Make all of the “beautiful people” areas of Fairfield, Westport, Darien et al.. Look more like Waterbury, Bridgeport and Hartford!!
Funny how the educator wants to move up and live in Fairfield. complains about an hour commute.
While at the same time, probably 90% of the parents of those kids spends 3hrs+ per day commuting into NYC to be able to afford living in those towns.
I know a guy who works at Goldman Sachs and lives in Darien about a mile from LI Sound.
He also has a house on Nantucket.
When he went into the office on Park Ave it was a 5 minute ride to the train station. Then an hour train ride to Grand Central. Another 15 walk from there.
He was working from Nantucket the last couple years. He is some kind of Euro currency trader/arbitrage something. Lived in Frankfort for a few years back when he was first hired 25 years ago.
” While at the same time, probably 90% of the parents of those kids spends 3hrs+ per day commuting into NYC to be able to afford living in those towns.”
GREAT point.
I hope people remember and use it on the whiners
I have come to believe — quite strongly — that one of the most destructive social-economic and cultural trends in the post-WW2 period in the U.S. is that it is now common for people to live and work in different places. The end result is that you have cities like New York or Chicago that turn into dumps because many of the people who work and do business there don’t live there and can’t vote for the government leaders.