Good bar and restaurant scene. Definitely a younger city, but a good mix of ages overall. Travel to New York is easy. Pretty good music scene. Sporting events not so much though. We don’t really have any local teams in New Haven, so the most you’ll really get is Yale home games. Because of Yale and all of the other universities in the area, everyone is very used to newcomers so making new friends and acquaintances isn’t difficult, at least in my experience. I’d recommend Trinity and Christopher Martins for pubs.