Fairfield County is one of the richest, if not the richest county in America with on of the highest costs of living. My condo would be in the $300,000-$400,000 range if I put it on a trailer and drove it to Fairfield.

NY is not expensive at all. Parts of Westchester County is pretty comparable to Fairfield County but the rest of the state is all farmland with Albany, Ithaca, Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo sprinkled along the thruway. Then you have NYC where the cost of living is absouletly rediculous but it is the few and far between that make all the $$...and at that they are living outside the city where it is cheaper, such as Jersey and CT.