Wouldn't putting him in a small town kind of limit his operations? He's not like Superman or Wonder Woman who can fly to the emergency at hand, he's pretty much a stationary character. Unless they did a road trip type story where he traveled the country (which could be a cool story I think) but even that he would need a reason to be on the move like that, a compelling reason or you end up with the JMS Superman Road Trip story that went no where fast.