Recent comments in /f/StamfordCT

Enderthe3rd t1_is7l0cj wrote

Reply to Harbor point by Ok-Recommendation556

Life is trade offs. You can live in NYC and get culture but no greenery, more expensive and less safety and less space. You come out to CT and there are things you gain and things you lose.

It’s like the old adage, cheap, fast, quality… you can choose two.

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Pinkumb t1_is7hzk2 wrote

Reply to Harbor point by Ok-Recommendation556

Building management tends to have highly restrictive contracts for any new businesses in the spaces available. For example, Sally's Apizza on Summer Street was a BLT building and had similar management as everything down in Harbor Point. You may be thinking "Sally's is the exact kind of thing I want!" Well, not really. Those locations can include stipulations like the lease being guaranteed through other income — which is another way of saying it has to be a chain. Sally's could open in Stamford only because they were already a super successful business elsewhere in the state. It's also not merely having multiple locations, but other locations that are so profitable they can pay for downtown/harbor point leases in addition to operating their original business.

Effectively, the building management has selected out for any creativity. They're not in the business of innovators. They're in the business of incredibly reliable tenants — which just so happens to be incredibly boring, overpriced, and dull establishments. You can hem and haw about the management, but they won't respond to those arguments.

Ultimately, the most persuasive argument would be to allow for zoning changes that allow for housing/commercial that's somewhere between high-rise luxury apartments and crappy single-family homes. These — of course — are things the local board is consistently against for a bunch of bad arguments (parking, water drought, "character" of our neighborhood), and etc. Honestly, they were against BLT too but they just had no grounds to oppose it and BLT had the gumption to take on legal battles to get their buildings built.

Some might say this is why Stamford is a cultural hellhole...

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SolarPunkYeti t1_is6yids wrote

Reply to Harbor point by Ok-Recommendation556

We made lots of friends walking our dog in the park by crabshell, lots of friendly people there. Also voluteering at local events like the honey bee festival or things like that are fun too and you meet lots of cool ppl

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Equivalent_Classic93 t1_is6s3ut wrote

Reply to Where can I meet friends? by InvestmentThat3924

Is there a meet up group or anything? I’m moving to Stamford from NYC, early 30s woman. I know I posted on here recently to plan ahead as I am fairly confident a lot of my city friends wouldn’t be able to come up very often to visit

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Lavenderfieldsforeve t1_is6eyce wrote

Reply to Harbor point by Ok-Recommendation556

I mean it is kinda in its own area. I live in Belltown and never really go to harbor point. But with regards to night life, there isn’t really much of that going on in Stamford compared to other cities. Besides the downtown bars and all.

I dunno, I kind of like that about Stamford. It’s a city and it’s not a city all at the same time.

In my opinion, North Stamford is the nicest area.

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Jimalo69 t1_is65804 wrote

Reply to Harbor point by Ok-Recommendation556

Sorry to say and its gonna sound discriminatory but its what I see imo. There is no other people living there besides young white professionals. If they had different types of backgrounds and different people itd be way better.

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