Should CT be considered part of New England? (Boston, Avon: home, high school)

[CaseyB]

Originally Posted by willdufauve

That's interesting history but let's be honest. In New England we don't like New Yorkers. It's because of the way they say "cawfee" and maybe something to do with being a little pushy.

Ct is just a little too close for comfort for me. I'm glad to have it there as a buffer between us and NYC but I'm not going so far as to say Ct is actually part of New England.

Are you serious? You didn't know that Connecticut is one of the 6 New England States? I guess you must have been raised somewhere else, or never had to do geography projects in elementary school.

[baystater]

Originally Posted by baystater

Honestly I don't care. Connecticut people can make up there own mind if they want to be considered part of New England or not. But I feel Connecticut would like better to be known as part of New England than what people in NYC/Northern NJ consider it. That is the huge parking lot for NYC.

Originally Posted by JWatertown

What are you talking about? New Jersey is more of a parking lot for NY than CT. Have you ever even been to the NY suburbs in the SW part of the state; they are among the wealthiest, most desirable towns in the country e.g. Greenwich, New Canaan, Darien, etc. CT is not a parking lot for NYC, its where NYC's CEOs and Investment Bankers live. New Yorkers think CT is gorgeous and MANY summer here, CT comes with the added bonus of welcoming people from NY and being kind unike people from MA.

Relax guy. Please reread what I wrote. I never said that believe that Connecticut was a parking lot. I just telling you what the folks down in NYC and NJ are saying. And I agree with you about NJ being a parking lot for NYC. Can't speak to SW New York.

[nhctguy]

As a resident of Southern CT, I don't think there is much similarity between the people of southern CT and the rest of New England.

Yes the architecture is similar but the reality is that in this part of CT, there are many people like me, who love New England (specifically Boston) but are tied to NYC - I often work in manhattan, read the Times and NY Post, watch NY tv stations, and spend many weekend nights in the city.

I will say that anything in Northern and Eastern Ct is def part of New England. Don't let us obnoxious people down here ruin it for the whole state. haha.

[Mark_CT]

Originally Posted by missionhill

What's the difference? Not much. Founded by the same group of Puritans

You could not be more incorrect. Connecticut started out as a DUTCH colony founded by settlers from New Amsterdam (New York). Hartford was settled on a peninsula of land known as DUTCH POINT by Dutch fur traders and one can clearly see the Dutch history in the names of the streets in Hartford:

E.g.
Van Dyke Avenue
Huyshope Avenue
Vredendale Avenue
Van Block Avenue
Hendricxson Avenue
etc...

It surprises me how many people are so ignorant and do not know our historical connection to New York... which by the way came before any connections to Boston.

[spark240]

Of course western Connecticut has affinity for New York City. How could it not? The edges of every state always show influence from the neighboring territory, and the biggest cities will always broadcast their vibes farthest.

The state of Connecticut is still part of New England.

If you think any part of CT is sort of really part of New York City, you haven't heard a real New Yorker's opinion on the matter.

[missionhill]

Originally Posted by Mark_CT

You could not be more incorrect.

Lets not speak too quickly of ignorance. Hartford, Wethersfield and Windsor, the founding towns of the Connecticut colony, were English settlements founded by settlers from the Massachusetts Bay colony in Cambridge. Connecticut was from the beginning a New England colony. Yes the Dutch established a trading post there earlier--in fact, New Netherlands claimed all the territory between the Hudson and the Connecticut. But the English routed the Dutch without a fight, leaving the fertile valley open to English settlement from Massachusetts Bay and pushed the border much farther west, beyond the Housatonic, more or less to where the border still is. Those towns date, I think, to 1636, only a few years after the Mass Bay Colony was established.

[professorsenator]

Any place in CT served by MetroNorth Railroad is NOT New England--these places are best identified as "RichaNewYawkas" (Bridgeport and parts of New Haven excepted)

[willdufauve]

Originally Posted by CaseyB

Are you serious? You didn't know that Connecticut is one of the 6 New England States? I guess you must have been raised somewhere else, or never had to do geography projects in elementary school.

You poor thing. Of course I'm not being serious. I'm being a wise a**.

[Mark_CT]

Originally Posted by missionhill

New Netherlands claimed all the territory between the Hudson and the Connecticut. The English routed the Dutch without a fight.

As was the case with New York a few years later.

[HeadedWest]

Originally Posted by skytrekker

Connecticut is very much New England-and has little identity with New York in any way.

Fairfield County looks like New England but it is flying under false colors. Socially, it is the hyper-aggressive money culture of NYC.