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Crafty-Cauliflower-6 t1_j3qnkgr wrote

It's a college town with a few universities in town and just outside. It has its rough edges if you are outside the college bubbles. (But the bubbles eat into the city) music, food, plays , and bars dominate. Average age is in the mid to late 20s. Lots of post docs. You can take a train right to grand central. It's pretty expensive like all of connecticut

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brewski t1_j3rl95y wrote

Average age is 31, which is younger than NYC or Boston (a little surprisingly to me). It can be considered a college town, but it's a relatively small college. This is not like Gainesville or Penn State where the population is outnumbered. Plenty to do outside of the university bubble. Also lots of great stuff here because of the university. It's a great balance, IMHO. As a "pub guy" you will find many places to go that are not overrun by students. Unless you're looking for that - you can find plenty of those too!

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Crafty-Cauliflower-6 t1_j3ro4fp wrote

Yale has lots of graduate students and post docs and scsu and unh are also close to or in town

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brewski t1_j3tlrqt wrote

Sure but college students make up maybe 10-15% of the population. Not 50-75% like some places.

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Crafty-Cauliflower-6 t1_j3twvkm wrote

Absolutly 16k from Yale half of which is graduates and visiting scholars) 9k scsu 1k albertus magnus 5k unh 9.7 k quinnipiac Not counting gateway cc

Unh and quinnipiac are just outside of new haven but they come for the night life arts music and food. 134k people in city limits.

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