... but I live way on the outskirts of town. I could walk to the Torrington/Litchfield town line from my house. I just now saw this topic. Sorry, I see it's several months old by now.
Are you planning to do some house shopping? I can't offer any info on schools because I don't have any kids. The people who used to rent the house next door to me used to rent in the "downtown" part of Torrington (where there are a lot of big older homes that are now multi-family apts) and they got out of there when someone walked up to one of them (the adults) and tried to sell some crack. They had two teenage sons and didn't want them living in that kind of environment. If you rent or buy outside of the downtown area, it's not bad at all. The "desirable" parts of town are north and east (and that's where the country club is).
I really don't ever feel unsafe here, though (and I'm female, btw). I used to live in Monroe and will admit there were parts of Bridgeport I wouldn't venture into even during the daytime.
Politically, we vote in a school near the Stop & Shop and the only time I ever had to wait in a line to vote was for the 2008 election. I went in the early evening and there were only 3 people ahead of me. We fill out paper ballots and put them through the optical scan machines. Mine is a working class district that seems to vote mostly republican for local gov't. We did have a major upset in 2008, though, at the state level. The incumbent republican rep. was beat by democrat, Michelle Cook. So far, I like her a lot. She responds to emails (and sometimes within a matter of hours) ... and they're not canned responses either.
The house on the other side of me (not the rental I mentioned above) is actually for sale. The people who owned it when I moved here must have walked away from their mortgage because it sat abandoned for a long time. Someone bought it last Dec. on the cheap and fixed it up. It really didn't seem to need much in the way of fixing up, though. It's a raised ranch, newer than mine on around 1/2 acre. I think they're asking $235,000 for it. There are lots of kids in the neighborhood and it's a dead-end street. We are just at the bottom of the hill from a much newer, nicer housing development. A lot of those houses are for sale, too, but more expensive. I like it better down here in my part of the neighborhood. I always figure if someone's going to rob houses, they'll skip ours over for the nicer ones where the people with more money and nicer toys live. It's pretty quiet here.
Other than what was mentioned by others, there's a really nice little art-house cinema in Bantam.
http://www.bantamcinema.com About a 10-minute drive. They're showing the Joan Rivers movie this week and she came and did a Q&A after 4 of the showings this past Friday. I believe it's the oldest continuously operating movie theater in the state.
What else do you want to know?
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