farhan007

This is downtown Dallas. It's abandoned?

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yes it is. Look at the above photos.

Show a street picture, not light rail.

like this?

I went to Dallas/Ft.Worth metroplex and this is what I noticed. I was going to a sci fi con and went from North Richland Hills to Plano. Talk about a LONG boring drive!!

VERY LONG and VERY BORING Drive!!!

I saw:

Churches (not the chicken place)

Resturant Row (and for the Dallasites you know where I mean)

Lots of empty areas

Movie theatres

and that was about it. I know it was the outskirts of the metroplex but nonetheless even when I go out of houston's outer limits I have LOTS of beautiful greenry to look at.

Even when I stayed IN North Richland Hills and around that area, I hated it. I was bored to tears and felt spoiled because in Houston, you leave a neighborhood and voila you got something right there. Target, Walmart, mall, shopping centre.

I left my mom's neighborhood and I had to drive some distance to get to a Walmart, Target, or store. Even gas stations were a bit spread apart compared to here they are on every corner.

I hated going miles and miles just to go to a Petsmart/Petco when here in Houston its around the corner.

I hated all the lights were "Turn on Yield" where as we at least have arrows (protected)

For those in Dallas who think Houston is an ugly sprawl. Houston is going through some MAJOR MAJOR changes and I say in a couple years check back here and see how we're doing. I notice the city is cleaning some of its image up a bit and it is starting to look beautiful. Overlook the towering freeways in every direction and massive billboards.

Look at what's available here. We're all within reach a forest, a beach (even if the water is a muddy brown), A Lake, growing downtown center, and many events that are still IN the city and not the suburb (like Dallas's baseball stadium)

I don't want to put down Dallas but its definately not a top ten destination for me. I don't even see how its a family place. Aside from Six Flags and the movie theatres, what do y'all do there as a family?

Houston is my hometown, and I don't feel I belong here either but until I gather money to go to Toronto, I simply have no choice BUT to live here.

Just do your "big sister city" a favor and don't dog us too much (even though the sibling rivalry DOES exist)

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i agree. Where in dallas do you find an urban/skyscraper area with this much traffic like this?

i been to dallas several times, i have cousins there. There is absolutly no traffic in the downtown or uptown area. Not like the traffic you see in houston's tmc, uptown and downtown areas. All the activity in Dallas is in the suburbs(boring). You will never see a setting like the picture of the tmc i posted in Dallas. Going down westhimer road in houston is a expereince you can only feel in houston. Dallas has no road like that with that much activity going throught the heart of the city. The only place i expereince traffic in Dallas in in the freeways especially near the suburbs. Face it Dallas is a family freindly suburban city. Show me one picture of heavy traffic in your uptown/downtown area and i might change my mind.

i dont get it? Isnt new york new york because of its ethnic diversity??? Umm i wonder which city has more ethnic diversity in texas?