We love to go to Dallas and make a weekend of it. It's a nice getaway for shopping, restaurants, etc. that we don't have here. But Houston is a beast of a city. Love it and hate it for that, but am always so impressed every time I'm there to see all the new developments.

This is so accurate, one of my friends from OKC was always obsessed with Dallas, and was like its a big city. I always told him, wait until I show you Houston. He was always not interested. I took him on a tour 2 weekends ago, and he was like wow this is a big city. He ended up liking it better than Dallas. He said he never went further than Dallas because of the driving distance, be he is disappointed he never did. Houston is HUGE....he couldn't believe how many tall buildings existed outside of downtown.
What is downtown Houston like after 5pm? Does it have life? Is there highrise downtown living in downtown Houston?

Saying Dallas' population is 6 million is inaccurate. DFW is so sprawled out that there are people in that figure that are an hour to two hours drive from downtown Dallas, and many of those people can go years without actually making it into Dallas.

Saying Dallas' population is 6 million is inaccurate. DFW is so sprawled out that there are people in that figure that are an hour to two hours drive from downtown Dallas, and many of those people can go years without actually making it into Dallas.

Actually, the same can be said of any big, sprawling metropolitan area. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex population is estimated at very close to seven million people. It's one big concentrated mass of business and people. Call it what we like. But for perspective, let's just take what some people refer to as "North Dallas" but is actually mostly cities of their own in - Collin County. Collin County with Plano, Frisco, McKinney has a population of around 850,000 people - most of that below highway 380; which makes this one piece of the DFW metroplex more populous than Oklahoma City proper.
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