New Hampshire or North Carolina Help!!!

[heleneclare]

Hi -

Well, depends on what you are looking for. I live in Seacoast NH area, and my parents live in Charlotte, NC, and I have spent a lot of time in NC. Depends on where in NC you are headed. It is the American South, and does have its oddities with regard to race and class that have lived on to this day, and this will seem VERY odd to a European (it's odd to this Yankee). However, NC is definitely more culturally diverse than NH. NH MUST be the most white (caucasian) state in the nation.

If I had money and the choice, and wanted to live in a rural area in New England, I would pick Vermont over NH. NH is much more conservative for all the WRONG reasons, and Vermont is more liberal for all the RIGHT reasons. Being from Germany, you will feel more at home in VT than NH. NH will seem very 'right wing' politically and socially.

NC weather is better, yeah, it's hot in the summer, but the summer evenings are fantastic, and the winters are really nothing.

NC housing is cheaper, NH housing is expensive, NH property taxes are expensive, athough where my parents live in Charlotte they get hit with a lot of local taxes, sales tax, etc. South Carolina is REALLY cheap, along the SC/NC border around Charlotte. Non-existent property taxes.

My issue with New England weather is not that it snows (which with global warming, the winters are less severe, being from Germany, big deal) but that it RAINS from about March - July, when summer begins (July). Summer lasts but 2 months and then it starts to RAIN again. Although, Fall in NH is very beautiful, I must admit.

[nhyrnut]

Originally Posted by heleneclare

Hi -

Well, depends on what you are looking for. I live in Seacoast NH area, and my parents live in Charlotte, NC, and I have spent a lot of time in NC. Depends on where in NC you are headed. It is the American South, and does have its oddities with regard to race and class that have lived on to this day, and this will seem VERY odd to a European (it's odd to this Yankee). However, NC is definitely more culturally diverse than NH. NH MUST be the most white (caucasian) state in the nation.

If I had money and the choice, and wanted to live in a rural area in New England, I would pick Vermont over NH. NH is much more conservative for all the WRONG reasons, and Vermont is more liberal for all the RIGHT reasons. Being from Germany, you will feel more at home in VT than NH. NH will seem very 'right wing' politically and socially.

NC weather is better, yeah, it's hot in the summer, but the summer evenings are fantastic, and the winters are really nothing.

NC housing is cheaper, NH housing is expensive, NH property taxes are expensive, athough where my parents live in Charlotte they get hit with a lot of local taxes, sales tax, etc. South Carolina is REALLY cheap, along the SC/NC border around Charlotte. Non-existent property taxes.

My issue with New England weather is not that it snows (which with global warming, the winters are less severe, being from Germany, big deal) but that it RAINS from about March - July, when summer begins (July). Summer lasts but 2 months and then it starts to RAIN again. Although, Fall in NH is very beautiful, I must admit.

NH does not tax and spend like vermont does. so in that aspect ya we are more conservative. I'm glad to!!!! VT is 1 of the highest taxed states in the nation and they have nothing to show for it but poor economy. Here in NH the ppl have control of all local gov. Sorry you feel that is a bad thing. What makes you beleive we are conservative for all the wrong reasons, And VT is liberal for all the right? Give some EXAMPLES. N.H. having 1 of the lowest tax berdens in the nation is bad? Our cities always being rated in the best is bad? PPL having control of local issues is bad? Gov. being held accountable is bad? Just because we don't like to support ppl that try to live off the sysytem, and don't hug trees, and drink ,and smoke pot all day. I'm sorry you find these things to be bad. you should go and live in VT for 2 years bet you come back. NH isn't consevative for the wrong reasons. NH is the LIVE FREE OR DIE motto state and we love it. for someone that obviously don't know NH is mainly LIBRATERIANS in political view. You sure seem to know about all that is wrong with NH give some examples please.

[woodchuck]

New Hampshire is one of the last bastions of old school Republican values, ie: Fiscal conservative and social libertarians. Is that a bad thing ???

[aprovost]

MOVE TO NH!!!! I lived in NH all my life and just moved to NC and I hate it!!
People are not as nice as what others say they are, they drive like freakin idiots around here and the crime and schools are ridiculous.

[southward bound]

One more piping in. We live in NH (30 years) and bought a second home in NC for the winters when we retired. The winters in NH are long, and summers are incredibly short. We love NH at the right time of the year, but as someone said, this old arthritis was really complaining. We truly found a nice place in NC and love NC too.

For someone coming here with a dream to start a German restaurant, they need to be in a place that will have traffic all year round. Which means be close to winter and summer sports and other events. A German restaurant tucked away somewhere in Wilton will not survive. As it is, restaurants have a very high failure rate anyway. Besides that, Wilton is an economically depressed area. Business decisions have to be made on more than climate and proximity to a particular school of choice. The restaurant would need to be closer to a population center, like Bedford/Manchester area, perhaps Bedford on the Manchester line, Merrimack, and still be within fairly reasonable distance of the school in Wilton.

[kwiley1221]

Originally Posted by i'minformed

Yes, if you are looking for an area with strong German heritage you would most likely find it in Pennsylvania, Upstate NY, The upper midwest (Great Lakes area) and believe it or not, central texas.

Texas hill country outside of Austin has some heavily German-influenced towns. But summers in Texas are HOT!