Richest state in the nation, but also one where most of the wealth is concentrated. Connecticut is known to most as simply a few wealthy towns in Fairfield County. Most of the state is less rich and unknown to the rest of the U.S, but the people in Fairfield County are so rich that the statistics are skewed. CT's cities are among the poorest in the country. The Capital, Hartford, is the 2nd poorest city with a population over 100,000 in the country and has been on the nation's 25 most dangerous cities list for a decade. New Haven and Bridgeport have also had historically rampant crime, and New Haven was the crack capital of the country in the early 1990s. Poverty and crime are primarily concentrated in these cities and some of their inner ring suburbs (e.g. West Haven; East Hartford; New Britain), but their overall metropolitan areas are among the richest in the nation. Connecticut actually has very little rural land, as the 4th most densely populated state in the U.S., but is rather, undergoing intensive urban sprawl in all its metropolitan areas, especially the Stamford area, where New York City residents are moving.
Much like the United States in general, most of Connecticut's money is found in only a few towns.
by Burnsidebro May 26, 2007
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According to U.S. News and World Report 2003 - Connecticut is THE RICHEST STATE in the nation and always has been by per capita new worth, average income, and cost of living. It's amazing how uneducated someone is to say New Jersey (which most everyone would agree is the nation's asshole) would be richer. Have fun peasant, New Jersey is 6th. Get castrated before you reproduce and your uneducated middle-low class spawn infect any more of the planet.
Nice Prada shoes. Are you from Connecticut?

Why yes, where are you from?

New Jersey.

Well, that explains the smell.
by Jeffrey Fortenberry November 06, 2003
A unit of measurement, usually meant to gage the size of large disasters.

synonyms: Delaware, Rhode Island, Texas
1. The fire burning in the Amazon has destroyed an area roughly the size of Connecitcut.

2. A region almost the size of two Connecticuts was rendered uninhabitable by the radioactive spill.

3. An iceberg the size of Connecticut broke off of Antarctica today.
by Christopher Hume June 13, 2007
You know you are from CT if:

-You can't buy beer after 8 p.m. or sundays
-There is a farm within five miles of your house.
-You have known at least two preppy rich kids from Fairfield who listen to Phish.
-You have deer in your backyard.
-You have been drunk at the Meadows and don't remember the concert.
-You've partied at bonfires.
-You've never looked at a public bus schedule and would certainly never ride it
-You have both girlfriends and guy friends with the same name as you
-You think New Haven is the worst ghetto you've ever seen.
-You get mad at anyone who doesn't know how to drive in the snow.
-You think New Jersey is a toxic waste dump.
-Your family owns more than one house.
-Your high school has won the State Championship in soccer and/or lacrosse several years in a row.
-You have taken riding lessons at the towns Riding Club.
-You spend the summer on Cape Cod, in Nantucket or Marthas Vineyard.
-The cars in your high school's parking lot were worth more than your high school.
-You were pissed that your sixteenth birthday car was a new sedan instead of an SUV.
-You have more than one country club in your town.
-UConn basketball rules and no one can tell you different
-You hang out at Denny's
-You weekend either on the Cape or Rhode Island at a summer home
-You wear flip flops in the winter
-You wear Hollister and know how to surf even though you live in New England
-You own at least 5 designer handbags and go shopping in NYC every weekend
I am getting out of here the first moment i can!!!!
by blonde89 January 26, 2005
Connecticut (abbrev.- CT) is one of the original 13 colonies. It is a crossover of Massachusetts and New York, but is still part of New England. Not everyone is a rich, stuck up asshole like people seem to think, it is an actual state with actual problems and benefits. There are arrogant snobs who put down on people, but those can be found anywhere.
Connecticut is:

The Nutmeg State
Part of New England

A Pleasant (but boring) State To Live In

Stop ripping on states you haven't lived in, it's annoying.
by CT person May 23, 2010
All of you who think that Connecticut is just where snobby rich kids come from, you're wrong. Yes, about half the people here are asses. But the other half are normal people who just want to live free of sterotypes! The good half of us drive regular cars, not beat up 20 year old cars, but not BMWs and Mercades. We aren't super poor, or super rich. The averages may say that we are one of the richest, but that doesn't mean all of us are rich.
Shut the fuck up about Connecticut being super rich snobs or out of the way hicks. We have a diverse population just like any other state. You ignorant bitches are just listening to sterotypes.
by Redrose13 June 28, 2010
My home state...where New Yorkers go to turn off their brains, where NYC business men keep their mistresses, and the nutmeg state. We also have the highest IQ, highest cost of living, one of the highest teen heroin usage levels, and, of course, nutmeg.
We all just really want to get out of Connecticut
by Alexandra December 01, 2004
- Richest state
- Highest average IQ at 115
- State which gives the least to charity

Also, the dumbass that said New Haven had nothing but giant houses is a dumbass. Try leaving the Yale area before opening your mouth.
50 Cent has a house in Connecticut
by One toasted ass cracker! November 14, 2004

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