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.
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.
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
Grew up in Florida (90 temp/90% humidity), then moved to Dallas, Texas area in 1976 with temp 95-105 over much of the summer but with humidity in the low 80s. Went to New Orleans in early 1980s for a job interview. As soon as the airplane door opened and the 90% humidity hit me in the face (and I saw a mesquito fly by ... or was it a B-52?), I thought "NOW I remember why I left here" (high humidity of the Gulf coast, despite the beautiful and great water activities). (I knew I wouldn't take the job even before I started the interview. Had a nice seafood lunch, though.) Where I live in north Dallas now (i.e., Garland, near '190'), everything's hunky-dory ... EVERYTHING I need (or would want) to live a nice lifestyle is within 5 miles of my house. (The invention of air conditioning is what made the South livable. It's still true today.) Where my son lives (near Denton, 45 miles NW), home building is skyrocketing but highway infrastructure improvement (especially) is coming very slowly. Even so, north Texas is better (for living) than any other place I've lived. Except for downtown office buildings, and hospitals--which there's seemingly one of on every street corner--almost nothing is higher than 3 stories. Most apartment complexes are two stories, and most have adequate parking.) Yes, we're pretty flat, here. (This is NOT a paid ad.)
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.
I'm disgusted by all the hate comments below attacking Dallas and generalising the entire city as a car-centric mess. You've clearly never visited here. Like any other area, it's a very mixed bag. There are plenty of pockets of decent transit and walkability. My wife and I both live car-free near the White Rock Lake. Also, housing in our neighbourhood is affordable. Say what you want about traffic and bad drivers, but the same could be said about almost any major North American city. If anything, cops never enforce traffic laws in Miami or Phoenix. Those two cities are way worse!
About 25 years ago I landed at DFW and took a cab to a giant hotel downtown. It was a Tuesday about 10pm. There was no place in the whole downtown to get food at that hour. No stores, no bars, no restaurants, no room service. It was completely quiet downtown. I hope they fixed that, it was embarrassing for them.
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.
This video is perfect timing. My friend just visited Dallas today and the first message I got was "Why do people drive like crazy in Dallas?" lmao Guess the answer is there's too many people and not enough density. Hope Dallas can keep up it's pace with creating more density. I have my doubts, but I'd love to be proven wrong.
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.
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.
@@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
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?
3:50 correction, Houston... Technically Spring, is the headquarters of ExxonMobil, while the north american headquarters of Halliburton is in Houston as well.
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)
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.
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.
Always funny when TI is called a “graphing calculator company”…like half of my friends’ dads were just screwing calculators together all day to make sure we could do Y=mx+b.
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.
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'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.
I'll never never never get over the "weather" attribute of Sunbelt cities. "I can't stand the cold in the north"; well, it sure seems like you can't stand the heat in the south, given that you go from an air-conditioned house, to an air-conditioned office, to an air-conditioned store or restaurant, etc., etc., all inside your air-conditioned car. It's such a crock.
The fact that y’all have made the Mediterranean climate of California, so horrible that a place as hot and humid as Texas is crushing you guys should be embarrassing. Yeah, we go from AC to AC but I’m fine with that. When in Minnesota we go from heated car to heated walkway to heated house. Same thing just opposite.
@ I’m from New England, moved to the Pacific Northwest a few years ago (for marginally cheaper housing, if you can believe it, and better pay), and I almost never close my windows all the way, turn on the heat, or drive somewhere if I can walk/bus instead. Promise I practice what I preach. I do agree that CA doing what big old Eastern cities have done-not build near enough housing-is a true shame
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.
What metric are you using to compare the light rail systems in Los Angeles and Dallas? I believe that DART still operates the longest light rail system in North America.
Los Angeles expanded their light rail in 2023 to surpass DART. Whenever the Silver line opens DART may temporarily jump past LA again, but LA has greater future plans than DART at this time, so will likely pass them again IF plans stay on track.
@@jtlandrum That's a substantial "if." It's tricky to get the precise numbers via a Google search. The cited source for L.A. includes their heavy rail lines, which definitely puts it above DART. If we include the commuter rail lines, L.A. also easily "wins." It's not a contest, though. Both regions have a LOT of improvements to implement. Also, LAMTA got started half a decade before DART, but DART's catch-up game was on point on the 90s.
