Don't go near trugreen. Seriously. I've been in the industry for over 6+ years and can tell you trugreen is the worst direction you can go. They look great but it's horribly amateur, fraudulent, and downright dangerous. They do fun things like show up and don't even apply leaving you a bill, sell you products with fancy words that don't do much and if they do not well, as well as continue to apply products to your property after canceling FOR YEARS. They will bill you.

Look at local companies in your area and shop around. There's a couple great ones depending on your area. Way more professional and cost effective. Trugreen will send you a 19 year old kid with no license to lug a hose around spraying orange shit everywhere. Hell go home and his pants will stand up on their own. Not a joke. Be safe! Good luck!

Not if he can start and end work a few hours later, like I said previously.

only for my wife.

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One is a town the other a bury

Can he throw for the Jets?

and the kids. They might have shit parents but there's no way you live 17 years and not learn from somewhere that stealing a car is illegal and wrong.

TL;DR

Park behind Save A Lot, Walgreens, Home Depot or Stop & Shop (all located on Dixwell Ave in Hamden). Also park on Hamden Park Dr.

The rest of the post...

I'm going to list MOST of the possible parking locations starting from the beginning of the trail on Temple St in New Haven, up to Quinnipiac University in Hamden. It's a lot of info, but I'm posting it for everybody's benefit reading this thread. You can follow along on Google Maps if you search "Farmington Canal Trail New Haven".

1. So the Farmington Canal Trail "begins" in Downtown New Haven, on Temple St between Trumbull and Grove. I say "begins" because the trail technically begins at Long Wharf, but it's not finished yet. But anyway on Temple St. there's metered parking, but it's free on Sundays. There's also a pay parking garage on Whitney Ave in this area.

2. Going up the trail towards Webster St, you'll find Scantlebury Park. It doesn't have a dedicated parking lot, but you can usually find street parking on nearby Bristol St.

3. Near the trail on Munson St is the Science Park area, which is an office park complex. If you don't mind walking a short distance, there's plenty on surface parking lots there on Winchester Ave.

4. Along the trail, between Division and Bassett St, is a residential neighborhood. You can usually find street parking at any of the streets in this area....if you feel comfortable. I say that because it's kind of a ghetto and a TINY bit of an urban hellhole. They do the best they can with the trail in this area and it has a charm to it. I personally feel fine parking in this area, but I would scope out the area for yourself and make that call.

5. On the trail between Brewster and Bassett St is what used to be the CT Dept of Social Services Bldg, but now the bldg is vacant. It has a surface parking lot that is right next to the trail that is great! BUT IIRC, it's currently fenced off and inaccessible. You'll have to check it out.

6. Along the trail between Bassett and Morse St is more residential neighborhood, but it's inconvenient parking, so we're going to skip it. At Morse St is a nearby Burger King that you can easily park at and the trail is right there.

7. Next to the trail in this area, you'll see Hamden Park Dr. There's plenty of street parking here. Right at the curve in the street, near Columbus St, is an abandoned parking lot. It's a little gem that nobody knows about and I personally use it every day to hit the trail. It's my most recommended spot on this list. Just ignore the burnt out husk of a RV, it's a safe and regularly patrolled area since its an industrial park complex.

8. Further up the trail is Putnam Ave. There's quite a few parking lots here that you can take advantage of! You can park behind the Save A Lot and Walgreens. You can also park across Putnam at the big surface lot. The trail here is a raised bridgeway, but there's little entry ramps on Putnam that you can use to access the trail.

9. Past Putnam, there a long stretch of trail where there's very little parking. There's a small secluded office park at the trail intersection of Treadwell St. You can use that if you don't want to deal with the hassle of parking in a store parking lot.

10. The next significant parking is behind the Home Depot near Benham St. It's been mentioned a lot in this thread, it's a very tried and true parking area that I have personally used countless times and I highly recommend it.

11. Past the Home Depot, there's another stretch of trail with very little parking. On Connolly Pkwy, there's a CVS Pharmacy and an office park complex on the other side of the highway. The office park is a quiet and safe area that I recommend, but it's slightly inconvenient. The trail is on a raised bridge in this area, so there are some rather steep ramps that you can use to access the trail.

