with a minimum 3-night stay it's $2893 after fees (approx $762/night)

from what I've heard its pretty safe except for the North end. Though if your really that concerned learn how to defend yourself. Mace, pistol, swiss army knife, fists. Whatever.

New Haven is the ONLY Connecticut city on the map in terms of outside interest. Without Yale, New Haven is nothing. CT is lucky to have such a top notch ivy league and medical brand in its borders. Its not perfect for the area, but look at Bridgeport or Hartford 🤷‍♂️

This is fantastic. Looks like my next 15 Fridays are planned. Thanks everyone!

My wife and I movced from the west coast to Middletown a couple years ago. We live right on the Cromwell/Middletown line, and we like it. We're like 10ish minutes from downtown by car/Uber, so we can still go out and enjoy the nightlife.

Do NOT rent at Middletown Brooke. We lived there for a while, and it sucks. The maintenance staff takes forever (sometimes MONTHS) to get to anything, even things like leaks. The office staff doesn't care about your issues either. We had multiple maintenance requests on the residents' portal get marked as complete when we never even saw, let alone let in, a maintenance person.

This! I used to live right across the river in Portland and it’s such a nice little quiet town but close enough to everywhere.

Aka - don’t live in Middletown.

Just spoke to my son, I think he got his license 2013? He said he did go on the highway, 6 East. Took a right and made his way through the back roads. He did his parking behind the DMV area. He also said he remembers having to drive down Main St. The lanes change quickly from left only, straight, to right only. My youngest son also went on the highway in 2016, different area. He ended up driving in a snow squall. Drive as much as you can anywhere you can.

All anecdotal stuff above and this is very hard to answer depending on what your level of safety is.

The real answer is that most people with a choice would not choose Middletown for rent unless it is a section away from downtown, like in the “Condo Heaven” section on the Cromwell line.

Downtown Middletown/Main street houses a homeless shelter and is a haven for poverty, drugs, and crime. It’s ok to visit for a night out because of the restaurants/bars but you don’t want to live there.

My advice would be Cromwell, Rocky Hill, or Glastonbury if you are looking to rent. You can visit Middletown anytime, no need to live there

Doesn’t look or feel safe and like people are saying there’s clearly a bad part of town and that spills over. There are much more pleasant areas nearby to live. Portland, rocky hill and Cromwell come to mind.

I’m okay with being downvoted by telling you the honest truth that absolutely not will you be completely safe in Middletown-it’s 100% one of the largest hubs of drug users in the state. The food pantry on Main Street is one of the most visited in the state, I’ve volunteered there. That being said it’s a far step from being some sort of hellscape. It’s just, relatively, one of the worst areas in ct and idk why people would pretend otherwise then that they live there and can’t admit it. I have family that way in Hartford even though there’s regularly a murder around the corner

Definitely a ringing endorsement then! Awesome 🤩

Middletown resident here. I am completely fine with my wife or daughter being alone downtown. Great town.

I'd have a dog, but that's me

So I took my test there in 2014. we pulled out of the DMV and took a right on W Main St, then when we got to the intersection of Roanoke Ave and W Main we took another right onto Roanoke, we pulled into the plaza with Supercuts etc and went behind the building where the instructor had me back in to a spot. After that we continued up Roanoke took a right onto Quarry St. we went all the way to the end of that road and took another right onto Mansfield Ave, then took the second or third right onto Valley St. all the way down to the weird intersection that turns into West Ave, and then went back down to W Main and took a right heading back to the DMV, took the final right onto Holbrook Ave and pulled back into the DMV where the instructor had me pull into a spot and the test was over. Depends on the instructor honestly but that's pretty much exactly the route that I took. A big circle on back roads

Kiss still sucks tho

Oh I've never used Air BnB, I wasn't aware they had stupendous fees, well then nevermind it being affordable. But it would be pretty cool to stay there for a weekend if I could afford it.

Practice going on and off the highway and also practice parking. Backing into a spot and parallel parking, also K turns/3 point turn whatever u call it.

Check out the neighboring towns as well.. they are little gems unto themselves.

Thanks for the tip, soon-to-be neighbor!

More Middletown city portion. Id say Liberty ST would be the southern boundary of it, and like stack street would be the northern most part. Also the sections on the North end near the River can be rough as well. I lived down their for better part of a decade, and I can attest it can get a little interesting at times… nothing too crazy but going into it you would want to stay vigilant.

Of main street or of Middletown?

My wife and I lived in Middletown about 8 years ago and we would happily move back. Downtown has it's areas but we've never had one issue and love it down there. The restaurant selection downtown is fantastic and if you're into hiking there are so many beautiful trails to visit in the area.

We lived in two separate apartment complexes on West lake drive (AKA condo heaven), Madison Northwoods and Hunter's crossing. Madison Northwoods was nicer but more expensive. There are plenty of other complexes to choose from though.

Overall, I think you'll like Middletown if you choose to live there!

Well, I live in Middletown but I never leave the house so you should be fine

To be fair this problem is not limited to or unique to middletown, but I do agree that MPD is bloated and largely incompetent

I used to ride my bicycle from Rocky Hill to class at Wesleyan, right through the so called dangerous North end, at night. No issues. Middletown is fine.