Hi, I lived in Denver for 12 years and now I live in Milford, not far from West Haven. I think the area you’re looking at is fine. Like all cities there are good parts and bad parts.

What for sending them to them?

I'm surprised you found horror stories about West Haven. I've lived in West Haven for 7 years, both east side and west side... It's one of the safest places I've lived ever (from Oregon to Indiana to California to Alabama), and definitely feels safer day to day than New Haven.

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I live in the West Shore area, walking distance to the beach, and near Woodmont. We are in a condo complex and it's 100% safe. I know some of the condos sometimes are up for rent.

Old River Clocks in Guilford.. Guy is good...but never has time! Gets watches repaired though. Been pretty reliable for me.

Longo’s clock and watch repair in Tallahassee, FL does excellent work.

Objectively, your opinion makes no sense. The University of Michigan, Detroit and a Great Lake are second-rate compared to Yale, NY and the Atlantic Ocean. New Haven has 200 years more history. Also objectively, Ann Arbor is not a city. It's a college town that is 67% White. New Haven is 43% White. Is that why you think Ann Arbor is better?

“If you don't like New England weather, wait a few minutes.” Mark Twain

I send my watches to a guy in Rhode Island, also curious to see local options

If you book CVS online. Make sure to call the store and ask if they do kids— some locations don’t but the website still lets you book it. We learned the hard way.

My other shop Strange Ways has some deadstock of these cool Connecticut patches, which are easy to ship: https://www.strange-ways.com/collections/new-haven-and-connecticut-merchandise/products/vintage-connecticut-patch

I’d also say check out Dwell oh Chapel for some local made stuff.

Avoid Mandy Management anything and you’ll be fine.

Hamden is notably more safe than west haven and equal distance to new haven. No beaches though.

West haven is kinda run down and has a lot of drug use, but so does every town. I lived in west haven for years and did just fine I do much prefer Hamden though.

My store Westville General has local themed items that say New Haven, Connecticut, or Westville including mugs, hats, coasters, keychains—and dropping soon: new ornaments!

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You have a lot of options. West Haven has the most availability, and it is the cheapest. But not the safest. There are a lot of rough spots in West Haven.

Safer options are:

East Haven, a lot of cops live here. Good mix of blue collar, white collar, and academics. East Haven is the type of place where you will see someone ride a quad right past the police station. Or you might see someone driving down the road on their lawn mower with a beer in their hand. It is a surprisingly small town for being right down the street from New Haven.

Hamden, this town is overrun with Academics, because it is just centered in the middle of so many Universities. And it is locally known as a whole town of University Professors and Researchers.

Branford is a well known place for Yale professors, researchers, and staff. Mostly white collar and academics.

And even North Haven is pretty nice and quiet. Convenient shopping.

If you do go to West Haven, make sure you are on the water.

Best of luck!

And don't be afraid to ask questions!

Pretty much any neighborhood you Google here that's affordable to live in is going to be unsafe to someone or have bad stories. New Haven is really small so even if you live in a "good safe" neighborhood, things still happen there all the time. Honestly, your best bet is talking to coworkers and your realtor and accepting that it's the nature of where you chose to move to (New Haven CT). It'll be fine, but lower your expectations and be prepared for great people, pretty seasons, gunshots, car jackings, and weirdly expensive housing.

I love west haven! I'm by the ocean, near stowed and it's lovely here.

Thank you.

We had an appointment there for Friday, and they canceled because they didn't have it.

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Just a little side note - York st noodle is closed. The owners have other restaurants. They merged York st and Anaya on chapel. They even put up the sign for York st and have the same menu it’s just not in the little nook on York st anymore. They also had a noodle place across the street from mecha noodles however it’s now called NOA and more of a family style restaurant. The menu for the old restaurant is also at anayas. And lastly noodle house in orange on boston post rd. And it’s still there and the menu is very similar to the one you’ll find at Anayas. Still amazing noodles

For that budget you could get a decent place in Milford. West Haven is fine, but I’d move when it comes time for public schools.

Yeah, West Haven is fine, but I agree with other commenters — you can totally find a place in New Haven under $2500 for 3/2.

In west haven… Sus out your landlord though. Rich kids are buying houses there in the last few years to be “real estate investors” playing landlord… Predictably, they’re terrible landlords.

Menya Gumi is the only answer.

I have a theory that these giant stores all start out as a Target, but when enough weirdos show up they are contractually obligated to change the name to Walmart.

(kidding)