[JViello]

Originally Posted by Dotty19

Well in my opinion it's what you make of it but thank you for your insight. It seems a little bit too much up there for me anyway going by what i've read here. (If I get accepted) i'll stick to the colleges i've applied to down here.

Just curious...what seem "a little bit too much"?

[JayCT]

Originally Posted by Dotty19

Well in my opinion it's what you make of it but thank you for your insight. It seems a little bit too much up there for me anyway going by what i've read here. (If I get accepted) i'll stick to the colleges i've applied to down here.

Another one of those, "this makes me want to scream" moments. Don't let the posts of a few very negative people throw you. Despite what they say and the statistics they throw out, Hartford metro area is as safe , if not safer, than any other similar sized city. The statistics get skewed because Hartford itself is very small, include only the urban core of the region and any crime rate calculation is increased because there are no safer suburban areas included in them. Jay

[JayCT]

Originally Posted by jaydez

here you go

America's ten worst driving cities

This is just Allstate's statistics and I am not sure how big an insurer they are in Hartford. Also are they including the metropolitan region or just Hartford itself in its rates. This makes a big difference in a statistic. Major cities down south and out west include suburban areas while here in the northeast those areas are not included. Maybe that is why the list seems to have more northeast cities. Jay

[bomgd3]

Looks like we scared her away with too many real life decisions.

[Stylo]

Or too much paranoid, irrational negativity.

Also - to everyone that says the Hartford metro is so expensive should try living in the Stamford area, or NYC, or Boston, or just about any other major metro on the eastern seaboard north of DC.

[missionhill]

Originally Posted by brandonfromseattle

The city is small but very urban, everything is paved and the parks here are not very nice (Elizabeth Park is OK but nothing to brag about).

If you want to live in a small city that is definitly a CITY then I'd say give Hartford a go. People on here talk about West Hartford like it is some kind of great place but I think it is pretty much a garbage dump (crappy chain stores) full of garbage people (snooty wannabe rich losers).

Interesting perspective... Certainly unfair as to West Hartford but I like the idea of Hartford being the more attractive of the two. Seems funny to be so often recommending people consider WH over H for having a lively downtown--isn't the city supposed to be the lively one and the suburb a sedate family community? Brandon has turned things around: Hartford is the real deal and WH the phony.

Hartford has beautiful parks but if you're comparing to Seattle that's tough competition.

[CourageMom]

Here you are... GUYS... probably big strong men pooh-poohing the stats..
I was putting in my 2 cents because I was pointing something out to a woman who might want to decide for herself if she wants to look over her shoulder or not.

and Mr. Know-it-all --->>> as you stated, saying it with the arrogance of FRED FLINTSTONE :
I LOVE WHEN PEOPLE FROM ANOTHER STATE TRY AND PIN DOWN SOMETHING LOCAL

I lived there for 50 years.. trust me.. I know Hartford.. and if you want to feel some kind of satisfaction while Lording over the denial
then here's gift to you: Nobody makes a Sfogliatelle quite like Mozzicato's.
You cannot get pastry that good anywhere.. well, maybe across at Modern.
It was a sad day when Michele died in 08'.

ALLOW PEOPLE TO HAVE THEIR OPINIONS FOR HEAVEN'S SAKES.. let the others decide and investigate on their own.

[MikefromCT]

Originally Posted by missionhill

Interesting perspective... Certainly unfair as to West Hartford but I like the idea of Hartford being the more attractive of the two.

I really could care less what he says - he's not that bright. I encouraged him to drive down Park Road or through Elmwood Center to get a different perspective other than what BBS/WHC offers (which even here has lots of independent businesses and restaurants). But hey, if he's comfortable living in a modern day South Bronx, so be it.

To live in Hartford and call WH trashy? That's like being called a douchebag by Andy Dick.

Hartford has beautiful parks but if you're comparing to Seattle that's tough competition.

Elizabeth Park (run by Hartford park commission) and Bushnell are both beautiful. Other parks, not so much. Keney I wouldn't go near during the day, I've got stories for the ages on that place.

[CourageMom]

You tell 'em MIKEY!!!

[Dotty19]

Originally Posted by JViello

Just curious...what seem "a little bit too much"?

It just doesn't seem worth it. Why move 7 hours away to a place with high crime and bad driving conditions. The school outside of DC I withdrew from was in an area exactly the same but it wasn't 7 hours away. Seems to me I might as well go to a school just as good (or better) that's set somewhere closer to home and not crime ridden.

Originally Posted by Jbomgd3

Looks like we scared her away with too many real life decisions.

First; him. And second I don't fully understand what you mean by that...?