I’ve lived in Europe and been all over New England. New Haven is a little bit of both. It has that classic British colonial layout with green church squares interlaced with criss crossing paths, an intimate streetscape with mixed commercial and residential use, and a Yale University campus that looks like a complex of castles and towers in a park.
Their museums have the breadth of those in Berlin, their al fresco dining remind me of Montreal, and the car-free alleyways are as pleasant to walk on as those in Geneva. The only problem is that it’s a very small city and none of it is along the gorgeous Atlantic coast.
