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So, some Houstonians hang on to the one glaring fact that gives Houston a "one-up" on Dallas. . .population.

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Yeah, the only thing that Houston has over Dallas is the City Population, but Metro wise, Houston is still short 500k or so.. However, like i said before, people up here don't really care at all. It's all about the money, which region offers more career opportunities wins to them. In this regard, DFW won me over.

Danes75: very interesting find.

I lived in Southwest Houston most of my life and now lives in Northern Suburbs of Dallas.

And i have to say that no one up here in the DFW areacares which Metro area is better, but when i come down here to see my folks..i get all these kinda of questions, which is better? Houston or Dallas? What do you want me to say? Dallas? Houston?? being more political and say both are great places? It's just pointless.

(note that i said Metro not cities, it's very misleading to use cities, for example San Francisco is a small city but the metro area is huge, and no one says San Francisco, they always say Bay Area, sames would hold true in the DFW area)

Anyway, after all of that background, I am interested in understanding "interested outsiders" opinions to this matter.  Southwest already flies to Houston, so there are likely few price benefits there, but Houston is similar (although not exactly the same) with two airports.  For example:  how would you compare this to a situation where flights from Hobby were limited to Texas and neighboring states?  OR would IAH have been a stronger airport if that were the case?

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Houston's airports will never reach the caliber of DFW.

Mabye this should be called "DFW".  Or, have two groups, one Fort Worth, the other Dallas.  The DFW seems to make more sense.  I know many people in FW are sensitive about thier own identity and are not crazy about being considered "a bourough of Dallas".  Anyways, just a thought.

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Very good idea. People here don't realize that people live in the Dallas/ Ft Worth don't actually live in Dallas or Fort Worth but mid cities/Plano/Richardson etc etc.