491. Why Is Everyone Moving to Dallas?

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🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

When Stephen Dubner learned that Dallas–Fort Worth will soon overtake Chicago as the third-biggest metro area in the U.S., he got on a plane to find out why. Despite getting stood up by the mayor, nearly drowning on a highway, and eating way too much barbecue, he came away impressed. (Part 1 of 2 — because even podcasts are bigger in Texas.)

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0:00.0	Oh my gosh, my son is texting me, enjoy sunny grinds, you guys access my intro account.
0:09.6	That's pretty good.
0:13.1	It's just absolutely boring.
0:17.2	Does this normally happen in Dallas?
0:19.6	The bird?
0:20.6	Yeah.
0:21.6	No.
0:22.6	This is about like, maybe for you guys you know.
0:27.4	Yeah, thanks a lot.
0:28.4	Yeah, yeah, yeah, do your polling.
0:30.4	Yeah.
0:31.4	You did so great.
0:35.4	That was me and our producer Ryan Kelly and an Uber driver in Dallas, Texas.
0:42.9	Late one night in the middle of what felt like a monsoon.
0:46.9	We were creeping along a waterlogged highway heading toward a barbecue place called Sunny
0:51.4	Brian's Smokehouse.
0:53.7	Why?
0:54.7	Okay, let's back up a few weeks.
0:57.2	I had read an article in city journal called Big D is a big deal.
1:02.5	The authors, Column Clark and Joel Kotkin wrote that more Americans had moved to the Dallas
1:08.8	Fort Worth metro area over the past decade than anywhere else in the US.
1:13.6	In another decade or so, the area will reach 10 million people surpassing Chicago as the
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