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Kinda, but it also benefits from the location as well. CT cities are a bit Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Cities like Stamford and Norwalk are thriving. Bridgeport and New Haven are up and coming and Hartford and Waterbury are just plain depressing.

It's really sad. My mother lived there til she was 13. When my grandmother was alive and we'd take her around to see the old neighborhood, she'd get angry to see how far the city has fallen.

I guess that doesn't blow my mind as much because Dorchester is part of Boston, a much bigger city. I think I'm more shocked because for my whole life, Hartford has been losing population. Lowell and Cambridge went through a similar loss of population, but they've gained people over the last 20...

On a somewhat related matter, I just realized that Hartford only has 122k people. That means that Cambridge and Lowell are only a few thousand people away from surpassing CT's capital. For some reason, that blows my mind.

Will they be building more similar buildings on the remaining land?

On my last trip to the area a few weeks ago, my wife and I really liked Dover. She said, "Dover looks like Lowell if they cleaned it up." The Children's Museum of NH was fun for a day with my fam.

Sorry for the late response, but I just saw this. What has always struck me about Boston is the complete lack of mediocre hotels for budget travelers - basically a place to sleep for the night with no frills. Even in NY, I can find a mediocre to crappy hotel with a shared bathroom where one can...

It's not perfect, but I don't see anything wrong with it. We need the housing and not all buildings need to be perfect.

Whereas Chicago isn't the hellhole the right would have us believe, it certainly has far more serious problems than Boston, New York or LA. Here are the murder rates for the cities themselves (not MSA) in 2024): Boston 3.7/100,000 New York 4.7/100,000 Los Angeles 7.1/100,00 Chicago...

I was looking at these using Zillow last week. I think it's an amazing looking concept and I'd like to see more like this.

That's what I thought at first, but then I looked more closely on Google Maps. We're not losing much by tearing down the boring-looking building that's already there.

Thank you F-line for perfectly expressing why so many people are fed up with the left, and they're willing vote for a fascist con-man.

Well, some move over to the GOP, while others simply don't vote. Look at the results of the 2020 election vs 2024: Democratic Joe Biden Kamala Harris 81,283,501 51.3% 306 / 538 Republican Donald Trump Mike Pence 74,223,975 46.9% 232 / 538 Republican...

I'm fully aware of the Tim Pools of the world, but that doesn't change the fact that the Dems still do things that turn voters off to their main message.

I've had a few nights to sleep on his and something about the last sentence of your last paragraph has really gotten to me. To be fair, your view that I will vote for Vance in the future PERFECTLY illustrates what I was trying to say about liberal gatekeeping. I've been voting since 1996 and I...

I had a much longer response, but I decided to delete it. However, I just wanted to say that there's no fucking way I'd ever vote for Vance.

I can't in good faith argue that allowing transgirls and women to participate in sports against biological girls and women is the equivalent to the civil rights movement or the fight for gay marriage. It's a far more nuanced issue than that. The right of trans adults to be able to exist and...

I think the issue runs deeper than what’s immediately visible. Whether we like it or not, people often vote based on social and cultural issues that touch their everyday lives. When many voters see debates around this topic, they interpret it as part of a broader cultural shift they’re...

He took a position that most Americans (and most of the world) support. To continue to push this idea that natal-boys (trans girl/woman) don't have some biological advantages over girls and women is preposterous. There have been many solutions to this issue, some of them pushed by more moderate...