Tuesday 28 July 2015

Top 5 Reasons to Live in Plano

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Wondering why everyone is moving to the charming City of Plano, here we have the top 5 reasons compiled for you-

1. Jobs


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Plano, being the home to many Fortune-ranked companies, brags about an incredible number of high-paying, white-collar jobs. Also, with the soon advent of Toyota and many other brands, this number is seeing no sooner degrade. Plano offers a diverse employment base, with 38% of it belonging to Trade, Transport and Professional Business Services it is readily turning out to be the new hub for job-seekers. HP Enterprises and Bank of America along with their 4,800 and 5,400 employees are the city’s top employers. Unemployment rates in Plano were 5.1% in the year 2014 and with an incredible recession recovery ratio of 1: 5 i.e., for every single job lost during the recession period, the city has come up with 5 new job opportunities.

2. Security


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Accrediting to a violent crime statistics of sheer 1.4 to a thousand persons along with overall crime rate being 37 percent lower than the average among other Texas cities, it is thus regarded as one of the safest city to live. In fact, in 2010 and 2011, Forbes Magazine ranked Plano the Safest City in the Country. The Plano Police Department has about 600 sworn officers and civilian employees very much geared up to Crime Stopper Program.

3.Best Schooling


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Plano School System ranks among the best in the state, comprising of 70 public schools, 16 private schools along with 2 campuses of Collin College and 6 libraries. Its students have constantly secured highest SAT’s amongst all the DFW schools. Also, 93% of Plano ISD students graduated from high school in comparison to 75% of Dallas ISD.
Plano ISD also has two 4-year high school academic programs, one being STEM and the other one focusing on Health Science. In addition to this, Plano has few supplementary schools for the sake of additional Mathematics and Chinese language classes.

4. Location


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Plano’s proximity to Dallas is one key feature to it, which can be accessed easily via DART or the extensive highway system.
Plano also hosts DFW International Airport which is the second largest airdrome of United States, well renowned for being one of the busiest and well-connected airports in the world. It flies to 202 destinations across the globe comprising of 55 international and 147 domestic ones. 
   
5.Cost of Living

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Plano’s high salary opportunities coupled with low taxes and cost of living certainly makes it a priority place to reside in the whole of US. Housing here is the best thing for you with property taxes remaining the lowest amongst all DFW cities plus no income or corporate taxes to worry about.
Although, it being one of the very populous cities in the US, Plano still holds many titles marking itself as one of the Best Suburbs to Live in Texas, US.   


  

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