Fort Worth is quite different than Dallas...it's more lay back...more country in a sense. In terms of more quiet, I think it all depends on the area for both cities. Downtown Dallas is pretty dead at night and on the weekends. Yeah, you have Deep Ellum, Uptown, Victory Park, maybe the Bishop Art District, but it's not lively as other major downtowns around the US. Fort Worth has a nice downtown with Sundance Square.

The problems with jobs in the DFW area is a lot of times they are in the suburbs. The cities around Dallas are quite large...with some being larger than Dallas itself. So it's not uncommon to have a 30-60 minute commute one way. A lot of the big companies are moving to Plano and the Frisco area. Toyota's NA HQ is opening up soon in Plano. Frito-Lay's HQ is in Plano. Verizon's Texas HQ is in Irving. Exxon, Microsoft, Intuit...so many companies are spread out around the Dallas area. The companies that reside in downtown are usually the well known financial and accounting firms. So it depends on your line of work on where you may end up in the metroplex. When people say they are from Dallas, few actually live and work in Dallas proper.