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I lived in FLA. for ten years, the Interstate 4 traffic (from Volusia County beach area down to the Orlando Disney area) was horrible back in the 90's, the crime was just starting to escalate (Orlando had 163 murders in 2016), and besides, in the winter the hospitals have no room with all the snowbirds down there (most of the hospitals have bad ratings) and patients are put on stretchers in the hallway waiting for rooms!
I discussed other retirement options in my previous reply.
Yes, the CT lawmakers certainly look foolish thinking a new casino will help their financial woes! It makes me wonder what other mistakes they made which allowed CT to slide into the bottom five states economically. It's a shame that some of the most brilliant minds in the country who reside in CT let this happen, it's very disappointing.
Bottom five states yet still at the top for income? Are you perhaps speaking to state GDP growth or just clearly baiting.
Thanks so much for the informative post! I always loved the Danbury area, that location has every store and car dealership
I need and Candlewood Lake is a big plus. My elderly Mom will be living with me and I want to be close enough to NY so she can still attend her NY senior clubs and see her friends. Additionally, I want to be near a good hospital and Danbury Hospital is rated better than Greenwich Hospital now. Danbury was rated the second best place to live (after a town in Idaho) in the nation by a popular web-site. I am also looking in Carmel, Mahopac, Mohegan Lake, etc. Putnam Hospital in Carmel is highly rated also, and Carmel was named one of the top ten towns in NY to retire. NYS has the enhanced Star program for seniors and it seems much more generous than Danbury's discount, provided I read the chart correctly.
I looked in Heritage Hills in Somers, property taxes are low, but HOA fees are much too high on some units. I found a Heritage Hills in Southbury, CT, condos are much cheaper than in Somers, but I don't want to bring Mom further away from NY than the Danbury area in case some happens to me, Mom's brother lives in Carmel,, close to Danbury.
I looked at over 55 condos in Wappingers Falls, but the nearest hospital is 20 miles away and the hospital employees are rating it terrible on-line, they say VIP patients are given much better care than regular ones and it's disgusting.
The bottom line is I am looking for an area in or close to NY, reasonable property taxes, good medical facilities, close proximity to big box stores and organic stores if possible, and low crime rates.
Now we can get a better idea of the area you want. All the towns that surround Danbury are nice and safe except some are very expensive. Can you give us an idea of your top budget for the condo and what cap per month you would like to stay under for taxes & HOA fees combined.
Does your mom need to get into NYC to see her senior friends or somewhere in Westchester?
There are two towns near Danbury that are more affordable than the others. They are Bethel and Brookfield. Bethel being the most affordable. Both towns are easily accessible to I-84 into NY.
Our economic ranking is not stellar. Not in the slightest.
The only ranking that matters is median household income. More than half the households in the state make better than $70K. It's one of the most prosperous states. Only New Hampshire, Alaska, and Maryland are higher. The per-capita tax burden is in line with all the other states in the region (except New Hampshire). The Connecticut issues are largely decades of poor government. Big debt, unfunded pension liabilities that are the same as debt, and poor infrastructure. It also has urban blight problems but that's no different from any other Northeast Corridor or Rust Belt state.
The only ranking that matters is median household income....
If this is true, then the following don't matter, right?
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Big debt, unfunded pension liabilities that are the same as debt, and poor infrastructure. It also has urban blight problems but that's no different from any other Northeast Corridor or Rust Belt state.
The only ranking that matters is median household income. More than half the households in the state make better than $70K. It's one of the most prosperous states. Only New Hampshire, Alaska, and Maryland are higher. The per-capita tax burden is in line with all the other states in the region (except New Hampshire). The Connecticut issues are largely decades of poor government. Big debt, unfunded pension liabilities that are the same as debt, and poor infrastructure. It also has urban blight problems but that's no different from any other Northeast Corridor or Rust Belt state.
Median household income is skewed in Connecticut. Any person worth their salt would know this. The multi-millionaires of lower FFC vastly offset those with standard, working-class jobs in all the other counties, and to say nothing about the many underemployed people. We have a glut of millionaires, as confirmed by many posters which have posted the article elsewhere on this forum, and thus it skews the data. Take FFC out of the mix and our ratings tumble. Our economy is in the doldrums. I will agree with the decades on poor government, we are just the suckers that have to deal with it.
Median household income is skewed in Connecticut. Any person worth their salt would know this. The multi-millionaires of lower FFC vastly offset those with standard, working-class jobs in all the other counties, and to say nothing about the many underemployed people. We have a glut of millionaires, as confirmed by many posters which have posted the article elsewhere on this forum, and thus it skews the data. Take FFC out of the mix and our ratings tumble. Our economy is in the doldrums. I will agree with the decades on poor government, we are just the suckers that have to deal with it.
This is not true. Even Outside of Fairfield County, Connecticut is fairly affluent. Metro Hartford has a median household income of over $72,000 compared to a US median of about $51,000. Metro New Haven is just under $62,000. That is pretty affluent. Jay
We are talking affluence. Median income is a good measure of that which is why it is commonly used in talking economics. Jay
The point he was making is how the median is calculated. All else being equal, if CT acquired two additional citizens: the highest income person in the world and a person of slightly below average income - the median income would not change at all. Not one penny. The median person (halfway up the scale from bottom to top) would still be the same person. The median income is what the middle person on the list has. (Or, to be technical, the average between the two middle people in an even-number length list.)
The average income would change, but not the median.
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