a town called Celina up in the north that I read articles about people moving there for the "small town feel." I wonder if they realize that if people keep moving there, it won't be a small town anymore...
And too much meth. I'm not making a joke either. City officials and county law enforcement are involved in it to some degree. That's the main reason for the halt in Princeton's growth. Full on suburb means the end of the meth trade out there.
@jaylucien669 you're not joking, and it's not the only town-become-suburb with a meth problem
There are apparently 100,000 people that commute between Dallas and Houston multiple times a week. 24,000 fly between the two cities on a daily basis. Yet, they are having difficulty getting funding for a high-speed rail line.🤷
That is because the oil lobbyists don’t want it. They want people to continue driving between the cities instead of there being a train to tie the places together.
The last time I was on public transit, I had a dude with face tattoos start screaming at the bus driver. The last time my brother was on public transit He had a crazy lady with multiple personalities debate between them whether or not to stab him. Why on God’s green earth would I take a train when I have a perfectly good Chevy Silverado? How do people in cities get their tools to job sites? How do you carry enough groceries in a little bag for four teenage boys plus daughters? I understand a crowded city like New York needs public transit , but we live differently from you guys so our transportation needs are different and I think that’s OK. What works for y’all doesn’t work for us
@ You buy groceries from a store 240 miles away?
If you need a truck full of tools, don’t take a high-speed train. Not everyone is you. The train does have lots of leg room and space for luggage. You can take out a laptop and use the wifi. It also is much quieter than a plane. You can get up and stretch.
The United States seems to have a lot of mental health issues that even a Chevy Silverados can’t fix. That is a whole other issue unique to the United States.
High-speed trains are analogous to short distance flights, not local public transit. You are thinking of metro trains.
It's a lack of political will, not funding.
@@crowmob-yo6ry How could they get funding without political will? Usually it is the opposite.
I'm in Dallas one week each month. It's too much freeways, traffic, chain restaurants, big trucks, and pollution.
There's definitely a few cool neighborhoods, great people, and BBQ there, but it's just... not for me.
There are tons of great non-chain restaurants! It has one of the absolute most diverse food scenes in the country apart from NYC, the chain restaurants are just more visible because of their locations in free standing buildings rather than the mom and pop type local restaurants that are jammed into generic-as-heck 30 year old strip centers. Otherwise yeah, it is just too car dependent
I live here, you couldn't be MORE wrong!!! Obviously you are JEALOUS!
I count it as among the better places for Chinese food in the US. A lot of it goes back to that “graphing-calculator company” that just happened to be the world’s best microchip company at one time.
It’s definitely a city that is a long ways away from finding itself culturally. It lost the country charm of Fort Worth and Nashville decades ago and doesn’t have anything to replace it and all the people moving from all over the country aren’t bringing any unified new culture either. For now Dallas will continue being mostly a city with great commercial/financial.
Exactly, It's mostly very corporate, fast food chains, with tons of freeways, lol,
Traffic has gotten so bad that even my super-conservative "mass transit is for commies" relatives are starting to say "maybe we should expand mass transit here." The problem is all the "not in my neighborhood" people. For example, DART wanted to put a rail station in the Northpark Mall but the rich snobs in Preston Hollow and Park Cities complained out of fear it would bring "poor people" to their neighborhoods. The Galleria up north near Addison is dying and would greatly benefit from a DART station. However, the real problem is that DART is only good in taking you to and from Downtown Dallas to work. Currently, Dallas is trying to setup toll road after toll road in the area. Twenty years ago, the idea of toll roads was insane; now they are becoming common.
I saved a lot of money when I worked in Downtown area and used DART. However, if you are working north of the Galleria, Las Colinas, or somewhere further north in Plano or Frisco, then DART is useless. If you look at the map, all the trains feed into roughly north-south into Downtown. There are no east-west trains. So, if I live in Lake Highlands and need to get to my job in Las Colinas, then I have to travel south to Downtown, then change trains to travel northwest to Las Colinas.
Sadly, Dallas used to have an extensive trolley system like you see in San Francisco but ripped in all out to make more highways and roads for cars. Downtown Dallas has also been dying as it is not a place you want to be after dark. There is a tunnel network that was half-built in the 70s. However, not all the tunnels connect and it has gotten worse as certain tunnels are sealed off from the network. In theory, an air-conditioned tunnel network with small shops and restaurants is perfect during the 110+ degree Summers in the city.
I don't think a rail stop actually at NorthPark Mall would have been feasible, as there are no old [rail] trackbeds on that side of Hwy 75. The Park Lane station and a shuttle bus to the mall was about the most practical thing they could do. But, you are correct ... the DART rail system is mostly one big downtown hub with spokes radiating outwards, but the new east-to-west Silver Line project will be a great help to many.
Isn’t it weird how their tune changes when it starts to affect them directly? There’s lost more coming for them to complain about. Just remind them that they voted for all of it.
They arnt wrong. Look at plano and then look at parker road station. I wouldn't bring my family there as there are roaming gangs and alot of crime centered around these stations. Keeping south dallas from the rest of dallas is the most important thing for dfw.
@@superspooky4580 Letting your racism show in your "Keep South Dallas away from rest of Dallas" statement. If the stations are "home to roaming gangs" as you claim, then DART needs a large police presence. Dallas cannot continue to build more freeways (now toll roads) to alleviate their traffic problems. New York discovered this decades ago and now Dallas is having to learn the same lesson.
@@paulm.7422 It would have to be an underground subway system like what they did at Cityplace. In fact, given how built out Dallas is, a New York style subway system that connects major business and retail hubs is probably the only viable solution for the area.
I will never be convinced that muggy humidity and 90°+ every day in the summer is “better weather” than places where it happens to snow in the winter
It definitely is. I have zero tolerance for cold weather. I never want the temperature to fall below 70.
I mean, you can avoid the humidity part by going further west to NM/AZ/CA.
But humid summers anywhere are bad; curse you, heat index!
Shhhhh 🤫 don’t let the secret out. Let all these weak people move on top of each other in miserable hot places. I’ll enjoy my cold and quiet winters. Plus the weather extremes put life into focus and make people kinder to each other.
@@shasmi93 exactly lol. I hope everyone does keep moving south so it gets cheaper up north. I’ll take cold winters over horribly hot summers anytime
@@crash.override dry heat is more tolerable but only barely, in my experience. Only really better because you can get in the shade and be cool again. But in the sun, 85° dry or humid is pretty comparable
That's crazy bc the Bay Area has 8 millions people but the census divides into into two separate metro regions for some stupid reason
I think it's around 7.5 million since the last census where we lost almost 300k+ people. But yeah really weird how the Census splits the Bay Area up into SF-Oakland and San Jose-Santa Clara Metro areas.
Pretty wild, considering I know they extend the New York metro area all the way into northeast Pennsylvania for some reason. Seems like the Bay Area should probably be one thing
@@mmrw new york needs to stay on top
The towns in Pennsylvania is part of NYC because Poconos is a popular weekend getaway for some NYer and you can actually take commuter rail from Port Jervis, the NY town across the border to NYC.
I do agree, if they do this, they should lump Santa Cruz-Monterey into Bay Area, since people do commute from Santa Cruz to Bay Area and Monterey is a weekend getaway.
