II grew up there but I haven't spent much time there in 25 years so I can't really speak to current attitudes or governance or housing opportunities.

You may find it cliquee smaller towns seem to be. But it's the "big town" in the area so it's a lot less isolationist than you might think of a town that size

It's a bit redneck MAGA type place. Very blue collar with the mills and logging background.

I wouldn't feel especially worried being a minority. Plenty of Asian and Hispanic folks (relative to a lot of smaller western washington towns.) And much higher black population than when I lived there.

It's a "planned/designed city" so it has a cute downtown area. For what that's worth these days.

It has a beautiful park in Lake Sacajawea where they have great 4th of July festivities.

It's 1hour+ to the long Beach peninsula. 1.75 hours to cannon beach.

Mount St hellens is 30 miles away.

You can shoot over to eastern Washington, which is a whole different geography, in a few hours.

Portland is an hour away if you need a big city fix.

It's mostly surrounded by forest so you'd do well to get a Weyerhaeuser land pass for hiking and such.

There are much much worse smaller towns/areas that you could end up in Washington or Oregon.

Hope this helps.