Reviews & Comments
Hartford, CT
A Very Nice Small City and an Excellent County -
7/30/2018I grew up in West Hartford....and the City of Hartford and Hartford County is a lovely place to live. Easy access to everything you will ever need. The City is completely under-rated and a bargain to live in when you consider places like Tennessee and yes, Florida. It's an easy place to live. Everything is walkable or a very quick drive. In 45 minutes you can be at the beach or the mountains, depending upon your interest.
We retired to Florida from Hartford. After a year, we sold our house in FL and are moving back to Hartford. Florida is excessively hot, humid, full of strip malls and rude/very aggressive drivers. The price of real estate if FL has skyrocketed and it is simply not worth it. The City of Hartford is very easy to work in and there has been a ton of housing construction over the past 5 years. The Mark Twain House is amazing, along with the Harriet Beecher Stowe House. The Wadsworth Atheneum (the oldest public art museum in the country) is wonderful, along with Elizabeth Park and the oldest Rose Garden in the country. The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts was built in 1929 and is has the most amazing art deco ceiling I have ever seen. Bushnell Park (designed by the architect who designed Central Park in NYC) is lovely...and be sure to ride the Carousel, one of the oldest in the country. The Butler Cook Museum is nice, and the Old State House is beautiful. Goodwin Park is great for golfing and its famous cemetery has fantastic residents like Kathrine Hepburn and JP Morgan. I can't wait to move back to a walkable, liveable city where the cost of living is reasonable and the schools are excellent (compared to those in the rest of the country).