What Does Google Think of Dallas' Best Suburbs?

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By now you’ve surely been up and down and up again our ranking of the Best Dallas Suburbs. Our sortable chart allows you to reorder the 64 North Texas towns (Dallas is included for comparison’s sake) on the list by factors such as population, crime, education, or just the overall ambiance of the place.

So you know what our numbers say. But what does the all-knowing, all-seeing Google machine think of our cities? How does Google Maps present us to the world? To find out, I asked for directions from Dallas, Texas (unspecified address) to each of the suburbs (unspecified address). Wherever Google dropped its pin representing each, I took a look around via the magic of Street View.

That gives us the spot to which Google will direct travelers who don’t know exactly where they want to go in these towns, just that they want to get there. To my mind, that makes these locations the virtual entryway to each, the online face of these cities. I leave it to you to interpret whether there’s any deeper significance to where Google’s directions would take you and what it says about our suburbs. (By the way, in Dallas, the location is Main Street downtown, right next to Plush nightclub)

Highland Park: Armstrong Elementary (see above)

Parker: Corinth Presbyterian Church

Colleyville: Red Barn Bar-B-Que

University Park: A leafy residential block on Rankin Street

Murphy: A patch of road under construction back behind the Walmart

Southlake: The next block over from Southlake Town Square

Trophy Club: Inside a gated community that Google Street View dared not enter

Flower Mound: A residential block on Wanda Lane

Highland Village: Greenbriar Lane

Allen: Rodenbaugh’s Flooring America and Appliances

Sunnyvale: Sunnyvale High School

Keller: Keller Town Center