Experience the affordable lifestyle in this Northern California town where housing costs remain reasonable and community connections create an ideal retirement setting.

Tucked away in east-central Alabama, Opelika offers that increasingly rare American dream: a place where you can live well without needing a tech mogul’s portfolio or a winning lottery ticket.

When The 74 started looking for schools that were doing a good job teaching kids to read, we began with the data. We crunched ...