Durham?

[JohnLocke]

If I decide to move to New Hampshire, I would like the opportunity to continue my education. I see that the University of New Hampshire is in Durham.

Anyone have any information on Durham besides the wikipedia? That only shows some boring facts.

Does anyone have any good stories or opinions about the town?

Or maybe going to the UNH is a mistake and you would recommend another university and town?

Thanks for any answers.

[Russell Kanning]

I don't know anything about Durham .... we have a small state college here in Keene ... it is a nice small city and they say the college is not demanding and the drinkin is great.
I would guess that UNH is by far the biggest university around if that means anything to you.

[Recumbent ReCycler]

I work on campus at UNH-Durham during the fall and spring semesters.  It has its good and bad points.  There is a lot of forested area on and around campus.  I would consider living near campus if I thought I could afford to.  I would not want to live on campus due to the oppressive rules.  There are some nice looking neighborhoods close to campus, but I don't know how much it costs to live there.  Even if you aren't a student, the Dimond Library has some public use computers which are good for surfing the internet and/or printing documents.  If you have any specific questions, let me know and I'll try to answer them as best as I can.

[Vote Tyler Stearns]

I graduated from UNH and lived on campus for two years, off campus (but in Durham) for two years. It's a pretty typical college town, but on the expensive side for rent, etc.  I graduated 26 years ago (yikes!) and hindsight being 20/20 I would have probably enjoyed a smaller school more. Because of UNH's size, I found it easy to fly under the radar.  I think I would have gotten more involved in my classes, with other students & professors, and in extracurricular activities (besides partying) if I was at a smaller school.  On the plus side, I loved being close to the seacoast.

Now that I have a kid going off to college this fall, I've been thinking a lot about the value of an expensive college education...

[BaRbArIaN]

I work in Durham since I graduated many years ago.  Yes its high taxation central, since the townies don't get a slice of the University (State Land Grant college -- immune to property taxes apparently), to keep up their high services they gouge the rest of the residents.   Its kind of "us" vs. "them", even though professors and some higher paid workers live in town and have their kids at the local school system.   The surrounding towns are cheaper except for Portsmouth on the coast.  Very liberal in general though, so its hard to appeal to anyone to reduce the tax rate since they almost think more is usually better.

I've lived in Rochester and now in Somersworth, which also have high property taxes but less wealth to pay for them, there is more sympathy for libertarian ideals and changing the system I think the further you get from the coast as long as its not in the direction of Massachusetts.  :-)