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Old 01-19-2021, 06:04 AM
 
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I was in the Census Quickfacts portal yesterday. When did Massachusetts pass Connecticut for median household income? Maryland is $84k. Massachusetts is $81k. Connecticut is $78k. Connecticut is the highest of the three in per-capita income.

 
Old 01-19-2021, 06:31 AM
 
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Not a fan of great food, museums, performing arts? To each their own.
I like MOMA, and many suburban restaurants, as well as Broadway. Can't wait for the latter to return.
 
Old 01-19-2021, 09:04 AM
 
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Why are you locked out of great food, museums, and performing arts living in a coastal suburb? This is Connecticut cities, right? I could accept the argument about NYC.

I’d rather be a mile from the beach and 0.7 from the boat slip. We all have our lifestyle preferences.
It's not a matter of living in the New Haven vs a coastal suburb. It's about wanting to have access to do a decent urban area and the value that that brings. New Haven offers a lot value to the surrounding areas for people who bother to get to know the city and take advantage of it. If people are stuck in the mindset that New Haven is what it was in 91, you are missing out. People are minimizing the positives of New Haven.
 
Old 01-19-2021, 09:48 AM
 
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Agree. I’ve walked around Norwalk and Danbury at night many times, even when both cities had higher crime rates than they do now, without even a hint of an issue.

And on New Haven, I assure the others that ducking under a car to avoid gunfire is not a normal occurrence unless you’re in a bad neighborhood (but, why?) and have awful timing. I have dozens of friends and colleagues that live, work, and play in New Haven without incident. FWIW, the city’s crime rate has dropped since 10 years ago, along with every other city in CT except maybe Waterbury.

There are also plenty of nice, safe areas in New Haven besides where the Ivy League campus resides. Westville, Prospect Hill, East Rock, and Wooster Square are arguably the nicest residential area and, aside from a relatively small part of East Rock, aren’t part of the campus.

That said, Norwalk and Danbury are barely proper cities. They are suburbs with some urban-ish areas.

Last time (2 months ago) I was walking during the DAY around Yale, with my daughters, I had an aggressive bum approach us. He thought we were tourist from Wisconsin who never got out of suburbia, and easy "prey."

After the exchange he kept following us around for a couple of blocks. You don't do that to us raised on the streets of Quuens & Brooklyn unless you are willing to throw a dice on your life. My daughters had to talk to me and my self-control knew better. Probably he would get me in trouble, and I don't need that.

And this was just for a stroll mid-day around Yale. I don't need that.

I have walked downtown Danbury and Norwalk at night, and neither feel safe. I would not allow my daughters to walk there, and these two girls went thru NYC public schools, rode the subways, still do, have seen and been in all kinds of circumstances, so these girls are no strangers to trouble. I can tell you a lot of stories.

I still walk nights on Pennsylvania Ave Brooklyn, or LIC projects, or Mott-Haven (138th St) in the Bronx. And not too worried. I know how to handle myself and what image to project. But I can't help that I am 51 year old, white male, with some grey hair now, dress nice, and absolutely from the distance, and until you got close or even talked to me -- one would look at me as prey in the wrong place, wrong time. And robbing me would probably get you $ 1,000 easy money. That's what they think.
 
Old 01-19-2021, 06:13 PM
 
Location: Coastal Connecticut
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I like MOMA, and many suburban restaurants, as well as Broadway. Can't wait for the latter to return.
Yale Art Gallery is like a baby MoMa/Met combined. More than enough to spend an afternoon at. You’re missing out if you haven’t been.
 
Old 01-19-2021, 06:17 PM
 
Location: Coastal Connecticut
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Why are you locked out of great food, museums, and performing arts living in a coastal suburb? This is Connecticut cities, right? I could accept the argument about NYC.

I’d rather be a mile from the beach and 0.7 from the boat slip. We all have our lifestyle preferences.
There are great restaurants all over the coast but cultural outlets are limited. New Haven has more than every town on the coast westward to Greenwich combined.

