Western Connecticut is the part of CT that's right up next to New York, so it's one of the most expensive places in this country to live in. a lot of old money families are well established there, and lot of businessmen will raise a family somewhere in Western Ct, while they have an apartment in NYC where they play sugar daddy with hot younger women who are around college age, or sometimes even younger.
There are some towns in Western CT that are low to modest income, but they're mostly exceptions. Torrington, Norwalk, and Bridgeport come to mind. Old industrial towns that never really changed.....maybe they shut down if anything. The cost surrounding area does affect these towns too.
210 is the local union of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters that covers Western Connecticut. I'm in Local #24, it covers the south and Eastern CT mainly around NewLondon and New Haven. Up until a few years ago the different local unions in connecticut were all making different rates. #24 and #43 out of Hartford were making almost the same amount in money and benefits with 43, only a few cents behind 24. 210, on the other hand was at least $6 behind the rest of us. They were making a decent rate, but still it wasn't as much as they should have been getting seeing as how the cost of living in that area was so high.
most of the work down there is road and higway work, that serves all the commerce in and out of NYC as well as the businessmen who commute to NYC every day.
i used to date a girl who was from Danbury. We were taking the train into NYC once, pretty early in the morning, and here and there, there would be like 20 or 30 mexicans standing around in work clothes and drinking coffee and waiting to start work. haley was telling me that they would live in 2 or 3 bedroom apartments and squeeze 5-10 people into a single room. it's true. others have seen it and the mexican workers admit it.
in one of the richest places in the world, the workers are making sub standard wages and competing with foreign workers who are working for even less and living like cattle. if they had their way, they'd have it so the american workers were living like that too.
i don't hold anything against the immigrants even if they are illegal, i just point the finger instead at the cheapskates who don't want to pay anybody anything.
welcome to the land of opportunity. trickle down economics are dead.
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met a bunch of SGCT people for the first time. I met like 10 people in one night, so it's hard to remember everyone's name and match it to face, but i'm doing all right so far. i remember everyone who's sent me a friend request or posted on my board. Hung out at the bar for a while with Azurl and pornstarguy
last week i went to apprenticeship training classes for the carpenters union. at the end of the week, they had this guy do a class about union organizing that was real cool, and it got us all pumped up and like "go get 'em." then they gave us stickers with cobras on them that said "don't tread on us -connecticut carpenters." i looked at them as i was getting into my truck at the end of the day with "hells bells" by AC/DC playing on the radio and i was like "....bad ass man.....fucking bad ASS!" i love new england
my zine is done. now i'm just waiting to hear back from the printer..... and i was randomly IM'd by an old friend from Baltimore who I haven't heard from in about 3 years.
just for shits and giggles, i was thinking about doing a set and posting it on the suicide boys group. i like being an exhibitionist and people on this page don't seem to care if you're ugly or not, they just want to see the goods. maybe i shouldn't but i still like the idea....where can i find a photographer......naaaahhhh....
There are some towns in Western CT that are low to modest income, but they're mostly exceptions. Torrington, Norwalk, and Bridgeport come to mind. Old industrial towns that never really changed.....maybe they shut down if anything. The cost surrounding area does affect these towns too.
210 is the local union of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters that covers Western Connecticut. I'm in Local #24, it covers the south and Eastern CT mainly around NewLondon and New Haven. Up until a few years ago the different local unions in connecticut were all making different rates. #24 and #43 out of Hartford were making almost the same amount in money and benefits with 43, only a few cents behind 24. 210, on the other hand was at least $6 behind the rest of us. They were making a decent rate, but still it wasn't as much as they should have been getting seeing as how the cost of living in that area was so high.
most of the work down there is road and higway work, that serves all the commerce in and out of NYC as well as the businessmen who commute to NYC every day.
i used to date a girl who was from Danbury. We were taking the train into NYC once, pretty early in the morning, and here and there, there would be like 20 or 30 mexicans standing around in work clothes and drinking coffee and waiting to start work. haley was telling me that they would live in 2 or 3 bedroom apartments and squeeze 5-10 people into a single room. it's true. others have seen it and the mexican workers admit it.
in one of the richest places in the world, the workers are making sub standard wages and competing with foreign workers who are working for even less and living like cattle. if they had their way, they'd have it so the american workers were living like that too.
i don't hold anything against the immigrants even if they are illegal, i just point the finger instead at the cheapskates who don't want to pay anybody anything.
welcome to the land of opportunity. trickle down economics are dead.
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met a bunch of SGCT people for the first time. I met like 10 people in one night, so it's hard to remember everyone's name and match it to face, but i'm doing all right so far. i remember everyone who's sent me a friend request or posted on my board. Hung out at the bar for a while with Azurl and pornstarguy
last week i went to apprenticeship training classes for the carpenters union. at the end of the week, they had this guy do a class about union organizing that was real cool, and it got us all pumped up and like "go get 'em." then they gave us stickers with cobras on them that said "don't tread on us -connecticut carpenters." i looked at them as i was getting into my truck at the end of the day with "hells bells" by AC/DC playing on the radio and i was like "....bad ass man.....fucking bad ASS!" i love new england
my zine is done. now i'm just waiting to hear back from the printer..... and i was randomly IM'd by an old friend from Baltimore who I haven't heard from in about 3 years.
just for shits and giggles, i was thinking about doing a set and posting it on the suicide boys group. i like being an exhibitionist and people on this page don't seem to care if you're ugly or not, they just want to see the goods. maybe i shouldn't but i still like the idea....where can i find a photographer......naaaahhhh....
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