12. A little further up the trail is a Stop & Shop complex. It's another great parking location that everybody recommends, including me. I recommend parking next to TJ Maxx, since the trail is literally right there. You can also park on the side of Stop & Shop and you'll see the trail behind the bldg.

13. A tiny bit up the trail, you'll see a tiny shopping location on Dixwell Ave that has a Tommy's Tanning, a great coffee shop and other small stores. You can park here and access the trail via a nearby ramp (the trail is on a raised bridge in this area). This is the LAST parking area for a few miles of the trail.

14. This part of the trail leading up to Qunnipiac University is gorgeous and secluded. I adore this area a lot! There's also NO parking at all in this area. The next parking is an official Canal Trail parking lot on Sherman Ave, near the QU York Hill Campus.

Hartford strikes out as the most boring city in ct once again

Not sure where you are located but if near Bethany/Woodbridge/Cheshire, Woodbridge Estate Care does some amazing work.

I know an HVAC tech who got knocked out in Hartford and tools stolen while on the job. Unfortunately incidents like that weight on the reputation of the area. You should still be able to find someone though

Would like to see more of our taxes go to overhauling infrastructure and building up our cities

that’s extremely common for college football stadiums, there is a smaller section of chair backs and the rest are bleachers. i think the only ones that are all chairbacks are those that are shared with NFL teams (USF, Pitt, Temple).

Then he went to be a coach at the university level I think. Played FB with him in HS. Never cared for him.

This dude definitely likes em young

Oh good. Now the children are safe /s

I’ve loved Arby’s on Wolcott St since I was a kid. There aren’t many left in the state, so I always make a point of stopping when I’m in the area

Not sure about Hartford specifically but I can help get a list started that covers CT. Cafe Nine in New Haven regularly has Jazz jams and books jazz acts. Villa Italia is a great restaurant in Stamford and they have live jazz Tuesday nights. There’s also the Side Door Jazz club in the Old Lyme Inn. Good luck!

Interesting. How much does ADP charge? Any link or info you could provide?

Who says I’m informing that? Of course it does. I’m saying the article has clearly poorly interpreted the NH data because no one, out of the dozen or so people I know in NH, have every paid as little as it states, even for a 20 year old beater. That’s the point of this discussion that you stepped into, you answered me.

CT car registration is a fixed fee bi-annually. My point is noting that three people including my fiancé, who have moved from NH to CT, now pay less for their car registration in CT then in NH, even if you recognise that NH registration is essentially equivalent to our car property tax and add ours into that calculation. Yes it varies by town in both states. My mill rate is currently 32 which is upper middle I believe, (and car property rates are now capped here).

You’re trying to turn this into a conversation about overall tax burden, of which CT’s is obviously higher, but that’s not what I was answering.

Anecdotally, in case you’re curious, CT generally still comes out ahead (why I know several people that moved from NH) despite the increased tax burden, because housing costs are generally lower now, and incomes are much higher. For example, my fiancé makes 20k more as an RN in CT vs NH, so while about 5-7k of that goes to taxes that NH does not have, she’s still better off. I would have to take about a 30k pay cut in my field to move to NH, so obviously saving the much smaller amount in taxes is not worth it.

Now working in MA/Boston and living in NH is a different story, although you have to pay MA income tax, but that’s what so many in southern NH do that; because salary is much higher.

Aggression can be a symptom of a UTI in elderly people too.

You are silly. The car tax in CT varies by municipality. In CT property tax rates and property valuations vary by municipality. Somehow you are able to ignore that but suggest NH costs cannot be analyzed due to a municipal component.

Finally, you are arguing over one small element of tax burden. Taxation of cars is no worse in NH than CT. But CT has a very substantial income and sales tax whereas NH has neither. There is no question that tax burden is materially higher in CT, unless one has little or no income.

You say that like being in the middle of nowwhere is a negative.

People were and will do that. It's why we were in long term decline. Covid gave us a reprieve but it will continue.

Florida and Texas and South Dakota are growing faster than us for a reason. It's not the weather.