reads<\/a> the study from WalletHub.<\/p>\n\u201cTo help Americans find the best places for gobbling up the Thanksgiving festivities, WalletHub compared the 100 largest U.S. cities based on 18 key metrics.\u201d<\/p>\n
These 18 metrics fall into one of five key dimensions:<\/p>\n
Thanksgiving Celebrations & Traditions<\/p>\n
Pumpkin Patches per Capita<\/p>\n
Google Search Interest for Thanksgiving Celebrations<\/p>\n
Holiday Decoration Shops per Capita<\/p>\n
Affordability<\/p>\n
Cost of Thanksgiving Dinner<\/p>\n
Prevalence of Affordable Restaurants with Ratings of 4.5+ Stars<\/p>\n
Lowest Price for a Three-Star Hotel Room for a Thanksgiving Holiday<\/p>\n
Safety & Accessibility<\/p>\n
Perception of Safety (Safety walking alone during daylight\/night)<\/p>\n
Pedestrian Fatalities per Capita<\/p>\n
DUI-Related Fatalities in Motor Vehicle Crashes around Thanksgiving per Capita<\/p>\n
Share of Delayed Flights near Thanksgiving Holiday<\/p>\n
Giving Thanks<\/p>\n
Volunteer Opportunities per Capita<\/p>\n
Volunteer Hours per Capita<\/p>\n
Charity Organizations per Capita<\/p>\n
Share of Income Donated to Charity<\/p>\n
Thanksgiving Weather Forecast<\/p>\n
Thanksgiving Temperature vs. Average Temperature<\/p>\n
Forecasted Thanksgiving Precipitation<\/p>\n
Dallas ranked No. 2 in the country in the Celebrations & Traditions bucket, but came in No. 96 in the Safety & Accessibility ranking.<\/p>\n
Despite the City\u2019s impressive showing this year, it did not secure the number one spot in the state. That award went to San Antonio, which was ranked the best city in the entire country for celebrating.<\/p>\n
Notably, however, North Texas as a whole was well represented in the top 10 rankings:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas has moved up one spot this year, ranked the No. 4 best city to celebrate Thanksgiving, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,15169,24143,511],"class_list":["post-52018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-thanksgiving","tag-thanksgiving-dinner","tag-wallethub"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}