Pillars of the community are now pariahs fearing for their safety in a ritzy area of Connecticut

[underpants]

Just last month NACA protested at Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack's house and got very little attention
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100441670


The home of AIG executive James Hass is seen Friday March 20, 2009 in Fairfield, Conn. Pillars of the community are now pariahs fearing for their safety in a ritzy area of Connecticut home to many executives at American International Group Inc., hit with a backlash over bonuses it paid to top brass even as it accepted federal bailout money.
(AP Photo/Douglas Healey)





In this Oct. 17, 2008 file photo, U.S. Senator Chris Dodd, D-Conn., left, looks back at people protesting his role in the banking crisis during a visit to local Democrat headquarters in Enfield, Conn. Connecticut's senior senator, once considered one of the state's most popular politicians, is watching his celebrity take a tumble here, thanks to the Wall Street debacle and the controversy surrounding bonuses for American International Group Inc. executives.
(AP Photo/Journal Inquirer, Jim Michaud, File)


Mark Dziubek of Southington Conn. steps off a bus in Fairfield Conn. on Saturday March 21, 2009 as members of the media wait outside at a AIG executive's home. A busload of activists outnumbered 2-to-1 by reporters and photographers ( :eyes: gee thanks for diminishing their efforts )are paying visits to the homes of American International Group Inc. executives in Connecticut to protest tens of millions of dollars in bonuses awarded by the company. Dziubek was laid off from his employer Precision Steel, in Bristol Conn. AIG has received more than $182 billion in federal aid.
(AP Photo/Douglas Healey)


Mary Huguley, center, delivers a letter of protest for Douglas Polling in a mailbox outside his home in Fairfield Conn. on Saturday March 21, 2009.

[cali]

1. aw, poor things.

their social standing is endangered.

[underpants]

2. I think they'll be okay

They can lament with some ice cold drinks at the country club until they get hired by their old school chums to a board of directors or something

[JDPriestly]

3. I checked the listings on zillow.com. It seems to me the houses

in Fairfield Conn. are cheaper, maybe even a lot cheaper, than in parts of L.A. County, especially Beverly Hills and areas around there.

[CTyankee]

5. Fairfield is not the wealthiest town in Fairfield County. Greenwich and New Canaan are by far.

Fairfield has only one area, Greenfield Hill, that is affluent, which is probably where those houses are. And by affluence you can't even compare them to most houses in Greenwich/New Canaan. The rest of Fairfield has modest to nice homes.

Actually, if you go by median income New Canaan might edge Greenwich since Greenwich has a very few modest homes, that pull down the average ever so little. New Canaan, out in the sticks as it were, has a smaller area but they are ALL affluent.

[Jennicut]

6. Yup, you are correct. I grew up in wealthy little Cheshire. Connecticut has smaller towns with lots

wealth. The kids drove BMWs to school. Its worse now actually then in 1994 when I graduated high school. Of course I am not sure how the tanking of the economy hit my old home town. Lots of doctors and lawyers.

[CTyankee]

7. I know the wealth in CT towns due to my experience raising major gifts around CT.

Greenwich was, as you might guess, a gold mine. At the time I retired I was trying to make inroads Darien, a wealthy town but a notch below Greenwich. New Canaan exasperated me;the cooperation level there was terrible. The area that really interested me was Litchfield County. REally beautiful and some lovely people. But boy were they reclusive. Some of the tiniest towns there don't even have mail delivery; the residents prefer to go to the PO to pick up their mail!

You would not have believed some of the houses in Greenwich, tho. Huge, gracious and many very historic, but they looked as lonely as elegant barns. Give me some of those lovely homes around Washington Depot or Bridgewater any day...

[Jennicut]

8. I live at the start of Litchfield County and its beautiful here.

Terryville is a really small town and was known as a farming community for years. People still make fun of it by calling people who live here "hicks". There is one tiny little library and the schools are small. A new high school was just built so its growing a bit.
I really love Harwington but its just a bit too far from family and my husband's job.
We know CT is small but really diverse.

[CTyankee]

9. One of the little Litchfield County towns holds poetry readings on the town green each spring.

Last year I believe they did Wallace Stevens. I thought that was so charming.

I have a friend who says that Litchfield County is where New Yorkers go to hide. They do hide their wealth, that's for sure.

[cali]

10. my hometown. The next station to heaven, blah blah blah

Grew up in New Canaan. My mother still has a home there. And all but one of my 4 siblings lives in Fairfield County. And yeah, there are no non-affluent areas of New Canaan.

[CTyankee]

12. I don't know what it was about New Canaan but I found the women I was working

with there to raise money for Planned Parenthood of CT were so uptight and difficult. They seemed to hold me, as a PPC staff member, as some kind of foreigner in their midst. I never felt that way with the group of women in Greenwich -- they were looser, some of them were cheating on their investment banker husbands, very cosmopolitan, and a hell of a lot of fun.

I think the town is lovely. A really pretty place...

[liberal N proud]

4. The high cost of accepting ill-gotten bonus checks

[mitchum]

11. They've earned it (and that's the only thing they have ever earned)