Dallas - thoughts?

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Anonymous wrote:It’s fine until you need an abortion or want o wear a sports bra while running.

Weird, I lived in Dallas for my entire 20's and 30's and never needed an abortion.

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up in DFW and it's better than people think but not as good as visitors charmed by low prices want to believe.

Pros:
Friendly day to day interactions with strangers/acquaintances. Much nicer than around here, and I think people around here are fine
Lower (but no longer low) COL, and cheaper expectations for life (no 6 weeks of sleep away camp, etc)
Generally easy to find good school systems
Phenomenal food

Cons:
Weather. Not just heat but extreme weather- there are a lot of tornado's in the spring (and now summer)
Lack of natural beauty. You won't notice until you do and then you will (not) see it everywhere you look
Politics. It's easy to write it off as NBD or only a partisan woud care, but there is a lot of casual racism, people being A-OK with HOAs running their lives, and this kind of tyranny of the Church that is hard to understand until you've lived it
Weird gender stuff. This is a subset of politics but deserves its own mention. Things that are optional here (cheerleading, football) are more foundational there and it infiltrates the days to day more than you might think
You'd better freaking LOVE your car. A lot if Texans do, and if you do at can be great. But you'll be in it all the time.

Agree with all of this, plus there isn't much greenery compared to the DMV.

Op here — yeah the lack of trees was something that was starkly evident and bothered me

This is a biome thing, not because they cut them all down. "Trees" in DFW are short and stunted due to the winds and dry climate, and this becomes starkly noticeable from the east side of the Dallas to the west side of Ft. Worth.

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Anonymous wrote:If you do move there, consider spending some vacation time at beavers bend state park in broken bow, OK. My daughter and I were there this spring and it was absolutely gorgeous.

Thanks for the rec

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Texas is ground-zero for the moral majority.

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A lot of South Asians in Dallas. I work with one who grew up there and went to U Texas at Austin. She loves Dallas and plans on moving back someday. So it's not just whitebread churchgoing people.

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Op here

I’m sorry I said positive things about Dallas

I’m usually not a big pro-choice/pro-life person but the Texas thing going on with the woman who needs a medical abortion is sickening

I take back everything I said nice about Dallas and Texas

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh. I worked for a local start-up that was acquired by a Dallas-based company years ago. They expected all 80 or 100 of us to move there but no one took them up on it. Ick!

As others have said:
- hot as hell from spring through winter;
- serious snotty, pretentious money vibe (at least most people here can pretend to be interested in the arts, politics, or culture);
- passive-aggressive, catty, silly women (why, bless your heart!);
- reckless, speeding drivers on the highway from the airport;
- cowboy hats and cowboy boots;
- pollution and Big Oil;
- serious bullshitters a la Enron. BSers with swagger and something to sell you, always;
- ugly infrastructure and highways everywhere;
- too much fatty food, queso and nachos

The only thing I really liked was the houses built around an open courtyard.

Did you google Dallas and come up with this list?

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Anonymous wrote:Op here

I’m sorry I said positive things about Dallas

I’m usually not a big pro-choice/pro-life person but the Texas thing going on with the woman who needs a medical abortion is sickening

I take back everything I said nice about Dallas and Texas

NP here. I'm with you on this! I like Texas, but what they did to this woman is despicable.

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Anonymous wrote:OMG no. Just - NO!

Too many MAGA/ supremacists.

Guess what. They absolutely do not want you there, especially if that’s what you think of them.

No one is inviting you OR your divisive politics that somehow has you ascribing hyperbolic negative traits and more disdain for your fellow Americans who disagree with you than you can muster even for Hamas sympathizers, so please stay away.

+a million. Stay the F outta Texas. They don’t want you there and I don’t want you there when I move back home. You run your commie leftist mouth in Dallas and someone will put their fist in it in short order. Go to California where you belong. Texas is full.

Amen.

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Anonymous wrote:Would never bc of abortion. Could be like Paris and Tahiti combined and would be a no from me.

I honestly don’t like abortion bans but if it has the side effect of keeping out leftists like you then I might actually support them.

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I liked Dallas a lot too except that I was the worst dressed person there. Women tend to go out VERY dressed up and looking perfect. I don't know how I would fit in wearing sweats and t-shirts.

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