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....

Cookeville, population 29,000, is in Putnam County and the home of Tennessee Technological University (12,000 students).   Known as the "Hub of the Upper Cumberlands," approximately 25,000 people travel  to work, shop, or attend school in Cookeville each day. The city is located in north central Tennessee. Photos courtesy of Wikipedia and in the public domain....

Fairhope, Alabama is one of the most unusual (and nicest) retirement communities anywhere. It was founded by 28 settlers from Iowa in November, 1894 as a utopian single tax colony by the "Fairhope Industrial Association". Their purpose in founding a new colony was to establish and conduct a cooperative model community, free from all forms of private monopoly. The Fairhope…...

Estero, Florida is a new and very small town that incorporated as a village in 2014 that has just emerged on Route 41 between Ft. Myers to the north and Naples to the South. It is destined to be a popular retirement community for active adults 55+. The population was 36,939, during the 2020 census. There is very little infrastructure…...