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Lockjaw · 03-15-2005, 08:37 PM

Although relatively featureless I love North Texas for it's simplicity.

We have no towering mountains or warming ocean views but there's something special about being able to go out into the country and look out on a clear blue day and see for miles and miles. I live just outside of Dallas and it's a cool feeling to be able to drive just over the crest of a small hill and see Dallas in the distance skyscrappers glinting in the sunlight.
The weather in my opinion is just fantastic. We are far enough south that we get wonderful sunny days most of the year and while it gets hot and humid as hell in late July to early September the rest of the year when it ranges from 60-80 degrees and sunny it's fantastic. There's nothing more delightful than in the middle of October waking up and being able to walk out of the house on what in many parts of the world would be a late spring day. But while it's warm we also are far enough North that we get an actual winter so we can enjoy the cold dreary days that make you just want to go inside and snuggle up. But the good thing is we only have that weather for 4-6 weeks.

The feel of the area is great. While it's spread out everything is within an easy drive to one of the biggest cities in North America. You can move out to the suburban areas that are 20-30 miles out of the main city center and the air is so clear and clean it's wonderful. It's so nice to go outside in your own little hamlet breathe deep and full and get nothing but nice clean air,and then hope on the roads and you are dead in the middle of downtown in a few minutes. It's wonderful that it's so sprawled out actually in that you can live in the same area as a lot of your family and you aren't always bumping into them but if something big happens you can be right there in an emergency. It's also good on keeping the cost of living down as there are a good amount of jobs and plenty of room for housing all around the Dallas area. We get paid well here but we also don't have to pay as much to live the good life. A 120,000 dollar house in a lot of places here would be the equal to a 200,000-250,000 dollar house in other places.

And just in general people are just nice folks. Southern hospitality tinted with some Texas flair. People are more than likely to stop down and damn near fight over if they can help somebody that obviously needs it. How many places do you go to that you'll be in the middle of a town with a few million people and you routinely see people waving and nodding at one another in greeting when they don't even know them?

And the pace of life is just slower. We still get in a hurry to get things done efficiently but everybody isn't in a constant rush.

Dallas has a bunch of stuff to do all year round no mater what you like to do. It's a sports fans dream because there is a pro team in just about every major sport league in existance in the Dallas area. NFL,NHL,NBA,MLB,minor league baseball,minor league hockey,MLS,Arena Football,two NASCAR events and even some IRL races. Oh and big time horse racing. Ahh..can't forget the rodeos either. It kicks butt.
And Arlington is like theme park mecca. While it's not Orlando or Anahiem our Six Flags is huge and has some of the best coasters you'll ever get on. Then across the street there is the giant water park. The nightlife while it's not L.A.,New York,Miami or even Austin is fairly solid. The music scene is good and there's been plenty of home grown talent coming out of Dallas that has made their print on the national music scene. Nora Jones,Erika Baydu,the Polyphonic Spree for some recent examples. The clubs are nice even though a lot of them are so self-important that they think they ARE in South Beach.

And the food. The food here is perfection. I can only think of a few places that have a better geographic balance of food and influences than Dallas does.
Being in Texas we have killer Barbecue,the Mexican food is great,we are Southern so the soul food places are great,since Ft. Worth was a major cattle center we've always had killer steak joints(Texas Land and Cattle,Saltgrass....**Droool**),we are close to Louisiana so we have some good cajun food joints, and Dallas has several top tier gormet and French restaurants. Then we have a lot of people from Korea in Dallas,and Garland has a really big population from the Mid-east and you can find a few really good hole in the wall kind of places for mid-east cuisine.

The shopping malls here are just ridiculous in size and frequency. We seriously actually probably have too many.

And the women. The women in Dallas are CRAZY hot. They tend to get married quickly and a lot of them decide they want to get fat and happy but the ones that are at the peak of their game I'd put up against anybody in the world seriously. They just don't grow them like this in other places.

I could seriously go on for pages about the cool parts and things in Dallas. I love it here. I plan on moving away just for a while but I plan on coming back to setup roots. If I was rich I have always said I'd have houses in Miami or Hawaii for the beaches, a little place in New York or L.A. for the scene but to live...it would only be Dallas for me.

