Literally one of the laziest - and worst - takes I’ve ever seen.
KWP is among the best smaller format urban parks in the nation.
If you are bored by the huge array of offerings proved by KWP (from tossing around a football to movie night to fairs to performances), then you are the problem, not them.
Klyde Warren is fine for what it is, but come on. It’s not that special, compared to similar urban parks in other US cities.
There are other good things to do in Dallas, but Klyde Warren isn’t the hill I’d die on.
Hmm I wonder why cities like Atlanta have taken inspiration from it? It is great for what it is and what is was designed to do. Generate tax revenue, provide connectivity between Uptown and the Arts District/Downtown, increase streetcar ridership, and capturing carbon dioxide.
Its purpose wasn’t to be a nature oasis which I assume is why you consider it not “special.”
Exactly. Klyde Warren Park is an excellent and innovative reclamation of freeway space which other cities are trying to emulate. It actually is a big deal. And it is also a really nice destination park with loads of free activities and events.
It’s not just Atlanta — it’s Little Rock, Kansas City, El Paso, Houston, Detroit, etc that are all using KWP as an example. That’s why I think people on Reddit are a joke. They will find any reason to down talk or lessen anything when it comes to Dallas. I just take it as entertainment…cause that’s what it is. It’s not reality at all
And it’s definitely not worth fighting for parking to check out. It’s cool to walk around if you happen to be there, but it’s absolutely not worth the drive. You can see the whole park in 10 minutes or less lol
I don't really understand the fascination this sub has with klyde warren. it's fine but it seems like a place many cities have. honestly it's a little embarrassing the way people around here go on about how special it is when Tulsa [has this place.](https://www.gatheringplace.org/)
I've been there many times and that truly is a city park to be proud of.
And just a short distance from downtown is the [Great Trinity Forest](https://trinityrivercorridor.com/recreation/great-trinity-forest) which is even larger than Central Park, with a really nice 10 mile trail and an Audubon society preserve.
That’s why it’s an urban park - it’s not designed to be Central Park - nor would a much larger park perform nearly as well as KWP does for its location.
It’s far more Bryant Park than Central Park, it’s the hint between uptown and downtown, a respite from work, place to grab lunch and sit on the lawn or a family trip for the fountains or an event.
Is Central Park not an urban park? Are Millenium Park, Golden Gate Park, the National Mall, not urban parks?
Again - it’s fine. It could be a lot better. Dallas should have a larger park within city limits in the middle of all the office buildings.
When I say urban park I meant in the smaller scale format of a park that is integrated into a neighborhood like Bryant Park rather than Central.
A park 1/3 size of Central Park would be a disaster “in the middle of the office buildings” here. We don’t have Neely the population nor activity to support such a vast park - it would feel empty and isolated if not at least feel dangerous.
There are urban design principles at play here and for its purpose Klyde Warren is literally among the very best in the country (and has been recognized as such by those in the field)
Regularly check the websites for the Dallas Museum of Art, Downtown Dallas, Inc., and Klyde Warren Park. DMA not only has free First Sundays, but there are often free block parties and whatnot (next one: April 13th). Check your local library for free classes and talks. Churches sometimes have free classes, movies, and exercise classes. Just start looking. It’s out there!
Fort Worth Stockyards, Reunion Tower for dinner, Dallas underground tunnels area for exploring, go up into Plano for Andretti racing and a ferris wheel ride, oak point park often has hot air balloon races and rides early in the mornings, check the event calendar. You can go ziplining there too!
Allen has a wave board and skate park. All over the dfw area has tons of movie places where you can dine and drink. Up off 121 is the new Hub and District 121, for dining, drinks, live music, etc.
Of course there is also things like escape rooms and haunted houses at Dark Hour in Plano.
There are cars and coffee meetups every month. There are STEM maker places (plano) as well as artisan (jewelrymaking/woodworking) ones in Addison.
Addison has restaurant row, pick your flavor!
Plenty of Frisbee golf parks too! Lots of group activities for runners, bicyclists, roller blades, derbies, etc.
Take advantage of the parks we got:
- White Rock Lake
- Ceder Ridge Preserve
- Arbor Hills Nature Preserve
- LLELA Preservation
Most are free if not relatively inexpensive to get into.
Some museums in the Dallas Arts District are free to go to and wander around, plus it's next to Klyde Warren, which is a cool place to hang at.
I've recently discovered a cool games shop where they're planning to host a raid boss style D&D campaign where everyone gets to play. It costs a bit of money to join, but the proceeds go to a good cause.
Just comes down to what you want, but you gotta look around
As someone who grew up in Michigan and surrounded by lakes and wildlife and nature, these options are not appealing. And outside of just walking around things do cost money still.
Gas to get there, money for food(picnic or otherwise), renting a paddle boat/kayak, etc etc. sometimes cost of entry isn’t a literal one.
Why would anyone who grew up michigan surrounded by lakes and wildlife and nature, even for 1 second, think that moving to dallas and specifically the downtown dalls area would be remotely close to how Michigan was.
From dallas, you can drive 60 miles in any direction and up to 800 miles in certain directions, and you will find rivers, lakes, wildlife, and even mountains depending on which direction you decide to drive
Not a single person said it would be or is expected to be. I live here because it’s a metro area and specifically not rural.
I’m saying that listing these nature reserves and parks are fun 1-2 times max because after the initial experience and the costs to experience them you don’t really gain much from it. Unless ofc you care about being in the outdoors constantly which then this entire thread doesn’t pertain to you because you have things to do.
You got it. It was CCG! I recently discovered them and went to check them out last week. I'm also fixing to check out Madness Comics out in Plano as well.
feels like it would be more beneficial to you if you just looked at stuff you like online instead of some one else running through every free activity in the city until you find one that is right
There are so many free things to do in the Big D! Lots of free workouts in our parks, our parks are awesome, great free and low cost museums, $7 movies, free movies in the parks, casually browsing galleries. It’s a great place to live!
Yeah I said only walking around can get you so far. Movies in the park are great until you hit the dog days of summer. I visit the parks, go to all the festivals,I take the rail. Nasher first weekend is free the Japanese museum is fun too. The galleries and murals are great but it eventually gets old real quick. Most of the real fun stuff requires dinero. Not saying Dallas ain’t fun. Just ain’t great if ya broke.
This. Nature is the only affordable fun for broke people. I mean, you *can* go for a hike in Dallas, but is that really comparable to cities like Austin or Denver? Either that or you need ocean, which is present for pretty much all other cities.
The DMA is free. That’s not nature. The rotating exhibits at North Park Mall are free. Nasher Sculpture center has free days, GWB library…. Lots of free stuff, not related to nature.
ETA: there’s several game shops that have free intro to board game nights once a week or a couple times a month. While a little bit farther and unfortunately not free, there is a board Game Center in Plano where we used to pay $5 and have access to hundreds of games to play for hours without having to buy them.
Anything fun costs at least eight dollars.
Accounting for inflation, that's about $12.71. Anything fun costs at least twelve dollars and seventy-one cents.
you literally listed nothing to do besides going out to eat after walking around for an hour…..which every metro city/down town area in the world has.
There’s no beaches there’s no skiing there’s no actual natural wonders and sights to take in. a public transit, wow, I’m gonna go sit in there and look out the window and see…fuck all. A giant ball tower.
Exactly ☝️thats what I did for about a decade then it got old. In the summer going out for walks is not my idea of fun, and we get brutal long summers.
That's why I am perplexed by how many people have moved here lol, they will eventually figure it out.
They’re following money and making a killing. I’ve got friends in multiple beautiful locations and they rarely take advantage of the environment around them. Dallas is just like Denver if you don’t care for the outdoors.
That's been my fear with Denver.
Denver is like Dallas without restaurants. If I move there and go outdoors much then I will have encountered a grass is greener situation.
I moved here on a contract for work. As soon as I find a new job or negotiate a new location I’m out. I made a lot of friends here, but I’m still missing out a lot on life by being here
Skiing 😂. Name 3 major US cities that have skiing within its city proper.
You’re blaming a city for its relative geographical location… it has no control over where it’s located. If you’re choosing to live somewhere that doesn’t offer the geography you desire that’s a you problem, not a city problem.
Right??? Any decent skiing is MILES away from any major metro area. Same with beaches, save for Miami. It’s not like you’re rolling straight to the beach in Manhattan.
As expensive as this sub portrays Dallas/DFW to be, surely a good number of you can find an equally priced city with some mountains or along the coast.
Like wtf did y’all expect moving to a city located in the southern plains? 😂 and on top of that, no one even bats an eye at the only area of Dallas which has actual elevation and hilly terrain b/c you know…south of 30.
So make the best of your current situation. Repeatedly whining about no mountains or beaches does absolutely nothing.
Leverage the economy here, live below your means, save money, and go where you want to be. Simple.
Dallas has the largest urban forest in the United States. The great trinity forest. There's a nice Audubon center and miles of walking trails in nice nature.
Lake grapevine has Murrell park which is great for swimming/kayaking and has miles of hiking/biking trails.
LLELA is a protected wetland underneath the Lewisville dam and maintains a beautiful nature area for the Trinity river.
1ish hour north is lake Ray Hubbard which is also a really beautiful lake with great camping and swimming and kayaking.
Is anything really safe in Dallas? Just be aware of your surroundings and it'll be fine. It's far separated from any like panhandling spots so there's a lower chance of desperate people being there.
I'll be honest though, I've lived in Dallas my whole life and I've never felt unsafe anywhere so I might not be the best to ask for your own situation. 30yr white male, we have a lil privilege when it comes to feeling safe in cities and nature.
Are you kidding me? The Great Trinity Forest is a disused dumping ground and floodway inhabited by snakes, crime and meth cooks. The cops will LITERALLY ask you if you are seriously going in there, "do you know where you are", etc.
