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I live in Yavapai County AZ - Small towns, Prescott, Prescott Valley, Chino Valley, Paulden, Dewey-Humbolt. Prescott National Forest is here - there are multiple city lakes (no swimming though) - moderate weather. I know a realtor if you want to DM me.
Find a state you are interested in, or several, based on your desired criteria, and then research the towns with small populations here on City Data. Remember that small towns in rural areas often don't come with a lot of good employment options. It's a trade-off. Many small towns suffered greatly when the manufacturing plants went overseas.
Find a state you are interested in, or several, based on your desired criteria, and then research the towns with small populations here on City Data. Remember that small towns in rural areas often don't come with a lot of good employment options. It's a trade-off. Many small towns suffered greatly when the manufacturing plants went overseas.
Which lists cities in groups of:
big cities of over 6,000,
Maine Smaller Cities, Towns, and Villages (1000-6000),
Maine Very Small Towns and Villages (< 1000)
When I look through the list, I find that my town is not listed.
When I look closer I find that in my county only a small minority of towns are listed [the largest only].
It seems that the majority of towns in my state are not represented in the 'data' that City-data presents to people searching for data.
To be fair, I did not compare other counties. I have a handy listing of towns in my county, so I used it.
Small towns are not being given equal representation.
As such I am not sure how a person would go about finding data to compare small towns.
Why would lake frontage or river frontage be low priced ?
( an honest question )
Are you kidding me? In my small hometown in South Dakota, there is a WPA lake a mile outside. You can "buy" a house on that lake for probably 10-20k. Not every place is like CA.
Best way to find small towns - drive down small roads.
Towns at the ends of roads are always kind of cool. That was how I found Key West in the old days (70's). I just drove until the road ran out. Stayed about 8 years. LOL
Same with mountains - just find a town at the end or the road and it will probably be a pretty nice place.
Of course the road through Death Valley ends at Scotty's Castle and it's like 150 there in the summer... so maybe I'm not so smart.
Also CD has stats look for population and take a road trip.
I live in Yavapai County AZ - Small towns, Prescott, Prescott Valley, Chino Valley, Paulden, Dewey-Humbolt. Prescott National Forest is here - there are multiple city lakes (no swimming though) - moderate weather. I know a realtor if you want to DM me.
Prescott is a small city of 40,000 people and is three times as expensive as the town of 5000 that I live near in CA. It is. Not a small town as the Op asked about. We live in a desirable area, just not an urban area.
Stereotypes and misinformation seem to abound. Only 3% of CA is expensive compared to the places you suggest. My brother in law lives in the Prescott Valley and his place ain't cheap.
I am not aware of any good resource that indexes small towns by population, so you can compare them.
Finding an online site that lists all small towns is difficult. For over 5 years I have had a 'Google Alert' running, looking for any reference online to my town. Google alerts search the web everyday and email you the results.
If you find a website that does list small towns, I would love to hear about it.
Generally web-presence is greater for a town, as it's population is larger. Urban cities are all over the web. Small towns are less represented, and as you go smaller and smaller, the representation stops entirely.
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