@ I mean it definitely still would be without the boundaries stretching that far, it’s still kinda strange though
3:50 correction, Houston... Technically Spring, is the headquarters of ExxonMobil, while the north american headquarters of Halliburton is in Houston as well.
And now that Exxon bought Pioneer and is moving everyone down to Spring, the Dallas O&G scene is comatose.
Only relevantly recently but you knew that. Just wanted to be a Karen. Typical Houstonian.
@@darunner2010 But Dallas was never the oil center of Texas. It did banking for oil and gas and attracted a lot of oil wealth as a place to live. This video oversells the extent to which oil and gas built Dallas much in the way that the television show did. I've lived in both (as well as SA and ATX) and I still don't understand why there has to be this level of acrimony. One city is better than the other in one respect and vice versa. Houston has vastly better museums and one of the best opera companies in the world; Dallas has some of the best concert halls anywhere and a better symphony. I'd take DFW over IAH any day. Food scene is significantly better in Houston, whereas Dallas has a mere one food hall AFAIK and Japanese dining for example doesn't even remotely measure up. Houston area has the best university in Texas, but the Dallas area is better educated last time I saw the numbers. And then we should acknowledge that FTW specifically has its own merits and people there resent being referred to as living in "Dallas". Texas is big enough for all of us. Live where you want. The vast majority of Texans do not live in D-FW, as it turns out. I will always love Dallas (and I lived in actual Dallas for over a decade), but Texas collectively offers much more. We should enjoy the benefits of the entire state. It's pretty great despite all its flaws.
@@texlad04The Meyerson Center is nicer than Jones Hall acoustically, but Jones Hall is more spacious and comfortable for patrons. I don’t think the Dallas Symphony is better than the Houston Symphony. They are in the same tier of orchestras. The Wortham is just fine acoustically and superior to the Windspear in that regard. Dallas’ Arboretum is light years ahead of the Houston Botanic Garden, but the HBG is only 2 years old and serves a different purpose than the Dallas Arboretum which excels in display gardens, not native gardens. If I could have one thing in Dallas it would be the Arboretum.
@ the acoustics are night and day. The bathrooms suck at Jones. The acoustics at the Meyerson are stunning. I was in the Dallas Symphony Chorus under Jaap and I don't regret the experience at all.
As a native DFW resident currently living in Fort Worth, the growth in the past 20 years that I’ve been paying attention is nothing short of incredible. What used to be ranches, fields, and 10-20 acre properties and houses is now turning into subdivisions and shopping centers. One thing that’s been particularly interesting has been that new growth since about 20111-2012 has been in denser neighborhoods, smaller lots, and more apartments and condos. We are way denser than we used to be 25 years ago.
Alas! Caused by escapees running from Dallas, and escapees running south from the Midwest Rust Belt. That's what happened to Denton. Ruined!
There are several factual inaccuracies in this video, and I don’t understand why. Both Exxon and Halliburton have not been headquartered in Dallas for several years already, for example.
I really don't understand it myself. Energy has never been Dallas' leading industry. It's barely in the top 10 today, but he couldn't stop saying how much oil drove everything. Dallas is driven by insurance/financial services, information technology, and health care and has been for a very long time. Houston is the Texas Metropolis driven by energy.
@@robb0995Exactly! I was like he’s describing Houston! Dallas doesn’t have any oil at all. Dallas also got its start because of cotton. The Blackland Prairie is great for growing crops, unlike the Ft Worth Prairie which is only great for ranching (thus the Ft Worth Stockyards). The prairie is named for its rich black soil. Dallas was the largest inland cotton market in the world. In the 1920s, the Dallas Cotton Exchange Building was built as the city’s 2nd tallest building. It was demolished in the 90s. Historic Cotton Bowl Stadium is named what it is because of the city’s history associated with cotton. BTW the show “Dallas” was completely fake. The creator never been to Dallas when he wrote it. He said when he finally did, it turned out he was describing Houston. Dallas has ZERO oil rigs/wells and refineries! So, many of the shots used in the video are of places outside of the Metroplex or North Texas entirely.
@@robb0995 R.L. Thorton, a Dallas mayor, wanted Dallas to have the Federal Reserve Bank branch instead of Houston. He went to Washington D.C. and talked the Feds into giving it to Dallas. That meant that although the oil was in Kilgore, the oilmen had to go to Dallas to get the money. That is why Dallas had the oil money.
This is what I came here to post…
Raised in Denton / Collin County since 99. Its crazy how much different the metropex is now, and seeing its not gonna stop anytime soon
I use DART constantly and love it. (I use the interactive map feature, to see where the buses are, in real time). Being retired, I use a combination of DART and Uber - mostly during the day when buses are empty. The buses and trains are always clean and during Covid, hand sanitizer and individually-wrapped surgical masks were available. It's not perfect, but Dallas is a sprawling city. Yes, there is an issue with vagrants, but that applies to most public transportation systems, worldwide. One major issue is that Texans love their cars and there is a mindset ... taking public transport is for poor people! If I worked in downtown Dallas, I would never take my car.
Born and raised in Dallas, Texas. 68 years old and have been here the whole time except for 4 years serving in the United States Coast Guard. Leaving next year because it is totally out of control here! Can't wait! Dallas-Ft. Worth when I was a kid growing up (60's-thru 1975) was the greatest place on earth! Not anymore. Horrible here now!
Interestingly, Dallas has the most extreme climate of the Sunbelt cities. Summers there are blistering hot, over 100f for many days, almost as hot as Phoenix. They also have some of the coldest winters in the Sunbelt, with hard freezes in the 20s or even teens Fahrenheit every year, and even single digit temperatures once or twice a decade! California, Florida, and even other parts of Texas have milder, more pleasant climates than Dallas.
Also, Dallas is in tornado alley.
Dallas only reached single digits for the first time in decades in 2021. It is extremely rare for Dallas to get that cold. Even when Dallas does get cold snaps, it doesn’t last for more than a week. You’d be wearing shorts by then.
You forgot TORNADOES, hailstorms, ice storms, snow sometimes, droughts, floods, etc lol.
@@214dude2 Huh? It reached single digits again when I lived there in 2022 lol. There was a "bomb cyclone" back then. I swear Dallas people have horrible memory. Everytime they say "it only happens like once a decade".
@ It rarely gets to single digits in DFW. The last time that temps got that cold, other than the record breaking cold in 2021, was in the winter of 1995-1996, with a low of 8 degrees. That’s data straight from the National Weather Service. Dallas is not the Midwest or something. Winters here are mild af. There’s never a time where you’re wearing winter clothes the entire time. Heck, yesterday was 80 degrees and it’s a couple of days before Thanksgiving. Meanwhile, Chicago got its first snow earlier last week. I’ve worn shorts many, many, many times on Christmas Day. There are times where it has reached nearly 90 degrees in January.
I’m in Paris. Far North of all this mess. Problem is I’m afraid it will eventually get to us sooner than later! I’m all for growth and prosperity, but I do enjoy the perks of small town living. Our roads here are already pushed to the max for traffic it was originally intended for. We already see a lot of the MetroMess traffic that heads to Broken Bow and Hochatown, Oklahoma every weekend to get away from their issues! It’s insane the traffic volume going out FM 195!