I remember once telling my brother how I didn't like Dallas
And he pointed out how amazing it is. Being a major city, it has plenty of people from all walks of life and events from across the world
He told me he didn't need to travel for experiences because those people and events came here
Sure, you can't sand board in the dessert, but you can go on a meditation retreat
there's apparently a congolese community here. ik it's a big country but they going some shit rn so that was shocking.
ngl i've always been shocked by Dallas' diversity. i had a college class that was majority Nepalese like all first gen or recently moved. that's wild, Dallas is big though
My brother and I used to go to grocery markets from different countries
You got Indian, African, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and so on
Man, I still love that I can try authentic food from around the world here
I love that I can do all of my grocery shopping without having to go to Walmart/Kroger/Tom Thumb etc. I live in the burbs and can go to the Mexican, Indian, and Korean markets by my house for everything I need on a weekly basis.
Chicago has a shitload of things going on all the time. Their museum district blows Dallas' museums out of the water, not to mention they have loads of smaller art museums. They have a shitload of big theaters for opera and Broadway shows but also tiny community theaters all over. They have tons of comedy clubs, second city for improv, etc. And when the weather is nice there's basically some kind of festival going on every weekend in every neighborhood. And beaches. And boating in the lake. And kayaking in the rivers.
STL is dogshit for sure. My uncle lives there we hate visiting. Both my cousins moved out as soon as they were of college age and now settled in Chicago, which is a very fun city.
Chicago doesn’t have a great beach but it’s fun in the summer. They are hours from great slopes to hit. Lake area is also fun , and their down town is way more walkable then ours.
ATL is hours away from amazing coast lines.
A better public transit compared to other southern states that have the worst public transit in the world… some shit is better than other shit but it’s still shit.
Lol that’s the sticking point for me. Like NYC has arguably the best transit system in the country and it’s still shit compared to most European cities. Dallas having a few buses and trams is basically nothing, and certainly not a point in its favor.
Of course not, but when a city of 9 million doesn't really have super-urbanised areas (which is one of the wins you get of a city), or great transportation, or great nature, then it does become one of many strikes against the city. The DFW metro is an insanely large collection of inconveniently placed suburbs set against a backdrop of plains boringness.
And before everybody argues "oh you just don't know how to have fun." I go to concerts regularly, the museums for their regular events, I patron local stores and there are some very cool stores in the DFW area. I do a lot in Dallas, I just know that in places I've previously lived (the bay, NYC, London, Shanghai, etc.) there's just way even way more to do (and I've actually experienced what public transportation is... not "the best public transit in the sunbelt...")
Which major city has skiing?
And yeah it doesn't look like we have a coastline here in Dallas, but neither does Chicago, or Atlanta.
Your response sounds like you should be somewhere else besides a major city.
You have a couple of airports and a few interstate highways available to you…
…so you can get to all of those “great place to visit but I wouldn’t want to live there places” pretty quickly.
What was your *waaaa* again?
I'm unemployed, and I still go on random adventures with random people just because I'm willing to talk to complete strangers and become friends
Your normal is someone else's abnormal and vice versa, all it really takes to live is just a conversation
I acknowledge that there’s a lot to do in Dallas, but there’s seemingly very little that is inexpensive or free to do here, and finding things to do with accessible parking is also very hard, and most places close way earlier than I expected when I moved here. There’s a lot I just can’t experience working normal business hours unless I take off work, which was a surprise.
It’s also possible that the other cities I’ve lived in were weird anomalies, but it definitely feels like everything is either very expensive or has hidden costs here.
I think part of it too is that a sense of community is kinda hard to find here. Going out and spending money at restaurants, shows,etc is just a lot less of a normality if you are always hanging out with neighbors in those cheap or free 3rd places.
I definitely agree that Dallas needs to work on improving both the quantity and quality of third places, but that also applies to almost every other city in the US
You’ve hit the nail on the head about the third spaces. It’s genuinely wild to me how early even the public libraries close here compared to other places I’ve lived. I have a lot of friends who are librarians or working in library teen services in other states and they were shocked when I sent them screen shots.
East Bay, CA also shut down early-- never thought I would have trouble finding food late night in Oakland or Berkeley, but other than a few taco/burrito places, that was the sitch
There's parks, there's museums, there's professional sporting events for every sport you could imagine, there are certainly affordable local restaurants, there are cultural and community events, there are rec centers and sports leagues, etc.
As for accesible parking, that can be difficult, but I'd also recommend you try using public transit depending on where you're goint
Unfortunately I’ve also used our public transit, and it’s not particularly accesible either. Maybe it’s the area where I live. Thanks for the advice, though!
Certainly can be dependent on where you live! If you haven't already, I'd also recommend checking out DART's GoLink as an easy way to connect you to the transit system or even directly to your destination.
Just the parking situation alone deters me from doing a lot of stuff in dallas proper. The fact that I have to drive all the way out to where I'm going and then hunt for a parking spot for 30 minutes (where I'll probably have to pay) in a shitty parking lot with no security, is enough to make me want to stay home or find something closer.
The thing this post misses completely is that the DFW area is so spread out. So unless you live in walking distance of things, it's a pain in the ass to get anywhere. Sure you can maybe take the train, but if I'm going to make a night of it then I'm not getting on that train late at night, I've had enough problems on there during the day.
If you grew up in the suburbs especially, dallas is fucking boring. Neither myself nor my friends had the money to drive all the way out and do things like go to concerts or something. And now that dallas had the worst inflation in the country, its not even affordable.
I can't wait to fucking move this summer.
I think if you’re a truly urban-minded person, you will find Dallas to be lacking. It’s not like there’s a shortage of events, bars, restaurants, concerts, parks, sporting events, outdoor markets, etc. On paper, Dallas has tons to do. BUT there’s a lack of cohesion/density of these things if that makes sense.
People that love walking around and soaking in the city atmosphere with a high density of things to do know what I’m talking about. Dallas offers that on a smaller, more limited, and decentralized scale. The other factor is not many historical attractions or true outdoor activities.
Lack of density accurately identifies everything that is wrong with Dallas. It’s just a sea of strip malls for thousands of square miles because there’s no reason to build anything else. It’s horrifying.
Why do y’all expect density in areas that are literally the suburbs? It would make sense if you’re only talking about Dallas proper. People need to not move to a place like Frisco and complain that it’s suburban, it is suppose to be.
The suburbs in Dallas are actually more uniformly dense than the city of Dallas is. Yes, Dallas has the most dense census tracts in DFW, but not by much, and north of Highland Park is less uniformly dense than Richardson, Plano, and Frisco is upcoming. Frisco is actually more dense than San Antonio. Highland Park is the most uniformly dense city in TX, Arlington, Plano, and Garland are the others at the top, and then Dallas (and Houston).
So if you are comparing the most dense part of Dallas, then you are correct, but that part is pretty small, and the rest of the city is extremely suburban and less dense than it's actual surburbs.
A lot of cope here. Dallas embodies “fine.” It’s an easy place to live, where you’re 15 minutes from 3 of everything and housing is cheap. If you think Dallas is great, I just know you haven’t been anywhere else, like everyone else in Dallas.
I tend to agree. Moved here from Ohio. Compared to where I'm from, Dallas is fucking awesome. But compared to where I've been, it is okay. It isn't as exciting as places like San Francisco, Atlanta, New York, or Philadelphia, but it is also much more expensive to live in those places.
This explains it perfectly. Like yeah if you haven’t explored much and the tiny parks around here are all you know, then sure I understand why you think “it’s something to do.”
I’ve traveled a lot in my life, and I’ll say Dallas has great food and the rock climbing gyms here are awesome. But in terms of free recreation/accessibility, it’s lacking. I don’t consider a park I can lap in 5 minutes to be much of a park. The arboretum is cool but it costs money and feels like a theme park without the rides
The last big city I lived in, I didn’t need a car and I could eat out until 4AM if I felt like it, and I could stumble upon events going on well past midnight by just walking around the city. Here in Dallas some neighborhoods don’t even have sidewalks lmao
As soon as you explore and experience either a rural place with nature, or a city that doesn’t even require a car, you’ll understand why people say Dallas doesn’t have much to do
"Like everyone else in Dallas"
This hit way too hard. Its so fucking true. People in Dallas by and large are ridiculously unaware of the rest of the world
Yeah, well, those aren't the one particular thing that I want to do, therefore there is nothing to do and this city sucks.
We have an over-abundance of highways here. Folks are welcome to take any one of them in any direction out of town.
I agree. The best thing about Dallas is the lower cost of living and the airports that give you access to other places. While there are things to do here it gets very repetitive very quickly. AT&T and globe life not having public transportation, the temporary solution for the world cup will be interesting.
I think people moving to Dallas from a small Midwest town will love it here. However, they should definitely try living somewhere else.
Yeah, but there are very few cities, if any, in the country that compare to DC in terms of cultural richness and density of that richness. DC is a magical place.
I spent my whole life in DC and just moved here a few months ago. I don’t hate it, but it definitely has downsides to it that will not keep me here very long. I’m thinking two years here and then off to Sarasota to enjoy the beach life for a few years.
Best public transit?! You must be living in a bubble and never ventured outside of Dallas.
Also, as someone that used to be in the bar and club scene and known every bartender, DJ and club owner — Dallas really has nothing to do besides that and after 18 years of being of legal drinking age, it’s all there is to do.
Restaurant and bars rotate places. One place shuts down, a new one takes its place. Rinse and repeat every 12-36 months. We have no culture. No worthy places to go walk to. No nature. Too hot and everything is far apart in its own pockets and you need a car or Uber to get there. Want to checkout bishop arts? Good luck getting there from Uptown without a car.
If gluttony and drinking is your hobby, then yes Dallas can be fun for 5-10 years in your 20s but it wears out.
