Worst places in N.H. (Manchester, Nashua: mobile home, school, subdivisions)

[TNLove]

New Hampshire is beautiful Americana.

But lets be honest, do you guys think it's going to stay good with the flood of illegals and other "diversity" hitting cities such as Manchester? 30 years ago we had no crime, now we have stabbings, shootings, etc and the surnames are almost always Spanish.

Why do we put up with this?

[looking4home]

I thought the guv of NH was going to get tough on illegals? Maybe I'm thinking of someone else, a congressman or senator or someone, but I remember hearing or reading that NH was enacting laws to prevent the flood of illegals by making the state not as illegal-friendly as other states, in terms of benefits, etc.

It's sad because soon there will be nowhere to escape to. I live in CA so you can just imganine what we have to deal with here. The excuse/rationale from the illegals constantly streaming across the border is that they are trying to "reclaim" CA, which once was part of Mrxico. Yes, they say this with a straight face, and apparently it is an ideology widely accepted and promoted w/in Mexico. So what's the reason they are spreading to all other 50 states? Are they tring to take over the entire country, too? Oh, I forgot - they are doing jobs U.S. citizens won't do, so I guess we should all roll out the Welcome Mat and give out Thank you cards!

Many cities on the East Coast have been seriously and adversly affected by this. One that comes to mind is Danbury CT, where the mayor had to plead with the fed govt. for help and threatened to sue because of the U.S. ambivilent attitude towards this problem. They became a severe strain on social services, and schools where Danbury didn't have the resources to cope with Spanish-speaking children.

And you can't go by the census stats on here and elsewhere. They're out-dated and don't count illegals. No illegal is going to fill out a census form, are they? I know -my father worked for the census years ago, and because he spoke Spanish they used to have him go door to door in Spanish-speaking neighborhoods in So Cal. Needless to say, they feared being deported, and refused to cooperate, so there is really no acurate way of predicting how many are here.

[Yankeehombre]

Hi I'm Leaving Newmarket after 21 years here. You'd have to be grossly uninformed or crazy to move here! The town has gone from 5000 to 9000 in population in that time. Unbridled spending an lack of experience in supervising a city-sized municipal govt. are causing us some serious growing pains and a total lack of pro-active town council. The portion of my proprty taxes that pay just for schools is now $280 a month! Forget the current proposal for a totally new one! We successfully defeated a $35Mil one, but the yuppie breeders are back at the trough.
People come here from urbania attracted by the Rockwellian image of our town, hoping to raise their kids and then bail, without any long-term aspirations for keeping things sustainable!

[countrymouse]

I've visited NH numerous times. I live in the urban sprawl of LA, Ca. I'm 64 miles from LA but you wouldn't know it. There are no breaks between cities, just pure concrete for 60-some miles all around LA. It takes 204 hours to get to LA.

I've driven in Nashua during rush hour. Much better than CA. It doesn't take you 45 minutes to drive 2 miles.

Crime is much less in NH. You see very little graffitti. People in NH probably don't have friends that were murdered. I doubt you saw two gangs shoot at each other and a man fall from a shot, while driving past a gas station. Your neighboring town probably hasn't been in the top ten most dangerous cities list for the nation. Your 5th graders aren't in gangs, throwing gang signs in class.

You can breathe the air in NH.

You don't have 36 children per class in elementary school (well, you might, but it is not a norm like in CA.) Oh, and of those 36, 34 are just learning English and will go home hungry because the only meal they have guaranteed is school lunch.

I'm moving to NH in a few years. Granted, So. NH is somewhat "urban" but you have no clue until you have lived in LA hell.

I do hope NH can keep itself, well, like NH.

http://icons.wunderground.com/data/w...s/SteveR/5.jpg LA SMOG

[looking4home]

Countrymouse, I am from OC, but lived in L.A. for many years. Things have changed since I lived there, and now it seems the crime has spread to outlying areas, as well. Still, it worries me to hear once-decent cities are becoming less so because of population shifts, and perhaps would-be criminals are looking for new turfs. Also, as Yankeehombre mentioned, the influx of poor illegals doesn't help.

Don't you ever worry that the next place you move to, be it NH or somewhere else, will become like the place you've left behind? I do, and the thought stops me from moving, cause I don't want to feel like an idiot a few years down the road when I realize the problems I'm running from are happening everywhere now. Sad but true.

