a town of about 55,000 people in New Haven County, Connecticut. It's a place where idiotic high school kids who can't really spell post definitions of their own town on urban dictionary to talk shit about each other, but generally fail miserably.
by r7Zxy October 30, 2008
A large town north of New Haven, Ct. Made up of mostly whites, but also many blacks and hispanics. Mostly suburbs. Large suburb houses on the north side, called mr. carmel, or west woods area, or the boonies, which is mostly white, but more and more blacks and hispanics are always moving in. Smaller suburb houses in the middle and southern side, including spring glen, with a large mix of people. Mostly condos and apartments in the Mix Ave. area, in the center of town, which has the largest mix of people, including many arabs. Southernmost part shares a ghetto called the Ville with New Haven, with mostly blacks. Center of town with the town hall has only small bussinesses. Area considered more of the center of town is the plaza, with many large business departments stores; also where the high school is located, and where most young people spend their free time. Has no movie theater, everybody goes to the North Haven one; has no mall, everybody goes to the Milford or Meriden one.
Has many different elementary schools, but one middle school and one public high school. Has a few private schools, including Sacred Heart, Hamden Hall, and West Woods Christian Academy. The students of Sacred Heart are hated by most of the town. Hamden Hall is extremely expensive. Barely anybody knows about West Woods Christian Academy, but is made up of mostly ignorant prejudice white people from Cheshire, Prospect, and Naugatuck.(why they drive so far for school, will never be understood.) Middle school is when all the young kids from different areas of town are forced to start to coexist, and start to be exposed to sex and drugs. The high school is attended by many New Haven kids who pretend theyre from Hamden to get in. Some Hamden kids hate them. Is known for its hockey team and lacrosse team. Is made fun of for its sucky basketball and football team. Has horrible and not enough guidance counselors, and often has racist administrators. Currently has a new principal who is black and very laid back. The school has many fights for a mostly white school, and students smoke pot in some of the bathrooms. Many security guards, some very strict, some unable to enforce anything. A good high school for everybody, because no group of teenagers preside over everything, the way rich kids do in a suburb school or hood kids do in a ghetto school. A high school that's good for absolutely any type of person from any anyplace; although there are many racist people, they don't do or say anything. Many interracial couples walking down the halls. Has many different groups of people, including kids from the ville or other ghetto areas, average black and white kids from lower class suburbs, white kids from the richer part of town who try to be preppy, hispanics, hispanics and arabs who for some reason are friends, and kids who are into emo and/or anime scenes, which includes many bisexuals. Some of these groups are friends with each other, or in between/other, many get along, and most pretend that they get along. Young people from Hamden are often hated and called ghetto by most young people from towns around it, including Cheshire, North Haven, East Haven, West Haven, and Milford. Is sometimes called "H-Town" by the young people. Has three state parks, Sleeping giant, west rock, and east rock.
Has many different elementary schools, but one middle school and one public high school. Has a few private schools, including Sacred Heart, Hamden Hall, and West Woods Christian Academy. The students of Sacred Heart are hated by most of the town. Hamden Hall is extremely expensive. Barely anybody knows about West Woods Christian Academy, but is made up of mostly ignorant prejudice white people from Cheshire, Prospect, and Naugatuck.(why they drive so far for school, will never be understood.) Middle school is when all the young kids from different areas of town are forced to start to coexist, and start to be exposed to sex and drugs. The high school is attended by many New Haven kids who pretend theyre from Hamden to get in. Some Hamden kids hate them. Is known for its hockey team and lacrosse team. Is made fun of for its sucky basketball and football team. Has horrible and not enough guidance counselors, and often has racist administrators. Currently has a new principal who is black and very laid back. The school has many fights for a mostly white school, and students smoke pot in some of the bathrooms. Many security guards, some very strict, some unable to enforce anything. A good high school for everybody, because no group of teenagers preside over everything, the way rich kids do in a suburb school or hood kids do in a ghetto school. A high school that's good for absolutely any type of person from any anyplace; although there are many racist people, they don't do or say anything. Many interracial couples walking down the halls. Has many different groups of people, including kids from the ville or other ghetto areas, average black and white kids from lower class suburbs, white kids from the richer part of town who try to be preppy, hispanics, hispanics and arabs who for some reason are friends, and kids who are into emo and/or anime scenes, which includes many bisexuals. Some of these groups are friends with each other, or in between/other, many get along, and most pretend that they get along. Young people from Hamden are often hated and called ghetto by most young people from towns around it, including Cheshire, North Haven, East Haven, West Haven, and Milford. Is sometimes called "H-Town" by the young people. Has three state parks, Sleeping giant, west rock, and east rock.
"You know your from Hamden when...