5:37 Texas Instrumets is also the maker of missile guidance systems.
“The missle knows where it is at all times.”
You didn't put up the populations but it's impressive how much of a lead NYC has on every other city. If you combined the populations Dallas and Houston they'd still be an entire Seattle behind NYC.
If Brooklyn went back to being an independent city, NYC would still be number one and Brooklyn would be 4th only behind LA and Chicago.
… but, the rest of the country doesn’t care. NYC stands by itself as the largest city in the country and likely always will be. Common knowledge for anyone older than 12. The rest of the country doesn’t care and would likely never want to live there, that’s why discussions of rapidly growing areas are LOGICALLY compared to other similar areas. It’s like saying Kansas City isn’t as big as Tokoyo … 🙄 and the sky is blue.
@@genxtechguy Smartest comment I've read
Dallas is projected to be the largest metropolitan area in the US by 2100, with New York a distant 5th or so, even behind Austin. Granted that's a while from now, but New York should enjoy its status while it can.
As a longtime resident I gotta say, we're starting to have too many people. The urban sprawl is out of control and the prices of houses have gone up like crazy since covid. Traffic is so bad and it takes forever to drive anywhere now, but public transit can be real shitty too.
I moved from Connecticut to Dallas in 1986 when I was 23. I love the mountains, beaches, and history of New England, but its slow growth is depressing. Dallas is optimistic and growing, mainly because Texas is a “red” (conservative) state. And if you can make it through the heat of July and August, our weather is very nice. I’m extremely happy here. It’s home.
I have a friend living in New England now and it is frightening how provincial and close-minded people she describes there can be (she moved and stays there for family). Nothing can ever change or be built or improved. And then they have the gall to complain about the problems that causes. People vote with their feet even if they don't show up at the ballot box.
I made the exact same move as you this year and for seemingly the same reasons. Excited to see Dallas continue to grow!
Omg take me with you
0:52 “it’s kind of in the middle of nowhere”. More like it’s in the middle of everywhere 💪🏼
BINGO. love it here for that reason
I think he means there are no real geographical advantages that the DFW area has, like almost every other major cities have. It’s a fact. It’s also phenomenal growth for an area like that. Even though, it’s somewhat centrally located.
Dallas is not the headquarters of Exxon Mobil or Halliburton. Both of those are headquartered in/around Houston. They may have office footprints but not HQs. However, there are several other large corporations with HQs or major bases of operations in Dallas
Moved to Dallas in 2021 and am planning a swift exit…it’s a tough city to enjoy if you don’t already have a lot of wealth.
Glad I didn’t move there moving to Philadelphia was the best decision I’ve made
It's weird how a "city" of over 8 million people feels like nothing
@@DanNikonthey’re the worst people I’ve ever met in my whole life. They pretend they’re important, just to take away your own value in the process. They’re full of themselves and they know it
Stay out
@@deadmeatjbthis is why people don’t like us here. This is why
I’m not an expert by no means, but I watched another video on TH-cam that I totally agree with. It was explaining how different not just Dallas but Texas cities in general are growing and talking about how it’s not perfect by no means but how it is worth watching and taking notes on. Rather then having just one big city center that everyone commutes to causing worsening traffic etc. Texas cities often have many different city centers in suburbs as well. Where people can not only work but have restaurants, biking trails, public areas with events and city concerts etc.
I’m not arguing in favor of city sprawl by no means because I wish DFW and the US in general had better rail connectivity, BUT having different city downtowns in one metroplex is honestly very nice. We have the “big three”, Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, then the “sub big ones”, Denton, Carrollton, grapevine, Plano, Frisco etc.. Then we have our smaller ones that too have nice downtowns, Burleson, Waxahachie, Weatherford, Rockwall, Mansfield, The Colony, Midlothian etc I think you get the point.
if you "throw" in few more high-rise office towers in Los Colinas, that could indeed turn it into the "DeFacto" downtown of Irving, Texas! Moving to Irving from the ATL 19 years ago and driving through Los Colinas for the first time, I actually thought that was downtown Irving! Lol!
As someone who move out here from Atlanta. I notice that a lot. I actually prefer downtown fort worth over downtown Dallas lol. But it's good to have the options out here!
I would’ve loved for this video to focus on the rapidly growing/densifying walkable urban neighborhoods in Dallas proper. Uptown Dallas, Knox-Henderson, Lower Greenville, Bishop Arts in Oak Cliff, Deep Ellum, etc. Just about all of those neighborhoods have DART light rail access or streetcar service. I think Dallas is underrated for the amount of urbanization and high-rises that are currently going up within the city itself (not the suburbs). Uptown Dallas by itself is bigger than Downtown Ft Worth now and it is probably larger than the downtowns of San Diego, Phoenix, and San Antonio now too. If not, it will be in the next few years based on what is under construction.
The growth in Uptown is insane! A lot of dense high-rises. Oak Cliff’s Bishop Arts District is growing too fast. It’s a mixture of historic character/charm and new construction with old school streetcar era main streets on Bishop Avenue, Davis St, and largest one on Jefferson Blvd. I can see why ppl are so drawn to it. Both of those neighborhoods have streetcars, which are planned to be connected, through downtown.
@@1TewBuMyShoe dallas is a farm owned by the wealthy. Those places to listed are walkable alright. Only place ur gonna walk to is some cafe, club or overpriced restaursnt that will empty your pockets and move the money to the people who own the strip.
Exactly! The hate comments below refuse to acknowledge the neighbourhoods that are doing things right. I live in between the Mockingbird station and White Rock Lake and it's pretty much a 15min neighbourhood here.
@@DataDriven-ny8nf Yep, that streetcar connection will only strengthen those areas further. There has been a lot of new development spurred a long the Dallas Streetcar line in Oak Cliff, since it was built in 2015. That's not including all of the new deck parks under construction/planned, complete streets projects, or the $3 billion convention center reconstruction -- that will totally rebuild the southern part of downtown into a walkable mixed use district. With what's all underway... Downtown, Uptown, Victory Park, Oak Lawn, Turtle Creek, Harwood District, Knox-Henderson, Lower Greenville, Deep Ellum, Design District, Bishop Arts, Southwestern Medical District, Trinity Groves/West Dallas, The Cedars, and Old East Dallas will be connected before 2030 because of the current infrastructure upgrades and urban development projects underway. Just look at Old East Dallas! They're building a TON of apartments (5 over 1s), townhomes, multiplexes, etc. That area is being turned into a 15 min neighborhood right before our very eyes and they're building a new urbanist main street on Henderson Ave to serve all that new density (just think of a modern Lower Greenville). People who really think all of this growth is sprawl, really needs to get out of the suburbs and actually venture into the city. Densification and urbanization is occurring fast! That's only a small sample of what's happening.
Since I can't post news links this is the Henderson Ave Development I am talking about. It will connect right to Lower Greenville and Knox-Henderson, which is a few blocks away from each other.
Major mixed-use development breaks ground on Dallas' Henderson Ave
A long-awaited development is coming to Dallas' Henderson Avenue, featuring the involvement of one of the neighborhood's original architects: According to a release, New York-based Acadia Realty Trust and Dallas development firm Ignite-Rebees will break ground on a 161,000-square-foot, creative, mixed-use development combining retail, restaurants, and innovative office space.
