The Social Life of Places Where Families Thrive
You know you've stumbled upon a great place when you see families spending time there with members at every age enjoying themselves.
Great Public Spaces55
There is nothing like the thrill that one gets when they go to a great place again and again. Great places are addictive dwell in your memory, often emerging to cheer you up and give you incentive to go back or just explore in your mind the pleasures you had or what you might have missed. They can be in your community/neighborhood at a corner cafe, a special store or park. Often they are right in front of our noses if we will just look.
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