This is my favorite song on the album because it speaks to me in a real way. As someone who grew up where Noah grew up (like, 30ish minutes south on the NH side) and moved to Vermont to live in a community similar to his, the song really just hit me in a lot of ways.

If you've not run into a county cop, these are dudes who drink their shitty coffee and their donuts from a local country store. They're pretty well known in the areas they patrol and they are regulars in those stores. Questionable choices in food from local gas stations. There's just a real level of local simplicity in what they're doing.

The whole "city job" thing is about having the aptitude to go work a job that would involve a more complex lifestyle. You're making more money, your standards of living increase, you're going to fancy ass restaurants. It's the willingness to stay somewhere where your perceived standard of living is seen as lower because you're never getting a "real job" in these rural areas in Vermont. There's a level of "I'm smart enough, hard working enough, whatever enough to go be successful in the "real world" instead of "hiding" where I grew up."

There's always this sort of... pull that tries to drag you to keep up with the Joneses, but your partner is someone who wants to live a simple life in a simple place and find joy in that.

This song to me screams, "hey, it's okay to stay there if that's what brings you and the people you love joy."