Artistic Communities

Where to live when you love art

A few of our Choices...

Wynwood Arts District, Miami, Florida
This is warehouse district turned artistic hot spot. It's alive with lofts, art galleries, museums, and studios. The 20 block neighborhood is being redone into an art-oriented, pedestrian community. Explore the Museum of Contemporary Art at Goldman Warehouse.

Carmel-by-the-Sea, California

Artists have long been drawn to this town on the Monterey Peninsula. Meandering through the over 100 galleries that line the quaint streets we couldn't help but wish that we could be part of such a lovely community. The town is truly picture perfect. Quaint shops and restaurants lead to the pounding ice-blue surf and sandy beach. Unfortunately, our budget isn't large enough to purchase real estate in this artistic community, but we still enjoy the ambiance whenever we get over there.
In addition to myriad art galleries with everything from oil and acrilic paintings to ceramics and photography, there is the Pacific Repertory Theatre,  another place where culture thrives in this charming town. Visit the Carmel Art Association, the second-oldest art cooperative in the country displalyilng works from over 120 local artists. For lovers of the stage, check the schedule for the Golden Bough Playhouse. Visit or reside, there isn't a more beautiful upscale artists colony anywhere.

Sedona, Arizona

Where the red rocks meet the burning desert floor and artists and sensitives hold sway. Although it is a picturesque location not everyone can afford to live there. Even in a depressed market, homes are still over $200,000. I prefer living in Sun City and taking weekend trips to the beautiful red rocks myself.

SUN CITY ARIZONA

Warm to cool winters make this a great place to retire. Yes, it's hot in the summer. If you live there year round you will have to get up early to work in the yard, play golf or ride your bike. But how many of us are really outside much of the day anyway? Mostly, we are inside our homes, at the mall, dining at a restaurant, going to a movie or the mall...all inside.

 Hollywood  thought it was such a great place that they started filming the reality show "Sun Daze" right there in Sun City Arizona. Why? It's a great community and nothing like those boring retirement communites you heard of years ago. Sun City sits just outside Phoenix AZ and it is like Disneyland for active seniors today. Everything from wood working shops to crafts...golf, tennis and swimming. It's all there and more.

Our number one choice for people who want to keep active on a reasonable budget in the West. You can still find nice homes there for around $100,000-$175,000.



Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada
You will take a ferry ride over to this art haven between Vancouver and Victoria. The island has more than 30 galleries and many are open year-round, but call first in the off-season. From the Easter weekend through October, enjoy the popular Saturday Market, a perfect place to find home-made art and eats. So visit and take in the waterfront setting.
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PADUCAH, Kentucky.
 Visitors to the Lower Town neighborhood might feel like they're in the artistic neighborhood of Chicago New York or San
Francisco instead of a small River town in western Kentucky as they duck in and out of galleries.
The quiet streets are lined with century-old brick houses. As you meander down the streets, dozens of signs announce that inside you'll find an artist's gallery and inside the house you might even find  working artists experimenting with colors and styles of painting to create their own unique designs, or making a deliciously colorful ceramic or quilt.
Paducah, with its friendly atmosphere is a two hour drive from any major city and started with a handful of artists several years ago. It now has over 70 artists. The formerly rundown neighborhood is now considered an up and coming U.S. art destination.
The Lower Town neighborhood has since been transformed, and observers have dubbed it the "SoHo of the South," which for some means that the town is breaking the stereotypical small southern town mold and turning it into something quite different and delightful.


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