Poll: Use of "Metroplex to refer to Dallas and Ft. Worth

[JaeTex]

How do we feel about the use of "Metroplex" to describe Dallas, Ft. Worth and the 'burbs?

Frontburner hates it (see, e.g., http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/archives2/016977.html, http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2007/10/02/our-supposed-real-estate-bounce-back/, http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2007/04/27/re-next-week-2/)

Their objection seems to be simply that it is a made up marketing word; I don't know if there is more to it than that. That doesn't stop them from accepting ads for numerous made-up-named companies and products, or (I suspect) from employing more than a few people in advertising/marketing . The widespread use indicates that Metroplex has been a success, though not without some brand dilution (certain "authorities" use metroplex as generic term for a large urban area, see http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/metroplex, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroplex).

When you get down to it, all words are made up, so why the hatred of "Metroplex"?

I prefer Dallas, Dallas-Ft. Worth, or DFW. I don't much care for "North Texas", but this poll is a simple thumbs up or down on "Metroplex". If a new brand is needed that can be the subject of a future poll.

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose; By any other name would smell as sweet"

[St-T]

I say "Dallas" or "Dallas area". That is the best way to refer to the area.

[LH_Newbie]

Yeah, I say "Dallas" or "DFW area". Metroplex just sounds very 80's. :)

[LongonBigD]

Metroplex is fine, but I just say Dallas (sorry Tarrant, Rockwall, Collin and Denton county residents - but lets face it, if you travel more than 500 miles from here and somebody asks you where you live, you say Dallas, don't you (at least eventually when they never heard of Frisco or assume that you mean San Francisco). I really don't think North Texas works for anybody but locals. When I say North Texas while travelling, people think I live in Amarillo.

[Lakewooder]

Once the TV show "Dallas" took a poke at "metroplex" by "Donna" saying the Ewing's big East Texas Real Estate development was "going to turn Texas into one big multiplex".

(two points if you can give the name of the development)


Just use "Dallas" --- enuff said.

[vman]

Metroplex is fine, but I just say Dallas (sorry Tarrant, Rockwall, Collin and Denton county residents - but lets face it, if you travel more than 500 miles from here and somebody asks you where you live, you say Dallas, don't you (at least eventually when they never heard of Frisco or assume that you mean San Francisco). I really don't think North Texas works for anybody but locals. When I say North Texas while travelling, people think I live in Amarillo.
You're right about that. When I left DC for Fort Worth (before running to Dallas), I tried answering "Fort Worth" when out of towners asked where I lived. After getting "Where's that?" asked a million times, I just started saying Dallas.

[kenc]

I dislike the term Metroplex and agree it is very 80's sounding, ( although I think we got stuck with Metroplex in the 70's ), but I answered Keep it because it is too hard and go back and correct a mistake like this. "Metroplex" has been in print now for 25 years, and it would be confusing to change it at this point.
Some worse names to large urban areas include: "Chicagoland" for Chicago, and "the Southland" for southern California LA metro area.

[RobertB]

When I was a kid, I'd come down from Oklahoma to visit my grandmother in Springtown. She had a radio with a little red light labelled "FM MULTIPLEX" when a signal was strong enough for stereo. I thought it meant that you couldn't pick up the radio station unless you were near Fort Worth or Dallas.

[mikedsjr]

The Metroplex is fine.


I say "Dallas" or "Dallas area". That is the best way to refer to the area.
I would agree to that when I'm outside of this region. Nobody has a clue what the Metroplex is except it being a local news and paper thing. I certainly a humble enough to admit most people don't know where Fort Worth is. I'm cool with that.

[mikedsjr]

I dislike the term Metroplex and agree it is very 80's sounding, .
The 80's....I was blessed to have have been a teenager in those years.

[tamtagon]

"FM MULTIPLEX" I thought it meant that you couldn't pick up the radio station unless you were near Fort Worth or Dallas.

hahahaha I love stuff like that