{"id":373,"date":"2018-04-18T23:41:44","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T23:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2018\/04\/18\/2018418hamden-recognized-as-the-most-underrated-city-in-connecticut\/"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:44:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:44:55","slug":"2018418hamden-recognized-as-the-most-underrated-city-in-connecticut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2018\/04\/18\/2018418hamden-recognized-as-the-most-underrated-city-in-connecticut\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamden recognized as the most underrated city in Connecticut"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Rob McGreevy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thrillist.com recently published a list of every state\u2019s most underrated city. The list ranges from cities mostly everyone would recognize – like Sacramento, California and Tulsa, Oklahoma – to more obscure cities such as Alliance, Nebraska and Sisters, Oregon.<\/p>\n

While there are plenty of cities outside of the sphere of common knowledge, one city on the list should stand out to Quinnipiac students. Connecticut\u2019s most underrated city, according to Thrillist, is Hamden.<\/p>\n

The travel blog pegged Hamden as an underdog primarily because of its juxtaposition to New Haven and Yale.<\/p>\n

\u201cHamden is one town away from New Haven, and somehow worlds different,\u201d the writer notes.<\/p>\n

According to the author, New Haven\u2019s influence on Hamden can be seen in the brick oven pizza, the classic New England architecture, and even the similarly collegiate atmosphere. The writer goes on to differentiate the towns by bringing attention to Hamden\u2019s \u201crural charm.\u201d This rural charm includes the nature, the various trails, and of course, Sleeping Giant State Park. However, the writers at Thrillist aren\u2019t the only ones to notice the natural aura of the town.<\/p>\n

Quinnipiac graduate student (and one-time Massachusetts resident) Shannon Ryder loves Hamden.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m never, ever leaving so I\u2019m a little biased,\u201d Ryder admitted.<\/p>\n

Ryder expanded upon Thrillist\u2019s decision and cited many of the same reasons of the same reasons that they did.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there are plenty of other bigger, better cities in Connecticut but I feel like Hamden is homier than those places. It has the Sleeping Giant and the bike trail which makes it stand out from other cities,\u201d Ryder said.<\/p>\n

Not everybody agrees with Thrillist\u2019s assessment, however.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, I have to disagree with that. I\u2019ve always said that Hamden is one of the worst places I have ever lived,\u201d Quinnipiac senior and New York native Luke Brenner said. \u201cThe traffic between 2-6 p.m. makes it impossible to get anywhere without wanting to pull my hair out. In addition, absolutely nothing is open late besides fast food and rent is absurdly overpriced.\u201d<\/p>\n

The scathing review however, did not come without at least a few compliments.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only nice thing I can say about Hamden is the locals and staff of the restaurants and bars happen to be pretty nice people,\u201d Brennan said.<\/p>\n

Even the most passionately disgruntled Hamden resident can find a bright spot in Connecticut\u2019s new underdog city, it turns out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thrillist.com recently published a list of every state\u2019s most underrated city. The list ranges from cities mostly everyone would recognize – like Sacramento, California and Tulsa, Oklahoma – to more obscure cities such as Alliance, Nebraska and Sisters, Oregon.<\/p>\n

While there are plenty of cities outside of the sphere of common knowledge, one city on the list should stand out to Quinnipiac students. Connecticut\u2019s most underrated city, according to Thrillist, is Hamden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage","category-quinnipiac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2766,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/2766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}