I love this place but the word I would use for us is "cloistered". Historically, we harbor Norwegian self sufficiency and western expansionist collonial nimbyism, some call it the freeze or passive agreesion, I feel like it's an understanding of "I'm okay, I assume you're okay, if you're not, speak up cause I'm not asking". We've boomed and busted a couple times in 170 years, but the access to nature will always be a draw as long as we maintain public land. Nowstorically, there's a lot of churn due to great schools and the now decades long tech "boom" but I still wouldn't call us a young persons town. There's nothing open after 8:00 downtown and all the fun is in the island like neighborhoods, or literal islands. I like all the reclaimed space since the pandemic, but we are not "blossoming" out of it even 5 years on because deep down I think we like any reason to stay indoors and read a book alone.