Twisted….
no apology necessary. My parents and older siblings left NYC for Nerw Haven in 1952 and I was born there. They did not live in rural CT. Mid 1950s New Haven had more than 20 shuls, 12 kosher butchers, 12 kosher bakeries, shotchim, mohelim, sofrim, yeshivos, etc and more than 30,000 Jews (1/4 of the population.
My next older sister married a boy from New Haven, whose mother and grandmother had been born in the farming community of Colchester. The orthodox community lasted about 75 years.