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
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.
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
3:50 correction, Houston... Technically Spring, is the headquarters of ExxonMobil, while the north american headquarters of Halliburton is in Houston as well.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My sister loves Dallas and we are both from El Paso. I was an UBER driver there for a summer about 4 years ago. Dallas is not for everyone but it does have some nice places and a good job market.. but for me El Paso is home. Friendly people, great weather and nice cost of living . VIVA El Paso but God bless Dallas too!!
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?
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.
@@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
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.
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.
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 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.
As someone who lives in the Houston area, another weather factor is that while Dallas can get overall hotter than Houston, Houston has to deal with humidity, which is worse. That being said, I couldnt deal eith the more constant tornadoes myself.
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.
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!
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.
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)
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.
Well, they are most known in the public's mind for enforcing a calculator cartel, so the rest of their stuff takes a backseat, even if it's more important.
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
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'll be honest: commercial SaaS transportation planning software sounds more fun than Cities Skylines. Given the amount of painstakingly created real city replicas made with Cities Skylines, usually made with the sole purpose of dreaming of transit-rich, walkable future versions of the cities we live in, I'm sure I'm not alone.
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.
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.
It's a bad habit of a lot of cities here in Texas to shut down everything no later than 2AM. I know here in SA if you want something to eat after that, you wait until six or hope one of the two of 7/11's are open.
That's the case with a lot of central business districts in most major US cities. Even in places like boston and nyc. And it wasn't the whole of downtown, it just felt like it at the time.
Having visited the place multiple times, Ive recently moved here and casually looking for work while enjoying funemployment. I've wondered why Dallas-Fort Worth has been booming, making it an outlier among other Republican states that haven't seen such growth. This put them in the same bucket as California, New York, Washington, and few others.
@@KingAsa5 Actually based on what he said, he discussed all of Texas kid, your feckless nonsense notwithstanding. Also what does "tho" mean? Do me a favour a share...lord such incompetence. I weep for the future.
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.
My mom was born in 'OCliff as the locals say but it was an art commune in the turn of last century and before that a mystic native indian settlement so lots of cool vibes by the river!
Your show would be much better appreciated if you were to slow down the narration and maintain volume to the same level for the last few words as you do the first. If this sounds like an old person's complaint then I agree but there's a lot of us out there deciding who to watch/ listen to. Cheers
I'm a Dallas/Ft Worth native and the area has always been a money making area. All these years later and the TV show Dallas still gives the reputation of being a bunch of Urban Cowboys roaming around, not as much anymore times have changed
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 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.
@@ljacobs357 I don't know if these stats can be trusted, but here's what I'm seeing for the latest based on IRS data: California lost the most residents to Texas with 54,136 households leaving for the Lone Star State. These households had an average AGI of $146,000. The net loss was 30,820 households after accounting for the 23,316 Texan households that moved into California. However, these households coming into California had a substantially lower average AGI of $106,196.
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
San Antonio is a low-wage city....and it is way more based on blue collar jobs and doesn't have a ton of large corporate jobs like Dallas, Houston, and Austin. You'll notice that San Antonio doesn't have ANY toll roads in or around it, unlike Houston, Dallas, and Austin-it's in part because the locals simply would not be able to afford them.
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)
Already hit a wall imo. The northern suburbs have no e/w highway. Im talking mckinney, prosper, frisco, princeton. Its a gisnt crappy road w wildly swinging speed limits from 40 to 60
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.
It’s because the city is too expensive to live in. People can only afford to live in the suburbs. The city is seeing massive gentrification. People that can afford it, are changing inner city neighborhoods.
