Vibe.

Here in the college town that I now live in, people sit out at bar patios and chat and talk and lounge, and it feels like the city that I moved to almost two decades ago.

It has a vibe that got lost there, after the economic crisis in the late 2000s.

I don't think I ever quite realized how much really changed, after that. Stuff never really returned to more normal, to the way that it had been, after that; the rents got higher and the ease disappeared and the atmosphere and the vibe just changed.

Also, no-one really looks at their phones here.  It's refreshing.