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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5152448" data-attributes="member: 19675">1) Biz: The Dallas area has a lot of corporate HQs- mostly located in the 'burbs like Richardson or Plano...ESPECIALLY Plano.  But even Irving has companies like Nokia and Verizon.Because of its diverse economic landscape, energy price fluctuations bring grumbles but not outright vitriol.There are big health-care companies here, and the military is big all over Texas.2) Schools: The 2 premium universities here are University of Dallas and SMU.  UT Arlington is big in engineering/robotics, and University of North Texas (Denton) is behind only Berklee and Juliard for music programs.3) Cuisine: Tex-Mex is king, followed immediately by the almighty steakhouse, but you can probably find almost any kind of cuisine you want here.  I see a lot of Chinese, Italian, and Japanese restaurants, as well as Greek, Lebanese, Thai, Korean, Vietnamese, Colombian, Brazilian and even a fair number of relatively authentic New Orleans style restaurants exist here.  National and international chains abound- McDonald's, BK, Sonic, KFC, Pizza Hut, Popeye's etc.4) A word about Austin.  Austin is a small city- just about the size New Orleans used to be pre-Katrina.  But because of its being the state capital and the home of UT Austin, there is a variety of companies and things to do that are inordinately deep as compared to the size of the population.  Quality of life in Austin is pretty high, especially if you like to frequent the arts, have a hippy streak or are otherwise ultra liberal!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />5) Gaming: its healthy here in TX.  Even living in Austin, I routinely visited not 1 but 3 different quality stores for my gaming fix, with Dragon's Lair being my main one.  Here in D/FW, I hit Game Chest (at the Valley View Mall), Generation X (the mid-cities), and Lone Star Comics (a local chain with something like 7 locations).</blockquote>

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