Recent comments in /f/Connecticut

Fun-Ad-6554 t1_j65m97u wrote

It's also worth noting the lack of affordable housing not just for the poor but middle class means everyone who works in Stamford/Greenwich/Fairfield is forced to live North/East of work to have a half decent living arrangement despite dealing with the 1.5 hour ride from Bridgeport to Greenwich at 7am.

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Jenaxu t1_j65j3wu wrote

Not with that attitude. Suburbs can be built in a more transit orientated way without increasing density (depending on what you're defining as density), we just have to actually put the effort in to actually do that. But we've deliberately done the opposite so it's not surprising that it'd be hard to immediately overlay effective transit all at once.

Plus, affordability is kind of a whatever point. Driving a car is not very affordable either, not just in maintaining the roads and infrastructure, but in forcing every family to have at least one or more depreciating assets that they have to pay to maintain, insure, fuel, etc. just to do anything. And regardless, transit should be a service, there's nothing wrong with the government providing a service without being inherently profitable.

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VancouverMethCoyote t1_j65gunm wrote

Grew up in CT, it wasn't super common but there were people that wore them (I was in a semi-rural town.) An old guy I knew when I worked at Dunkin wore one every day. My dad had a straw one he used for fishing, and sometimes wore it generally. CT is very live and let live, I doubt people will care. You will see cowboy hats at the Big E and the RV show that takes place on the Big E grounds too, lol.

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