I've not been to Beaufort, SC, St. Augustine, Kennebunkport, Grand Marais, MN, Mackinac Island, MI (always wanted to go)--but I have been to (or at least driven through) the rest. Scenic and expensive. I've only stayed overnight in Stowe, VT, and Telluride--to ski.

This is only for travel obviously. Who could afford to live in these places? All very touristy.

Telluride is high and very rustic. Liberal. Carmel is on a particularly lovely part of the California coast and has great weather year around though it's a little chilly and windy in the winter. It's frightfully expensive. Liberal but there is lots of money, lots of it old money and conservative money too. Sedona you already know. There are some smaller towns around Sedona that are not that expensive but they tend to be conservative. Whitefish is high, also rustic and while most of those that cater to tourists, etc. are very friendly, the area is generally Conservative Republican. Pretty pricey to buy a house but most of Montana real estate has gotten very high. Don't know if that helps.

We recently spent a weekend in Pine, its nice but really conservative and their aren't many places to eat. I did like the little brewery and we had a nice breakfast somewhere but almost no one wore a mask, including all the wait staff and cooks. We are going to check out Payson and maybe Prescott at some point.

We love Sedona but all we could possibly afford is a mobile home.

Rhinebeck and Woodstock are among them.