Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...manager at Warner Bros. and took a position in Wilmington (pop. 13,000) with Technicolor's fast-growing film-distribution unit, one of many cutting-edge firms relocating to small-town America. He is elated at the move, but Kathy, born and raised in the San Fernando Valley, isn't so sure. Still working at Warner Bros. and settling affairs in Burbank, she came to Wilmington for the first time a week before the parade, wearing a fixed smile and a dazed, where-am-I? stare. The couple spent the week house hunting on the back roads of Ohio, videotaping...
Reasons to Move There: Rolling Shenandoah Valley farmland surrounds the village--and fast-food chains are barred from the historic downtown. Students and townies get their sugar fix at the Cocoa Mill Chocolate Co., founded by transplanted New Englanders, that ships nationwide...
...GRASS VALLEY, CALIF...
Reasons to Move There: This old-time gold-mining town has drawn new prospectors: artists and craftsmen, telecommuters and Silicon Valley refugees who took pay cuts, hung out their shingles as consultants and hit the quality-of-life jackpot. Ornate homes are tucked away in the gorges, and Mayor Mark Johnson sells some mean orchids at his family's Foothill Flowers shop...
...students themselves, coming out is as personal as it is political. After Christopher Humphreys, 18, came out at West Valley High in Hemet, he received death threats. But he held his ground and in May took a friend named Dan to the prom. His date forgot his boutonniere, and other guests hurled dirty looks, but in the end, he and Dan slow-danced to The Lady in Red, one of Humphreys' favorites...