Question for Keene residents

[Grunt]

Anyone dealt with the city hall motor vehicles drone? Am I correct in assuming all tags are issued at the city hall level? Is it a one day affair? Do they have motorcycle tags on hand? If not, do they issue temporary paperwork? And lastly, has anyone seen "gulf war veteran", "veteran", or "disabled veteran" tags lately?

I dont expect much trouble finding an apartment, thats usually just cash and carry. But I am really trying to guage the expected level of bureaucratic stonewalling, apathy, red tape, misery and abuse I will encounter at the hands of the township when I show up without a New Hampshire license.

Thanks in advance!

[Russell Kanning]

You will have red tape, but that won't stop you from getting around anyways.
People say to bring a birth certificate.

[Grunt]

I have birth cert, therefore I am? Got it. And military ID. And VA disability award letter. And VAMC picture ID. 

Im used to things in Philadelphia. You walk in with the title and bill of sale, you walk out with a fresh tag and temporary registration paperwork.

Oh well, as long as I am walking distance to a supermarket I should be fine till the paperwork catches up to me.

[Russell Kanning]

You don't have to have a car registered the day you buy it. The paperwork takes awhile. If you are use to Philly, I think you will appreciate how little the government touches our lives here in NH.
"NH it is just better here"

[Russell Kanning]

They also have "inspections" here in NH. I haven't gone through one yet.

[Grunt]

You might not have to have it registered the day you buy it, but you also cant operate it without registration. So I buy something, but cant use it till the registration comes in? Or, I take the registration receipt to the tag issuer and I get a fresh tag pending arrival of registration?

No big deal, Im just being retentive on the issue. I loath more then anything communist style red tape. I swear Ive had my fill of it living here in Ukraine and the Czech Republic. And its always something innane that snags the whole process up. And you never know what that snag is till you trip over it.

[Russell Kanning]

You'll survive the ordeal. I hope NH isn't as bad as Eastern Europe.

[Kat Kanning]

They also have "inspections" here in NH. I haven't gone through one yet.

I'll give you one, if you like.

[Grunt]

14 years in uniform did not prepare me for what I have seen this past year+. The very foundation of my convictions has been shaken. Along with my faith in mankind. The repercussions of communism are utterly unfathomable to the vast majority of Americans.

Anyone reading Tolkien or seeing Lord of The Rings could understand how I view this place as an incarnation of Mordor, and these people as wreched Orcs. Where viciousness, ignorance, hatred, envy, and bitterness on an intergalactic scale openly embraced. Nay, encouraged! To quiet and industrious types like myself, it brings new meaning to the "Artifical intelligence is no match for natural stupidity" joke.

The plutocrats little social engineering "experiment" has yelided the most horrifying results imaginable. A whole segment of European culture, thrown back 100 years behind the West, on a whim! Whats worse, I now see clearly what looms on the horizon for America. I say Death to the globallists. Death to tyrants and oppressors, one and all.

Most of us see only a hazy fog of the future, clouded by assumptions and individual perception. I witness the endgame, each and every day. A never ending Stanley Kubrick-esque nightmare I long to escape from. But just like boot camp, the whole sordid affair tends to sharpen ones respect for freedom. But living through it sure sucks the big one.

[jgmaynard]

Registration does not have to be done on a new car until, I believe, 10 days after you buy the car. And yes, it is a couple-hour, two step process. Go to City Hall (if you live in a city), then to the state DMV. Cost is dependent on age and value of the vehicle - my '88 Camry is like $30 at each stop).

JM

[AlanM]

Registration does not have to be done on a new car until, I believe, 10 days after you buy the car. And yes, it is a couple-hour, two step process. Go to City Hall (if you live in a city), then to the state DMV. Cost is dependent on age and value of the vehicle - my '88 Camry is like $30 at each stop).

JM

Many towns/cities have one-stop registrations. You can pay the state fee at the town clerks office for an extra $1 (I believe), and get your plates or sticker for plates. Exeter has this. Saves going to Epping.

[AlanM]

To me, that's the unofficial NH state motto.? It's just better here.

Not a bad unofficial motto. Kudos Keith.
Increase in Karma coming up.

[Russell Kanning]

I once went to a DMV office in Fullerton CA that sounded like the one you described in Maryland....that was a dream come true for me. They let you take a number and sit down and you couldn't get in the wrong line. That was a good trip to the DMV.
Normally in a small CA DMV office you wait in line for about 10 minutes to get to a front desk where an angry ugly bureaucrat lady will push some brochures toward you and point you to one of 2 or 3 lines to the right. Then you wait in that line 20-90 minutes standing up. You try to pass the time complaining about the government with the people in line who speak english (you make hand motions and funny faces to emulate the ladies behind the counters? with the hispanics and you both laugh). Most of the bureaucrats seem to be at lunch or on break all the time. I think they draw straws in the back areas to see who has to actually come out and "help" us poor lost souls.
After you satisfy the demands of that angry worker, you can move to the shorter line to the left. The mood here is brighter, since you are not one of the disgruntled people who had to leave completely unsuccessful for the day out the front door, and you sense that you are about to receive a license/registration. You start asking people what time it is and wondering how long you have been there...since you didn't bring a watch for fear of glancing at it 500 times as the hours slip by in line. Your picture is eventually taken and comes out with an expression you save only for a DMV bureaucrat cameraman.
That would describe a good visit, since you actually got the job done. I try not to remember the times where I had to give up and just go home.

[Kat Kanning]

Yes...*shudders at memories of CA DMV*   

[JaneDoe]

They have made some interesting alterations to the 'deli counter' numbering system here in Kalifornia. It used to be straightforward numerical only. Now they have introduced Alpha characters to it as well. You have no idea when your number is coming up. Kinda like playing Keno in vegas. I was there one day when the estimated wait time was nearly 4 hours. I went back to work, and managed to time it just right getting back. This is the main reason, though, that my wifes car is still unregistered after nearly a year.

JaneDoe
(silverfish on the FSP boards)