The link to this CNN.com story about South Norwalk, CT made me laugh. It made SoNo (please) sound like some Parisian oasis in the middle of Fairlfield County. Not so, said the native Nor-whacker.
South Norwalk is not a "little taste of New York" as the guy who runs the chocolate shop said. It's more like a little taste of crack alley. While it is true that the place is leaps and bounds cleaner than it was 15 years ago, anyone who has ever spent any time there knows that you still can't walk from the train station to Washington Street without keeping an eye on your purse. There are a few nice restaurants and such, but it's more or less just a weekend watering hole for yuppies fleeing domesticity.
I'm not hating. I'm just saying. The journalist in me wants to see accuracy, and this piece was far from accurate. Is CNN.com sure that someone from the Chamber of Commerce didn't write it?
Monday, April 23, 2007
Nor-Whack in the News
