ajpiko

ajpiko t1_jc4xqqz wrote

Are they real foodies?

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If they really like good food and nice restaurants then they probably won't like Prime. You have to leave Stamford. NYC, Norwalk, Darien, Westport, all have options. And if you're willing to drive there are some real gems in CT (Chamard Vineyards, Aresula Farms)

If going to nice restaurants isn't something they do a lot, then they will probably like Prime.

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ajpiko t1_j2e7thp wrote

right so "good school" towns in connecticut are usually going to be super white, so much so that people often say ones just a dogwhistle for the other. stereotypes, i leave the details to your research.

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walking to kids activities in the suburbs of connecticut, just my gut reaction, 1000% unreasonable expectation for ct suburbs. like i'm thinking of all the sports fields, schools, libraries, farms, nature stuff. its all a drive. kids all have to drive. kids drive each other, like everyone has a car by the youngest age possible. it would have to be a city. (so, stamford, norwalk, new haven)

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ajpiko t1_j2e5ghe wrote

okay so, you're more or less limited to looking at places directly downtown if you want walkeability in connecticut.

you might simply investigate every town on the new haven train line. there's a train branch off norwalk, the danbury line, those stops will have good schools but they might not be walkeable/have really small downtowns, if at all. edit: i would ignore the waterbury line.

you might try fairfield, if the downtown/denser area likely has everything you need, it has good schools. don't know if it's pro or con for you, but it is relatively lily white, and has a sort of high-brow attitude that can intimidate people. $1m is kinda low. 1.5 hours by train to nyc. has a beach!

i love stamford, and consider it my home (but i technically grew up in wilton). stamford is relatively high on us diversity ranking (might be important to you), it is also extremely high on us safety ranking! (top 15 last time i checked). its a city though so it has same characteristics of other city public school systems, some people refuse and go to private, others work to get into the really good magnets. also has a beach!

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edit: am going to add that i said fairfield because i think it has the biggest downtown area (of a non-city) compared to say, westport, or darien. westport has a decent downtown too. those are good school towns. westport is a little haughty jewish (sorry jewish friends, its true) and darien is just full stop "we pull over all cheap looking cars". norwalk is great but again, might be testing your limit for schools.

you could be more specific about walkeability, it might help. is it like, kids need to walk to school? you need to walk to doctor? or you just want to be abel to go to a cafe/gym/grocery without driving? or is everyone walking everywhere?

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edit 2: i mean really you might consider new haven, but like we might as well just call it yale. not sure about schools, but the university area obviously is really walkable, and it has the resources of yale medical school, plus all the businesses that cater to yale students. historically the tension was always like yale vs the town and that (at least in the past) meant white vs black.

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ajpiko t1_j1yth84 wrote

> (I consider anything up to 30min as walking distance).

in winter???

> - any preferable district I should be looking for to get the good school?

thats why most ppl move to a suburb town on the same train line, but nnot stamford

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ajpiko t1_itd10g0 wrote

i honestly can't tell if you're joking.

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the whole point of the lawsuit was that lots of people were stalking, harassing, and threatening sandy hook victims based on his comments. he was making $50M annually w/ infowars off those same people. He has/had a huge audience of people willing to do terrible shit.

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