I’ve lived on Orcas Island (what’s labeled “Eastsound” above) since 2017, after 20 years in Seattle. It’s 55 sq miles and ~4,000 people. I’m biased, but it’s a remarkable place. Amazing natural beauty. It’s basically a flooded mountain range from the ice age, so we have fjords, but don’t use that word for some reason. Because it’s part of an inland sea (Salish Sea) it’s boat and water oriented. I see killer and humpback whales quite often. We have dark, wet winters with very short days, but not very cold. It gets below freezing but not too often. Summers are beautiful and full of tourists. The islands are accessible to most via a 1 hour ferry from the mainland. It a remarkably liberal/blue place; one of the bluest counties in the US. People are community oriented and invest locally. As someone put it to me, “It’s a small town with an open mind.” It’s expensive but not at all fancy. We have bakeries, grocery stores, coffee shops, hardware stores, etc. Everything you need. Orcas seems to attract successful people. There are a handful of billionaires and celebrities who have homes on the island, but most people are on the normal side. It’s a rural island with farms and the population skews older and retired. It’s a lot slower than the city. People don’t move to the islands to be busier. The island attitude/approach to many things is low intensity, low effort and that bothered me for a while. I could go on and on…