With a 10-15% drop, wouldn’t home prices still be well above pre pandemic levels?

Bad year for markets + wife cheating, poor guy

So you just want to add some more lanes which will inevitably get clogged up? What happens when there’s an accident, highway still gets rocked. Faster mass transit and more if it is the best strategy

This is very concerning, given that Fairfield County and Stamford at this point are very important economic hubs for CT, practically the only part of the state growing, and far more desirable for new employers and employees alike.

If we can’t solve our traffic issues (likely via public transport), our economy won’t improve.

We'll see how their profits are over the next 6 to 12 months....
In short, you need to educate yourself a bit more.

You can definitely drive through an hour of traffic in LA to arrive at a place that looks a lottt like Bridgeport

Stay out of CT…. Too many of you fucks here already ruining rent and traffic.

It does....Perhaps you should read what I wrote and educate yourself before you make idiotic statements.
The natural gas market has been in free fall since August. This is directly correlated to what we pay given the rate is set for 6 month periods. Unfortunately/ fortunately there is not a monthly variance tied to the price of natural gas. There are many issues in play but CT pays the 3rd highest rate only behind Hawaii (whom has to ship all gas in) and Maine. A substantial portion of Eversources profits come from CT relative to the other states they serve. The most recent rate (effective on Jan 1) was set when prices were at their peak.

> “I just don’t understand why people put up with, tolerate, endure those kinds of [road traffic] conditions, even if it’s just one or two days a week, instead of taking the train,” Cameron said.

Because the train is almost laughably expensive.

My Ford Focus RS, at an average of 19.5mpg of 93 octane fuel, costs $26.83 to drive the 56.9 mile round trip from my home to the office on W 23rd in Manhattan at $4.60/gal, plus the $3 toll for the Henry Hudson Bridge.

That same trip in my wife's RAV4 Prime costs $9.87 plus tolls, based on the current $3.29/gal or so for 87 octane.

Round trip Metro North peak fare (Wilton to GCT) is $34 a person, so it's $68 just for me and my wife to get into and out of the city for a weekday outing. That also does not count subway fares if our destination isn't within walking distance of Grand Central.

So the cost is comparable if I take the car that drinks premium fuel and it's just me. But not under any other circumstances. $68 vs $13 is a complete joke if you're doing that more than occasionally.

I would also theorize that the increase of remote work has resulted in most white-collar employees in NYC only being in the office 1-3 days a week and working the other 2 days from home. If your in-office schedule is unpredictable it makes almost no sense to buy the 20-trip or unlimited ride passes. MNR discounts are rather paltry with the 10-ride tickets.

Extrapolating the daily costs with tolls, it would cost about $257 to drive the RAV4 Prime into the city and back for 20 days - the average number of working days in a month. A monthly commuter pass is $333.

I could go on endlessly with pros and cons, talk about parking costs, working from the train (if you're lucky enough to get a seat), depreciation/maintenance/repairs, fixed costs associated with vehicle ownership, subway fares, whatever. You get the deal.

Bottom line, Metro North is more expensive in most circumstances, and the WFH revolution has resulted in it making even less financial sense.

Have you never ridden metro north? Train is packed and everyone gets off at stops in Fairfield County…there’s barely anyone left by New Haven lol

Anyone that has ever tried to use yung metro as a regular transit option knows that it ain’t adequate.

That’s not the problem with the train - it’s just that it’s slow as fuck. And aside from like Norwalk and Stamford, there’s no office space or jobs near the actual stations. Even Stamford is fairly spread out. Trains need to speed up, and need to build up around the stations (even in our cities - New Haven has nothing by the train!!)

Also that train line is way too slow

I lived in LA for 15 years and for me whats worse about LA is that not just the freeways that are clogged. its every surface street, side street, cul de sac and avenue is jammed up with stop and go traffic almost every hour of every day.

Personally I prefer 2Roads sours especially from Area 2 but OP was looking for something close and that is definitely not lol.

I'm shocked those guys weren't shut down already after everything that came out about their ownership last year

It's not even the highways.

We don't have the gridlocked surface streets here either.

It does jive with rents going up, less supply more demand, also the effects of the pandemic are still lingering on the rental market. Clearly people are paying it, wether they are over extended is another story.

I've only lived here a month, but I've yet to experience true bumper-to-bumper stuck-for-ages traffic on either 95 or 15. It gets a bit slow sometimes and occasionally stops, but nothing, nothing, nothing like traffic elsewhere. London, Portland, San Francisco, LA, etc. I've been stuck regularly where it takes you an hour to go a couple of miles (or less on bad days). Maybe it was different before the pandemic, but it's definitely not bad here.

Call any bank, most big ones will have €500-€1000 on hand. If it’s a bank that you aren’t a member to they may charge you a fee to exchange.

Having lived in Stamford for 10 years I’d say the traffic has gotten significantly worse. My friends and I just call 95 ”The Parking Lot”

You’re not wrong about induced demand, but neither is u/iamsce about how it’s both ways in LA (and Seattle). I think the big difference is that southern CT is basically a big suburb of NYC, and so all of the traffic is tied to people commuting. The flight to the suburbs during the pandemic (when there were also less people on the road) hasn’t helped.

I’m fortunate enough to WFH in Stamford, and the only time I really notice the congestion is when my wife and I visit her family in NJ & PA. When I lived in NYC and Philly, the traffic was constant and unavoidable.

Also the liberty kids episode about him. For a children’s cartoon it’s surprisingly historically accurate and a decent show

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That doesn't jibe with rents doubling. Where are these singles getting the money to pay $2k for one bedroom? Especially if companies are leaving the state and cutting jobs.

Agreed. I also cant believe the author thought it would make sense to cite his home value at the end. This type of journalism is why MSN is a laughingstock.