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Dallas Travel Guide
With Dallas' concentration of technology
companies, corporate headquarters and wholesale trade
markets, the nation's ninth-largest city is a Texas
metropolis devoted to business. Residents of Dallas, Texas,
seem to enjoy spending money with the same passion with
which they earn it. The result is a mercantile mecca that
appeals to visitors: The metropolitan area of Dallas affords
shopping opportunities that rival those in New York City.
Dallas is also known for the arts; at 19 acres/8 hectares in
the heart of downtown, the Dallas Arts District is the
largest urban cultural district in the country. The Dallas
Center for the Performing Arts, a multivenue center for
music, opera, theater and dance, is slated to open in 2009
and will be the most significant performing arts complex to
be built since the Lincoln Center in New York.
The city of Dallas, along with Fort Worth, its neighbor
across the Trinity River, anchors a vast, 12-county area of
north-central Texas that is home to almost 6 million people.
It's a fast-growing region that's become an oasis for
entrepreneurs and a fertileRead More ... ground for young
singles and families alike.
Dallas sightseeing offers a pleasant mix of the Old South
and the New Economy. The new urban high-rises in downtown
Dallas are balanced by comfortable family suburbs just
minutes away from the hubbub. Residents are generally
congenial and welcoming to Dallas visitors, and as with
other Texans, Dallasites are proud of their ability to do
things the Texas way—big.
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