NH vs MA vs Maine

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Originally Posted by Rhapsodie2014

Hi,,,,I do not have a spouse (which is why I am in CA to begin with),,,went thru a bad divorce in MA,,,,now I want to return to either of the 3 states (but not in greater Boston). I work in the Clinical Laboratory field,,,,however I am old (55 yrs).........I have a home here that I want to sell,,,and also have an 85 yr old mother,,,,she says she wants to come with me but the reality of it..
I am seriously thinking of selling the house (I am going to sell the house) and sock the money in the bank and put everything in storage....go back to MA or So NH and try and find job,,,,and rent,,,,I do not want to stay in hotels wasting money,,,,so I must put this whole thing together,,,,without any help from anyone...

Okay. In your first post, you had a "our" and "we" scattered in there, so I thought you had a partner. Well, I am 55 years old myself, and yes, I was very apprehensive buying a house last year with a 30 year mortgage. However, my boyfriend is 32 years old and we think that we can pay off the mortgage no later than 15 years. Already he is able to work from home and I am working on plans for my own home based businesses. And if I rant on this forum about the high property taxes, it's because I will never be able to retire and then sit around doing nothing... not that I want to become some couch potato in my senior years.

I think that to be a single older person moving to NH, you will have to plan on being healthy and physically active until the end. And you do have to have that perpetual income stream that will cover your property taxes and winter heating costs/snow removal. You need to ask yourself if you will always have the energy to deal with these unavoidable NH issues.