Don’t believe it! Many of these are just small burgs on the outside of major metropolitan areas.
Goshen Ar, is outside the Bentonville-Rogers-Springdale-Fayetteville(U of Arkansas) corridor. WALMART HQ area.
Nichols Hills OK, is outside Oklahoma City and it’s many universities.
Belle Meade, TN, outside Nashville.
Believe it. Maunawili, Hawaii is not a town at all, just a small housing tract/community. Nothing there but a few dozen houses.
Look for it on Google Earth if you do not believe it. Nice little housing area, but sure not a town. Kailua is the only nearby town.
Nichols Hills OK is not “outside” Oklahoma City. More correctly, it is totally surrounded by OKC and another suburb, The Village. It is an incorporated city with its own city council and government services like police and fire.
Nichols Hills was begun by a developer who had developed other neighborhoods in central OKC but wanted this one to stand on its own and be more exclusive than any other previous neighborhood development. Then, and today, it is home to many of the area’s financial/business movers and shakers.