Homesteading in Connecticut ?
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These are awesome! Great advice, I appreciate your deep dives and unique insight.
We are in CT. Because of proximity to family. Met you in MO in May. Great series ! Scope out R.I. next. Thanks !
I live in Shelton right near the hoosatonic river! It’s a low tax town mainly blue collar folks.
Lived in Mystic , Pawcatuck , Ridgefield , and Deep River CT
Low tax and CT doesn’t mix. CT has the some of the highest property taxes in the country.
@@doubledown8229 not in Shelton our mayor is good on taxes.
Colchester a great place for a homestead
Have you did TN yet Curtis?
Yes
There’s tons of small farms 10 minutes from new haven. Beautiful state
I live in CT, and it’s the worst state to homestead in. The property taxes are amongst the highest in the country. We even pay high property taxes on our vehicles. I do like the seasons, and living in the middle of the woods. However, the taxes are the worst. Being around New Yorkers doesn’t help either.
Exactly. The taxes are really my only gripe with connecticut. I wish they would leave me alone. I’ve been in my house 58 years and all they do is keep harassing me with tax liens and threats of tax foreclosure.
Hahaha unbelievable! The mansion you pictured is across the street from my wife’s parents house which is just across town.
As a CT resident looking to get out, it’s because of cost of living, available real estate to do any sort of homesteading on, its a nanny state, etc. It’s a beautiful state for sure, just not doable for the average person anymore. Great job on all the videos on this topic btw, great resource.
In 1995 when I could no longer afford the property taxes and was $29,600 in arrears and just days away from a tax foreclosure I inquired to the state Governor about a homestead exemption. The response was that the homesteading exemption was removed in 1976.
As people are finding out more and more this year, moving down south doesn’t work either. Florida’s property taxes have doubled in the last year other states are having issues and then of course there’s the awful storms tornadoes hurricanes etc. And then there’s the super heat of the south. The number of people have said enough is enough and move back up north because they just can’t take the climate anymore. So you can either live in a geologically safe region and pay high taxes and have to deal with bullshit government or you can move down south and pay slightly less high taxes but have your home destroyed every couple of years by floods tornadoes hurricanes etc.
Great, great point. Spot on, I’m not sure the going South route is a good idea for homesteading. There is soooo much cheap land in NY.
@@francescoromanello3310 I couldn’t see the move to any portion of the world that’s under control of the US gov, so I opted to leave the US entirely for rural Japan. There are 8 million homes for sale for the price of a used car in Japan, many are quite livable.
That piece of property you’re highlighting in the northwest corner of Connecticut was purchased in 1999 or 2000 by William F O’Shaughnessy co-owner of Whitney radio in New Rochelle New york. I learned that the property taxes on that house in that year 25 years ago were 25,000 a year.
I live in Tolland, CT near Shenipsit lake and there’s a nice secluded homestead a mile away from me at 41°53’48.5″N 72°24’43.8″W Not only are they near a large lake, but they have a bridge going over a brook on their driveway and a marsh land on one side with lots of natural resources and a large forest on the other side. Down the road is a horse stable and on the other side of the lake in Ellington, CT is a lot of farm land. The closest hospital is only 10 minutes away in Rockville, CT. There aren’t many NY vacation homes on this side of the Connecticut river. Most of those are on the other side of the state.
Can you do southern utah??
My homestead farm is between Torrington and Hartford, CT. I spent 5 years looking for the right location (for me). My criteria was 10-30 acres, top of a hill or mountain heavily forested, terraced, well water with septic, room for solar. I nagree that distance from a major city is important, but just as important are its defensability (specifically limited, one-direction access), independence (ability to grow veg, raise animals), and terrain. With all that, the taxes are relatively high, but not for forested land.
Good to know. I need a lot of help with this.
We live in CT for my wife to work at Yale, spring 2023 we purchased 60 acres just north of the CT/MA line ( it’s within the NW green circle you put on the map). We had originally been looking at places in VT/NH, but this property being only an hour from our current home gives me more opportunities to get up there to work on the homestead. We are currently awaiting USDA approval for a 20 acre clear cut where 5 acres will be for building house, barn, hoop houses, workshop and the other 15 we will be re-planting with native edible tree and shrub species. The property was part of an old 300 acre cattle farm from colonial times and the topsoil is amazing, right now almost the entirety of the property is covered in hemlock and white pine which we will be thinning out. We hope to be able to move up there full time when the kids go to college, so in about 15 years. Lots of work ahead of us before that becomes a reality.
In the 1960s when I lived in Westport, CT it was a bedroom community of NYC. It wasn’t really thought of as a summer resort. It was a year-round community where the wealthy New Yorkers had year-round homes. Yes you could spend the summer in CT BUT there are much nicer places to spend summers that New Yorkers prefer such as Block Island, RI , Watch Hill, RI or Newport, RI , especially if they sail recreationally.
Having lived , for the most part year-round in both states in Westport, CT and Newport, RI, I speak from experience. In fact when we lived in Westport, Ct, we spent summers on one of the smaller islands in Narragansett Bay in Newport County RI which are relatives had been doing for generations since the 1800s.
CT is GREAT but make sure you have DEEP pockets.
I live in Canterbury a small town in northeastern Connecticut, but unfortunately, the taxes even here are horrible and it’s some of the lower taxes in the state. I won’t even get into that. We have the highest utilities in the country but somehow we still have just over 30 acres with cattle and sheep
Please do videos on MN and WI!