trappedslider
Legend
For a short time there was the 50-State Initiative in Marvel's main earth 616, which was pretty cool since the idea was that each state would have it's own team of heroes.You may not realize, but... You asked everyone about their relationship to the fiction. But, the positioning on your responses is to argue with our relationship. I get that the locations I mentioned may not make them more relatable for you. But you asked what makes them more relatable to us. If they are more relatable to more people (the audience bieng primarily American), then they are more relatable in general, even if they don't connect to you.
There's a joke floating around that the only Hero who really knows how to manage stuff is Daredevil because instead of attempting to save a world or city, he's micromanaging the hell out of 10 blocks in midtown Manhattan.