Ladies & Gentleman...or rather...just gents..I present to you a data sheet on "Where the West Begins" being Ft. Worth, Texas. What does this mean? This means a Dallas data sheet is imminent in the near future because who really gives a shit about Ft. Worth right? (Jk) As for you other RVF members, you are more than welcome to take the initiative on a Dallas Data Sheet if you dare, but I will go ahead and make my own in the future regardless based on experiences living here in the DFW Metroplex.
I wouldn't recommend going out of your way to visit Ft. Worth from long ways out, but with many people relocating to DFW for work or temporary stays...I think utilizing the resources Ft. Worth possesses at times every odd weekend would be a good change of pace from Dallas. It's however NOT a great idea to actually live in Ft. Worth for a young professional that is looking to game as the Dallas area just offers a higher variety and density of single females.
Background on Ft. Worth -
As of 2013, there is an estimated population of 6+ million in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex as it is considered the fastest growing area in the nation. Dallas is obviously the main component of that equation as most of your professional networking/career opportunities are situated there whereas Ft. Worth is classified as the secondary region with a higher quality of living. The limited industries in Ft. Worth consist of A) Medical Field, B) Small Businesses, C) Old $$$ Law Practices, and D) Government Work. The exceptions in terms of major corporations would be A) Alcon Pharmaceuticals and B) Lockheed Martin though they do have another location in Grand Prairie, which is a town situated between Dallas and Arlington.
Btw, Dallas = Dallas County and Ft. Worth = Tarrant County
Natives here love to claim that American Airlines is headquartered in Ft. Worth, but that's a load of horseshit. I'll elaborate on that later on in my neighborhood breakdown though AA is technically in FW city limits. As a side note, DFW Airport is the biggest one in the United States as one must definitely check out Terminal D with all the international gates. There are direct international connections to Tokyo, Seoul, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Santiago, Rio de Janeiro, Amsterdam, Paris, London, Madrid, Frankfurt, Sydney, and various cities in Mexico/Canada. Direct flights to Shanghai and Hong Kong will be added to that rotation as well starting May 2014.
Terminal D at DFW Airport -
Personality Traits of Ft. Worth Locals
There are various nicknames of Ft. Worth that range from A) Funky Town, B) The Funk, C) Cowtown, D) FW (Pronounced F-Dub) and E) Ft. Worth-less, which was obviously given by their neighbors to the east in Dallas.
The overall consensus of old school Ft. Worth peeps is that it's a city predicated on spiting Dallas. If you asked people here to describe themselves, they would refer to themselves as being
A) "more laidback than Dallas,"
B) "nicer than Dallas,"
C) and lastly "so much better than Dallas."
Ah yes city rivalries...interestingly enough, only 20-25 miles separate the westernmost tip of Dallas and the easternmost tip of Ft. Worth on Highway I-30. As you can tell, it's a place with a chip on it's shoulder. Ft. Worth is indeed it's own respective encompassing town though some have the annoying tendencies of carrying themselves as arrogant suburbanites who try to act like "hardass city slickers." That's what I like about some of the other suburbanites around DFW like Lewisville & Arlington in that they're all about having a good time & can acknowledge that they are indeed suburbanites opposed to being something they're not. Folks in the F-Dub are always complaining about how pretentious & chaotic Dallas-ites are though they are just as overly prideful about defining themselves based on the city limits they reside in.
Ft. Worth-ers however tend to be much friendlier & more polite than their counterparts in Dallas though it is much harder to crack their personal space as they possess more of an closed-market mentality. There's many more transplants in Dallas whilst residents of Ft. Worth have primarily been born & raised there. I went to a grade school with many people in West Ft. Worth though I was from a suburb in Northeast Tarrant County just outside of city limits so I have many great connections in the "heart of the city." For those that grew up in a different part of town in other spheres, they wouldn't necessarily have that "in" like I do though it's an environment that doesn't really excite me nevertheless.