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 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.
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.
Just have a look at a drone view of the "city", and you see nothing but absolutely car centric neighbourhoods : parking lots, turnpikes, empty spaces, and, yes, some concentration of skyscrapers in the middle of nowhere. I grew up in Paris suburbs, but our suburbs are far more urban than the central parts of Dallas.
You've never visited here obviously. There are plenty of pockets of decent transit and walkability. My wife and I both live car-free near the White Rock Lake.
They’ve done interviews saying it’s of interest. This issues is there is already a working project on that same route and Texas political climate towards transit outside the cities is very hostile and even in the cities it ranges from lackluster (San Antonio) to fractured (Houston & Dallas)
You alluded to "business-friendly" policies, and I appreciate that you don't want to politicize your content. Still, on your list San Francisco dropped from the fifth-largest city in 2000 to below the top 10 in 2023. San Francisco has no snow (indeed, much nicer weather than Dallas) and much better public transportation. But Californians in significant numbers are moving to Texas. The general political atmosphere has to be a factor.
San Francisco itself may have slightly better transit, but Silicon Valley is complete crap compared even to the suburbs of Dallas. I've lived in both so I know.
I like DFW personally. I think its a better metro area than Phoenix with entertainment and feels more cosmopolitan with huge skyscrappers. I think Phoenix is way way more suburban IMO.
Housing should always be a “commodity” affordable for almost everyone, then people who want their luxury, mansions, etc can still get those but housing shouldn’t just be an over priced privilege for only upper middle class and on, while everyone else is trapped in rent to never own, not being able to save up substantial down payment to get a house.
Ironic, I just read a big article on how San Antonio one of the poorest major cities. Granted, it's still growing too, but interesting how it can't compare to DFW, Austin, and Houston
Metro populations are deceiving. The list show does not include the SF Bay Area, which is one contiguous urban area of 7 million + people. If Dallas has 8 million then they are using the CSA standards.
The metro is so much more than Dallas. As a matter of fact, it’s Fort Worth that’s growing fast, being the 12th (Some now have it at 11th) largest city in the country. Dallas the city has about 1.3 Mil, the metro has about 8.2 as of 2024.
Oakland, Long Beach. Tacoma, St. Paul, Ft Worth, Fort Lauderdale…..etc These are a few of the secondary cities that are in the shadow of its bigger more well known neighbor.
Dallas proper isn't growing all that fast, but other places such as Collin County where Plano and McKinney, are are rapidly booming and so is neghboring Fort Worth which is more culturally Western, while Dallas has some Southern culture.
Why does desirable cities like Dallas still have big car parks in the city centre? I know cars are important in the US, but isn't land in high-demand areas like the city centre important too? Why isn't this land being built on? Pls forgive my french ignorance
@@guiloutz We spent the 20th century bulldozing neighborhoods and businesses in the city centers so that the state could build highways through racial minority areas to serve primarily white commuters. Now much of the downtowns are just giant parking lots because we’ve decided as a society it’s a more productive use to serve suburbanites who come into the city once and a while rather than building communities for people to live work and play permanently.
@@westacheny4162I do get that but from a property developer's POV, why wouldn't it buy this high value land ? Are there some laws to "keep" car parks ? Or is downtown maybe not so desirable ?
Dallas has probably less interest in preserving the old than any major city. In the wake of the Kennedy assassination 1963, city leaders wanted to remake themselves with a new identity and were much more willing to encourage growth. That led to a lot of freeways (it was the 60’s & 70’s, after all) but also laid the groundwork for the dynamic pro-growth mentality that prevails there
I live in the area, and it is AWFUL. Hot, no fall season, rude/racist people, terrible traffic and drivers, awful healthcare, etc. I would definitely not recommend moving here. I can't wait to leave.
From what I researched about it, George M Dallas was not well known outside of his native Philadelphia until he became Vice President; but that was only after the settlement of Dallas was already given its name. He would have still been an obscure figure at the time in a different part of the country, so the connection is unlikely.
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.
