Martha Stewart doesn't like Westport very much now, and she is departing, probably for Manhattan.

"As hard as it will be to leave my Westport home, I no longer feel connected to the neighborhood, the neighbors or even the town," the publishing entrepreneur wrote in an article published today (April 9, 2000) in the New York Times Sunday Magazine.

Ms Stewart's article appears on the World Wide Web at http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000409mag-marthastewart.html. Readers without a login name and password must obtain them to view the Times's web content, which is offered free of charge.

Unfriendly neighbors, traffic, commercialization, and the disappearance of Westport's once bucolic ambience all appear to have soured Ms Stewart on the town. She expressed a hope, however, that things would change for the better - sometime.

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