If you are a transplant considering relocation into the DFW area while trying to start your own business, I would recommend not living in Ft. Worth. I once met a person who moved into DFW from Colorado wanting to start her own law practice through a professional networking group. Even though she got a good start in Dallas & didn't even consider Ft. Worth, she noticed that it was much harder for one to get a foot inside FW since the legal system there is run like an old boys club.
In any other professional field however, FW = Closed Market whereas Dallas & Surrounding Suburbs = Open Market. That was the motto of an old networking colleague. I'd have to wholeheartedly agree.
Quality of Living
Quality & cost of living in Ft. Worth is for the most part much better than Dallas. Residing in the Dallas area (even in Irving/Los Colinas slightly outside) is a much better value because you get to interact with cool locals but also a much higher abundance of transplants & personalities from all over the US & the world within the Dallas area.
If you want to go to a salsa dancing mixer, attend different meetups concerning different cultures/languages, reunite with an alumni chapter for college football games, and join various professional networking groups, it would be highly disadvantageous to domesticate yourself in West Ft. Worth because all of those resources are located in guess where (Dallas). Want to attend a cool French language practice mixer with cool peeps and hot bitches? Eager to have drinks with the Auburn Alumni Group while attending a watching party for football games? It's not happening in Ft. Worth.
Good clip by Roosh though I relate this video as to why you should live closer to Dallas instead of Ft. Worth as a young professional -
Excitement > Comfort
Main Neighborhoods (See Map)
Map Legend
A) Downtown Ft. Worth (Nightlife, Offices, Family Activity-Related Crap)
B) West 7th (Family Activity-Related Crap/Nightlife)
C) TCU Neighborhood (College Bars/Restaurants)
D) Camp Bowie Blvd (Typically Good Restaurants, Charming Old Money Neighborhood, Ridglea Country Club)
E) Dallas/Ft. Worth Airport & American Airlines Headquarters (DFW)
F) Texas Motor Speedway
G) Historic Stockyards
When discussing nightlife venues & other lifestyle options in Ft. Worth, I will elaborate on the neighborhoods in the next post. The topic at hand however is the Headquarters of American Airlines being right next to the airport. I'm not exactly sure how locals in Ft. Worth will claim that AA is based out of Ft. Worth insinuating that transplants should live in the "heart of the city" if working at AA, which is totally misleading. Dallas/Ft. Worth airport is technically situated in farther Northeast Tarrant County on the cusp of Grapevine, Colleyville, Euless, and then a small portion of Ft. Worth. If you lived in West or Downtown Ft. Worth, that is easily a 55 minute commute with traffic. Might be 35 minutes without but almost an hour with. Another reason to NOT reside in Ft. Worth if you are being relocated by AA to live in the DFW Metroplex.
Mira Vista Country Club Just Southwest of Texas Christian University
Crime
Crime isn't really so bad so long as you're not living in certain neighborhoods like the outskirts of North Side and Predominantly East/Southeast Ft. Worth (Home or Car Breakins).
There is a bad problem with Car Breakins near the TCU area whether it be residents there or with college students. The new area for partying is West 7th though there are some new upscale apartments with "secure" parking garages near Montgomery Plaza. As is the case with the TCU area, cars are getting broken into with frequency in the garages of these new complexes unfortunately.
The parking situation is getting a lot worse with towing/ticketing around West 7th as well.
Guys
Bad News - The number of single guys above age 22 seems to be much higher than gals in the Ft. Worth area. With that being said, many of the dudes tend to be of the southern frat daddy variety whether from TCU or ones visiting home in the Summer from other universities like Texas A&M, Tech, Oklahoma, etc etc.
Good News - Male students at TCU are heavily outnumbered by female students.
Outside of the fratty types, many of the guys in the Ft. Worth area are very towny-ish that dress outrageously to bars & clubs. For example, black dress shirt, black khakis, and a red tie with a bad hairdo even though they're not working a shift in the service industry. The other denomination would be the townie hipsters. Lot of these guys are originally from Ft. Worth. If they're not living at home with their parents still, then they are renting or have bought a small home near their families for God knows why they hell they are doing that besides being able to toke out whilst not being caught. I've essentially concluded that they are after all townies that refuse to step out of their comfort zone & branch out while going back to dating girls they knew from high school.
