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MaoWasaLoser t1_j3wcc82 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Love riding through Connecticut. You’ll even pass the WWE BUILDING by Hoopgawd90

Awesome. Feel free to leave the subreddit too.

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usernamedunbeentaken t1_j3xykuv wrote

No, I think we need more people who were fed up enough to leave CT around to offset the people who won't admit it's problems.

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MaoWasaLoser t1_j3xzwn1 wrote

Why? All they do is say inaccurate shit like "CT is a shithole" when by any sane standard, it absolutely isn't.

Does the state have issues? Yeah of course. Everywhere does. It's still one of the best places in the country to live.

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traddy91 t1_j406p9h wrote

I'm convinced the people who say CT is a shithole have never actually left the state and visited other actual shitholes

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usernamedunbeentaken t1_j3y4e36 wrote

You have an opinion, they have an opinion.

Taxes are very high here, cost of living is very high, the weather isn't terrible but it isn't great. The beaches are the worst in the country. We have no mountains to speak of. We have among the worst fiscal positions of any state in the country (or did until covid helped us).

One of the most common bragging points of CT is how close it is to NY and Boston. But it isn't NY or Boston and doesn't have the stuff that those places do.

There are good points as well. Lots of hiking, people are pretty reasonable (neither our left wing nuts nor our right wing nuts are as nutty as those in other places). Not too crowded, not too empty. Taxes actually could be worse. Crime, outside of a few crummy cities, is quite low.

But all in all, if I could go back in time before I became entrenched here work and family wise, I wish I had gone somewhere else.

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