Small Towns

There's something I never quite get about small towns.
People move there because they want to be "Where everyone knows your name". It's like a protective safety thing, because everybody knows everybody's business. But for some reason, it seems harder for small town people to trust eachother with their 'stuff'. My cousin, in driving through Maine, felt immediately unwelcome. But people who grew up here never seem to want to leave. What's that all about?