The residents chose to pay their worship tax to the adjacent town.
Each room is also wired for phone services should the residents choose to opt into this service.
Whether the residents choose to use it or not, that's up to them.
Although some residents chose to cook for themselves, meals were offered in the main dining room.
Many former residents choose this time of year to come back the way other families gather for major holidays.
During the fall, some residents chose to leave and return to Iowa.
"For the city to now say that the residents can't choose to throw them out is ludicrous."
Many residents choose to send their children to private schools.
But with a slice of paradise on the line, most residents have chosen to fight.
The first post office opened in 1902, and residents chose the name Shively for it.