I’ve lived in the South and West most of my life. The oldness of the Northeast blows my mind. My cousin lives in Haddonfield, near Philadelphia, in a mid-1800s house at an astounding cost.
As North American settlements go it is old here; I always wondered if that Haddonfield was the one in “Halloween” (mostly because people have told me Halloween isn’t celebrated with the same gusto in other parts of the country as it is here - I assume due to the large numbers of Celtic settlers).