That's a very nice quiet area though it gets pretty busy in the summer. The Lymes are probably the best towns.

I won't enjoy the cameras on the highway and will email and call my representative letting them know. If Lamont does this one thing I hate, but 10 other things with which I am in favor, who do you think should get my vote? You act like our politics are like a buffet where you can choose some of this, a little of that, and end up with the perfect dinner plate, but the real world doesn't work like the Bacchanal buffet.

You may be shocked to hear this, but no one agrees 100% with everything a political leader does. With 332 million people in this country and a choice of two candidates to represent them, you can work out the probability that one of the two candidates will check off every box of all 332 million people. So what do you do? You vote for the guy that best represents you and your values. In our case, the choice is between Lamont or whoever the Jewish Space Laser party nominates.

Yep. Speed camera + ALPR data is a car insurer's wet dream.

I've seen it. Ironically I've seen some drivers who do this use their blinkers to go in and out of the shoulder. I always wondered what would happen if someone jumped into the shoulder and then suddenly was face to face with a cop car parked there with a disabled vehicle or accident.

They're probably trying to beat that Friday rush.

Do you mean title? Why would Florida care if your car is registered in CT?

NC has a similar income tax as we do. If you make $100k in NC you'll pay $4,750 in state income tax. In CT you'd pay $4,780. In NC you will likely pay higher sales tax up to 7% depending on where you shop. NC also has an annual car property tax like we do. NC also has a driving tax a.k.a. tolls while CT has none (for now). You'll likely save big on property tax on your home, though give some of those savings back in insurance costs. On a net basis you're probably coming out ahead in terms of overall effective tax rate, but on paper it doesn't seem worth taking a haircut on income just to save a little on the tax side. I'd much rather start with the biggest pile of money I can get my hands on, and then figure out how to reduce the tax liability as much as possible. Also we use median incomes to avoid having it skewed by millionaires/billionaires. It's not an average, it's the median.

Median income in NC is also $30k, so if you don't mind a 25% pay cut I'm sure it's awesome.

What if they got tired of all the natural disasters?

Been there. Later on it became a Walmart which closed long ago.

Red lights too.

Do you think only vehicles with Connecticut license plates are allowed to drive on Connecticut roads?

You could always just tell DMV you lost your California license. They can't take from you what you don't have. I assume they can just look you up to ensure you have a valid license in California before issuing you a Connecticut one.

It's great until you get a ticket in the mail because the car next to you was speeding.

Would you be able to contest a ticket from it?

>IIRC its illegal in CT to random scan plates and check registration because its a secondary infraction.

And yet police departments do it all the time. Many towns use their ALPRs to do this very thing. Those systems are like $15k, so they need revenue to cover the purchase price.

If you get a ticket from one of these automated systems, can you fight it?

Your ID is your name + DOB/SSN. Your address has nothing to do with your identity as it is not unique to you. There are very few times and places where you need to prove your address outside of voting. Having your address on your license or ID is overkill and unnecessarily compromises personal information any time you show ID. Ironically CT doesn't use SSNs for your driver license number because of this.

Where does the lobster roll go?

But residency and whether or not you passed some government test that says you know how to drive have nothing to do with each other. There are other ways to prove residency.

It's expensive as hell, but I don't know if I'd call it a scam. Those poor bastards in Texas a couple years back that got a $17,000 electricity bill during a snowstorm... now that seems more like a scam than anything Eversource does to us.

Why do you even need to have your address on your license anyway? Where I live has no impact on whether or not I am eligible to drive.

But there's loads of things in Fairfield right next door. What's next door to Canaan? Basically nothing.

I didn't mean that, I meant close to stores, restaurants, bars, entertainment, and transportation (e.g. highways, trains, buses).