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Originally Posted by Fahrvergnügen
Hey, sorry if I offended you but I never meant to try to define Dallas by Frisco. I know they are different just like the burbs of Chicago and Chicago the city.
I didn't think 'chill' and 'laid back' were so different, I use them interchangeably. My neighbors and people I meet day-to-day up in Frisco are friendly, chill people. I guess your version of hell is different than mine... Frisco is awesome even without a family - I have more space than I need (house/yard), no homeless, new roads, bunch of parks / things to do... If I wanted to go bar hopping and walk around tall building while living in a condo I would've just stayed in Chicago.
Also, I think level of commercialism should be defined by GDP, no? Of course DFW has more commercial space than other big cities... it has so much more space and less people than NYC/Chicago. Also, I was unable to find a source on your restaurants / capita - was this in reference to fast food places?
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No worries. You didn't offend me at all. But your ignorance (please take that word by its actual definition and not as a put down) is frustrating.
You're grossly oversimplifying based on a very short amount of first-hand experience in one part of the "Metroplex" that's a well known and extreme microcosm of North Texas' commercialist values. I've lived here for 25 years and lived in both the central city and the 'burbs, am very well acquainted with the entire North Texas area, and at one point earned my living as an expert on the culture of the area in a number of ways. (Also: GDP is a national measure of economic generation. It does not measure spending and is not applicable below the national level ... but I digress ... )
The commercial space statistic is for
any city, not just large ones by population, and it has nothing to do with available space and everything to do with profitability as a function of that space. "If you build it, they will come" doesn't quite work; you have to add "and spend money" to the end.
That said, it appears that Dallas does not have the per-capita restaurant distinction any longer. That now appears to be held by San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. is second. However, Dallas does still spend the most per capita on eating out and on alcohol, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Your source for the latter is here.
Finally, I guess we define awesomeness differently. I find Frisco to be homogenous, plain, characterless, and manufactured with artificial opulence. It is also one of the most conservative places in the entire country, both socially and politically (... but I'm not going to go there any farther.) As a culturalist, it's not my cup of tea.
Hey, man: glad you're happy up there. Just don't use it to paint a picture of the entire Metroplex.
