I was working with a guy and we drove from NC to NH and stopped at hs daughters in New Haven. She was getting a PhD in Chinese studies and lived in the graduate student ghetto, abut 2-3 blocks mostly made up of houses rented by masters and doctoral candidates. BTW I spent the night in her study with bookcases full of book. She told me to help myself to the library. Everything was in Chinese. LOL.
The area around Yale was a pit. She took us to a little hole in the wall restaurant with good food, but the neighbrhpod was very bad. I would not have taken my wife or kids there. I thought, Yale is the 500 pond gorilla in the city, why don’t they free up some endowment money or pressure the city to clean up?
BTW she turned down state and the CIA and CNN and went to work near her home in Silicon valley. She went to law school on Hawaii and her role model is Ruth Ginsgerg. predictable, her family is all flaming libs. But she’s smart and quick and you better be on your toes. Yale grad.
Sometimes the university is part of the problem in a crappy city. In a small city, a large institution that is exempt from property taxes can make it hard to balance a municipal budget.