I was also born and raised in Connecticut so you say you love it no offense but damn you like the worst beat up roads in the country you like among the highest taxes in the country the lousiest weather the most congested shithole the most far left whack job people I've ever seen to me personally very few good things in this state so much corruption that's my two cents about this state.
Thank goodness i95 is a 6 lane highway down in that area. Could you imagine if it only had two lanes? Back in the 70's it was only a three lane highway with toll booths in Westport. The rush hour traffic back then felt like what 10am traffic is today. There were fewer cars, but we still complained. In a few years from now, traffic will only get worse. Both my husband and I lived in Fairfield county, but moved to the middle of the state. There is no traffic, and we can get our grocery shopping done round trip in under a half hour. Living near the beach in FC, it took almost 40 minutes to get to the stores, and we didn't live far.
The lady has an understated but fantastic sense of humor and gives of the state an excellent overview. Connecticut has fantastic schools, beautiful museums, art and culture everywhere but also a lot of poverty in certain cities. The landscape is beautiful with forests, the people are very civilized but the coldest and wariest I have ever seen in any state. Human warmth is not everywhere
We lived on the beach too, but the beaches are usually closed due to bacteria levels. It got frustrating. We moved to northern CT and live on the lakes.
We live in Wolcott and our taxes are $333.33/month ($4000/yr.). For some reason, Wolcott hasn't increased their taxes in 20+ years. I'm sure that will change at some point, but for now I'm not complaining. Prior to living in Wolcott, we lived in waterbury for a few years. Our taxes went up every year and we had to argue with the city that our house had not been updated or didn't have the amenities the city claimed. An appraiser came out to assess and every time the city readjusted our taxes to go back to where they were the previous year. Every year we had to stay on top of the city, but imagine all the poor people that don't know to do that. With the tax jumps every year people get stuck in cities and it's harder to move when you can't save.
There is DEFINITELY a Connecticut dialect. I live in Texas now and other Connecticut transplants can identify where I'm from pretty easily. The pronunciation of "Coventry" or "Wolcott" gives it away or saying "grinder" and "tag sale." I find that people in the CT River Valley have the most marked form of it, like my cousins in Enfield.
I love CT in the fall but my personal favorite time is May 15-July 4. The weather can vary but I think that has the most beautiful days and everything is ascending(getting warmer, days are longer etcetera).
My husband grew up in Connecticut and then moved to Utah in 2013 to be with me and now we are considering moving back , I grew up in utah and I've never been to CT , so thank you for this video it answered some questions for me
My friend lives here now she said Ut Sucks she said the whole West Coast sucks but she's the only thing she like about the West Coast was Las Vegas and she said she like to East Coast much better but she prefer Las Vegas because of the nice weather
@@ronv6637what made you so bitter? I get the Karen thing, but they are all over the US. We are a small rural community and there isn't a Karen problem around us. Instead of putting CT down, why not just move?
We *do* have a slight accent: the glottal stop in words like “kitten” and “New Britain”. Agree that New Haven pizza is the best; fortunately, Frank Pepe’s has expanded beyond just New Haven. They even have something called “fresh tomato pie,” which is only available three months out of the year. You haven’t truly tasted pizza until you try this annual tradition. I’m with you that we can drive six hours in any direction and be in another state (or the ocean, or even Canada).
Yes! I have been razzed a little about how I pronounce "kitten" when I visit friends from out of state...and the fresh tomato pie is one that I have not yet tried. Will add it to my list.
Love the outdoors here, plenty of open space and fresh air, public beaches with free access and parking. The schools, is generally are😅 well funded and plenty of health care options are available. Taxes can be high, specially property taxes but you do not have county taxes. Wages are good here, but their is a wide range of incomes. Good train services exists to both Boston and New York making day trips doable.
I drove down some country road that fluctuated from 30mph-40mph and at the end was NW Conn CC. I thought to myself "i bet this road is a great drive in the summer. Theres woods and water everywhere"
i95 is a 6 lane highway from the NY border to branford and 4 lanes between east haven and Rhode Island. Rt 84 goes from 3 lanes to 6 lanes. Rt 9 is four lanes. i91 for the most part is a 3 lane highway. Rt 8 is the same as rt 25 down in Bridgeport. At that merger rt 8 has 10 lanes. Most of the stretch of rt 8 goes between 2, 4, 6, 8 lanes. The Merritt parkway is the only highway that has two lanes the entire way. It is considered the scenic route. We have other smaller highways, but they all have more than two lanes. I travel this state daily, from West Haven to Litchfield. I grew up in Fairfield county and saw i95 go from 3 to lanes to 6. I am old enough to remember the toll booths in Westport on i95. If these highways were mostly two lanes, can you imagine the traffic?
