Recent comments in /f/Connecticut

kayakyakr t1_jaas94x wrote

Honestly? Westerly, RI and its attached beach town Misquamicut might be the better option. Gorgeous beaches, not on the sound, and decent nightlife is available, I think. Westerly is also maybe the most New England of towns in the region and leans a little younger than Stonington.

Or maybe even further into RI to South Kingstown (college town) and Narragansett (beach town). Gansett can get a bit touristy, but it's mostly with people day tripping from Providence. Newport and Mystic draw more regional/national tourists.

If you want more city, Providence proper and New Haven both host Ivy league universities, have waterfront and night life. There are ferries that can get you out to block island from Providence (with a few hops), which I hear is a lovely trip. New Haven is the last stop on the NYC rail line, so it's not difficult to get into the city from there.

If you plan in advance, you can easily hit the entire coast via Amtrak. It's the one place in the nation that there's a working, practical rail line that can take you from NYC along the sound to New Haven, Mystic, Westerly, Providence, and into Boston. No car necessary.

Enjoy, eat a lot of seafood and pizza.

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BootyGuliani t1_jaart8i wrote

New haven is lovely with plenty of culture and arts and history, and great food. I can literally give you a litany of places to go and things to do in New haven! It's very fun. I would say Fairfield is also a nice place to visit with a walkable downtown and great restaurants if you don't want to venture too far from NYC.

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kitty60s t1_jaarjvn wrote

If neither of you drive I highly recommend Mystic: a lot of walkable places from the main hotels but also consider off the beaten path NYC (no need for Uber, 8 million+ live there and many neighborhoods have almost zero tourists) Uber is expensive outside the major cities in the US because everything is spread so far apart.

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hamms30 t1_jaaqu4z wrote

anywhere on the southern coast and you can take the train into NYC if you want for actual night club night life. Stamford, Norwalk and New Haven have more nightlife within CT than other towns. Norwalk you can take a train up to Wilton, Ridgefield or Bethel and that would be more down to earth CT "real America" compared to all the towns on the coast. If you had a car you could go further north into the state and see the woods, rolling hills and landscapes that make the state a treat. These towns have the small downtown town centers with shops and restaurants and then the town branches out from there. Kind of like ant hills. Also, if you can come in the fall, you'll catch the fall scenery.

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2wheelzrollin t1_jaaqotj wrote

Reply to Snow Storm by TwoCanSee

For a half a foot? No way. U less power goes out, things will stay open. CT has stuff ready for winter storms. It's not like it never snows here.

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WonderChopstix t1_jaaqi59 wrote

How long do you have. You can really get a good variety by a few towns along the coast and take trains. New Haven and get some famous pizza and see a small college town. Bars and restaurants.
Mystic Seaport for quirky fun history and the Aquarium is one of the bests. For extra time there some cool historic stuff along the way like in Lyme. Art musuem and such.

If in summer go on a fishing trip with the Blackhawk. Super fun and we have fantastic ocean fishing.

The casinos are unique so could be worth a visit. The Native American musuem at Foxwoods is fantastic. I like vibe of Mohegan.

We have beautiful nature too so plenty of hikes but I'd have to look for accessible ones.

You seem like my kind of traveler. It's how I do it too.

Enjoy and feel free to reach out.

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[deleted] t1_jaaq126 wrote

As a person who has never done drugs or hallucinogens, and I have absolutely no interest in them...

All recreational drugs should be legalized, and there should only be laws on them in relation to what you can and cannot do while high. For example, no driving while coked up or hallucinating on some mushrooms.

Other than that, any individual action a man does in the privacy of his own home is their business, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else.

Resources should always be made available for addiction just like any other addictions that are legal, such as alcohol or gambling.

I'll never do drugs but I value freedom, and letting values be taught at home rather than the government acting as Mommy and Daddy.

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