Lorca in Stamford and Source in Bridgeport are amazing!

Take out and beer on the couch with the family! My favorite in Winter.

Sniffing the chlorine rain

Has anyone tried to vape the car residue yet? We could be missing out on something great.

Tony’s in Thomaston is a local favorite

Sitting on my butt so help me god

At this point- it’s all cancer. Vape away

I actually recently started working in Norwalk, can you give your recommendations for the area!? That’d be awesome

well then dont call me unit 91, radio

But what about the spots on my car? Surely that's cancer, right?

Don't call me radio

Netflix, with a non-zero probability of some chill afterwards.

Toxic fumes from vape > toxic fumes from train crash

I'm going to spend all night vaping to get my mind off of the toxic fumes from Ohio.

no… unless they are involved in like a chase or something and they have to get radio clearance to go. watch super troopers

Deja Brew, new haven

On my way!!

No. Yes. Yes. No.

It’s brutal. I just put dash cams in all my work trucks. People don’t realize the pain and possible death they are signing up for every time they cut off a commercial vehicle.

Found the Uconn grad!

Starbucks Simsbury or Avon ❤️❤️

Besides this being a really great comprehensive list, your user name is also fantastic

Pausa is good! Definitely a cute little spot. That and Cafe Dolce would be my Norwalk coffee spots, although Allora looks nice too and apparently uses beans from Strigo to make it extra local.

It’s a list, but if the Norwalk recommendation is representative of the rest of the list, I’m not taking the list too seriously. That’s not a cafe at all and it’s definitely not the best option for coffee in the area.

Great post, and I agree with much of what you say. UConn certainly does have quite a lot of bureaucracy, wasteful spending, etc.

However, I do think we need to think about what these schools provide and who they're for. I say this as a former student of both CCSU and UConn.

• UConn's mission is to be a top-flight research and public university, attracting high-end students both locally and from across the United States
• UConn also wants to provide the "full college experience" in terms of dorms, Student Unions, people living on campus and having that whole thing.
• ConnSCU's have a similar-ish thing, but almost all of them are also commuter-first universities. Most kids don't live on campus, but in surrounding towns where they grew up, maybe with their friends or parents.
• Community colleges are often attended by people returning to education or working full-time and working on an education. They don't want or need on-campus leaving (afaik). They need a schedule that works for them and is flexible and also affordable.
• Ideally, you have flexibility to move between the different "tiers" of education in the system, though I prefer not to think of it that way since its not really better or worse, just different experiences.
• Community college is free in Connecticut now. That's amazing. Maybe we do need more funding but you have to admit this is a great step.
• Tuition is also much cheaper for ConnCSU -- 11K for SCSU right now, 18K for UConn, not considering room and board, other fees, etc.
• As far as bureaucratic waste, I mean... that's large scale academic institutions for you. I worked at Yale. Its not exclusive to UConn. I suspect this is a nationwide problem, if not even bigger.

I would like to see more equity for sure, though. I was more just explaining why I think there may be an "appropriate" divide in spending between different systems due to those different needs. And I think UConn should look out for the entire state education system, though its hard because institutions tend to look out for themselves.

Anyway, great post. Just wanted to add some thoughts.