I live in a rural area, near an Ivy League college. The meetings near the college are much more therapy/advice-driven than the meetings out in the sticks. The rural meetings are focused on sharing ESH. I stay out in the sticks as much as I can. There is the added benefit for me that these more direct souls see immediately through my BS, something I need. The college sophisticates tend to think I'm actually saying something when I am just juggling conceptual bon mots, a unfortunate tendency of mine. I need to be called on that stuff, so that I get around to saying stuff truthful.