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

ESPN.
 
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.
 
Born: San Francisco
Raised: Pleasant Hill, CA
Lived: Tahoe City, Chico, London, CapeTown, Windhoek Namibia, Storrs, Reno
 
Jerry1714 said:
Born: Hartford, CT
Raised: West Hartford, CT
Lived: Storrs, Memphis, and NYC
Current: Boston, MA
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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.
 
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...
 
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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.
 
Born & Raised: New Haven & Hamden
Lived: Kingston/Narragansett, Storrs, Milford, Baton Rouge, West LA/Santa Monica/Westwood, Blacksburg,
Current: Pomona
 
LeeOtisWilson said:
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.
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Great basketball at the XL?
 
LeeOtisWilson said:
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.
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NC is not my cup of tea. High taxes pay for good public schools as well.
 
LeeOtisWilson said:
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.
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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.
 
GemParty said:
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.
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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
 
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Born: Milford
Raised: Milford and Guilford
Since then: Portland OR, WashDC, Conakry Guinea, Windhoek Namibia, Addis Ababa Ethiopia, Zagreb Croatia, Accra Ghana
 
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" :)
 
Born: Providence, RI
Raised: New London, CT
Lived: Essex, CT, Coventry, RI, Storrs, CT, New Haven, CT, Groton, CT
Current: Montville, CT
 
CAHUSKY said:
Born: San Francisco
Raised: Pleasant Hill, CA
Lived: Tahoe City, Chico, London, CapeTown, Windhoek Namibia, Storrs, Reno
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When were you in Windhoek? I was there 2003-05.
 
Born: Winsted CT
Lived: Storrs, Philly, Fort Washington PA, Waltham MA
Currently: Stoughton MA
 
Born and Raised: East Hartford 0-18
Lived: School - New Haven 18-21, Annapolis MD 22, Rocky Hill 22-26, Avon 26-28, Canton 28 - 37
Residence:Richmond VA
 
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LeeOtisWilson said:
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.
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I am actually someone who grew up in the South and chose to stay in Connecticut after graduation. I have loved every minute of it and would not consider heading South in the forseeable future. I was about to type out a thousand reasons for my personal decision because people who phrase a question where they think that everyone should value/enjoy the same exact things that they do in life tend to piss me off but then I realized that this is the Boneyard and the following question is good enough reasoning:

How many UConn sporting events have you witnessed live lately?
 
Born: Maryland
Raised: Ledyard
Lived: Storrs; Boston; Germany; Williamsburg, VA
Current: Petersburg, VA
 
Born: Pittsburgh (parents met at Pitt)
Raised: W. Hartford (father grew up in Htfd)
Post-college: Fairfield, New Haven, Suffolk, Nassau, New York, Fairfield/New Haven Counties (basically clockwise progression)
 
husky99 said:
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
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Seems like the General Electric parent travelogue>?
 
Born and raised in Berlin (Kensington) where I live
School years in Storrs and Boston
 
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Lot of guys still shoveling snow..Good on you,,couldnt do that any more..someone mentioned schools in NC..for what I save in housing kids will be in top notch private schools from k to 12,but to each their own.
 
Born: Atlanta, GA
Raised: Wilton - went to CCHS in Norwalk
Lived: Storrs, West Yarmouth, West Hartford, Wilton
Current: Fairfield
 
Everyone knows ... Top notch Private Schools are in New England too.
 
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