This Is Joe's Hometown

Or at least it is the closest thing to Joe's hometown that I can find a picture of. Joe grew up in the Berkshires in Western MA which is really more like upstate NY than MA. They use the Albany airport to get in and out and they think that Boston is full of weirdos and perverts.
This is Pittsfield, MA.

The Berkshires are one of the many pretend mountains in New England. They are always claiming in New England that they have mountains but really all they have is little rolling hills.

One time we drove right through the White Mountains and didn't even realize it until we had driven so far that we knew we must have missed an exit or something. So we got out our map and realized that we had passed the "mountains" a long way back. We hadn't even noticed them.

I feel the same about their "beaches" and their "waves". One thing about growing up in the Western US is that you are not easily impressed by natural wonders elsewhere.