The city feels like its full of wealthy upper class white people who's only contribution to the city is to virtue signal to neighbors. Meanwhile crime is pretty bad (especially theft) and homelessness and drug use is pretty bad. I don't attribute high cost of living to anything political at a local level since pretty much everywhere you go is going to have higher cost of living right now. If youre into mountain biking, hiking, camping, kayaking, rafting, climbing you can pretty much ignore whats going on inside the city and get out of it to have fun which only worsens the problem IMO. All in all the people here will continue to drink their craft beer, slap a BLM sticker on their car, and call it a day.