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Dallas sucks - The reason it sucks is that transplants like you came down in the 80's and did not like the way Dallas was. You drove up our taxes and real estate. Yeah, Dallas does suck. Take all the transplants out and fill it with REAL Texans and it would be paradise.

Fort Worth = Cowtown Dallas = Big D DUH!

Dallas would be paradise? With all those wonderful qualities, how could it not be. Let's see, there's: no ocean or river nearby no hills or mountains very little natural vegetation horrid long hot and humid summers no soul or character Well, so far it's not sounding much like paradise. A minor oversight on my part, I'm sure.

DETROIT: The Motor City Motown Detroix PORT HURON: Port Urine

Dallas would be paradise? With all those wonderful qualities, how could it not be. It's got about a dozen big lakes nearby, and heavily landscaped rivers running thru it... very lush Driving thru southern Dallas, you go thru some pretty hill country and some dramatic vistas... Dallas' inner city is beautifully posh, heavily landscaped and luxurious looking... people with money and a lot of options want to live there... The Dallas skyline is recognizable all around the world... Dallas' summer weather is drier and less humid than almost everyplace else... no ocean nearby to blot water into the air... much of the Dallas countryside is thick forest... all of it is very green and luxuriant... No wonder that Dallas grew by over a million people during the 1990s. Or that wealthy and powerful people move their businesses there.

me, I cannot decide if you have revealed your own ignorance or your own denial. All of your arguments for why Dallas should be a paradise are not only very weak selling points, but they are also false. Let us examine: "It's got about a dozen big lakes nearby, and heavily landscaped rivers running thru it... very lush" Big lakes?! You are kidding right, you think that Texas has big lakes? So tell me Einstein how many of Texas' big lakes are natural and not man made? Or better yet, when compared to other "big lakes" across the country how does their size stack up? You want big lakes, you go to the Great Lakes, very big...very natural. But if you are into anything fake (like all of Dallas fake and artificial) big man made lakes like Lake Powell or Lake Mead dwarf any puddle Dallas has to offer. "Driving thru southern Dallas, you go thru some pretty hill country and some dramatic vistas..." Two problems with this point. First, Dallas idea of "pretty hill country" pales in comparison to real hill country that you would find in Virginia or Pennslyvannia. Dallas has some overgrown ant hills that somehow got dubbed hills. Second, people don't drive through Southern Dallas they avoid the area all together and for good reason! The neighborhoods of Oak Cliff are some of the worst in the country, and the towns of Lancaster, Red Oak and Drunkenville are filled to the brim with trash, nothing I would want to see. By the way I love how you used "drive thru" like the kind of drive thru you go to at the McDonald's, appropriate for a city that does not the first thing about mass transit.

...sorry ran out of room, not done putting The City That Tries back in its proper place... "Dallas' inner city is beautifully posh, heavily landscaped and luxurious looking... people with money and a lot of options want to live there..." This is one of the main reasons that Dallas is "The City That Tries". This is a classic example of Dallas trying to be New York. Dallas was the least pedestrian city you have ever seen. There was no drawing power to downtown except to work and downtown Dallas was considered an economical failure. So Dallas looked around and said, "Hey New York has people walking around and look at how great that city is, lets build part of our city to look just like it!" So Dallas tried to copy the feel of a real urban city, but of course failed. If inner city Dallas is so posh, and people want to live there so bad, why does downtown Dallas have the worse vacancy rate of downtown office space of any of major city in the country? Seems if everyone wanted to live there and it was so posh companies would put offices there to attract top talent? "The Dallas skyline is recognizable all around the world..." The only reason for this is a 1980's television show that celebrated the greed, corruption and self rightousnes that is Dallas. This is nothing to be proud of. "Dallas' summer weather is drier and less humid than almost everyplace else... no ocean nearby to blot water into the air..." Drier and less humid are not words used to describe a Dallas summer. Even been to Phoenix, that is drier and less humid. Dallas is only drier and less humid than Houston which is a toliet bowl. Being further away from an ocean does not immediately make your city any less humid, in fact Dallas has about the same humidity factor as San Antonio during the summer, which is 200 miles closer to the ocean, explain that Einstein. Face it, Dallas summers are miserable, there are no redeemable qualities to be found there. "much of the Dallas countryside is thick forest... all of it is very green and luxuriant..." Thick forest?! In what direction?! I am so glad you put this one right after your summer argument. Anyone that has been cursed into driving out of Dallas during August has seen the brownest ugliest landscape imaginable. No where outside of Dallas is "thick forest", thick forest is what you see as you drive through New England, not Texas. The only area that comes even close is on I-20 heading East towards the piney woods, but even then that is over 100 miles outside of Dallas, not exactly the Dallas countryside. Every other direction is grassland, with patches of trees, this is not "thick forest". "No wonder that Dallas grew by over a million people during the 1990s. Or that wealthy and powerful people move their businesses there." Dallas grew because companies moved their headquarters there. Companies moved their headquarters there because Dallas (like the rest of Texas) whored itself out and caved into to big business giving tax breaks that were ridiculously low. These tax breaks to lure business caused citizens taxes to go through the roof. So Dallas I guess could also be nicknamed "The Prostitute City". Don't try and make Dallas more than it is, a classless barren city that only serves to interest of big business and cares nothing for its citizens...sounds like no place I want any part of!

