[SteveM85]

Switch over to nat gas and electric guys, oil tanks are soooo old school. Big ol' smelly tank in the basement and what not

[davwve]

Originally Posted by ct1615

Right now CT has an oil price of $4 per gallon. In a cold month one can easily go through 200 gallons or more. Even at $3.30 per gallon, the cost would be more once you add in your electric bill.

Oil is currently cheaper than that.

If you're going through 200 gallons in a cold month assuming either you have large sq ft, high temp setting, and/or poorly insulated house.

[JayCT]

Please stop the bickering and return to the topic of the OP. JayCT, Moderator

[CTartist]

16 Cities Where You Need To Earn Over $200K To Afford a Median-Priced Home
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/real...ei=29#image=14

#13 Bridgeport--Stamford--Norwalk

[Stylo]

Originally Posted by CTartist

16 Cities Where You Need To Earn Over $200K To Afford a Median-Priced Home
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/real...ei=29#image=14

#13 Bridgeport--Stamford--Norwalk

It's always weird when they do these, they're using county, not city or even true metro data for CT.

Is it just the way the state does its data?

[mels]

Originally Posted by Stylo

It's always weird when they do these, they're using county, not city or even true metro data for CT.

Is it just the way the state does its data?

You can thank the good old US government for that designation. Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk is a census designated metropolitan statistical area (MSA). We are at the mercy of how the census groups such things.

[SteveM85]

Whatever guys, just go with it.
B-S-N metro, however you want to classify it, is still pretty damn expensive.
If you're middle class under 40ish, see ya, nice knowin' ya.
Like Howard Jones once said, you can look at the menu but you just can't eat, you can build the mansion but you just can't live in it.

[CTartist]

Originally Posted by Stylo

It's always weird when they do these, they're using county, not city or even true metro data for CT.

Is it just the way the state does its data?

It says this in the first slide/picture: "Here's a look at 16 metro areas where you can only buy a home if you're earning $200K annually."

The state of CT switched over to "Planning Regions" for the census data so now our state will be strange to look up data forward. They are being called MetroCOGS. It is a county equivalent.

Here are the two Fairfield County planning regions.

Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greate...nning%20Region.

Western Connecticut Planning Region, Connecticut
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wester...ng%20by%202024.

Here are the two regions in the census. The second link has the New Haven area (now the South Central CT Planning Region. You can now see that the Bridgeport area data looks almost the same as the New Haven area.
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fa...icut/PST045223
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fa...icut/PST045223

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I have been joking on there they kicked the Bridgeport area out of Fairfield County. CT did this so the Bridgeport area can get more federal funds since we are not connected to expensive wealthy western Fairfield County.

[BobNJ1960]

Originally Posted by mels

You can thank the good old US government for that designation. Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk is a census designated metropolitan statistical area (MSA). We are at the mercy of how the census groups such things.

MSAs are a good way to accumulate data.

While many here are delighted home costs are soaring, it come at a cost-more homelessness, and more moving to lower COAs not just in Ct but nationally, to try to keep a roof above their head.

[Stylo]

Originally Posted by mels

You can thank the good old US government for that designation. Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk is a census designated metropolitan statistical area (MSA). We are at the mercy of how the census groups such things.

Yeah but it doesn’t seem like “cities” are done at county level in other places on these lists