No pizza for you.
New Haven is a great city, and in a quarter century, neither I nor anyone else in my family has experienced or witnessed a single crime. There are some great neighborhoods, and lots to do. My kids’ suburban friends think New Haven is “cool” and have come to envy It versus their sterile picket fences.
It’s a city, with poor, high-crime neighborhoods, no surprise. But a little bit of common sense and you’re good to go.
There’s no accounting for taste. To me, Lewiston, ME–Bates–is a dump. Look at these opinions. It’s meh: http://alltowndata.com/moving-to/Lewiston-Maine
Here’s how it’s misleading to say New Haven is so dangerous.
http://www.ctdatahaven.org/blog/2011/06/public_safety_new_haven/
Abraham shared a comparison of crime rates and population among New Haven and several other cities. He pointed to the cities of Wichita, Kansas and Tulsa, Oklahoma, which did not appear on 24/7’s list of “Most Dangerous Cities.” Tulsa and Wichita incorporate a geographical land area 10 times larger than the municipal boundary of New Haven. When one holds land area constant, and matches the comparable New Haven area to those of Wichita and Tulsa, the population density and employment characteristics of the three cities is nearly identical. In this true comparison of where people live and work, noted Abraham, Tulsa, Wichita, and New Haven have an equivalent population of just under 400,000, and New Haven has the lowest crime rate by a significant margin.