I was one of those schmucks. Living in CT even knowing full well how terrible it is.
I had this philosophy that I had to save money to leave CT. At the end of 6 years of just struggling to get along I finally packed my car - leaving behind everything I had - and left penniless and struggling.
This is why people aren’t leaving CT. They feel tied to it because they can never save up enough money to leave. If they go one single day without work they are financial ruin.
CT is full of poor people. My family can’t even afford to visit me with a 2 hour drive. Since leaving CT I work half as much, have no stress and I live better.
But to the Northeasterner (From NY to Maine) the costs are too daunting. They won’t leave a $35/hour job for a $20/hr job because it’s against their code. So they sit and stew in that stupid state.
And I even left that state 4 weeks before the Sandy Hook shooting. I left when the gun rights weren’t really that bad (Except the whole Clinton ban thing that CT never sundowned)
I can’t move back to CT now. Everything I own is illegal there. My family wants me to move back, but I refuse. I’d rather live in a tent in the woods than in an apartment anywhere in CT.
“I’d rather live in a tent in the woods than in an apartment anywhere in CT.”
No, seriously, tell me how you REALLY feel :-)
My daughter left San Francisco about 8 years ago & moved to Louisville. She owns a home with a payment (small house with a big yard) that is less than 1/3 what her 450 square foot apt cost there in 2010.
She has more disposable income, several guns and a CCDW. And Louisville / Jefferson County is NOT a politically conservative area.