Round Rock is officially the No. 1 place to live in America according to a recent assessment by Bankrate.

Round Rock isn't simply a suburb, it's a tech hub: Dell Technologies is headquartered here, and companies like Switch and Emerson also call it home. Plus, 80 percent of Round Rock residents live within a 10-minute walk of a public park.

The city's cost of living comes in significantly lower than the national average, providing that not everything is bigger in Texas. Buying a home here now is likely to pay off in the future, too: Round Rock's population is projected to grow by nearly 75,000 people by 2040 - quite the jump from the 119,000 people who lived here in 2020.