Plano, Texas ranked as best city for building personal wealth

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.