This is one reason I hate going out in certain areas of Ft. Worth because it's always an unintentional high school reunion running into the past. Drink prices in Ft. Worth are typically cheaper than that of Dallas are so that's why it's just so much more affordable for them...though the rewards are much less. For example, a well can range from $2.00-$5.00 in a FW establishment whereas that same vodka club soda could be $4.00-$8.00+ in Dallas. But still, a high school reunion atmosphere where guys sit around talking about how their side of town is so much better than Dallas as they struggle to expand their social circles is really an oxymoron.
(Dude...you're not working in the service industry....)
Females
I think Ft. Worth females are naturally prettier than Dallas ones. They have more of that classic natural beauty with a semblance of southern belle flair. Even many guys in Dallas would agree too. It's not the classic southern beauty that you get in say Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, or Kentucky yet it's as close as it can get in Texas, which I consider to be it's own world opposed to the "Deep South." Don't forget the hot Hispanic women around Ft. Worth that possess a very smooth clean look too.
As mentioned above, there are much more female students at TCU than male students. A good portion of them are all about their immediate Greek Life scene or university-based social circles, but even those same gals are very open-minded about dating outside of those spheres. They generally have no choice due to outnumbering dudes at that school.
Upon turning 21, they will go out around the Downtown Ft. Worth/West 7th area first though others will prefer the edgier more happening Dallas scene while gradually learning the ropes of nightlife in the Metroplex. This is also why I recommend guys live closer to Dallas because it'll be more convenient for them to sleep at your place (wink wink) while you can always have an excuse to visit Ft. Worth. Really the perfect formula for a cross metro harem as a few of my buddies have capitalized off this system boning a chick in Dallas while on other weekends hosting a TCU gal who will make it out to a party in the Big D so she can return the favor some other time in her part of town. (FYI this bears good results with gals from Texas Woman's, North Texas, UT Arlington, etc gals when living in Dallas).
TCU gals can have that intimidating rich girl aura about them, but are typically much more outgoing than their SMU rivals from my experiences.
While that is semi-positive news, let's get back to more bad news shall we?
I want to say that TCU makes up about 30%-maybe 40% of the nightlife circuit in the main Ft. Worth bar areas. That leaves a good 60% remaining. In that 60%, you're going to have
A) Returning townies that are settling down in Ft. Worth again after marrying some dude from college,
B) Returning townies that are single but then eventually marry someone from their high school,
C) Townies that never quite branched out altogether while marrying a high school friend,
and D) The rest.
"The Rest" is primarily composed of many many thirsty dudes competing for the young professional women of Ft. Worth. In many bar venues, there is usually a surplus of couples, girls having a night out minus their boyfriends/husbands, and then single girls. These single women are complete cock teases and have every bit of leverage in the world because they're essentially unicorns who are intensely pursued by thirsty townie dudes as competition for them can be rather intense with a heavy dosage of complimentary drinks, overload of attention, etc etc.
Majority of the single women in DFW crave the excitement of Knox Henderson/Uptown/Lower Greenville not to mention their entry level work opportunities from worthless AD/Public Relations backgrounds are a better fit in Dallas so that's why there is such a dearth of talent amongst working professionals in Ft. Worth unless you're a married health professional or government employee. So why do the single women in Ft. Worth stay there? They enjoy cheaper prices, less competition, more attention, their choice of eager cock, and even cheaper prices again after conning dudes into free drinks while living in a less hectic atmosphere.
Ft. Worth women are generally more open at first for an opener though they can be real two-faced bitches when attempting to get into their personal space. Hence...the wall. In Dallas, you're more likely to experience some bitch shields and resistance at first but if you hold your own...then it's game time.
