I live in Wylie, a suburb of Dallas. Our population is about 20,000 now and growing by leaps and bounds. We are finally getting a few stores and some fast food places. We have a nice lake for fishing and boating, Lake Lavon, and a beautiful little old fashioned downtown area.
This is Old City Park where we have the summer concert series, Fall Carnival and the Easter Egg Hunt among many other small town festivities.




One of our historic homes


Wylie was once known as the Onion Capitol of the World because for a time the only thing that was farmed here was onions of all varieties. We still have several onion farms and when you drive by them in the spring, you can smell the sweet scent of the vidalias.

Here's an article I just found about Wylie:

Wylie is on State Highway 78 sixteen miles south of McKinney in south central Collin County. It was organized in the early 1870s and originally called Nickelville, reportedly after the name of the first store. In 1886 the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway laid tracks a half mile north of the original townsite. Within a year the businesses of Nickelville had moved to take advantage of the railroad and had named their new location Wylie, in honor of W. D. Wylie, a right-of-way agent for the railroad. That same year Wylie received a post office branch and incorporated, choosing an alderman form of government. Two years later the St. Louis Southwestern Railway reached the town. The two railroads and the rich agricultural region of the Blackland Prairiesqv contributed to the town's growth. Wylie had a population of 400 in 1890 and 773 in 1900. Before 1920 the community had over thirty-five businesses, including two banks, a school, and a weekly newspaper. Unlike many rural Texas communities, Wylie grew during the Great Depressionqv years, reaching 914 residents by 1940. In part this was a result of increased dairy farming to meet the demands of nearby Dallas. Following World War IIqv the population continued to increase. The construction of Lake Lavon five miles north of town and the selection of Wylie to house the offices of the North Texas Municipal Water District, designed to provide water for towns in four counties, pushed the population to 1,804 in 1960. In the next twenty years the population more than doubled as a result of the growth of the Dallas urban area. In 1980 there were 3,152 residents and ninety businesses in Wylie. In 1990 the population was 8,716, and Wylie had spread into Rockwall and Dallas counties.