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Originally Posted by massnative71
New Hampshire is a much better run state and overall has a cleaner, better maintained feel to it than RI (especially the roads) if those things mean anything to you. Also New Hampshire's "Live Free or Die" motto and stingy social benefits are a sort of blessing in disguise. Freeloading types have little reason to go there while Rhode Island has for decades been a welfare magnet and that combined with the loss of industry has resulted in many areas turning from stable working-class into transient Section-8 infested ghettos. I hear Nashua, NH has also seen an influx of this as well, however. But I'm sure it's nothing compared to Pawtucket, Woonsocket or Central Falls.
If urban amenities are more important to you I would say Rhode Island takes the prize. Manchester has nothing on Providence when it comes to culture/food/architecture and all. My advice would be Rhode Island for city/ocean and New Hampshire for rural/suburban/woods/lakes. Not that both places don't offer the other as well...I don't know here I go rambling on again. You really have to come see both places to get a feel of what you like.
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I'm an RI native and lived for several years in the Nashua/Manchvegas area....this is spot on, in my opinion.
RI isn't a terrbily crime ridden place. I think most folks who feel that way have never lived someplace else. Even rural Oklahoma is a lot worse than here (meth heads, mostly, in OK, stealing and such)
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