They love the small town rituals and so on that they're not a part of. They're not really part of it, but they like being in a place where it's happening. As a sense of place just 125 miles on the other side of the state is quite different. There's a nickname for this part of the state. The quiet corner.
Some people laugh at that.
It isn't that quiet, but I think it's well named. If you fly over here in an airplane from Washington to Boston, you will find this is still a dark area in the whole eastern megalopolis. I think sometimes they feel they're in Massachusetts, because it's so close to the media there. Commercial, CT Broadcasters Association You live here. You don't live here.