People who visited Dallas or lived in Dallas did you like it?

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2. >some people do not like living in Texas because of politics in Texas

   You’re going to have to take answers for questions like this with a grain of salt simply for this reason. The same is true for any state big or small here on reddit tbh.

   That said, I’ve been to many places in the US including Texas and the only thing I find shitty about Dallas and Texas in general is all those shitty cowboys fans.

3. Driving through dfw is my least favorite driving I have ever done in my life. I loathe it.

4. I’m a Cowboys fan and made the trip to Mecca for a game two years ago. Seemed fine but damn was that a lot of highway. Miss an exit and add 15 minutes to your drive.

   I also didn’t realize how many tolls I hit in my rental until a month later.

5. fort worth is better

6. Dallas the city or “Dallas”, taking in the seemingly never ending nest of suburban housing developments?

   I visit “Dallas” for the holidays every year, and it seems like a comfortable enough place to live. I can’t speak to the city of Dallas, I’ve only been one time.

7. the aquarium kicks ass

8. Briefly visited, it seemed no worse then any other city, but I wasnt there for fun.

9. Dallas was much more normal than I expected it to be. I kind of expected something Texas-y but it’s pretty plain (everyone from Texas already knows this, but it was news to me), but big enough that there are things to do. I thought that they had a pretty good museum scene and I like that the bar scene is very outdoors-focused.

   It is nowhere near my list of top cities but it is a perfectly acceptable city if you have a reason to be visiting.

10. Been to Dallas a few times for work. It’s ok. Nothing special, but nothing bad.

11. I grew up in a Dallas suburb. Loved it. I was exposed to all kinds of cultures, foods, art.

12. Well, it’s better than Houston. I’ll leave it at that.

13. It’s a weird one. I don’t know of anywhere else in the US with such a gap between what the city is like and its suburbs are like.

    Like the other non-Austin Texas cities, Dallas is one of the least white places in the United States. If you really like Mexican and Black Belt culture, it thrives in Dallas proper.

    Unlike the other Texas cities though, Dallas doesn’t really culturally command it’s own metro ara.

    A lot more of the air in Dallas is taken up by the suburbs which range for working class and diverse like Arlington, to extremely upper crust like Southlake. These suburbs also don’t identify very strongly with Dallas specifically.

    I think the lack of a unifying identity is holding back Dallas from having the vibrant culture found in other Texas cities.

    It doesn’t have a big food presence like Houston and San Antonio, music presence like Houston or Austin, art scene like Houston, or very specific identity like Austin, Fort Worth, or San Antonio.

    I don’t dislike Dallas, but I would like it to develop a stronger unified sense of place, because every different part of DFW feels to me like it’s own universe with no interest in what’s going on in other places.

14. My aunt has lived near Dallas for over a decade now, and my family and I have visited her there more than once. The food options are pretty good, and it is a pretty diverse urban area. Some interesting events too sometimes.

    However, Dallas is probably the epitome of both uncontrolled urban sprawl and the “everything is bigger Texas” motto. It always took forever to get from point A to point B, and just the fact that DFW Airport alone is bigger than all of Manhattan speaks volume about the area’s size. We also had to go to Forth Worth one time to meet someone, and it took so long that we just decided to make a day trip out of that. The unbearable heat and humidity in summer made things even less fun.

15. It’s the seventh circle of hell.

    This opinion may or may not be related to only visiting when American Airlines fucks up.

16. Good place to live. Local economy is robust without the same cost of living as other metro areas of that size. Weather is decent though a bit too volatile for my taste. It was always windy with shifting weather patterns every 2-3 days. Summer was very hot. You know it’s roasting when your pool is 95F. People we met were a bit more cliquey and country club for my taste.

17. Dallas is basically the opposite of NYC. Great place to live (especially for work and family) but not a great place to visit.

18. lived in Dallas County and southern Collin my whole life including Dallas proper. Its fun to live in, but I wouldnt consider it a vacation destination

19. No, I didn’t particularly like Dallas. Nothing to do with politics or football, although I do hate the Cowboys. Idk just seemed a little generic to me compared to other places in Texas. Strikes me as one of those places that’s better to live in than to visit.

20. If you can handle endless suburban sprawl, stroads everywhere, congested freeways, cookie cutter architecture, and it basically being the same as Phoenix but on dry plain instead of a desert, it’s fine.