Yeah, that’s how it’s listed. If DC-Baltimore were counted as one, or if the San Fransisco Bay Area was counted as all one, they would be slightly larger than DFW. Still, for massive continuous growth Dallas is the champion of our era.
As a resident of Plano for 13yrs and a cyclist, it's sad that the DFW area is one of the worst for cyclists and pedestrians in the country. This place is literally anti health and exercise and pro automobile, unhealthy eating and drinking. And I'm a firearm packin, southern love person. Just saying what is. Our property value has tripled in the last 12yrs.
There are plenty of pockets of decent walkability and cycling infrastructure! Richardson is an example of a suburban town doing things right. Also, the real worst city for pedestrians is Sacramento, CA. The real worst city for cyclists is Lakeland, FL.
The TV show "Dallas" is far more well known than the actual city of Dallas. Probably because it's not a tourist destination or major cultural hot spot even remotely close to NYC 🤔
Seattle's urban growth boundary and lack of a ability to do sufficient upzoning within the boundary has sent real estate prices through the roof. Dallas has much more affordable and higher quality real estate. As someone who's experienced both, I was absolutely shocked. Dallas is extremely suburban but you can find more urban areas such as Uptown that may cater to that preference. People do drive like maniacs and the highways are "designed" in a weird way that makes accidents way more prevalent. I was also completely shocked at the difference between car insurance with Seattle and Dallas. I love Seattle but can't handle the hatred they have for the poor by not building enough housing. People crap on places like Houston and Dallas but there's a reason why so many immigrants come here (and it's not just because it's closer to the border). It's a bit of an economic powerhouse. And the food is much better here.
Having moved FROM Dallas to Seattle, be aware of 1) very high Texas property taxes, and 2) high commuting expenses and long commutes. Housing (except for lower property taxes) certainly is more expensive in Seattle. But in Texas, you absolutely need a car per person, with lots and lots of miles driven in Texas, often on tollways. For me, it's been a financial wash from an expense perspective, as we are down to one car that I seldom even need to use. And I earn much, much more in Seattle than Texas. Your mileage will vary.😃
I moved to DFW from Wyoming for grad school, and one factor worth considering is how important nature access is to you. I like to think Washington and Wyoming are alike in that people appreciate access to public land and national parks. DFW is a wasteland when it comes to nature access. For me that’s a big reason why I’d like to go back to the mountain west, and my wife and I have to make regular trips to New Mexico and Colorado just to try to get some public land’s fix.
I lived in Dallas for 15 years, which was 15 years too long. What a soulless city. Now, I lived in the wealthier parts of DFW, so I saw the best of it. The best is massive roads choked by traffic, scorching heat or cobblestone ice, extreme classism and of course deep economic racial segregation. I was an activist who spent a fair amount of time in South Dallas, which at the time was the 3rd most dangerous part of the US. That includes work at a superfund site, or a site of such pollution (industrial in this case) that it was poisoning and killing local (almost exclusively black) residents. For reference, Flint, Michigan is one of the superfund sites in the US. I also spent time amongst the wealthy elite who lived there leading lives completely detached from reality and generally unimaginable by the broader population. The extreme wealth next to extreme poverty really characterizes the Dallas experience more than anything. You're either having a good time living an expensive fantasy, or you're suffering from the uninhabitable climate, infrastructure, and political environment. It's a hellhole that traps a lot of people, including me, because there's so many high paying job opportunities. But it comes with its own costs as well. For instance, I pay the same property taxes in Colorado that I used to pay in Texas, but only because my house in Colorado is worth three times as much. Texas will lure you in with all sorts of promises only to trap you there and make your life hell. Do not recommend.
You must've lived in the dreaded city council district 12, ruled by the evil tyrant Cara Mendelsohn. Please know that district is NOT representative of the entire area. My wife and I live car-free near the White Rock Lake and don't have any of the issues you described (except the extreme summer heat of course lol). How long ago did you live in the area? It must have been long before 2022.
Free market capitalism is a big reason for the massive population growth. Texas ranks 4th in Fraser Institute’s economic freedom index. California is 48th, and New York is 50th. People tend to move to states with more economic freedom and lower tax burdens.