I moved to CT 6 years ago from upstate Ny. Like most out of staters, I HATED It here. It seemed expensive and full of rich snobby people. But today, I love my life in CT and I could never move back to NY. Ct is it’s own little bubble, we do our own thing here. Lots of rich New England history, beautiful scenery. Beaches. Lots of people with old classic cars. We’re also the number one state in the the US for hiking. So there is lots of wild life and nature to explore here as well. CT will grow on you after awhile, just stay out of any major city. It’s all about the small quaint little towns. Property costs are way too expensive however.
@brendangallagher5336 This is the best comment! I love the positivity. I love CT too. My videos sometimes poke fun at it or bring up some issues people complain about, but honestly...I love it here.
I love ct I grew up there and really like it !! The outdoors !! If you can drive in ct you can drive anywhere!! I traveled all over this county for work and I feel blessed when I come home !!! Food is great - outdoors is great !! Love ct !!
We get 7 months of chilly/cold weather, 5 months of decent summer weather if you like high humidity, the drivers are nuts, aside from the shore, and the fall foliage in the quiet corner there is nothing to do here except work. It's a boring state with very little reason for tourists to come here. Almost all the visitors who come here are either seeing family, and only the family you can't get out of seeing, or they are visiting on business. Taxes keep going up from already astronomical tates, and we have the second worst housing rates in the country, only following Massachusetts, and then our government is too brilliant to have any clue why we are in a mass exodus out of here. Right now $3000 a month will get you a cardboard box to have on the street.
There are actually three faint accents in CT. In the east, there is a hint of Massachusetts, dropping off the last R in words-"pahk the cah"'. In the west there is a touch of New York- we drink "Rutt Beer, and the house is covered by a ""ruff'. That's how they talk in "NaHAven. In central Ct, they have a habit of inserting an E before the short A. ""camera" is "keamra", but don't quite pronounce the E.
Regarding pizza, we moved from CT to KY, and I lived in CT most of my life. There are dozens of pizza places here that make the world's worst pizza. They have zero clue. Those same aggressive drivers are here as well, just less predictable.
Connecticut is a fantastic area to make a living and have a family . Yes you need to make money to enjoy what the state offers ie boat, camper, land , race car lime rock. If your not making at least 100k your going to have a hard time living here especially if you have a family. The people are stuffy and think they matter more then they do but that’s mostly the Gold Coast. Millionaires row Fairfield to Greenwich. Just know the east coast is the cash capital of world. NYC-Boston . One more thing it’s ran by libs so it’s a thorn . Hence tax you to death state . Good luck .
Fall not all beauty! If you have a large lawn with flowers, bushes and trees there’s a real mess to deal with. Landscape companies can be very expensive and not always very good.
Martha Stewart's accent was manufactured. She's from Jersey so to fit in with the westporters she developed that snoby north Atlantic accent. But that's not how your local westporter speaks at all. That is unless you frequent Starbucks. They seem to lay it on pretty thick at Starbucks.
Orange county doesn't have fast food of any kind. My sister lives there and it's a very prestigious area. Then again, we don't have fast food in the town we live in, except we do have Dunkin, but not Starbucks, nor don't have any retail big box stores.
Most likely will be moving back home as this is my home state and all my family is here, as far as taxes goes, nothing will compare to California as that’s where I’m coming from, not a fan of a vehicle tax 😂but yeah out here income tax is 13% depending on salary with federal, sales tax is anywhere from 7.75-10%, so this doesn’t compare, I see minimum wage is 14 for most full time workers with average rent spanning between 1,100-1800, it’s about 2,400 now just for a one bedroom apartment, again nothing compares California won’t even let you live anymore
@@connecticutcoastallife sounds good and yeah it’s still kinda high in tax but not nearly as bad as California plus I don’t think Connecticut suffers with as much of a homeless problem as California does
Don’t know if this is true or not but my mother told me that JFK was coached by someone to speak like we do in CT bc the way we spoke was considered not having any accent . Loved the video bc too often when videos are produced,, the producers like simply to rip apart whatever area they’re filming
Born and bred in Fairfield, CT. God forbid you didn't show up to high school in designer clothes or a hand me down Mercedes or BMW to the school's parking lot. There were/are a lot of hoity doity people there. Moved some years back to FL with my job. It was a culture shock and I miss the history New England has to offer but my kids learned what it's like to live in the real world.
