Why Dallas Is Growing Insanely Fast
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Date: 2024-11-25
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darwoodtechnology
Traffic has gotten so bad that even my super-conservative mass transit is for commies relatives are starting to say maybe we should expand mass transit here. The problem is all the not in my neighborhood people. For example, DART wanted to put a rail station in the Northpark Mall but the rich snobs in Preston Hollow and Park Cities complained out of fear it would bring poor people to their neighborhoods. The Galleria up north near Addison is dying and would greatly benefit from a DART station. However, the real problem is that DART is only good in taking you to and from Downtown Dallas to work. Currently, Dallas is trying to setup toll road after toll road in the area. Twenty years ago, the idea of toll roads was insane; now they are becoming common.
I saved a lot of money when I worked in Downtown area and used DART. However, if you are working north of the Galleria, Las Colinas, or somewhere further north in Plano or Frisco, then DART is useless. If you look at the map, all the trains feed into roughly north-south into Downtown. There are no east-west trains. So, if I live in Lake Highlands and need to get to my job in Las Colinas, then I have to travel south to Downtown, then change trains to travel northwest to Las Colinas.
Sadly, Dallas used to have an extensive trolley system like you see in San Francisco but ripped in all out to make more highways and roads for cars. Downtown Dallas has also been dying as it is not a place you want to be after dark. There is a tunnel network that was half-built in the 70s. However, not all the tunnels connect and it has gotten worse as certain tunnels are sealed off from the network. In theory, an air-conditioned tunnel network with small shops and restaurants is perfect during the 110 degree Summers in the city.
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Traffic has gotten so bad that even my super-conservative mass transit is for commies relatives are starting to say maybe we should expand mass transit here. The problem is all the not in my neighborhood people. For example, DART wanted to put a rail station in the Northpark Mall but the rich snobs in Preston Hollow and Park Cities complained out of fear it would bring poor people to their neighborhoods. The Galleria up north near Addison is dying and would greatly benefit from a DART station. However, the real problem is that DART is only good in taking you to and from Downtown Dallas to work. Currently, Dallas is trying to setup toll road after toll road in the area. Twenty years ago, the idea of toll roads was insane; now they are becoming common.
I saved a lot of money when I worked in Downtown area and used DART. However, if you are working north of the Galleria, Las Colinas, or somewhere further north in Plano or Frisco, then DART is useless. If you look at the map, all the trains feed into roughly north-south into Downtown. There are no east-west trains. So, if I live in Lake Highlands and need to get to my job in Las Colinas, then I have to travel south to Downtown, then change trains to travel northwest to Las Colinas.
Sadly, Dallas used to have an extensive trolley system like you see in San Francisco but ripped in all out to make more highways and roads for cars. Downtown Dallas has also been dying as it is not a place you want to be after dark. There is a tunnel network that was half-built in the 70s. However, not all the tunnels connect and it has gotten worse as certain tunnels are sealed off from the network. In theory, an air-conditioned tunnel network with small shops and restaurants is perfect during the 110 degree Summers in the city.
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city_beautiful
Back in 1958, the fully integrated circuit was invented at Texas Instruments (TI) in Richardson, a Dallas suburb (Jack Kilby; co-patent holder Robert Noyce founded Intel - the patent went through a lengthy lawsuit. In 1960, the Collins Radio engineers in Richardson tested one of the first satellites, Echo #1, for NASA. In 1962, in Dallas, Ross Perot, the top hardware salesman for IBM, borrowed a $1, 000 from his wife to start the computer services industry with Electronic Data Systems. Also in 1962, Texas Instruments built a building in Richardson for a place for TI engineers who wanted to work on their advanced degrees in Math, Science, and Engineering since SMU did not have an engineering department. In 1967, TI turned the building over to state education officials, who turned it into The University of Texas at Dallas. Also in 1967, Kilby, along with fellow TI engineers Jerry Merryman and James Van Tassel, came up with the TI handheld calculators. In 1969, Collins Radio provided the telecom equipment for the 1969 moon launch. Lastly, in 1969, Don Wetzel, VP of Product Development at Docutel in Irving, another Dallas suburb, got tired of waiting in a long line at the bank. He patented the U. S. automated teller machine. (Others had patents on machines that the U, S, banks did not want to buy. ; U. S. banks did not want to buy the successful London ATM. These patents and engineering talent, along with the opening of DFW Airport in 1974, generated wealth, and the wealth created jobs. This is why there are 8. 1 million people living in the DFW Metroplex.
