i live right across the border in NY. What part of CT?
which part
Sympathy and Prayers.
Will you be near Uncle Joe’s (frequently visited) summer home?
Take your Samuri sword.
Why are you moving?
There are very good, very expensive private schools in Connecticut.
Stay away from Hartford.
It might be helpful to be a bit more specific with the location. Southwestern CT is vastly different from northeastern or central eastern regions.
Get used to longer and colder winters than Virginia
Autumns colors are nice.
Taxes are higher. There’s a lot more idiotic leftists around than you will be used to.
Depending where you are, there’s probably good choice of private schools
I got mugged in Hartford, haven’t been back ....
Republican friends loved Avon.
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Washington Depot is beautiful
We live in NJ which is very much like Ct. The rural areas are like NJ rural areas. They are nothing like the cities that dominate the politics. We live in a rural area and the politics are conservative. As far as firearms go we have no problem finding places to shoot but purchasing handguns is a pain in the neck.
Sucker!
We visited my Dad’s sister and family in Stamford a lot from the mid 50s to about 1970. It was a great state back then. I hear it’s changed a lot since then.
My wife & I are originally from CT...
All the inlaws (200+) are still there...
We’ve been out of there since we got married (1960)
Even by 1960, it was starting to go full communist...
I’m banished from family events like the Christmas party & Summer picnic since the time I wore a Sarah Palin t-shirt, sweatshirt, and cap to one of them...
Stinking communist bastards, all but the older ones my age... The CT school/indoctrination system, starting in the 1970s, converted all the rest...
A lot depends on the part of the state.
It is a schizophrenic state depending if you are north or south, east or west.
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.
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.