re: Dallas is the worst city in Texas

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Without oil Texas would be New Mexico.

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If my aunt had balls she’d be my uncle

Really not that familiar with Dallas, but it seems to have a lot of the cons of living in a large city without many of the pros. Same with weather. Gets hot af but still has hail, freezes, and tornados. I think it's great for young professionals that move there after college, settle into a new job and run the town for a few years, then get married have kids and move to one of the million surrounding neighborhoods or suburbs. Nice place to settle down if you are upper middle class.

Compared to other Southeastern cities, Dallas allows you to live in a pocket largely immune from hood rat stuff and it probably has more of those "pockets". That's probably the biggest advantage over its two closest comparables - Houston and Atlanta.

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$45k is basically poverty today in a major metro

You boomers need to get with inflation

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The expression used to be called the "$35,000 Millionaire", so the local saying has kept up with inflation lol

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while it’s clean and safe.

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Then it is not the worst city in TX. Austin and Houston are the only cities in TX where I’ve seen human feces on sidewalks in downtown areas (or anywhere). Austin went downhill around and after Covid. Murders are back to a normal rate for the first 1/2 of 2025, but that place is still not what it used to be.

It was actually first 30k millionaire and was coined in the 50s/60s.

Keeping up with inflation, 30k in 1965 would be north of 300k today.

People who complain and paint broad brushes about cities are typically not happy with their own lives. It’s not the city, it’s you.

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Has 0 culture of its own

Half the population are just illegals

The other half is just immigrants from all over the world (not a problem but destroys any sense of community)

Every one separates into their own racial enclaves Asian, Indian, Middle Eastern, White, and Spanish neighborhoods and don’t interact with each other.

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I mean this is probably what they said about New York 150 years ago and Chicago 120 years ago too. Full of immigrants that self-segregated and built their own neighborhoods. In some ways they felt like a zoo and it took a while to build a shared culture.

Dallas-Ft Worth is a hell of an economic miracle IMO. It's a sunbelt city that is struggling with the recent rise of opioid abuse, homelessness, and they have some radical left wing judges and DAs that are unwilling to enforce the law. That last bit is an issue they have to resolve if they want to reduce the pace of growth in the suburbs.

I maintain that Houston, Dallas, and Austin are some of the biggest economic powerhouses in the country today. Doesn't mean I want to live there. But I could see how people would overlook the shortcomings to experience better upward mobility and reasonable costs of living.

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It was actually first 30k millionaire and was coined in the 50s/60s.

Keeping up with inflation, 30k in 1965 would be north of 300k today.

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Oh wow I never knew that saying went that far back. Makes sense.

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People who complain and paint broad brushes about cities are typically not happy with their own lives. It’s not the city, it’s you.

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OP doesn't live here - he's trolling.

Been a lot of Texas disparagement and slander 'round these parts recently...

You don't hear us talking down on Louisiana - we have no reason to do so.

I actually pray and hope things will get better there.