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Back in 1958, the fully integrated circuit was invented at Texas Instruments (TI) in Richardson, a Dallas suburb (Jack Kilby; co-patent holder Robert Noyce founded Intel - the patent went through a lengthy lawsuit. In 1960, the Collins Radio engineers in Richardson tested one of the first satellites, Echo #1, for NASA. In 1962, in Dallas, Ross Perot, the top hardware salesman for IBM, borrowed a $1, 000 from his wife to start the computer services industry with Electronic Data Systems. Also in 1962, Texas Instruments built a building in Richardson for a place for TI engineers who wanted to work on their advanced degrees in Math, Science, and Engineering since SMU did not have an engineering department. In 1967, TI turned the building over to state education officials, who turned it into The University of Texas at Dallas. Also in 1967, Kilby, along with fellow TI engineers Jerry Merryman and James Van Tassel, came up with the TI handheld calculators. In 1969, Collins Radio provided the telecom equipment for the 1969 moon launch. Lastly, in 1969, Don Wetzel, VP of Product Development at Docutel in Irving, another Dallas suburb, got tired of waiting in a long line at the bank. He patented the U. S. automated teller machine. (Others had patents on machines that the U, S, banks did not want to buy. ; U. S. banks did not want to buy the successful London ATM. These patents and engineering talent, along with the opening of DFW Airport in 1974, generated wealth, and the wealth created jobs. This is why there are 8. 1 million people living in the DFW Metroplex.
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ShaedeReshka
I lived in Dallas for 15 years, which was 15 years too long. What a soulless city.
Now, I lived in the wealthier parts of DFW, so I saw the best of it. The best is massive roads choked by traffic, scorching heat or cobblestone ice, extreme classism and of course deep economic racial segregation. I was an activist who spent a fair amount of time in South Dallas, which at the time was the 3rd most dangerous part of the US. That includes work at a superfund site, or a site of such pollution (industrial in this case) that it was poisoning and killing local (almost exclusively black) residents. For reference, Flint, Michigan is one of the superfund sites in the US.
I also spent time amongst the wealthy elite who lived there leading lives completely detached from reality and generally unimaginable by the broader population. The extreme wealth next to extreme poverty really characterizes the Dallas experience more than anything. You're either having a good time living an expensive fantasy, or you're suffering from the uninhabitable climate, infrastructure, and political environment.
It's a hellhole that traps a lot of people, including me, because there's so many high paying job opportunities. But it comes with its own costs as well. For instance, I pay the same property taxes in Colorado that I used to pay in Texas, but only because my house in Colorado is worth three times as much. Texas will lure you in with all sorts of promises only to trap you there and make your life hell. Do not recommend.
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I lived in Dallas for 15 years, which was 15 years too long. What a soulless city.
Now, I lived in the wealthier parts of DFW, so I saw the best of it. The best is massive roads choked by traffic, scorching heat or cobblestone ice, extreme classism and of course deep economic racial segregation. I was an activist who spent a fair amount of time in South Dallas, which at the time was the 3rd most dangerous part of the US. That includes work at a superfund site, or a site of such pollution (industrial in this case) that it was poisoning and killing local (almost exclusively black) residents. For reference, Flint, Michigan is one of the superfund sites in the US.
I also spent time amongst the wealthy elite who lived there leading lives completely detached from reality and generally unimaginable by the broader population. The extreme wealth next to extreme poverty really characterizes the Dallas experience more than anything. You're either having a good time living an expensive fantasy, or you're suffering from the uninhabitable climate, infrastructure, and political environment.
It's a hellhole that traps a lot of people, including me, because there's so many high paying job opportunities. But it comes with its own costs as well. For instance, I pay the same property taxes in Colorado that I used to pay in Texas, but only because my house in Colorado is worth three times as much. Texas will lure you in with all sorts of promises only to trap you there and make your life hell. Do not recommend.
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elcam84
It's not called the Dallas area it's referred to DFW. And no the weather is NOT better in DFW than most of the US.
And no we don't have less regulation or less taxes. We have lots of regulation taxes and fees but it's stable and that's why businesses like it here. And no we dont have large yards in fact TX has the smallest lot sizes for houses on average in the US. 1\4 acre lots went away in the 80s. Also dont forget the cattle economy that was based on Fort Worth and also the large grain industry in Fort Worth. For many years the largest grain silos in the world were in Fort Worth.
