Sun City West was developed by Del Webb after the hugely successful Sun City community sold out and outgrew its boundaries. Sun City West is a census-designated 55+ development located in Maricopa County, Arizona, (about 7 miles from the original Sun City), and is a self-contained and self-governing community. It has a total area of approximately 11 square miles, with…...

Healdsburg is a town of about 11,000 in the Sonoma County, not far north of Santa Rosa.  Tourists come here for the food and wine as well as to bicycle through the hills and vineyards.  three of the most important wine-producing regions (the Russian River, Dry Creek, and Alexander Valley) meet in Healdsburg. The town is centered on a 19th…...

Valparaiso, Indiana, is the county seat of Porter County with a population in 2012 of about 32,000.  It has a vibrant downtown with small town ambience and includes a historical district with several buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places.  The city is the the site of multiple colleges and universities including Valparaiso, an independent Lutheran University, Purdue…...

Founded as a utopia in 1825, the small village of Yellow Springs, in southwestern Ohio, gets its names from the waters of a nearby spring that were rich in iron and produced a yellow coloring on the rocks, which was thought to be curative. The history of the town starts with communitarian efforts, that were dissolved due to internal conflicts,…...