Free market is a dying myth. While a relatively business friendly environment can encourage growth, that doesn't have to mean you let large corporations and economic institutions do whatever they want. There is a balance. Already, at the local levels, the DFW area is looking at public-private-community based partnerships to address economic disparities, growth patterns, infrastructure limitations, pollution and environmental degradation, WATER, and the list goes on. With so many communities involved, coordination of efforts means smarter outcomes and a better quality of life, and yes, better economic outcomes as well.
Dallas voters just barely approved Prop U, which mandates the city of Dallas provide no less than 50% of annual revenue over the previous year to fund police - something even the police department thought was unnecessary. So we'll see if that boom continues in the city and how it'll affect the region as a whole given the financial burden
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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.
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.
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.
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
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
Grew up in Florida (90 temp/90% humidity), then moved to Dallas, Texas area in 1976 with temp 95-105 over much of the summer but with humidity in the low 80s. Went to New Orleans in early 1980s for a job interview. As soon as the airplane door opened and the 90% humidity hit me in the face (and I saw a mesquito fly by ... or was it a B-52?), I thought "NOW I remember why I left here" (high humidity of the Gulf coast, despite the beautiful and great water activities). (I knew I wouldn't take the job even before I started the interview. Had a nice seafood lunch, though.) Where I live in north Dallas now (i.e., Garland, near '190'), everything's hunky-dory ... EVERYTHING I need (or would want) to live a nice lifestyle is within 5 miles of my house. (The invention of air conditioning is what made the South livable. It's still true today.) Where my son lives (near Denton, 45 miles NW), home building is skyrocketing but highway infrastructure improvement (especially) is coming very slowly. Even so, north Texas is better (for living) than any other place I've lived. Except for downtown office buildings, and hospitals--which there's seemingly one of on every street corner--almost nothing is higher than 3 stories. Most apartment complexes are two stories, and most have adequate parking.) Yes, we're pretty flat, here. (This is NOT a paid ad.)
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.
I'm disgusted by all the hate comments below attacking Dallas and generalising the entire city as a car-centric mess. You've clearly never visited here. Like any other area, it's a very mixed bag. There are plenty of pockets of decent transit and walkability. My wife and I both live car-free near the White Rock Lake. Also, housing in our neighbourhood is affordable. Say what you want about traffic and bad drivers, but the same could be said about almost any major North American city. If anything, cops never enforce traffic laws in Miami or Phoenix. Those two cities are way worse!
Exactly. Most of the people talking clearly never lived in Dallas or Texas
About 25 years ago I landed at DFW and took a cab to a giant hotel downtown. It was a Tuesday about 10pm. There was no place in the whole downtown to get food at that hour. No stores, no bars, no restaurants, no room service. It was completely quiet downtown. I hope they fixed that, it was embarrassing for them.
That was long before there was decent transit. Downtown is completely fixed today.
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.
This video is perfect timing. My friend just visited Dallas today and the first message I got was "Why do people drive like crazy in Dallas?" lmao Guess the answer is there's too many people and not enough density. Hope Dallas can keep up it's pace with creating more density. I have my doubts, but I'd love to be proven wrong.
Texas drivers are not the best. It’s just what it is.
Sacramento has worse drivers.
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.
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.
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,
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
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?
It's been theorized that Austin and San Antonio will eventually become its own Metroplex, like with Dallas and Fort Worth.
The shade thrown at the cowboys
3:50 correction, Houston... Technically Spring, is the headquarters of ExxonMobil, while the north american headquarters of Halliburton is in Houston as well.
It it not just Dallas it is all of Texas, your own list shows Houston going from 10 to 5 also, plus Austin has boomed as well.
Fort Worth TX growing Fast too along with dallas and houston tx
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
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
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.
Always funny when TI is called a “graphing calculator company”…like half of my friends’ dads were just screwing calculators together all day to make sure we could do Y=mx+b.
Very Texan like for them to make kids spelling toys and also military weapon systems LMAO i guess thats what they mean by Texas Instruments lol
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.
It's overcrowded. I lived there for years. Screw that place.
Depends which neighbourhood. Some are not overcrowded.
Houston is right behind it.
