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Originally Posted by JManc
There are plenty of Dallas older suburbs that started out having noting to do with Dallas that have since been sucked into DFW's orbit with Panera Breads and cookie cutter housing developments but still retain their old downtowns and identities. I was just in one last weekend for my wife's grandmothers's funeral; Forney. Houston has some too. Nothing like the northeast because Texas was much much smaller and more sparsely populated in the turn of the century but Texas is absolutely loaded with small towns that now only recently coalesced into the bigger metros. Not every suburb is a Plano.
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Houston has them too but many have been so engulfed by typical suburban sprawl that you can't even tell they used to be real towns, including the town I grew up in. You have to go to the center of town to realize it used to actually be a real town that has structures built before the 1980's.