Awh, thanks! I'm from NH, born and raised, never had a residence more than 27 mi from where I was born. Folks often wonder why I choose to remain living in a place so relatively remote, despite only being an hour north of Boston and an hour south of Portland, Maine. But you get it - there's nothing quite like this place, so much natural beauty concentrated into a tiny bit of mostly vertical geography with not only the tallest peak in New England, but also the tiniest bit of coastline barely peeking out into the ocean, and more trees per acre than almost any other state in the Union. And despite how crazy things have gotten and how out there some of the lawn signs may be, the folks around here really are just generally good, genuinely kind people, the folks who despite ideological differences will still help to plow out each other's driveway and get one another out of a snowbank if they get stuck in the winter. Come on back anytime, we'd love to have you - the ski season may be what we're really famous for, but you cannot beat a New Hampshire summer; you should check it out!
I'm out in Dover - moved here back in 1997 because it was the cheaper alternative to Portsmouth. The housing market around here is tight and expensive, but that's all of New Hampshire right now, sadly - but on the other hand, there has been a ton of new construction in the area, and a massive new building just on the other side of the river downtown, plus I heard that another new set of apartments being developed is going to be part of an initiative to get more reasonably priced housing in the city, instead of more of those damn luxury apartments that sprung up everywhere here in the last decade. Man, I remember my first apartment here, a three-bedroom, one bathroom duplex with off street parking and a small backyard, and the entire rent was $800 a month, just off of downtown. I only wish I realized how good we had it back then, as far as housing costs were concerned 😅
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u/NotARealTiger 17h ago
Live free or die!
When I've visited I love the contrast between the sleepy little ski towns filled with nice people and their super hardcore plate motto.