Houston weather sucks
Houston is a HORRIBLE city! Dirty, Humid and no Culture‼️
Almost twice as many people live in the DFW area as in the entire state of Oklahoma
What is the primary source of WATER for the Metroplex region?
Six reservoirs.
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'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.
I'll never never never get over the "weather" attribute of Sunbelt cities. "I can't stand the cold in the north"; well, it sure seems like you can't stand the heat in the south, given that you go from an air-conditioned house, to an air-conditioned office, to an air-conditioned store or restaurant, etc., etc., all inside your air-conditioned car. It's such a crock.
The fact that y’all have made the Mediterranean climate of California, so horrible that a place as hot and humid as Texas is crushing you guys should be embarrassing. Yeah, we go from AC to AC but I’m fine with that. When in Minnesota we go from heated car to heated walkway to heated house. Same thing just opposite.
@ I’m from New England, moved to the Pacific Northwest a few years ago (for marginally cheaper housing, if you can believe it, and better pay), and I almost never close my windows all the way, turn on the heat, or drive somewhere if I can walk/bus instead. Promise I practice what I preach. I do agree that CA doing what big old Eastern cities have done-not build near enough housing-is a true shame
@@westacheny4162shhh don’t tell them people go from heater to heaters! That pokes a hole in their bias!
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.
Exxon and Halliburton are headquartered in Houston not Dallas.
What metric are you using to compare the light rail systems in Los Angeles and Dallas? I believe that DART still operates the longest light rail system in North America.
Los Angeles expanded their light rail in 2023 to surpass DART. Whenever the Silver line opens DART may temporarily jump past LA again, but LA has greater future plans than DART at this time, so will likely pass them again IF plans stay on track.
@@jtlandrum That's a substantial "if." It's tricky to get the precise numbers via a Google search. The cited source for L.A. includes their heavy rail lines, which definitely puts it above DART. If we include the commuter rail lines, L.A. also easily "wins." It's not a contest, though. Both regions have a LOT of improvements to implement. Also, LAMTA got started half a decade before DART, but DART's catch-up game was on point on the 90s.
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.
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.
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.
According to the US census, San Antonio was the largest in 1900. And San Antonio is larger than Dallas at present.
That's just the city proper population. I never understand how people cannot grasp this concept.
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.
Just have a look at a drone view of the "city", and you see nothing but absolutely car centric neighbourhoods : parking lots, turnpikes, empty spaces, and, yes, some concentration of skyscrapers in the middle of nowhere. I grew up in Paris suburbs, but our suburbs are far more urban than the central parts of Dallas.
You've never visited here obviously. There are plenty of pockets of decent transit and walkability. My wife and I both live car-free near the White Rock Lake.
If I were Brightline, I’d be eyeing the DFW - Houston - San Antonio - Austin triangle with quite a bit of interest
They’ve done interviews saying it’s of interest. This issues is there is already a working project on that same route and Texas political climate towards transit outside the cities is very hostile and even in the cities it ranges from lackluster (San Antonio) to fractured (Houston & Dallas)
Private passenger rail would be a wonderful idea for avoiding all the complications presented by car-loving politicians.
You alluded to "business-friendly" policies, and I appreciate that you don't want to politicize your content. Still, on your list San Francisco dropped from the fifth-largest city in 2000 to below the top 10 in 2023. San Francisco has no snow (indeed, much nicer weather than Dallas) and much better public transportation. But Californians in significant numbers are moving to Texas. The general political atmosphere has to be a factor.
San Francisco itself may have slightly better transit, but Silicon Valley is complete crap compared even to the suburbs of Dallas. I've lived in both so I know.
Net migration to/ from California is neutral. And why should population be important. Quality of life is more important.
I like DFW personally. I think its a better metro area than Phoenix with entertainment and feels more cosmopolitan with huge skyscrappers. I think Phoenix is way way more suburban IMO.
Thank you! Finally someone speaks the truth.
3:49 ExxonMobil Headquarters are in Spring, TX in the Greater Houston area as of 2023
So....are we ignoring the fact that Fort worth is also there too?
Many think the whole metro is just Dallas lol
Dallas had less than 10% drop in house prices in 2008. When you make housing easy, speculators stay away from houses.
Good point.