My parents moved to Fairfield during our h.s. years. However, they were teachers in norwalk. I continued high school in Norwalk, while my sister chose to go to Fairfield Warde high. There really wasn't much of a difference between the two. My sister wore her regular clothes and she and I had the same type of wardrobe. I think it depended on who your friends were and who you were trying to impress. Both of our friend groups didn't care much. After I graduated, I got a job in Fairfield and started hanging out with the Fairfield crowd. They were all really nice and I had met and hung out with a lot of the same people my sister already knew.
@SamanthaLopez-1994 I just had clients move from Northern CA to CT. They said they are saving money moving here as real estate is super expensive out there. Email me if you plan on moving out - I can help you. 😀
@Pearl I'm not as familiar with the Hartford area as I service mostly New Haven and Fairfield counties. I'm sorry...but I don't know enough about it to give you any feedback.
Unfortunately, Bristol is not the area that I service so I'm not as familiar with it. I do know that ESPN is there, so it attracts many people who relocate to the area.
Bristol is a middle class area. It has a great choice for restaurants, and there are things to do are located through that area. The oldest and longest running amusement park (Lake Compounce) is in Bristol. Traffic is not as bad as in other parts of the state. There are jobs in the area too. Bristol has a huge healthcare system, and decent schools. Bristol is a charming area.
@nicholasholiday941 to be fair I am always cold. Haha but really the temps have fluctuated in the last few years. Our winters have been very mild for the last 4 yrs and very rainy. But some years not that long ago we would get storm after storm.
Got a taste of CT, was crewing on a Large sail training ship going up Ling Island Sound. Capt. had grown up on shore and we anchored so he could visit his childhood/family home. We rowed him ashore and he knocked on door and introduced himself and why he was visiting and door was slammed in his face by a complete a**hole.Common for many years of driving east coast. She is right about terrible drivers,bad roads,bad people nothing a tsunami couldn't fix
Terrible public transportation even in New Britain to Hartford. We need bus transportation To New Haven and nearby towns. //Some people look down on senior citizens. //Accents? New Bri-in.//
CT's climate is one of the best in the country. Winters here are a joke. Compared to the Midwest or northern New England, the cold seasons are a breeze. You definitely have an accent. Lol CT and RI accents are very similar in Eastern CT and the more West you go the more like NYC it gets, and up along the CT River and in the middle it's pretty neutral, though it's still there, and the more north you go, the closer you get to Mass and it reflects there. (Just for the record, Mass and RI suck -Love Connecticut lol)
Whalley pizza and house st pizza in New haven and legends in shelton and we don't have an accent to us but to others we do not like Rhode island and boston annoying accents
Well, you are 100 %, right Everyone in Connecticut is not rich. I've lived in Connecticut all my life. South central to be exact, And that's 71 plus years right now. And you want to know the truth about Connecticut? If you're a tree hugging liberal, that's trying as hard as you can. To become Communist and socialist come on over. I wish I could get the hell out of here move to some free state where they don't restrict law abiding citizens With laws that no criminal even considers following.
Connecticut sucks. The people are mostly nasty cop callers and they will not mind their own business. If you do well don't tell anyone! Very jealous. Oh and most restaurants are closed and bankrupt. And you forgot property tax on home and car and boat and anything else you own.
Connecticut is a boring less New Englandy version of Massachusetts. The beaches in CT are all on the Sound, so no waves. Also, there are no cool cities. Hartford, Bridgeport, and Waterbury are all small and Ghetto. I'd say CT is pretty much New Jersey, but further from the city, but no good beaches. CT does have casinos. But they are in the middle of nowhere. I lived in CT for 8 years. I say skip it. Pizza outside of New Haven isn't thar good. They don't have an accent because they are not interesting. She's basically telling you, go to Boston or NYC if you want to have a good time.
Your not saying the real truth CT has the highest rent the lowest minimum wage and they are very segregated. There is discrimination and you have to fit two races here either white or black if your spanish you cant get a good job and most employers exploit their workers. Restaurants are super expensive and drivers speed around the clock.