I'm sure most of you now are thinking "what incentive do I have for visiting Ft. Worth now?" There are some bright spots to the city if you venture out of the mainstream areas while doing a bit of driving. In terms of nightlife, gastronomy, day gaming, and other special events worth your time, that is something I will elaborate on in my next post as we'll let these original thoughts sink in.
(To Be Continued.....)
I wouldn't recommend going out of your way to visit Ft. Worth from long ways out, but with many people relocating to DFW for work or temporary stays...I think utilizing the resources Ft. Worth possesses at times every odd weekend would be a good change of pace from Dallas. It's however NOT a great idea to actually live in Ft. Worth for a young professional that is looking to game as the Dallas area just offers a higher variety and density of single females.
Background on Ft. Worth -
As of 2013, there is an estimated population of 6+ million in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex as it is considered the fastest growing area in the nation. Dallas is obviously the main component of that equation as most of your professional networking/career opportunities are situated there whereas Ft. Worth is classified as the secondary region with a higher quality of living. The limited industries in Ft. Worth consist of A) Medical Field, B) Small Businesses, C) Old $$$ Law Practices, and D) Government Work. The exceptions in terms of major corporations would be A) Alcon Pharmaceuticals and B) Lockheed Martin though they do have another location in Grand Prairie, which is a town situated between Dallas and Arlington.
Btw, Dallas = Dallas County and Ft. Worth = Tarrant County
Natives here love to claim that American Airlines is headquartered in Ft. Worth, but that's a load of horseshit. I'll elaborate on that later on in my neighborhood breakdown though AA is technically in FW city limits. As a side note, DFW Airport is the biggest one in the United States as one must definitely check out Terminal D with all the international gates. There are direct international connections to Tokyo, Seoul, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Santiago, Rio de Janeiro, Amsterdam, Paris, London, Madrid, Frankfurt, Sydney, and various cities in Mexico/Canada. Direct flights to Shanghai and Hong Kong will be added to that rotation as well starting May 2014.
Terminal D at DFW Airport -
Personality Traits of Ft. Worth Locals
There are various nicknames of Ft. Worth that range from A) Funky Town, B) The Funk, C) Cowtown, D) FW (Pronounced F-Dub) and E) Ft. Worth-less, which was obviously given by their neighbors to the east in Dallas.
The overall consensus of old school Ft. Worth peeps is that it's a city predicated on spiting Dallas. If you asked people here to describe themselves, they would refer to themselves as being
A) "more laidback than Dallas,"
B) "nicer than Dallas,"
C) and lastly "so much better than Dallas."
Ah yes city rivalries...interestingly enough, only 20-25 miles separate the westernmost tip of Dallas and the easternmost tip of Ft. Worth on Highway I-30. As you can tell, it's a place with a chip on it's shoulder. Ft. Worth is indeed it's own respective encompassing town though some have the annoying tendencies of carrying themselves as arrogant suburbanites who try to act like "hardass city slickers." That's what I like about some of the other suburbanites around DFW like Lewisville & Arlington in that they're all about having a good time & can acknowledge that they are indeed suburbanites opposed to being something they're not. Folks in the F-Dub are always complaining about how pretentious & chaotic Dallas-ites are though they are just as overly prideful about defining themselves based on the city limits they reside in.
Ft. Worth-ers however tend to be much friendlier & more polite than their counterparts in Dallas though it is much harder to crack their personal space as they possess more of an closed-market mentality. There's many more transplants in Dallas whilst residents of Ft. Worth have primarily been born & raised there. I went to a grade school with many people in West Ft. Worth though I was from a suburb in Northeast Tarrant County just outside of city limits so I have many great connections in the "heart of the city." For those that grew up in a different part of town in other spheres, they wouldn't necessarily have that "in" like I do though it's an environment that doesn't really excite me nevertheless.
If you are a transplant considering relocation into the DFW area while trying to start your own business, I would recommend not living in Ft. Worth. I once met a person who moved into DFW from Colorado wanting to start her own law practice through a professional networking group. Even though she got a good start in Dallas & didn't even consider Ft. Worth, she noticed that it was much harder for one to get a foot inside FW since the legal system there is run like an old boys club.