And when you say you are flying to Dallas it's assumed you are going into Love field. DFW is technically Fort Worths airport. They built it to replace Great southwest and it actually overlaps the old airport as part of the old runway is still on DFW airport grounds. But Fort Worth had to have cooperation from Dallas to get the FAA to help find it and after the usual backing out and Dallas wanting their name on everything they finally built DFW when Fort Worth agreed to not build it in the city limits of FW and to not point the terminal towards down town FW.
And the city of Dallas is not where anyone is going it's Fort Worth (12th largest city in the us) and primarily the suburbs where everyone is actually going.
Keep sending more so property values keep going up so we can cash out and move somewhere with human habitable weather.
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It's not called the Dallas area it's referred to DFW. And no the weather is NOT better in DFW than most of the US.
And no we don't have less regulation or less taxes. We have lots of regulation taxes and fees but it's stable and that's why businesses like it here. And no we dont have large yards in fact TX has the smallest lot sizes for houses on average in the US. 1\4 acre lots went away in the 80s. Also dont forget the cattle economy that was based on Fort Worth and also the large grain industry in Fort Worth. For many years the largest grain silos in the world were in Fort Worth.
And when you say you are flying to Dallas it's assumed you are going into Love field. DFW is technically Fort Worths airport. They built it to replace Great southwest and it actually overlaps the old airport as part of the old runway is still on DFW airport grounds. But Fort Worth had to have cooperation from Dallas to get the FAA to help find it and after the usual backing out and Dallas wanting their name on everything they finally built DFW when Fort Worth agreed to not build it in the city limits of FW and to not point the terminal towards down town FW.
And the city of Dallas is not where anyone is going it's Fort Worth (12th largest city in the us) and primarily the suburbs where everyone is actually going.
Keep sending more so property values keep going up so we can cash out and move somewhere with human habitable weather.
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city_beautiful
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.
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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.
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lawrencequave7361
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)
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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)
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ShowLSWH
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.
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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.
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Codraroll
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
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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
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RoyalKingOliver
The suburbs are very much the worst part of Dallas.
Much of the eastern side used to be good decades ago, but now it’s become very sketchy. Mesquite and Garland are essentially suburbs of Dallas, although the latter definitely works more on its downtown than the former.
If you are not a part of that inner Preston corridor/downtown, your part of town is definitely either aging or in serious need of repair.
All that being said, Dallas still has a lot going for it. They’re proposing eliminating parking minimums due to high demand of housing, plus the new DART silver line will do wonders with connecting the northern suburbs. I am definitely hopeful that much of the northern areas won’t falter like east Dallas or south Dallas as they do a lot more effort to make places more walkable, bikable, affordable, and transit able.
I’m just seriously hoping they don’t cut DART funding
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The suburbs are very much the worst part of Dallas.
Much of the eastern side used to be good decades ago, but now it’s become very sketchy. Mesquite and Garland are essentially suburbs of Dallas, although the latter definitely works more on its downtown than the former.
If you are not a part of that inner Preston corridor/downtown, your part of town is definitely either aging or in serious need of repair.
All that being said, Dallas still has a lot going for it. They’re proposing eliminating parking minimums due to high demand of housing, plus the new DART silver line will do wonders with connecting the northern suburbs. I am definitely hopeful that much of the northern areas won’t falter like east Dallas or south Dallas as they do a lot more effort to make places more walkable, bikable, affordable, and transit able.
I’m just seriously hoping they don’t cut DART funding
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coastercrutchfield
As someone who grew up in the DFW area (Plano and Frisco) and has been away the past 10 years living in LA and in Europe, it baffles me how much is built every time i visit family every 6 months. While the growth is impressive, anything new just feels so sterile without any charm. The area still seems to try to sell itself (well maybe mostly the suburban areas) to young conservative families who just want good schools, a Starbucks and a house with an extremely high HOA. I legitimately get lost driving in the suburbs of both Dallas and Ft. Worth because they all honestly look the same to me, and with not many geographically defining features, it's hard to orient yourself. I have always thought the recent DART, TexRail and Silver Line extensions are great for the region, but sadly I have yet to meet any recent locals who actually use it (or want to use it) due to it's bad reputation.
