I agree with you.
Have a few people on vacation scouting out a place for us up in that area right now.
We are fed up with the criminal oligarchy here in Oklahoma. It will never change.
Haven't seen the movie, Killer of the Flower Moon. Someday I will.
There is a very good reason for the birth of the FBI because of the criminal elite here in Oklahoma.
Massachusetts crime is extremely localized. Look how the stats skew just by removing the 5 most troublesome towns/cities which house only 5% of the state's population...
Result: a 36% drop in violent crime.
BTW North Adams is mostly white...but it is hillbilly territory where everybody has a closet full of guns and aren't afraid to use them. I had hillbilly cousins living up there.
Speaking of the "old days" my family went through this same scene when my dad drove us all up multiple times to meet my mother's cousins in North Adams back in the late 70's and early 80s.
Clark is going through the same uneasiness as my Dad. Meanwhile we three kids were doing massive WTF's.
My mom actually made us pick out stuff from our toy and game collections to give to them because they were so poor. Luckily we had outgrown most of it so it wasn't too much of a personal hit. Other than GI Joe stuff I can't even remember what games and other stuff we gave them. Seems we had this big box that we threw in "all the stuff that sucked".
They lived in what looked like a house made from a double-wide with carpets that had dog pee stains. They did have some guitars and amps and were completely obsessed with REO Speedwagon.
The whole time we had to deal with hearing this song over and over and over and over and over.
REO Speedwagon - Keep on Loving You (Video Version)

My brother and I were like this.
We were listening to this:
AC/DC - Back In Black (Official 4K Video)
The Cars - Let's Go