This is crazy because I swear to god I saw two cougars at the bar at Max Downtown last night.

Probably not commutable to your job, but you might prefer New Haven, which actually has a night life and much bigger cultural/arts scene. But, if you need to be in the Hartford area, the West Hartford square does in fact have the best night life scene in the area. Hartford has some things but they're not really concentrated in any one area.

David Swanson at MSImortgage. He is especially skilled at patiently walking first-time homebuyers through the process, and is extremely thorough. Couldn't have been happier with his service.

Live close to the West Hartford location, and used to love walking my dog there in the morning and picking up some beans for home -- was a great deal for a full pound of excellent beans. Unfortunately shrinkflation hit and they started charging just a little more for smaller bags of beans, 12 oz. Maybe they expanded too soon? Also, they used to give a free drip coffee when you bought a bag of beans, but no more. I still grab a latte there from time to time, and the workers are great, but I've begun buying my beans elsewhere, unfortunately.

What is the point of this post? Were you looking to share information so that people could be careful when driving around a specific area? Mission not accomplished. This is more useless than if you had posted nothing at all.