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.