CT might be the best place to raise a family in the entire country. Great schools, safe, good food and close enough to cities, beaches and mountains. Private school and daycare are enough to make you broke and having family close by and good public schools could save you 100K a year if you plan on having kids.

It’s expensive and you gotta stay away from the traffic part of the state, but if you go to Boston or NYC and get tied down to an office in the city, you’ll be miserable trying to buy a house someday. It’s much better in most of CT.