Nice that you are having a different experience than my friends who were complaining. Perhaps it is the town and how transitory it is? My friends are in Madison/Guilford/Old Saybrook, which might explain some of it?

My comment was meant as a joke, but how could West Hartford not exist without Hartford just as any other town could exist without Hartford?

Oh Bother. Your talking to an owner. We have benefitted from city folk for years so word of mouth helps. My wife and I don’t even find it odd anymore how we learn more about our own community from our new neighbors thanks to their fresh eyes. There’s always been a local element who disliked distrusted newcomers. Life has no guarantees. If people are moving out, embrace the newcomers before they find someplace that will welcome them while turning their place where you are into a shitty air bee and be.

Connecticut is full of the most "leopards ate my face" people I've ever seen.

Mom and pop stores do not benefit. My friends are store owners (furniture, gift stores, hardware) in one of these towns that has seen an influx of weekend New Yorkers and they have seen an absolute decrease in business as "locals" have moved out. These weekend-only folks do not bring new business with them at all. They arrive by car with everything already from home and then leave without really shopping locally.

It is a serious problem, though time will tell if this trend will continue or if the NY folks will set down some roots and establish new patterns of behavior. But right now it sucks.

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Then don’t NIMBY every inch of Connecticut to a point where housing shortages including affordable housing causes prices to continue to skyrocket to a point where only people from the NYC area can afford to buy them. We need to make it affordable for people who already live here because the system as it stands right now won’t make Connecticut grow.

Guess what happens when a house gets put on the open market? My neighborhood went from for sale signs every where to orange license plates on weekends. The mom and pop stores benefit. Your CT isn't the only CT.

Wait till they whine about wanting sidewalks for a "walkable" downtown. Then the town will waste millions on a sidewalk from the library to the church that none of the new yorkers go to.

And fcking demand for dog parks "there's no where safe to walk my dog there are too many cars on the back country roads in the town that no one has even heard of, this community of 5 acre zoned rural farm houses needs dog parks and 12 square feet pollinator gardens"

Yep. Live in one of the last real farm towns in eastern ct and id say 3 out of 4 people that bought houses since covid housing boom were in fact from NYC. Then they get on the town pages and start complaining about manure and gunshots.... (and I know because I keep a very close track of houses sold and who buys them in my area) oh and my personal favorite, is them complaining about a lack of town services because they moved to a country town. It wouldnt even be a big deal but the consequences of transplants and sprawl have the effect of completely changing the local community, values, and culture of area. Usually for the worse. Theres plenty of towns that have already lost their way from sprawl wish it didnt have to ooze into the lot of them.

Brooklyn, CT in shambles

Fishbein was a big Trump supporter. Trump is a self identified witch. Every time he was criticized he screamed it was a witch hunt.

Makes sense now.

Who wouldnt believe in a talking snake? /s

Is that where Newt Gingrich came from? Hes a republican.

Whats the difference between casting a spell and praying?

The results are always the same.

People tell the Census they are Jedis. This does not mean Jabba the Hutt might exist.

Even if one believes in witchcraft, putting people to death for being accused of the practice is extreme. Especially, if the "practice" was signified purely by a physical ailment or body part.

The Republican's argument has no merit. Unless they are stating they should be tried, convicted, and executed for the same self-professed crime, as one of the representatives admitted to studying the occult in the past. Which is probably a graver act than most of those accused during the actual trials would have committed.

Moreover, their position smacks more as sexist than about exonerating crimes of witchcraft per se.

Improv - their only script now is "Yes, and"

As long as you don't say Candlejack you'll be fin--

I ha e recently learned that quite a few Christians believe in witches and find reasons to use tarot and such even though it is forbidden. Do you know any Christians that burn sage? Do they do it to cleanse the house of spitits! That's a sin.

West Hartford couldn’t exist without Hartford. But by being a separate municipality it is able to reap the benefits of being close to Hartford, without having to worry about anything that happens in Hartford, or pay for any Hartford services.

>"Typically, when somebody wants to have a convict exonerated, whether while they're alive or after they are dead, they produce evidence that they were innocent. Do you have any evidence that this person was innocent?" Dubitsky asked Beverly Kahn, a supporter of the exoneration resolution.

This question I don't understand. Isn't there absolute evidence that the person was innocent, because the act and results of witchcraft do not scientifically exist? This would be like if 300 years ago a Connecticut person was convicted of unlawful levitation. Are they innocent? Yes, because it is not possible for human beings to levitate.

They may just be acting contrarian. If there's something Democrats want, then they can mock or opposite it on that fact alone. It gives them as sense of power, plenty of attention, and a chance to feel good about themselves owning the libs.

Fishbein is a piece of work. He knows darn well that the use of spectral evidence in itself is evidence of false convictions and that it’s inadmissible.

Perhaps he wants to bring back such trials. Any fascist People’s court, like Hitler’s “people’s court,” essentially did the same thing - procedure free, summary trials.

And not for nothing, Wally republicans are running around accusing people today. They’re “possessed” by a mass psychosis, and a greed for money and power.