

Plano, Texas ranked as best city for building personal wealth - procrastitron
http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/30/real_estate/personal_wealth/index.htm?section=money_topstories

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aggieben
Interesting title: _small-town life may mean big money_.

Plano is anything but a small town, at least by the American perspective. It
is the quintessential suburb of a top-ten city, and thoroughly enmeshed in the
metropolitan area. Only someone from one of the top five cities could think of
Plano as a "small town". Consider the 5A high-schools: my brother graduated
from Plano Senior High School in 1984 in a class of 1200. I hear they are even
bigger now. That school is not the only one at that scale, and it would be
considered 6A in some states.

Having said that, I think Plano is one of the 3 cities in the Dallas Metro
area that have a decent shot at becoming a technology hotbed that resembles
the well-known ones (The Valley, Boston, Austin). Plano actually resembles
Austin in some ways.

Rockwall and Richardson are the other two Dallas suburbs that I think make for
decent technology areas. We'll see how that shapes up.