21. Fort Worth is way better

22. I like Dallas, it’s a pretty cool place. It’s a lot bigger than I originally expected. It’s a big money city, I didn’t expect that either, but it makes sense.

23. Its underrated. A lot of people like to complain that its soulless and nothing but suburban sprawl. There are some truths to that, but its big enough, and diverse enough where you can find your niche and be happy. There are a lot of pockets of charm and a bunch of cool neighborhoods. Its been constantly growing for over a decade now and its way better that it was. Its a fantastic place to start a career. Lots of opportunity and money in the area for white collar young professionals. I guess why that’s why it gets the stigma for the “30k millionairs” but there’s a reason for that.

24. While my father and I were on a road trip, we passed through Dallas and went to that large park (name of which I forget) which has a collection of art deco buildings. It was December so there was no one outside. It was eerie. My father later described it as like passing through an ancient city where all the inhabitants had been killed by a neutron bomb.

    Another time, I was on a date with a girl from Austin and I told her the only city in Texas I’d been to was Dallas – she visibly winced.

25. I lived there for a while, it’s fine, lots of traffic. I have been in Ft Worth for 17 years now, I love it here.

26. I live in DFW and I love the area. It’s very diverse and you can have a variety of experiences depending on what area you are in. Downtown Dallas has a vibe that it wants to be NYC’s little sibling, Fort Worth has the cowboy scene but also hipster bars. There’s a bunch of museums and art galleries and festivals, for every interest. Major sports are readily available.

    The weather is shit though.

27. My company has an office there and everyone I talk to there seems to like it. Just painfully boring as a tourist… not much to do there.

28. I did not like it.

    It was 90 degrees at night, no thank you.

29. If TX politics and brutal summers and no decent transit are things you can get over, any city in TX is a pretty decent city.

30. I live in Dallas and really like it. It’s one of the most diverse cities in the U.S. and has a fantastic food scene (I’ve tried Uzbek, Laotian, Georgian, Venezuelan, Persian, Bangladeshi, etc. food). The art district is gorgeous and one of the biggest in the U.S., IIRC. There are tons of shopping opportunities and a fair amount of parks and the largest urban forest in the U.S.

31. Lived in Dallas for 7+ yrs and recently left.

    It really depends on what you are looking for.

    You want a relatively boring place to raise a family? Sure.

    Would you like to live in giga-sprawled suburbia? If so, sure.

    You like sports and drinking & eating? Sure.

    You like hiking and outdoor activities? No

32. I loved living in Dallas.

33. I visited for a week in April a few years back, it was lovely.

    I enjoy birding, and saw several along a greenbelt near my hotel. There were a few other interesting trails and parks within walking distance.

    I was able to easily rent bikes to get a ways across town to volunteer at the food bank. Tarrant area food bank was happy to have a temporary volunteer for a few days.

    Lots of great places to eat, tried a BBQ place and a vegan place while there.

    I may have been in the greater DFW area, now that I think about it. Whatever it was, I had a nice time. Enjoyed the zoo.

    I dislike some things from Texas (a football team, politicians), but found many other things delightful!

34. No. I live near Dallas. I hate driving through it, and it gets worse every day.

35. It’s fine. The city and suburbs are very diverse and I liked that about it. You can find good, authentic food but you’ll have to drive. Dallas also has a great Gay subculture. Good museums, art galleries, music venues and loads of indoor entertainment options. Overall very family oriented.

    On the skip side it’s really spread out and car dependent so the traffic is horrible.

    The overall culture of Dallas itself is odd. Materialistic, a bit superficial and money and status obsessed. But you can easily find other cultures throughout the different neighborhoods and suburbs.

    I particularly like Plano.

    I lived in Plano for two years and in Oak Lawn (Dallas neighborhood for about 2.5 years). One of the 14 cities I’ve lived in throughout my life. Not the best but definitely not the worst and the only animosity I have against it is terrible terrible fucking drivers.

36. Visited it once. I personally was not particularly impressed: public transit was much worse than it could be in a city that big and dense, downtown was difficult to walk through because of all the highways and crossings, architecture and the general vibe were not thay impressive, and the city just didn’t seem to have a lot to offer for a tourist.

    On the plus side, the Kennedy assassination museum was great, and most people I met there seemed nice and helpful.

37. One day somebody will ask about Amarillo.