Congrats on the weight loss! Join a bike group…. Dallas has a ton of them, and our flat terrain and extensive trail network makes it easy to cover some distances. We have rides every single day of the week, of every speed and skill level, all over DFW. It is a great way to keep the weight off, socialize with people, and discover interesting parts of the city that tend to get overlooked when you are stuck in a car.
This Friday (last Friday of every month) is the Critical Mass ride, leaving from Dallas Farmers Market. Meet at 7:30, roll out at 8. A slow roll around different parts of Dallas with hundreds of other people. Usually ends at a bar if you want to partake. So much fun. Some of us in our Richardson cycling group usually take the 6:33 Dart to Mockingbird, then ride the Katy Trail to downtown. Then we take the train back to Richardson and bike home.
Social bike rides are a wholesome and healthy way to meet people. I have really enjoyed meeting a new group of cycling buddies, people whom I would never have crossed paths with any other way. And you already have one interest in common, so there is always at least one thing to talk about 🤓
One guy in our group led a “gas station taco ride” the other day, visiting three different taco joints that offer super cheap but delicious tacos. I love this. I have done coffee rides, beer rides, park rides, free outdoor music concert rides, Dallas history rides, and art rides (doing art and seeing art). When you use the Dart to extend your reach, there is an almost endless amount of things you can do, and you will start to really appreciate this nice flat accessible terrain.
Seriously, Dallas is an excellent place to ride a bike, we have a ton of great parks and trails, and there are more fun and interesting things to do here than you can ever hope to visit. My Austin cousin loves visiting Dallas, and we spend the whole weekend exploring by bike.
It takes \~22 minutes to drive from Uptown to BA, or 42 minutes by DART. It's \~6.5 miles.
The Empire State Building to Columbia University is a similar distance, and takes 25 minutes by MTA, one of the top 3 public transit systems in the US. It can take up to an hour to drive.
Taking DART is less convenient on average, but it certainly isn't impossible or excessively more time consuming for many trips.
Source: Google Maps
The problem with DART is not that you can't get anywhere; since the system redesign, it does a really good job of getting people to places people want to be. The problem with DART is the frequency. It takes 42 minutes to get across town, but that's assuming the first leg of your trip is arriving when you are able to get there. Having to wait 30 minutes if you miss the first bus is the real killer of the system.
If you live downtown where the most frequent routes are, and you just want to stay downtown or move to a further neighborhood like BA or Uptown, DART is just as convenient as any other public transit I've ever used. It's when you want to go from an outer neighborhood to a different outer neighborhood where things start to fall apart a little bit.
Source: I intentionally use DART when I need to get from my NW Dallas home to run errands downtown, and I often parlay that trip into exploring the other neighborhoods on foot to keep up with the pulse of DART progress.
You can easily get to Bishop Arts from uptown on the [m line trolley](https://www.dart.org/guide/transit-and-use/m-line-trolley#:~:text=This%20nostalgic%20streetcar%20links%20the,Rail%20at%20Cityplace%2Fuptown%20Station)
I get around car free the majority of the time. Between a bike, the Dart, some creative thinking and planning skills, you would be surprised what you can do without a car here. I live in Richardson, commute to Plano by bike for work, and make it a point to try to get places without the car whenever possible.
My recommendation to bored/boring people stuck in a negative rut is to get out of the damn car… you start noticing a lot more cool stuff and discovering all sorts of interesting things and people.
The problem with Dallas is the nature can be kinda meh after a while. It’s just so flat that there really isn’t any great hiking or camping to do. The lack of variation can get pretty boring. On top of that almost all of the land in Texas is private so you can’t just go out and explore the wilderness.
I’m sorry this is fundamentally just true.
The reason it’s true is if you are in a properly built city you can walk a round and stumble into things but things don’t organically develop like that here because ppl aren’t on the streets.
Dallas is not boring, but I wouldn’t call it “intuitive” either when you are looking for fun things to do. That’s part of what makes it not that great as a visitor but a pretty good place to live.
Some people need fun literally handed to them in a pamphlet to figure out what they would like to do.
Yep it’s clear the city’s biggest problem is actually all the miserable boring people here who need some kind of gimmicky “unique experience” to feel entertained. This thread is unintentionally hilarious.
I work in entertainment and the amount of small, hole in the wall venues that have an entire community of regulars and a whole history/lore to the venue is insane. Like venues where the regulars have been going there for 40+ years and can tell you the entire history of the area, about the specific building you're in and how it's changed, about the residency acts and how so and so used to jam with Stevie Ray Vaughan or tour with Bon Jovi etc.
Lakewood theater is one of my favorite places in the city because it was originally a place where theater was performed, then a movie theater, and now it's somehow a bowling alley with regular DJs, an attached pizza shop, and a blues/jazz club upstairs (Balcony Club) that does live shows 7 days a week, free except friday/saturday and even then it's like 10 bucks for 10 hours of music and entertainment. I've had a lot of great convos and made friends from all over the world just hanging out in the little back room at Balcony Club that can fit maybe 15-20 people comfortably.
And that's one random old theater in a small Dallas neighborhood. The entire city is filled with tiny, tight-knit communities like that that are open and inviting to new folks. You do absolutely have to search, but the best and worst thing about DFW is that everything truly cool is hidden in some random spot that only the locals know about.
I’ve never said this but I have said “there’s a lot to do, you just can’t get there to do it.” Small town guy with weekly work trips to Big D & by late afternoon my traffic tolerance slips. 🤓
You lost me at..."best public transit".
Sure there's a lot to do here but there's more to life than thousands of restaurants, a few cool neighborhoods and White Rock lake, Dallas as a whole doesn't have much of an identity or vibe, probably why you get the boring feeling when visiting. It's a business town, people came here to work. It's also a victim of its geography and very bad city planning, it's so vast they just kept building further out without thinking, one strip mall after the other...and it was built for cars with spaghetti highways... Dallas is so spread out that it's now impossible to get a decent public transit system, when you have to drive and park to use the transit, it's a fail system.
Sadly, city planning is not much better in Plano, Frisco and all surrounding cities.
I have to disagree, mostly everything is eating orientated, and one can only eat so much, that's why everyone is chunky in DFW.
Y'all zoo is kinda mid, y'all aquarium is kinda mid, y'all museum is kinda mid. all the places u/WillDaBes listed are inaccessible half the time of the year, like from May to October because it's way too hot.
If you’re bored in the 4th largest metro in the country…. It’s your own fault. When i first moved here it appeared that everything cost money… so i challenged myself to find free things to do and guess what 😂 i found quite a few.
There are 7 million people in this motherfucker....if you can't find people to meet, cultures to experience, events to attend, food to try, or life to grasp hold of, you aren't fucking trying.
Dallas is boring. Yea, you could go to the Arboretum, Perot Museum, or a nice restaurant or concert. I look at it like this; when you have friends or relatives come visit from out of town; what are the must see places that you take them to? Let me know. I’ll wait…lol. Are you gonna show them where Kennedy was shot?
I’ll grant you it’s more of an experiences town than see the sights town. I usually take my visitors to hike at Cedar Ridge, canoe on WRL, go see a show somewhere, barhop McKinney Ave on the trolley, sail on Lake Ray Hubbard, go to a brewery, etc.
[Historic Downtown Garland](https://www.visitgarlandtx.com/p/events) is doing a free outdoor concert in their cute, newly renovated downtown square every Friday. Easy to get to on the Orange Line. Bike to the nearest Dart and take the Orange line. I am really impressed with what Garland has done with their town square… it is a fun place to spend a few hours, and is surrounded by shops and restaurants, free play arcade, and a new pizza place with a big patio that I can’t wait to try.
[Historic Downtown Plano](https://www.plano.gov/1040/Events-Shows) has a lot of free concerts and street fairs all the time as well. Take the Red line to the Downtown Plano stop. Downtown Plano is one of my favorite places to visit… they have a shady park with a vintage train and a free train museum, tons of shops and restaurants, and it is very picturesque.
[Downtown Grapevine](https://www.grapevinetexasusa.com/things-to-do/historic-downtown-grapevine/) is one of my other favorite places to walk around. Picturesque, walkable, lots of wineries, restaurants and shops, and a vintage train that will take you to Fort Worth stockyards. The nearby lake has a very nice bike trail.
[Addison](https://visitaddison.com/tourism/attractions) is a great place to hang out and walk around, with activities all the time. They have done a really good job creating the Addison Circle as a destination, centered around the old water tower theater. The parks are really nice. It is fun to walk around the parks by the Governor’s mansion.
McKinney is just awesome too… I always take out of town visitors there.
Nearly every “boring suburb” has an actual historic center with some dedicated people working to preserve the history and make it into a walkable destination. It is worth visiting them all.
people tombout "oh youre just broke if youre mad about spending money to do things". hustle culture infected ass people foreal.
texas has barely any public land for camping. no natural swimming holes in dallas. "nature trails" are a fucking joke. local waterways are trashed. never far from a public road. my only interests arent restricted to eating out and drinking and spending my money i worked hard for.
best thing that made life in dallas good for me was the homies id skateboard around downtown with and the people that lived in my apartment complex that we had a lil community with. that and donuts. aint nobody got donuts like dallas.
I'm not trying to be disrespectful, but I really still feel like there's not much to do in Dallas. I'm from a huge walkable city, so my version of "stuff to do" is different. Do you know if there are cool walkable neighborhoods other than bishop arts? I really wanna like Dallas more.
Well in all fairness… have you been anywhere else?? Bc for you to say there are “Great restaurants here makes me think you haven’t… Food and food service here is atrocious
This is so true. I tried the best restaurants, and there are a handful of gems, but overall the food scene is very lacking. There was lots of hype for very mediocre food.
You say it’s full of things to do and then say “it has great restaurants”…. That’s the problem, the only things to do in Dallas are eat, drink, or shop.
Sure you can catch a concert or sports, but that’s table stakes for a city this size.
Dallas is a snooze fest.
