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CTdadof5 t1_j8e90y9 wrote

Around Hartford Area:

Wethersfield, Newington, Rockhill and west Hartford. All affordable and good schools. Mostly insurance/financial and healthcare jobs in capital city and surrounding area. Great ethic, racial and economic mix. Lots of old beautiful homes especially old wethersfield and west Hartford.

Glastonbury, Farmington, simsbury - more expensive, somewhat better schools, more homogeneous. - upper middle class white and Asian folk. Commute for work. More fancy.

Fairfield county - very good schools. Way more expensive. Lots of jobs…commutable to NY and places like Stamford. Very fancy.

NW Corner - lots of rural areas. Very bucolic. Long commutes. Mix of very expensive towns and affordable. Some hicks.

NE corner. Rural. Maybe unfairly, but feels like this area is a bit depressed. Rural with some small cities. Hicks abound.

A lot of great shoreline towns east of New Have.

South East CT - basically Rhodesia Island. Haha. Not very familiar with this area.

And we promise to not take books/history away or ask your daughters when they are menstruating.

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caimseeker OP t1_j8en0ck wrote

That last sentence is a large part of why I am taking my happy ass out of Florida, along with my 4 daughters.

And thanks, this is good info!

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Lcomotive t1_j8f5s3k wrote

The claim that the NE corner is “hicks abound” is a stretch especially coming from FL. Sincerely from a Floridian. You won’t find the per capita rate of Confederate flags and lifted trucks with “Trump 2024” anywhere in CT compared to even the suburbs of FL.

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KaladinsDad t1_j8hz4zl wrote

Certainly you get Trump flags north of Norwich pretty quickly. But yes, they still aren't as frequent or as intense as other states.

OP should just stay away from the Killingly school system. Their school board has been in the news a little too much recently for some Red state red meat type nonsense.

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Phantastic_Elastic t1_j8fzeky wrote

East of Hartford around UConn is all nice, small towns with easy proximity to the Hartford Metro. Coventry, willington, Mansfield, Tolland, all good schools with reasonable property values, nice big yards, not congested, etc.

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