A small, generally unkown,
upper middle class town located in the farmington valley (CT), boarding towns including: east granby, simsbury, canton, barkhamsted, suffield, and southwick (MA).
Granby includes West Granby and North Granby. The population is somewhere
Granby is consistently highly ranked highly in academic
performance. In 2009 Granby was tied in 9th place with Westport for CMT testing. It was also rated the 3rd best small town to live in (#1 Old Saybrook, #2 Weston). The population is about 11,000 people and a seemingly equal number of horses, goats and cows.
Granby is possibly
one of the most boring towns in Connecticut. Refusing many commercial businesses, the town remains an isolated, undeveloped, and relaxed environment. There are thousands of acres of nature preserve as well. Most residents tend to work in the insurance industry. The town is much like an undeveloped Simsbury or a more developed Suffield.