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Originally Posted by Jayhawk
Why would anyone ever move away, given that opinion?
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You're misinterpreting what I said.
I'll extend the sentence for clarity:
It = our town, that we lived in at the time, the way it evolved from when it was settled in the early 1700s...
was better that way = the way it was, as a result of its evolution, as opposed to any other way it could have been, had it not ended up the way it was.
I didn't mean it was better than other places. I meant "all is as intended."
Though I'd say it was much better than Bridgeport. But everyone knows that.
For a very old suburb that started mostly as sheep pastures, became a bustling clay manufacturing town, and has become a sprawling semi-rural suburb of New Haven, it is pretty much as it was intended to become, and as it should be.
If it had attracted tourism, it wouldn't be what it is now. And therefore - it wouldn't be as good at being what it is now, if it was something entirely different.