Never been to CT or new england before. What's it like? Are you guys serious about it being a warzone? When I think connecticut I think of Yale and private schools with thurston howell the third accents.. not ghetto crime.
New Haven is a College town with Yale, the University of New Haven, Gateway Community College and Southern Connecticut State University. It is One hour outside NYC and three hours outside Boston Depending on traffic. I 95 which runs through the CT shoreline is a drug corridor so anything you can find in NYC and Boston you can find in New Haven because I 95 runs right through it. In 2011 New Haven was named the fourth most dangerous city in the USA.
New Haven 4th Most Dangerous City: Report | NBC Connecticut
"The Elm City ranks 4th Most Dangerous City, behind Flint, Michigan, Detroit, Michigan, and St. Louis, Missouri, according to Business Insider. The daily newsletter used FBI crime statistics from 2010, and listed the cities based on the numbers of violent crimes including murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault, per 100,000 people.
New Haven had 1,584 violent crimes per 100,000 people and 628 robberies for every 100,000 people in the city, triple the national average, according to Business Insider."
The crime was so bad in CT that Rabbi Eli Greer started armed bicycle patrols. The armed patrols were discontinued when Rabbi Greer called in the Guardian Angels to help. But this is just one section of New Haven. I don't think they are city wide.
Angels, Edgewood Patrol Target Landlords | New Haven Independent
things in the Edgewood/Whalley ave have improved some.
2012
New Haven residents weigh in on progress of community policing model
"We're definitely better off this year than we've been in the last two years," said Greer. But people shouldn't read too much into that, he said, considering last year the city was "hemorrhaging in a war zone" with an absentee police chief before Esserman."
CT itself is very small and had three major crime ridden towns, Hartford, New Haven and Bridgeport. We have those quaint New England towns people see on post cards and then we have shitholes. We aren't as bad as Detroit but we have our problems. Yes we have rich like Thurston Howell III. They mostly live in What is called CT's Gold Coast in Fairfield County which is the closest county to NYC. Basically it's cheaper and more countrified to live in the gold coast and commute, than to get an apartment in Manhatten. The Ct shoreline looks like one continuous city, even though it's many cities. Houses are packed in and very crowded unless you have the cash not to be. The farther you move from NYC and the shoreline the more open space you get. Unfortunately the shoreline offers more job opportunities than the Valley,quiet corner or the hills of CT so moving to the wide open spaces sometimes isn't an option unless you want a major commute.
We are Ethnically diverse pretty much have the United Nations here. The newest wave of Immigrants are Muslims. There are at least 24 listed mosques and even that's not accurate count because the one near my house isn't listed and it's been there over 5 years.
We have Mosques popping up everywhere in CT so if you are traveling through and see minarets, you're not imagining things. The one I saw, I think they were just there for decor and not real working minarets, but in New England it's still a strange sight. So yes we do have places in CT that are really nice, and there are sections of New Haven that are decent, but we are the same as any other city in the USA.
Speaking of strange sights, if you see a parrot in CT you aren't hallucinating. We have a colony on Monk Parakeets that live between the telephone poles and the transformers. Now that really is odd seeing bright green parrots on snow covered lawn in winter.
http://www.damnedct.com/monk-parakeets/
Accents? We don't have accents. lol