Crazy Angry people in New Hampshire (Manchester, Nashua: low crime, how much, living)

[LRanzolin]

Nhyrnut, you crack me up, but you actually had me going for a second The number one thing I've noticed about New Hampshire in this forum is an incredible abhorance for taxes... a feeling I share. I love NH's motto and couldn't agree more... Live Free or Die!

[nhyrnut]

Originally Posted by LRanzolin

Nhyrnut, you crack me up, but you actually had me going for a second The number one thing I've noticed about New Hampshire in this forum is an incredible abhorance for taxes... a feeling I share. I love NH's motto and couldn't agree more... Live Free or Die!

Don't feel bad WINDCHIMES follows my posts and I had HIM/HER going too. lol As long as your a strait shooter all are welcome here.

[Earthangel1776]

I think I must have had a run-in with the same rude driver! I'm stuck in a traffic jam on Route 16 and the traffic is moving about 5 mph. There is a huge line and a truck on the shoulder with his turn signal, trying to pull into the line. I slow down slightly to let him in, and the guy behind me leans on his horn! ...Like he could even go anywhere anyways!!! Sure enough, he turns off in Rochester. I've had two other "rude encounters" in that town too. I recently moved near that area and wonder if it's just a rude town? I've never had that happen anywhere else. Could've been Mass drivers, but maybe there are some pockets of rudeness here in NH, even though most are conscientious, nice people.

[LRanzolin]

EarthAngel! No wonder he honked the horn at you... don't you know you did a terrible thing by letting that truck in front of you! Because of what you did it probably took the guy behind you 5 seconds longer to get where he was going... horrors! How dare you be nice and act like a normal human being?!

New Hampshire has some beautiful scenery and awesome statistics (i.e. great place to live), but they obviously don't tell you the whole story. I'm greatful for this forum.

[OCCASparky]

Originally Posted by Earthangel1776

I think I must have had a run-in with the same rude driver! I'm stuck in a traffic jam on Route 16 and the traffic is moving about 5 mph. There is a huge line and a truck on the shoulder with his turn signal, trying to pull into the line. I slow down slightly to let him in, and the guy behind me leans on his horn! ...Like he could even go anywhere anyways!!! Sure enough, he turns off in Rochester. I've had two other "rude encounters" in that town too. I recently moved near that area and wonder if it's just a rude town? I've never had that happen anywhere else. Could've been Mass drivers, but maybe there are some pockets of rudeness here in NH, even though most are conscientious, nice people.

Lemme guess--northbound where the two lanes merge into one and then becomes undivided highway (Exit 12?--Rt 125 exit).

Well, you can thank the good folks at Dept. of Transportation for coming up with THAT genius plan of putting the biggest choke-point right where the traffic needs the MOST lanes--and don't expect an expansion anytime soon.

Add to that the fact they're building that Lowe's right there and it's gonna get REAL fun when that place opens in the spring.

Thank God I live up on the north side and miss most of the traffic in the mornings. Wish I could say the same for the afternoons, but I can still make it from Seabrook to my house in barely 40 minutes. 45 if the bridge is backed up... Compare that to my 2+ hour commutes from when I lived in CA--and was only half as far away from work.

[OCCASparky]

Originally Posted by LRanzolin

EarthAngel! No wonder he honked the horn at you... don't you know you did a terrible thing by letting that truck in front of you! Because of what you did it probably took the guy behind you 5 seconds longer to get where he was going... horrors! How dare you be nice and act like a normal human being?!

New Hampshire has some beautiful scenery and awesome statistics (i.e. great place to live), but they obviously don't tell you the whole story. I'm greatful for this forum.

Not everyone here is sweetness and light, but for the most part I've seen that people are in fact nicer, more outgoing, and more courteous than other places. I joke that if I want someone to be rude and surly to me, Boston is barely 90 minutes away.

[CityGirl52]

You are SO SO right! I'll tell you, people in NH are extremely MILD drivers compared to the nut cake road raged driver from Maine that was down in Newton, MA. the other day. We should all be grateful we didn't encounter this guy on the road! Hopefully the poor girl will be all right. What an extremely angry fruit cake, hopefully they get him and throw away the key. They shouldn't even let this guy out of the house, never mind that he's driving out on the road! It doesn't list his license plate number here, but it's been on the news for a few days and they've been posting it all over the place. Unfortunately the car is registered to a "friend" of his. Now, isn't that always the way? You never know some one might have seen him in NH or ME. Be on the lookout for him will you? This poor girl got cut pretty bad from shards of glass on her face from this Maine fruit cake on the road. They showed the u-turn that the driver was making and it was a u-turn that all the drivers had to take, not just one that she was trying to make on the road on the spur of the moment. It was actually a turn that had to be made on this road. HE was the one that was at fault here, not her right from the beginning. He was going to fast. Isn't this terrible? There needs to be stricter laws, somethings got to be done with these nuts, here's the story below.

Police are searching for a motorist who was involved in an alleged road-rage incident in Newton, Mass., that left one woman injured. The incident started on Route 9 near Hammond Pond Parkway, where a 23-year-old Boston woman was attempting to make a turn. Officials said that a man driving a 1996 black Honda Civic with Maine plates came speeding up from behind her and was forced to slam on his brakes. The man followed the woman, got out of his car and started punching the window of the woman's vehicle near the intersection of Hammond Pond Parkway and Beacon Street at about 3:30 p.m., police said. "Then he stepped back and he kicked the window, smashing the window, and glass flies all over the operator of the vehicle," Newton Police Department Lt. Bruce Apotheker said. "There were some witnesses who saw this and went to her aid." The woman suffered cuts on her face, officials said. She was transported to Newton-Wellesley Hospital, and the extent of her injuries is not known. "She could have been very seriously injured," Apotheker said. Officials said that the man fled the scene. He was described as a white male, who is 5 feet 8 inches tall with a stocky build. He was wearing an off-white shirt, jeans and a baseball cap.

[LRanzolin]

Wow CityGirl... My wife and I just read your post... New Hampshire's not looking too good to us right now... the region seems to have too many angry drivers. I've had more than my share of that when I was living in the Wash. DC area- I'm sick of it and don't ever want to go back to it. What a shame, it breaks my heart to hear things like that, we were really thinking about moving up there... not so sure anymore.

Statistics about an area are helpful, but it's forums like this that seem to tell the real story about an area... or as my wife just said to me while I was typing this- "the real unsugar coated story".

[CityGirl52]

These type of drivers are from every where though, it's terrible. It's road rage at it's finest. I doubt if it's just in one particular region more than another. I would say it's the state of our society now all over the country. There's just a ton of young drivers out there filled with so so much anger that they are allowed to take it out on the other guy, I never heard of it before like this, it's pretty scary out there now everywhere. I know for a fact when I was young like that that you didn't see this type of anger too much. It's outrageous now, it really is. I'll tell you it makes my generation look like little angels compared to a lot of the young ones that are out there now like this! I'm serious too when I say this! It's brutal to me with the way they're behaving! Somethings definitely got to be done about it all over the country, it's really getting out of hand all over the place I think.

[mlynnsoucy]

Citygirl:
Why would you post this story, which has nothing to do with NH, when someone was asking about NH drivers? You gave this poor couple a very false impression, and may have caused them to change their mind about moving to NH.

Road rage like this does not happen in NH, and is not common in any bordering states.