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shhhhnotsoloud t1_iwqr8xs wrote

Look up “Christmas in East haven.” The video will give you a good view of locals’ perceptions of East Haven.

I looked at houses there and here are my several pettyish reasons I chose somewhere else:

-trumpy Italians as someone else said. This only resonated with me because the mindset has bled over to a hesitance to embrace what could be a great opportunity for the town in being more accommodating to the airport and income that could be garnered from it, if done correctly. Aka NIMBYs. Also anti vaxxers.

  • proximity to small airport and recent plane crashes, one of which killed a family’s two children as they were in their own house
  • swampy mosquito-ey areas
  • schools leave a lot to be desired if you have a child that has an iep. These are anecdotes but I know of one family who is suing the school system bc of this, one family that is going into debt to put their kid (who needs accommodations) in a private school to avoid EH public, and another family who is pretending to live at their in-laws in another town, also to have their kid, in need of accommodations, avoid the EH public schools.
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AccentFiend t1_iwrgvup wrote

A looooooot of people are complaining about the airport issue since Tweed decided to start marketing their flights and branching out.

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Yesouisi01 t1_iwru8bo wrote

Airport working hard on local politicians to expand drastically. 737s are no joke when the fly right over your house.

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sammcgowann t1_iwrzvgf wrote

Scared the shit out of me the first time one of the avelo flights went over me in North Haven. It looked like it was almost skimming the trees

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packofpoodles t1_iwru5x7 wrote

East Haven public schools have had a less than stellar reputation for a very long time. I’m not sure how it is now.

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nastypanass t1_iwsjf60 wrote

HORRIBLE. Especially if miss Lynn is still in charge of the middle school.

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