The site consists of a quarter-mile stretch of Henderson Avenue between Glencoe Street and McMillan Avenue at the eastern end of Henderson Avenue, almost to the Sprouts. Designed by Dallas-based architecture firm GFF, the Henderson development will comprise 10 architecturally distinct buildings lined with landscaped walkways that are pocketed with multiple public spaces. The project will also include 500 subgrade parking spaces.
It's expected to be completed by fall 2026.
“This project will spark a renaissance of Henderson Avenue. In addition to becoming a mecca for cutting-edge retail, Henderson Ave. will soon feature an array of stellar new restaurants within the development and up and down the street that will make it one of the most exciting and interesting food and beverage destinations in Dallas,” Simon says.
When the project is complete, Henderson Ave. will transform into one of the most appealing stretches of walkable retail in Dallas and feature dozens of the most exciting contemporary retail brands in North America, many of which will be new to Dallas."
@@crowmob-yo6ry Right! There are plenty of great examples all over Dallas. It's like people refuse to admit the truth about what's actually going on.
That loud groaning you hear are all the Fort Worth residents who, once again, have had their city's contribution to the area's growth and importance minimized into literal seconds of an 11 minute video . . .
For real
Residents of Tacoma, Long Beach, Wilmington DE, St. Paul and Ft Lauderdale all feel your pain.
Unless the smaller city has a distinct sports franchise most people will just lump the secondary city in with the major city because they all root for the same sports teams(Mavs, Stars, rangers, Cowboys)
All my New Jersey coworkers think that Ft worth is just another suburb of Dallas like Plano, Richardson or Arlington.
@Damianoutlaw well yeah... but Fort Worth would very easily be THE largest city in about 43 of the 50 states.
It's a little different.
Maddening. FW population growth dwarfs Dallas’.
He did say Dallas Fort Worth metroplex at the start of the video which includes both cities in that 8 million population figure. Fort Worth has about 900k people and Dallas has about 1.3 million. When you add up all the surrounding areas you get the 8 million for the entire area. So it’s also areas like Frisco, Plano and Arlington that also contribute to the population of the metroplex but also don’t get fully represented by name.
Sprawl is definitely an issue in Dallas -- I grew up in the suburb of Duncanville southwest of the city, and it took me over an hour to get to the north part of town every morning. Even when I later moved more towards the center of the city, it would take forever to get from point A to point B, even at non-traffic hours. And that was in the early '00s, I came back to visit five years ago and the freeway system has gone insane.
The thing about the Dallas metro is it doesn't have any jurisdictional limits like Chicago and New York City which have their populations squeezed between three states. It also isn't limited geographically like Los Angeles which is wall to wall squeezed between mountains.
Doesn’t the NY metro bleed into parts of those states?
@darthbumblebee7310 Yes that is true. New York City is at a corner squeezed between the states of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Chicago is similarly squeezed up in the corner between Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin. There is a matter of jurisdictional limits though. Dallas is one hundred miles from Oklahoma and even further from Louisiana and Arkansas.
Also, Iowa. It only takes like 2 hours to get there from Chicago
Idea for a future video, if you're looking for one: when should city limits be redrawn? Many cities in the US and worldwide are much bigger than their official borders would suggest, having absorbed vast quantities of surrounding suburbia into the city fabric, or even joined up with previous neighbouring cities. When does it stop making sense to administratively consider them as separate cities anymore? Famously, Los Angeles County contains 88 incorporated cities, although the administrative units of the Los Angeles metropolitan area are near-impossible to tell from each other on the ground. Dallas - Fort Worth is definitely an edge case, where it still makes plenty of sense to consider them two separate cities close to each other, but arguments could also be made for merging DFW into a single city. Where does the limit go? When should a city be a city within a metropolitan area, and not just a borough in a city?
I moved to the Dallas / Fort Worth metroplex in 1982 and it’s been growing crazy fast ever since. The houses have also gotten larger as better quality every decade. A lot of houses with two even three AC units each and a pool pump so don’t you dare say electric cars are the power demand problem, this has been going on decades before there were any EVs. Not to mention all the data centers.
None of those things you mention correspond w quality. Only size.
@ The 80s and 90s houses were not very good quality or good style but in the last 10 they are very nice and much higher quality. No more 42% brick and the rest cement board and a bunch of fake cement keystones and quoins. The new ones are all brick and stone with tasteful accents. No more Frankenstein style McMansions. I waited decades to build and I’m glad I did.
@@frankcoffey It's still veneer at the end of the day. Also the framing is much worse quality these days than before.
@ I’m not seeing it. The 1950s house I had was crap compared to my 2018 one, especially foundation and framing. They didn’t have tension cable foundations in the good old days.
So do you think , you started the trend?
Texas resident here; moved to California in 2020 and returned back in 2024. Dallas is an amazing city. Austin is great too. The main thing about Texas, and Dallas, is we still support a middle-class lifestyle and jobs. California, for example, was either winners or losers. Thankfully I made way more than the general population but the taxes drove me back home.
3:49 ExxonMobil Headquarters are in Spring, TX in the Greater Houston area as of 2023
As someone who grew up in the DFW area (Plano and Frisco) and has been away the past 10 years living in LA and in Europe, it baffles me how much is built every time i visit family every 6 months. While the growth is impressive, anything new just feels so sterile without any charm. The area still seems to try to sell itself (well maybe mostly the suburban areas) to young conservative families who just want good schools, a Starbucks and a house with an extremely high HOA. I legitimately get lost driving in the suburbs of both Dallas and Ft. Worth because they all honestly look the same to me, and with not many geographically defining features, it's hard to orient yourself. I have always thought the recent DART, TexRail and Silver Line extensions are great for the region, but sadly I have yet to meet any recent locals who actually use it (or want to use it) due to it's bad reputation.
Just visit Ft. Worth.
The reason you never see it is because you're up in plano and Frisco. The cities with high usage are Richardson, Addison, and Dallas proper. Downtown has by far the highest ridership, but stations like SMU/Mockingbird and Cityplace/Uptown also have very high ridership.
Also the silver line will at least be heavily utilized by Richardson and Addison, who are both developing immensely around their new stations, and Carrollton may see a boost as well since there's a major connection with the green line there.
The really big flaw DART has had is that the bus network was trash for the past 20 years, but its had major reworks in the past 2 years and is slated for major improvements over the next 5. Overall, not great, but not the worst either considering how many mistakes were left over from the 80s.
Lower taxes are also a driving force
Unfortunately, people realize only after they move to the Texas, Arizona, etc. what their Northern state taxes were paying for... Good transit, a functioning government, strong schools.
Quality of school almost entirely depends on how white the surrounding community and students are.
Dallas has some amazing schools. It can get a little chaotic but it does also have a functioning government that can actually add housing to keep living costs more affordable (although there was a spike during the pandemic due to extremely low interest rates but the home and rent prices are falling due to continued home production). I cannot understand the smug ignorance of people who say foolish things like this.
@@tann_man Oh yeah. I forgot the U.S still does racial segregation in schooling.
