Opinion: Making the case for staying put

Susan Bigelow is an award-winning columnist and the founder of CTLocalPolitics. She lives in Enfield with her wife and their cats.

Chances are, before you’re done reading this, you’ll have left Connecticut for a lower-tax state.

According to a new Gallup poll, 46 percent of Connecticut residents want to move somewhere else. Gallup also found a high correlation between states with a high tax burden and residents who are looking to skedaddle; residents in high tax states were the most likely to want to leave. The only saving grace is that the New Jersey of bombastic Gov. Chris “I’ll be waiting at the border for your jobs” Christie is just as bad.

These are hard times to live in Connecticut, and harder times still to be optimistic about our state and its future. The economy is creating jobs, but not always good or high-paying ones. GE dealt us a blow by deciding to abandon its longtime headquarters in Fairfield for a Boston high-rise. The government has been stumbling from massive deficit to massive deficit, while the overhaul of computer systems at the agency people interact with the most, the DMV, has been an utter disaster. Companies large and small complain constantly about the rotten business climate here.

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