Our supplier rate is going from $0.089 to $0.1389. We keep our thermostat set to 62 in the winter & 82 in the summer. We use about 787 kwh/month.
On average our bill will go up from $185/month to $230 or so.

Hopefully by year’s end we’ll have solar and do geothermal next year.

It really comes down to your price range. This area of CT has a wide range of housing costs, and you will get what you pay for.

Mystic has a lot of nice restaurants and some sort of a night life but it’s incredibly expensive and gets mobbed by tourists in the summer.

Waterford is pretty non-descript, has some nice areas and some eh areas but it’s all just various levels of suburbia.

Groton is basically Waterford but not as nice, albeit more affordable and with more strip clubs / strip malls. If you go to the Noank part of Groton it’s nicer, more quintessential coastal New England, but stupidly expensive but without the restaurants/nightlife that mystic has.

East Lyme is basically Waterford but a little nicer.

Stonington is nice, lots of large properties there so lots of privacy. Stonington by the water (stonington borough) is quite nice but basically it’s mystic with fewer restaurants. Pawcatuck, which is part of stonington, is more affordable and is pretty close to westerly RI right across the border which is a super cute little town.

If you’re willing to go inland there’s more affordable towns but they start getting a bit more rural.

New London has a lot more going for it than most people around here are willing to admit. It has a decent stretch of bars on bank street and some pretty good restaurants. It has some less nice sections of it certainly but people talk about it like you’re going to get shot or robbed or something when in reality its just where most of the black people in the tri-town area live (gasp) so people talk a lot of shit about it.

No, they wouldn’t. War is rarely fought that way. Honor and respect on the battlefield have long since passed. They see an enemy medic, they open fire. They see civilians aiding the enemy, they open fire. It’s all about numbers. If you’re thinking wartime strats, killing a ton of people in a short amount of time is efficient, demoralizing, and headline grabbing. And manhattan has an estimated 1.7 million people that could be wiped out by a nuke in an instant and even more through the nuclear fallout being carried up through CT, RI, and MA vs groton’s population of 39,000, if that. Densely populated areas are prime targets. Hell, why do you think mass shooters pick schools? Densely populated and extremely vulnerable. When was last time there a mass casualty event at a courthouse, police station, government building, private affluent school with a bunch of armed security? It’s all soft targets they go after for shock and awe. And it works unfortunately.

What’s your budget?

Gassosa! There is nothing like NH pizza and a cold Gassosa. Sprite and 7UP don't come close it's THE best citrus soda. White birch, cream soda and orange soda also very, very good. Foxon Park is just sweet enough which makes it sooo good.

With luck gas prices will rise again. There's also the CHEAPR rebates and, depending on where you go, you may have opportunities to charge for free. Of course, bicycles remain cheaper and infinitely more efficient.

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Why are you going back to CT?

I disagree because if they hit the naval base in Groton, I am within the strike zone. They would want to disable our defenses more than the big cities, I would think. It's a 14- mile radius for instant death, as I recall hearing in school. I may be wrong on that distance.

Yep, definitely going for apartment first

Based on colleagues who have been transferred before me, I’d likely get paid somewhere in the e 100-130k range, will find out exactly what my compensation will be this week. My husband will look for some part time work when he comes on as well, so we expect to be able to manage and save something hopefully.

I live on a quiet street, but can be in a shopping in area in 10 minutes. There's a lot of art and downtown is cute with some decent restaurants. It's also on the Thames River and LI Sound

You do. We got married remotely via Utah county. Modern problems require modern solutions I guess. We’re doing everything we can to ensure we can prove our 5 year relationship as legit, fingers crossed.

Orange dry

Do the energy audit. They’ll tell you how, and you can fix a lot of it for pretty cheap since all of the it is rebates.

Lol. I've seen some of your posts let's not kid people about what you're about.

1500 sq feet. Hot water heat / radiators. Both of these figures are from January. I did NOT lock in an oil price this year. Electric - $186 Oil - $670 for 140 gallons. Should not need another top off for a while with these mild temps. Though may use more heating on our second story with a newborn coming. But we’ll see how the spring temps play our.

Not a far leap. Dude talks like an anarchist. Must be 12 years old or developmentally stunted. That's solid reasoning, and I stand by it.

That seems high for a heat pump. Have you done the energy audit? It really helped us. We were around $800 last year but have got it down to $650 even with the rate increases. Energy supplier change goes into effect on the 24th.

$531, two adults in 850 square foot condo, one room has the vents closed, forced air electric heat. We keep the house very cold, 55 all day, 65 when we're home, 58 when sleeping. It sucks that our bill is this high.

I saw a rule recently called the 80/20 rule. Live where your life will be easier 80% of the time.

You could have a few minute commute every day and drive 20/30 minutes 2/3 times a week, or drive 20/30 minutes every day and go somewhere easily 2/3 times a week.

There is a combination of factors. Price, size, quality of life stuff that matters, but id figure where that works out well and go from there.

Like the mystery Dum Dum flavor? That could be... well, highly variable in the results. But definitely an interesting idea!

$115

1048 Riverdale St
West Springfield, MA 01089

Small full service eat in right up 91 north of springfield

My Italian neighbor says that he refuses to eat Greek-made Italian food because they ruin it with too many spices and herbs. He says that true Italian food uses ingredients that are white, red and green—just like their flag. Anything beyond that is over-complicating the dish and makes it taste bad.