One of the nation’s top tourist and retirement communities is Santa Barbara, California. Located about 85 miles north of Los Angeles, this charming mission city on the Pacific, has done a superb job of preserving its heritage and creating a livable, modern city. The graceful adobe architecture of the Spanish Mission style is everywhere - from the historic Mission Santa…...

Walnut Creek is a wealthy town of about 70,000 in the hills east of San Francisco and Oakland. For many it is used as a suburb of those cities, although there are some high tech and shopping employers in the area.  This area of northern California is very beautiful and so is the town. Walnut Creek has many parks, great…...

Set at the bottom left base of Cape Cod, this fairly large town is a popular retirement community surrounded on 2 sides by water.  Falmouth, Massachusetts (population 32,000) actually consists of a number of villages and unincorporated towns including Woods Hole, Teaticket, and East, West, and North Falmouth. Woods Hole is where one takes the Ferry to Nantucket and Martha’s…...

Uncasville is a small village (part of the town of Monteville) in east-central Connecticut. It is quite close to the largest casinos in the east, Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods. This is a beautiful but rural stretch of Connecticut. For more detailed information about this area including home prices see our reviews of Colchester, Dayville, and Niantic.Photo of town hall courtesy…...