[Earthangel1776]

Towns I don't like are Bow, Weare, Hillsboro, and Suncook. These places seem like over-industrialized bedroom communities. They're "divey" and don't seem to have very much of a "town feeling". That's not to say that they don't have nice areas and homes in parts of these towns, just the overall feeling I get from them. There are a lot of depressed towns in NH, which were once boom-towns before the railroads closed, like Newport, Winchester and Claremont, which are now getting new economic energy as more people move to these areas in the endless search for affordable housing.

[TNLove]

Originally Posted by countrymouse

Crime is much less in NH. You see very little graffitti. People in NH probably don't have friends that were murdered. I doubt you saw two gangs shoot at each other and a man fall from a shot, while driving past a gas station. Your neighboring town probably hasn't been in the top ten most dangerous cities list for the nation. Your 5th graders aren't in gangs, throwing gang signs in class.

You want to know why? LOOK AT THE DEMOGRAPHICS. Do you think NH will stay this way with the flood of illegal aliens and asylum seekers? Hardly, and it's not. It's gotten much much worse in a very short time thanks to "diversity."

[heleneclare]

in Seacoast area? If you have kids/thumbs down: Epping (schools are not good), Raymond (same reason, and it is just plain an ugly town), ROCHESTER (need I say more), Gonic (throw that in), Somersworth (it isn't referred to as "Slummersworth" for nothing), Dover (getting bad with crystal meth, some areas are palatable, 2 of 3 elem schools are fairly good, avoid the MS and HS), although a footnote for Rollinsford (good elementary school, just get out before kids hit Dover MS or HS), Barrington and Nottingham (same as Rollinsford, lower property taxes, just get out before the kids hit Dover HS or MS)..."thumbs up" towns, either Durham (PAINFUL property taxes), Lee (where I live, also painful, but not as much so), Madbury (the best of the three for property taxes, and my next move) so that you can get into Oyster River School District, Stratham (good schools, high taxes, more upscale town with more amenities), Exeter (same reasons), Newfields (same reasons), Brentwood (same reasons), Newmarket (schools are so-so in comparison, a younger town, full of college kids), Kingston (same reasons are Newmarket, good commute distance to MA).

[npd38]

Originally Posted by OCCASparky

Actually, Exeter's not too bad, taxes and home prices are a bit high for my liking.

Newmarket is good, and so is Brentwood. Don't move to Epping if you have kids.

Avoid Manchester like the plague unless you want to be around a bunch of criminally-influenced Mass. rejects.

DONT move to Newmarket!!! If anyone wants to read about all the terrible things happening, go to the Exeter Newsletter and go into archives or Fosters Daily Democrate. The town is Sooooo full of corruption. People being threatend, someone was threatend to have their house burned down by a Newmarket Fireman!! The Town Administrator has been thrown out of three other towns for corruption. Town water is contaminated with MTBE and the water treatment plant has been shut down for over three years now! They cannot get the Ambulance to respond during the day, so your stuck waiting a long time for help! We just found out that a registered sex offender has been volunteering to take school students on field trips!!! The DPW Director flooded out two homes during the May flooding and when the people complained, someone came to their house and poured gasoline in their Oil tank so the house would blow up and the Town Administrator called it a harmless prank!! The Feds have had to step in to solve alot of the corruption. Schools are in terrible shape and taxes are going to be going much higher next year!!! Avoid Newmarket! We should know, we live there!

[npd38]

Originally Posted by Yankeehombre

Hi I'm Leaving Newmarket after 21 years here. You'd have to be grossly uninformed or crazy to move here! The town has gone from 5000 to 9000 in population in that time. Unbridled spending an lack of experience in supervising a city-sized municipal govt. are causing us some serious growing pains and a total lack of pro-active town council. The portion of my proprty taxes that pay just for schools is now $280 a month! Forget the current proposal for a totally new one! We successfully defeated a $35Mil one, but the yuppie breeders are back at the trough.
People come here from urbania attracted by the Rockwellian image of our town, hoping to raise their kids and then bail, without any long-term aspirations for keeping things sustainable!

We are trying to sell our house as well in Newmarket, but with all the bad publicity it is not going very well. Dont Move to Newmarket!!!!!!