What Towns Rock? What Towns Suck in NH?

[Another Fate]

For those of us that are considering a move to New Hampshire, where are the best places to aim for and why? Where should I avoid moving to?

I'm trying to get a sense of where to aim for in my job and apartment searches. Portsmouth, Nashua, Manchester, and Concord are the big cities, as I understand it. Keene also might be worth while. I haven't ruled anything out, yet. But, that's making my search a little harder.

[Dreepa]

You would probably have to tell us what you are looking for.

If you want a nightlife?
If you want a country life etc etc.

[Braddogg]

What kind of liberty stuff do you want to do?  And what line of work are you in?

[dawn]

Do you want to live in a city/town that is already liberty leaning or one that is over-controlling and needs more liberty lovers to help balance things out?

[d_goddard]

Get here first!
Move somewhere relatively central, like Manchester or Concord (or their surrounding towns if cities bother you). Take a job so you have some kind of income to live on.

Then you can take 6 months or so to get the lay of the land, go to meetings in a few parts of the state, and figure out what's best for you on your own time.

[Another Fate]

I'm looking for something more cityish with nightlife, perhaps near some mountain or water area. I'd really like to hear about any area that someone loves, though. It seems silly to move to a place where everyone thinks, "Eh, it's a place to live."

Currently, I'm an Editorial Assistant at a major magazine, but I'm not married to that line of work. I have some experience as a freelance copy editor, as well. My understanding is that Peterborough is the best town for that sort of thing, but I think I'm looking for something more urban and with access to at least a community college of some sort, perhaps some sort of larger college or university.

[d_goddard]

I'll make this easy for you: you want nightlife, you move to Manchester.

[Another Fate]

Sweet. I'll take a hard look at Manchester then. What about Portsmouth? I've heard good things, more so than Manchester.

[Ruger Mason]

Sweet. I'll take a hard look at Manchester then. What about Portsmouth? I've heard good things, more so than Manchester.

Portsmouth is great if your idea of great nightlife is eating out at expensive restaurants with elderly people.

As a Manchesterian myself and a consumer and producer of nightlife activities, I can attest that Manchester has the best nightlife, hands-down.  More bars, clubs, music venues and sporting events than any other city in the state and a large population of single 20 and 30-year olds.  Plus its a heck of a lot cheaper to live here than Portsmouth.

[Dreepa]

and it is very central in NH... you can get to the mtns, beach etc all in about an hour.

[Another Fate]

  I think cheap speaks volumes. I just don't have the spare cash kicking around for an expensive move. And, from early results of the where does everyone live poll, it seems Manchester is the preferred general area of Porcupines. I am surprised that Portsmouth is so elderly, being so close to Durham and UNH.

[Lloyd Danforth]

Well.......It started off as a port located at the mouth of a river.  The inland town were settled later.

[CNHT]

Portsmouth is a nice place to visit (in your sandals and beads) but I would not want to live there because it is expensive and touristy.
Peterborough is another bastian of liberalism and expensive.

So if you want to fight for lower taxes and think you can take on these people, they could use your help. There is a good group in Peterborough, not sure about Portsmouth although there is a group in Dover.

Keep in mind that most large cities in NH lean liberal, such as Concord, Keene, and the ones above, but Manchester I like because it still has a semi-conservative newspaper that isn't advocating for income taxes and other nonsense.

If you want peace, find a small town that rejects its budget each year or where you have activists who keep the town on its toes with regard to spending.

On the other hand I love to see more journalism people get here, and hope they start a paper that will print the FACTS about something not just the fluff.

Note: Last week Ed had a tape recording he played at a hearing where the View Tax Villain was speaking. He had caught the VTV at an other venue and taped him, admitting that he made this special tax all up himself. (Hooray for the right to film and tape public meetings)
The crowd went nuts and was ready to lynch him...

The papers instead did a story of a lady in the front row who was wearing some crocheted pants. I kid you not, he showed us the two papers today.
Not a WORD about the 150 people who came to express their disgust with Gary Roberge....!!!

We need more papers who don't leave out the truth..

[Dreepa]

local paper about Gary getting questioned last week:
http://cvvillager.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=7&ArticleID=1785

View tax:

"Who instituted it? Where did it come from in the beginning?" Greene asked.

"Are you asking who extracted it first?" Roberge queried.

"Who decided it was a way to go?" Green insisted.

"The short answer is, I did,

[Rosie the Riveter]

Sweet. I'll take a hard look at Manchester then. What about Portsmouth? I've heard good things, more so than Manchester.

You can find apartments and job listings at http://www.unionleader.com/ in the online classifieds. Manchester is a rockin' fun little city. Let me know if you have any questions in your search -- I've lived in Manchester from birth and will be glad to provide any insight that I can.

~Kate