What you know about Connecticut

[RunD1987]

I lived in CT for 29 years. I love CT summers. I love New England charm. I am not a fan of winter. 2 to 3 month mild winter, a 2 to 3 month of a wet spring, a warm muggy summer for 4 months, and crisp fall for 3 to 4 month's is what I prefer in a weather pattern. Not a high COL or high taxes like CT. However, has similiar charm and history like New England. Only place can find is VA.

[dude1984]

It's where Manhattanites (?) go to raise their kids and a pit stop en route to see the fall foliage in New England...

[Matt Marcinkiewicz]

Originally Posted by HumpDay

Recently a new store opened at Steel Point Harbor called Bass Pro Shops. They hope that the new Bass Pro Shops will turn around the city but that's ridiculous because one store isn't going to do much. City leaders said it'll attract more visitors to downtown and help other businesses when in reality as soon as customers leave Bass Pro Shops they hop back onto the highway.

Wow--this sure brings back memories of Buffalo in the early aughts--after the Memorial Auditorium in downtown Buffalo was demolished, a Bass Pro was proposed for the site, and given the hype/hope, teenage me was befuddled--even then, it seemed a really strange silver bullet project for a city in the north. Alas, the Buffalo Bass Pro was never built.

[Matt Marcinkiewicz]

Connecticut has to be among the five states in the country about which I think the least. And I live in the NE (albeit barely--WNY).

[LINative]

Originally Posted by BPt111

What you known about CT ? Do you think everyone from CT is rich and what think of Ct cities and towns

Some tidbits about Connecticut.

--- Connecticut used to be divided into 2 separate roughly Rhode Island sized colonies before being combined into 1.

--- Connecticut helped New York State BIG TIME in the American Revolution. There is a reason New York named Putnam County after someone from Connecticut. They also helped Massachusetts.

--- Connecticut has a long coastline but most of it borders the Long Island Sound and not the Atlantic Ocean.

--- You can see Connecticut from Long Island, you see mostly trees and some distant hills. There are a few built up areas which I take to be cities like New Haven and Bridgeport.

--- They seriously need to widen I-95 somehow.

--- Connecticut has a lot of little cities like New Haven, Hartford, New London, Waterbury, Danbury, Norwalk and New Britain.

--- Connecticut is where the blueish license plates on Long Island come from. New Jersey is where the yellowish license plates come from. Pennsylvania combines both colors.

--- Not a lot of major tourist attractions in Connecticut (exception the Indian casinos and Mystic) but there are a lot of nice small towns and many historic attractions. Beautiful in the fall.

--- State parks and state forests are kind of small but there are many of them.