@@usernameryan5982 Hey! Stop! You're breaking the narrative that Texas is a completely dysfunctional conservative hell-scape! I just stepped over a needle walking out of the W 4 St-Wash Sq MTA stop in the wealthy area of Manhattan,. but yeah Texas is a mess!!! (I love both and they're both great btw)
@@usernameryan5982I mean Texas schools were saying that slaves were immigrants and many discussions on race are not allowed
The sprawl is absolutely insane. Highways, strip malls, chain stores, unwalkabale - it’s crazy. Yeah, you can have a big house and low taxes but it’s not worth it. I pay a ton of taxes in the northeast but i love my small/walkable Main Street towns, bus services to major cities, and 4 seasons.
It’s also cold for 8 months of the year in the north east…….no thanx
I went to Dallas for the first time in July. It was the most sensory dulling, suffocating, flattened, homogeneous mess I’ve ever experienced
I lived in Dallas for a year and felt the same way. It's truly depressing. All people do is eat and drink.. boring.
Exactly! Had to be in Dallas for a day and couldn't wait to get out! 🤭
I was born and raised in Dallas…. It’s True.
Then don't live there, stay in California
I'm in Houston and it was the largest city in the state (pop) wise until the Pandemic. More people flocked to the DFW area than here. NOW you are are feeling what we felt here a while ago. Apartment complexes built over night, loss of your local free parking secret spots and such, lame craft restaurants, increasing traffic, etc.
Just more people than the city can handle (in a sense). The bad part is that people will eventually leave as some have down here in Houston and you are leave with empty buildings, loss of the cool mom and pop restaurants, and other potential eyesores. I didn't even talk about the insanely high rents and housing, in what used to be reasonably priced areas. Crazy I tell you, just crazy!!!!
I’m watching this while living in Arlington, Tx. I wish you would’ve talked about Dart.
Bless you, Arlington person. The one friggin place that needs rapid transit is Arlington. It is insane. Actively fighting against it in the city is buckwild.
Ah yes Arlington, the largest city in the US without a public transit system.
@@coolwiththecool3 that is not true. We don’t have a bus network but we have a ride share service called Via. You download the app, the Via minivan will come in 10-20 min and will take you anywhere in Arlington and to the TRE CentrePort station to con to the rest of the DFW. Via runs 6 days a week and the service may start to run 7 days a week in 2025. It’s not a traditional bus network but the service runs 6am-9pm M-Sat and it only cost $3. I now use my e scooter to get myself to the train station but Via was there for me when I didn’t have a scooter.
@@coolwiththecool3 Ah yes the US, the largest country in the world without a public transit system....
Exactly! It's a good transit system.
I’ve been in Dallas for 8 years. Miss the mountains out west for sure but if you travel on planes a lot and don’t have a regionalized job you can’t beat the CST time zone. It’s the best time zone to work in, no early hours PST. Also I’m a 3 hour flight from Seattle, LA, NY, Florida, San Jose, Costa Rica. You can’t beat its location.
Ever notice the big airport is called DFW and not Dallas? That's because it's not only not in Dallas, it's not even next to Dallas. It's roughly equidistant from both Dallas and Ft Worth, a ways to the north since that's where there was land available in the late 1960s. The point? Dallas is not at the center of the DFW metropolitan area and that's why it's not named the Dallas area. The DFW metropolitan area is very decentralized and Dallas doesn't dominate it.
Ohhhh Lord! Being born and raised in Dallas, I couldn't have clicked on this vid faster... Believe me, we have felt EVERY BIT of this growth... It's maddening. 😒
WE. ARE. FULL! 🤨
As someone who lives in the DFW area, it's really annoying that people just call the whole place Dallas and chalk it up to being one city, the area is many multiple cities that make up the metroplex
I live in Anna which is near Sherman. I'm considered to be in the part of the DFW Metroplex even though I am closer to the Oklahoma border than I am to Dallas. The DFW Metroplex's real charm is it's smaller sprawling cities like McKinney, Allen and Plano. Lots of local BBQ restaurants, nightlife and quality shopping areas.
You can tell when you are in Dallas in the summer when it gets over 100F during the day and at night, ... It gets dark.
I feel like this has a lot more to do with urban sprawl as opposed to it being just about Dallas itself. The city's growth has been stagnant for a few years, and has even taken a slight decline.
Dude, the only freaking city in the United States of America with over 8 million people in the city itself is NYC! That means all cities sprawl here! You’re not saying much! Also in the Sunbelt large cities, most people live in the burbs. It is what it is! If we wanted NY, we would freaking move there!
@@Aggie4life77what are you talking about bro. Where did your rant come from? Lmao
Dallas isn’t growing as fast because people can’t afford to live in the city. Dallas is the 2nd most expensive city in the state. People who can afford it are quickly gentrifying the city. Bishop Arts District in Oak Cliff, West Dallas, Old East Dallas, etc are examples. A lot of ppl can only afford to live in cheaper areas like Fort Worth and the suburbs.
The thing is the urban sprawl in many largely populated metros has stopped. Dallas is unique because it is one of the few large cities that is sprawling.
I was born and raised and still livin’ in this great state of Texas, and you've summed up why having transit options is so important in a large metropolitan area like the Metroplex.
Traffic has become increasingly bad, leadin’ many people who used to live in the Metroplex to leave for places like my hometown of Abilene.
When I asked those who had left why they made the move, the most common reason was the traffic. They still enjoy visitin’ the Metroplex, but they are willin’ to move two hours away just to avoid the congestion when runnin’ errands and slow down a little bit.
Many people have relocated to our town due to new job opportunities in the health sector or the military. Others have moved here for retirement, particularly older adults. Additionally, some individuals may have come to attend one of our three local and private universities. Yes, all 3 universities are private.
Alternatively, it seems that the urban sprawl of The Metroplex may have become overwhelmin’ to them, promptin’ them to seek a different lifestyle and settle down with their families in a quieter environment like Abilene.
The Abilene area has experienced significant growth as people are leavin’ the Metroplex and the other three major cities-Houston, San Antonio, and Austin. Abilene is the closest city with a decent population of over 130,000, allowin’ residents to still commute to the Metroplex.
However, we're beginnin’ to face some traffic issues as a result…Gotta love that Texas Sprawl
My wife and I moved 3-and-a-half years ago from a mid-sized town of 400k people to the DFW area (northwest Carrollton) and there are many things we immediately noticed, some good and some bad, that we still see often if not everyday.
The good:
1) There's a lot to do and the culture is rich. There is a Korean district (K-Town) that has amazing food and cafes, and there are a lot of restaurants. Dallas has a wonderful arboretum and there are nature preserves and parks to visit in every town. Although these places are usually very busy on weekends and holidays.
2) If you like events, DFW has a lot to offer. There's AT&T Stadium in Dallas and Ford (Cowboys) Stadium in Frisco, comedy clubs and theaters.
3) If you like sunny weather, there is a lot of that here. Summers can be hot (110°F) and muggy which can feel gross at times. Although I'm used to hot summers, so that isn't too bad to me.
4) There are a lot of jobs and the economy is growing. If you're looking to get experience or transition into a career, DFW could be a good place to look.
