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West Hartford is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States, 5 miles (8.0 km) west of downtown Hartford. The population was 63,268 at the 2010 census.The town's popular downtown area is colloquially known as "West Hartford Center," or simply "The Center," and is centered on Farmington Avenue and South/North Main Street. West Hartford Center has been the community's main hub since the late 17th century. In 2008, Blue Back Square opened as a new addition to the central area, which includes a bookstore, a movie theater, two parking garages, various physician and medical offices, and several restaurants.
Incorporated as a town in 1854, West Hartford was previously a parish of Hartford, founded in 1672. Among the southernmost of the communities in the Hartford-Springfield Knowledge Corridor metropolitan region, West Hartford is home to University of Hartford and the University of Saint Joseph.
In 2010, Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine listed West Hartford as one of the nation's "10 Great Cities for Raising Families" and ranked it #9 on its "10 Best Cities for the Next Decade" list. Also in 2010, CNN Money ranked West Hartford the 55th best small city in America and Travelandleisure.com called it one of 10 "coolest" suburbs in the nation, and the West Hartford Reservoir off Farmington Avenue "West Hartford's version of Central Park," noting the town's "vacation-worthy hot spots, with cutting-edge restaurants, great shopping, and plenty of parking."
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Nice and quiet and peaceful. Very clean with no litter 🚮🚯
There are many activities for senior citizens especially from the elm community center..
Bloomfield is great to live has two supermarkets, is nearby HH & SFH, very close to Windsor & West Hartford.
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The services available for the elderly seem focused on the very old, impoverished, and infirm. The two senior centers offer no evening and weekend programming--as if all seniors were retired--and little programming that might appeal to cognitively intact people with college or advanced degrees. The town offices do not seem to take the elderly into account when they plan for facility use (help with trash, brush, and recycling, for example, is not available). Town social services has cut back to a clearinghouse function in recent years. In the past thirty years neighborhoods have become friendlier to families with children than to the elderly. Nowadays some people go for years without speaking to their next door neighbors, as if their privacy were at stake. It was less true in the 1990s. There are also transportation issues, on which (to its credit) the town is working: a high number of accidents, some fatal, on main thoroughfares, in which cars strike pedestrians. Community bulletin boards could be located in public places; the libraries nominally have them, but they are away from trafficked areas, and there are extreme restrictions on what can be posted. Focus groups involving different groupings of people ages 50+ might produce some really good ideas about how to improve life here for older folks.