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Originally Posted by llamaorama
Fort Worth is big because it annexed a lot of suburban areas around it. I still think the Dallas side of the metroplex is a lot bigger. The two cities are so glued together by sprawl its' hard to tell where one's influence ends and the other begins. DFW genuinely is one unit despite starting out as a pair of separate cities that were a bit too far apart to be classical twin cities a la Minneapolis-St. Paul.
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While certainly true, Fort Worth's growth is not nearly the kind of annexation bloat that a place like Jacksonville (875 sq mi) has. FW's area (347 sq mi) is roughly equivalent to Austin's (320 sq mi), so FW passing Austin and cracking into the top 10 largest cities list will at least make some kind of sense lol.
From 2010 to 2020, annexation grew FW's city limits by only 2.2% (added 8 sq miles), while its population in that same time grew by 24% (added 177k people).
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Originally Posted by Metro-One
Now the above are some fascinating complaints.
But I hate to be the one to say this, outside of the USA Dallas-Fort Worth is 99% of the time referred to as……. Dallas. In Canada you grow up hearing about the Dallas Cowboys, the Dallas Stars, etc… On maps is Houston and Dallas often shown for Texas.
Here in Japan if I say Dallas, there is a good chance people know where I’m talking about, if I say “Fort Worth” it will be a blank stare.
So, I’m sorry, internationally Dallas-Forth Worth is almost always referred to simply as Dallas.
Likewise we could start calling Vancouver as Vancouver-Surrey, but no one outside of Canada is going to use the “Surrey” part.
Same with Seattle-Tacoma. Internationally it’s Seattle.
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An interesting caveat with this particular scenario is that unlike those two examples there is a very real possibility that Fort Worth becomes more populous than Dallas sooner rather than later. Hell, if their current growth patterns hold for a just a little while longer it could be in only about 15 to 20 years.
Though I agree in general. I love Fort Worth but Dallas has too much global cultural cache that Fort Worth just can't overtake until enough globally significant things occur there in such a way that it forces outsiders to draw a hard distinction between FW and Dallas. Like, we're talking Fort Worth having to host a summer Olympics entirely on its own without any use of facilities over in Dallas so that all eyes are on Fort Worth and the media branding is entirely Fort Worth-based. It can't be the "Dallas-Fort Worth Olympics", it would have to be the "Fort Worth Olympics" for people outside of Texas to really begin grappling with Fort Worth as its own thing worth distinguishing outside of its relation to being near Dallas.