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As someone who grew up in the DFW area (Plano and Frisco) and has been away the past 10 years living in LA and in Europe, it baffles me how much is built every time i visit family every 6 months. While the growth is impressive, anything new just feels so sterile without any charm. The area still seems to try to sell itself (well maybe mostly the suburban areas) to young conservative families who just want good schools, a Starbucks and a house with an extremely high HOA. I legitimately get lost driving in the suburbs of both Dallas and Ft. Worth because they all honestly look the same to me, and with not many geographically defining features, it's hard to orient yourself. I have always thought the recent DART, TexRail and Silver Line extensions are great for the region, but sadly I have yet to meet any recent locals who actually use it (or want to use it) due to it's bad reputation.
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1TewBuMyShoe
I would’ve loved for this video to focus on the rapidly growing/densifying walkable urban neighborhoods in Dallas proper. Uptown Dallas, Knox-Henderson, Lower Greenville, Bishop Arts in Oak Cliff, Deep Ellum, etc. Just about all of those neighborhoods have DART light rail access or streetcar service. I think Dallas is underrated for the amount of urbanization and high-rises that are currently going up within the city itself (not the suburbs. Uptown Dallas by itself is bigger than Downtown Ft Worth now and it is probably larger than the downtowns of San Diego, Phoenix, and San Antonio now too. If not, it will be in the next few years based on what is under construction.
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I would’ve loved for this video to focus on the rapidly growing/densifying walkable urban neighborhoods in Dallas proper. Uptown Dallas, Knox-Henderson, Lower Greenville, Bishop Arts in Oak Cliff, Deep Ellum, etc. Just about all of those neighborhoods have DART light rail access or streetcar service. I think Dallas is underrated for the amount of urbanization and high-rises that are currently going up within the city itself (not the suburbs. Uptown Dallas by itself is bigger than Downtown Ft Worth now and it is probably larger than the downtowns of San Diego, Phoenix, and San Antonio now too. If not, it will be in the next few years based on what is under construction.
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tomtaber1102
The biggest advantage Texas has over California is that Texas is mostly flat. Dallas can sprawl endlessly in all directions. California is much more mountainous. I live in the Bay Area in Northern California. We have a large body of water called San Francisco Bay in the middle of the metro area. There are mountain ranges on both sides of the bay. There is no room in the area where I live to build any more single family detached houses. The only way to add more housing is to build high density apartments, townhouses, and condos on underutilized land within the existing urban area. Strip malls and surface parking lots are an extravagant waste of valuable real estate.
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The biggest advantage Texas has over California is that Texas is mostly flat. Dallas can sprawl endlessly in all directions. California is much more mountainous. I live in the Bay Area in Northern California. We have a large body of water called San Francisco Bay in the middle of the metro area. There are mountain ranges on both sides of the bay. There is no room in the area where I live to build any more single family detached houses. The only way to add more housing is to build high density apartments, townhouses, and condos on underutilized land within the existing urban area. Strip malls and surface parking lots are an extravagant waste of valuable real estate.
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nihaokellar180
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.
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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.
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Philip-ye1ui
Hey!
Love your work/videos.
On the subject of sunbelt. Would love a video about how sunbelt will look like in 10/20/30 years.
My angle of interest is that at some point even with most liberal regulations the housing prices will start running away form average income just because of the demand. While at the same time the logic would suggest that slower growing northern metros should have comparatively cheaper housing. On top of that, there is climate change, there might be winter in the north but there is no - or will be less - hurricanes or deadly (mostly) heatwaves.
Is that a subject you’d be interested in exploring
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Hey!
Love your work/videos.
On the subject of sunbelt. Would love a video about how sunbelt will look like in 10/20/30 years.
My angle of interest is that at some point even with most liberal regulations the housing prices will start running away form average income just because of the demand. While at the same time the logic would suggest that slower growing northern metros should have comparatively cheaper housing. On top of that, there is climate change, there might be winter in the north but there is no - or will be less - hurricanes or deadly (mostly) heatwaves.
Is that a subject you’d be interested in exploring
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ClementinesmWTF
Calling DART LRT is kinda a stretch. It has a few areas (namely downtown Dallas) where it does function as light rail, but most of the system is set up more like Heavy/Commuter Rail. It’s a mixed system, but mostly not LRT. Houston’s MetroRail on the other hand is purely LRT that definitely needs some commuter lines added to supplement the Park and Ride system. And Austinwell ATX made the mistake of building its useless commuter line and is now screwing up in adding LRT (but hey, at least they’re getting BRT. San Antonio isn’t even worth talking about until they get their first one in.
