CT native that did a 5 year stint in Nashville as well. Cant speak on employment but our 2 br apartment is 2k per month which is what we were paying when we lived in Midtown 3 years back.

We moved from Franklin, Tn in October to Farmington Ct. after living in Tn for 34 years. My husband and I both grew up in Ct and finally couldn’t take it anymore.Traffic in Tn is horrible, pot holes everywhere, pick up trucks with confederate flags, ruthless republicans, I could go on and on. Able to sell our house for 6 times the amount we bought it for, bought a house here with no mortgage (house in Ct. nicer, totally remodeled), bought a new car no payments. Everyone here has been so welcoming and friendly.

if your flying back and forth the new avelo airline does cheap nash flights to NHV

We moved from Nashville to CT for work 1.5 years ago, feel free to DM! Overall we are very happy here and plan to stay long-term, though we miss the music and food scenes in Nashville. But the public schools, better teacher pay, and politics are a better fit for us here.

Well are you looking to rent or buy. What size.? Urban or rural? Job field? Remote or not?

Weather this winter in CT was as mild as Nashville- perhaps milder. We are further north - but we have a rapidly warming body of water nearby- the green blue Atlantic. So summers though hotter then 10 years ago are not going to be the brutal heat seen in TN.

Winters will see more chilly weather- but that warming ocean nearby is eliminating the differences in winter temps. Both Hartford and Nashville have essentially the same climate designation now- 'humid temperate' or 'humid subtropical'. Climate change will make the mid to lower south increasingly hot and stormy over this decade.

Housing prices in greater Hartford- median home price 324K. Nashville 448K- this is a big difference. Rentals: 1 bedroom 1400.00 metro Hartford. Nashville near 1800.00.

Also consider this: Housing prices in central CT are seen as only 14% over valued. In Nashville metro they are seen as 46% over valued.

Employment growth in CT is strong- job growth strong in health care, education & specialized manufacturing. Central CT was never a strong IT center- but its old economic base of innovative manufacturing has made a strong rebound.

On the political side TN is a deep red state- which says it represents 'freedom'- but freedom for whom? I would find the state of TN strangling- with the government telling me how to live my life- every move I make. That's not freedom.

Why are you going back to CT?

Connecticut is something like the third most expensive state in the US, especially compared to the south, and if you’re coming up here without a job ready for you it’d be pretty much unlivable. EB offers good jobs if you’re in any sort of engineering field but I definitely have qualms about fueling the Military Industrial Complex. Honestly, out of anywhere in NE I’d suggest Rhode Island or Maine, I’ve lived in both, albeit when I was very young, and I don’t have nearly as many issues with either as CT.