03-15-2005, 08:37 PM	#16 (permalink)
Lockjaw Junkie	Although relatively featureless I love North Texas for it's simplicity. We have no towering mountains or warming ocean views but there's something special about being able to go out into the country and look out on a clear blue day and see for miles and miles. I live just outside of Dallas and it's a cool feeling to be able to drive just over the crest of a small hill and see Dallas in the distance skyscrappers glinting in the sunlight. The weather in my opinion is just fantastic. We are far enough south that we get wonderful sunny days most of the year and while it gets hot and humid as hell in late July to early September the rest of the year when it ranges from 60-80 degrees and sunny it's fantastic. There's nothing more delightful than in the middle of October waking up and being able to walk out of the house on what in many parts of the world would be a late spring day. But while it's warm we also are far enough North that we get an actual winter so we can enjoy the cold dreary days that make you just want to go inside and snuggle up. But the good thing is we only have that weather for 4-6 weeks. The feel of the area is great. While it's spread out everything is within an easy drive to one of the biggest cities in North America. You can move out to the suburban areas that are 20-30 miles out of the main city center and the air is so clear and clean it's wonderful. It's so nice to go outside in your own little hamlet breathe deep and full and get nothing but nice clean air,and then hope on the roads and you are dead in the middle of downtown in a few minutes. It's wonderful that it's so sprawled out actually in that you can live in the same area as a lot of your family and you aren't always bumping into them but if something big happens you can be right there in an emergency. It's also good on keeping the cost of living down as there are a good amount of jobs and plenty of room for housing all around the Dallas area. We get paid well here but we also don't have to pay as much to live the good life. A 120,000 dollar house in a lot of places here would be the equal to a 200,000-250,000 dollar house in other places. And just in general people are just nice folks. Southern hospitality tinted with some Texas flair. People are more than likely to stop down and damn near fight over if they can help somebody that obviously needs it. How many places do you go to that you'll be in the middle of a town with a few million people and you routinely see people waving and nodding at one another in greeting when they don't even know them? And the pace of life is just slower. We still get in a hurry to get things done efficiently but everybody isn't in a constant rush. Dallas has a bunch of stuff to do all year round no mater what you like to do. It's a sports fans dream because there is a pro team in just about every major sport league in existance in the Dallas area. NFL,NHL,NBA,MLB,minor league baseball,minor league hockey,MLS,Arena Football,two NASCAR events and even some IRL races. Oh and big time horse racing. Ahh..can't forget the rodeos either. It kicks butt. And Arlington is like theme park mecca. While it's not Orlando or Anahiem our Six Flags is huge and has some of the best coasters you'll ever get on. Then across the street there is the giant water park. The nightlife while it's not L.A.,New York,Miami or even Austin is fairly solid. The music scene is good and there's been plenty of home grown talent coming out of Dallas that has made their print on the national music scene. Nora Jones,Erika Baydu,the Polyphonic Spree for some recent examples. The clubs are nice even though a lot of them are so self-important that they think they ARE in South Beach. And the food. The food here is perfection. I can only think of a few places that have a better geographic balance of food and influences than Dallas does. Being in Texas we have killer Barbecue,the Mexican food is great,we are Southern so the soul food places are great,since Ft. Worth was a major cattle center we've always had killer steak joints(Texas Land and Cattle,Saltgrass....Droool),we are close to Louisiana so we have some good cajun food joints, and Dallas has several top tier gormet and French restaurants. Then we have a lot of people from Korea in Dallas,and Garland has a really big population from the Mid-east and you can find a few really good hole in the wall kind of places for mid-east cuisine. The shopping malls here are just ridiculous in size and frequency. We seriously actually probably have too many. And the women. The women in Dallas are CRAZY hot. They tend to get married quickly and a lot of them decide they want to get fat and happy but the ones that are at the peak of their game I'd put up against anybody in the world seriously. They just don't grow them like this in other places. I could seriously go on for pages about the cool parts and things in Dallas. I love it here. I plan on moving away just for a while but I plan on coming back to setup roots. If I was rich I have always said I'd have houses in Miami or Hawaii for the beaches, a little place in New York or L.A. for the scene but to live...it would only be Dallas for me.