“I would really err on the side of more quantity and less perfect and quality, because we have been resource-lacking for so long,” DiPentima said. “That's resource lacking whether its number of restaurants, culture and art opportunities, investments in education, housing, healthcare and non profits — these are critical things that we just fight over making it a perfect solution in an urban area when we just need to have a good solution and then we can always make it better.”

By the time the open house at 33 Hollow Tree Ridge Road in Darien began on Saturday, Feb. 11, it had been saved over 300 times on Zillow. As the clock struck noon, cars with first-time home buyers, families with small children and curious neighbors alike began rolling up to the 1963 colonial home listed at $1.19 million in the Noroton area.

“I wonder where they are all going to park,” laughed Berkshire Hathaway listing agent Maria Reciuga.

The four-bedroom, four-bathroom home brought a mix of

During COVID's first wave in early 2020, many Connecticut residents packed up and headed down to Florida, according to data from the Internal Revenue Service.

IRS tax return data for 2019-2020 shows where people moved to from Connecticut by comparing the addresses people filed in from one year to the next. The data shows how many people moved from Connecticut’s counties to other locations out of state, as well as how much income traveled across the two regions.

In Connecticut, the wealthiest m