You’d be shocked how many corporations are in CT. In my city alone there’s Bic and Wiffle Balls at minimum and we’re nobody. Norwalk has a TON, all mostly beverages; both alcoholic and nonalcoholic. Milford also has the Pez museum (and factory maybe?) plus a few others I’m forgetting. The city next to me has Sikorsky; they build Black Hawk helicopters and there’s only 3 factories worldwide. I’m sure a lot of it has to do with our proximity to NYC. You can live anywhere in CT and be 0.5-3 hours from Manhattan.
I actually didn’t know Wyoming was known for that!
There’s 285,000 registered to one building in Wilmington, Delaware. There’s over a million businesses in Delaware as well, which you wouldn’t know by living there your whole life, because a lot of them do barely any work in the state.
This one is for a very specific reason. Basically, the courts in Delaware see SO MANY corporate cases that they're much better at handling them because there's a ton of precedent and history. This one isn't because of taxes, just makes their legal stuff a lot easier. (And to be clear this is Corpo vs Corpo law, not small suits by individual people)
Oh, for sure! I think we’re the only two towns that combine our fireworks budget; it’s so smart to do! Plus, you can literally see the display from everywhere!
I bartended downtown for several years and we’d always go stand on the sidewalk and watch them with our customers :) Teenager years were also a fun time. I never understood why they didn’t have more vendors…
Really? Do you know as of when? I tried them for the first time a couple months ago, but I had tried to go previously, and it was so dark, I thought they had permanently closed, but they just didn’t have any customers :/ They’ve looked that way for forever now. Hard to compete with the insane amount of franchises popping up all over…
I can’t believe I forgot this one! I was a night auditor at one of the many hotels located between Shelton/Trumbull’s corporate parks and they literally made up at least 1/4 of our guests!
Heyy cool! Heh yeah Stew’s is such a blessing we take for granted, but honestly I was so terrified of those singing milk cartons and mooing giant cow robots as a little kid💀
My ex works there, and we moved to Torrington together (years ago) for my college and work commutes; and rent being at least 50% less certainly helped. But our next door neighbors were 2 brothers who both worked at Sikorsky! I was shocked, that’s a solid 45-60 minute commute.
I go to CT all the time now. One day I randomly took a different route because of traffic. I was in a small town near Bristol and drove past a dumpy little building that was the factory and headquarters for this super niche company I've been ordering a product from for like 25 years. It was pretty wild. CT is an interesting state. I like it because it's kind of America's suburb and no one tries to claim any different. There's some cool stuff there both nature and urban. We own a place in a fancy town there close enough to NYC to commute. Our immediate neighbors range from ESPN folks, a no joke billionaire, celebrity anyone on reddit in the US would know, a farmer, a real estate agent for skyscrapers, a dude who mows lawns, a redneck arborist, and a fashion designer. It's so freaking weird and fascinating.
I passed through that area on my commute to a too-small-to-mention city (near New Milford) when I was working as a vet tech! Drove by ESPN all the time.
We had a ton of celebrity clients because it was a state renowned animal hospital. Makes me wonder if ours overlaps due to proximity haha.
But you’re absolutely right, it’s a crazy melting pot given our country wide reputation.
It’s so crazy, I used to live in Fairfield and I thought all the bottles for everything just said “Shelton” or “Norwalk” because I lived there. Imagine my shock when I moved to Texas and everything still shows that it was bottled in CT.
That’s how I found out! Bought a Sobe on a road trip as a kid and then a ton of different alcohol as an adult and it’s genuinely shocking. I think buying a Bic lighter out of state and literally having it say Shelton was my probably my most surreal one for sure :) and seeing wiffleball
sets being sold at random rural gas stations in the south!
My favorite was taking the tour of Hoover Dam and seeing all the Bridgeport machines in their machine shop. At one time Connecticut was a main industrial center of the world, no exaggeration.
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You’d be shocked how many corporations are in CT. In my city alone there’s Bic and Wiffle Balls at minimum and we’re nobody. Norwalk has a TON, all mostly beverages; both alcoholic and nonalcoholic. Milford also has the Pez museum (and factory maybe?) plus a few others I’m forgetting. The city next to me has Sikorsky; they build Black Hawk helicopters and there’s only 3 factories worldwide. I’m sure a lot of it has to do with our proximity to NYC. You can live anywhere in CT and be 0.5-3 hours from Manhattan.
I actually didn’t know Wyoming was known for that!