I lived and worked there for 8 months in 2008 , didnt make one friend the whole time i was there, people just seemed to be very shut out and not open to outsiders
funny you say that when I came there in the 70's it was reasonably friendly like a large country town, but then there seemed to be a mass invasion from all over the place as more government infrastructure was developed and it lost it's big country town feel, the people became snarly even to the point of down right rude that is when I decide that I had to get out of there, ..... best move I ever made