Lucca, Italy is a charming little town in Tuscany that has become a popular retirement spot for the British, French, and Germans in recent years. Although the city as a whole contains about 84,000 inhabitants, the old walled city, by far the most interesting part of town, has a population of only 7,500. Lucca's location in Tuscany about 50 miles…...

Cotachi is an undiscovered village of about 9,000 between two volcanic peaks. It can be viewed from the Pan-American Highway as one travels on the way from Quito and Otavalo north to Ibarra. There are a number of quaint old colonial structures among the shops and residences that comprise most of the village.  Expatriates like living in this area for…...

Germantown is a very affluent (HH income over $100,000) tucked in the southwestern corner of Tennessee, just 10 miles from Memphis. In the city center is the "Old Germantown" neighborhood, anchored by a reproduction of the 1868 railroad depot and railroad tracks that recall the community's earliest days of development as an outpost along the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. The population…...

Bluffton is a small town with a population of about 13,000 (but 37,000 in the area), on the coast of South Carolina just off of Hilton Head Island and near the Georgia border.  Home to many retirement communities (see link at top right), the town is located on a bluff overlooking the May River in an area long known for…...