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
Dallas is a GREAT city for career growth.....everyone I know who has moved there is thriving financially and all have their "Dallas Big Hair House" (most of the new houses look like mini-chateau's with their huge hipped roofs) and drive nice cars, etc. But it also feels very "soul-less". Houston is growing just as fast but it leans more into it's international side and although DFW is diverse, it can't hold a candle to Houston. When I go back to visit DFW (my family still lives there, I moved away years ago), you can FEEL the prosperity in the air. But because of the prosperity, a lot of people are the absolute most materialistic and shallow you will meet anywhere in the U.S. lol. I remember years ago on a local morning news show, they were showcasing a fashion show fundraiser for kids with special needs....they set up a runway with some kids with special needs dressed up in designer clothes. The kids were pulling at the clothes and drooling all over themselves, and the show organizers kept wiping them off and trying to get the kids to walk down a little catwalk and pose for the camera. It was so....odd. But clearly illustrates how looks and appearances are super important in the area....again, I think as a result of the economic prosperity and Dallas being a place where retailers would come to shop and buy clothes for department stores (think Market Center and Neiman Marcus, etc).
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.)
The sun ☀️ belt is cheaper like Dallas because you don’t need to pay 💰 for plows, pot wholes, and new roads that have to be paved road maintenance 👨🔧 is the biggest cost for governments then schools that is why it’s cheaper you should do a videos on 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.
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!
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.
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.
Ft Worth is growing like a massive suburb with a ton of subdivisions. Dallas is growing like a major city that it is, with numerous new high-rises and corporate relocations. The Texas Stock Exchange and Goldman Sachs are moving to the downtown area
@ Fort Worth is not a suburb, is its own city, and now a large one at that, and Dallas as a city isn’t actually growing rapidly, it’s mainly Fort Worth and the rest of the metro. Dallas actually lost a bit of its population a couple of years back. I believe it’s back growing again, but not rapidly.
@ I am not saying that to be funny, but it is literally nearly a suburb. They have less than 7 million sq ft of office space in downtown Ft Worth. Uptown Dallas alone is now much, much larger than Downtown Ft Worth. That’s an extremely low amount of office space for a city approaching 1 million. In 2017, the City of Ft Worth did a study and found out that they were in jeopardy of becoming a suburb of Dallas. The vast majority of Tarrant County residents commute to Dallas County for work. That’s why the traffic around Downtown Ft Worth is so light in-comparison to Dallas. Just think about this, when was the last time a major corporation expanded or moved to Ft Worth? Dallas is growing slow because it’s expensive to live in. Dallas is 2nd most expensive city in Texas. Ppl move to Fort Worth or the suburbs because they can’t afford to live in Dallas. People who can afford it are quickly gentrifying the city. Bishop Arts in Oak Cliff, Old East Dallas, West Dallas, etc are examples of gentrification.
@@gr8myndmuzic 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. Ft Worth is a city, but it punches well below its weight for its size. There’s only around 8 million sq ft of office space in Downtown Ft Worth. That’s abysmal considering it’s approaching 1 million people in population. The growth in Fort Worth is equivalent to growth that happens in the suburbs. It is so bad that Ft Worth was at risk of becoming a suburb of Dallas in 2017, which had Ft Worth city leadership panicking. Since the vast majority of residents in Tarrant County go to Dallas County for work. Residential growth is completely outpacing business development in Fort Worth. IDK if they managed to improve that, but them “not wanting to be Dallas” has hurt the city’s progress on the national stage. Dallas just keeps getting larger and casting a bigger shadow on its neighbors. Uptown Dallas alone has over 14 million sq ft of office space and projected to grow to over 19 million over the next few years. All of that contributes as to why Fort Worth has a slower and smaller feel to it. Less people are commuting there, in comparison to Dallas.
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.
I luv my Big D, despite all the negative comments, it's still home and each area of the city gives its own vibe. I mean, White rock lake is my haunt grounds and very special but not in a stuck up fancy way, just lots of great memories at the lake, smokin a doovie, throwing a frisbee all afternoon❤Scoopin' the loop😏 The Dallas TV show i was a kid when it hit- Sure,a late nite soap opera but super representative of what troubled Dallasites were doing in the late 70s LMAO😅 It was TV's #1 show for many many years. I do not even watch broadcast tv anymore but suppose uTube is my go to last decade! Thanks for this❤
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.