Agree with WestRiverTraveler.

And it wasn’t a matter of living there, just being afraid of New Haven to the point where you don’t take advantage of all its great amenities despite living near it.
 
Old 01-19-2021, 08:25 PM
 
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Yale Art Gallery is like a baby MoMa/Met combined. More than enough to spend an afternoon at. You’re missing out if you haven’t been.
Actually not. My favorite part of MoMa are the Cloisters (Fort Tryon Park), which is an oasis in NYC. So far above the city without being inside a building like the Freedom Tower..great museum plus great spot for a picnic outside once it is warm..due to the incredible view.

I first went due to an assignment in a Religious Art class at Fordham decades ago..one visit I was hooked.
 
Old 01-20-2021, 09:32 AM
 
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I was in the Census Quickfacts portal yesterday. When did Massachusetts pass Connecticut for median household income? Maryland is $84k. Massachusetts is $81k. Connecticut is $78k. Connecticut is the highest of the three in per-capita income.
I’m pretty sure it’s been that way for years now. It has to do with how those numbers are calculated.
If you look at personal income you will see Connecticut is the highest. Personal income includes wages, proprietors' income, dividends, interest, rents, and government benefits. Jay

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/release/...257197&rid=110
 
Old 01-20-2021, 10:50 AM
 
Location: Connecticut
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One would put Waterbury, New London, New Britain, Hartford, Torrington, Norwich, Norwalk, or even Danbury above many other comparable cities? ANY city? Seriously?!

Oh, I forgot Bridgeport.

Besides Stamford (which is really like an annex of NYC) and the Yale area of New Haven, I can’t think of another city in CT that I would want to walk around when is dark. And I am no stranger to rough...
I’m so sick of people here under appreciating our cities and state. Enough of the unfair comparisons.

What is wrong with Hartford, Norwalk, New Haven or Danbury? They are major cities and employment centers that are important parts of large metro areas. They are diverse and offer much in the way of employment opportunities, entertainment, dining, healthcare and quality of life amenities. How are they different or less than say cities like Richmond, Louisville, Buffalo or Salt Lake City? These are all metro areas about the size of Hartford and they have nothing on us.

Hartford is still, by far, the insurance Capitol of the world. It is the second largest employment center in New England. It has many financial, defense and tech companies and is certainly as nice as any of the other companies sized cities.

New Haven is home to one of our countries very top universities. It is has a Top 20 hospital and is a major center for biomedical research and development. Again as nice as any similar sized city.

Norwalk is home to a high number of corporations including General Electric, Xerox, Frontier Communications, Priceline, Booking Holdings, Datto and Emcor. With a median household income of over $82,474, it’s pretty affluent. It has a diverse population, a wonderful dining scene and one of the country’s newest upscale shopping malls.

Danbury is a small but fairly attractive city in the foothills of the Berkshire Mountains. It has a number of major companies there like Praxair, Branson, Ethan Allen and Amphenol. It has many beautiful neighborhoods, good dining and entertainment options and one of the largest and best shopping malls in the state, if not the northeast.

Even Bridgeport, though a shell of its former great manufacturing self, is still a large employment center. It’s a very diverse city with some wonderful dining and entertainment options. It’s also the center of a very affluent metropolitan area.

New London is home to the US Coast Guard Academy and is center to a metro area that includes a major submarine base, a major submarine building center, two of our country’s largest casinos, our state’s largest tourist destination and a large medical research and development center.

The other cities you list are not major centers. They are older mill cities and towns. Every state has them, even the ones people like to point to as growing. Why are we any different? We aren’t. Jay
 
Old 01-22-2021, 06:42 PM
 
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Looks like Comcast has made the decision to shutter NBC Sports (which I believe is in Stamford). I can’t really find any additional stories on it. Every article seems to be related how it will impact that specific sport. Wonder what impact willl have on the work force in Stamford.

Update: Stamford advocate is saying no jobs cuts...that’s a great thing. I can’t believe they employee 900 people in Stamford. That’s a huge employer in Stamford.

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