Thomas Fuller

When she retired as an elementary school teacher in Seattle in 2022, Mary Jo Maddeford tossed around some ideas of where she’d like to live next — and she wasn’t afraid to let oceans get in the way. Somewhere in Portugal? Around Vienna maybe? Asheville, N.C., came to mind.“I wanted a small town with lots

One quarter of residents in the French capital now live in government-owned housing, part of an aggressive effort to keep lower-income Parisians — and their businesses — in the city.The two-bedroom penthouse comes with sweeping views of the Eiffel Tower and just about every other monument across the Paris skyline. The rent, at 600 euros