For all of its growth, for all of its small-town charms, the Sequim community has its problems.
Traffic is only the most obvious.
Some go to Port Angeles for work, although that city's Rayonier paper mill closed in 1997 and jolted the economy. He leaves every day at 4 a.m. and gets home at 10 each night. When Wayne Uht moved his RV and boat-accessory manufacturing business from Issaquah in 1995, he helped relocate the families of his five employees with him. It was an influx of younger people. They move up here to be closer to their parents when their parents retire up here.