Dallas-Fort Worth - Market size #4* - Most recent visit: June, 2019
*based on Metropolitan Statistical Area
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I have visited Dallas-Ft. Worth regularly since June 1977, and I have never seen a metro area transform as dramatically as DFW has. Over the past 30 years, the population of what is commonly referred to as the DFW Metroplex has increased by over 76% to over 25 million people in 2010. The 12 counties which comprise the Metroplex have grown into one population belt, the largest in the entire south. The speed of this growth has been breathtaking. Each summer I would return to the area to visit a close childhood friend, and I remember how, while driving north from DFW airport, I would stare out the car window in disbelief at the massive development that had occurred over the previous year. It seemed as if entire towns had popped up on what had been rural farmland. This growth has continued largely unabated to the present.
In 2013, I purchased a home in the northern suburbs of Dallas. My Metroplex real estate search meant that I would need to take a hard look at a place I had known since my early teens. In other words, it was time to judge.....
Next: Judgement is rendered on DFW's culinary offerings.
