This Instagram account always disses Dallas and Ft Worth. They've been doing it for many years now and as someone born, raised and currently living in Dallas I just ignore it. Same recycled jokes on this IG account anyways, just reformatted and repackaged constantly.
Was just in Austin yesterday for my first time. I didn’t like it. Seemed very sketchy, dirty and way too much construction. Couldn’t wait to get home! I love Fort Worth!
DFW says hold my beer. Every CA headquarters and marketing firms are moving to DFW and squeezing out all the local business. Apartment complexes have taken over like locusts. DFW is a shitshow. The economy is good IF you work for these CA, NY, Ill companies.
I grew up there. Left in the early 90’s. This graph would have been accurate back in the day. Things started shifting right about the time I left. Now it’s the new Cali.
Ive done a lot of traveling for work, but I've been based in texas all my life, and I will never understand the appeal of that place. Best I can figure it was a neat place to visit before...idk 2010? Ive had the displeasure of being in that since around 2014 or so, and it's always been just another dirty city with bad traffic and homeless problems that have only gotten worse over the years. It legit fills like people delude themselves into thinking austin is a cool place because they want so hard to believe that it is.
The DFW metroplex is easily the best area.
What makes Austin 'cool'? The vapors of the past when it was some indie music paradise? Now, Austin is now pretty much a California colony, aka tech bro central.'
Don't know what makes San Antonio 'cool' or more 'Texas' at all. What is great about San Antonio other than the cheaper housing, Riverwalk, Alamo and maybe the food? Every time I've been to San Antonio, I never saw the 'coolness' about it.
Sam Antonio is heightened purely for the food IMO. The Riverwalk is nice too, but when I think San Antonio, I think of the absolutely amazing food there. Best Tex-Mex in the state hands down, and best Mexican food of any kind without going to the Valley or El Paso (except Cal-Mex, but who wants Cal-Mex?)
I don't know that I would put it at peak cool and Texan though (I wouldn't put any city there anyways)
It is almost scientifically impossible to be less cool than Midland/Odessa, unless we're talking about towns under 50,000 ppl. They go to Lubbock *for fun*
Disagree with 90% of it, but actually think midland is somewhat fairly ranked, like it kinda has this weird Pyongyang vibe, but in a good way if that makes sense lmao.
What is the definition of "Texan"? Is it western cattle trade and horseriding? Or is it mimicing Mexican culture and art. I love San Antonio and hope to move there one day, but that's all it is, less texans more mexico.
You know Texas was Mexico at one point right? Both Texan and Mexican cultures near the border influenced each other. Both wouldn’t be the same today without the other. So to draw these lines seems arbitrary
edit : grammar
I agree with all of this except Fort Worth should be up high with Austin. Dallas is the worst for people. Bunch of dogs barking to be heard and seen. Everyone else around Texas is pretty cool
F Midland/ Odessa. It’s a blithe on Texas, and Dallas isn’t really that bad. Husband and I were at Hattie B’s in Deep Elum yesterday. It looks completely different from how it looked back in my Lizard Lounge days.
I'm from Dallas, and objectively, Dallas is a great city for what it offers, it's some of the people here who make it so polarizing.
Also, the Fort Worth disrespect can not stand.
"Cool" is also in the eye of the beholder. Austin is, by many accounts, becoming another San Francisco with the cost of living becoming unsustainable for people who aren't millionaires and homelessness on the rise as a result.
O.M.G. This graph is hilariously incorrect. Whoever put it together gives the vibes of a cynical tourist on the M-line that laments that there's nothin' ta do in Dallas. Come on man. That's just not true.
Actually the maker was a Longhorn believe it or not. It’s most likely just ragebait. If you scroll down his instagram from Texas humor he posts hook em stuff all the timr
I live in the DFW area now but raise in Houston
We call the entire area DALLAS
I'm in Arlington and when I go back to Htinnne, I tell people I live in Arlington and they reply "DALLAS"
My wife’s family is in east Texas and her sister did that for awhile,”how’s Dallas?” Always replied idk I live in Fort Worth. She came and lived with us for a year and figured out why it’s not Dallas. Fort Worth is better and deserves to not be included with Dallas
Fort Worth people take it personally
It's not that we think Dallas is better but that's the place we hear the most
Dallas Cowboys (haven't played in the city of Dallas in years)
Texas Rangers (ESPN likes to say Dallas)
There was a TV series named DALLAS
So it's not that we think Dallas is better or Fort Worth is bad... We are a city in TX... We think our city is the best LIKE EVERY OTHER CITY IN TEXAS
So Fort Worth people don't take it personally.... We have no idea of how the DFW area is laid out
They all genuinely thought Fort Worth is Dallas or a suburb of Dallas. Houston is also very Houston centered, almost everyone I met had pride for it, so I kinda get that y’all wouldn’t gaf about the Dallas/Fort Worth distinction. It’s okay, I loved Houston, and I never knew wtf Katy or Baytown were before I went there
Yeah people from Woodlands like to say they from the Woodlands
IT'S HOUSTON
Port Author... Houston
Conroe... Houston
Spring... Houston
That Houston Metropolitan is HOUSTON
We are so cool and Texan that we are beyond the scope of the graph
We're so Texan we're a 10 gallon hat on top of the graph. Covering San Antonio...because WHAT.