In any other professional field however, FW = Closed Market whereas Dallas & Surrounding Suburbs = Open Market. That was the motto of an old networking colleague. I'd have to wholeheartedly agree.
Quality of Living
Quality & cost of living in Ft. Worth is for the most part much better than Dallas. Residing in the Dallas area (even in Irving/Los Colinas slightly outside) is a much better value because you get to interact with cool locals but also a much higher abundance of transplants & personalities from all over the US & the world within the Dallas area.
If you want to go to a salsa dancing mixer, attend different meetups concerning different cultures/languages, reunite with an alumni chapter for college football games, and join various professional networking groups, it would be highly disadvantageous to domesticate yourself in West Ft. Worth because all of those resources are located in guess where (Dallas). Want to attend a cool French language practice mixer with cool peeps and hot bitches? Eager to have drinks with the Auburn Alumni Group while attending a watching party for football games? It's not happening in Ft. Worth.
Good clip by Roosh though I relate this video as to why you should live closer to Dallas instead of Ft. Worth as a young professional -
Excitement > Comfort
Main Neighborhoods (See Map)
Map Legend
A) Downtown Ft. Worth (Nightlife, Offices, Family Activity-Related Crap)
B) West 7th (Family Activity-Related Crap/Nightlife)
C) TCU Neighborhood (College Bars/Restaurants)
D) Camp Bowie Blvd (Typically Good Restaurants, Charming Old Money Neighborhood, Ridglea Country Club)
E) Dallas/Ft. Worth Airport & American Airlines Headquarters (DFW)
F) Texas Motor Speedway
G) Historic Stockyards
When discussing nightlife venues & other lifestyle options in Ft. Worth, I will elaborate on the neighborhoods in the next post. The topic at hand however is the Headquarters of American Airlines being right next to the airport. I'm not exactly sure how locals in Ft. Worth will claim that AA is based out of Ft. Worth insinuating that transplants should live in the "heart of the city" if working at AA, which is totally misleading. Dallas/Ft. Worth airport is technically situated in farther Northeast Tarrant County on the cusp of Grapevine, Colleyville, Euless, and then a small portion of Ft. Worth. If you lived in West or Downtown Ft. Worth, that is easily a 55 minute commute with traffic. Might be 35 minutes without but almost an hour with. Another reason to NOT reside in Ft. Worth if you are being relocated by AA to live in the DFW Metroplex.
Mira Vista Country Club Just Southwest of Texas Christian University
Crime
Crime isn't really so bad so long as you're not living in certain neighborhoods like the outskirts of North Side and Predominantly East/Southeast Ft. Worth (Home or Car Breakins).
There is a bad problem with Car Breakins near the TCU area whether it be residents there or with college students. The new area for partying is West 7th though there are some new upscale apartments with "secure" parking garages near Montgomery Plaza. As is the case with the TCU area, cars are getting broken into with frequency in the garages of these new complexes unfortunately.
The parking situation is getting a lot worse with towing/ticketing around West 7th as well.
Guys
Bad News - The number of single guys above age 22 seems to be much higher than gals in the Ft. Worth area. With that being said, many of the dudes tend to be of the southern frat daddy variety whether from TCU or ones visiting home in the Summer from other universities like Texas A&M, Tech, Oklahoma, etc etc.
Good News - Male students at TCU are heavily outnumbered by female students.
Outside of the fratty types, many of the guys in the Ft. Worth area are very towny-ish that dress outrageously to bars & clubs. For example, black dress shirt, black khakis, and a red tie with a bad hairdo even though they're not working a shift in the service industry. The other denomination would be the townie hipsters. Lot of these guys are originally from Ft. Worth. If they're not living at home with their parents still, then they are renting or have bought a small home near their families for God knows why they hell they are doing that besides being able to toke out whilst not being caught. I've essentially concluded that they are after all townies that refuse to step out of their comfort zone & branch out while going back to dating girls they knew from high school.
