Does anyone of the forum regulars live in New Haven, CT, or environs, and wants to make a rather quick hundred bux?

[DaShi]

New Haven in general has the reputation of being a crime infested ****hole from what I have gathered, also it is also a university town, with like 5 of them, IIRC.

What gives?

You won't even notice.

[Az]

This is certainly encouraging. How do you figure? plus, I have a wife and a kid on the way. I want them to be safe. how well are you acquainted with NH?

[Imran Siddiqui]

I think he was making an Israel joke .

[Sava]

Good news: You'll be much less likely to die in a bus explosion.

Bad news: Your child will be much more likely to die in a mass shooting.

[DaShi]

I think he was making an Israel joke .

I wasn't. The Yale community is so isolated from the poverty around them that it's hard to believe it's really that bad.

[Az]

I wasn't. The Yale community is so isolated from the poverty around them that it's hard to believe it's really that bad.

How did NH end up like this? usually elite university towns foster a hightech/ biotech industry around them, that, as they say, floats all boats.

[DaShi]

I don't think it really works for universities. People go where the business opportunities are, and universities are rarely the driving force of successful industry. Boston would still have about as much hightech as it does now, if Harvard was in Raleigh, North Carolina.

[regexcellent]

Yale doesn't do the kind of technology research that MIT, CMU, and Stanford do.

[Hauldren Collider]

I don't think it really works for universities. People go where the business opportunities are, and universities are rarely the driving force of successful industry. Boston would still have about as much hightech as it does now, if Harvard was in Raleigh, North Carolina.

That's not entirely true. There's a couple of tech companies in Pittsburgh that wouldn't be there if not for CMU, but they are pretty much all small CMU grad startups.