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These CT Cities Among Least Fun In The Nation: Report

WalletHub ranked two Connecticut communities as some of the least fun in the country. Do you agree?

BRIDGEPORT, CT — The Elm City and the Park City were essentially ranked as Snooze Cities in WalletHub’s rankings of the country’s most fun cities. New Haven and Bridgeport ranked among the bottom of all scored cities.

Bridgeport came in 180th out of 182 and New Haven came in 158th, with fun scores of 19.36 and 24.27 respectively. Top-rated Las Vegas had a score of 70.37 and New York City coming in third had a 55.29 score.

With the average American spending nearly $3,000 on entertainment each year, WalletHub on Monday released its report on 2018's Most Fun Cities in America. Research into the matter was conducted to help Americans find the cities with the greatest number and variety of cheap, fun activities. To that end, WalletHub compared more than 180 U.S. cities across 65 key metrics, ranging from fitness clubs per capita to movie costs to average open hours of breweries.

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Wallethub picked the 150 most populated cities plus two of the most populated cities in each state.

Bridgeport ranked 178th for entertainment and recreation, 164th for nightlife and parties and 167 for costs. New Haven came in 152nd, 137th and 143rd in the same categories

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