Round Rock is to Austin as Cary is to Raleigh. Yes/No?

[Melissa78703]

Originally Posted by achtungpv

Sprawling nondescript subdivisions, big box stores, and strip malls just outside a much cooler city. So, yes, it's pretty much like Cary but without the nice trees.

This, above.

"McMansions" is how I'd sum up a lot of Round Rock. It's totally cookie cutter. What's truly creepy is that some of the houses are nearly identical if you look at the outward-facing facades, with only minute variations in door and window placement. Went to visit married-friends-with-kids several years ago, and my ex-H and I couldn't remember the street address. The friends had parked their car inside, so we couldn't even find the house by looking for their car. I took a picture of a cluster of McMansions/McHouses with my old cell phone because it was that jarring. Wish I could download it.

It sounds like Cary is to Raleigh what Westlake is to Austin, maybe? I don't know, but what the OP is describing sounds like it has more of a distinctiveness to it. I dunno, OP, do you want to be able to find your house without having to tie something bright around the mailbox?

[dougmcintyre]

Originally Posted by achtungpv

Sprawling nondescript subdivisions, big box stores, and strip malls just outside a much cooler city. So, yes, it's pretty much like Cary but without the nice trees.

Originally Posted by Melissa78703

It sounds like Cary is to Raleigh what Westlake is to Austin, maybe?

Making Raleigh the cooler city???

Can't quite wrap my brain around that. Being from the Triangle area, I've never heard anyone describe Raleigh as cool.

[macuser1320]

Originally Posted by Melissa78703

This, above.

"McMansions" is how I'd sum up a lot of Round Rock. It's totally cookie cutter. What's truly creepy is that some of the houses are nearly identical if you look at the outward-facing facades, with only minute variations in door and window placement. Went to visit married-friends-with-kids several years ago, and my ex-H and I couldn't remember the street address. The friends had parked their car inside, so we couldn't even find the house by looking for their car. I took a picture of a cluster of McMansions/McHouses with my old cell phone because it was that jarring. Wish I could download it.

It sounds like Cary is to Raleigh what Westlake is to Austin, maybe? I don't know, but what the OP is describing sounds like it has more of a distinctiveness to it. I dunno, OP, do you want to be able to find your house without having to tie something bright around the mailbox?

Have to agree here.

I'd say Cary is a bit more like Westlake than RR. Cary isn't quite middle-class enough to be Round Rock, and definitely not as cookie-cutter with big box stores and strip malls everywhere. The schools in Cary are more in line with Westlake than that of RRHS, Stony Point, etc.. and I would say Cary has less diversity.

You would also never see this in Cary:

[dougmcintyre]

Oh, pshaw! Cary has plenty of diversity - upper middle class IT workers from around the world!