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You have a nice yard and house and the cookies look yummy <steals cookie>.

Trust me I want out, at least from where I am, finally got my wife thinking about it too. I think everyone needs a few acres. Your new house is beautiful and I'm very jealous where I am now is kinda like your old neighborhood. Good luck in your new state

I knew a woman would say something about the cookies

All sorts of work up here for people who know how to work. Some sleeze bag dusted the attic in this house, blown in insulation my azz, he scammed the former owner for sure.

I wish i had done it 30 years ago. Almost everyone in CT is a money hungry psychopath.

I think CT is going to join michigan and most high cost of living places are going to see a massive down turn, the young people are leaving. the greedy employers don't want to pay their help nothing so they can built themselves McMansions like the one you posted pictures of.

My VT taxes are half what they are in CT, but I went real conservitive, only assesed at $75,000. paid $85,000 for it. 2 acres an about 800 square feet, that's all I need. My little CT. ranch was actually more house than I used at 1100 square feet.

Real hard to find this one, not many super deals around like I found, couple getting divorced, financial basket cases both of them and they really let this place go to hell. I don't even have a working furnace at the moment, guy was here monday and is going to send me an estimate.

With the way income taxes are today, we are better off doing our own work than going out in the labor force and earning the money to pay other people to make us a decent place to live.
$200,000 house takes $300,000 in before tax income, plus the interest on top of it, so we really need to earn like $500,000 to pay for a $200,000 house.

if you are ever interested in taking a ride, send me a PM and come visit
170 miles from milford, about 10 miles off I-91 about 3 hours with a piss stop

We are looking in Prospect now not out of CT but out of the city my wife has a rather good job in your former town so it's tough to go too far,Thanks for the invite might take you up some day

Not bad to get from prospect to hamden so far, just take route 69 south and take the back roads into hamden. It's like near impossable to sell houses right now, so if your current place has anything that is near a turnoff to people it's tough to sell right now. My corner house has been forsale since January, got one lady on the hook, but it depends on her unloading her current house in hamden, it is too close to the spreading urban blight. She supposed has a buyer and they where going to have it inspected today, so tomorrow I find out if she was able to unload her house so she can buy mine for $225,000 minus real estate fee's and transaction costs.

If she don't come threw, I'm going to lower the price some more, paid $140,000 for it 5 years ago and dumped about $20,000 into it, so my investment has about kept up with inflation. Won't make nothing but pretty much had nearly free housing for 5 years.

the only bad part about prospect is the traffic makes a lot of places a pain in the butt to get to from there. Amity is a nightmare and route 10 hamden/cheshire is super high volume traffic.
Check out what is happening politically in Prospect before doing it. I grew up in hamden and had no clue the morons had made such a mess of things. newspapers where worthless, now with the internet so much more can be learned about what is really going on.

it's like west haven, every thing looked ok and than one day bang, it comes out they had been cooking the books for years.

i like the story in pictures.

An aerial view of the town I live in form the web

A few miles north of new haven Conneticut there are still a few open acres of land. The following pictures are a deceptive veiw of Conneticut

church and firehouse are on the edge of endless urban sprawl. The guy parking his truck there will probably get harassed for parking a commercial vehicle there.Yuppies can't stand seeing anything like that.
Church is on one side of the wide street/parking lot and fire house on the other side.







phoney farm saved from developement


veiws from the top of a so called mountian





CT is a mess because of the NIMBY people. They want to live is some story book type new england town and won't let nothing be built in their town, yet think nothing of climbing in their cars and going someplace else to work & shop & look for entertainment because there is nothing in their bedroom community.

I'm in vermont now and these people pretty much do the samething, they zoned out developement, yet jump in their cars and drive to new hampshire to shop, like it's ok for them to turn new hampshire towns into urban shopping areas and create all sorts of traffic in other peoples towns, just not in their home town.

In general no matter where you go people want all the benefits of dirty nasty industrial system and to be able to enjoy having all sorts of consumer crap, they just don't want to see the industrial side of society anywhere's near where they live. Phoney tree huggers are everywhere.

1320 is a 1/4 mile for people who don't drag race

Here is the other view of Connecticut


The Walmart is in a new strip mall next to the ever expanding regular mall. It's like this all along route one. Shoppers heaven is traffic hell. I avoid this area like the plague but have to travel though it to get to one of my bigger customers

Just like everywhere else.

Yes unfortunately. There are some differences but they are becoming less everyday

not like that in vermont, 30 miles to one of those type commercial strips

not one national fast food place in the town I'm in, gas stations are the only national brand names signs in town

what is amazing is the little tiny hardware store in town has most everything I go there to get. it's not a lumber yard either, but they came through with rolls of insulation, a roll of roofing paper.

my brother came to visit, so we took a ride, went about 15 miles west and than south a ways and ended up back in town after 50 miles on the main numbered state roads and not one single traffic light. I've only found 3 traffic lights in the county, there might be a few more someplace, but got me where, i went to the bigger towns to see what is around and have only found 3 of them.

I don't miss CT at all. it sucks as far as not being able to jump in the car and drive 2 miles to get stuff, but nothing is really so important it can't wait until a list of things are needed and make 1 trip every week or two. I need printer ink, so like big deal I wil live until I need a list of things.
Sort of like living in the old west on a farm or ranch and once a month taking the wagon to town for supplies
They have basic stuff at the little stores here in town and the hardware store has a fax machine.

For some reason, Facebook fecked up the colours a bit.

Anyway, this is a concept sketch for one of the photos in a series I'm working on. Haven't come up with a name for them yet. This is one of the more normal (ie. easier to draw) ones.

Cool!! !

Thanks
I got bored and made a different version (mostly so I could use it as a Myspace background) that you can see here.