Moving To NH, what city, town should I pick???

[Russell Kanning]

Plus, Concord is full of socialists. Nowhere near as bad as Keene, but nothing to be proud of. We need more free-staters here!

Concord has more federal employees than Keene ... and we are kicking the last ones out.
In Concord they are called socialists ... in Keene they are called college chicks. One group is redeemable.

I kid I kid .... if you end up moving to Concord, I am sure you will like it. I think everyone that has moved there has been happy with the choice.

[muni]

Hello lastlady, and welcome!

Manchester is the largest city in the state, so the most possibilities are here,
employment, housing and social life. There is already an FSP community in
Manchester which can help you in the first months after moving.

There are so many of us here, last week I met an FSPer in a non-FSP event,
in a Toastmasters meeting. Only after several minutes of talking, when
he said he recently moved to NH, we connected the dots.

The FSP silent majority is in Manchester. They just don't post here much.

About the car - imho, the only metro area in NH that you can get around
without a car is Boston.

Hope to see you here soon ..

muni .

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Hm, maybe I'll ride it a few times and report back on how much I hate it.

[d_goddard]

They just don't post here much.

Sadly, a lot of people were chased away by abject meanness and intolerance that was rampant here ~2 years ago.
Maybe I'm just immune to it, but I do think NHFree has become a lot more accepting and tolerant in the last year or so.

[Lloyd Danforth]

Screw You Denis!

[d_goddard]

Screw You Denis!

Fuck you Lloyd!

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Screw You Denis!

Fuck you Lloyd!

I just can't take all this meanness and intolerance!!

[cathleeninnh]

Families... don't you love em?

Cathleen

[d_goddard]

Families... don't you love em?

Screw

Fuck

Well... that is how they get started.

[FTL_Ian]

So, back to the topic:

If you want to be in the area with some of the best activists and the most pro-Liberty media, you want Keene.  2 radio shows, 1 monthly newspaper, 1 reporter at the daily newspaper, 1 TV show (soon to be 2), and http://freekeene.com .

Keene is big enough to have the comforts of a city, small enough to where one can easily get by with a bicycle.  Everything is easily accessed and bike trails run through the city.

Keene also happens to be a beautiful place to live and boasts the widest Main St. in America.  35,000 daytime population here.

That said, if you love politics, Concord is probably the place to live.  Need a bigger city?  Go with Manchester.  Need the beach?  Choose Portsmouth.  Proximity to Boston: Nashua. 

But if you want the best, Keene is the clear choice!  Let me know if you have further questions.

[FTL_Ian]

Some of my listeners visited Keene yesterday and one wrote this:

Keene was interesting. It was enough "city" to be convienent (they have Home Depot!) , but a mile or so out of the town center and you're rural with beautiful mountain views. I could die there and be happy.

[lastlady]

So, back to the topic:

If you want to be in the area with some of the best activists and the most pro-Liberty media, you want Keene.  2 radio shows, 1 monthly newspaper, 1 reporter at the daily newspaper, 1 TV show (soon to be 2), and http://freekeene.com .

Keene is big enough to have the comforts of a city, small enough to where one can easily get by with a bicycle.  Everything is easily accessed and bike trails run through the city.

Keene also happens to be a beautiful place to live and boasts the widest Main St. in America.  35,000 daytime population here.

That said, if you love politics, Concord is probably the place to live.  Need a bigger city?  Go with Manchester.  Need the beach?  Choose Portsmouth.  Proximity to Boston: Nashua. 

But if you want the best, Keene is the clear choice!  Let me know if you have further questions.

From the research I've been doing online I've been getting that impression of Keene, I'm seriously considering it because of the charm and beauty Keene has to offer. I know there are many activist there too, which I like. Thanks for the info that with a bike one could get around easily enough. 

I do love politics, hence thinking Concord might be for me, but Keene keeps popping in my mind, it just has something special. Luckily I've got such a great community built in with FSP that I have the luxury of exploring NH more before I decide from across the Republic where to rest my head at night.

[lastlady]

Hello lastlady, and welcome!

Manchester is the largest city in the state, so the most possibilities are here,
employment, housing and social life. There is already an FSP community in
Manchester which can help you in the first months after moving.

There are so many of us here, last week I met an FSPer in a non-FSP event,
in a Toastmasters meeting. Only after several minutes of talking, when
he said he recently moved to NH, we connected the dots.

The FSP silent majority is in Manchester. They just don't post here much.

About the car - imho, the only metro area in NH that you can get around
without a car is Boston.

Hope to see you here soon ..

muni .

Well.. it is nice to hear from Manchester it is true I have not had much of an impression of Manchester as of yet, I did drive through a few times when I visited for the Liberty Forum but still didn't get a sense of what Manchester has to offer or how it differs from Concord besides it being slightly bigger.

So Thank you muni for the post.

I suppose there are more businesses and more of a social life which I do like. I will have to do some more investigating.

[d_goddard]

I do love politics, hence thinking Concord might be for me, but Keene keeps popping in my mind, it just has something special.

A good strategy is to first move somewhere central (Concord, Manch, or a 'burb like Bow or Pembroke) and spend 6 months or so renting & exploring. Then make your semi-permanent move after you've had a chance to visit all the places. That's what we did

Proximity to Boston: Nashua. 

No... if it's proximity to Boston you want, go to Derry. Much closer than Keene, due to it being a straight shot on I-93.
Plus, they had a taxpayer's revolt there
http://www.freestateblogs.net/node/517

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Manchester supposedly has this nightlife thing, but I haven't yet seen it.

(Though to be fair, this probably has a lot to do with the fact that I'm almost always asleep at the wrong times to see nightlife...)