I thought the Goldburg case put all this breach of peace crap to bed.
The judge in the Goldberg CIVIL suit was very Anti. During depositions he agreed with the defense (the town) that the presence of an exposed firearm was RAS for a Terry stop.
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Yet another instance of why we're out of here. Two more months in this hell hole.
At least eastern MA has the benefit of an exploding job market. Thats why we ended up as MA residents. Last year when we were looking for a place in MA I said "The Condo market in Cambridge is probably pretty weak?". The agent laughed in my face. (then quickly apologized)
Eastern CT is dying. Pfizer and EB have massively scaled back, which has very adversely affected both the job and real estate markets in the area.
You can buy a tasteless massive McMansion in SE CT for $350K. These homes were going for $700K 6 years ago.
The only benefit of the terrible home market is that there isn't much point in selling our home in CT. So we have a very nice weekend place. I do love my local community in CT, but its just going nowhere.
Even the Casinos with their thousands of crappy jobs are contracting.
Finally, the Hartford insurance companies have been downsizing for years.
All that leaves is UTC (Sikorsky, Prat, Otis, Hamilton Sunstrand) and Fairfield County.
Fairfield is thriving because its a bedroom community for NY finance guys. They took a little hit in 08-09 but have been running strong ever since.