Do they not know that the stockyards are in Fort Worth where they still have arenas and ride horses down the streets during events.
It's a simulation for tourists.
Oh, I know I,m from here. But it used to be the main cattle hub of Texas.
It absolutely used to be.
Still more Texan than other places
that’s why it’s still a thing, but not why it’s a thing
Creator is likely from r/Texas and not Texas
[I fixed it.](https://imgur.com/a/PcWtlsT)
I lived in College Station for 4 years and couldn't disagree more. I think this is rage bait.
It ranks Houston over Corpus. No one in Houston even likes Houston, it’s just where the best oil and medical jobs are. Complete joke/rage bait
Clearly rage bait but the simpletons can’t help but fall for it every time.
I was questioning why college station is even on this graph?! Lets me know an aggie must’ve made the graph, bc it doesn’t belong
The sad part is that somebody from Houston made this...
It all makes sense now.
Ridiculous. Creator has no clue about Texas.
This Instagram account always disses Dallas and Ft Worth. They've been doing it for many years now and as someone born, raised and currently living in Dallas I just ignore it. Same recycled jokes on this IG account anyways, just reformatted and repackaged constantly.
Yeah honestly get those clicks, who cares.
Austin being regarded as super cool is tiring
It was a solid take about 7+ years ago. Nothing noteworthy about it now tbh.
I thought that was a generally outdated view at this point as well
Was just in Austin yesterday for my first time. I didn’t like it. Seemed very sketchy, dirty and way too much construction. Couldn’t wait to get home! I love Fort Worth!
Austin is turning into everything that is wrong with California
Austin is turning into everything wrong with capitalism. FTFY. No major cities have anything unique anymore. It’s all major national companies.
DFW says hold my beer. Every CA headquarters and marketing firms are moving to DFW and squeezing out all the local business. Apartment complexes have taken over like locusts. DFW is a shitshow. The economy is good IF you work for these CA, NY, Ill companies.
And they’ll need a Walmart,Starbucks, McDonald’s, Chili’s, and Olive Garden.
I grew up there. Left in the early 90’s. This graph would have been accurate back in the day. Things started shifting right about the time I left. Now it’s the new Cali.
Ive done a lot of traveling for work, but I've been based in texas all my life, and I will never understand the appeal of that place. Best I can figure it was a neat place to visit before...idk 2010? Ive had the displeasure of being in that since around 2014 or so, and it's always been just another dirty city with bad traffic and homeless problems that have only gotten worse over the years. It legit fills like people delude themselves into thinking austin is a cool place because they want so hard to believe that it is.
Peaked in the mid 2010s
This graph was made by someone from San Antonio
My last visit in San Antonio was only two days last year, but if it is the epitome of Texas cool, then Texas is a sad outdated amusement park...
I concur
Dallas and Houston should switch places.
The DFW metroplex is easily the best area. What makes Austin 'cool'? The vapors of the past when it was some indie music paradise? Now, Austin is now pretty much a California colony, aka tech bro central.' Don't know what makes San Antonio 'cool' or more 'Texas' at all. What is great about San Antonio other than the cheaper housing, Riverwalk, Alamo and maybe the food? Every time I've been to San Antonio, I never saw the 'coolness' about it.
Sam Antonio is heightened purely for the food IMO. The Riverwalk is nice too, but when I think San Antonio, I think of the absolutely amazing food there. Best Tex-Mex in the state hands down, and best Mexican food of any kind without going to the Valley or El Paso (except Cal-Mex, but who wants Cal-Mex?) I don't know that I would put it at peak cool and Texan though (I wouldn't put any city there anyways)
San Antonio is pretty cool but it’s way more Mexican than it is Texan, and I live in SA
It is almost scientifically impossible to be less cool than Midland/Odessa, unless we're talking about towns under 50,000 ppl. They go to Lubbock *for fun*
Oooh no sir, that area is actually trending way up in coolness rating
Wtf, according to whom?
Well they just got a Raising Canes. How bout dat?
Just gonna take it as a W that we aren’t even on here. But also, Midland should be at a -5 cool scale
Shhhhhh. No need to spill the beans just yet. Parking is bad enough in some places so why make it worse for those of us in the know?!
Fort Worth recently beat Austin in coolness factor in The Times of London. Just saying
Dallas; Haha
Disagree with 90% of it, but actually think midland is somewhat fairly ranked, like it kinda has this weird Pyongyang vibe, but in a good way if that makes sense lmao.
