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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I lived in CT from birth until I left for college, and went home to my parents there through college.  My parents moved away from CT about 2002.  I was born in Bridgeport and lived in Fairfield, Stratford, Ansonia, and Wilton and spent a great deal of time in New Haven and the other "Havens" around New Haven.  
CT isn't that different, to me, than living in VA has been for the last 20 years.  Sure there are rich snobs.  There are middle class people and poor people.  The population was not very diverse but I had a few kids of color in every class growing up.  
What I liked about CT was the old-time, colonial beauty of many of the houses, parks, graveyards, and public buildings.  What I didn't like were the areas that had been dedicated to industry and manufacturing in past decades.  Very ugly.
Some parts of CT like Bridgeport and New Haven could be very rough.  Wilton, on the other hand, was very posh (and is near your future home).  Stratford and Ansonia were pretty middle of the road/normal to me.  
Traffic on 95 could be a bitch.  Long Island sound was nice to have around for beaches and boats.  Overall it was a nice place to grow up.  
I have always felt perfectly at home in DC and NOVA, the communities here, from very urban to very posh rural, feel very similar to the towns I knew as a kid.  
People are people wherever you go.  I'm sure you'll be fine.  If the people in Westport aren't welcoming try a boat club or church in a more middle class town like Stratford or Milford.  We were middle class and my parents made a lot of friends with our tiny sail boat.  I think it was this club:  http://www.housatonicboatclub.org/[/quote]

OMG!  You are my people.  My dad was born in Bridgeport.  My mom was born in New Haven and grew up down the street from Yale.  My cousins/uncles/aunts live in East Haven, Fairfield, Wallingford, Greenwich, Cheshire, Stamford.  Bridgeport got really rough after crack..so did New Haven--that's when my family fled.  New Haven has seen a revival but still sketchy parts.  I love the coast there.  I love that you could get to a beach (though it might be rocky) very quickly.  OH and I LOVE my connecticut fried clam strips and clam pizza with white birch beer!!![/quote]

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