[JViello]

Originally Posted by jj±25385682

Lol -- that's funny. I don't know where your neighbor lived but we live in the woods, and with only one exception, every home I've lived in over the last three or four decades has been in the woods. In Indiana. Your neighbor must be from northern IN -- pigs, corn and soybeans. :-)

Your setting sounds fantastic! Those are all things we value. Glad to hear about the diversity of cuisines/restaurants.

Thanks!!

They were from Indy...suburbs.

It's pretty typical for CT to have access to everything but travel a few miles and feel like you are way out there. I'm on 2 acres, have deer, turkey, fishercats, coyote, fox etc but I'm less than 5 to the highway, downtown and farms.

CT is NOT light on cuisine. There is just about everything and anything you want here in some form.

[bomgd3]

Originally Posted by JViello

Nah, it's not that far, it's 5 miles away...and I don't think you are following the conversation. UCONN is spending millions to create a "town center" from nothing. They SHOULD get involved with downtown Willi...just like Yale has with New Haven.

I don't have much to say about whether Storrs Downtown is a "good" idea (economically? socially?) or not. However, not having a college town was one of the primary factors that led me to go to a midwestern Big Ten school instead of UConn right out of high school. Building up Willimantic would not have helped, as part of the point of a campus town is the walkability. Just my two cents.

[jj&pm]

Originally Posted by JViello

They were from Indy...suburbs.

It's pretty typical for CT to have access to everything but travel a few miles and feel like you are way out there. I'm on 2 acres, have deer, turkey, fishercats, coyote, fox etc but I'm less than 5 to the highway, downtown and farms.

CT is NOT light on cuisine. There is just about everything and anything you want here in some form.

Yeah, I should have said, "... or an urban area." Thanks for your input. Paints an appealing picture!