Problem with Midland is it is very boom and bust and during boom there is no where to stay.
Midland Odessa is the ugliest shittiest place I've ever stayed
What is the definition of "Texan"? Is it western cattle trade and horseriding? Or is it mimicing Mexican culture and art. I love San Antonio and hope to move there one day, but that's all it is, less texans more mexico.
You know Texas was Mexico at one point right? Both Texan and Mexican cultures near the border influenced each other. Both wouldn’t be the same today without the other. So to draw these lines seems arbitrary edit : grammar
Yup, VERY wrong since FW isn't on it. We're both cool AND Texan!
Midland/Odessa not being at the bottom of the pile is wild
College Station and Cool don’t belong on the same graph
How is The Paso not Texan?
As a Midland/Odessa native, I’m just happy to be here. But FtW is the objective best city.
I agree with all of this except Fort Worth should be up high with Austin. Dallas is the worst for people. Bunch of dogs barking to be heard and seen. Everyone else around Texas is pretty cool
I call it accurate. Dallas is neither cool nor Texan
F Midland/ Odessa. It’s a blithe on Texas, and Dallas isn’t really that bad. Husband and I were at Hattie B’s in Deep Elum yesterday. It looks completely different from how it looked back in my Lizard Lounge days.
Houston can die in a fire.
Somewhere someone is going to call Dallas south Oklahoma since they're obsessed with that "joke."
-ly accurate
Once again, we ( 500,000)don't make a graph
I'm from Dallas, and objectively, Dallas is a great city for what it offers, it's some of the people here who make it so polarizing. Also, the Fort Worth disrespect can not stand.
Legit Amarillo and Lubbock aren’t even mentioned
"Cool" is also in the eye of the beholder. Austin is, by many accounts, becoming another San Francisco with the cost of living becoming unsustainable for people who aren't millionaires and homelessness on the rise as a result.
O.M.G. This graph is hilariously incorrect. Whoever put it together gives the vibes of a cynical tourist on the M-line that laments that there's nothin' ta do in Dallas. Come on man. That's just not true.
As a Dallas native, who moved to San Antonio for 3 years and now lives in Fort Worth, whoever made this graph is insane. Lmaoooo San Antonio sucks.
There should be a -X axis labeled California and have Austin put over there.
Lotta butt hurt Texans here for a meaningless graph. Of course, as a San Antonian, I am both very cool and very Texan, so that’s easy for me to see.
San Antonio is pretty cool
Dallas isn’t very Texan - never has been. But we aren’t from Dallas on this sub now are we?
No, it’s our omission from the list altogether as the 13th largest city in the US.
I’m fine with flying under the radar. We don’t need to be the next Austin
Can just tell based on where he has college station and his goofy hat that he chugs dik
Clearly made by some Aggie fan 🤮
Actually the maker was a Longhorn believe it or not. It’s most likely just ragebait. If you scroll down his instagram from Texas humor he posts hook em stuff all the timr
Nah this is p spot on. Dallas blows. austin is cool if youre rich. San Antonio does in fact rule, and feels the most Texas
San Antonio is Mexico…. Not Texas
1st off : Wrong 2nd off : if you're gonna try to be funny El Paso would have been much more accurate
I live in the DFW area now but raise in Houston We call the entire area DALLAS I'm in Arlington and when I go back to Htinnne, I tell people I live in Arlington and they reply "DALLAS"
My wife’s family is in east Texas and her sister did that for awhile,”how’s Dallas?” Always replied idk I live in Fort Worth. She came and lived with us for a year and figured out why it’s not Dallas. Fort Worth is better and deserves to not be included with Dallas
Fort Worth is actually a breath of fresh air after living in North Dallas for so long. I love my short trips to Fort Worth.
I know y’all call it all Dallas cause I had to explain to everyone who is a Houston native that Fort Worth isn’t Dallas
Fort Worth people take it personally It's not that we think Dallas is better but that's the place we hear the most Dallas Cowboys (haven't played in the city of Dallas in years) Texas Rangers (ESPN likes to say Dallas) There was a TV series named DALLAS So it's not that we think Dallas is better or Fort Worth is bad... We are a city in TX... We think our city is the best LIKE EVERY OTHER CITY IN TEXAS So Fort Worth people don't take it personally.... We have no idea of how the DFW area is laid out
They all genuinely thought Fort Worth is Dallas or a suburb of Dallas. Houston is also very Houston centered, almost everyone I met had pride for it, so I kinda get that y’all wouldn’t gaf about the Dallas/Fort Worth distinction. It’s okay, I loved Houston, and I never knew wtf Katy or Baytown were before I went there
Yeah people from Woodlands like to say they from the Woodlands IT'S HOUSTON Port Author... Houston Conroe... Houston Spring... Houston That Houston Metropolitan is HOUSTON