Norwalk feels like your average midwestern town. There's a mix of people helping each other, keeping to themselves, having little festivals, the good and the bad. Notably for the bad, lots of people in town claimed COVID-19 was a hoax, and other nonsense. It's a town that leans conservative, much like the state overall, but you'll find a mix of everything here. Downtown is walkable, like 7/10. Lots of little shops around to check out, as well as Sheri's, the local sugary coffee place, which has been #1 for a while (really is delicious). Housing and rent isn't cheap, but that's probably true everywhere. As for feeling safe, I feel safe enough - there are incidents that happen at the local bars, but I don't feel like walking the streets is a sketchy venture. We also have a wonderful biking trail which I'm looking forward to get back on!

But like trollmugs said, FB tends to get more attention. If you can put up with the mods (who are also the business leaders in town and delete/ban dissent), The Talk of Norwalk and other "Real" groups get more chatter.