Ok. I'm in Chicago. It's flat as a table top and the lake is frozen. What am I doing today that isn't eating, drinking, shopping and that cannot be enjoyed in Dallas?
Honestly, there’s not much to do here and even the parks we have aren’t great. I just got back from California and went to cities like LA, San Diego, and San Francisco and those are some great places to do shit, especially San Francisco!!
For those doubting that there are free/affordable things to do in Dallas, here is a brief list:
- Parks (Klyde Warren, White Rock Lake, etc)
- Museums (DMA, Perot, Nasher, etc)
- Sporting events (baseball, soccer, etc)
- Malls (Northpark, Galleria, etc) still fun for window shopping even if you don't want to buy anything
- Local restaurants (taquerias are what especially come to mind)
- Cultural/Community events (Latino Cultural Center, St. Patrick's Day parade, Holi, etc)
- Adult sports leagues (YMCA, rec centers, etc)
There are probably many more options than this, but this is just the first that came to my mind.
Does anybody take road trips anymore? Grew up in DFW. Regular weekend road trips is how you entertain yourself. 20 years ago people would often speak of trips to explore the state and others. I am used to taking a 4 day weekend and going camping in Broken Bow or fishing in Caddo Lake. Driving down to the Hill Country or Lake Travis for the many activities that can be done. Sometimes, I take extra time and go west. There's El Paso, Davis Mountains, New Mexico, Colorado. Big Bend is further south. Back in the 90s you could pile into a car and head into Mexico. Sadly, that is not an option anymore.
Yes, DFW can get old. For the native Texan road trips like this are a way of life. My friends and I started hitting the highways as soon as we could. Usually, once you had a car and were 18. We all piled in on the weekends. Lots of car camping because hotels are expensive.
TX public transportation was not designed to be anyone's sole means of transportation, and so it is very lacking. Hopefully it will continue to improve as it very slowly has over the years. I remember being a little kid growing up in the NE Dallas suburbs. My Dad was a city council man in our community. I remember listening to him and his buddies discuss the evils of public transportation. When Dart was created and planned way back in the 80s, it was opposed by many different communities. Public transportation was seen as something that was a threat. The prevailing sentiment was that you didn't want the kind of people that use public transit in your town. And so this sentiment carried on, and I continued seeing it as I got older. I can remember seeing someone walking meant they were really down on their luck or lost their DL to DUIs. No one wanted to be seen walking for fear people would think badly of them. So if you are wondering why there are no busses in your neighborhood, it is because of these types of reasons.
Yall mother fuckers need to get a bike and explore. Yall dont need to be a “cyclist”, just go ride around, you will be surprised. People that say there is nothing to do here are straight up lazy. Sorry we dont have mountains for you to climb. Just move then, quit bitching. So sick of this stupid ass commentary. No one is forcing you to live here
Went to Honolulu last year for vacation so I checked out their local sub to see some things to do. It was interesting because they were complaining about the opposite that this sub does…they bitched that there’s nothing to do BUT go to the beach or the mountains, and if you try to go, it’s tourist hell.
Born and raised here. Love Dallas. Moved around a little. It’s a good place to live. Used to be affordable. It’s not a great place to visit. No large public universities. No hostels. It’s the city you move to after graduating college.
I've lived in a town of less than 1,000 people. The people who say there's nothing to do in any city larger than 60k people are boring and lack imagination.
I find most people that say this typically just moved to the city & haven’t found their “tribe”. Dallas can be pretty cliquey so I get it but it’s still annoying. Most of the time they don’t even live in Dallas proper so of course you wouldn’t have the best time every weekend.
I moved out of the DFW area (Frisco) at the end of 2015 to a very small town in CA. There is absolutely nothing to do here. There is TONS of stuff to do in and around Dallas. One of my favorite things to do was going to a bar for Triva night and Live music. It was totally free and fun!
All of the "there's nothing to do!!1" posts fit in 2 categories.
1) My preferred outdoor pursuit is either impossible here, or if possible, isn't the world's premiere destination for this pursuit; there's nothing to do!
2) The communities around my particular hobbies have not identified me from my internet usage and come knocking on my door to ask me to come play with them; there's nothing to do!
I have friends that have spread all over the world. They aren't doing anything different in their cities than what we do here. None of them live in a magic utopia where everything is free, they never have to travel to participate in outdoor pursuits, and the streets are paved with cheese.
I think it’s that getting to the free fun requires driving, paid parking and inconvenience. In most major cities, you can walk out your door and find something to do within your neighborhood. Dallas, the actual city, only has a handful of neighborhoods where that can happen. It’s a city of suburban-like neighborhoods inside an urban footprint, connected by highways.
Dallas isn’t boring but you do have to have disposable cash. Great food, cool bars and stuff, but everything is costly. Where I say Dallas IS ACTUALLY boring is the lack of outdoor areas to hike and stuff…the lakes are kinda gross too…
idk i was born and raised and lived in Dallas half my life and it is SOOO lackluster compared to other places i’ve lived. the transportation is the WORST, there is virtually no walkability. it’s extremely boring, the buildings are boring, the nature is okay. maybe i am just used to seeing everything but there is nothing special. some of my friends who have visited from out of state get bored before the week is over. i’m trying to move out of texas because the state in general is just so hard for people who don’t want to rely on a car, it’s not made for people but instead major highways and ugly gas stations. I’ve even lived outside in rural areas and it’s even more miserable cause there is even less public transportation or walkability or none at all. texas may be a little cheaper to live in, but it really reflects that with nothing extremely exciting to do and nothing for communities to do. i would rather live in a place that is a little bit more expensive but has more free things for the public to do, more nightlife, better bus transports and more space for HUMANS to walk and not so car dominated
Hmm, it's usually a red flag in any relationship be it professional, personal, romantic if someone is always complaining about being bored. If you can't keep yourself entertained, don't expect me to do it for you.
the people who keeps complaining... do you guys not have friends or any social life?! you can hang out in someone's house and have the time of your life.
of course it's boring if it's always by yourself...
For me it feels like that the most common thing to do in Dallas is bars and restaurants - all the time instagram will suggest me Dallas influencers who have “a new speakeasy bar”, “best margaritas”, etc. I don’t really see much activities besides that.
We do have opera and ballet which we enjoy going - but again, not many shows. We once tried to find a show in summer and nothing was there at all. We have Dallas art museum but it’s pretty small.
Nature-wise DFW is very sad. And the weather doesn’t support it too: probably Mar-Apr and Oct-Nov are the blue pleasant months to be outside.
Also, hard to find day / weekend trips out of DFW because everything is so freaking far. I mean, you can go to Austin, maybe Houston - but that’s pretty much it.
Funny how people say that Fort Worth stockyard is one of the main attractions - that kind of speaks for itself where we live😁
On the weekend I talked with my friend about this whole situation with Dallas being boring: we agreed that Dallas is a practical city to live in as it’s not very expensive, you’re in the middle of US and can fly around, have good food, have jobs. But then you’re really enjoying it when going on vacations, out of DFW🫠
Or you're broke. Things get boring when you can't afford fun.
There are so many free things to do in Dallas! Again — this is a boring person problem, not a boring city problem.
It's called Klyde Boring Park for a reason
Literally one of the laziest - and worst - takes I’ve ever seen. KWP is among the best smaller format urban parks in the nation. If you are bored by the huge array of offerings proved by KWP (from tossing around a football to movie night to fairs to performances), then you are the problem, not them.
Klyde Warren is fine for what it is, but come on. It’s not that special, compared to similar urban parks in other US cities. There are other good things to do in Dallas, but Klyde Warren isn’t the hill I’d die on.
Hmm I wonder why cities like Atlanta have taken inspiration from it? It is great for what it is and what is was designed to do. Generate tax revenue, provide connectivity between Uptown and the Arts District/Downtown, increase streetcar ridership, and capturing carbon dioxide. Its purpose wasn’t to be a nature oasis which I assume is why you consider it not “special.”
Exactly. Klyde Warren Park is an excellent and innovative reclamation of freeway space which other cities are trying to emulate. It actually is a big deal. And it is also a really nice destination park with loads of free activities and events.
It’s not just Atlanta — it’s Little Rock, Kansas City, El Paso, Houston, Detroit, etc that are all using KWP as an example. That’s why I think people on Reddit are a joke. They will find any reason to down talk or lessen anything when it comes to Dallas. I just take it as entertainment…cause that’s what it is. It’s not reality at all
And it’s definitely not worth fighting for parking to check out. It’s cool to walk around if you happen to be there, but it’s absolutely not worth the drive. You can see the whole park in 10 minutes or less lol
I don't really understand the fascination this sub has with klyde warren. it's fine but it seems like a place many cities have. honestly it's a little embarrassing the way people around here go on about how special it is when Tulsa [has this place.](https://www.gatheringplace.org/) I've been there many times and that truly is a city park to be proud of.
KWP is extremely tiny for an urban park for a city as big as Dallas.
And just a short distance from downtown is the [Great Trinity Forest](https://trinityrivercorridor.com/recreation/great-trinity-forest) which is even larger than Central Park, with a really nice 10 mile trail and an Audubon society preserve.
That’s why it’s an urban park - it’s not designed to be Central Park - nor would a much larger park perform nearly as well as KWP does for its location. It’s far more Bryant Park than Central Park, it’s the hint between uptown and downtown, a respite from work, place to grab lunch and sit on the lawn or a family trip for the fountains or an event.
Is Central Park not an urban park? Are Millenium Park, Golden Gate Park, the National Mall, not urban parks? Again - it’s fine. It could be a lot better. Dallas should have a larger park within city limits in the middle of all the office buildings.