Sure, it has high rent, but you make at LEAST $14 per hour (higher than most states). Also, I know many people with very good jobs who are Arab and Spanish. Edit: Tipped works can be payed a minimum of $6.38. Keep in mind that people usually tip 20% when at a restaurant.
What are some other misconceptions about CT?
I was born and raised in Connecticut. Love it.
@JohnKSedor I love it too!
I was also born and raised in Connecticut so you say you love it no offense but damn you like the worst beat up roads in the country you like among the highest taxes in the country the lousiest weather the most congested shithole the most far left whack job people I've ever seen to me personally very few good things in this state so much corruption that's my two cents about this state.
The traffic is an absolute nightmare in Fairfield county.
Thank goodness i95 is a 6 lane highway down in that area. Could you imagine if it only had two lanes?
Back in the 70's it was only a three lane highway with toll booths in Westport. The rush hour traffic back then felt like what 10am traffic is today. There were fewer cars, but we still complained. In a few years from now, traffic will only get worse.
Both my husband and I lived in Fairfield county, but moved to the middle of the state. There is no traffic, and we can get our grocery shopping done round trip in under a half hour.
Living near the beach in FC, it took almost 40 minutes to get to the stores, and we didn't live far.
The lady has an understated but fantastic sense of humor and gives of the state an excellent overview. Connecticut has fantastic schools, beautiful museums, art and culture everywhere but also a lot of poverty in certain cities. The landscape is beautiful with forests, the people are very civilized but the coldest and wariest I have ever seen in any state. Human warmth is not everywhere
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Wariest?
Stop supporting CT. Good people should not move to a place like that. Nobody deserves that low of a quality of life in a 1st world country
I have a beach home in Connecticut that I spend summers in. I would say that Connecticut has nice trees and beaches.
We lived on the beach too, but the beaches are usually closed due to bacteria levels. It got frustrating. We moved to northern CT and live on the lakes.
I live in Connecticut, and I love it!!!! I live in Windsor Locks Connecticut and my mortgage is $462 a month.
@Mary C I love it here too. Wow your mortgage is really low!!! I think people always assume CT is super expensive but that's not always the case.
We live in Wolcott and our taxes are $333.33/month ($4000/yr.). For some reason, Wolcott hasn't increased their taxes in 20+ years. I'm sure that will change at some point, but for now I'm not complaining.
Prior to living in Wolcott, we lived in waterbury for a few years. Our taxes went up every year and we had to argue with the city that our house had not been updated or didn't have the amenities the city claimed. An appraiser came out to assess and every time the city readjusted our taxes to go back to where they were the previous year. Every year we had to stay on top of the city, but imagine all the poor people that don't know to do that. With the tax jumps every year people get stuck in cities and it's harder to move when you can't save.
There is DEFINITELY a Connecticut dialect. I live in Texas now and other Connecticut transplants can identify where I'm from pretty easily. The pronunciation of "Coventry" or "Wolcott" gives it away or saying "grinder" and "tag sale." I find that people in the CT River Valley have the most marked form of it, like my cousins in Enfield.
I love CT in the fall but my personal favorite time is May 15-July 4. The weather can vary but I think that has the most beautiful days and everything is ascending(getting warmer, days are longer etcetera).
@December Heat - I completely agree. I love the longer days and warmer temperatures.
My husband grew up in Connecticut and then moved to Utah in 2013 to be with me and now we are considering moving back , I grew up in utah and I've never been to CT , so thank you for this video it answered some questions for me
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it. If you do move back to CT, please be sure to let me know. I'd love to help you find a home.
don't go unless you want to be sucked dry by state and town government
My friend lives here now she said Ut
Sucks she said the whole West Coast sucks but she's the only thing she like about the West Coast was Las Vegas and she said she like to East Coast much better but she prefer Las Vegas because of the nice weather
Don't go you will despise it,it is a hell hole for suburban karens with many mental issues
@@ronv6637what made you so bitter?
I get the Karen thing, but they are all over the US.
We are a small rural community and there isn't a Karen problem around us.
Instead of putting CT down, why not just move?
Property taxes are ridiculous
We *do* have a slight accent: the glottal stop in words like “kitten” and “New Britain”. Agree that New Haven pizza is the best; fortunately, Frank Pepe’s has expanded beyond just New Haven. They even have something called “fresh tomato pie,” which is only available three months out of the year. You haven’t truly tasted pizza until you try this annual tradition. I’m with you that we can drive six hours in any direction and be in another state (or the ocean, or even Canada).