I’d say housing being cheap here is critical to the success of this region. If real estate remains cheap, I think this metro will thrive economically.
@ lax codes and approvals
Housing should always be a “commodity” affordable for almost everyone, then people who want their luxury, mansions, etc can still get those but housing shouldn’t just be an over priced privilege for only upper middle class and on, while everyone else is trapped in rent to never own, not being able to save up substantial down payment to get a house.
it’s gonna be the next la w all this traffic
Ironic, I just read a big article on how San Antonio one of the poorest major cities. Granted, it's still growing too, but interesting how it can't compare to DFW, Austin, and Houston
Yeah Dallas-Fort Worth airport expanding. Plus it's causing Oklahoma with a little bit of growth too look at texoma
Metro populations are deceiving. The list show does not include the SF Bay Area, which is one contiguous urban area of 7 million + people. If Dallas has 8 million then they are using the CSA standards.
The metro is so much more than Dallas. As a matter of fact, it’s Fort Worth that’s growing fast, being the 12th (Some now have it at 11th) largest city in the country. Dallas the city has about 1.3 Mil, the metro has about 8.2 as of 2024.
Oakland, Long Beach. Tacoma, St. Paul, Ft Worth, Fort Lauderdale…..etc
These are a few of the secondary cities that are in the shadow of its bigger more well known neighbor.
Dallas-Fort Worth racing the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.
I’m watching this while living in Arlington, Tx. I wish you would’ve talked more about Dart then a few sentences.
Dallas could have a waterway to the ocean. The trinity river canals were started but never finished.v
Dallas resident here. Please leave, transplants 😊❤️
That's a very niche sponsorship! I wish they have a free version with less features, say only offer route planning tools and no scheduling function?
Dallas proper isn't growing all that fast, but other places such as Collin County where Plano and McKinney, are are rapidly booming and so is neghboring Fort Worth which is more culturally Western, while Dallas has some Southern culture.
Why does desirable cities like Dallas still have big car parks in the city centre? I know cars are important in the US, but isn't land in high-demand areas like the city centre important too? Why isn't this land being built on? Pls forgive my french ignorance
Because we drive there brother, we live in the suburbs and we visit the city sometimes
@@guiloutz We spent the 20th century bulldozing neighborhoods and businesses in the city centers so that the state could build highways through racial minority areas to serve primarily white commuters.
Now much of the downtowns are just giant parking lots because we’ve decided as a society it’s a more productive use to serve suburbanites who come into the city once and a while rather than building communities for people to live work and play permanently.
@@westacheny4162I do get that but from a property developer's POV, why wouldn't it buy this high value land ? Are there some laws to "keep" car parks ? Or is downtown maybe not so desirable ?
Many of the parking lots are getting turned into housing, which is a welcome change.
ExxonMobil is headquartered in Spring Tx, a suburb north of Houston, not Dallas.
financial hq not business
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Dallas has probably less interest in preserving the old than any major city. In the wake of the Kennedy assassination 1963, city leaders wanted to remake themselves with a new identity and were much more willing to encourage growth. That led to a lot of freeways (it was the 60’s & 70’s, after all) but also laid the groundwork for the dynamic pro-growth mentality that prevails there
Imagine living in a parking lot
As if the entire area is a parking lot. You've clearly never visited here.
Please consider doing a video on crime prevention by design
It’s called open carry
go mavs
I live in the area, and it is AWFUL. Hot, no fall season, rude/racist people, terrible traffic and drivers, awful healthcare, etc. I would definitely not recommend moving here. I can't wait to leave.
I love it
@sergeantromanovklov4378 someone's got to because it sure couldn't be me
Then you definitely wouldn't like Phoenix. Phoenix is much worse IMO.
Every place you go will have drawbacks
@diegoflores9237 the racism I've experienced here is dangerous and the worst part of being in the DFW area
I thought Dallas was named for George M. Dallas.
From what I researched about it, George M Dallas was not well known outside of his native Philadelphia until he became Vice President; but that was only after the settlement of Dallas was already given its name. He would have still been an obscure figure at the time in a different part of the country, so the connection is unlikely.
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.