Nacadoches Texas = Nacanowhere

There are so many transplants to Tampa, Fla., that the few native Tampa residents are sometime referred to as "full-blooded Tampans".

Huntsville, AL - Rocket City

Durham, NC - The Bull City Carrboro, NC - The Paris of the Piedmont Raleigh, NC - The City of Oaks Charlotte, NC - The Queen City (named in honor of Queen Charlotte) Greensboro, NC - The Gate City

not exactly a city nickname, but nick name for people form that city: Troy, NY - Troylets.

Is Dallas part of the Caribbean archipelago?

Worcester, Massachusetts - Wormtown

Come on, Aceplace, why are you not defending Dallas today? It's the world's best city after all. Everyone either lives there or wishes they did.

Durango (Colorado) residents are sometimes called Durangotangs.

Hey, DallasSucks, you're breaking my heart, you're so unhappy. I guess when you move out of town (or get run out of town) you'll be calling yourself NewYorkSucks, or LASucks? I have an idea that your mental or emotional problems have nothing to do with the city you're in. Most people think the Dallas area lakes are a lot of fun, even though Lake Michigan is bigger. I'd rather swim in Lake Lewisville than Lake Michigan, however... water's warmer. About 1/3 of the Dallas area is forested, especially between Dallas and Fort Worth (post oak belt), but I'll admit that Tennessee's forests look better. Dallas' forests are pretty thick, though. Yup, Dallas is drier and less humid than most cities, according to the Statistical Abstract of the United States, although I'll admit that Phoenix is drier than Dallas. Hills? Yup, Dallas is more hilly than Miami, and not as hilly as San Francisco or Seattle. But its growth in population is higher than those places. The Dallas skyline is pretty distinctive because of the unusual shape of the buildings. I saw a lot of photos of it in San Francisco when I lived there. Andy Warhol, the painter, was especially taken with the building encased in green neon... i.e. he loved it. Dallas has a good economy because people want to move there, and they bring their money with them when they come. Some of the people who want to move there are rich and powerful enough to bring their companies with them... in general, people move from the dreary rustbelt to the attractive sunbelt... Uptown Dallas, the urban pedestrian area just outside of the downtown, has gotten thousands of new apartments and townhouses in the last few years.. it has land usage patterns similar to European city areas... an eclectic mix of retail, residential, galleries, museums, theatres, cafes... downtown Dallas itself is currently in a building boom for residential... many new projects, even in a recession. So... many people want to move there, and they do... because the city is inherently desirable. In the 2000 census, the city had the highest numerical growth in population, except for New York and Los Angeles. Nobody makes a move unless they have a job lined up in any case, but people prefer to take the Dallas job over the (......) job... Another factor... Dallas' population growth is also due to the fact that few people leave... California, the US Northeast, the Midwestern Rust Belt, all have a net LOSS from more people moving out than move in... but Dallas gains, not loses, immigrants. It hangs on to its own population and also attracts newcomers.

Green Bay (WI) AKA TITLE TOWN!!!

I can't help myself... here are a few more from the Carolinas... Remember, see if you can spot the real nickname versus the disgruntled nickname. Of course, some of them only have disgruntled nicknames. Tee hee and all that. Simpsonville, SC -- Simplesonville Easley, SC -- Sneezely/Sleazely Spartanburg, SC -- The Hub City/Sparkle City/Spartanburp (a new one I heard recently) Greensboro, NC -- The Gate City/Greensboring/Ghettosboro/Gaysboro Raleigh, NC -- City of Oaks/The Mayonnaise City ("a bland city wrapped around a capital") Fletcher, NC -- Fleacatcher Edneyville, NC -- E-ville Lake Lure, NC -- Lake Sewer Lake Summit, NC -- Lake Scummit Chimney Rock, NC -- "Not the Backbone of the Smokies!" Asheville, NC -- Paris of the South/Trashville/Ashevegas (I forgot that one earlier) Mauldin, SC -- "Mauled in Mauldin" Ain't derogatory nicknames grand?