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Originally Posted by SteveD
Wow! We lived on North Street just off Shelton Road from 1971 to 1974 (I'm 57). I went to 1st grade at Nichols School on Huntington Turnpike and 2nd through 4th grades at Booth Hill School on Booth Hill Road. I was born in West Chester, PA (Chester County).
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I'm a bit younger than you, at 41. Grew up on Main Street about a mile north of the mall. Went to Middlebrook for elementary, but I knew kids who went to both Nichols and Booth Hill.
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Originally Posted by Crawford
I think CT is one of the two or three best states, and would happily live there. Pound-for-pound, arguably the nicest state overall.
Almost entirely pretty, extremely prosperous, and great built environment for U.S. standards. Very little typical U.S. sprawl, with few of the giant cookie-cutter subdivisions and big box megacenters. There's no better place to have "country living" with nearby urban amenities.
If we ever get a weekend place (which I doubt because I don't want the hassle of owning two homes), it would probably be somewhere between New Haven and the RI state line, or maybe slightly into RI.
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I feel like it was an awful place to grow up TBH. My town had almost no sidewalks, and there was nothing to walk to within a mile of my home. I didn't drive until I was 19, so I was stranded at home a lot when I couldn't beg a ride from friends. And we mostly just hung out in diners or at Dunkin Donuts when we didn't take the train into the city to see a concert.
I presume you're talking about places like Madison.
I just think of this as an ugly built form. Wide streets, gaps between buildings, short buildings, angled parking, etc.
Something like
Jim Thorpe,
Bisbee, or
Galena is much more attractive from a small town perspective. But I would need a house less than a 10-minute walk from the main drag.