thekirbyfamily
No Longer Stuck in Connecticut...Wooohooo!!!
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Ok people, CT is NO different than any other states in this regard . The have have not difference as you put it , is the country at large NOT just CT. Getting kind of tired of reading things about this state that are not true .
I have ALWAYS said these things are my opinion, based only on what has happened to my family while living here. I grew up in a city with a nationally-known gang problem and have lived in several places across the country...I have never seen or experienced the things I have in and around Hartford before (Albany Avenue, Park Street, and the Flatbush Walmart make the gang bangers in my hometown look like creampuffs). I saw Eddie Perez is running for Mayor of Hartford again...wtf? A convicted felon? That's how it's done here. New Haven, Bridgeport (who's current mayor is also a convicted felon), Stanford aren't much better. For people such as myself, daily life and the most simplest tasks are exhausting. Going to the grocery store? Shouldn't be a stressful thing right? Not until you realize you have to watch the price every single item in your basket rings up because inevitably you will be over charged multiple times. You wanted milk, bread, and meat that the date wasn't changed on and isn't rotten? Guess you'll have to waste gas heading back to the store to return it and face the stare down from the employees because this is not something the haves would do, they would just buy more. Another thoughtless task should be the ability to drive your family to and from where they need to be without worrying about losing your insurance because you have been in 3 hit and run accidents in 2 years, which has destroyed your record due to no fault of your own. I haven't even mentioned the near deaths of two of my children in utero and at birth due to neglect/bad treatment at the hospitals. I have watched life here destroy the smartest man I have ever known. Three college degrees including a Ph.D (that he can't pay on the loans it took to get), brought here for a state job that he makes a $1,000 a year above the cut-off for foodstamps, can't provide for his family, has been taken advantage of more times than I can count, and just got tired of explaining to his kids why our family can never buy anything, yet those around them have everything because it either comes out of their dad's paycheck, it's gotten by illegal means, or they are independently wealthy...he snapped from trying to hold it all together for so long and always failing. Being warm in the winter? Thinking you deserve heat? Well, that's an extravagance. You see, his $59,000 annual salary from the state is too high to qualify for heat assistance and we don't do illegal things to get money, so we keep our heat on just enough for the pipes not to freeze and we freeze ourselves. Maybe experiences like mine are why more people move out of CT every year than move in. My family and I should have been everything this state wanted in prospective residents it draws...educated, young, no criminal records, etc. but the taxes, high cost of living and crime rates, and daily shinanigans makes a life here unsustainable if you are not a crook or from money. I would never have believed someone telling me one of the richest states in the nation had so much poverty before arriving here and seeing it with my own eyes...living it really. I never watched, understood or thought the show Seinfeld was funny before living here. Each and every episode makes sense (thinking of "We're living in a society" here) as I have now experienced all of those things at one time or another. Even Stephen King makes references in his novels about the New England butchers putting their thumb on the scale to make your purchase weigh more. Didn't someone say there is always truth in these tales/lies somewhere? I can't state clearly enough this is my opinion only and it is not meant to frustrate anyone. I am glad CT is not like this for everyone.
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