Spent half of my growing up years in South Lancaster (which is probably one of the more conservative towns in the state), the other half in Warwick (it has a population of 750). My parents and their friends were mostly republican/conservative minded, but when we kids started noticing some of friends were LGBTQ+ our parents made it very clear that all people are people, and people love each other. That was pretty much it. In comparison I live in Indiana now and one of my republican coworkers participated in “gay hunts” as a teen (I didn’t ask for specifics on that; figured it was probably best not to know).

Massachusetts is one of the best places to live anyway, but it’s also very accepting of all people that can drive to our standards. The culture may be a little shocking; it’s been said that the west coast is polite but not nice and the east coast isn’t polite but is nice. We will help you with anything but will find every possible iteration of stupid known to humanity and call you it. Just brace yourself.