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For more than a decade and a half, I’ve helped people create a life by design through my lifestyle and travel blog.
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People Who Move to Albuquerque Either Love It Within a Month or Leave Within Two Years. There’s No Middle Group.
Albuquerque doesn’t get the tourism attention Santa Fe does, an hour north, and it doesn’t get the retirement-destination reputation that…
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RiNo Was Warehouses in 2015. Now It’s Where Denver Sends Its Money. Here’s What Actually Changed.
The River North Art District, universally shortened to RiNo, was industrial land — warehouses, rail infrastructure, light manufacturing — as…
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The American Roadside Motel Should Have Died Decades Ago. Instead a Specific Kind of Owner Kept It Alive.
Interstate highways were supposed to kill the roadside motel. When the interstate system bypassed old two-lane highways like Route 66…
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Anthony Bourdain Called a Kansas City Gas Station the Best Barbecue in the World. It Took the Rest of the Country 20 Years to Agree.
Joe’s Kansas City Bar-B-Que still operates out of a converted gas station at 3002 West 47th Avenue in Kansas City,…
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Scottsdale Arizona Stopped Being Affordable Around 2020. The People Who Built It Are Still There, Renting.
Scottsdale’s median home price sat around $450,000 as recently as 2019. By early 2026 it had crossed $939,000, according to…
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Atlanta Found Blue Ridge and Ellijay. The Georgia Mountains Will Never Be the Same Again.
Blue Ridge, Georgia has a median home value hovering around $498,000, according to Trulia listing data — a startling number…