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I've never personally lived there but my wife and I came close to buying a condo on Front Street in 2018. Neighbors seemed wonderful.

In the years since a few of my friends have bought houses/condos in the area (it's about the only part of town where a younger adult can still afford to) and they all like it a lot. We love where we settled in Hamden but part of me wishes we'd ended up part of the wave of Millennial homesteaders along the river.

he looks like he's applying sunscreen

If you had kept walking up Elm Street past the Shops, you would have arrived at the historic New Haven Green, with easy access to Yale's Old Campus and Cross Campus, both of which are accessible by the public. You also could have seen quite a bit more little nooks and crannies of Yale's campus. It's not a gated compound, it's an urban campus that's pretty well integrated into the surrounding city center.

why give money to the state when you could give it to oil companies instead?

if you can't afford a full-price bus pass I have bad news about owning a car

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My wife and I have lived in Hamden for about 4 years now. We love it. Whitneyville/Spring Glen area offers a nice, walkable neighborhood and an easy commute to downtown New Haven. (We mostly take the 228 bus down Whitney Ave. Canal Trail is also great for bike commuting.)

In terms of crime, Hamden deals with a lot of the same stuff as any suburb these days — mainly car/property-related. Keep your doors locked and don't leave your car running and you'll probably be fine. There has been a small number of high-profile muggings/purse-snatchings in Hamden Plaza in the last couple of years, but it's certainly not a warzone like some people make it out to be.

Not sure what the rental market is like, but it can't be any worse than New Haven!

It's the safest way to ride, and people do it for that reason anyway, so it makes sense to make it legal.

yeah I've left my bike overnight multiple times w/ no issue

>Posted speed limit in most cases doesn't matter single lane Orange St is 20mph and multilane Whalley is 25. but no one is driving under 30 on either

"sure, people are breaking the law in a way that endangers the lives of others, but what else do you expect?"

Ixtapa is perfectly fine, but since Mazorca opened I don't see myself going there too often

1. Regardless of what Ms. Williams was wearing or how she was behaving, Whalley is well-lit and its speed limit is 25 mph. If the driver didn't see her until literally after the moment if impact, then they were either not watching the road at all, going much too fast, or both. (Most likely both.) No question in my mind.

2. Regardless of the particulars of this specific case, Whalley has consistently been a deadly and dangerous road for pedestrians. If there's an issue with frequent jaywalking, that's an issue of design. If people are driving too fast too often, that's an issue of design. Whalley Ave. is a busy commercial corridor flanked on both sides by dense residential neighborhoods. It's a terrible place for a five-land road without any traffic calming measures. Until the state and local government do something about this, people are going to continue to be injured and worse.

How would cameras that automatically send a ticket to people who run red lights inconvenience good drivers, or fail to punish bad ones?

that's the point

Whitneyville Cultural Common up on Whitney Ave. in Hamden: https://www.whitneyvilleculturalcommons.org/rentalspace

Their Putnam Room seats 75 w/ tables. Pricing doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18TQj3tk0qmnqj3uJpBwfgiZNclaahS8AQP8faxbRvBI/edit

That workspace closed unfortunately

Ives Branch is right on the Green downtown. I believe there's a small cafe now as well.

There are also branches in Westville and Fair Haven if either is more convenient.

Public library?

Trying to slow people down in response to a bunch of pedestrian deaths

https://patch.com/connecticut/newhaven/death-blvd-safety-fixes-delayed

speed makes you more likely to hit and kill a pedestrian

when you speed, you are endangering other people's lives

roadway design combined with bigger, heavier cars = more pedestrian deaths

Speed bumps, narrowed roads, roundabouts instead of standard intersections... physical infrastructure is the only solution.

If the spike is in generation charges and not delivery, you should be able to shop around for a different provider, right?

Albertus Magnus. Not as accessible as SCSU, not as prestigious or economically significant as Yale. What's it got going for it?