how is the job opportunies like in laconia?

[WithoutAPaddle]

I moved out of New England and into the metro Washington, DC area a long time ago and wouldn't move back to New Hampshire on a bet.

And you're posting here why, exactly?

I will forever be embroiled in a New Hampshire Probate Estate that will never end, as counsel to my mother who is an heir.  I still visit friends and relatives a few times a year.  I came to this site trying to find New Hampshire's anti-establishment, but I suspect that the state doesn't have a viable one.   The NHCLU surely doesn't qualify, and the Libertarian Party seems to  be just a vehicle for people who can't secure a nomination from either major party to have a status edge over "independent"  candidates when they run for low level offices.

[error]

Oh, you're in the right place, but coming here and starting off by attempting to alienate people is not a good idea.

[Dreepa]

How do you like the income tax in DC, VA, or MD?  The sales taxes? The property taxes?
The huge traffic jams?
the crappy air quality?

Error is right.. you found the right place... but most people here LIKE NH.. they are MOVING TO NH.

Welcome to the forums.

[WithoutAPaddle]

How do you like the income tax in DC, VA, or MD?  The sales taxes? The property taxes?
The huge traffic jams?the crappy air quality?

Error is right.. you found the right place... but most people here LIKE NH.. they are MOVING TO NH...

The pollen is a bummer.  I never had any respiratory allergies when I was in New Hampshire, but hardly a week goes by where I'm not going onto the internet to find out what was making my eyes water that day.  I'm told there is some kind of omnibus allergy shot that I should look into.  Beyond that, I don't think that where I am in suburban Maryland we are in a region of severe automotive pollution.    

To find a comparable market situation in New England for the electronic services that I provide, I'd have to do business in Boston, yet to reside in an affordable suburban neighborhood like I do, I'd have to drive at least an hour out of Boston, whereas you can get from downtown DC to suburban Maryland in more like twenty minutes.

For the first nine months I was here, I got embroiled in the morning and evening traffic "volume" delays (in other words, there are traffic jams every day because there are too many cars, period), but once I got into business for myself, I have no trouble scheduling most of my driving so as to avoid them.

Hardly a week goes by where someone, after hearing me say, "Pahk the cah in the yahd" doesn't say, "Hey! You're from Boston."  Unless you are in the boonies yourself, you know that over 90% of the native New Hampshire-ites have Boston accents.  And in nearly any given year, more New Hampshire residents could sight-identify, say, the head of the Massachusetts Lottery Commission than the Governor of New Hampshire if they ran into them on the street.  I've met New Hampshire Governors Hugh Gallen and Wesley Powell, but I would have recognized Bob "Unclaimed Money List" Crane before I'd have recognized either of those former governors if I saw them years later, and ditto for anyone else who has a TV set.

While I've met hundreds of people here who hailed from New England, I haven't met anyone who moved here from the south other than those who got transferred while in the military.  Warmer is better.  And getting paid more is better.  I moved to Western Massachusetts in the mid 1980s where the economy was sclerotic, and when I tried to raise my hourly rate for certain contract services I provided from $20 an hour to $30 an hour, I spent so much more time arguing with customers about their bills that it put it back to $20 because I was making less money than I was at $30, but when I relocated to metro DC half a dozen years later, I immediately priced my fee at $75 per hour and never had a single complaint.  I might pay 10% more than you do for gas and food, but my suburban Maryland rents compare favorably to rents in Strafford and Rockingham county for comparable accommodations. I won't do any petty name dropping of the customers I've had here, but one of them got drafted right after Sam Bowie.

I think there are more sportsbars here catering to New England Patriots fans that there were in New Hampshire when I was still there, but back then, Victor "Razor Face" Kiam wasn't really doing any more to make the Patriots successful than the Jacobs brothers did for the Bruins.  

Somewhere within the last few days, I came across an article on New Hampshire "immigration" patterns that was not adequate to make any definitive generalizations about who's coming and who's going, but I believe that most of your population gain comes from Massachusetts, whereas most of the population lost moves south, with the working people moving to the Mid-Atlantic region and the retirees moving to Florida.  And even then, a lot of those new, New Hampshire residents continue to work in Massachusetts to earn more respectable paychecks.

What bothered me most about New Hampshire was that most economic opportunities were and are allocated based on politics and connections rather than on merit, and I can say that without prejudice because I got one minimum wage job in New Hampshire when the mayor, who was also my barber, wrote on a card that I needed a job and told me to whom to present it, and I got another job when someone at the Unemployment Office technically misused one of the job allocations she probably was supposed to have used to get someone off the unemployment rolls and gave it to me because she knew my father from when he was a grocery clerk in a store she shopped in.  If I hadn't had those connections, I wouldn't have gotten those two lowly jobs.  Without those connections, I could only have gotten sub-minimum wage food service jobs at burger houses

In a metropolitan market, however, I can, "cold sell".  If I tried doing the same thing in New Hampshire (where I successfully operated a business for over eight years in the 1970s), and if I actually could get someone in a business to listen to me explain to him why he needed my product or service without anyone having "sent me", then even if I had sold him on his need for that product or service, he'd go find someone else to buy it from: someone affiliated with someone who he wanted to help out.

The original poster here hailed from California.  I wonder how many New Hampshire residents emigrated there from California versus vice versa.

As I have mentioned in other posts, I dropped in on this site looking for a functional anti-establishment.  I am very much fed up with the New Hampshire Court system, with which I am inextricably involved due to an estate matter.  I seriously doubt that even one New Hampshire resident in a dozen has any idea what changes have been made in its Probate Court system over the last few decades, and how they give the powerful advantages over the weak.  Being a bit of an altruist from the 1960s, I can actually manage my docket in a way as to draw attention to it if doing so could get publicity that might lead to changes in the system, but I have never found any group of people who have any interest in that matter.   So far, in poking around this site, I have found some people who want to boycott a coffee shop, some others who want to write jury nullification instructions in chalk on the courthouse parking lots, and the usual assortment of Gold Bugs that show up in too many places for them to even seem interesting anymore.  But whenever I talk to anyone who claims to have been aggrieved by the court system, they can never get from being dissatisfied with the results they got and get to how they might help change things for someone else.  Even if I can't find the people I'm looking for here, maybe they can find me.

[error]

See, this is where that whole alienation thing comes in. There are plenty of people around here who might be very interested in your case and able to provide meaningful assistance. I can think of three or four offhand. But you've prejudged everyone here by the first two things you saw, and condemned what you don't understand or what wasn't directly relevant to your situation. That's not a good way to win friends and influence people. So the people here who CAN help you are going to be much less inclined to do so, because they will likely think you're a jerk.