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Westville or East Rock would be my top pics. East Rock has a lot of new parents but it’s a little transient, many are grad students who are only here a couple years. Westville has more long term residents, many young families, larger yards. I recommend renting in East Rock the first year, because it’s more densely populated and easier to make friends, and closer to downtown.

Wooster Square, Beaver Hills, Downtown, and Morris Cove are other family friendly neighborhoods in New Haven. Milford and Branford are nice nearby towns with small downtown areas.

My parents are also NW CT-ish and this is about an hour away, very easy.

Tandoor on Howe/Chapel is good!

We live in the High Ridge area. And regularly ride bikes around the neighborhood If we ride around 10 am on a Sunday, we will usually pass one of them. If we ride in the afternoon at around 3 - 4. Then they are all parked in front of this one house.

It is hysterical!

for 2500 you can get something decent in new haven, timing is key. dont let olive & wooster, 360, and audobon apartment prices scare you away. i suggest pmc properties specifically 78 olive. they may have a 3 bedroom but most are 1 and 2 bedroom. 2 bedrooms are a good size. theres a guy who owns several houses and buildings, ex football player. his places are typically good price. sorry cant think of his name but these 2 sisters show his properties.

Like the other comment mentions, all those neighborhoods within New Haven are amazing and been on the come up for the past few decades but have seen a real boom in the past few years especially.

Milford is a beautiful coastal town that has miles of public and private beaches as well as a lively downtown along with a major mall and the Boston post road which is also a major shopping corridor!

Feel free to DM me if you have any more questions!

I’m not just being New Haven-biased, but that’s exactly where you are describing. I’ll agree with others who’ll say start looking first in the East Rock neighborhood, but the Westville, Wooster Sq, and Downtown neighborhoods are great, too, and I’ll let them say why.

Lol! I live in east haven. I've never seen someone drive a lawn mower with beer in hand! Your description made me chuckle.

I lived in West Haven for 13 years. I loved it.

Expensive and rich never means nicer or more community friendly. But both are great areas! I think Westville has more resources (library, farmer market, several nice restaurants, cafes etc) - the area around Edgerton is a retail desert. It also has more typical-sized homes, bungalows, etc., than the area around Whitney does, so objectively speaking, you have a much larger number of typical families with young children living there. The area along Whitney and Saint Ronan Street has more of a mix of either 1BR condos or very large mansions.

just do not rent from mandy management

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I’ll be swinging through for sure. It’s been a few months is your lgbtq stuff still amazing?

I don’t know I think you might be right lol!!

Every town has its places you stay away from, and areas that are annoying to drive through. West haven is not the worst place you can find yourself tho. Theres a ton of other places here in ct I would tell you not to go before I said dont go to west haven. Lol Ido agree with the other person that said to get out before school age if your kid will be doing public school.

That’s a pretty working class area, my buddy lives about 0.5 mile away and his area is pretty lively and very safe. Lots of families outside and neighbors working on their cars etc.

Thank you! ☺️ Hope to see a lot of people there for holiday gifts as we’ve been adding tons of new product. 🎁

I love strange ways

LOL I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU GIT THE JOKE

Hamden has many areas with Yale affiliated families with young children. There are often houses for rent too, although I don’t know how many are available after the housing boom of the pandemic.

Cool thanks

The area you picked looks fine. If you’ll be there longer than a year you’ll be able to use that time to explore. Hamden and new haven are fine as people say, but don’t leave out north haven, branford and north branford.

CT is small and pretty densely populated, particularly on the shoreline, so you won't find gigantic natural areas but there are lots of parks. A number of them sit atop ridges and for a week or so in Autumn, the views are breathtaking. There is, of course, an ocean nearby.

The wealth disparity here is very high. Because of Yale, we have lots of college kids who have lots of money so much of the culture here is geared towards people who are grad-student age. Two incoming grad students moved into my neighborhood in stretch limos, not U-Haul vans, this year. New Haven is the only city in CT that provides (long list of services) to people who are homeless, addicted, etc. so the suburbs divert those populations and the problems here.

Yale has two world-class art museums and there are others in nearby cities. Van Gogh's Night Cafe is here. Meryl Streep and Jodi Foster went to Yale Drama school. August Wilson debuts all his plays here. "If it plays in New Haven..." was a phrase used way back when Broadway musicals were a bigger deal than they are now, because shows would play here, the NY critics would come up and if they liked them, they went on to Broadway. If not, they died here. That 'proving ground' aspect remains are there is a lot of experimental art and music here.

On study found that New Haven is the city that most accurately reflects the ethnic demographics of the country as a whole. It is, as it has been since it was founded, a sanctuary city. It is both a very integrated and a very segregated city because immigrants tended to form communities, so we have a Chinatown, a Little Italy, Little Warsaw, etc. but the city is so small that they're a couple of blocks away from one another. The "All are Welcome" signs are legitimate, not just a marketing ploy. Some of the oldest 'gay bars' in the country are here. New Haven is so liberal that Greens have held more seats on the Board of Alders (our city council) than Republicans over the last couple of decades.

Because we are immigrant-friendly and Yale has many international students, the variety, quality and authenticity of ethnic food here is like that of much larger cities. We are known for pizza because the southern Italian immigrants brought the rules of how pizza must be made with them from Naples and never changed. The hamburger was invented here and that restaurant still exists. The third-oldest vegetarian restaurant in the country is here.

The traffic laws that you are used to do not apply here. Be careful.

Hip heap hip hooray!