Dear People of the city of Plano,
You have your beautiful parks and your neatly trimmed yards. There are four malls within fifteen minutes of each other and dozens of overpriced salons on each coerner. Yet a drift has come between us. Those of you "Westsiders" are obsessed with your Gucci, Mercedes, and Ugg labels. But you "Eastsiders" have taken pride in being the West's antithesis! Plano West Senior High School is known for the exorbitant club fees and slutty cheerleaders drunk off daddy's money. Plano East Senior High School is "the pharmacy" and gang school whose only positive attribute is the minority's academic achievements. 
The city is consumed with an insular mindset concerned only with image and status. Can't we stop this tiff? However it started, none of us know, but shouldn't one of America's safest and most prosperous cities set a better example? My first week in New York, a professor asked where I was from and when I said, "Plano, Texas," her first thought was mass suicide! While this isn't accurate or directly my point, it's time we gave ourselves a better rep. The teens are killing each other in a war of stilettos and weed. And the parents fight over mansions and job titles. Perhaps our generation won't kill themselves over this, but regardless, things are out of control. It's time we make peace, the East and the West, and just become plain-old Plano.