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#1730206 - 11/13/17 12:20 PM Re: What’s with the anti-Connecticut sentiment? [Re: Jamobi]
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Registered: 04/15/04
Posts: 2422
Loc: Vermont
I'm moving to VT for five main reasons:

1) Congestion-the driving in CT is insane and getting exponentially worse every year. Rt. 91 is a freaking race course!
2) The people-The majority of the people are getting to be complete a-holes, due IMO to #1 above. It's every man for themselves these days.
3) Crime-as talked to above, the bad people are overpowering the good people and the authorities have no power to stop it anymore.
4) Financial-the state is in a horrible position and I'm fed up with taxes going up for services I don't even use.
5) The State of VT actually VALUES it's fish, game and environment. They support it, fund it, and promote it.

When I come back to CT from VT it's like a huge culture shock. In VT everybody drives close to the speed limit (50 mph unless otherwise posted) and they actually are very polite drivers (and people). When I'm driving down RT. 91 it's amazing how the average speed goes from 68-70 in VT to 75-85 in CT with people cutting you off at every possible chance. I can't take it anymore.

If I could afford to leave today, I would, and I'd never look back.

Barn.

I work to live, not live to work.
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#1730208 - 11/13/17 12:43 PM Re: What’s with the anti-Connecticut sentiment? [Re: Jamobi]
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Registered: 07/26/04
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This picture sums up Connecticut very well, sorry I don't know how to post it. https://scontent.fbed1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v...amp;oe=5A971E4F

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. Thomas Jefferson

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#1730214 - 11/13/17 01:09 PM Re: Why do you live in CT??? [Re: Dusty]
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Merged this latest topic with another long-standing thread on the subject.
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#1730215 - 11/13/17 01:10 PM Re: What’s with the anti-Connecticut sentiment? [Re: Bass Ackwards]
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Originally Posted By: Bass Ackwards
This picture sums up Connecticut very well, sorry I don't know how to post it. https://scontent.fbed1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v...amp;oe=5A971E4F


Hah, yes. Saw that first here, where there's some pretty funny anti-Connecticut jokes:
https://www.instagram.com/connecticuck_memes/

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#1730218 - 11/13/17 01:14 PM Re: What’s with the anti-Connecticut sentiment? [Re: Mitch P.]
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Loc: Stonington, CT
Originally Posted By: Mitch P.
Originally Posted By: Bass Ackwards
This picture sums up Connecticut very well, sorry I don't know how to post it. https://scontent.fbed1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v...amp;oe=5A971E4F


Hah, yes. Saw that first here, where there's some pretty funny anti-Connecticut jokes:
https://www.instagram.com/connecticuck_memes/



Lol, that's funny. Thanks Mitch, I didn't even know the other thread existed.
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#1730220 - 11/13/17 01:21 PM Re: What’s with the anti-Connecticut sentiment? [Re: Jamobi]
Mitch P. Offline



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Originally Posted By: Jamobi

Lol, that's funny. Thanks Mitch, I didn't even know the other thread existed.


This thread was started by Dusty back in 2007, who has since made it out of CT. Where did he go? The vacation hotspot ... Nebraska.

Seriously though, good for Dusty. He went from stocking shelves at the Hartford Cabelas biggrin ... all the way to corporate.
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#1730223 - 11/13/17 01:49 PM Re: What’s with the anti-Connecticut sentiment? [Re: Mitch P.]
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Posts: 4323
Originally Posted By: Mitch P.
Originally Posted By: Bass Ackwards
This picture sums up Connecticut very well, sorry I don't know how to post it. https://scontent.fbed1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v...amp;oe=5A971E4F


Hah, yes. Saw that first here, where there's some pretty funny anti-Connecticut jokes:
https://www.instagram.com/connecticuck_memes/



Thanks for putting up that picture Mitch. I'm almost 70 years old and have lived in Connecticut all my life. Why any young couple would want to live and raise a family in this "tax you to death" state boggles my mind when there are so many other states where housing, food, and taxes are far less than in Connecticut.

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. Thomas Jefferson

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#1730225 - 11/13/17 02:36 PM Re: What’s with the anti-Connecticut sentiment? [Re: Dusty]
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This is what all young couples have to look forward to in their future by living in Connecticut. https://scontent.fbed1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v...amp;oe=5A673CEC

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. Thomas Jefferson

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#1730233 - 11/13/17 05:31 PM Re: What’s with the anti-Connecticut sentiment? [Re: Dusty]
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Registered: 01/19/02
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Loc: Wallingford/Florida
Saw a hit and run on rt. 80 last week east haven/new haven border. That SOB didn't even slow down when he hit the other car. I cringe going through that area. Traffic is definitely worse now then it was when I was a kid. Thinking of moving down to Florida (when I retire) but I think the traffic is worse then CT!

Down there they pump significant monies into fishing down there from what I can tell.


Edited by JohnS (11/13/17 05:34 PM)

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#1730238 - 11/13/17 06:07 PM Re: What’s with the anti-Connecticut sentiment? [Re: Dusty]
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Loc: Guilford no longer Long Island...
After living and owning on LI I cannot wait to move back to CT for the time being. Granted I dont want to retire there but LI is so expensive especially since I live on what they call the "gold coast."
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