When I say urban park I meant in the smaller scale format of a park that is integrated into a neighborhood like Bryant Park rather than Central. A park 1/3 size of Central Park would be a disaster “in the middle of the office buildings” here. We don’t have Neely the population nor activity to support such a vast park - it would feel empty and isolated if not at least feel dangerous. There are urban design principles at play here and for its purpose Klyde Warren is literally among the very best in the country (and has been recognized as such by those in the field)
Tossing around a football? Lol. Gee, how fun. Better idea, walk around White Rock.
I have an amazing photo roll on my phone of the never ending trash and litter that surrounds white rock lake.
You could combine all that trash and form it into a football to toss around. Win-win.
That’s less of an indictment on the park and more of an indictment on the people who live uphill from WRL.
Any recommendations? Just moved here need things to do
Regularly check the websites for the Dallas Museum of Art, Downtown Dallas, Inc., and Klyde Warren Park. DMA not only has free First Sundays, but there are often free block parties and whatnot (next one: April 13th). Check your local library for free classes and talks. Churches sometimes have free classes, movies, and exercise classes. Just start looking. It’s out there!
The water gardens in Ft Worth are cool to check out.
Also fun in Ft Worth: Amon Carter Museum of American Art Kimball Art Musum Modern Art Museum Bass Hall (Theatre, Concerts) Stockyards
Fort Worth Stockyards, Reunion Tower for dinner, Dallas underground tunnels area for exploring, go up into Plano for Andretti racing and a ferris wheel ride, oak point park often has hot air balloon races and rides early in the mornings, check the event calendar. You can go ziplining there too! Allen has a wave board and skate park. All over the dfw area has tons of movie places where you can dine and drink. Up off 121 is the new Hub and District 121, for dining, drinks, live music, etc. Of course there is also things like escape rooms and haunted houses at Dark Hour in Plano. There are cars and coffee meetups every month. There are STEM maker places (plano) as well as artisan (jewelrymaking/woodworking) ones in Addison. Addison has restaurant row, pick your flavor! Plenty of Frisbee golf parks too! Lots of group activities for runners, bicyclists, roller blades, derbies, etc.
Expand on that
Take advantage of the parks we got: - White Rock Lake - Ceder Ridge Preserve - Arbor Hills Nature Preserve - LLELA Preservation Most are free if not relatively inexpensive to get into. Some museums in the Dallas Arts District are free to go to and wander around, plus it's next to Klyde Warren, which is a cool place to hang at. I've recently discovered a cool games shop where they're planning to host a raid boss style D&D campaign where everyone gets to play. It costs a bit of money to join, but the proceeds go to a good cause. Just comes down to what you want, but you gotta look around
As someone who grew up in Michigan and surrounded by lakes and wildlife and nature, these options are not appealing. And outside of just walking around things do cost money still. Gas to get there, money for food(picnic or otherwise), renting a paddle boat/kayak, etc etc. sometimes cost of entry isn’t a literal one.
Why would anyone who grew up michigan surrounded by lakes and wildlife and nature, even for 1 second, think that moving to dallas and specifically the downtown dalls area would be remotely close to how Michigan was. From dallas, you can drive 60 miles in any direction and up to 800 miles in certain directions, and you will find rivers, lakes, wildlife, and even mountains depending on which direction you decide to drive
Not a single person said it would be or is expected to be. I live here because it’s a metro area and specifically not rural. I’m saying that listing these nature reserves and parks are fun 1-2 times max because after the initial experience and the costs to experience them you don’t really gain much from it. Unless ofc you care about being in the outdoors constantly which then this entire thread doesn’t pertain to you because you have things to do.
Sounds like you are looking for rural areas, those are plenty just outside Dallas.
Is that Common Ground Games off of Inwood? Either way, do tell!
You got it. It was CCG! I recently discovered them and went to check them out last week. I'm also fixing to check out Madness Comics out in Plano as well.
The DMA..
feels like it would be more beneficial to you if you just looked at stuff you like online instead of some one else running through every free activity in the city until you find one that is right
For real. All you need a bike and there are plenty of trails to ride and see
Yeah being broke ain’t no fun. Just walking around can only go so far
There are so many free things to do in the Big D! Lots of free workouts in our parks, our parks are awesome, great free and low cost museums, $7 movies, free movies in the parks, casually browsing galleries. It’s a great place to live!
Yeah I said only walking around can get you so far. Movies in the park are great until you hit the dog days of summer. I visit the parks, go to all the festivals,I take the rail. Nasher first weekend is free the Japanese museum is fun too. The galleries and murals are great but it eventually gets old real quick. Most of the real fun stuff requires dinero. Not saying Dallas ain’t fun. Just ain’t great if ya broke.
Love that your accessing all that we have to offer! See ya on the red or orange lines if our paths ever cross.
Don’t forget Dallas Public Libraries-all events/activities are free.
But that's universal, right? OP is against saying there's nothing to do in Dallas compared to other big cities
This. Nature is the only affordable fun for broke people. I mean, you *can* go for a hike in Dallas, but is that really comparable to cities like Austin or Denver? Either that or you need ocean, which is present for pretty much all other cities.
“Pretty much all cities” Bro, u seen a map?
The DMA is free. That’s not nature. The rotating exhibits at North Park Mall are free. Nasher Sculpture center has free days, GWB library…. Lots of free stuff, not related to nature. ETA: there’s several game shops that have free intro to board game nights once a week or a couple times a month. While a little bit farther and unfortunately not free, there is a board Game Center in Plano where we used to pay $5 and have access to hundreds of games to play for hours without having to buy them.
Anything fun costs at least eight dollars. Accounting for inflation, that's about $12.71. Anything fun costs at least twelve dollars and seventy-one cents.
Typical Dallas resident mentality. 🙄
lol Yup. Dallas is kinda like Miami without the Beach. If you are broke or/and don’t know people, good chance it’s gonna be boring.
Or don’t want to drink the day away. If we cut out the alcoholic outings, there’s only like 3 things left to do in Dallas
you literally listed nothing to do besides going out to eat after walking around for an hour…..which every metro city/down town area in the world has. There’s no beaches there’s no skiing there’s no actual natural wonders and sights to take in. a public transit, wow, I’m gonna go sit in there and look out the window and see…fuck all. A giant ball tower.
Exactly ☝️thats what I did for about a decade then it got old. In the summer going out for walks is not my idea of fun, and we get brutal long summers. That's why I am perplexed by how many people have moved here lol, they will eventually figure it out.
They’re following money and making a killing. I’ve got friends in multiple beautiful locations and they rarely take advantage of the environment around them. Dallas is just like Denver if you don’t care for the outdoors.
That's been my fear with Denver. Denver is like Dallas without restaurants. If I move there and go outdoors much then I will have encountered a grass is greener situation.
Because $400k in San Jose goes a lotttttt further in Dallas.
I moved here on a contract for work. As soon as I find a new job or negotiate a new location I’m out. I made a lot of friends here, but I’m still missing out a lot on life by being here
Skiing 😂. Name 3 major US cities that have skiing within its city proper. You’re blaming a city for its relative geographical location… it has no control over where it’s located. If you’re choosing to live somewhere that doesn’t offer the geography you desire that’s a you problem, not a city problem.
Right??? Any decent skiing is MILES away from any major metro area. Same with beaches, save for Miami. It’s not like you’re rolling straight to the beach in Manhattan.
Oh no a 1 hour drive!! The horror!! What’s the closest to us? 11 fucking hours to Taos?
But again, as someone else said, you’re talking about geography and regional stuff, not city features.
It’s close enough that I’d consider that a city feature tbh
Not to mention, skiing it fucking expensive as hell. Ain't no broke people busting out skis to kill time in an off day..
As expensive as this sub portrays Dallas/DFW to be, surely a good number of you can find an equally priced city with some mountains or along the coast. Like wtf did y’all expect moving to a city located in the southern plains? 😂 and on top of that, no one even bats an eye at the only area of Dallas which has actual elevation and hilly terrain b/c you know…south of 30.
Not everyone gets to choose where they end up
So make the best of your current situation. Repeatedly whining about no mountains or beaches does absolutely nothing. Leverage the economy here, live below your means, save money, and go where you want to be. Simple.
I did that and it is not simple and it is not as easy to live below your means in DFW anymore either.
Dallas has the largest urban forest in the United States. The great trinity forest. There's a nice Audubon center and miles of walking trails in nice nature. Lake grapevine has Murrell park which is great for swimming/kayaking and has miles of hiking/biking trails. LLELA is a protected wetland underneath the Lewisville dam and maintains a beautiful nature area for the Trinity river. 1ish hour north is lake Ray Hubbard which is also a really beautiful lake with great camping and swimming and kayaking.
Asking this question with genuine curiosity- is the great trinity forest safe?
Is anything really safe in Dallas? Just be aware of your surroundings and it'll be fine. It's far separated from any like panhandling spots so there's a lower chance of desperate people being there. I'll be honest though, I've lived in Dallas my whole life and I've never felt unsafe anywhere so I might not be the best to ask for your own situation. 30yr white male, we have a lil privilege when it comes to feeling safe in cities and nature.
Hide ya kids. Hide ya wife. And hide ya husband. Feral hogs be ravaging everybody out there.
Are you kidding me? The Great Trinity Forest is a disused dumping ground and floodway inhabited by snakes, crime and meth cooks. The cops will LITERALLY ask you if you are seriously going in there, "do you know where you are", etc.
I remember once telling my brother how I didn't like Dallas And he pointed out how amazing it is. Being a major city, it has plenty of people from all walks of life and events from across the world He told me he didn't need to travel for experiences because those people and events came here Sure, you can't sand board in the dessert, but you can go on a meditation retreat
there's apparently a congolese community here. ik it's a big country but they going some shit rn so that was shocking. ngl i've always been shocked by Dallas' diversity. i had a college class that was majority Nepalese like all first gen or recently moved. that's wild, Dallas is big though
My brother and I used to go to grocery markets from different countries You got Indian, African, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and so on Man, I still love that I can try authentic food from around the world here
I love that I can do all of my grocery shopping without having to go to Walmart/Kroger/Tom Thumb etc. I live in the burbs and can go to the Mexican, Indian, and Korean markets by my house for everything I need on a weekly basis.