Yes! I have been razzed a little about how I pronounce "kitten" when I visit friends from out of state...and the fresh tomato pie is one that I have not yet tried. Will add it to my list.
Love the outdoors here, plenty of open space and fresh air, public beaches with free access and parking. The schools, is generally are😅 well funded and plenty of health care options are available. Taxes can be high, specially property taxes but you do not have county taxes. Wages are good here, but their is a wide range of incomes. Good train services exists to both Boston and New York making day trips doable.
I drove down some country road that fluctuated from 30mph-40mph and at the end was NW Conn CC. I thought to myself "i bet this road is a great drive in the summer. Theres woods and water everywhere"
You were right on about everything! Accurate!!
i95 is a 6 lane highway from the NY border to branford and 4 lanes between east haven and Rhode Island.
Rt 84 goes from 3 lanes to 6 lanes.
Rt 9 is four lanes.
i91 for the most part is a 3 lane highway.
Rt 8 is the same as rt 25 down in Bridgeport. At that merger rt 8 has 10 lanes. Most of the stretch of rt 8 goes between 2, 4, 6, 8 lanes.
The Merritt parkway is the only highway that has two lanes the entire way. It is considered the scenic route.
We have other smaller highways, but they all have more than two lanes.
I travel this state daily, from West Haven to Litchfield. I grew up in Fairfield county and saw i95 go from 3 to lanes to 6. I am old enough to remember the toll booths in Westport on i95.
If these highways were mostly two lanes, can you imagine the traffic?
You have such a soothing ASMR voice. Very relaxing
@Lewis9700 Thanks!! 😆
@@connecticutcoastallifePlus you're awfully cute! ❤
I moved to CT 6 years ago from upstate Ny. Like most out of staters, I HATED It here. It seemed expensive and full of rich snobby people. But today, I love my life in CT and I could never move back to NY. Ct is it’s own little bubble, we do our own thing here. Lots of rich New England history, beautiful scenery. Beaches. Lots of people with old classic cars. We’re also the number one state in the the US for hiking. So there is lots of wild life and nature to explore here as well. CT will grow on you after awhile, just stay out of any major city. It’s all about the small quaint little towns. Property costs are way too expensive however.
@brendangallagher5336 This is the best comment! I love the positivity. I love CT too. My videos sometimes poke fun at it or bring up some issues people complain about, but honestly...I love it here.
I love ct I grew up there and really like it !! The outdoors !! If you can drive in ct you can drive anywhere!! I traveled all over this county for work and I feel blessed when I come home !!! Food is great - outdoors is great !! Love ct !!
We get 7 months of chilly/cold weather, 5 months of decent summer weather if you like high humidity, the drivers are nuts, aside from the shore, and the fall foliage in the quiet corner there is nothing to do here except work. It's a boring state with very little reason for tourists to come here. Almost all the visitors who come here are either seeing family, and only the family you can't get out of seeing, or they are visiting on business. Taxes keep going up from already astronomical tates, and we have the second worst housing rates in the country, only following Massachusetts, and then our government is too brilliant to have any clue why we are in a mass exodus out of here. Right now $3000 a month will get you a cardboard box to have on the street.
I'm starting to think I lived in Connecticut in a past life. I use the same lingo but I've never been to the state. 😅
Very helpful
Glad it helped!
Perfect weather!
Lesson learned 😊
There are actually three faint accents in CT. In the east, there is a hint of Massachusetts, dropping off the last R in words-"pahk the cah"'. In the west there is a touch of New York- we drink "Rutt Beer, and the house is covered by a ""ruff'. That's how they talk in "NaHAven. In central Ct, they have a habit of inserting an E before the short A. ""camera" is "keamra", but don't quite pronounce the E.
Yup, when I travel to other states they hear the New Haven accent. Lol
Regarding pizza, we moved from CT to KY, and I lived in CT most of my life. There are dozens of pizza places here that make the world's worst pizza. They have zero clue. Those same aggressive drivers are here as well, just less predictable.
Connecticut is a fantastic area to make a living and have a family . Yes you need to make money to enjoy what the state offers ie boat, camper, land , race car lime rock. If your not making at least 100k your going to have a hard time living here especially if you have a family. The people are stuffy and think they matter more then they do but that’s mostly the Gold Coast. Millionaires row Fairfield to Greenwich. Just know the east coast is the cash capital of world. NYC-Boston . One more thing it’s ran by libs so it’s a thorn . Hence tax you to death state . Good luck .
