Connecticut gonna die

[Ksandra]

I have no point to this thread except to let everyone outside of CT know that CT is dying.

People are leaving it in droves for a variety of reasons, starting with complete corruption of the gov't years ago, and now the after effects are hitting.

Half of the state is rich, but that's old money rich, and many of the rich people have listed Florida as their primary residence, meaning CT hasn't been getting taxes from them.


And then there's those close enough to NY that they can work there, and live in CT. These people are fine.


It's the rest of the state that's in trouble. I grew up in an upper middle class area, that's now on the verge of collapse as all the jobs have been moving out of the state bit by bit.

The million dollar homes near my house are on the market for $200k.

My mom's home (worth about $150 now) has 8k in property taxes (in comparison to my CA home is $360k and I have 4k property taxes). She spends about $1k-$2k a month on heat in the winter.


My sister's house, and many in the area is now waterlogged, and it is estimated over $10k in repairs are required. They are trying to file for bankruptcy and move to FL, because their taxes are over $10k a year, they can't afford the repairs, and know no one would buy the home even if they did fix it.

CT is second, only behind NY, for the most taxes collected per residence:

http://www.yankeeinstitute.org/2018/...n-the-country/


CT spent all the teacher pension on other items, but somehow are paying the teachers out of another fund, but many teachers are uncertain if they'll keep getting paid and others who are working don't want to stop out of fear they won't get any money.

This is not nearly limited to my family, but it's to give a glimpse on what is going on over there.

Here's some articles:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-co...-is-collapsing

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b0de86f49100ad

https://www.theatlantic.com/business...cities/532623/

[Demosthenes]

Maybe they need to build that bridge to long island then.

[BerenTebogo]

How is CT dying faster than RI wow you guys are bad

[Zetanio]

CT deserves to die.

[milez]

Lamont bout to give us legal weed so all is well actually.

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[milez]

That, tolls, and sports gambling should help out

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[Dimmauk]

This is somehow ESPN'S fault.

[Day]

highest average income in the nation, bleeding money, must be ran by democrats

[Day]

i googled it and whatya know

[Krandor]

This is somehow ESPN'S fault.

Or WWE

[Zetanio]

its run by the insurance companies fam.

[Dimmauk]

The only people unhappy in CT are Republicans. Sour grapes.

[Zetanio]

Definitely not true.

[Zetanio]

Everyone who owns a house is mayad.

[DrClout]

Maybe they need to build that bridge to long island then.

Hard pass fam. I don't need them negros on my island. Fuck that ferry too

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[Day]

its run by the insurance companies fam.

cmon bruh

[Ksandra]

The only people unhappy in CT are Republicans. Sour grapes.

My experience is the opposite. The dems are frustrated, the repubs are like "PULL UP YOUR BOOTSTRAPS"

[Ksandra]

Which is humorous since all the bootstrap jobs left in like the 90s

[Day]

if i had to get the repubs are probably saying "stop spending all your fuckin money" and that gets interpreted as bootstraps™

[Ksandra]

highest average income in the nation, bleeding money, must be ran by democrats

As mentioned, the rich are the old money rich and are not filing their taxes through CT.