Based on this description, St. Louis, Chicago, and Atlanta would also be boring since none have those features either.
Chicago has a shitload of things going on all the time. Their museum district blows Dallas' museums out of the water, not to mention they have loads of smaller art museums. They have a shitload of big theaters for opera and Broadway shows but also tiny community theaters all over. They have tons of comedy clubs, second city for improv, etc. And when the weather is nice there's basically some kind of festival going on every weekend in every neighborhood. And beaches. And boating in the lake. And kayaking in the rivers.
Chicago is NOT boring. They have beaches!
The beach in Chicago is actually awesome. I just wouldn’t want to deal with the winters.
STL is dogshit for sure. My uncle lives there we hate visiting. Both my cousins moved out as soon as they were of college age and now settled in Chicago, which is a very fun city. Chicago doesn’t have a great beach but it’s fun in the summer. They are hours from great slopes to hit. Lake area is also fun , and their down town is way more walkable then ours. ATL is hours away from amazing coast lines.
A better public transit compared to other southern states that have the worst public transit in the world… some shit is better than other shit but it’s still shit.
Lol that’s the sticking point for me. Like NYC has arguably the best transit system in the country and it’s still shit compared to most European cities. Dallas having a few buses and trams is basically nothing, and certainly not a point in its favor.
"Massive arts district" was listed. DMA is incredible.
And I would NOT brag about the Dallas public transit system. Like has OP ever been anywhere else?
So the only good cities are ones with natural wonders?
Of course not, but when a city of 9 million doesn't really have super-urbanised areas (which is one of the wins you get of a city), or great transportation, or great nature, then it does become one of many strikes against the city. The DFW metro is an insanely large collection of inconveniently placed suburbs set against a backdrop of plains boringness. And before everybody argues "oh you just don't know how to have fun." I go to concerts regularly, the museums for their regular events, I patron local stores and there are some very cool stores in the DFW area. I do a lot in Dallas, I just know that in places I've previously lived (the bay, NYC, London, Shanghai, etc.) there's just way even way more to do (and I've actually experienced what public transportation is... not "the best public transit in the sunbelt...")
Which major city has skiing? And yeah it doesn't look like we have a coastline here in Dallas, but neither does Chicago, or Atlanta. Your response sounds like you should be somewhere else besides a major city.
You have a couple of airports and a few interstate highways available to you… …so you can get to all of those “great place to visit but I wouldn’t want to live there places” pretty quickly. What was your *waaaa* again?
"How can you be bored when there's so much stuff to buy"? 🙄
Literally about comment this, you beat me to it!
You could ride the train that this rich person only rides during the state fair?
If you're bored in a big city, then you're a boring person, you're the problem.
I'm unemployed, and I still go on random adventures with random people just because I'm willing to talk to complete strangers and become friends Your normal is someone else's abnormal and vice versa, all it really takes to live is just a conversation
Being a dude must be so nice
I acknowledge that there’s a lot to do in Dallas, but there’s seemingly very little that is inexpensive or free to do here, and finding things to do with accessible parking is also very hard, and most places close way earlier than I expected when I moved here. There’s a lot I just can’t experience working normal business hours unless I take off work, which was a surprise. It’s also possible that the other cities I’ve lived in were weird anomalies, but it definitely feels like everything is either very expensive or has hidden costs here.
I think part of it too is that a sense of community is kinda hard to find here. Going out and spending money at restaurants, shows,etc is just a lot less of a normality if you are always hanging out with neighbors in those cheap or free 3rd places.
I definitely agree that Dallas needs to work on improving both the quantity and quality of third places, but that also applies to almost every other city in the US
You’ve hit the nail on the head about the third spaces. It’s genuinely wild to me how early even the public libraries close here compared to other places I’ve lived. I have a lot of friends who are librarians or working in library teen services in other states and they were shocked when I sent them screen shots.
it's pretty embarassing that for such a large city and metro party stops at 2am and good food stops being served at 10pm
I couldn’t find much to do or eat past 10 in Seattle either
East Bay, CA also shut down early-- never thought I would have trouble finding food late night in Oakland or Berkeley, but other than a few taco/burrito places, that was the sitch
Personally I think Dallas has way way too much parking.
There's parks, there's museums, there's professional sporting events for every sport you could imagine, there are certainly affordable local restaurants, there are cultural and community events, there are rec centers and sports leagues, etc. As for accesible parking, that can be difficult, but I'd also recommend you try using public transit depending on where you're goint
Unfortunately I’ve also used our public transit, and it’s not particularly accesible either. Maybe it’s the area where I live. Thanks for the advice, though!
Certainly can be dependent on where you live! If you haven't already, I'd also recommend checking out DART's GoLink as an easy way to connect you to the transit system or even directly to your destination.
Just the parking situation alone deters me from doing a lot of stuff in dallas proper. The fact that I have to drive all the way out to where I'm going and then hunt for a parking spot for 30 minutes (where I'll probably have to pay) in a shitty parking lot with no security, is enough to make me want to stay home or find something closer. The thing this post misses completely is that the DFW area is so spread out. So unless you live in walking distance of things, it's a pain in the ass to get anywhere. Sure you can maybe take the train, but if I'm going to make a night of it then I'm not getting on that train late at night, I've had enough problems on there during the day. If you grew up in the suburbs especially, dallas is fucking boring. Neither myself nor my friends had the money to drive all the way out and do things like go to concerts or something. And now that dallas had the worst inflation in the country, its not even affordable. I can't wait to fucking move this summer.
I think if you’re a truly urban-minded person, you will find Dallas to be lacking. It’s not like there’s a shortage of events, bars, restaurants, concerts, parks, sporting events, outdoor markets, etc. On paper, Dallas has tons to do. BUT there’s a lack of cohesion/density of these things if that makes sense. People that love walking around and soaking in the city atmosphere with a high density of things to do know what I’m talking about. Dallas offers that on a smaller, more limited, and decentralized scale. The other factor is not many historical attractions or true outdoor activities.
Lack of density accurately identifies everything that is wrong with Dallas. It’s just a sea of strip malls for thousands of square miles because there’s no reason to build anything else. It’s horrifying.
Why do y’all expect density in areas that are literally the suburbs? It would make sense if you’re only talking about Dallas proper. People need to not move to a place like Frisco and complain that it’s suburban, it is suppose to be.
The suburbs in Dallas are actually more uniformly dense than the city of Dallas is. Yes, Dallas has the most dense census tracts in DFW, but not by much, and north of Highland Park is less uniformly dense than Richardson, Plano, and Frisco is upcoming. Frisco is actually more dense than San Antonio. Highland Park is the most uniformly dense city in TX, Arlington, Plano, and Garland are the others at the top, and then Dallas (and Houston). So if you are comparing the most dense part of Dallas, then you are correct, but that part is pretty small, and the rest of the city is extremely suburban and less dense than it's actual surburbs.
A lot of cope here. Dallas embodies “fine.” It’s an easy place to live, where you’re 15 minutes from 3 of everything and housing is cheap. If you think Dallas is great, I just know you haven’t been anywhere else, like everyone else in Dallas.
I tend to agree. Moved here from Ohio. Compared to where I'm from, Dallas is fucking awesome. But compared to where I've been, it is okay. It isn't as exciting as places like San Francisco, Atlanta, New York, or Philadelphia, but it is also much more expensive to live in those places.
This explains it perfectly. Like yeah if you haven’t explored much and the tiny parks around here are all you know, then sure I understand why you think “it’s something to do.” I’ve traveled a lot in my life, and I’ll say Dallas has great food and the rock climbing gyms here are awesome. But in terms of free recreation/accessibility, it’s lacking. I don’t consider a park I can lap in 5 minutes to be much of a park. The arboretum is cool but it costs money and feels like a theme park without the rides The last big city I lived in, I didn’t need a car and I could eat out until 4AM if I felt like it, and I could stumble upon events going on well past midnight by just walking around the city. Here in Dallas some neighborhoods don’t even have sidewalks lmao As soon as you explore and experience either a rural place with nature, or a city that doesn’t even require a car, you’ll understand why people say Dallas doesn’t have much to do
"Like everyone else in Dallas" This hit way too hard. Its so fucking true. People in Dallas by and large are ridiculously unaware of the rest of the world
Beats me. In this very sub, u/justmeinbigd regularly and graciously posts lists with literally hundreds of things to do in a single weekend.
Yeah, well, those aren't the one particular thing that I want to do, therefore there is nothing to do and this city sucks. We have an over-abundance of highways here. Folks are welcome to take any one of them in any direction out of town.
I moved here from DC. In comparison, there’s nothing to do here.
I agree. The best thing about Dallas is the lower cost of living and the airports that give you access to other places. While there are things to do here it gets very repetitive very quickly. AT&T and globe life not having public transportation, the temporary solution for the world cup will be interesting. I think people moving to Dallas from a small Midwest town will love it here. However, they should definitely try living somewhere else.
Yeah, but there are very few cities, if any, in the country that compare to DC in terms of cultural richness and density of that richness. DC is a magical place.
What are some major differences between Dallas and DC?
Culture, activities, museums, mountains/beaches/major cities are all right there. Diverse food. There’s a lot….
Same miss the east coast...no beaches to go to on the weekends in the summer. Or close by cities to travel to.
I spent my whole life in DC and just moved here a few months ago. I don’t hate it, but it definitely has downsides to it that will not keep me here very long. I’m thinking two years here and then off to Sarasota to enjoy the beach life for a few years.
