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Into the Woodlands
By Jeff Alden May 18, 2026 --Yesterday Paulette and I drove out to visit The Woodlands again. We’d been on thewaiting list since 2018, when we moved to Greenville, S.C. from Minneapolis. We were almostten years younger then. The Woodlands at Furman (the small university it’s loosely connectedto) is billed as a “Life Care Community,” designed to take you from…...
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Franklin is a town of 31,000 people in the suburban Boston area, incorporated in 1778, and was the first town named after Benjamin Franklin. History has it that Franklin was so honored he donated books to the town, which were then lent to residents, and thus started the first public library in America. The town is also the birthplace of…...
Sioux Falls is the largest city in South Dakota, and has a population of just over 200,000 in the area. Due to its business and tax friendly environment it has many large companies. It is a frequent name on many "Best Places to Retire" because of its lifestyle, cost of living, and beautiful environment, including the waterfalls on the Big…...
Cheyenne is the capital and largest city of the state of Wyoming, (65,132 in the 2020 census) and is an interesting place to retire. The city was an early western railhead and stock town and became very important when the major east/west railroad came through town. The railroad made use of the naturally tall, straight native lodgepole pine trees to…...
The City of Palm Coast is an enormous planned community of approximately 90,000 residents (2020), located on Florida’s northeast coast, equidistant from the large cities of Jacksonville and Orlando. Many of its residents are active adults using it as a retirement community. Palm Coast is one of the more interesting hybrid communities in existence. Planned originally by ITT as a…...