7. there are more black people in your town than cigarette butts on the sidewalks
16. you've been kicked out of the plaza, multiple times.
17.you've started shit at the north haven movie theaters.
18. public skate had more middle schoolers than the middle school.
18. you have no idea why people go to the mall just to hang out.
19. people won't talk to you because of the fact that you're from hamden.
25. going to the space makes you hardcore.
35. you hate every other town, and every other town hates you.
37. you know you're trash, and you're content with it.
38. you're better off telling people you live in new haven.
39. you don't get scared when you go to new haven.
40. you hear the phrase "shit happens" at least 20 times a week.
41. your highschool has more combat than world war 2.
43. you don't understand why other states think people from connecticut are smart and rich.
45. bomb threats don't make you nervous.
46. you can go to an event with six other towns, and hamden would be the only town to fight.
47. you know we'd be fighting each other.
51. there are 500 different fast food places, and one health food store that hardly anyone knows about.
61. you know of people with actual names like princess or octavia.
64. bassett park was the most fun park ever.
66. when there's a sub in your school that everyone calls bill cosby cause no one knows his real name.
67. when teachers answer to MISS! or MR.!
71. when you walk down the hall and see ripped out weave just chillen on the floor."
"if you spent your summers at the green dragon camp and remember going to lake quassapaug on field trips
if basset field used to feel like fenway park or yankee staduim when you were 11,
if youve been partying in downtown new haven since you were 15,
if you went miles away to college and your hearts still somewhere between whitney and dixwell, then you, are one of us."
7. there are more black people in your town than cigarette butts on the sidewalks
16. you've been kicked out of the plaza, multiple times.
17.you've started shit at the north haven movie theaters.
18. public skate had more middle schoolers than the middle school.
18. you have no idea why people go to the mall just to hang out.
19. people won't talk to you because of the fact that you're from hamden.
25. going to the space makes you hardcore.
35. you hate every other town, and every other town hates you.
37. you know you're trash, and you're content with it.
38. you're better off telling people you live in new haven.
39. you don't get scared when you go to new haven.
40. you hear the phrase "shit happens" at least 20 times a week.
41. your highschool has more combat than world war 2.
43. you don't understand why other states think people from connecticut are smart and rich.
45. bomb threats don't make you nervous.
46. you can go to an event with six other towns, and hamden would be the only town to fight.
47. you know we'd be fighting each other.
51. there are 500 different fast food places, and one health food store that hardly anyone knows about.
61. you know of people with actual names like princess or octavia.
64. bassett park was the most fun park ever.
66. when there's a sub in your school that everyone calls bill cosby cause no one knows his real name.
67. when teachers answer to MISS! or MR.!
71. when you walk down the hall and see ripped out weave just chillen on the floor."
"if you spent your summers at the green dragon camp and remember going to lake quassapaug on field trips
if basset field used to feel like fenway park or yankee staduim when you were 11,
if youve been partying in downtown new haven since you were 15,
if you went miles away to college and your hearts still somewhere between whitney and dixwell, then you, are one of us."
by lalawashereandproudofit March 16, 2009
It's actually not a small town, about 55,000 people, mostly white. It screams middle-class. The town is sub-divided into a bunch of little communities, Spring Glen being the best one. The middle school is a dump, although the new one will prevent blacks from New Haven attending it. The high school is filled with mostly middle class kids. Some of them think they are rich, but if they were they would not go to public school. Some of the kids think they are down with the "scene" and go to shows at The Space, those kids are losers despite what you might have heard. Kids wear Hollister like its their job, (they think that is preppy, they don't know what the word means) Hollister is the cheap version of Abercrombie, and Abercrombie is the epitome of guinea douche bag. Other kids are fake ghetto, everyone has a pierced ear with a nice fake rock in it. They are always decent at sports, but never the best. They are pretty good at hockey, and they are decent at football. Despite all the black kids they are not good at basketball, and if they were...no one would care.
There is nothing to do in Hamden but go to the Plaza. The Plaza is a barren wasteland. Most kids who graduate from Hamden go on to state schools and somehow end up back in Hamden for all of eternity. Hamden has 3 or 4 streets...Whitney, Dixwell, Shepard, and Skiff. The cops are jerks, but as long as they stay out of the north end of town I have no problem with them. The part of Hamden that borders New Haven is atrocious, you risk your life by driving through there past sundown. Hamden is also the home of Sacred Heart Academy, let's not go there (I just vomitted a little in my mouth). Hamden is run by a bunch of fools, mostly people with high school diplomas and nothing else. Youth sports is a great way to watch Hamden's future athletes mature and go to Notre Dame of West Haven (if they can afford it). If kids stay in Hamden they end up playing football at U-Wisconsin and then get arrested for drug possesion, not drafted, and move back to "H-Town" as Hamden is commonly called by the douche bags who live here. Hamden is basically as normal and mediocre as it gets...possibly the cause for all the drama the other author described.
