Athens is an immensely successful (population just over 100,000) university town in the hills of northeastern Georgia. It is extremely popular as a retirement community. The University of Georgia has helped to create an unusually liberal community with a thriving artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual scene. The University of Georgia with its 38,000 students has a large and beneficial impact…...

Bedford is a very affluent suburb and historic small town 15 miles northwest of Boston, Massachusetts, and just east of Concord.The median household income is $163,000 and the population is 14,383 (2020 census). Picture of Bedford Depot Park at the end of the Minuteman Bikeway  courtesy of Wikipedia and Tim Pierce (public domain), photo of 2006 USGS aerial photo of…...

Astoria, located on the northwest tip of Oregon, is located at the mouth of the Columbia River and just a few miles away from the Pacific. It is the oldest permanent American settlement West of the Rockies - Lewis and Clark stayed here for the winter of 1806. With pretty, scenic backgrounds and a redone 1920s downtown, this relatively uncommercialized…...

Buckeye, Arizona, is about 35 west of Phoenix, with a population of 91,502 (2020 census), and is one of the fastest growing cities in the US. Located in Maricopa County, Arizona,  The growth of this sprawling area was fueled by several master planned communities within in its limits. The master planned communities include Valencia, Sundance, and Verrado. Buckeye  is also…...