Yee haw 🤠
I thought Baltimore/DC was considered a "metroplex", but DC is on the list by itself?
Yeah, that’s how it’s listed. If DC-Baltimore were counted as one, or if the San Fransisco Bay Area was counted as all one, they would be slightly larger than DFW. Still, for massive continuous growth Dallas is the champion of our era.
I moved to Dallas in 2015. Got the hell out of there in 2020. Texas is horrible.
Can you elaborate why you thought it was horrible?
It's improved a lot since 2020! My wife and I live car-free next to the White Rock Lake trail.
I've never seen boom towns go bust before tehe
That jab at cs2 was priceless.
Dont *GIVE IT AWAT*
Try slowing down when you speak. You slur a lot of your words together and sometimes it impedes comprehension.
I'll take fast talk over slow talk any day.
Rail system, talk to the rail companies who are hogging the rail systems
Yeah, the British did not manage to make a boom town in Aberdeen.
We’re full! Try New York 😂
As a resident of Plano for 13yrs and a cyclist, it's sad that the DFW area is one of the worst for cyclists and pedestrians in the country. This place is literally anti health and exercise and pro automobile, unhealthy eating and drinking. And I'm a firearm packin, southern love person. Just saying what is. Our property value has tripled in the last 12yrs.
There are plenty of pockets of decent walkability and cycling infrastructure! Richardson is an example of a suburban town doing things right. Also, the real worst city for pedestrians is Sacramento, CA. The real worst city for cyclists is Lakeland, FL.
Lol Texas Instruments hates it when you refer to them as a graphing calculator company
I live in Texas. Traffic everywhere and it will get worse under Trump because of emphasis on oil and cars. Poor infrastructure that is getting worse.
Depends which city you live in. The DFW area has decent transit. Austin has decent bike paths. You must live in Houston.
Poor infrastructure you say? How about the $7 Billion spent and we only get 8 EV charging stations? That happened in the last 3 years
As someone from Florida, moving to the sunbelt means you're trading better weather for worse government 😂
I wonder how much this growth will last one the heat becomes unbearable and the sea rises
Ask FL
The TV show "Dallas" is far more well known than the actual city of Dallas.
Probably because it's not a tourist destination or major cultural hot spot even remotely close to NYC 🤔
Washington DC should always include Baltimore…. That’s 9 million people
Dallas by itself ain't shit without Ft. Worth
yes it is 😂😂😂
If you look at the numbers people are moving to Ft. Worth. Dallas itself is losing population.
Im strongly considering moving to Dallas from Seattle in the next year. I just cant afford it here the west coast is too expensive.
One part of Seattle that deserves a shoutout: Magnolia has some cool views of the main city from a distance in my opinion.
Seattle's urban growth boundary and lack of a ability to do sufficient upzoning within the boundary has sent real estate prices through the roof. Dallas has much more affordable and higher quality real estate. As someone who's experienced both, I was absolutely shocked. Dallas is extremely suburban but you can find more urban areas such as Uptown that may cater to that preference. People do drive like maniacs and the highways are "designed" in a weird way that makes accidents way more prevalent. I was also completely shocked at the difference between car insurance with Seattle and Dallas. I love Seattle but can't handle the hatred they have for the poor by not building enough housing. People crap on places like Houston and Dallas but there's a reason why so many immigrants come here (and it's not just because it's closer to the border). It's a bit of an economic powerhouse. And the food is much better here.
Having moved FROM Dallas to Seattle, be aware of 1) very high Texas property taxes, and 2) high commuting expenses and long commutes.
Housing (except for lower property taxes) certainly is more expensive in Seattle. But in Texas, you absolutely need a car per person, with lots and lots of miles driven in Texas, often on tollways. For me, it's been a financial wash from an expense perspective, as we are down to one car that I seldom even need to use. And I earn much, much more in Seattle than Texas. Your mileage will vary.😃
Stay in Seattle with your leftist politics. You created your own problems
I moved to DFW from Wyoming for grad school, and one factor worth considering is how important nature access is to you. I like to think Washington and Wyoming are alike in that people appreciate access to public land and national parks. DFW is a wasteland when it comes to nature access. For me that’s a big reason why I’d like to go back to the mountain west, and my wife and I have to make regular trips to New Mexico and Colorado just to try to get some public land’s fix.
