I moved to North Little Rock, AR and randomly landed a job working in a school. The assistant principal and I struck up a conversation one day about living in the north vs. living in the south—my accent was pretty novel there, as you might expect. She asked me where I was from originally so I told her I was from Maine. She got excited and said she loved visiting her cousins in Maine and visited every few years. She thought I was crazy when I asked her cousin’s name, and sure enough, I knew the cousin. She was a former coworker. The only one not shocked was me! Lol