Also just re-elected their mayor, fresh off of a federal prison sentence for corruption.
That is true. I live just a few miles from Bridgeport and it’s amazing how the landscape suddenly changes from million dollar homes on multi-acre estates to literally a third world country. In general, I stay away from the entire I-95 corridor.
Greenwich and Darien are to the west. To the east, Bridgeport is also less than 15 miles from prestigious Yale University.
“The thing that amazes me is that Bridgeport, one of the filthiest cesspools in the Western world, is only a short drive down I-95 from Greenwich, New Canaan and Darien...several of the richest residential suburbs on earth.”
Yet most, if not all, of those communities, rich or poor, voted for the Crook in the November election. Look it up.
I’d feel very ill at ease being a visibly well-off individual residing within miles or even blocks of such overt poverty, ignorance and dysfunction, myself.
White flight.
Bridgeport was not always this way.
Neither was Camden NJ at one point.
Camden of old:
Camden today:
Today, two very wealthy suburbs, Moorestown NJ (11 miles) and Cherry Hill NJ (6 miles), are located a very short distance from Camden.
Cherry Hill NJ:
Moorestown NJ:
