Buddy came into town. He's familiar and friends but I just moved here. Billy Bob's in the stockyards after 5 bars is treating me good! Texas!!!!! Holy Crap I love Texas!!!! After living in Chiago and NY I am totally down for this place!!!!

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Easy boy. Don't do what you can't undo

Well, as an adopted-in Texan, myself (36 years ago) I am happy that you are happy here. Texas and Texans have been good to me, even though I was brought up in Detroit, Michigan. I also love my new home state!

flashguy

After Chicago and NY, it feels like paradise, doesn't it?

I grew up next door in Dallas and did not know how great Fort Worth was. I got a job there and after two years of a 78 mile round trip commute said screw it and moved there. If is a pretty great town. I had to move again and I miss it.

It is so easy to call it DallasFortWorth, but the FW folks really view their town as separate (and better) town, and most of the Dallas folks never go there and really don't know much about it.

I have friends in Fort Worth, and would move there in an instant if such a thing were easily done.

ibanda ^^ We really do, no offense... but we love our Fort Worth! 7th Street has a different flair but it's worth checking out also (@ OP).

DFW native for 57 years. Wouldn't live anywhere else. Glad to have you in Ft. Worth.
After you try Joe T. Garcia's, you must try Babe's for their fried chicken. We like the one in Roanoke just north of Ft. Worth proper.

Stay safe, Steve

Yep, gotta love Fort Worth. When we first moved here in the late 70's I thought it was going to be all cowboy hats, chewing tobacco with cuspidors everywhere and good-ol-boys driving beat up pick-ups down dusty roads with beer cans rattling around the back. Oh wait, we've still got that!

Seriously, Fort Worth has grown into one fine city with everything from the cowboy scene to the fine arts. Unlike Dallas, Fort Worth is a solid Republican/conservative city which suits me just fine.

I lived I Arlington while going to school. The big push back then was to change the initials from DFW to DAFW since Arlington had the theme parks and the stadium....

Anyway, Ft. Worth always had a more laid back feel to me. Dallas was ok, but a bit too ...cosmopolitan?, maybe, for my taste.
We spent a lot of time at the Stockyards. I wonder if "Tejano Rodeo" is still down there?

Howdy 'pardner (nobody here really talks like that).

Try Tim Love's Wood Shed off of University. Great indoor/outdoor smokehouse/bar with exotic game specialties daily and live music on weekends. Oh, and Rodeo Goat off of 7th for the best burger and brew in DFW!

Texas is one of very few places we'd consider moving. We are planning to spend more time there in the near future to see if we like it.

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Yep, gotta love Fort Worth. When we first moved here in the late 70's I thought it was going to be all cowboy hats, chewing tobacco with cuspidors everywhere and good-ol-boys driving beat up pick-ups down dusty roads with beer cans rattling around the back. Oh wait, we've still got that!

Seriously, Fort Worth has grown into one fine city with everything from the cowboy scene to the fine arts. Unlike Dallas, Fort Worth is a solid Republican/conservative city which suits me just fine.

I was stationed there while in the Air Force during the sixty's. I was in Texas several years ago and decided to visit Carswell Air Base Again. I was very disheartened to see all the white uniforms in the middle of Texas. I did not remember seeing any battle ships on Lake Worth. It was quite a change from a Strategic Air Command base to a joint training base. It was really sad not to see all the B-52 and B-58's lined up on the tarmac. With a little imagination I could easily hear and see the B-52's and B-58's roaring down the runway during an alert. You never knew if the alert was the real thing or just another practice. You never had time to worry about it because there were only minutes left before nukes would come raining down. We did not have any bunkers to get into so there was no protection for the ground crews. All SAC bases and the near cities and towns would all have vanished if the alerts had been for real. At one point in the early sixties we were only minutes away from the real thing and that was very a scary time. But what the hay, we all survived those times and I thought so then and I still think that Ft Worth was a good place to live and if I ever decided to live somewhere else Ft. Worth would be the place.

I was down in the sundance square area. A friend had come into town and some other guys I knew and his cousin came out. We started at the Red Goose saloon which was a nice laid back place. Atter that we took a walk and went to the Flying Saucer, which had a really cool outdoor area and had dinner. Then on to some spanish place for a few dos equis served by a group of very attractive female bartenders.

Aftet that.....the group wanted to head to the Stockyards so off we went. We got to a place called Billy Bobs, which was a gigantic country western place with some concert going on. Dont recall ever being at any country western place. We were a little tipsy at that point so the group kinda split there. Ordering a beer....a 23 year old college chick asks me if I can dance, to which I replied "yes mam". So the city guy was doing the best two-step I could manage. I was also not dressed for the occasion. I dont own cowboy boots and wasnt wearing cowboy type shirt. Gonna have to fix that. All in all, it was super fun and I enjoyed myself.

Now buy yourself a pair of Lucchese boots for dress and some Lamas for fun and find some Cinch jeans and count your blessings for landing in such a great town!

Be sure to go to ML Leddy's and drool over the boots.

Great boot store, had the glorious smell of leather.

HK Ag

Fort Worth really is a great town. It may not have the glitz of Dallas or Houston, but it's got an attitude all its own. Definitely a more family friendly town as well. We're moving back this summer and can't wait.

FTW is Texas. Dallas is a beach head of Yankeeland.

I wound up in the Houston area after 47 years in the New York City metro area.
It was a good move for us.

The transfomation is almost complete.

Just need to buy some boots.

I grew up north Fort Worth (Watauga/Keller area). I left because I wanted somewhere that wasn't so flat or so busy. But if I was going to move back to Texas, Fort Worth would be one of my top choices.