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Dallas-Fort Worth: As awesome a place to visit as it is to live

Dallas-Fort Worth is a hot summer spot.

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If you haven't already planned on getting out of town this summer, know there's a good chance people will be coming here during their precious time off. According to recent rankings from WalletHub, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington is the No. 6 best summer travel destination.

The site used 30 key metrics to compare the 80 largest metro areas and identify the most budget-friendly and fun-filled summer destinations. Dallas-Fort Worth is apparently cheap and entertaining.

The data takes into account factors such as cost of the cheapest flight to number of attractions to diversity of activities. DFW claims the coveted title of least amount of travel hassles and costs (our airports are pretty great), and the No. 9 rating for local costs means bumming around the city is fairly affordable too.

Where we don't score so high is attractions, with a 26th overall ranking. Our weather is on the brighter side, at No. 19, which might sound puzzling to anyone who's familiar with Texas in the summer.

Houston also makes the top 10, with a pretty impressive ranking of sixth for fewest travel headaches contributing to its overall No. 9 placement. That No. 26 weather score though? Apparently WalletHub thinks Houston's more temperate than Denver, San Diego, and even Austin from May through August.

Austin does show up at No. 17 overall, and although San Antonio sits at No. 50, it's actually in the 10 worst cities for summer weather.

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This week's hot headlines

DFW's dismal ranking among best places to live leads this week's 5 most-read headlines

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Editor's note: A lot happened this week, so here's your chance to get caught up. Read on for the week's most popular headlines. Looking for the best things to do this weekend? Find that list here.

1. Dallas-Fort Worth no longer a top 100 place to live, declares U.S. News & World Report. Dallas-Fort Worth has fallen from grace in a closely watched annual report of the best places to live in the U.S. The Metroplex appears at a dismal No. 113 (out of 150) in U.S. News & World Report's Best Places to Live ranking for 2023-2024. Last year, DFW landed at No. 32; it was No. 37 in 2021. Here's (sort of) why it plummeted in the rankings.

2. Sliders restaurant from Detroit shimmies onto Dallas' Greenville Ave. A slider concept from the Great Lakes State is expanding to Texas, and that includes a high-profile location in Dallas: Called Savvy Sliders, it's a young fast-casual concept founded in Flint, Michigan, and it will open its first Dallas restaurant at 4818 Greenville Ave., in the space recently vacated by vegan chicken restaurant Project Pollo.

3. New lagoon-waterpark with lazy river dives into Dallas-Fort Worth. A long-awaited waterpark in Cedar Hill is debuting Memorial Day weekend with two of Texas' favorite splashy attractions: a lagoon and lazy river. The Lagoon at Virginia Weaver Park will open Saturday, May 27 after more than a year in development.

4. Happy Hippie Brewing to bring peace, love, and beer to new HQ in Richardson. A craft beer brewery is opening a splendid new facility in Richardson: Happy Hippie Brewing Company, a small brewery specializing in Belgian-style beers, is opening an an 11,000-square-foot brewery and taproom at 500 Lockwood Dr., in the Lockwood area within the city's evolving CORE District.

5. Asian restaurant Howard Wang's shutters location in Uptown Dallas. A Chinese restaurant in Uptown Dallas closed: Howard Wang's Uptown Grill, one in a family-owned chain, closed its location at 3223 Lemmon Ave. #103, with the final day of service on May 21. The restaurant had been at that location for 12 years.