I've said it before, but CT is like a construction desert coming from growing parts of the US.

Talk about blowing your one opportunity to match the strongest housing demand this state has had in an entire generation. People won't forget.

par for the course for anything affordable now days

>More gun laws aren’t going to change that because the root cause is generational poverty.

Let me put on my wellies here, cuz shits getting deep.

If you think intergenerational poverty is the specific reason a deep & vast black market of guns exist all across america's streets then we're not going to get anywhere.

I'm not retarded, I can see exactly what european countries have done to decrease the black market of weapons while keeping handguns accessible.

As a taxpayer, I don't appreciate that one single industry is allowed to waste so goddamn much of my tax money while they rack in the $$$. This industry makes Eversource CEO look like a pope.

I live in CT for a reason, because of tight gun regulations........I dont work my ass off to listen to gunshots every damn night like I had to in the 4th largest city in the US.

google

edit: what kind of idiots downvote this? like me providing any single source (considering all the BS news sites out there) means anything when you have the entire internet a click away - WTF

Bullshit - "Firearms are the Leading Cause of Death for Children in the United States"

95 percent of gun owners are upper middle class?

prolly just downwind of the massholes today

Portland, Maine sounds like best option around.

Other threads last week were bemoaning the dismal state here in CT, fewer options + higher prices than just a couple months ago.

Using a blinker is just inviting someone to cut you off..../s

That being said, just count your blessings you're not driving in FL/TX. Soon enough we'll all be suiting up in motorcycle gear just to get in our cars.

don't discriminate, maybe they just have a really really wide ass

lols, we've been absent more than 10% from covid / rsv alone

I'm sure tons of others as well

I agree it'd be nice for everywhere to have sidewalks, but the density levels throughout CT make that cost prohibitive, both here and around the rest of the world.

Again, I support it and on a local level, the individual towns should be taxing their residents accordingly to support sidewalk build-outs. IF it's a priority for your family's safety, I'd recommend moving to a town that does just that, there are many.

since I'm being downvoted I'm only curious about housing prices.

Where exactly are there neighborhoods with no sidewalks that would still be less expensive than inner city Bridgeport or New Haven?

Agreed,but amenities are baked into the price of home purchases. I'm still new to CT, but here in Woodbridge the build-out of sidewalks would cost a large fortune and no way would I want to pay for that.

Cyclists have the right to take the full lane anytime.

If you can afford to live somewhere with NO sidewalks, then you can easily afford to live somewhere with sidewalks.

The issue here is the quality of inner city schools, no?

dreading it already, oil bill has been kind the past month

https://www.redfin.com/county/425/CT/Fairfield-County/housing-market

barely matches inflation rate and already down 2.7% yoy

only reason to buy a house is because it affords homebuyers massive gov't subsidized leverage, but entry price is important to long term gains

Anybody buying at current inventory levels has a very high tolerance for risk.

I'm not a gambling man, renting is the obvious choice to me.

I mean, sometimes you have to go for the lowest of the low hanging fruit and will take what we can get, but not seeing anything substantive here to meaningfully imporve road conditions.

TX drivers fly off the goddamn handle everytime they see a biker slow down for a stop sign.....and continue through it. They also die of obesity on a frequent basis.

Guess I missed the educational video on bikers killing automobiles at 4-way stops or something?

You tell me.

What suburbs with density levels the same as suburbs of Stamford have train access in EU?

Tiktok?

Those suburbs either have far more density than Stamford or they sit between 2 major destination on an existing route.

Regardless of terminology, it's about density.

By definition, suburbs don't have the density to make mass transit affordable.

There's literally a train line that runs directly parallel to all of this, but getting to the train from the burbs ain't quick either.

Am I the only not concerned at all about this?

I can't compete with NYC salaries for a decent standard of living in CT.