Big-D is Getting Bigger

Thursday, October 12, 2006 | comments (4)
Interesting that Big-D is moving into the #4 spot in the US "metropolitan areas," bumping out Philadelphia. (link via sarah) In the battle over largest Texas cities, I've always rooted for Houston, since that's where I grew up. And actually, if you just compare Houston to Dallas, the former wins, hands down. But for some reason, Dallas always gets to include Fort Worth in its area census numbers. I think Houston should start counting Galveston to balance things out.

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just another houstonian with little man's. hands down? humidity? armpit? serious ghetto crime? hurricanes? dead sea?
rube.
we may be souless drones, but at least we have good old fashioned sin (a fiesty 7 of 7) in abundance.

Posted by j on Oct 13, 2006 at 1:03:07 PM
Truth be known, I actually secretly root for Dallas. (I definitely enjoy Dallas more than H-Town.) But Dallas has got to stop relying on Fort Worth for population stats. Just need to add more people to the core!

Posted by Rothko on Oct 13, 2006 at 4:47:25 PM
um...sorry and stuff. i know your true allegiance lies with the d. pretty sure i can rely on one of the sins for this one. just one question though. is galveston really part of the houston metro area?

Posted by j on Oct 15, 2006 at 10:39:09 AM
No but it's almost just as close as Fort Worth. Only takes about 35-40 minutes to get to Galveston from downtown Houston. Fort Worth is only about 20 minutes from Dallas, I guess. But still.

Posted by Rothko on Oct 15, 2006 at 5:11:15 PM

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