[ABQConvict]

In livestock terms, it is called culling. In business terms, it is called streamlining.

If Ct. Is overburdened with a potential workforce that can't make it, it only makes sense that there should be an out migration.

Some say, 'If you are not growing, you are dying'. A shortsighted opinion.

[nep321]

Many of these popular places are getting out of control with housing prices, rents and traffic. The following metropolitan areas are now officially getting expensive:

Raleigh, NC
Austin, TX
Las Vegas, NV
Minneapolis, MN
Phoenix, AZ

Moving from CT to Raleigh or Austin for cost of living reasons is an unacceptable reason nowadays. Those places are now almost just as expensive as CT.

[howdydoody342]

Originally Posted by jamesa123

One thing that questions me is that if the most people leaving your state are going to NY or MA, why move out of CT? I get that people want to be closer to their jobs but why if other reasons?

because u think people want to commute to boston from CT or to NYC from CT everyday? That could almost become a 2 hour commute each way.

[JayCT]

And yet somehow Connecticut is still a high income state with a reasonable unemployment rate. My company and several others I know are hiring people from out of state. We have hired people from Kansas, New Hampshire, New York and Rhode Island in the last several months. Other companies I know are bringing people in from the southwest (Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona), California, and Oregon plus a few others. The world today is much smaller than even a generation ago. Jay

[Sigequinox]

when you remove FFC from CT it's not all that different than other middle class areas in terms of wages. Some industries might pay well, but others do not. Biotech doesn't pay much more in CT than anywhere else (nor is there much opportunity). Not even the brand new, subsidized and uber flashy Jackson Labs pays well. A lab tech or scientist at JAXGM (of which I know quite a few) can make the same or very similar wage in states with much lower COL. The turnover at JAX is no different than anywhere else far as I can tell. The problem is that people leaving JAX are going to Boston. oops.

Maybe accountants and bankers make disproportionate wages and have ample opportunity in CT, but the tech sector needs much improvement. As an ambitious and high energy millennial, I will not be waiting around to see if it ever does.

[JayCT]

Originally Posted by Sigequinox

when you remove FFC from CT it's not all that different than other middle class areas in terms of wages. Some industries might pay well, but others do not. Biotech doesn't pay much more in CT than anywhere else (nor is there much opportunity). Not even the brand new, subsidized and uber flashy Jackson Labs pays well. A lab tech or scientist at JAXGM (of which I know quite a few) can make the same or very similar wage in states with much lower COL. The turnover at JAX is no different than anywhere else far as I can tell. The problem is that people leaving JAX are going to Boston. oops.

Maybe accountants and bankers make disproportionate wages and have ample opportunity in CT, but the tech sector needs much improvement. As an ambitious and high energy millennial, I will not be waiting around to see if it ever does.

This is not true. The average income for metro Hartford is nearly $55,000 and it was just ranked by Forbes as being the fourth city in the nation for income going the furthest. Hardly poor and hardly unaffordable. Jay

[paul1981]

I attended Hall High in West Hartford and nearly two-thirds of my graduating class now live out state. A large number of those who made the move were from upper middle to upper class backgrounds, with New York City and Boston being the major poles of attraction. DC, San Francisco and Portland, Oregon also seemed to attract a fair share of my former classmates, so it was not cost of living that drove them away, but wanting to live in a real city. While I'm sure someone must have moved to the "low cost" areas, I don't recall many who moved to the Carolinas or Texas, so cost of living wasn't a major factor.

[Henry10]

Originally Posted by ABQConvict

Some say, 'If you are not growing, you are dying'. A shortsighted opinion.

Not sort-sighted at all. In demographical / economic terms, if you don't grow, you die. Literally.

It's also called "holding the bag" for those that remain here, in terms of bearing the increasing "welfare" costs, for an increasing pool of recipients.

[RunD1987]

I am late twenties after being laid off from my job can A find a decent paying job over $15 an hour or B Find a great job with good psy, but only part time. I feel that is the trend in CT.

[BPt111]

Originally Posted by RunD1987

I am late twenties after being laid off from my job can A find a decent paying job over $15 an hour or B Find a great job with good psy, but only part time. I feel that is the trend in CT.

I hear Norwalk-Stamford area has alot of job opportunities