as with any place there is good and bad, so here's a top five of each
Good: 1. Seasonal change. Can't top it. 2. history. Sure, it's not a monastery built it 1049, but CT is loaded with serious US history. 3. It's familiar. Sounds lame but there's an awful lot to be said for a place that has something comforting in it's familiarity around you all the time. 4. seafood! when it's in season, it's awesome!! as well as the produce, etc. We're very seasonal eaters here. generations of people raised on 'eat it while you can get it' haven't completely lost the thrill of it being fresh! local! and in season! even if you can get it in December at Stop & Shop. 5. cultural proximity. We have several really great museums, two really awesome theaters [as well as two that run as testing grounds for Broadway], a wine trail and historical everything but. Should you get bored, or exhaust those options New York and Boston are less than two hours away.
Bad. 1. Our government, and more specifically the people in our governments, seem to be quite the crooked lot. Iti's most alarming. 2. the economy here is in a very nasty spiral. 25 years ago, any number of companies HQ'd here. That number is quite small now. 3. Over development. CT is a small state, yet we haven't seem to set any limits on tearing down to build new, either on land or perfectly usable and gorgeous old buildings. Sadly, great swaths of the state are just plain ugly now. [Berlin Tpk. and Silas Dean I'm looking at you] 4. Unemployment is still on the rise. [see #2] 5. Most of my friends, save a most treasured handful, have moved away or never lived here to begin with.
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Date: 2009-08-09 03:26 am (UTC)Good:
1. Seasonal change. Can't top it.
2. history. Sure, it's not a monastery built it 1049, but CT is loaded with serious US history.
3. It's familiar. Sounds lame but there's an awful lot to be said for a place that has something comforting in it's familiarity around you all the time.
4. seafood! when it's in season, it's awesome!! as well as the produce, etc. We're very seasonal eaters here. generations of people raised on 'eat it while you can get it' haven't completely lost the thrill of it being fresh! local! and in season! even if you can get it in December at Stop & Shop.
5. cultural proximity. We have several really great museums, two really awesome theaters [as well as two that run as testing grounds for Broadway], a wine trail and historical everything but. Should you get bored, or exhaust those options New York and Boston are less than two hours away.
Bad.
1. Our government, and more specifically the people in our governments, seem to be quite the crooked lot. Iti's most alarming.
2. the economy here is in a very nasty spiral. 25 years ago, any number of companies HQ'd here. That number is quite small now.
3. Over development. CT is a small state, yet we haven't seem to set any limits on tearing down to build new, either on land or perfectly usable and gorgeous old buildings. Sadly, great swaths of the state are just plain ugly now. [Berlin Tpk. and Silas Dean I'm looking at you]
4. Unemployment is still on the rise. [see #2]
5. Most of my friends, save a most treasured handful, have moved away or never lived here to begin with.