Communities with a “Sense of Place”

We’ve all seen it – town after town where it’s hard to differentiate one from the other. The stores are the same, the restaurants are the same and if you were blindfolded and taken to one of them, it would be difficult for you to tell where you were – to find characteristics that define that individual community and set it apart from all the others. But I know those gems are out there – in fact, my theory is that communities that have retained their sense of place are more prevalent than we think. They still have locally-owned shops and restaurants and they don’t look or feel like everywhere else. Here’s your challenge: Look around – what are the communities near you or that you’ve visited that have tenaciously hung onto their identity? Keep reading