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Winters can be difficult even if you used to them thats for sure. My main concern, our kids. We want to continue to keep them busy with various activities.
Mac_Muz, the job is in healthcare sector. I get your point re NYC, NJ. It take me a while to open up to strangers as well. I guess I am in for a standoff
What are the predominant heating systems? Oil, gas, wood, ...
Main heating source is heating oil, with propane a bit more common in newer construction. Wood stoves are very common in the North Country and Pellet Stoves are increasingly common. Natural gas heat is rare and is typically only found right in town. Most people live on larger lots in the country, though...
Healthcare is the best sector to be in for northern NH. Many jobs do not pay that well relative to the cost of living.
In terms of towns, I like both Littleton and Lancaster, but think Lancaster has more charm and character.
Oh, and when we mean rural we mean RURAL. That means no sidewalks in rural areas, everyone is on well and septic, and NO STREETLIGHTS make for far less light pollution.
Get involved in outdoor recreation as it is the best way to interact with newcomers and natives. Being active in winter and taking up skiing or snowshoeing is a good idea as winter daylight hours are short in the hill country due to mountain shadowing.
Err ah, umm, Well, maybe not the world, but thar's no sence wastin' nuthin', so I will be content saving any chocolates, and any other valuables, of course fer safe keepin's...
Would anyone heya' have any valuables they would like me ta' hold fer safe keepin's?
Winters can be difficult even if you used to them thats for sure. My main concern, our kids. We want to continue to keep them busy with various activities.
Mac_Muz, the job is in healthcare sector. I get your point re NYC, NJ. It take me a while to open up to strangers as well. I guess I am in for a standoff
What are the predominant heating systems? Oil, gas, wood, ...
Heating can be any of the above, but in a rental maybe not wood.. If you are lucky enough to find a rental where wood is an option, get wood ASAP, so it can dry.
Most folks probaly use wood as a back up to what ever else they have...... I am not a good roll model for modern man, and I like wood 24/7, but oddly don't have that where I live at the moment, but the shop is wood fired only, which helps.
A rental may offer heat and plowing, and for your first winter, you had best hope so, unless we have another pipsqueak winter like the last.
That stand off thing can happen to a native and all he has to do is move to a new town where he is not known. But only older locals pull the stunt of going to see what and who you are, and there is a lot more new folks.
All would ask is don't bring anything of the ways of NJ life with you. In fact get a drivers lic ASAP and go buy a gun! If you have kids and or pets, and i know you got kids, a gun is a good thing to have...
And oh don't expect gas station attendant to pump any gas..... I almost got in a fist fight in NJ over that, in a 4 wheeled vehical, and got my self all worked up a few years ago on my bike, and the attendant passed the nozzel to me.... My 4 wheeled are one thang, by bike is another.
I am 60 and have earned the right to be grouchy too, and am taking lesson to be an older man than I am. That's because I have a bad case of Peter Pan Syndrome.
BTW I am also writting another book, which is called Dementia for Fun and Profit.
If i can remember, later I will explain why...... LOL
I read back a bit and see Granite Stater mentioned pellet stoves...... They are just fine until the power goes out..... then they are worthless hunks of steel sitting in the room with no place to be.....
I read back a bit and see Granite Stater mentioned pellet stoves...... They are just fine until the power goes out..... then they are worthless hunks of steel sitting in the room with no place to be.....
That is why in most truly rural parts of NH you don't find many pellet stoves.
Pumping my own gas? That's a deal breaker lol
Why would I need a gun there? If I had one, i am afraid, I would use it. I don't want to be canned. I like my sky view unobstructed. Are there large vicious animals (mankind excluded) roaming the northen plains of New Hampshire?
I read back a bit and see Granite Stater mentioned pellet stoves...... They are just fine until the power goes out..... then they are worthless hunks of steel sitting in the room with no place to be.....
that's what the generator is for.....the rare occasion when the power goes out over 24 hours.
Pumping my own gas? That's a deal breaker lol
Why would I need a gun there? If I had one, i am afraid, I would use it. I don't want to be canned. I like my sky view unobstructed. Are there large vicious animals (mankind excluded) roaming the northen plains of New Hampshire?
what do you consider large? bear? mountain lion? (F&G will deny they exist) wolf? (again, F&G will deny they exist), coyote?
any of the above with rabies?
how about just a raccoon with rabies, or a fox? - not so big, but terrifying when foaming at the mouth and ready to attack you or your family, or your pets.
what do you consider large? bear? mountain lion? (F&G will deny they exist) wolf? (again, F&G will deny they exist), coyote?
any of the above with rabies?
how about just a raccoon with rabies, or a fox? - not so big, but terrifying when foaming at the mouth and ready to attack you or your family, or your pets.
Funny thing is the eastern coyote is very much a mixed wolf. Some DNA samples on dead coyote by NH Fish & Game have shown some coyote to have as much as 83% wolf DNA....which makes them about all wolf IMO. As for having true wolf-packs in northern New England like out west I'll say no, though the random wolf would not surprise me. But since the wolf is a social animal, the few that do drift in here must get hooked up with Coyotes hence the birth over the last 40 or so years of the eastern coyote which looks much (bigger & stronger) different than its cousin the western coyote.
My in-laws live up hill from Lisbon and the only large predator they have seen are bears. They once had one try and knaw her way into a Subaru to get at the food in back. Wild turkeys and deer are free lance garden thieves. Don't let your pets roam outside because they are food animals for smaller predators like Coyotes.
Goo to hear from you Mac Mutz. What was the first book, Mac?
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