Posted on 09/26/2022 1:36:40 PM PDT by SoftballMominVA
I lived 45 years in Michigan and had to move to Maryland for a job. I’ve spent some time in CT for my job.
The east coast just sucks. The political corruption is insane, the mask wearing leftists are even more insane.
The cities control everything. Outside the cities, most people are actually normal.
Plan to give up your gun rights. Abortion is the holy sacrament and it’s front and center this year.
Get used to your candidates losing and the winners outright ignoring their oath.
Colchester is a lovely town 26 miles from Hartford. My nephew has lived there for 45 years. He is now retired, from the Hartford insurance company.
Was a CFO.
He and his family love it there. Grown daughters have never left, except for college.
beautiful old houses, if you’re into that. Horse farms, too.
Winter is very challenging. Ice storms that you cannot believe. Downed power lines, no electric for two weeks at a time. (I think they even made a movie about it.) And sky-high energy costs.
Hartford is a horrid ghetto.
The best suburbs (if you can afford them) are in the Farmington Valley (Farmington, Simsbury, Avon).
If you have specific questions feel feel to mail me directly.
I grew up in West Hartford and currently live in a small town thirty five miles from Hartford.
Hartford is a horrid ghetto.
The best suburbs (if you can afford them) are in the Farmington Valley (Farmington, Simsbury, Avon).
If you have specific questions feel feel to mail me directly.
I grew up in West Hartford and currently live in a small town thirty five miles from Hartford.
My wife worked at Hartford Hospital for 14 years. All 3 of my children were born in Hartford Hospital.
I lived in CT from 2006 to 2020. Was assigned to a submarine in 2006 there in Groton. Got out of the Navy in 2010, but continued to live in CT with my wife in Colchester. It was a nice town, but have to drive 20 to 30 minutes everywhere.
Recommend Glastonbury. It is about 15 minutes away. About as close to Hartford from east, without getting into ghetto areas. Expensive though.
I object to the notion that New England private or public schools are good. I would bet they push critical race theory, and almost all of the staff vote Democrat. I remember 10 years ago, a parent being excited because the public school opened up a Starbucks coffee bar in the state high school.
During the same time period, at a board meeting, it was interesting listening to various parents talking about motivating their 10–12-year-old kids to do more volunteering and sports so they could get accepted at a good college. Their lives really emphasized where they went to college, and they were pushing their kids that way. The kids were not having any childhood. Church, not a word, except maybe for Catholic and Jewish, which perhaps helped them get into college. I can’t overstate how depressing it was.
I found people in the Southeast were more like the those in Midwest. I was in Connecticut less than 5 years almost 40 years ago. Nobody there failed because of their ineptitude, it was always they were discriminated because of their sex, race, or whatever. It would be like moving behind the iron curtain to go back. They think they are open minded but many of them had never visited or lived outside of New England other than a visit to Florida.
Unless you are staying with your kids, have you thought about zoom calls to stay in touch. You will really have to watch what you say to the grandkids, because they could be ostracized for saying the wrong thing in school. I would rather work at McDonalds in another state than be a CEO in Connecticut.
Near Hartford Hospital. No more than about 30 minutes driving time.
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Hartford downtown. Not so great. However West Hartford has some nice residential areas.
Good comments.
I advise any CT parents to home school—the Internet tools are there—and if you join a conservative local church (and they do exist) then the church will help with social activities for kids—and you can find like-minded parents who are also home schooling.
Lots of taxes, lots of traffic, the gun laws suck. If it weren’t for the fact that my family lives here I would love to move.
Small towns suck , too . Take my hometwon , Willimantic , for example . Left many decades ago and glad I did .
“Not much can beat watching your legacy grow up.”
It is hard to imagine the pain of watching your legacy grow up being indoctrinated in a place like Connecticut.
I lived in Colchester for 12 years. Moved to Ohio in 2020.
It is 26 miles to Hartford on Route 2. But about a 34 minute commute to Hartford Hospital, my wife worked there.
Colchester doesn’t offer that much. Most towns in CT don’t though.
Will your daughter have to participate in abortions at her job? Will she be comfortable doing so?
You are the salt of the earth. CT needs you.
“There are very good, very expensive private schools in Connecticut.
Stay away from Hartford.”
My advice is too stay out of the major cities in Connecticut if at all possible. They are major Rat lead municipalities, and they have all the issues that our National Rat leadership have done to this country.
Get here as fast as possible and vote for Bob Stefanowski for governor and Leora Levy for Senate, replacing incumbent Democrats Ned Lamont and Da Nang Dick Blumenthal.
Since you will be helping with grandchildren, the location will be constrained by travel time between your residence, the grandkids residence and Hartford Hospital. Possibly her husband is also working?
Unless this is a definite long term move, you will be renting, rather than buying?
If CT is like NJ, the leafier, upscale suburbs do not have much in the way of apartments, although there are houses and condos for rent. We zone out multi-family dwellings to keep the riff-raff out.
If safety is your concern, there are a variety of resources that report local crime statistics.
https://crimegrade.org/crime-by-zip-code/
https://www.adt.com/crime
https://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Connecticut.html
Another nice town is Windham.
My cousin has lived there for fifty years. She is an artist. Her house is in Windham Center. It’s an old farmhouse...1785...which they lovingly restored.
The public schools there are terrible. I don’t know why the schools are so bad, because the school taxes are through the roof. What do they do with all that money?
Anyway, it’s 30 miles from Hartford.again, nice old houses in The Center, but way elitist, woke, and leftist in politics.
I would argue Hartford’s downtown is kind of nice. Nice restaurants, convention center, excel center, Science Musuem, big parks and the largest rose garden that I ever seen. No one lives there though. The ghetto neighborhoods nearby, kind of keep middle class families from wanting to live there.
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