danhm

danhm t1_jdsozfl wrote

As much as I want to enjoy a train ride into NYC, I find its usually cheapest to just drive and park for the day somewhere. You need to pay per person for train/bus tickets but gas and parking is just charged once.

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danhm t1_j8ymqou wrote

Here's some better formatting. Chody (lol), next time put a blank line before and after the town names and then Reddit will make the hyphens into a list.

Avon

  • the coffee trade
  • Dom’s Coffee

Bantam

  • arethusa a mano

Bethel

  • Redding roasters
  • Molten Java

Bristol

  • the roasted bean
  • Cafe Real

Brookfield

  • candlewood coffee

Bridgeport

  • source coffeehouse

Branford

  • Willoughby’s roasters

Cheshire

  • the bean
  • Cheshire Coffee

Canton

  • Giv coffee

Darien

  • neat coffee

East Hampton

  • Eco

Fairfield

  • candlewood market

Farmington

  • rebel dog

Glastonbury

  • daybreak
  • Raon Jena

Hamden

  • Bread and Chocolate
  • Common Grounds

Hartford

  • blue state coffee
  • Story and Soil
  • Semilla

Madison

  • willoughby’s

Manchester

  • silk city coffee

Middletown

  • perkatory roasters
  • Klekolo world coffee
  • Perk on main

Mystic

  • Lamplighter

Naugatuck

  • loaded goat

New Hartford

  • those guys coffee

New London

  • blackhall coffee

New Preston

  • zero profit

New haven

  • the coffee pedaler
  • Koffee?
  • Blue state coffee
  • Willoughby’s
  • Pistachio Cafe
  • Fuzzy

Newtown

  • village perk

Norwalk

  • deadly grounds

Norwich

  • Craftsman Cliff roasters

New Canaan

  • zumbach

Old Saybrook

  • ashlawn farm coffee

Portland

  • tandem

Plainville

  • rebel dog

Putnam

  • Ben’s beans

Ridgefield

  • tusk and cup

Stafford Springs

  • Stafford coffee

Stamford

  • Lorca
  • BonJo
  • Turning Point Roasters

Sherman

  • sacred grounds

Shelton

  • Three bridges
  • Common grounds

South Windsor

  • birdhouse

Southington

  • Perkatory
  • Southington Coffee Shop
  • Lions Den

Southport

  • Driftwood

Trumbull

  • shearwater
  • Pour Mikey’s

Vernon

  • Kevin’s coffee roasters

West Hartford

  • J. Rene coffee roasters
  • WeHa Brewing & Roasting

Westport

  • isle coffee

Willimantic

  • grounded

Personally I would also include the Perkatory in West Harford and the various Hartford Baking Company locations (at least West Hartford and Glastonbury, maybe elsewhere?)

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danhm t1_j68jbnz wrote

I've been there! It's absolutely beautiful but yes, it feels like a cult. Go watch something like Midsommar before you go, get real immersive with it.

We chatted with one of the women who worked there. Her name was, in fact, Grace. Was she grown there?!

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danhm t1_iyejebp wrote

I use Big Y's pharmacy because it almost never has a line, compared to my local CVS which is always crazy busy.

I fortunately don't have any chronic conditions and only need the occasional round of antibiotics or steroids or whatever. Nothing that costs more than like $10 -- I don't need to worry about saving money with an online pharmacy.

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danhm t1_iy5n9xj wrote

West Hartford doesn't really belong on this list in my opinion. It does have some rich residents but the per capita income for the town is $54k. Greenwhich is at $98k, Darien is at $116k, and so on. It's more upper middle class yuppies in West Hartford than the ultrarich types you'll find in the southwest of the state.

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danhm t1_ixi63nq wrote

Eversource buys generated power and resells it to you. A few years ago Connecticut passed a law that allowed consumers to select their own power generation and pay that rate, instead of being stuck with whatever Eversource picks. The power generation company will tell Eversource that you are buying from them instead and then charge Eversource for the power -- which you see on your bill as the generation charge. It doesn't actually matter where the power comes from. Power generation companies just pump the power into the grid and then power distributors use it and pay them as needed.

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