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Pick the Hybrid: A 55+ Neighborhood Within a Larger All Ages Community
November 19, 2025 -- The most interesting retirement concept of the last 65 years has been, hands down, the success of active adult communities. Sometimes called permanent summer camps for adults, offshoots of the concept pioneered by Sun City in 1960 offer every kind of amenity from golf to swimming pools to pickleball. Plus clubs and non-stop activities of every…...
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Leon is the 2nd largest city in Nicaragua and has many fine examples of Spanish colonial architecture. Located about 18 kilometers from the coast, the population is about 175,000. León has long been the intellectual center of the nation - many students attend university here. Photo of Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of Le...
Located on the Potomac River in a bucolic setting in the lower Shenandoah Valley, Shepherdstown was founded in 1762, (known then as Mecklenburg), and is the oldest town in West Virginia. It has an interesting place in history as it played a significant role during the Civil War as a field hospital and later was occupied by the Union troops…...
Blowing Rock is a very tiny but affluent town in northwest North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains. It got its name from some unusual rocks above the town that cause vertical wind currents. After the Civil War, summer residents began to come up from the nearby city of Lenoir to enjoy the cool fresh air and magnificent mountain views. The village…...
Wake Forest is a town of 47,601 residents (2020 census), and is just north of Raleigh, the state capital. It offers parks, greenways and golf courses. Wake Forest University began here, but moved to Winston-Salem in 1956....