Rich,

What type of driving did you do? There isn't much business or industry in the areas to which I am referring. You are right about New Britain, there are some very nice neighborhoods, including the one in which I live.

There is also, Malikowski Circle, where the Fire Dept and EMS won't go without a police escort, and which is a half a block from my parents house; Corbin Heights, Pinnacle Heights, Mt. Pleasant, there used to be Willow St., near my wife's school, but the City razed the entire block because of the violence and drug dealing...

And the issue was not crime, it was economic depression and the gross and unfair disparity between richest and poorest. Oh, I forgot Broad St., Orange St, Oak St., North St......