The bad:
1) Drivers seem to be almost always distracted. It's awful. The number of people with one hand on the wheel and the other holding a phone in front of their faces is so astonishingly high that it's no wonder there are so many accidents here. In this metroplex, I have almost been in more car accidents driving in parking lots of all places than I did in all my time driving in my last town. Just last week someone almost T-boned my car because they were going 35 in a parking lot looking at their phone and almost ran a stop sign with pedestrians nearby. Lucky for me he swerved enough to miss me and slammed on his breaks before speeding off again. I used to like driving, but living in DFW driving feels like a potentially fatal chore.
2) Traffic is always bad. The highways, freeways, shoulders, and even the quieter roads in town are usually busy if not congested. Even some neighborhoods are swarming with cars if there is road work on a main road.
3) DFW is in tornado alley, so flash flooding, hail, high wind and tornadoes (watches and warnings) aren't uncommon. Winters are also bitter cold, often reaching and staying below freezing in January and February. Damage from flying objects and hail damage to windows, roofs and cars is also pretty common if you park outside.
4) Housing is expensive, and property taxes are some of the highest in the country. Cost of living has gone of a lot since we moved here.
DFW can be a lot. We don't plan to stay here much longer for what it's worth. We now have more of an appreciation for small and mid-town living.
Thank god. Anything we can do to expedite your departure just say it. Dfw is full.
I agree. I’m from here. It’s absolutely insane now.
I escaped Dallas for NYC at 18 and have absolutely no regrets.
It's a shame about the DART. I've ridden it a lot. But what's frustrating is it's designed with cars in mind still. To get to a DART station, you have to get to a highway. The DART runs along the highways, except for downtown, which is just 5 stations. It's not the worst, since you can take a bus to the stations, but the bus and DART schedules don't like up. For me, every time I take a bus, it arrives at the same time the train leaves, so I'll have to wait 10+ minutes for another train to come. Vice versa with the buses, I'll have to wait sometimes 30 minutes + for another bus, and then I just end up taking Uber for the last mile, since I'm next to a highway.
Not all stations are as you described. Some are good, like Mockingbird.
I don't understand why dart targets people who have cars either. I had to use dart in my early years and I can tell you dart has improved. However that's not saying much considering how expensive it has gotten. Its cheaper to drive than ride to most places since Dallas doesn't have parking or toll problems yet.
If riders would use google transit or Dart trip planer on Dart website to map out their trip things just might be better.
@TheMissingxtension The focus on cars is an issue of legacy. The system was planned in the 1980s, and no one really thought that it was a bad idea until recently.
As for cheapness, buddy half the highways here are tolls or have express lanes if you want to not be in gridlock traffic at 3pm on a Saturday. Downtown parking is also expensive so that makes it cheaper still. Finally, at UTD the bus service is really good so many students elect to use that instead of paying for their yearly parking pass.
Also, many businesses will provide DART passes (whether monthly or yearly) for their employees if the business is near a DART station or bus line, meaning it's literally free to use for some people.
Fort Worth TX growing Fast too along with dallas and houston tx
I live in a smaller college town (permanent pop ~22k, +14k students) near DFW. The traffic in DFW is crazy and terrifies me. It’s not just DFW that’s growing, all the towns near it are also growing fast as a result of the sprawl. People who once lived on the edge of the city find themselves in the middle of it, so they move to a neighboring town.
Which college town? Denton?
Stephenville is an hour away from the city
@5:20 "The United States today is producing more oil than any other country in the world, except Saudi Arabia." *Wrong. As of November 2024, the US is the world's largest oil producer, producing 21.91 million barrels per day and accounting for 22% of the world's total oil production. The U.S. has held this position since 2018. Saudi Arabia produces 11.13 million barrels a day, about 12% of world production.* Of the US total, Texas accounts for 41.4%, followed (in descending order) by New Mexico, North Dakota, Alaska, Colorado, Oklahoma and California.
Its interesting that the Largest cities in Texas got more attention in recent years and it came from stories like companies moving the CEO's office from places like San Jose, Palo Alto and San Francisco for places like Dallas, Houston and Austin. Note its part contributor to the rise of Texas.
It's Red state governance
Dallas is a city that is part of the DFW metropolitan area. But there's a reason it's not called "the Dallas area" and that is that Dallas is off on one end, while Ft Worth, almost as big in population, anchors the opposite end. In between and around these two are dozens of other cities, some of them also large in their own right. The "Dallas area" is just the eastern half of the metropolitan area, or the Metroplex or whatever you want to call it. If this seems confusing then just take a quick glance at any map and it should become clear.
Exxon and Halliburton are headquartered in Houston not Dallas.
ExxonMobil moved about 2 years ago.
They both have A headquarter in Dallas. Houston pumps and proceses, Dallas finances and insures
@@jamesorbeckneewatkins640 No, those closed. the financial headquarters of exxon and halliburton are in Houston too. not just operations
@@jamesorbeckneewatkins640 They consolidated them into one campus in Spring/The Woodlands in 2023.
Dallas Is Texas' best city for mass transit
so many lanes going everywhere for the traffic. not like those space constrained cities
Population moving towards the sun belt because of air conditioning factor worries me with the amount of energy that's going to be needed for that.
I really think it's going to be a bad cycle of needing energy for AC but then AC contributing to global warming so that you need more of it.
Dallas resident here. Sprawl is bad and definitely a lot of suburban housing. But, I will say, as you mentioned the city center is getting denser and a lot of housing is being built on the “walkable” area of the city
I'm not sure I would say sprawl = affordability. Housing economists at Up for Growth are noting that the expansive model of growth, while it can help affordability in the near term, has its limits, especially when you start running out of easily developable land.
Dallas is in the middle of the Great Plains, so lots of land. California cities on the other hand, no more room to sprawl as it’s geographically constrained by the coast to the west and the mountains to the east
I think the economist was taking about affordability in the near term for the sprawling city. Right now the whole nation (and much of the developed western world) is in an affordable housing crises. Any increase in supply is welcome
absolutely something I think about when I think about Dallas, but the problem is that I thought DFW would peak in 1996, then around 2005, then in 2012, and again in 2020. How DFW still continues to grow is beyond me at this point. it's insane.
But we're still in the near term so it is still affordable. I think it still has a ways to go before Dallas shoots itself in the foot and reaches the actual limit. And if the near term is still within current lawmakers' age span (or actual term more likely), then they won't care about long-term consequences.
@@machtmann2881In a couple years young native texans not going to be able to afford shit lol especially in the DFW we had the worst inflation out of the country this year
up yours, Dallas. Love, Houston
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Houston is right behind it.
Houston weather sucks
Houston is a HORRIBLE city! Dirty, Humid and no Culture‼️
By city proper Houston is about 1 million larger than Dallas, and has been the largest city in TX for nearly a century...
Houston trash. Our house floods every three years cause of hurricanes and the roads are horribly old.
@@stevemoore-nx8cq*your house floods* not everyone’s, before you buy it probably should do some research or ask if this is a serious flood zone.
DFW resident for about 15 years here. I'd like to comment on housing. Yes, you can get more house for less money here, but housing costs are rising extremely quickly. Most houses from the 2010s-2020s have now more than doubled, if not almost tripled, in price. Housing prices continue to rise consistently.