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 ?
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
3:50 correction, Houston... Technically Spring, is the headquarters of ExxonMobil, while the north american headquarters of Halliburton is in Houston as well.
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 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.
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.
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 went to Dallas for the first time in July. It was the most sensory dulling, suffocating, flattened, homogeneous mess I’ve ever experienced
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,
My sister loves Dallas and we are both from El Paso. I was an UBER driver there for a summer about 4 years ago. Dallas is not for everyone but it does have some nice places and a good job market.. but for me El Paso is home. Friendly people, great weather and nice cost of living . VIVA El Paso but God bless Dallas too!!
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?
Houston is right behind it.
Houston weather sucks
Houston is a HORRIBLE city! Dirty, Humid and no Culture‼️
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.
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
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
Fort Worth TX growing Fast too along with dallas and houston tx
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'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.
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 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.
Exxon and Halliburton are headquartered in Houston not Dallas.
As someone who lives in the Houston area, another weather factor is that while Dallas can get overall hotter than Houston, Houston has to deal with humidity, which is worse.
That being said, I couldnt deal eith the more constant tornadoes myself.
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.
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
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.
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
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
Well, they are most known in the public's mind for enforcing a calculator cartel, so the rest of their stuff takes a backseat, even if it's more important.
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.
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.
The shade thrown at the cowboys
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
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.
Great video!
I'll be honest: commercial SaaS transportation planning software sounds more fun than Cities Skylines. Given the amount of painstakingly created real city replicas made with Cities Skylines, usually made with the sole purpose of dreaming of transit-rich, walkable future versions of the cities we live in, I'm sure I'm not alone.
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.
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.
It's a bad habit of a lot of cities here in Texas to shut down everything no later than 2AM. I know here in SA if you want something to eat after that, you wait until six or hope one of the two of 7/11's are open.
That's the case with a lot of central business districts in most major US cities. Even in places like boston and nyc. And it wasn't the whole of downtown, it just felt like it at the time.
It is still like that, depending on the night. If theres no events or its not a weekend, its absolutely still like that.
We have lots of 24 hour Whataburger’s in Houston plus diners and deli’s. Been that way for decades.
Having visited the place multiple times, Ive recently moved here and casually looking for work while enjoying funemployment.
I've wondered why Dallas-Fort Worth has been booming, making it an outlier among other Republican states that haven't seen such growth. This put them in the same bucket as California, New York, Washington, and few others.
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.
3:49 ExxonMobil Headquarters are in Spring, TX in the Greater Houston area as of 2023
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.
This is about Dallas tho. Not Houston
@@KingAsa5 Actually based on what he said, he discussed all of Texas kid, your feckless nonsense notwithstanding. Also what does "tho" mean? Do me a favour a share...lord such incompetence. I weep for the future.
@@YukonGhiblithe video is about Dallas genius 😂😂😂
@@YukonGhibliyou sound so insecure
@ the videos is about Dallas tho..🤡
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.
Funny enough that oak cliff was a town before being the neighborhood of dallas
My mom was born in 'OCliff as the locals say but it was an art commune in the turn of last century and before that a mystic native indian settlement so lots of cool vibes by the river!
@@sableminer8133 I'm surprised that it went from what you described to a nice modern paradise
If Houston had Fort Worth just 30 miles to its west the metro area population would be 10 million.
"Dallas is in the middle of nowhere" laughs in Phoenix and Las Vegas
Your show would be much better appreciated if you were to slow down the narration and maintain volume to the same level for the last few words as you do the first.
If this sounds like an old person's complaint then I agree but there's a lot of us out there deciding who to watch/ listen to. Cheers
Traffic here sucks but i love dallas
I'm a Dallas/Ft Worth native and the area has always been a money making area. All these years later and the TV show Dallas still gives the reputation of being a bunch of Urban Cowboys roaming around, not as much anymore times have changed
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!
