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Sounds like you are describing my town, Cornville, Az. Unfortunately, with the influx of people wanting to live in Sedona, the entire area (Verde Valley, Az) is growing and losing that small town feel.
Verde Valley is not exactly near Sedona. With that said Mokulume Hill in the Sierra foothills in CA looks like time stopped in 1960
Iowa has tons of cute small towns throughout the state. I’d start with the ones surrounding the major metros, such as Des Moines, Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, and up to Dubuque. Decorah is a very nice town in the Northeastern part of the state and only about 2 hours from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota.
I first thought of Columbia Cross Roads, PA. Not much there but a feed mill, farming equipment store and place that does framing. It does have a post office.
You might check out Troy, PA, about 5 miles south. Population about 1500-has a small hospital, library, hardware store, a few other things like ( my 2 favorite) a place that sells quilt fabric and a shoe store that can provide shoes for everyone from grasshoppers to elephants. Walmart and lowes would be about 1/2 hour away in Mansfield, home of Mansfield University.
I got interested in old river towns after visiting Hannibal, MO, Mark Twain's hometown. Great downtown area. Then discovered Madison, IN. Huge historic area, a lot of homes built in 1830's-1850's. Fantastic main street as well as beautiful river walk on the Ohio. Just went through Maysville, KY, hometown to George Clooney's dad and aunt Rosemary. Fantastic downtown. These are places along with the bigger cities like Louisville and Cincinnati that thrived in the heyday of steamboats moving people and freight up and down the rivers. And if you're looking for affordable with mountains check out West Virginia. And it's hard to go wrong with Kentucky. It's full of beautiful small towns.
We're retiring to Door County, WI, with a total population of about 30,000, and the largest town in it has a population of about 10,000 (Sturgeon Bay). Door County is filled with very small towns, many of which are filled with tourists in the summer, but they not too crowded the rest of the year. It is not attractive to most people because there is almost no industry there, but it is quite affluent (I think because of all the tourist dollars), and it is known as the "Cape Cod of the Midwest". Here is my favorite video of it.
Yeah the main thing is to get away from the Interstates and major tourist sites. Towns in WA like Montesano and Coulee Dam and Chelan Falls would also work.
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