You can't expand any farther than the river. The Beach Town hasn't been released by Zynga yet.
You cannot change your town's name. Once you've established your town when you first start playing the Cityville game, you only have one chance to pick a good name for your town/city, and you're stuck with it for the rest of the time you are on there.
level 25 to unlock the pumkpmik
Beach Town - 2010 Beach Town Newport Beach 1-3 was released on: USA: 23 October 2010
Beach Town - 2010 Beach Town Laguna Beach 1-4 was released on: USA: 30 October 2010
Yes you can, just search for it on facebook and you will be able to play My Town.
The code to unlock the town is patrick
Beach Town - 2010 Beach Town La Jolla 1-6 was released on: USA: 13 November 2010
Beach Town - 2010 Beach Town Santa Barbara 1-1 was released on: USA: 9 October 2010
For that you'll need to finish a series of goals related to "Hugo", "Becca" and her little brother "Seth". So you have to be careful to acomodate them on your town when they show up and pay attention to the houses you move them in. The goals include The Post Office, The Fire House, The Observatory, planting carrots crops and visiting a few houses on your town.
Beach Town - 2010 Beach Town San Luis Obispo 1-2 was released on: USA: 16 October 2010
in the desert (you have to have a three star town to unlock the desert and four star town to get to the gold) go down to the back of the desert and break the door to the beach on the right and fish in the pond on the left.hope this helps!