20 years at my company.. 5 weeks paid vacation... 6 paid personal days.... 2 paid floating holidays. New Years Eve /Day , MLK Day , Memorial Day , 4th of July , Labor Day , Thansgiving and the day after , Christmas Eve/ Day ALL PAID DAYS OFF. Live 3.1 miles from my work place. Decent salary. Paid for my house, put 2 kids thru college... Tough to leave something like that and relocate. Retirement might be a different song.
WELL....ALL THAT went down the FARGIN TOILET...STILL OUT OF WORK. I'm hating this state more than ever right now. ( Had an interview for contract work yesterday, a 6 month deal ) 6 other people FOR THE SAME JOB INTERVIEWED.
I only live here because my wife wants to stay here. I retire in less than a year from my second career and if she said lets get out of Connecticut I'd say yes and where we going. Don't know if they are retirement friendly but I would love anything north of Connecticut, the further the better, preferably the last house at the end of a long dirt road.....
Registered: 07/16/05
Posts: 3171
Loc: CT. Got a problem with that?
Originally Posted By: Jighead
"Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's budget office and the General Assembly's nonpartisan Office of Fiscal Analysis now agree the state's major spending account will end the fiscal year June 30 with a $43.4 million surplus. That's a drop of $461.5 million from January estimates, according to budget documents released Wednesday"
????? How do you miss an estimate by 418 million?
Its like guessing there are 115 doughnuts in this box.
"What box?" -Malloy
If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.
I love CT. I know I am in the minority here...but here is why
I live <1 mile from the sound, and < 1 mile from the CT river. Great options for family boating (Sag Harbor, Greenport, 3 Mile harbor, BI, Mystic, Watch Hill, the list goes on) Great options for fishing - all within about 10 mile from the dock ....Hatchet's, LSS, Plum Gut, Six mile, CT river, black point etc etc great school in Old Lyme - top 15 in the state. Less taxes in Old Lyme than i paid in Hamden for 2x the house and 3x the land doesnt get ridiculously cold in the winter and doesnt get ridiculously hot in the summer
The grass isn't always greener on the other side.
I have had a few job offers to head to California, England, and Colorado... turned them down because i want to STAY in CT.
to each their own...
Chris
Pretty much what Chris said except I'm in Old Saybrook instead of Old Lyme - we also enjoy exceptionally low tax rates compared to most of the state and good schools.
CT also offers easy access to NY and Boston plus a pile of airports in reasonable reach which.
That said, our long term plans involve a winter house somewhere warmer - depending on what 'long' ends up being that could mean spending the school year in perhaps Charleston (Isle of Palms, Sullivan's Island) and the summers here.
#1581135 - 06/04/1411:07 PM
Re: Why do you live in CT???
[Re: MattK]
onthewater102
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Registered: 04/14/05
Posts: 1649
Loc: Kent, CT
Originally Posted By: MattK
we also enjoy exceptionally low tax rates compared to most of the state and good schools
I'm a CPA, and when I read this I spit Cap'n & Coke all over my computer screen...
Low tax rates? Perhaps to your point your property taxes are below average (in CT), but we all get HOSED in this state by the end of the year. Sure, we're better off than those out in the Socialist Republic of Californistan or across the borders in Tax-A-Chusetts or ... New York (yeah, haven't heard a disparaging tax-related nick-name for that one yet...but trust me, it's a hell-hole of government inefficiency) but even if we win the rat-race against them we're still all rats.
Oh, and to the post's purpose - my entire family less my two grandparents in NC live here, we're all close, and no-one is willing to move away from anyone else, so we stay. I grew up in New Milford along with my wife, now we live in Kent and just about every in-law/relative is within 30 minutes of us in any direction making holidays a complete fiasco...but we love it and we'll never trade it for anything.
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