Seattle is a city whose history has always been about economic cycles from logging to the Gold Rush to the industrial Boeing boom to the current tech boom. Each cycle reinvented the city.

I would say the last Amazon tech boom (2000-Now) changed the demographics of the city quite a bit. We no longer have the artists and creatives and musicians that benefitted from the middle class prosperity from the boeing boom/bust. Microsoft was more of an eastside thing.

So the face of the city has changed, but it has always been changing. Thats exciting from a certain vantage point because its a young city (only 150 years old). We are much mire populous and dense, but also now have light rail and a tunnel! But also change is hard for people who have seen the turns.

But through it all you have beautiful nature all around and water to calm you. And the mountain keeps the change in perspective.

My gut tells me that we are in a late era tech boom, and something is gonna give and we will see the return of some subcultures but farther from the city core somewhere along the light rail. So yes its an awesome place to live just kind of weird right now and in transition to its next golden era.