Example of urban blight, flight and destructive po
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12/31/2006
We lived in Hartford for 24 years and happily no longer reside there. Schools have become very ghettoized with standards as low as possible to include as many as possible. Public transit keeps being cut back with service very difficult to use and transit drivers very customer aversive. Evenings, holidays and weekends cannot be considered culturally enriched unless one drives to the outlying suburbs. Grocery stores have closed in many Hartford neighborhoods and getting groceries means either a long slog on public transport or use of a car to go outside.
There are certainly pockets of prosperity. However, the northern half of CT is run differently than the southern half. CT boasts three of the most empoverished cities in the U.S.: Hartford, Bridgeport and New Haven. Because of the dirty work of a previous Republican governor and his dastardly appointees, the state has been eviscerated of much that used to recommend it and will probably not recover in a generation.
Cheree | Las Vegas, NV