[EricS39]

Originally Posted by Tetto

I don't think you left Florida, i'm betting they threw you out.

No but there is a long long long way to mountains for Floridians. 12-hour drive to Asheville, North Carolina. It's quite the drive

[EricS39]

Tired of the people who say:

I don't care for the seasons
I don't care for the hills
I don't care for the cuisine
I don't care to be a metro north $10 dollar fare ride away from grabs central station, nor to be an hour's drive from Boston
I don't care for bear mountain
Or Hosmer birch beer nor Averie's
Or fresh chowder
Or black box theatre
Or homemade manufactured denim jeans
Or antique museums
Or Ivy League crowds
Or real artways
Or towns with common activities for all ages
Or trolley museums
Or cider mills
Or hidden archives
Or scenic drives
Or romantic inns
Or folksy music
Fresh dairy produce
One-way tunnel streets
Hidden gems
Creameries
Foxwoods
Mystic seaports
Indoor amusement parks
Mark twain house
Train shows
Bright nights
No no no

I just want my McDonald's and big house with 10 acres of land and my shotgun to stand my ground

So Umm I notice it's so much more expensive here than okahumpka, Texas . Ummm Why is it so expensive here? " not that I spend it on anything worthwhile...just like to see my 8-figure 401k balance get bigger by putting 200% of my salary in deferred retirement and in CT I can't because people have too high a quality standard of living for me ?

Ummmm maybe I'll just settle for the bad part of North Hartford ummm this is bad? Why is it so bad here? Yea yea yea it's too expensive for my 10 acres of land

[CLees]

Originally Posted by EricS39

Tired of the people who say:

I don't care for the seasons
I don't care for the hills
I don't care for the cuisine
I don't care to be a metro north $10 dollar fare ride away from grabs central station, nor to be an hour's drive from Boston
I don't care for bear mountain
Or Hosmer birch beer nor Averie's
Or fresh chowder
Or black box theatre
Or homemade manufactured denim jeans
Or antique museums
Or Ivy League crowds
Or real artways
Or towns with common activities for all ages
Or trolley museums
Or cider mills
Or hidden archives
Or scenic drives
Or romantic inns
Or folksy music
Fresh dairy produce
One-way tunnel streets
Hidden gems
Creameries
Foxwoods
Mystic seaports
Indoor amusement parks
Mark twain house
Train shows
Bright nights
No no no

I just want my McDonald's and big house with 10 acres of land and my shotgun to stand my ground

So Umm I notice it's so much more expensive here than okahumpka, Texas . Ummm Why is it so expensive here? " not that I spend it on anything worthwhile...just like to see my 8-figure 401k balance get bigger by putting 200% of my salary in deferred retirement and in CT I can't because people have too high a quality standard of living for me ?

Ummmm maybe I'll just settle for the bad part of North Hartford ummm this is bad? Why is it so bad here? Yea yea yea it's too expensive for my 10 acres of land

Thank you for exisiting my friend. Its sad that the people like us who enjoy the einderful little things in life are such a minority.

[nep321]

Originally Posted by EricS39

Tired of the people who say:

I don't care for the seasons
I don't care for the hills
I don't care for the cuisine
I don't care to be a metro north $10 dollar fare ride away from grabs central station, nor to be an hour's drive from Boston
I don't care for bear mountain
Or Hosmer birch beer nor Averie's
Or fresh chowder
Or black box theatre
Or homemade manufactured denim jeans
Or antique museums
Or Ivy League crowds
Or real artways
Or towns with common activities for all ages
Or trolley museums
Or cider mills
Or hidden archives
Or scenic drives
Or romantic inns
Or folksy music
Fresh dairy produce
One-way tunnel streets
Hidden gems
Creameries
Foxwoods
Mystic seaports
Indoor amusement parks
Mark twain house
Train shows
Bright nights
No no no

I just want my McDonald's and big house with 10 acres of land and my shotgun to stand my ground

So Umm I notice it's so much more expensive here than okahumpka, Texas . Ummm Why is it so expensive here? " not that I spend it on anything worthwhile...just like to see my 8-figure 401k balance get bigger by putting 200% of my salary in deferred retirement and in CT I can't because people have too high a quality standard of living for me ?

