Yeah, not a good look. Still better than it was 10 years ago, but room for improvement.

Oh, damn. Bummer another shitty club opened there. For a bit, it was going to be developed by the owners of College Street Music Hall, then by the Shubert owners. Both fell through.

Clubs bring a stupid crowd to downtown. Another legit music/entertainment venue would be so much better.

https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/crown_garage_commercial

Edit: nvm, that’s not the space I’m thinking of. Google Maps placed it on the wrong side of street. Yes, that space has been though several shitty clubs in the last 10 years.

Joke went woooosh.

Radiant Waxing in Milford

Geronimo’s, Mezcal, Camacho for margaritas.

You’re not going to find margaritas at a pizza place. BAR and Nolo have a fuller drink menu. The other pizza spots are more beer. Next Door doesn’t open until 4 but has a full drink menu.

Little vague. There’s more than a hundred choices.

Rumaj?

Torino must’ve fallen through?

How is it not relevant? They asked for large lunch portions for the money. That’s what I provided.

A friend used to teach here: https://www.milfordindoortennis.com

Zoi’s has always been good for the money. And P&M, Nica’s. Atticus Market isn’t super cheap but the food is pretty amazing.

Sitar has good lunch specials.

Olmo is filling for a bagel sandwich.

Haven Hot Chicken sandwiches aren’t cheap, but they’re massive. Same thing with Munchies.

Biagetti’s in West Haven is not the cheapest Italian, but a pretty amazing old school joint whose portions will feed you for days.

Bella’s is another that is not afraid of massive portions

Edit: not open for lunch, but Next Door often has some good deals.

Don’t need to eat dinner after that.

Good to know you’ve lived in similar places. That experience helps. Those cities are generally more dangerous than New Haven, with roughly double the crime rate.

Good riddance. Personally, I love seeing chains fail. More business for the little guys.

It’s so good. The lady friend and I split them, they’re huge.

Er, kinda wish you checked with us before committing to that area if concerned about safety. Not the worst area, but far from good.

As far as your car, you can do some things to dissuade thieves. First, get wheel locks. While not foolproof, it helps. Gorilla is one brand that’s common. Secondly, I know it’s old school, but get The Club. And lastly, never leave anything of value inside.

Gotcha. East Rock and Westville could fit that bill in New Haven. Lots of green and parks nearby. Walkable, but leafy and relatively quiet.

Also, it’s most definitely a small city. Even downtown is fairly chill.

Depends on what you want. Are you renting? Buying? You want more of a city or suburb? Coastal? Woods? What kind of property? Kids?

There’s plenty of great, safe areas of New Haven. It’s CT’s best city, for enjoying city life! Downtown, East Rock, Wooster Square, Westville are particularly great areas to live.

Outside New Haven, I’m a big fan of Milford. It’s a really well rounded town with a great shoreline, parks, downtown, and walkable areas.

Tier 1: Greenwich, Darien, New Canaan, Westport. League of their own. There are also isolated areas of larger towns that fit in this elite group, namely Southport and Rowayton.

Tier 2: Fairfield, Wilton, Weston, Easton, Redding, Ridgefield, Woodbridge, Madison, Guilford, Glastonbury, Farmington, Essex, Avon, Simsbury, Roxbury, Washington, Bridgewater. These are towns that are rather well off uniformly, but have a level of access that Tier 1 doesn’t. Upper middle class can live comfortably in these towns.

Then you’ve got isolated areas of wealth in towns that are otherwise not super wealthy. Thinking Stonington Borough, Fenwick, Pine Orchard in Branford, bits of the Lyme’s, Prospect Hill New Haven, much of coastal Milford, coastal Mystic and Noank, Shippan in Stamford, etc.

Rowayton itself is extremely wealthy. It’s one of the most expensive zip codes in the state.

New Canaan, but it’s very busy/crazy. Insane collection of rare and exotic cars, though. New and classic.

Milford has a good one too. More down to earth, but a good variety and usually several hundred cars.

That’s a tough one.

There’s decades of poor planning and urban renewal damage to undo.

You’d have to build a massive amount of apartments and have all new neighborhoods built with street level retail.

It would also help to bury 84, maybe 91 too. But that’s not going to happen.

I always knew New Haven would gentrify, even in its worst days, because it had great bones. There’s a large continuous walkable area that has a traditional street layout (downtown, East Rock, Wooster Square in the heart of it). Not too many office plazas that reduce usable street front space. Not too many parking lots, and the ones left are mostly being redeveloped.

Yes, you have problem neighborhoods still feeling the urban renewal challenge, like the Hill and Fair Haven, but compared to downtown Hartford, it just has a better layout.

I guess my perspective is different, as several former colleagues and friends live in Fairfield without kids. On the other hand, the only singles or childless people that I know that lived in Westport hated it and didn’t last long.

Actually Fairfield and Westport have low mill rates. The property values are high, though, and I agree they’re not great for non-families. Fairfield is better than Westport though.