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University Park, TX
University Park takes its name directly from Southern Methodist University, whose main campus sits almost entirely within the small town's borders — a genuinely unusual arrangement in which a private university's campus occupies a substantial share of the land area of the independent municipality surrounding it. Like its twin town Highland Park, University Park incorporated as its own independent city specifically to remain outside Dallas's municipal boundaries even as the larger city grew to completely surround both towns, and the two together form the "Park Cities," sharing a combined school district, the Highland Park Independent School District, despite each maintaining separate city governments. SMU's campus brings a genuine college-town element to University Park's identity, with the university's Meadows Museum housing one of the most significant collections of Spanish art outside of Spain itself, and campus events and athletics drawing visitors into the town well beyond its own roughly 25,000 residents. University Park's combination of hosting a major private university's entire main campus, shared independent-city status alongside Highland Park, and a top-ranked shared school district has made it one of the most academically and architecturally distinctive small towns anywhere in the Dallas metropolitan area.
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Southlake, TX
Southlake sits between Dallas and Fort Worth, close to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, and it's developed since the 1990s into one of the wealthiest and most consistently high-scoring suburban school districts in the entire state of Texas, a reputation that's made it a frequent draw for corporate relocations bringing executives and their families to the broader metroplex. Southlake Town Square, a large mixed-use development that opened in the late 1990s, was built deliberately to evoke a traditional small-town Main Street aesthetic — brick storefronts, a central green space, and a town hall — despite being an entirely new, purpose-built development rather than an organically grown historic downtown, a template several other Texas suburbs have since tried to replicate. The city's proximity to DFW Airport has made it a particularly convenient home base for corporate executives and frequent business travelers, a factor real estate agents in the area frequently cite as a meaningful driver of Southlake's continued desirability relative to suburbs further from the airport. Southlake's combination of consistently top-ranked public schools, a deliberately designed town-square commercial center built to evoke traditional small-town character, and unusually convenient airport access has made it one of the most consistently expensive and sought-after suburbs anywhere in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
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