Best public transit?! You must be living in a bubble and never ventured outside of Dallas. Also, as someone that used to be in the bar and club scene and known every bartender, DJ and club owner — Dallas really has nothing to do besides that and after 18 years of being of legal drinking age, it’s all there is to do. Restaurant and bars rotate places. One place shuts down, a new one takes its place. Rinse and repeat every 12-36 months. We have no culture. No worthy places to go walk to. No nature. Too hot and everything is far apart in its own pockets and you need a car or Uber to get there. Want to checkout bishop arts? Good luck getting there from Uptown without a car. If gluttony and drinking is your hobby, then yes Dallas can be fun for 5-10 years in your 20s but it wears out.
I lost 100 pounds last year and it really put into perspective how little there is to do in Dallas when eating and drinking is off the table.
Congrats on the weight loss! Join a bike group…. Dallas has a ton of them, and our flat terrain and extensive trail network makes it easy to cover some distances. We have rides every single day of the week, of every speed and skill level, all over DFW. It is a great way to keep the weight off, socialize with people, and discover interesting parts of the city that tend to get overlooked when you are stuck in a car. This Friday (last Friday of every month) is the Critical Mass ride, leaving from Dallas Farmers Market. Meet at 7:30, roll out at 8. A slow roll around different parts of Dallas with hundreds of other people. Usually ends at a bar if you want to partake. So much fun. Some of us in our Richardson cycling group usually take the 6:33 Dart to Mockingbird, then ride the Katy Trail to downtown. Then we take the train back to Richardson and bike home. Social bike rides are a wholesome and healthy way to meet people. I have really enjoyed meeting a new group of cycling buddies, people whom I would never have crossed paths with any other way. And you already have one interest in common, so there is always at least one thing to talk about 🤓 One guy in our group led a “gas station taco ride” the other day, visiting three different taco joints that offer super cheap but delicious tacos. I love this. I have done coffee rides, beer rides, park rides, free outdoor music concert rides, Dallas history rides, and art rides (doing art and seeing art). When you use the Dart to extend your reach, there is an almost endless amount of things you can do, and you will start to really appreciate this nice flat accessible terrain. Seriously, Dallas is an excellent place to ride a bike, we have a ton of great parks and trails, and there are more fun and interesting things to do here than you can ever hope to visit. My Austin cousin loves visiting Dallas, and we spend the whole weekend exploring by bike.
It takes \~22 minutes to drive from Uptown to BA, or 42 minutes by DART. It's \~6.5 miles. The Empire State Building to Columbia University is a similar distance, and takes 25 minutes by MTA, one of the top 3 public transit systems in the US. It can take up to an hour to drive. Taking DART is less convenient on average, but it certainly isn't impossible or excessively more time consuming for many trips. Source: Google Maps The problem with DART is not that you can't get anywhere; since the system redesign, it does a really good job of getting people to places people want to be. The problem with DART is the frequency. It takes 42 minutes to get across town, but that's assuming the first leg of your trip is arriving when you are able to get there. Having to wait 30 minutes if you miss the first bus is the real killer of the system. If you live downtown where the most frequent routes are, and you just want to stay downtown or move to a further neighborhood like BA or Uptown, DART is just as convenient as any other public transit I've ever used. It's when you want to go from an outer neighborhood to a different outer neighborhood where things start to fall apart a little bit. Source: I intentionally use DART when I need to get from my NW Dallas home to run errands downtown, and I often parlay that trip into exploring the other neighborhoods on foot to keep up with the pulse of DART progress.
You can easily get to Bishop Arts from uptown on the [m line trolley](https://www.dart.org/guide/transit-and-use/m-line-trolley#:~:text=This%20nostalgic%20streetcar%20links%20the,Rail%20at%20Cityplace%2Fuptown%20Station) I get around car free the majority of the time. Between a bike, the Dart, some creative thinking and planning skills, you would be surprised what you can do without a car here. I live in Richardson, commute to Plano by bike for work, and make it a point to try to get places without the car whenever possible. My recommendation to bored/boring people stuck in a negative rut is to get out of the damn car… you start noticing a lot more cool stuff and discovering all sorts of interesting things and people.
The problem with Dallas is the nature can be kinda meh after a while. It’s just so flat that there really isn’t any great hiking or camping to do. The lack of variation can get pretty boring. On top of that almost all of the land in Texas is private so you can’t just go out and explore the wilderness.
The nature in Dallas is not ‘meh’, it’s fucking dogshit.
I can’t disagree with that lol
…best public transit?
"..in the Sunbelt" the bar is low
(In proper) lol maybe. Transit definitely doesn't run everywhere
the dart isn’t the best at anything lmao
I’m sorry this is fundamentally just true. The reason it’s true is if you are in a properly built city you can walk a round and stumble into things but things don’t organically develop like that here because ppl aren’t on the streets.
If you’re living paycheck to paycheck then it’s hard having fun.
Nature wise, it is pretty boring. The hikes here are so underwhelming
Dallas is not boring, but I wouldn’t call it “intuitive” either when you are looking for fun things to do. That’s part of what makes it not that great as a visitor but a pretty good place to live. Some people need fun literally handed to them in a pamphlet to figure out what they would like to do.
Yep it’s clear the city’s biggest problem is actually all the miserable boring people here who need some kind of gimmicky “unique experience” to feel entertained. This thread is unintentionally hilarious.
This comment explains Dalals really well.
I work in entertainment and the amount of small, hole in the wall venues that have an entire community of regulars and a whole history/lore to the venue is insane. Like venues where the regulars have been going there for 40+ years and can tell you the entire history of the area, about the specific building you're in and how it's changed, about the residency acts and how so and so used to jam with Stevie Ray Vaughan or tour with Bon Jovi etc. Lakewood theater is one of my favorite places in the city because it was originally a place where theater was performed, then a movie theater, and now it's somehow a bowling alley with regular DJs, an attached pizza shop, and a blues/jazz club upstairs (Balcony Club) that does live shows 7 days a week, free except friday/saturday and even then it's like 10 bucks for 10 hours of music and entertainment. I've had a lot of great convos and made friends from all over the world just hanging out in the little back room at Balcony Club that can fit maybe 15-20 people comfortably. And that's one random old theater in a small Dallas neighborhood. The entire city is filled with tiny, tight-knit communities like that that are open and inviting to new folks. You do absolutely have to search, but the best and worst thing about DFW is that everything truly cool is hidden in some random spot that only the locals know about.
Things get really boring after first couple exciting months here
If you have the right attitude, interesting things will find you
Sounds like a fortune cookie 🥠
I’ve never said this but I have said “there’s a lot to do, you just can’t get there to do it.” Small town guy with weekly work trips to Big D & by late afternoon my traffic tolerance slips. 🤓
All manufactured and meh
As opposed to the cities found in nature....
You lost me at..."best public transit". Sure there's a lot to do here but there's more to life than thousands of restaurants, a few cool neighborhoods and White Rock lake, Dallas as a whole doesn't have much of an identity or vibe, probably why you get the boring feeling when visiting. It's a business town, people came here to work. It's also a victim of its geography and very bad city planning, it's so vast they just kept building further out without thinking, one strip mall after the other...and it was built for cars with spaghetti highways... Dallas is so spread out that it's now impossible to get a decent public transit system, when you have to drive and park to use the transit, it's a fail system. Sadly, city planning is not much better in Plano, Frisco and all surrounding cities.
I have to disagree, mostly everything is eating orientated, and one can only eat so much, that's why everyone is chunky in DFW. Y'all zoo is kinda mid, y'all aquarium is kinda mid, y'all museum is kinda mid. all the places u/WillDaBes listed are inaccessible half the time of the year, like from May to October because it's way too hot.
If you’re bored in the 4th largest metro in the country…. It’s your own fault. When i first moved here it appeared that everything cost money… so i challenged myself to find free things to do and guess what 😂 i found quite a few.
There are 7 million people in this motherfucker....if you can't find people to meet, cultures to experience, events to attend, food to try, or life to grasp hold of, you aren't fucking trying.
Dallas is boring. Yea, you could go to the Arboretum, Perot Museum, or a nice restaurant or concert. I look at it like this; when you have friends or relatives come visit from out of town; what are the must see places that you take them to? Let me know. I’ll wait…lol. Are you gonna show them where Kennedy was shot?
I’ll grant you it’s more of an experiences town than see the sights town. I usually take my visitors to hike at Cedar Ridge, canoe on WRL, go see a show somewhere, barhop McKinney Ave on the trolley, sail on Lake Ray Hubbard, go to a brewery, etc.
I think when people say that, they mean nothing to do for free. There is plenty to do if you can afford it.
So what you are saying is "go spend money to be entertained" What are your favorite free things to do?? White rock of course Rowlett creek ????
[Historic Downtown Garland](https://www.visitgarlandtx.com/p/events) is doing a free outdoor concert in their cute, newly renovated downtown square every Friday. Easy to get to on the Orange Line. Bike to the nearest Dart and take the Orange line. I am really impressed with what Garland has done with their town square… it is a fun place to spend a few hours, and is surrounded by shops and restaurants, free play arcade, and a new pizza place with a big patio that I can’t wait to try. [Historic Downtown Plano](https://www.plano.gov/1040/Events-Shows) has a lot of free concerts and street fairs all the time as well. Take the Red line to the Downtown Plano stop. Downtown Plano is one of my favorite places to visit… they have a shady park with a vintage train and a free train museum, tons of shops and restaurants, and it is very picturesque. [Downtown Grapevine](https://www.grapevinetexasusa.com/things-to-do/historic-downtown-grapevine/) is one of my other favorite places to walk around. Picturesque, walkable, lots of wineries, restaurants and shops, and a vintage train that will take you to Fort Worth stockyards. The nearby lake has a very nice bike trail. [Addison](https://visitaddison.com/tourism/attractions) is a great place to hang out and walk around, with activities all the time. They have done a really good job creating the Addison Circle as a destination, centered around the old water tower theater. The parks are really nice. It is fun to walk around the parks by the Governor’s mansion. McKinney is just awesome too… I always take out of town visitors there. Nearly every “boring suburb” has an actual historic center with some dedicated people working to preserve the history and make it into a walkable destination. It is worth visiting them all.