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Calling DART LRT is kinda a stretch. It has a few areas (namely downtown Dallas) where it does function as light rail, but most of the system is set up more like Heavy/Commuter Rail. It’s a mixed system, but mostly not LRT. Houston’s MetroRail on the other hand is purely LRT that definitely needs some commuter lines added to supplement the Park and Ride system. And Austinwell ATX made the mistake of building its useless commuter line and is now screwing up in adding LRT (but hey, at least they’re getting BRT. San Antonio isn’t even worth talking about until they get their first one in.
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crowmob-yo6ry
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!
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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!
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EduardQualls
5: 20 The United States today is producing more oil than any other country in the world, except Saudi Arabia. Wrong. As of November 2024, the US is the world's largest oil producer, producing 21. 91 million barrels per day and accounting for 22% of the world's total oil production. The U. S. has held this position since 2018. Saudi Arabia produces 11. 13 million barrels a day, about 12% of world production. Of the US total, Texas accounts for 41. 4%, followed (in descending order) by New Mexico, North Dakota, Alaska, Colorado, Oklahoma and California.
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5: 20 The United States today is producing more oil than any other country in the world, except Saudi Arabia. Wrong. As of November 2024, the US is the world's largest oil producer, producing 21. 91 million barrels per day and accounting for 22% of the world's total oil production. The U. S. has held this position since 2018. Saudi Arabia produces 11. 13 million barrels a day, about 12% of world production. Of the US total, Texas accounts for 41. 4%, followed (in descending order) by New Mexico, North Dakota, Alaska, Colorado, Oklahoma and California.
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thetrainmon
Let's be real: Dallas is like every other big city in Texas: it has POCKETS of DECENT, expensive urbanism, surrounded by dozens of miles of sprawl, surrounded by hundreds of miles of a political force bent on rolling back Women's Reproductive Rights, LGBTQ Rights and Voting Rights.
On top off all that, Climate Change has the ironic side effect of making the Northeast Corridor cities more appealing, with fewer very cold winter days and less snowfall; meanwhile Texas is only going to get hotter and muggier with more extreme rainfall.
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Let's be real: Dallas is like every other big city in Texas: it has POCKETS of DECENT, expensive urbanism, surrounded by dozens of miles of sprawl, surrounded by hundreds of miles of a political force bent on rolling back Women's Reproductive Rights, LGBTQ Rights and Voting Rights.
On top off all that, Climate Change has the ironic side effect of making the Northeast Corridor cities more appealing, with fewer very cold winter days and less snowfall; meanwhile Texas is only going to get hotter and muggier with more extreme rainfall.
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conner__
Lived in Dallas my whole life (early twenties) and this whole area is just so depressing. Its basically endless sprawl, chains, and parking lots. There isn't much good nature besides some decent lakes but there is very little greenery overall and beyond that it just kind of sucks the soul out of you especially during summer heatwaves and I can't wait to leave. Completely biased comment ik but besides affordability (which isn't that great anymore) I just do not understand the appeal.
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Lived in Dallas my whole life (early twenties) and this whole area is just so depressing. Its basically endless sprawl, chains, and parking lots. There isn't much good nature besides some decent lakes but there is very little greenery overall and beyond that it just kind of sucks the soul out of you especially during summer heatwaves and I can't wait to leave. Completely biased comment ik but besides affordability (which isn't that great anymore) I just do not understand the appeal.
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escritora84
I've lived in the Dallas area for almost 20 years - the situation with the highways up here is almost untenable. We're getting more frequent and more deadly crashes up here that shuts down the entire highway. I moved up here when Plano and The Colony were still mostly pasture, and seeing how much everything has grown so quickly has made housing costs skyrocket, especially in the last 10 years. We're long overdue for high speed rail between Dallas and Houston as well.
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I've lived in the Dallas area for almost 20 years - the situation with the highways up here is almost untenable. We're getting more frequent and more deadly crashes up here that shuts down the entire highway. I moved up here when Plano and The Colony were still mostly pasture, and seeing how much everything has grown so quickly has made housing costs skyrocket, especially in the last 10 years. We're long overdue for high speed rail between Dallas and Houston as well.
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