There is nothing to do in Hamden but go to the Plaza. The Plaza is a barren wasteland. Most kids who graduate from Hamden go on to state schools and somehow end up back in Hamden for all of eternity. Hamden has 3 or 4 streets...Whitney, Dixwell, Shepard, and Skiff. The cops are jerks, but as long as they stay out of the north end of town I have no problem with them. The part of Hamden that borders New Haven is atrocious, you risk your life by driving through there past sundown. Hamden is also the home of Sacred Heart Academy, let's not go there (I just vomitted a little in my mouth). Hamden is run by a bunch of fools, mostly people with high school diplomas and nothing else. Youth sports is a great way to watch Hamden's future athletes mature and go to Notre Dame of West Haven (if they can afford it). If kids stay in Hamden they end up playing football at U-Wisconsin and then get arrested for drug possesion, not drafted, and move back to "H-Town" as Hamden is commonly called by the douche bags who live here. Hamden is basically as normal and mediocre as it gets...possibly the cause for all the drama the other author described.
"Hey let's go to Hamden and crash a Quinnipiac party, those girls are HOT!"
Hamden's town motto - 'We strive for mediocrity.'
"Let's go for a hike to see the castle on Sleeping Giant and enjoy the views of Whitney Avenue."
Hamden's town motto - 'We strive for mediocrity.'
"Let's go for a hike to see the castle on Sleeping Giant and enjoy the views of Whitney Avenue."
by ekneret January 26, 2006
Hamden is an interesting town. It consists of the crappy strip mall and the only place to hang out is the North Haven movie theater, the Plaza, or go bowling. The plaza is a boring place to walk around and full of drug deals. Bowling alley, if you go and your white, haha good luck. Hamden is full of the typical crowded elementary schools and the dumpy middle school which is probably in the worst possible location of the whole town. And yes, it is built on a toxic waste dumb. The new one being built should be a lot better but has already caused problems with the old hags complaining about some memorial there. The middle school is where the kids are first being introduced to smoking and drugs. Many parents also do their best to try and have their kids avoid this school by either sending them to the catholic or private schools.
Then there is the high school where there is everything imaginable. Ya got the preps, gangsters, wiggers (white people wanting to be black), goths, emo kids wanting to kill themselves, the pot heads, special ed kids, jocks, hispanics, cheerleaders that everyone pretty much hates, the amazing dance team, the hockey players, and yeah.. we have transvestites. If you are white, and not popular you will find it very scary walking down the hallways and do NOT look at the black girls wrong, just watch for that. Smoking goes on in the bathroom and all the people smell like smoke in the classrooms but the teachers seems oblivious to everything. The only sport that really exists is the hockey team and maybe the football team, even though they kind of suck and there are the occasional gun shots at the games.
Sports are not one of Hamden's finest or you can cinsider not a lot of the kids athletic. You usually only get onto a team if your mom or dad is the coach. Hamden preppy kids wear Hollister like it is their life because it is the cheap form of Abercrombie & Fitch which maybe only 20% of the people in the town can afford. The side of town near New Haven, just stay away at night, you may get shot.
We have two main catholic schools, St. Rita's (Retards) and St. Stephen's (Stupids). The St Rita kids all come out of that school messed up and become future man whores or sluts. St stephen kids come out having no friends or life. The kids coming out of this school either go to HHS or if they can afford it.. Notre Dame of West Haven or Sacred Heart Academy. SHA is what most people call it and you can consider those girls the "hoe's on the hill." No one likes them and the only people that like the school are the ones that go there. They think they are the shit.
Quinnipiac is also part of hamden and you will find about 4 accidents a week in the paper with those kids drunk driving or having too loud of parties and they are pretty much taking over Hamden.
A lot of people comsider this H-Town because they want to sound ghetto.
Then there is the high school where there is everything imaginable. Ya got the preps, gangsters, wiggers (white people wanting to be black), goths, emo kids wanting to kill themselves, the pot heads, special ed kids, jocks, hispanics, cheerleaders that everyone pretty much hates, the amazing dance team, the hockey players, and yeah.. we have transvestites. If you are white, and not popular you will find it very scary walking down the hallways and do NOT look at the black girls wrong, just watch for that. Smoking goes on in the bathroom and all the people smell like smoke in the classrooms but the teachers seems oblivious to everything. The only sport that really exists is the hockey team and maybe the football team, even though they kind of suck and there are the occasional gun shots at the games.