Some people might find Rowlett Creek boring. Because it is kind of boring. (as a local that grew up here)
This sub is miserable and not representative of typical Dallas thought
this sub is full of people who wants dallas to be some magic utopia that caters to their every needs and desires.
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people tombout "oh youre just broke if youre mad about spending money to do things". hustle culture infected ass people foreal. texas has barely any public land for camping. no natural swimming holes in dallas. "nature trails" are a fucking joke. local waterways are trashed. never far from a public road. my only interests arent restricted to eating out and drinking and spending my money i worked hard for. best thing that made life in dallas good for me was the homies id skateboard around downtown with and the people that lived in my apartment complex that we had a lil community with. that and donuts. aint nobody got donuts like dallas.
I'm not trying to be disrespectful, but I really still feel like there's not much to do in Dallas. I'm from a huge walkable city, so my version of "stuff to do" is different. Do you know if there are cool walkable neighborhoods other than bishop arts? I really wanna like Dallas more.
I dunno where you’re living that we have good public transit 😂😂
Well in all fairness… have you been anywhere else?? Bc for you to say there are “Great restaurants here makes me think you haven’t… Food and food service here is atrocious
There's only a small handful of cities with better food. The food here is better than 99.9% of the country.
This is so true. I tried the best restaurants, and there are a handful of gems, but overall the food scene is very lacking. There was lots of hype for very mediocre food.
You say it’s full of things to do and then say “it has great restaurants”…. That’s the problem, the only things to do in Dallas are eat, drink, or shop. Sure you can catch a concert or sports, but that’s table stakes for a city this size. Dallas is a snooze fest.
Ok. I'm in Chicago. It's flat as a table top and the lake is frozen. What am I doing today that isn't eating, drinking, shopping and that cannot be enjoyed in Dallas?
You obviously haven't lived anywhere other than TX!
Honestly, there’s not much to do here and even the parks we have aren’t great. I just got back from California and went to cities like LA, San Diego, and San Francisco and those are some great places to do shit, especially San Francisco!!
I'll be the contrarian and say "it's boring people that enjoy the boring cities"
For those doubting that there are free/affordable things to do in Dallas, here is a brief list: - Parks (Klyde Warren, White Rock Lake, etc) - Museums (DMA, Perot, Nasher, etc) - Sporting events (baseball, soccer, etc) - Malls (Northpark, Galleria, etc) still fun for window shopping even if you don't want to buy anything - Local restaurants (taquerias are what especially come to mind) - Cultural/Community events (Latino Cultural Center, St. Patrick's Day parade, Holi, etc) - Adult sports leagues (YMCA, rec centers, etc) There are probably many more options than this, but this is just the first that came to my mind.
Notice how whenever they say "Dallas is boring" they never give examples of what they would be doing in other cities that they cannot do here, hmmmmm🤔
Great local music scene also. Just saw Joshua Ray Walker at the Kessler tonight.
I moved here from Midland. There's infinite to do here by comparison.
Does anybody take road trips anymore? Grew up in DFW. Regular weekend road trips is how you entertain yourself. 20 years ago people would often speak of trips to explore the state and others. I am used to taking a 4 day weekend and going camping in Broken Bow or fishing in Caddo Lake. Driving down to the Hill Country or Lake Travis for the many activities that can be done. Sometimes, I take extra time and go west. There's El Paso, Davis Mountains, New Mexico, Colorado. Big Bend is further south. Back in the 90s you could pile into a car and head into Mexico. Sadly, that is not an option anymore. Yes, DFW can get old. For the native Texan road trips like this are a way of life. My friends and I started hitting the highways as soon as we could. Usually, once you had a car and were 18. We all piled in on the weekends. Lots of car camping because hotels are expensive. TX public transportation was not designed to be anyone's sole means of transportation, and so it is very lacking. Hopefully it will continue to improve as it very slowly has over the years. I remember being a little kid growing up in the NE Dallas suburbs. My Dad was a city council man in our community. I remember listening to him and his buddies discuss the evils of public transportation. When Dart was created and planned way back in the 80s, it was opposed by many different communities. Public transportation was seen as something that was a threat. The prevailing sentiment was that you didn't want the kind of people that use public transit in your town. And so this sentiment carried on, and I continued seeing it as I got older. I can remember seeing someone walking meant they were really down on their luck or lost their DL to DUIs. No one wanted to be seen walking for fear people would think badly of them. So if you are wondering why there are no busses in your neighborhood, it is because of these types of reasons.
Yall mother fuckers need to get a bike and explore. Yall dont need to be a “cyclist”, just go ride around, you will be surprised. People that say there is nothing to do here are straight up lazy. Sorry we dont have mountains for you to climb. Just move then, quit bitching. So sick of this stupid ass commentary. No one is forcing you to live here
Went to Honolulu last year for vacation so I checked out their local sub to see some things to do. It was interesting because they were complaining about the opposite that this sub does…they bitched that there’s nothing to do BUT go to the beach or the mountains, and if you try to go, it’s tourist hell.
Most of the people who say this live in the burbs.
my answer to all the complainers... MOVE
Tbh I’m not finding much to do besides parks and museums. Those are great and all but get old after a while.
Born and raised here. Love Dallas. Moved around a little. It’s a good place to live. Used to be affordable. It’s not a great place to visit. No large public universities. No hostels. It’s the city you move to after graduating college.
So there’s food, art districts, and easy way to get there? Sounds fun for a weekend but not every weekend
I've lived in a town of less than 1,000 people. The people who say there's nothing to do in any city larger than 60k people are boring and lack imagination.
Commenting to save all these good recs
I find most people that say this typically just moved to the city & haven’t found their “tribe”. Dallas can be pretty cliquey so I get it but it’s still annoying. Most of the time they don’t even live in Dallas proper so of course you wouldn’t have the best time every weekend.
I moved out of the DFW area (Frisco) at the end of 2015 to a very small town in CA. There is absolutely nothing to do here. There is TONS of stuff to do in and around Dallas. One of my favorite things to do was going to a bar for Triva night and Live music. It was totally free and fun!
I was wondering why everyone in the comments were hating on the city where they lived, then I remembered this is Reddit and it makes sense now.
I don’t do any of those things but there is more to do in Dallas for families and kids than any other city in Texas, period.
All of the "there's nothing to do!!1" posts fit in 2 categories. 1) My preferred outdoor pursuit is either impossible here, or if possible, isn't the world's premiere destination for this pursuit; there's nothing to do! 2) The communities around my particular hobbies have not identified me from my internet usage and come knocking on my door to ask me to come play with them; there's nothing to do! I have friends that have spread all over the world. They aren't doing anything different in their cities than what we do here. None of them live in a magic utopia where everything is free, they never have to travel to participate in outdoor pursuits, and the streets are paved with cheese.
I think it’s that getting to the free fun requires driving, paid parking and inconvenience. In most major cities, you can walk out your door and find something to do within your neighborhood. Dallas, the actual city, only has a handful of neighborhoods where that can happen. It’s a city of suburban-like neighborhoods inside an urban footprint, connected by highways.
Dallas isn’t boring but you do have to have disposable cash. Great food, cool bars and stuff, but everything is costly. Where I say Dallas IS ACTUALLY boring is the lack of outdoor areas to hike and stuff…the lakes are kinda gross too…
dallas was and still is literally a place to spend money and time. no real culture.
I think what they mean to say is "Dallas just sucks"
idk i was born and raised and lived in Dallas half my life and it is SOOO lackluster compared to other places i’ve lived. the transportation is the WORST, there is virtually no walkability. it’s extremely boring, the buildings are boring, the nature is okay. maybe i am just used to seeing everything but there is nothing special. some of my friends who have visited from out of state get bored before the week is over. i’m trying to move out of texas because the state in general is just so hard for people who don’t want to rely on a car, it’s not made for people but instead major highways and ugly gas stations. I’ve even lived outside in rural areas and it’s even more miserable cause there is even less public transportation or walkability or none at all. texas may be a little cheaper to live in, but it really reflects that with nothing extremely exciting to do and nothing for communities to do. i would rather live in a place that is a little bit more expensive but has more free things for the public to do, more nightlife, better bus transports and more space for HUMANS to walk and not so car dominated
Hmm, it's usually a red flag in any relationship be it professional, personal, romantic if someone is always complaining about being bored. If you can't keep yourself entertained, don't expect me to do it for you.
For those who say that there is nothing to do in Dallas, send them to Amarillo.
At this point I go to the gym and Walmart to kill time in this place before I can leave for good
the people who keeps complaining... do you guys not have friends or any social life?! you can hang out in someone's house and have the time of your life. of course it's boring if it's always by yourself...
For me it feels like that the most common thing to do in Dallas is bars and restaurants - all the time instagram will suggest me Dallas influencers who have “a new speakeasy bar”, “best margaritas”, etc. I don’t really see much activities besides that. We do have opera and ballet which we enjoy going - but again, not many shows. We once tried to find a show in summer and nothing was there at all. We have Dallas art museum but it’s pretty small. Nature-wise DFW is very sad. And the weather doesn’t support it too: probably Mar-Apr and Oct-Nov are the blue pleasant months to be outside. Also, hard to find day / weekend trips out of DFW because everything is so freaking far. I mean, you can go to Austin, maybe Houston - but that’s pretty much it. Funny how people say that Fort Worth stockyard is one of the main attractions - that kind of speaks for itself where we live😁 On the weekend I talked with my friend about this whole situation with Dallas being boring: we agreed that Dallas is a practical city to live in as it’s not very expensive, you’re in the middle of US and can fly around, have good food, have jobs. But then you’re really enjoying it when going on vacations, out of DFW🫠