I feel like one must not only actually be and remain a New Englander but also pay the tithe that is spending dry summer days talking about nothing here in order to have that kind of status.
Always a Mid-Atlantic transplant from the start, the reality is that at best I've become one of those "church, but only on Christmas and Easter" types or its equivalent for this forum.
But, when it's snowing up there, and raining where I am -- as it so often is -- I look to the northeast of me, which is where you all are now, and give a contented nod. I hope you feel it. Do you feel it?!