@@aquaticko Pacific Northwest, eh? Portland or Seattle?
the subtle shade toward the cowboys 😭😝🤭
Almost twice as many people live in the DFW area as in the entire state of Oklahoma
it’s gonna be the next la w all this traffic
It already is. Lived here my whole life and during covid saw a massive influx of people. I call dallas dollar tree la.
@ it’s such a shame too. texas is supposed to be land of innovation and economic but we’re going to run into the same exact problems as them
Well done
So....are we ignoring the fact that Fort worth is also there too?
Many think the whole metro is just Dallas lol
I'd be interested to see/hear you take on why Columbus seems to be the only city in the northeast/upper midwest that keeps growing.
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.
@@ljacobs357 I don't know if these stats can be trusted, but here's what I'm seeing for the latest based on IRS data: California lost the most residents to Texas with 54,136 households leaving for the Lone Star State. These households had an average AGI of $146,000. The net loss was 30,820 households after accounting for the 23,316 Texan households that moved into California. However, these households coming into California had a substantially lower average AGI of $106,196.
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
San Antonio is a low-wage city....and it is way more based on blue collar jobs and doesn't have a ton of large corporate jobs like Dallas, Houston, and Austin. You'll notice that San Antonio doesn't have ANY toll roads in or around it, unlike Houston, Dallas, and Austin-it's in part because the locals simply would not be able to afford them.
Dallas-Fort Worth racing the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.
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?
It's been theorized that Austin and San Antonio will eventually become its own Metroplex, like with Dallas and Fort Worth.
Yeah Dallas-Fort Worth airport expanding. Plus it's causing Oklahoma with a little bit of growth too look at texoma
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.
I’m watching this while living in Arlington, Tx. I wish you would’ve talked more about Dart then a few sentences.
I didn’t know u were from Wisconsin??? GO PACK GO WOOO
This video is extra great if your significant other's name is Dallas (which mine is)
ExxonMobil is headquartered in Spring Tx, a suburb north of Houston, not Dallas.
financial hq not business
smartest youtube commenter
Dallas could have a waterway to the ocean. The trinity river canals were started but never finished.v
being part of this metroplex..DFW is going to hit a wall because it's just too spreadout and too flat. good for supply of homes but bad for commute
Already hit a wall imo. The northern suburbs have no e/w highway. Im talking mckinney, prosper, frisco, princeton. Its a gisnt crappy road w wildly swinging speed limits from 40 to 60
Average commute time in DFW is 27 minutes. 30 minutes has been typical in urban areas since pedestrian commutes in ancient Rome.
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.
Plano going downhill. Homeless numbers rising rapidly. Seeing abandoned shopping carts filled w junk in areas far away from dart lines.
It’s because the city is too expensive to live in. People can only afford to live in the suburbs. The city is seeing massive gentrification. People that can afford it, are changing inner city neighborhoods.
I heard that Dallas is either too hot or too cold.
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 would never move to that suburban hell. I prefer transportation freedom.
Dallas is a GREAT city for career growth.....everyone I know who has moved there is thriving financially and all have their "Dallas Big Hair House" (most of the new houses look like mini-chateau's with their huge hipped roofs) and drive nice cars, etc. But it also feels very "soul-less". Houston is growing just as fast but it leans more into it's international side and although DFW is diverse, it can't hold a candle to Houston. When I go back to visit DFW (my family still lives there, I moved away years ago), you can FEEL the prosperity in the air.
But because of the prosperity, a lot of people are the absolute most materialistic and shallow you will meet anywhere in the U.S. lol. I remember years ago on a local morning news show, they were showcasing a fashion show fundraiser for kids with special needs....they set up a runway with some kids with special needs dressed up in designer clothes. The kids were pulling at the clothes and drooling all over themselves, and the show organizers kept wiping them off and trying to get the kids to walk down a little catwalk and pose for the camera. It was so....odd. But clearly illustrates how looks and appearances are super important in the area....again, I think as a result of the economic prosperity and Dallas being a place where retailers would come to shop and buy clothes for department stores (think Market Center and Neiman Marcus, etc).