Additionally, I wouldn't say the weather is necessarily "better." We experience harsh heat in the summer and dry cold during the winter. You only get about a week or two of "good weather" scattered throughout the year. As for traffic, it’s not solely due to the number of people moving to Dallas, but also the sheer amount of ongoing construction to expand the roads.
Great video and explanation, though-I loved it!
This is probably an unpopular opinion but, I think DFW metro area should be spilt up into two different metro areas. If Raleigh and Durham, Denver and Boulder, and New Orleans and St.Tammany parish all have been split, despite having significant ties, then why not give Fort Worth it's own metro?
Dallas and Ft Worth are economically linked. Ft Worth does not function as a separate city with its own economy. The vast majority of Ft Worth residents commute to Dallas for work. That why the US Census Bureau designated it as one metro area.
You may have a point however, I won't go as far as to say the vast majority of working residents commute to Dallas. I would also say out of the mentioned metros areas (above), all are somewhat economically linked, but Dallas and Ft Worth differs politically and culturally more than the otters.
because it's the dfw i.e. metroplex. No splitting allowed.
@@princecharles757 The City of Fort Worth did a study and that’s what result said. Ft Worth does not have a big downtown where ppl go to work. There are suburban downtowns in Dallas County that have more office space than downtown Ft Worth.
I agree people always used DFW to say they are bigger or have a bigger population than Houston, but you’re using two different cities to claim that when Houston stands alone??
I think what attracts a lot of people to Dallas and Texas is it's economy policy as well
It was the tech inventions in the 1950s and 1960s at TI and Collins Radio that created the jobs that drove everyone here.
In my opinion, any analysis of Dallas must also incorporate an analysis of Houston. They are sister cities in almost every way, with codependent economies and mirror demographics/growth patterns. I think generally any of the big 4 cities in texas must be read within the context of the texas triangle, but especially Dallas/Houston.
Houston actually has culture. Many well known musicians are from houston. What culture does dallas have?
Houston absolutely dominates its Metro area unlike Dallas
@@Null-o7jwhat culture does Houston have besides car pollution, traffic, hurricanes and crime?
@@Damianoutlaw Houston sprawls better than Dallaa. Dallas likes to pretend it's all unregulatrd and free, but it's zoned to hell and back. Houston is famous for its lax zoning. The club next to the church so to speak. Plus as I said many famous musicians are from Houston. Pimp C, Paul Wall, Chamillionaire, Mike Jones etc. Dallas has no music scene at all. Houston also has actual authentic Chinese and Vietnamese food. Dallas has little of this. Houston is better.
@Null-o7j pimp c isn't from Houston and none of those rappers are as famous as Post Malone
I've seen documentaries about American cities like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, but never paid attention to the city of Dallas and it's insane growth, I am sure that its growth is because of it's economic policy on housing and crude oil, other cities in the world can sit down and look at how they can manage urban growth in the years ahead with massive urbanization happening really fast, they can learn from cities like Dallas on how to manage and use urban growth in terms of size and population as an opportunity for economic boom for the nation.
We left Dallas after 9 years and moved to California. It’s more affordable with better weather and people are friendly instead of angry.
What part of California did you move to that’s cheaper than Dallas?
I thanks for sharing your experience. Curious about what part of California you moved to.
California being cheaper than anywhere in Texas is something I never expected to see or can believe actually.
@@Ace-002 You shouldn't, there is no such place in California that's cheaper than Dallas
Thank you. Dallas is such a beautiful city.
What is the primary source of WATER for the Metroplex region?
Six reservoirs.
Theyre stealing land from landowners out east to build a new reservoir. Emminent domain. Aka you will own nothing and eat ze bugs
The Trinity River and it’s tributaries. They damned it in multiple places to form giants lakes for drinking water and recreation.
Theres a ridiculous amount of lakes in and around Dallas. They're very large too.
I'm a Texas transplant, originally from my home state of Nebraska (I work in the semiconductor industry here in Dallas, which is unheard of back home). I basically got my engineering degree, got a job offer, and left home.
I do like Dallas for a lot of things. But I do agree with a lot of natives here in the comments on the more negative things. I wholeheartedly agree that there are a lot of people moving here at a crazy rate...
While I did contribute to the brain drain of the Midwest, I also contributed to the max exodus of people moving to Texas.
I don't know how I exactly feel about contributing to those things. But I found a career that I enjoy and a city that isn't too bad for my liking.
As someone who’s seen many friends move to Dallas. It’s because it seems new and shiny. It’s seems fun, nice and lots to do. People avoid Houston because it seems run down. I’m not saying it is, but that’s the perception.
Americans simple minded and basic. Nothing new here
I've been in Dallas for 30 years, DFW for 40. The nightlife and real estate has changed dramatically to serve almost exclusively extremely high income earners. Everyone else is moving out into the surrounding burbs. Either way rent and cost of living has skyrocketed year after year anywhere within 2 hours of Dallas/Fort Worth.
Please make a video on DART. The rail transit in the DFW is so so underrated
No, it’s overrated if you look purely at the miles of track. Not only is it insanely unsafe (although you could say driving in Dallas is also very unsafe), the stations have the most horrific land use ever which is why it get abysmal ridership numbers. It also has way to many at grade crossings which lowers frequency and train length. There’s a reason why DART has something like a 13% fare to operating cost ratio compared to places like the Netherlands where it’s close to 90%. Everywhere you get off the DART except uptown and downtown, it’s nothing but large box stores, giant parking lots, and arterial roads where people drive 50 mph.
Yes!! Please!!
Finally someone speaks the truth.
@usernameryan5982
You must be a NJB fanboy if you refuse to recognise improvements being made and you generalise the entire system and compare it to your precious Netherlands.
@@usernameryan5982it’s not unsafe. Just because there is homeless around it doesn’t make it unsafe.
@@crowmob-yo6ryDART has the lowest ridership per mile of light rail in the country. Building lines that nobody uses is not improvement for transit, it builds excuses not to build transit. Insipid people like you can’t put two and two together though.
What is so strange is that the growth is happening north of Dallas proper, the city’s population is either at a plateau or declining slightly YoY
Transplant from the mountain west to Fort Worth here, and DFW is the worst of American urban planning on steroids.
I will say, I spent a summer working in Dallas, and that made me like Fort Worth a lot more. It has more identifiable “soul” and the downtown is more walkable, although four lane one ways with no speed limits do make it feel less than comfortable and like most Texans, people like to run red lights and play chicken with pedestrians. Cops don’t enforce traffic laws here either.
While the local zoning laws here are garbage, the big problem here is the state. Like everything in America, the culture war has ruined urban planning and transportation policy. The state GOP makes it a point to oppose any transportation funding that doesn’t go to highway expansions and regularly talks about how trains are a liberal communist plot to control people and keep them in ghettos. The state authorised $104 billion for highway expansions over the next decade, and to republicans here that’s “the free market” at work. Talk about building a train or bike lanes or making it safer to walk or even just enforcing traffic laws and all of a sudden you’re Joseph Stalin.
I am so proud of Texas. Gosh darn it. I love that state.