Ummmm maybe I'll just settle for the bad part of North Hartford ummm this is bad? Why is it so bad here? Yea yea yea it's too expensive for my 10 acres of land

Almost all of those things are things that only old people care about. New England is old school and for old people.

[CLees]

Originally Posted by nep321

Almost all of those things are things that only old people care about. New England is old school and for old people.

Nep..you try to present yourself as educated and analytical but you refuse to see the draw of a state that preserves the old ways? If you were stuck in florida you would love to come back to ct and embrace all of our realness, for lack of a better word..

[nep321]

Originally Posted by CLees

Nep..you try to present yourself as educated and analytical but you refuse to see the draw of a state that preserves the old ways? If you were stuck in florida you would love to come back to ct and embrace all of our realness, for lack of a better word..

Well no, but I just think that CT is very old school, with no new infrastructure or construction, a lack of young adults, and a very provincial family oriented mentality. IMO all of these things are major negatives.

[EricS39]

Originally Posted by nep321

Well no, but I just think that CT is very old school, with no new infrastructure or construction, a lack of young adults, and a very provincial family oriented mentality. IMO all of these things are major negatives.

You haven't spent too much time in New Haven on the green, Stoors, Stamford, West Hartford town center,

What you have is actually what enabled me to find a very conventional future spouse....a sort of nuclear family style of the 21st century. That is, a young generation that is more sophisticated and more educated than most other states, who carry some of the behaviors of older generations but yet have the technological skills of the 21st century. This you have. It's a young population that is small but those who are here represent a truly unique segment of our American youth.

So old traditions but not old people necessarily. Young people living on historic traditions and building their lives in the settings of a place with a rich history that grows on them everytime they see the library, the steeple, the train tracks , the central square and meeting places

West Hartford's Blue Back Square, New Haven's Chapel Street, and Mohegan are all great examples of new modern infrastructure in Connecticut. Same with new apartment complexes In East Windsor

The provincial family-oriented mentality explains why Connecticut law enforcement in countrified towns is rather lax and yet crime rates are not high. It also explains why divorce rates in Connecticut are below the national average.

[nep321]

Originally Posted by EricS39

You haven't spent too much time in New Haven on the green, Stoors, Stamford, West Hartford town center,

What you have is actually what enabled me to find a very conventional future spouse....a sort of nuclear family style of the 21st century. That is, a young generation that is more sophisticated and more educated than most other states, who carry some of the behaviors of older generations but yet have the technological skills of the 21st century. This you have.

Old traditions but not old people necessarily. Young people living on historic traditions.

West Hartford's Blue Back Square, New Haven's Chapel Street, and Mohegan are all great examples of new modern infrastructure in Connecticut. Same with new apartment complexes In East Windsor

The provincial family-oriented mentality explains why Connecticut law enforcement in countrified towns is rather lax and yet crime rates are not high. It also explains why divorce rates in Connecticut are below the national average.

So that pretty much leaves single people in their 30's in the dust, in CT.

[EricS39]

Nep321, I was a single person in my 30s. Now I met my New England family in-laws and the daughter who I will be marrying in October.

Do you want to be part of the same family? My fiancée's sister is a very sweet young lady in her mid-20s and she is single and looking. She hadn't had a lot of luck with kindred guys because she is sheltered just like the one I will be marrying. She also has a very admirable teaching job working with autistic kids in special ed, which by the way pays very well in Connecticut. Would you by chance be interested?

Or alternatively maybe you want more single fun before settling down and there's nothing wrong with that either. If that is you, take the train into Grand Central and join all the meetup groups in NYC ...go in the city on Saturdays or even weekday evenings (trust me you can pull that off and it's fun )......
You can represent Connecticut in a singles group of Tristate area "NY, NJ, CT people dining and chatting and doing karaoke, going to the meatpacking district....you can use Connecticut's proximity to NY City to your greatest advantage. It seriously isn't that far nor is it that expensive.
Your food in the city is pricier than the cost of commuting in.

-and if you make some serious friends out there, have them take metro- north into New Haven and pick them up there and take them to your town.

[HeadedWest]

Originally Posted by EricS39

It's more hours of daylight in summer than Florida you know.

The tradeoff is that delightful 4:30-ish sunset in CT on a cold winter day.