live or visit? (Concord, Laconia: sales, rent, car registration)

[DareToDream]

Originally Posted by JFRRACING

New hampshire is an awsome place to live. i wish i never moved from there to new york, what a mistake that was. but we did it to take care of my mother inlaw after my father inlaw passed away. but now i'm ready to come back to new hampshire. i miss the freedom of no taxes and other stupid laws in this state. i can't wait to leave.

Jfrracing - The taxes were what finally drove us out of NY. Some of the laws were ridiculous, too, but it was the taxes that did us in....believe me I empathize! Does your area have a county tax as well? I had forgotten about the county tax. Our old area is having the school budget votes today - a school district about the size of the one here in Littleton is voting on a school budget that will raise the school taxes 10.8%....it's "necessary" because the state is giving them less money this year....I wish I could remember the figure, but the amt the schools get each year is really obscene, so now they want to make up the difference with the taxes....I'm soooooo glad we left!

booker_one - I've never lived in Texas, so I can't comment on how to get your wife to be more "on board" with a move to NH. I do have a cousin who lives in Texas, though, and she absolutely HATES it there. She'd leave immediately, but her husband's job is there. They have a daughter who hated it so much she ran away - it was 3 days before they found her.

I love NH, FWIW. The people here are much friendlier and while we're in the northern part, I think if you can get your wife to come with an open mind, she may surprise herself, especially if you are going to be in the southern/southeastern part of the state, where it doesn't get as cold as it does up here. The cold does take some getting used to, but you do get used to it and you learn how to dress......

[booker_one]

thank you dare. maybe i should pay everyone on here $50 to do something really nice for us while we are up there (like the movie Funny Farm). maybe that will work.

[Tarastomsgirl]

Originally Posted by booker_one

thank you dare. maybe i should pay everyone on here $50 to do something really nice for us while we are up there (like the movie Funny Farm). maybe that will work.

Don't try to force your wife into moving there if she doesn't want to! You're only going to bring her to a place she doesn't want to be and she'll just be miserable and in turn make you miserable!! Visit, if she doesn't like it drop it... Find a state you BOTH can enjoy.. If she likes it, then all the better for you. To visit a state, and live there are two different things. You should stay for an extended period of time if you can, particularly in the winter with the kiddie.

[JFRRACING]

Yeah dare to dream, we have every kind of tax you can amagine. county tax, city tax , state tax, school tax, tax tax tax. i'm having nightmares about taxes. lol. i think they just sit up at night thinking of what kind of tax they can come up with next. i can't wait to get out of here. it is such a pretty state and their ruining it with all the taxes. we live about 2 1/2 hours from canada.

[booker_one]

Originally Posted by Tarastomsgirl

Don't try to force your wife into moving there if she doesn't want to! You're only going to bring her to a place she doesn't want to be and she'll just be miserable and in turn make you miserable!! Visit, if she doesn't like it drop it... Find a state you BOTH can enjoy.. If she likes it, then all the better for you. To visit a state, and live there are two different things. You should stay for an extended period of time if you can, particularly in the winter with the kiddie.

i know i know. i wish we were visiting in the winter so she could see how the winters are. i'm sure the summers are nice. i also wish we could stay for an extended period but we both have to work.....we aren't wealthy. i am a teacher and she is in finance/accounting.

[fishnfool]

Staying at the wentworth is definitely a pretty good start to selling NH! That place and area is fantastic. I love Newcastle and Portsmouth. The seacoast definitely broke my intial assumption of what NH was.....I always envisioned something similar to the out of the way towns way up north....not something line Portsmouth, Exeter, and Hampton Beach. I was sold the second I drove down 111 and hit the coast.

Winters along the coastline seem a bit milder than what others seemed to have more inland. We got dumped on quite a bit but it's just snow...you know it's coming so what's the big deal? Just slow down a little, give a little more drive time, go skiing on the weekends and enjoy it. Sure it's cold but that's why they make winter coats and hats...This was the first winter in my life that I wasn't dying for spring to hit (used to live in Ohio where there was no reason to leave the house in winter). I had too much fun in the mountains and slopes.

Definitely make sure you visit the white mountains, and take a day to explore southeast maine and even northern mass (newburyport is great..and of course Boston). The best thing about New England is that you're so close to so much and not limited to your own state or area.

[booker_one]

that last sentence is a good point fishnfool. i was kind of thinking the same thing. it would be cool to just say...."lets drive to ny for the weekend". here in texas...there is not really anywhere fun to drive to.

[daniellefort]

Originally Posted by booker_one

that last sentence is a good point fishnfool. i was kind of thinking the same thing. it would be cool to just say...."lets drive to ny for the weekend". here in texas...there is not really anywhere fun to drive to.

I remember when i was a kid we used to always just hop in the car and go for a day drive through the mountains and maybe pull of the side of the road and play in the streams or walk some of the natural pull off spots you'll find along the roads. My mom asks me all the if we go for joy rides here in FL but she doesn't understand there's no place to just go for a joy ride and nothing to see. Just dealing with the traffic is certainly not enjoyable or relaxing either. Life is too hectic down here. Everyone is in a hurry to get where they are going. I'm looking forward to doing these things with my husband. He lived in NY only until he was 6 years old and been in FL since so this is all going to be new to him as well. We went up one year at Christmas time and boy, he was like a big kid riding on the snowmachines with my brother. He was having a blast.

[fishnfool]

yeah I always laugh when people in New England think a 2 hour drive to get somewhere is far...or are amazed at the idea of driving 4+ hours and still being in the same state. I'm starting to find myself saying things are "too far away" when I would drive double the distance to go somewhere similar in Ohio without a second thought...

[MA_brnNrsd]

Originally Posted by daniellefort

I remember when i was a kid we used to always just hop in the car and go for a day drive through the mountains and maybe pull of the side of the road and play in the streams or walk some of the natural pull off spots you'll find along the roads. My mom asks me all the if we go for joy rides here in FL but she doesn't understand there's no place to just go for a joy ride and nothing to see. Just dealing with the traffic is certainly not enjoyable or relaxing either. Life is too hectic down here. Everyone is in a hurry to get where they are going. I'm looking forward to doing these things with my husband. He lived in NY only until he was 6 years old and been in FL since so this is all going to be new to him as well. We went up one year at Christmas time and boy, he was like a big kid riding on the snowmachines with my brother. He was having a blast.

I so agree with this. I used to be able to just jump in my car and drive when I lived in MA. Now that I live in TN its COMPLETELY different. So much traffic. Not so much people in a rush. My fiance is impatient when it comes to driving in traffic so whenever we have to go out, he wants to just go and get it over with. We both miss "the drives" in New England. We can't wait to move back.