*LOL MORE LIKE YOUR RENT OR MORTGAGE WILL EAT UP YOUR PAYCHECK HAHAHAHAHAH GOOD LUCK ON THAT ONE*
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 consider doing a video on crime prevention by design
It’s called open carry
The sun ☀️ belt is cheaper like Dallas because you don’t need to pay 💰 for plows, pot wholes, and new roads that have to be paved road maintenance 👨🔧 is the biggest cost for governments then schools that is why it’s cheaper you should do a videos on that
go mavs
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.
Wait what? Houston is doing the same
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
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
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.
Nope. The US census bureau defined metro areas and they’ve said that Dallas-Ft Worth has over 8 million ppl now.
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😂😂
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.
Ft Worth is growing like a massive suburb with a ton of subdivisions. Dallas is growing like a major city that it is, with numerous new high-rises and corporate relocations. The Texas Stock Exchange and Goldman Sachs are moving to the downtown area
@ Fort Worth is not a suburb, is its own city, and now a large one at that, and Dallas as a city isn’t actually growing rapidly, it’s mainly Fort Worth and the rest of the metro. Dallas actually lost a bit of its population a couple of years back. I believe it’s back growing again, but not rapidly.
@ I am not saying that to be funny, but it is literally nearly a suburb. They have less than 7 million sq ft of office space in downtown Ft Worth. Uptown Dallas alone is now much, much larger than Downtown Ft Worth. That’s an extremely low amount of office space for a city approaching 1 million. In 2017, the City of Ft Worth did a study and found out that they were in jeopardy of becoming a suburb of Dallas. The vast majority of Tarrant County residents commute to Dallas County for work. That’s why the traffic around Downtown Ft Worth is so light in-comparison to Dallas. Just think about this, when was the last time a major corporation expanded or moved to Ft Worth?
Dallas is growing slow because it’s expensive to live in. Dallas is 2nd most expensive city in Texas. Ppl move to Fort Worth or the suburbs because they can’t afford to live in Dallas. People who can afford it are quickly gentrifying the city. Bishop Arts in Oak Cliff, Old East Dallas, West Dallas, etc are examples of gentrification.
@@gr8myndmuzic 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. Ft Worth is a city, but it punches well below its weight for its size. There’s only around 8 million sq ft of office space in Downtown Ft Worth. That’s abysmal considering it’s approaching 1 million people in population. The growth in Fort Worth is equivalent to growth that happens in the suburbs. It is so bad that Ft Worth was at risk of becoming a suburb of Dallas in 2017, which had Ft Worth city leadership panicking. Since the vast majority of residents in Tarrant County go to Dallas County for work. Residential growth is completely outpacing business development in Fort Worth. IDK if they managed to improve that, but them “not wanting to be Dallas” has hurt the city’s progress on the national stage. Dallas just keeps getting larger and casting a bigger shadow on its neighbors. Uptown Dallas alone has over 14 million sq ft of office space and projected to grow to over 19 million over the next few years. All of that contributes as to why Fort Worth has a slower and smaller feel to it. Less people are commuting there, in comparison to Dallas.
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.
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.
I luv my Big D, despite all the negative comments, it's still home and each area of the city gives its own vibe.
I mean, White rock lake is my haunt grounds and very special but not in a stuck up fancy way, just lots of great memories at the lake, smokin a doovie, throwing a frisbee all afternoon❤Scoopin' the loop😏
The Dallas TV show i was a kid when it hit- Sure,a late nite soap opera but super representative of what troubled Dallasites were doing in the late 70s LMAO😅 It was TV's #1 show for many many years. I do not even watch broadcast tv anymore but suppose uTube is my go to last decade!
Thanks for this❤
White rock lake ugly af. All the trees there look half dead 24/7.
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.
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.
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.
Dont *GIVE IT AWAT*
That jab at cs2 was priceless.
Imagine living in a parking lot
As if the entire area is a parking lot. You've clearly never visited here.
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.
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.
I've never seen boom towns go bust before tehe