There's nothing "friendly" about small stations. Typically these small airports are the ones with the worst TSA screeners, ones with too much time on their hands and that have fully imbibed the Kool-Aid and sincerely believe that they are on the front lines of the war against terror.

I'll take the jaded, go through the motions, it's a job, just here for my workfare paycheck types at really busy large urban airports.