People are not friendly. Town is not clean. Food prices are through the roof.
Of course land prices are very high as well but they are in most places. The rich are moving in and building big big houses and taking away the one thing I use to love about Winthrop and Twisp. The little old western town is gone and will never be back the way it use ...

I've been visiting Winthrop since 1958, before the north cascades hwy and it used to be a friendy town. Today it's over run with faux antique shops, esperesso shops and too many beads and trinket stores. Too many shops all selling the same stuff, complete with old layers of dust on their merchandise. Not the old friendly, western town it ...