In the past, the access to Connecticut was only from New York. Many people did not even try to get there and instead trained where the normal playground is, and did it within Roleplay.
People like them massing around Malta, for example, have always led to something interesting in the end, with a decision to start something somewhere against Corsairs or IMG. Or they had visitors who wanted to take advantage of their presence and interact with them, either with type type RP, or pew pew RP.
People are drawn to activity.
The lack of Connecticut does not stop us from training anywhere we can if we really want to.