Florida is a cesspool. I dont need to go digging to know that CT bests Florida in just about every metric.

Oh yeah, Florida is of comparable population to CT. Let's compare economies! How about overall well being? Education? Let's compare those.

I do a similar commute and if I'm in the car at 7 I'm in Stamford in 50 minutes. I'd say they are either exaggerating or leaving around 730, which puts you right in the mess of things.

An hour and a half from Trumbull to stamford? That's ridiculous. What time do you leave?

Check Stamford's for 2017-2020. The mill rate for mv there is 27.25 but has been lower for real estate.

You are wrong. The MV mill rate is set by a towns board of finance. The town can choose to tax mv at any mill rate UP TO 32 mills. Real-estate and personal property mill rates are set separately.

No I am talking about overall taxation for the town. Motor vehicle mill rates in this state are capped at 32 mills. Most towns set their mv rate at 32, the maximum. If they want to make it lower, they can. They dont.

The mv mill rate is capped at 32 throughout CT. The lower property value towns choose to tax motor vehicles at that maximum rate.

Wealthier towns with a low real estate mill rate simply set the auto rate the same as their real estate resulting in a low mv tax bill.

Greenwich has an 11 mill rate. Their entire net taxable grandlist for the town is over 34 billion. The towns budget needs are roughly 400,000,000. Or roughly $6,500 per capita.

Meanwhile Bridgeport has a mill rate of 43.45. Their entire net taxable grandlist is 6.4 billion. Town budget is roughly 347,000,000. Or $2,300 per capita.

Tax payers in Greenwich are still paying much more in taxes per person, but their effective tax rate is lower because their property values are so high in relation to the towns budgetary needs. The IMPACT of the higher taxes however is much lower in Greenwich.

If you take the mill rate of a town divided by 70% you can quickly see their effective tax rate. Which shows that Greenwich is around 1.5% while bridgeports is around 3% depending on how you cut it.

Every single municipality in this state relys on the mv tax for their grand levy. If they lose that stream of income, they will simply increase tax on real estate and business owners. No cuts to their budgets will be made, guaranteed.

Tax break? It's called incusionary zoning. Requires developers to deem 10% of building as affordable housing. Otherwise they can pay the city a fee so the city can invest in affordable housing as they please, give it to nonprofits, etc.

No thanks, the food there is old/expired imo.

Join a Crossfit gym. Im in my 30's and have made great friends through the community in the gym. There are a excellent one's in Milford and Branford with great coaching - just a thought.

Sweet comment man.

The lifetime fitness is going in by the government center in the new apartment building behind St John's chruch.

Yeah, don't slit your wrist 🙄

I heard that a huge gym is going to occupy the second floor of the new apartment building behind st John's church, and will be open to the public for memebership.