Sports are not one of Hamden's finest or you can cinsider not a lot of the kids athletic. You usually only get onto a team if your mom or dad is the coach. Hamden preppy kids wear Hollister like it is their life because it is the cheap form of Abercrombie & Fitch which maybe only 20% of the people in the town can afford. The side of town near New Haven, just stay away at night, you may get shot.
We have two main catholic schools, St. Rita's (Retards) and St. Stephen's (Stupids). The St Rita kids all come out of that school messed up and become future man whores or sluts. St stephen kids come out having no friends or life. The kids coming out of this school either go to HHS or if they can afford it.. Notre Dame of West Haven or Sacred Heart Academy. SHA is what most people call it and you can consider those girls the "hoe's on the hill." No one likes them and the only people that like the school are the ones that go there. They think they are the shit.
Quinnipiac is also part of hamden and you will find about 4 accidents a week in the paper with those kids drunk driving or having too loud of parties and they are pretty much taking over Hamden.
A lot of people comsider this H-Town because they want to sound ghetto.
Hamden has everything.
by hamden_entry April 24, 2006
Small town in CT with abolutely nothing to do. We are known for extreme amounts of drama; there is always some fight or some kind of problem amongst the people in Hamden, mostly caused by drama from Stop and Shop. The town is also home to some of the gayest snitches around who like to call the cops, lol
by Flech November 2, 2005
Hamden is a great town to live in. Mostly has middle-class people that live there. Ranging from greatest to least Americans, Italians, Asians, African American, others. , Dunbar Hill, Ridge Hill, West Woods are excellent elementary schools to go to. They're the best and smartest; I took surveys of all elementary schools in Hamden and they ranked highest. The new middle school is great! You'll meet wonderful new friends and teachers! If you do the right thing in school and get called down to the principals/assistant principals office...all you have to do is smile when you get there, and be nice. The high school is where you have to take responsibility in your actions and watch out for people around you.
overall it's a great town to live in. Once you live in Hamden from the start when you were a baby and make it through either 3rd-12th grade you're officially a Hamden Dragon always in your heart.
overall it's a great town to live in. Once you live in Hamden from the start when you were a baby and make it through either 3rd-12th grade you're officially a Hamden Dragon always in your heart.
Mom: How was your first day at Hamden Middle School?
Daughter: It was amazing! It's a huge school/ campus.
It's even bigger than others for example NHMS. Everyone was nice to me. I even made 35 new friends today!
Mom: WOW that must be a really great school to go to! I wish I could have gone there when I was your age.
Daughter: It was amazing! It's a huge school/ campus.
It's even bigger than others for example NHMS. Everyone was nice to me. I even made 35 new friends today!
Mom: WOW that must be a really great school to go to! I wish I could have gone there when I was your age.
by green_earth January 29, 2011
Hamden is a town full of all different people. It is predominantly middle class. The majority of kids in Hamden attend one of the many elementary schools and then move onto the middle school and the high school. The schooling system is highly frowned upon by other towns in the surrounding area such as Cheshire and North Haven. Those of the upper class will most definitely attend one of the more prestigious private schools in the area such as Hamden Hall, or even better Foote School or Hopkins located nearby in the rich neighborhoods of New Haven. Most H-Town kids are unaware of these school and think of Sacred Heart and Notre Dame as being the height of schooling, whereas they are no competition to the non-religious private schools that are much more expensive. Many white kids strive to be "preppy" but are no where as preppy as the private school crowd. The private school kids and true H-Towners are rarely together except when the private school kids are forced to attend events with them such as CCD or sports teams.
Despite everyone from other towns looking down on the schools, many H-Townies love their school. It is a school where everyone has a place. Kids from New Haven try to go there and often are looked down upon and are the source of fights and other brawl. Most kids from Hamden plan to move far away after high school, but always end up attending a public state university and then ending up right back in Hamden raising children who say the same thing.
Despite everyone from other towns looking down on the schools, many H-Townies love their school. It is a school where everyone has a place. Kids from New Haven try to go there and often are looked down upon and are the source of fights and other brawl. Most kids from Hamden plan to move far away after high school, but always end up attending a public state university and then ending up right back in Hamden raising children who say the same thing.
Public school kids: Ahh! Sacred Heart is so hard! I have soo much homework and five D's!!
Private schooler: Such a typical kid from Hamden.
Queshawn: "Who are those girls? I've never seen them 'round the Glen before."
Boshai: "They must go to those private schools. They'd be better off living in a hood like Greenwich, not a dumpy town like Hamden."
Private schooler: Such a typical kid from Hamden.
Queshawn: "Who are those girls? I've never seen them 'round the Glen before."
Boshai: "They must go to those private schools. They'd be better off living in a hood like Greenwich, not a dumpy town like Hamden."
by camsters August 3, 2011