[lukeache]

After having lived in many states in this country, I have to admit that there are very few places like Greenwich. I lived in Greenwich for 3 years and I yet have to find a community that compares to Greenwich. Greenwich is just something out of the movies, yes, it is very expensive, but the quality of life is ummatched. I am currently in Minnesota and although I love it here, if I could afford a nice home in Greenwich, Old Greenwich or even Darien, I would move back without hesitation. For those of you who can afford to live in Greenwich without being broke, I would say, go for it. My 2 years at Greenwich High School were the best of my life and I yet have to see a public high school in this country that compares to GHS. Best city in the nation!

[JayCT]

It is nice to hear that you enjoyed living in greenwich, but it is a very expensive place to buy a home. If you can afford it though, it can be great. Jay

[jeremeyk482]

Greenwich is indeed a beautiful town. Amazing schools, world class shopping and dining. So close to NYC and mass transit. I agree, it's nearly the picture-perfect town.

Family who visited from CA had heard so much about Greenwich and wanted to check it out - they were amazed with the beauty of the town. Three years later, they moved to Old Greenwich. They had to downsize a bit to live in Greenwich, but they love it. It's very expensive, but IMO, you get what you pay for.

[LoveToHug]

Yes Greenwich is nice, but it's also in the path of tons of annual dirty emissions from major polluters in the west and south. I've lived in Greenwich more than 20 years and when i've moved to another state in the south, the air is cleaner in the south and I have much fewer nasal allergies.

[skytrekker]

Originally Posted by LoveToHug

Yes Greenwich is nice, but it's also in the path of tons of annual dirty emissions from major polluters in the west and south. I've lived in Greenwich more than 20 years and when i've moved to another state in the south, the air is cleaner in the south and I have much fewer nasal allergies.

Your allegations are incorrect-Charlotte NC was recently voted as having one of the worse air pollution problems in the nation Source; EPA

[hottung25]

Southern Pines NC has very clean air as compared to Greenwich's dirty air. Source: I have residences in both places and my kids don't sneeze in Southern Pines, NC.

Originally Posted by skytrekker

Your allegations are incorrect-Charlotte NC was recently voted as having one of the worse air pollution problems in the nation Source; EPA

[skytrekker]

Originally Posted by hottung25

Southern Pines NC has very clean air as compared to Greenwich's dirty air. Source: I have residences in both places and my kids don't sneeze in Southern Pines, NC.

Charlotte was voted among the worse places in the USA for air pollution. I agree however that southwestern CT has both an ozone and particulate problem.

Also from Blue NC see State with the worst air pollution in the US? Ohio, with NC a close Second | BlueNC
North Carolina ranks second to Ohio for worse air pollution.

From CitiesMayors environment
Association

Ozone (smog)
1 Los Angeles (CA)
2 Bakersfiled (CA)
3 Visalia-Porterville (CA)
4 Fresno (CA)
5 Houston (TX)
6 Merced (CA)
7 Dallas (TX)
8 Sacramento (CA)
9 Baton Rouge (LA)
10 New York (NY)
11 Washington (DC), Baltimore (MD)
12 Philadelphia (PA)
13 Modesto (CA)
14 Hanford (CA)
15 Phoenix (AZ)
16 Charlotte (NC)
17 Las Vegas (NV)
18 Milwaukee (WI)
19 St Louis (MO)
20 El Centro (CA)
21 Kansas City (KS)
22 Beaumont (TX)
23 Chicago (IL)
24 Grand Rapids (MI)
25 Atlanta (GA)
26 Cleveland (OH)

Rank Particles:Most polluted cities
1 Los Angeles (CA)
2 Pittsburgh (PA)
3 Bakersfield (CA)
4 Birmingham (AL)
5 Detroit (MI)
6 Cleveland (OH)
7 Visalia (CA)
8 Cincinnati (OH)
9 Indianapolis (IN)
10 ST Louis (MO)
11 Chicago (IL)
12 Lancaster (PA)
13 Atlanta (GA)
14 York (PA)
15 Fresno (CA)
16 Weirton (WV)
17 Hanford (CA)
18 New York (NY)
19 Canton (OH)
20 Washington (DC) Baltimore (MD)
21 Charleston (WV)
22 Louisville (KY)
23 Huntington (WV)
24 Philadelphia (PA)
25 Hagerstown (MD)
26 Rome (GA)

Source; American Lung Association

[hottung25]

Greenwich has neither ozone nor particulate problem. Greenwich has emissions of fossil fuels from other states such as Ohio, Tennessee, and New Jersey.

Organic chemicals and acids are not ozone and not particulates. Organic chemicals and acids come into Greenwich from these power making plants and chemical companies.

These are very low quantities and have affected me on a long term basis because I have lived in Greenwich for 52 years.

You go South on I-95 for one hour just past the Newark, NJ Area, open your windows and you'll smell a huge plume of Sulfur based air for just a few minutes.

There's a petroleum cracking plant there that makes gasoline and many other basic chemicals including Benzene ( a known carcinogen).

When they crack (heat) petroleum at high temperatures, this is called Destructive Distillation and every morning they do the process over and over because that plant makes the gasoline for the tristate area. You can see the emissions rising out of the smokestacks every morning.

Do you think anyone bothers to check those emissions?

In 1999, Attorney Richard Blumenthal filed a lawsuit against Ohio's fossil fuel burning power plants because their emissions DO come to CT:

Attorney General: Lawsuit Filed Against Out-Of-State Power Plants

[skytrekker]

The problems in Greenwich are not from Greenwich- but from areas to the south and west.

The state of Connecticut has little control over the industry caused pollution, and that by auto emissions from elsewhere.
It seems that the problems with auto/truck emissions could be reduced if stringent reductions where made in the exhaust from these vehicles.However the Federal government has dragged its feet in demanding the auto manufacturers produce cleaner cars or eliminating internal combustion engines.

Thus far law suits against these other states for coal burning electricity plants and industrial sources have been largely un successful.

[hsw]

No doubt Greenwich is one of best places in world to live/work...only real comparables are Woodside, CA; BeverlyHills, CA; and LakeForest, IL...each has interesting strengths and weaknesses

Would observe that, in past 5yrs, Greenwich has shown an amusing ability to prostitute itself to speculative developers, who've left Greenwich w/?dozens of often-poorly built, $10MM+ houses that are unsold...and likely to remain unsold for yrs, given that Greenwich, along w/Midtown Manhattan, are the dual epicenters of the global financial meltdown....

For years, many astute financiers have often mocked Greenwich about fact that, despite Greenwich's allegedly long history of affluence, desirable land is awfully cheap and plentiful vs its peers in CA or IL...and restrictions on house size vs land, architecture, etc are rather loose...allowing ample tasteless houses to visually pollute the town....