7th
If Dallas is so great why dont the cowboys play there?
Too bad a woman's right to choose has long disappeared in Dallas and Texas
Except most people don't really care about that when the cost of living is so much better than in, say, California.
How about a woman’s right to protect and defend her child.
Yet why are those pro abortion states losing population?
Wrong channel for that political bs
Shut up and cook me some dinner, but get me a beer first.
What about Miami?
its trash since lebron left
It's sinking under the tides. Their streets flood every month since the pumps can't keep up with the encroaching ocean.
Good point, why doesn't this video about Dallas talk about miami, maybe they are two different places?
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So, people are happy there?
Yes, despite all the hate comments this video is receiving.
@@crowmob-yo6ry Cool. I would love to visit some day.
in 50 years, dallas will be the biggest city in the US, and houston will be the 2nd biggest
If current rates hold, dallas won't even be the biggest city in the Metroplex
@@Tony-vp4pg
im from this part of the country, "dallas" is the name for the metro
I live here also. It's literally "DFW"
@@Tony-vp4pg
no, its dallas
Remember, it was all a dream
Ok troll
Dallas is the NYC of the South!
No, that's Miami. XD
Dallas is the south Chicago.
Sounds like a hot mess to me..
I lived in Dallas for 15 years, which was 15 years too long. What a soulless city.
Now, I lived in the wealthier parts of DFW, so I saw the best of it. The best is massive roads choked by traffic, scorching heat or cobblestone ice, extreme classism and of course deep economic racial segregation. I was an activist who spent a fair amount of time in South Dallas, which at the time was the 3rd most dangerous part of the US. That includes work at a superfund site, or a site of such pollution (industrial in this case) that it was poisoning and killing local (almost exclusively black) residents. For reference, Flint, Michigan is one of the superfund sites in the US.
I also spent time amongst the wealthy elite who lived there leading lives completely detached from reality and generally unimaginable by the broader population. The extreme wealth next to extreme poverty really characterizes the Dallas experience more than anything. You're either having a good time living an expensive fantasy, or you're suffering from the uninhabitable climate, infrastructure, and political environment.
It's a hellhole that traps a lot of people, including me, because there's so many high paying job opportunities. But it comes with its own costs as well. For instance, I pay the same property taxes in Colorado that I used to pay in Texas, but only because my house in Colorado is worth three times as much. Texas will lure you in with all sorts of promises only to trap you there and make your life hell. Do not recommend.
You must've lived in the dreaded city council district 12, ruled by the evil tyrant Cara Mendelsohn. Please know that district is NOT representative of the entire area. My wife and I live car-free near the White Rock Lake and don't have any of the issues you described (except the extreme summer heat of course lol). How long ago did you live in the area? It must have been long before 2022.
Free market capitalism is a big reason for the massive population growth.
Texas ranks 4th in Fraser Institute’s economic freedom index. California is 48th, and New York is 50th. People tend to move to states with more economic freedom and lower tax burdens.
Economic freedom is a fun way to describe a place owners run roughshod over wage workers.
Lower tax burdens only sound nice until the power goes out.
@ Economic freedom is the engine that leads to capital investment, innovation, and prosperity.
@@antonioiniguez1615 Texas has 2 out of three. No state with 1/4 child living in huger can claim prosperity
Free market is a dying myth. While a relatively business friendly environment can encourage growth, that doesn't have to mean you let large corporations and economic institutions do whatever they want. There is a balance. Already, at the local levels, the DFW area is looking at public-private-community based partnerships to address economic disparities, growth patterns, infrastructure limitations, pollution and environmental degradation, WATER, and the list goes on. With so many communities involved, coordination of efforts means smarter outcomes and a better quality of life, and yes, better economic outcomes as well.
@@gregorysouthworth783 Ah yes, the system that single-handedly created the developed world is a myth. Got it.
Dallas voters just barely approved Prop U, which mandates the city of Dallas provide no less than 50% of annual revenue over the previous year to fund police - something even the police department thought was unnecessary. So we'll see if that boom continues in the city and how it'll affect the region as a whole given the financial burden
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