@ Nothing more fiscally conservative than spending hundreds of billions of dollars on handouts to construction companies for projects that make traffic worse in the short term, fail to improve traffic in the long term, and often require bulldozing businesses and neighbourhoods😤💪
No speed limit? Of course they have limits. If you think the lack of enforcement in Ft. Worth is bad, you would hate to see Sacramento and Stockton in CA.
As far as the evil politicians go, only Jake Ellezy and Cara Mendelsohn exemplify the stupidity you described. Everyone in and out of power I've talked to wants to see better public transport, passenger rail, walkability and cycling infrastructure. Including some fiscal conservatives.
@@crowmob-yo6ry I hope that’s true. However, the governor and TxDOT don’t seem to have any interest in rail, public transit, walkability or bikeability. Hard to believe they do when hundreds of billions keeps getting allocated to highway expansions and pedestrian and roadway deaths remain near the top of national charts.
Downtown Fort Worth has a lot of potential, the problem is the Bass Family owns like half of downtown, and has favorites on what businesses they want. As a result, many businesses have left downtown, and it doesn't have much to offer outside of Sundance Square
I would never live in a big city. You can have Dallas. I'll stay in my small town enjoying life.
the ad is so unexpected, wow. I’m using another product of the PTV company and never thought I’d see an ad on TH-cam for one of their tools
Curious about the environmental impact of massive cities in the Sun Belt. Is it any more/less energy efficient cooling and connecitng a city in a Texas summer than it is heating one during a Midwest winter?
Glad to see that this channel is still thriving.
Video idea: What are “edge cities”, and do they still exist in 2024?
Yes, they do still exist... You have those in Serbia, south east Euope, in the Serbian region Vojvodina.
From Dallas here, it’s trash, hit and almost no public transport. On top of that the cost of living is skyrocketing here, it’s not the place to be
we’re full try Oklahoma
Having lived in both Chicago and Central Texas, a can assure you the weather in Texas is way worse. It's way too hot to go outside 6 to 8 months of the year and the sun feels like it incessantly scalds you if you even think about going outside. I can't even begin to describe how unimaginably terrible it is, it's like living in literal hell.
@lisasdfwhightechworld9946 Well they were idiots for putting themselves in such a hellish, inhuman situation. I'd kill myself before I'd suffer through a Texas summer without air conditioning. Life is too short for that much misery. Texas summers a million times more brutal than Chicago winters, even with air conditioning.
@@lisasdfwhightechworld9946 Yes people did suffer there, but that doesn't negate the fact that Texas is literally hell on earth. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
Lived there for 10 years before moving up north to Chicago. Definitely a decent city, cheap, and all the amenities you could want. However, as someone else said, way too many freeways, traffic, chains, and pollution. Not a lot of good nightlife or (other than some pockets) local neighborhood identities within the city like other places. It doesn't feel like you're living any specific place, you're just somewhere! 6/10, might live again
Perfect description. I would say that although there are a lot of chain restaurants, there are also a ton of smaller scale businesses that are also very affordable. The sprawl is just crazy while downtown is treated as a dumping ground encircled by like 5 freeways
They took “Just one more lane bro” seriously when designing Texas
I agree but increasingly it seems like this type of big box suburbanism is a revealed preference for how an awful lot of people want to live.
I suppose it depends on one's definition, but I don't find Dallas to be "cheap" any longer.
@@karlhungus5554
you should try manhattan
I lived in DFW for 18 years until i retired. DFW metro has everything anyone could want. Entertainment, golf courses, five lakes, great restaurants, all the shopping you can ask for. It does get really hot in the summer. All the concrete and steel creates a heat island. The winters are mild yet , yet occasion ice storms create havoc on the freeways. Its culturally diverse and that makes it interesting. I left because i chose not to deal with the traffic. Everything is measured by drive time.
Everything in Dallas is soooooo spread apart and far away. Driving takes up like half your day there. I like visiting my friend there, but I would never live there.
I live in Sherman Texas, north of Dallas and they are building 10,000 new homes here. They say the new homes will ranch in price from 200,000 to 10 million. Texas instruments and other companies are building chip factories here. And I heard that BlackRock is building a stock exchange in Dallas. TEXAS has a diverse economy, and we no longer have to put all of eggs in the oil basket.
I've spent time in the Metroplex. There's a lot to like. But it's not affordable anymore. Property taxes are nuts (and offset or exceed what you might have paid in income taxes), the weather is crap but at least not as gross as Houston, it's mostly flat and ugly, and sprawl for days. Dallas at least has something resembling transit, but it has a long way to go.
I’ve never been to Texas, but couldn’t you avoid paying property taxes by renting an home instead of buying?
I’ve never been to Texas, but couldn’t you avoid property taxes by renting a home instead of buying one?
@@1370802the person who rents out the home will have to pay those property taxes...so you'll still pay a similar amount of money but then also won't own it either
@@1370802 Lol, you really think your landlord is going to eat the cost of property taxes? No way, it's all baked into your rent.
Just moved out here from Toronto I love it
After moving from Austin to Indiana...I'm so glad I don't have to deal with 115 F days anymore.
There's 115F days in Austin?😵 Are you talkng "feels like" temps?
@@MoonShine-o5n Yea with humidity
My family moved to the area in 1984. I moved to Dallas in 2001, and I’ve been here since then. The sprawl has definitely grown. I still like it here. Lots of diverse people, not too expensive, two great airports, many months of great weather. The heat is usually bad in July & August, but everywhere has A/C. I like having four seasons. 😁
Texas really needs to invest in a railway connecting Dallas, Austin, Houston, and San Antonio
That is why Southwest Airlines was started and why we have it. Just for that reason.
It's a major junction for cattle and oil transfer. It's a major junction for transport via I-35 which spans from Mexico to Canada. It is a major junction for railroads. It's a major junction for travelling east-west. It has lots of flat land around for construction. Basically Dallas is in a prime location, and has benefited from business friendly governing.
The shade thrown at the cowboys
There are a few points here that are perhaps correct in spirit, but no longer correct from a factual perspective. Exxon Mobil moved to Houston and Halliburton has dual headquarters in Houston and Dubai. Houston still has the largest concentration of oil and gas and petrochemical in the state of Texas. Whereas Houston has the foregoing, Dallas secured the FRB and has built out into a large financial hub. It's also sitting at a major hub of the communications infrastructure of the United States and is the home of Telecom infrastructure in North America. It's heavily involved in mortgage processing and has the admittedly less sexy than Austin IT services sector contributing a huge amount to the local economy. What you could also mention is that the Dallas area has built out a pretty significant cultural infrastructure, including the largest contiguous arts district in North America, I believe.
Dallas is one of the most unlivable soul crushing cities in the US.
You could say that about most of Texas.
You've clearly never lived here if you think the entire city is so terrible.
@LoveStallion
You've clearly never lived here if you think that.
Nah it's quite livable. I just greatly dislike the city. Lifelong dfw resident. Suburb life for me.
“Unlivable”
Meanwhile 8million people live there😂😂
I moved to Plano in 1974 and left Dallas area in 1984 for East Texas and when I go back to North Dallas, I can’t recognize anything and the traffic was bearable in 74 but outrageous today
I’m from Dallas n everything is getting better and worse