Does Your City Have Culture?

According to a reddit thread, many users agree that Dallas is a big city with NO culture, do you agree??

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(01:04):
It's a great intro for May I ask you a question?
Uh So, I'm gonna I'm gonna give you guys a
question I want to discuss, and then I'm gonna before
we get into it and you give me your thoughts.
I'm gonna give you guys some food for thought, some
things to kind of prime the pump. So the basic
question I'm asking is something that was posed on Reddit

(01:29):
and it started. You know, we talked about Reddit last
week and how all that works, and so someone put
a subreddit with this question, what is the biggest city
with the least amount of culture? And man, the subreddit
folks went in there and they started going hard and
Dallas was all over it. Yeah, and so we'll talk

(01:51):
about Dallas stereotypes and all that in the moment, but
I want to read you a couple of things that
were in the subreddit, you know, get you guys thinking
about this. And then there's a famous Dallas site that
weighed in because what happens with the Dallas Morning News
saw this and d Magazine they both saw this. And
they started using it as social media content, writing articles
about it and people weighing in. Everybody's got thoughts about

(02:12):
the identity of their city. When you talk about the
culture of a city, you're probably talking about its food scene,
its art scene, and then like what is the personality
stereotypes of the people that live there, and then you know,
what is the city like? Right? Like, you know, as
it easy to get around, is it easy to live there?

(02:32):
All those things kind of fit into the culture. But
let me kind of read you this one comment that
Dallas led the way by the way of the biggest
city with the least amount of culture. One guy said
it's soulless. Another guy said, a concrete abyss that never ends.

(02:53):
Another person said, money is the culture. That's it. So
and that's actually old stereotype of Dallas. Yeah, because what
happened was so much of Dallas was built up by
these It's a lot like the Beverly Hillbillies, but it's
these rural families that struck gold with oil suddenly had
tons of money and moved to the big city. That's

(03:16):
kind of the history of Dallas and Fort Worth. A
couple other things that are kind of interesting here, it
says the Dallas Morning News counted at least one hundred
replies that suggested Dallas was completely devoid of culture. All right,
now again, Dallas just without the suburbs. One point three
million people without the suburbs. Dallas is big city when

(03:39):
we start throwing in the suburbs, and then if we
want to combine it with Fort Worth, it's the top
five most populated area in the United States. Here's a
couple of things that I think are interesting. When d
Magazine posted it, people started going, well, look, there is culture.
You just got to look for it and start talking
about more of like subcultural things. Here's a quote. Dallas

(03:59):
is not a particularly interesting place to visit over a weekend.
As someone who lives here, though I'm one hundred percent
okay with that. The culture is here for those of
us who stick around for more than a few days.
So that's the idea of like, the deeper you get
into the city, the more you learn about it, and
the more you feel like it has a culture. I

(04:20):
think it's an interesting topic. I started doing research on
it and just thinking about it, and what I was
finding is like I started searching our you do research
on a city. It's not just food and art, Like,
what are the other things that factor in? This is
what I was funding, Okay, Social vibe and personality, values
and priorities, diversity and demographics, lifestyle and leisure, work and economy,

(04:42):
physical environment, reputation and stereotypes, challenges and friction points, right, ye,
all these different things factor in. The First thing I
think of when I think of Alice fort Worth is
if I could live anywhere and wasn't attached, I probably
I wouldn't live here. But I spent my whole life here.

(05:03):
My whole family was here, and so all my roots
are here, and so it's easier to be here. There's
plenty I like about it, But man, I just think
about the weather and the driving, and you know, part
of me is like, God, I would love to live
somewhere that wasn't so hot, and I would love not
to have to drive so freaking much. Just are things
that come with the territory, right, I think to say it,

(05:25):
that's part of living here. You're going to have oppressive
heat three to four months out of the year, and
you're going to have to have a car because we
don't have good public transportation. And then there's you know,
if you live in Colorado, you probably are someplace you're
sick of snow. There's too much snow and it's too cold,
and you're like, oh my god, this is miserable. It's
too cold. But you know, if you live in a
place where around mountains, that's the vibe that you're like,

(05:46):
oh my god, the mountains are beautiful. I'm like feeding
energy off this or a beach. We just don't have
that here. We have heat and a lot of highways
and a lot of concrete. Yeah. You bring up a
really amazing point, and I think I want to get
into that next, Christine. I want to hear what you
think of the culture of the city, and let's talk
about how much the environment informs that culture. What are

(06:08):
we Dallas. Let's talk about it. We're doing it next,
right here on the Eagle