We like it. Honestly, the major downside for me is that it's solidly suburban, pretty densely populated, and I'm not a city kind of guy. In the community, it's more relaxed feeling, and there are bunches of amenities and things to do. It's disconcerting to live with all these old people-- not kidding, I suffer constant cognitive dissonance recognizing that grandparents who look like my grandparents did were likely as not freaks at the same time I was! 
It's a nice community, even if it's bigger than most towns I've lived in. The "narrow definition" only applies here to people who want to regard it that way-- and there are some for sure.
But otherwise it's just that the folks you're sharing the experience with are the dominant age group you've always lived with, most of your life. I'm a solid boomer-- when I was a kid there were armies of kids everywhere, and when I was middle aged, that's where the American mean age group was, too. We've ridden that wave all our lives.
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