This is one reason I hate going out in certain areas of Ft. Worth because it's always an unintentional high school reunion running into the past. Drink prices in Ft. Worth are typically cheaper than that of Dallas are so that's why it's just so much more affordable for them...though the rewards are much less. For example, a well can range from $2.00-$5.00 in a FW establishment whereas that same vodka club soda could be $4.00-$8.00+ in Dallas. But still, a high school reunion atmosphere where guys sit around talking about how their side of town is so much better than Dallas as they struggle to expand their social circles is really an oxymoron.
(Dude...you're not working in the service industry....)
Females
I think Ft. Worth females are naturally prettier than Dallas ones. They have more of that classic natural beauty with a semblance of southern belle flair. Even many guys in Dallas would agree too. It's not the classic southern beauty that you get in say Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, or Kentucky yet it's as close as it can get in Texas, which I consider to be it's own world opposed to the "Deep South." Don't forget the hot Hispanic women around Ft. Worth that possess a very smooth clean look too.
As mentioned above, there are much more female students at TCU than male students. A good portion of them are all about their immediate Greek Life scene or university-based social circles, but even those same gals are very open-minded about dating outside of those spheres. They generally have no choice due to outnumbering dudes at that school.
Upon turning 21, they will go out around the Downtown Ft. Worth/West 7th area first though others will prefer the edgier more happening Dallas scene while gradually learning the ropes of nightlife in the Metroplex. This is also why I recommend guys live closer to Dallas because it'll be more convenient for them to sleep at your place (wink wink) while you can always have an excuse to visit Ft. Worth. Really the perfect formula for a cross metro harem as a few of my buddies have capitalized off this system boning a chick in Dallas while on other weekends hosting a TCU gal who will make it out to a party in the Big D so she can return the favor some other time in her part of town. (FYI this bears good results with gals from Texas Woman's, North Texas, UT Arlington, etc gals when living in Dallas).
TCU gals can have that intimidating rich girl aura about them, but are typically much more outgoing than their SMU rivals from my experiences.
While that is semi-positive news, let's get back to more bad news shall we?
I want to say that TCU makes up about 30%-maybe 40% of the nightlife circuit in the main Ft. Worth bar areas. That leaves a good 60% remaining. In that 60%, you're going to have
A) Returning townies that are settling down in Ft. Worth again after marrying some dude from college,
B) Returning townies that are single but then eventually marry someone from their high school,
C) Townies that never quite branched out altogether while marrying a high school friend,
and D) The rest.
"The Rest" is primarily composed of many many thirsty dudes competing for the young professional women of Ft. Worth. In many bar venues, there is usually a surplus of couples, girls having a night out minus their boyfriends/husbands, and then single girls. These single women are complete cock teases and have every bit of leverage in the world because they're essentially unicorns who are intensely pursued by thirsty townie dudes as competition for them can be rather intense with a heavy dosage of complimentary drinks, overload of attention, etc etc.
Majority of the single women in DFW crave the excitement of Knox Henderson/Uptown/Lower Greenville not to mention their entry level work opportunities from worthless AD/Public Relations backgrounds are a better fit in Dallas so that's why there is such a dearth of talent amongst working professionals in Ft. Worth unless you're a married health professional or government employee. So why do the single women in Ft. Worth stay there? They enjoy cheaper prices, less competition, more attention, their choice of eager cock, and even cheaper prices again after conning dudes into free drinks while living in a less hectic atmosphere.
Ft. Worth women are generally more open at first for an opener though they can be real two-faced bitches when attempting to get into their personal space. Hence...the wall. In Dallas, you're more likely to experience some bitch shields and resistance at first but if you hold your own...then it's game time.
I'm sure most of you now are thinking "what incentive do I have for visiting Ft. Worth now?" There are some bright spots to the city if you venture out of the mainstream areas while doing a bit of driving. In terms of nightlife, gastronomy, day gaming, and other special events worth your time, that is something I will elaborate on in my next post as we'll let these original thoughts sink in.
(To Be Continued.....)