Ot: What City do u live in & where did you grow up?

[Bezzz]

Born: New Britski, CT
Raised: Wolcott, CT
Lived: Troy, NY (college) then NYC 10 fun years, Simsbury, CT 17 years
Current: Beautiful downtown Hartford, CT

 

[M_Funkhauser43!]

Yep. Was there on a CDC/USAID job for awhile. Watched the NCAAs at JJ Murphy's 6 Karnigradska

Good to know, I might have to make the trip next year. For a sports-obsessed city, there's a dearth of good sports bars here in Belgrade.

 

[husky99]

Born: schenectady ny
Raised: champaign illinois, erie pa, akron ohio, Bloomington, IN, westport ct, new milford
Lived: Storrs, ct, London England, Bristol ct
Current: Avon ct

 

[WillB4]

Born: Waterbury, CT
Raised: Town Plot
Lived: Waterbury, Trumbull
Current: Wolcott, CT

 

[tzznandrew]

It would be cool to have a map on the site that could show what city different 'yarders are living in. Aside from a cool visual, it'd give a nice sense of the scope of the 'Yard and UConn athletics as a whole.

 

[Jerry1714]

Born: Hartford, CT
Raised: West Hartford, CT
Lived: Storrs, Memphis, and NYC
Current: Boston, MA

 

[borninansonia]

Born and raised until 13 in Ansonia
Then Fairfield for high school (culture shock)
Lived in Maine, Mass., Wisconsin, California
Now live in Eugene, OR and becoming a Duck fan

 

[Scot-e]

Born: Hartford

Lived: CT, NYC, LA, Dallas, Miami, New Orleans.

Currently live in Atlanta.

 

[FDNY99]

BORN: Norwalk CT
RAISED: Ridgefield CT, Coventry CT, Willimantic CT
LIVED: Willimantic CT, Springfield MA (2 yrs at Springfield College), Bay Ridge/Dyker Heights Brooklyn NY
CURRENT: Port Chester NY

 

[BearJWS]

Born: New Haven, CT
Raised: North Haven, CT and Niantic, CT (Summers)
Lived: North Haven, CT, Romantic Willimantic, CT, New Haven, CT.
Current: East Hampton, CT
Work: Hartford, CT

I can't believe I'm telling total strangers this!

 

[BugsyCT]

Born & Raised: Bristol, CT
Lived: Storrs, Hartford, New Britain, CT
Current: Bristol, CT

ESPN.

 

[huskiesnyc]

Born: Concord, MA
Lived: Tampa, ME, Storrs, Boston
Current: NYC

 

[LeeOtisWilson]

Question for lifelong Connecticut residents:
Why?
Huge taxes and 7 months of really crappy weather, grey skies and limited sun.
Just wondering when it seems a good percentage of Boneyarders have moved south.
My family thought I was crazy to move south and then 3 years later 2 of my sisters and my parents moved to North Carolina and they said it was the smartest thing they had ever done.

 

[CAHUSKY]

Born: San Francisco
Raised: Pleasant Hill, CA
Lived: Tahoe City, Chico, London, CapeTown, Windhoek Namibia, Storrs, Reno

 

[GemParty]

Born: Hartford, CT
Raised: West Hartford, CT
Lived: Storrs, Memphis, and NYC
Current: Boston, MA

I was thinking a Tracking type map or even a Graph of some sort might be a cool idea. Anybody good at visuals? Shocking, how many people grew up in upstate NY.

 

[tzznandrew]

I moved to Boston (NYC was too big for me).

I like big, walkable cities. That largely meant the South was out for me. Although North Carolina has nice weather, most of the South is just way too humid.

Suffice it to say that there are other, cultural, reasons I wouldn't be interested in the South, but I don't want to turn this perfectly nice thread into something worthy Cesspool. The taxes are worth it for me...

 

[Offhegoes]

Born..Bridgeport
Raised....Bethlehem
Lived....Storrs, CT (2006-2010) looking for cool places to go to grad school! Or full time work for the time being.

 

[PomonaHusky]

Born & Raised: New Haven & Hamden
Lived: Kingston/Narragansett, Storrs, Milford, Baton Rouge, West LA/Santa Monica/Westwood, Blacksburg,
Current: Pomona

 

[GemParty]

Question for lifelong Connecticut residents:
Why?
Huge taxes and 7 months of really crappy weather, grey skies and limited sun.
Just wondering when it seems a good percentage of Boneyarders have moved south.
My family thought I was crazy to move south and then 3 years later 2 of my sisters and my parents moved to North Carolina and they said it was the smartest thing they had ever done.

Great basketball at the XL?

 

[upstater]

Question for lifelong Connecticut residents:
Why?
Huge taxes and 7 months of really crappy weather, grey skies and limited sun.
Just wondering when it seems a good percentage of Boneyarders have moved south.
My family thought I was crazy to move south and then 3 years later 2 of my sisters and my parents moved to North Carolina and they said it was the smartest thing they had ever done.

NC is not my cup of tea. High taxes pay for good public schools as well.

 

[Jerry1714]

Question for lifelong Connecticut residents:
Why?
Huge taxes and 7 months of really crappy weather, grey skies and limited sun.
Just wondering when it seems a good percentage of Boneyarders have moved south.
My family thought I was crazy to move south and then 3 years later 2 of my sisters and my parents moved to North Carolina and they said it was the smartest thing they had ever done.

Lived in Tennessee (Memphis) loved it. Would have stayed in the south forever if I had my choice, but a work opportunity took me to Boston. I love it here, but the weather sucks and yea the cost living is higher, but so are the salaries for the most part.

 

[OkaForPrez]

I was thinking a Tracking type map or even a Graph of some sort might be a cool idea. Anybody good at visuals? Shocking, how many people grew up in upstate NY.

http://blog.batchgeo.com/

For anyone who wants to convert this thread into an excel table, you can upload it into this site and it will output a google map with "pins" for each yarder.

Edit: Forgot to contirbute:

Born: South Bend Indiana, no I'm not an ND Insider
Raised: Torrington CT
Living in: West Hartford

 

[Samoo]

Born: Milford
Raised: Milford and Guilford
Since then: Portland OR, WashDC, Conakry Guinea, Windhoek Namibia, Addis Ababa Ethiopia, Zagreb Croatia, Accra Ghana

 

[pepband99]

Born: NYC
Raised: Englewood and Tenafly, NJ (0-16), Westport, CT (16-18).
Since then: Storrs (18-22), Bridgeport (22), Hamden (23), Fairfield (23-30?)
Living in: Monroe, since 2008 or so.

BTW - to the guy who listed Stevenson - yellow flag on "it's not a town"

 

[UConnLen]

Born: Providence, RI
Raised: New London, CT
Lived: Essex, CT, Coventry, RI, Storrs, CT, New Haven, CT, Groton, CT
Current: Montville, CT