I have already had to go through this, myself. Sleeping outside of Manhattan negates the up side of not going home and sleeping in the city. Also a business man does not have a wide breadth of choices for overnight stays. He’s not a 20-something who’s willing to share a toilet with multiple guests. I literally was paying $500 a night, 8 months ago, for a good hotel near to my building.

Go to your local PD and ask them who has the best fake ID of all the recent arrests......

Might have some luck in WH south of 84 as well off S main ( but taxes are high), or Wethersfield off rt99.

If you're willing to rent to wait it out and are willing to rent again (anticipating rates/prices to drop), some new Apts just went up by Conard.

OP would be staying two nights a week, on non-weekend nights, and would have flexibility in the type of hotel he can pick. OP can find places for under $250 a night in Manhattan and cheaper if he’s willing to travel to Li city, Brooklyn or Queens.

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This is the true right answer. OP’s company will reimburse the travel and the 6:40am Amtrak from Berlin has no transfer so it’s direct to Penn with far fewer stops than MTA. Sign up for Amtrak rewards and bank a ton of points for awhile on the company’s dime for future personal travel. Parking is $2 and there’s zero fight for parking spots. After a few weeks you can become a pro at napping on the train and the ride is pretty relaxing without the transfer in New Haven. Comfortable seats so throw in earbuds, catch some zzz’s, Set an alarm for 10-15 mins before you hit Penn and you’ll be set. Transferring to subways from there is easy. For your wife - From Berlin, it’s 72 to 84 or 9 to 84 for weha and not a bad drive at all.

I agree, either the Danbury/Bethel/Brookfield/Newtown area or the Fairfield/Stratford/Milford area would be the best options.

You realize that the rush hour part is the problem right

You’re suggesting $1000 per week in hotel bills.

Nights in nyc are $500 each. How many nights are you saying, per week?

Amtrak runs daily direct trains from Wallingford to nyc.

The CT Rail line runs up and down the center of CT from Springfield MA, to New Haven CT.

New Haven is a rail hub for commuters. Metro North Rail and Amtrak both can get you into NYC every morning from that rail hub. Amtrak even provides direct service to NYC from points on the Ct rail line, so you don’t have to initially commute to New Haven.

Commuter rail works in the northward direction too. If you were to live in Wallingford, one person can take the train to nyc and the other can take the train to Hartford. Then a daily Uber to their office’s front door.

Definitely worse for outdoor wildlife. Outdoor cats kill thousands of birds purely for sport.

Greater Danbury or greater Bridgeport seem like the only two options. Make sure your wife only has an hour drive at the most. (10 hours a week) and you get easy access to the train, probably be a 3.5 hour round trip door to door, so only going three times would be 10.5 hours a week, sounds fair.

If you wanted to spend more time travelling but give your wife less, while securing lower housing costs, anywhere in greater new Haven would work.

It is what it is

500 per night. We tried this.

I didn’t ask for places or events directly related to my interests, try re-reading it and paying closer attention. Are you married and do you have children?

Its not always easy but any building can be mouse proofed. For years, we'd catch multiple mice in traps inside every week and couldn't figure out how they were getting in, but then inspired by this video, I built a mouse house with cotton balls, bait, and $10 of fluorescent powder. Sure enough, within a week there was a trail of fluorescent powder that could be tracked with a UV flashlight down a door frame, across the floor, and over to very small gap between the carpet and the wall where the sub floor wasn't cut tight to the log walls. After filling this gap there were no mice for while, but after a few months they found a new path. Repeated the process, and tracked them to a gap around the water heater vent: they were actually climbing up through the channels of a metal roof, and then down along the vent. After blocking that off, we have been mouse free for 3 years.

This is a log home surrounded by woods more than a quarter mile from the nearest building. If it can be mouse proofed, anything can. The only 100% foolproof method is to fully seal your house with no gaps a mouse can fit though.

I just got confused because they didn’t refer to New Haven as NeHa.

Yeah, but why?

Should we head down to NeHa after hitting up WeHa? But not before stopping in WaFo!

hello fellow yankee in NC, i also hate it here lol

WEst HArtford

I think people are overreacting a bit here, depends on your life situation too (kids, pets, etc). Metro north into the city is fine three days a week. Depending where in west Hartford you can get off 91 before hitting traffic coming from south of Hartford. Milford is a good option, plenty of other people commute to Stamford/Hartford area from there, it’s obviously not ideal and will get old, but it’s not that bad

It’s slang for WEst HArtford weha

What’s a weha?