Sounds a lot like Long Island 😅
She aint lying about Dunkin’ Donuts lol
I live in Vermont, so Connecticut sounds similar, nothing really different for the taxes, lol
I do think your weather might be slightly worse than ours in the winter and you definitely have better skiing! :)
Fall not all beauty! If you have a large lawn with flowers, bushes and trees there’s a real mess to deal with. Landscape companies can be very expensive and not always very good.
Hahaha yes, I agree! The mess is not fun at all.
Martha Stewart's accent was manufactured. She's from Jersey so to fit in with the westporters she developed that snoby north Atlantic accent. But that's not how your local westporter speaks at all. That is unless you frequent Starbucks. They seem to lay it on pretty thick at Starbucks.
Where in CA were you? There are Dunkin Donuts all over. Yes, not as common as Starbucks but they’re definitely around.
@ButcherSevenActual I was in San Diego. It has been a few years but it was so disappointing when I couldn't get it here. ☺
Orange county doesn't have fast food of any kind. My sister lives there and it's a very prestigious area.
Then again, we don't have fast food in the town we live in, except we do have Dunkin, but not Starbucks, nor don't have any retail big box stores.
Most likely will be moving back home as this is my home state and all my family is here, as far as taxes goes, nothing will compare to California as that’s where I’m coming from, not a fan of a vehicle tax 😂but yeah out here income tax is 13% depending on salary with federal, sales tax is anywhere from 7.75-10%, so this doesn’t compare, I see minimum wage is 14 for most full time workers with average rent spanning between 1,100-1800, it’s about 2,400 now just for a one bedroom apartment, again nothing compares California won’t even let you live anymore
@Linear Money let me know when you are ready to move back. I'd love to help. It's refreshing to hear that the CT cost of living isn't that bad 😄
@@connecticutcoastallife sounds good and yeah it’s still kinda high in tax but not nearly as bad as California plus I don’t think Connecticut suffers with as much of a homeless problem as California does
Grew up in ct, some very hi end towns taxes are CRAZY HIGH!!
@Timothy Sullivan - yes, taxes can be high unfortunately
Don’t know if this is true or not but my mother told me that JFK was coached by someone to speak like we do in CT bc the way we spoke was considered not having any accent . Loved the video bc too often when videos are produced,, the producers like simply to rip apart whatever area they’re filming
Thanks! I try to be balanced and honest without being too negative about my home state.
@@connecticutcoastallife I’m a native as well. Originally from Bridgeport but live in Clinton now.
Grinders, not subs.
Nordellis, the original grinder shop.
Is 75k an annum a good salary here in Hwartfort ?
Born and bred in Fairfield, CT. God forbid you didn't show up to high school in designer clothes or a hand me down Mercedes or BMW to the school's parking lot. There were/are a lot of hoity doity people there. Moved some years back to FL with my job. It was a culture shock and I miss the history New England has to offer but my kids learned what it's like to live in the real world.
Yes, Fairfield is wealthy but every state has that element. Very average wage earners are plentiful!
My parents moved to Fairfield during our h.s. years. However, they were teachers in norwalk. I continued high school in Norwalk, while my sister chose to go to Fairfield Warde high. There really wasn't much of a difference between the two. My sister wore her regular clothes and she and I had the same type of wardrobe. I think it depended on who your friends were and who you were trying to impress. Both of our friend groups didn't care much. After I graduated, I got a job in Fairfield and started hanging out with the Fairfield crowd. They were all really nice and I had met and hung out with a lot of the same people my sister already knew.
Moving from CA to CT- any advice?😅
@SamanthaLopez-1994 I just had clients move from Northern CA to CT. They said they are saving money moving here as real estate is super expensive out there. Email me if you plan on moving out - I can help you. 😀
Can you tell me more about hartford?
@Pearl I'm not as familiar with the Hartford area as I service mostly New Haven and Fairfield counties. I'm sorry...but I don't know enough about it to give you any feedback.
How is bristol ct? Considering moving here
Unfortunately, Bristol is not the area that I service so I'm not as familiar with it. I do know that ESPN is there, so it attracts many people who relocate to the area.
