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Old 01-10-2014, 08:43 PM
 
Location: Northeast states
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Agreed. Go to some bad areas of Detroit or Chicago for real perspective on what dangerous is.

I guess Hartford North End is not dangerous enough
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Old 01-11-2014, 08:02 AM
 
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We'll have to agree to disagree about Bridgeport being a bigger cesspool than Waterbury. Bridgeport still has plenty of bleed-over from Fairfield and New York and a fair number of major corporations/law firms/etc downtown. Waterbury has nothing. My friend worked at a law firm in Waterbury for a summer and complained that there was literally nowhere decent for them to get lunch during the day. You wouldn't have that issue in Bridgeport.
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Old 01-11-2014, 08:34 AM
 
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We'll have to agree to disagree about Bridgeport being a bigger cesspool than Waterbury. Bridgeport still has plenty of bleed-over from Fairfield and New York and a fair number of major corporations/law firms/etc downtown. Waterbury has nothing. My friend worked at a law firm in Waterbury for a summer and complained that there was literally nowhere decent for them to get lunch during the day. You wouldn't have that issue in Bridgeport.
Then your friend needs to look around.
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Old 01-11-2014, 10:01 AM
 
Location: Northeast states
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Restaurants downtown Waterbury, CT


There numer of Law Firms, Major Corporations in Waterbury your freind is lazy
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Old 01-11-2014, 10:50 AM
 
Location: Coastal Connecticut
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I guess Hartford North End is not dangerous enough
Not compared to bad areas of Detroit, no.
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Old 01-11-2014, 02:01 PM
 
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Agreed. Go to some bad areas of Detroit or Chicago for real perspective on what dangerous is.
Yes there are worse areas in the country such as areas in Detroit and Chicago but that Doesn't mean that Hartford north end and Bridgeport are not dangerous. Waterbury is not as dangerous as places like Hartford but it is still a bad place and it is impossible to say it is nice. I live quite close to waterbury and go there often and I constantly feel depressed when going there. The downtown area is awful. Right around the green is ok but other than that, there are few nice neighborhoods there. I don't think the city of waterbury will ever go back to being a nice city...and overall CT is slowly getting worse and worse and every bigger city is bad here.
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Old 01-11-2014, 03:43 PM
 
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Yes there are worse areas in the country such as areas in Detroit and Chicago but that Doesn't mean that Hartford north end and Bridgeport are not dangerous. Waterbury is not as dangerous as places like Hartford but it is still a bad place and it is impossible to say it is nice. I live quite close to waterbury and go there often and I constantly feel depressed when going there. The downtown area is awful. Right around the green is ok but other than that, there are few nice neighborhoods there. I don't think the city of waterbury will ever go back to being a nice city...and overall CT is slowly getting worse and worse and every bigger city is bad here.

You definitely can't say that about Stamford.
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Old 01-11-2014, 04:53 PM
 
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You definitely can't say that about Stamford.
That is true, I forgot to mention Stamford, but it is really the only one that is nice.
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Old 01-12-2014, 11:00 AM
 
Location: Connecticut
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Yes there are worse areas in the country such as areas in Detroit and Chicago but that Doesn't mean that Hartford north end and Bridgeport are not dangerous. Waterbury is not as dangerous as places like Hartford but it is still a bad place and it is impossible to say it is nice. I live quite close to waterbury and go there often and I constantly feel depressed when going there. The downtown area is awful. Right around the green is ok but other than that, there are few nice neighborhoods there. I don't think the city of waterbury will ever go back to being a nice city...and overall CT is slowly getting worse and worse and every bigger city is bad here.
Spoken like a true suburbanite living in a rural suburb. What major city does not have bad areas? What major city does not have poverty and crime? Even cities like Boston and New York have bad areas (many in fact) but the difference is that Connecticut's cities are very small in area so crime statistics tend to be skewed. I am not saying you are wrong about Waterbury but Hartford, Bridgeport and New Haven overall are not much different than comparable metropolitain areas of their sixe. Jay
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Old 01-12-2014, 12:25 PM
 
Location: Coastal Connecticut
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That is true, I forgot to mention Stamford, but it is really the only one that is nice.
New Haven still has problem areas, but you can't deny it's been getting better every year for the past decade and is on the trajectory for improving, not declining.

Even Bridgeport and Hartford's crime has been declining.

Why so negative?
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