Bristol is a middle class area. It has a great choice for restaurants, and there are things to do are located through that area. The oldest and longest running amusement park (Lake Compounce) is in Bristol. Traffic is not as bad as in other parts of the state. There are jobs in the area too. Bristol has a huge healthcare system, and decent schools. Bristol is a charming area.
Is it a good state for filipino nurses to live in?
@dp2li27 yes CT is a great place to live.
@@connecticutcoastallife thankyou for your response! I'm hoping I get to pass my interview at my agency so that I can start my processes.
From November to March it's freezing? Check the historical data. It's much more complicated than that. A lot of exaggeration in this video.
@nicholasholiday941 to be fair I am always cold. Haha but really the temps have fluctuated in the last few years. Our winters have been very mild for the last 4 yrs and very rainy. But some years not that long ago we would get storm after storm.
Got a taste of CT, was crewing on a Large sail training ship going up Ling Island Sound. Capt. had grown up on shore and we anchored so he could visit his childhood/family home. We rowed him ashore and he knocked on door and introduced himself and why he was visiting and door was slammed in his face by a complete a**hole.Common for many years of driving east coast. She is right about terrible drivers,bad roads,bad people nothing a tsunami couldn't fix
The rudest nastiest people yup that's CT! The nicest people are those that aren't originally from CT
100%! Had terrible experiences trying to interact with people up until college. Once my family said we we’re moving, I was elated. Never moving back
Hey I lived here my whole life We are so nice we even passed a law to have feminine products in the boys room in our Government schools!
Terrible public transportation even in New Britain to Hartford. We need bus transportation To New Haven and nearby towns. //Some people look down on senior citizens. //Accents? New Bri-in.//
Thanks for warning me, I will shop elsewhere.
And it's unaffordable!
CT's climate is one of the best in the country. Winters here are a joke. Compared to the Midwest or northern New England, the cold seasons are a breeze.
You definitely have an accent. Lol CT and RI accents are very similar in Eastern CT and the more West you go the more like NYC it gets, and up along the CT River and in the middle it's pretty neutral, though it's still there, and the more north you go, the closer you get to Mass and it reflects there. (Just for the record, Mass and RI suck -Love Connecticut lol)
@janusn9 great comments. Thanks! I agree we are pretty lucky here with the weather. It could be much worse.
Whalley pizza and house st pizza in New haven and legends in shelton and we don't have an accent to us but to others we do not like Rhode island and boston annoying accents
I will need to check out those pizza places for sure. Thanks for the recommendations!
Well, you are 100 %, right Everyone in Connecticut is not rich. I've lived in Connecticut all my life. South central to be exact, And that's 71 plus years right now. And you want to know the truth about Connecticut? If you're a tree hugging liberal, that's trying as hard as you can. To become Communist and socialist come on over. I wish I could get the hell out of here move to some free state where they don't restrict law abiding citizens With laws that no criminal even considers following.
Connecticut sucks. The people are mostly nasty cop callers and they will not mind their own business. If you do well don't tell anyone! Very jealous. Oh and most restaurants are closed and bankrupt. And you forgot property tax on home and car and boat and anything else you own.
I think Ct drivers are rude, inpatient and aggressive!!They ar worse than the NY drivers.
That's because so many New Yorkers moved here since COVID buddy, it never used to be like that before the influx from New York and New Jersey
Connecticut is a boring less New Englandy version of Massachusetts. The beaches in CT are all on the Sound, so no waves. Also, there are no cool cities. Hartford, Bridgeport, and Waterbury are all small and Ghetto. I'd say CT is pretty much New Jersey, but further from the city, but no good beaches. CT does have casinos. But they are in the middle of nowhere. I lived in CT for 8 years. I say skip it. Pizza outside of New Haven isn't thar good. They don't have an accent because they are not interesting. She's basically telling you, go to Boston or NYC if you want to have a good time.
NJ is waaay better then CT
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Your not saying the real truth CT has the highest rent the lowest minimum wage and they are very segregated.
There is discrimination and you have to fit two races here either white or black if your spanish you cant get a good job and most employers exploit their workers. Restaurants are super expensive and drivers speed around the clock.
Sure, it has high rent, but you make at LEAST $14 per hour (higher than most states). Also, I know many people with very good jobs who are Arab and Spanish.
Edit: Tipped works can be payed a minimum of $6.38. Keep in mind that people usually tip 20% when at a restaurant.
Pauls pizza in Vernon.
If you don't like taxes Connecticut is not the place for you!