Moving too Milan or Berlin from Tennessee.

[Mike from back east]

Originally Posted by Primus_Pilus

I'm actually eyeing Berlin, NH / Colebrook / Milan area as well.

Other than a prison being on the outskirts of town what's the ups and downsides there?

I work across the internet so that's my one real hard and fast requirement.

Berlin, NH is in the news today as the town hasn't participated in the current economic prosperity seen in other areas. Article is here, on the WaPo, a pay site that allows a few free visits each month. Good article and a lot of good comments. Access to the WaPo is the best $9.99 we spend each month.

The town has been on hard times since a pulp mill shrank its workforce to a shadow of its former self.

A key concern when moving to rural areas is the availability of medical care, especially specialist care (cardiology, urology, etc).

[Mike from back east]

Originally Posted by nativenewenglander

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We heat with oil and wood in our home. This past heating season we used 95 gallons of oil and two cords of wood. Our heating system is hot air. We have a very efficient new wood stove. The house has its original 115 year old wood windows and wood storms, which we love the look of by the way. I worked hard to make the house very energy efficient by having the basement spray foamed. We had cellulose blown in the walls. I did the attic insulation as the other two require special equipment. Our home is one story by the way and sits on a hill so we get lots of winter wind and sun when we get it. Local hardware stores and your real estate agent can be good sources for contractors should your friend need any.

Here's how my sister heats her house with wood.
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Her husband's co-worker wrapped the stove in sheet metal and cut it into the forced air system so the heat was routed over/around the stove and into the house. They've used this for 40 years.

[OneDawg]

Taxes are awfully high for that old house. It was valued about the same amount in 2009 that it is in 2018 - which was $900 less thereabouts.
https://www.coldwellbankerhomes.com/.../pid_28198646/

I just viewed (online) a 2/2home for rent in Littleton for $2900/mo. Says the owner pays for the water and property taxes. Uh, yeah owners pay for that, but the renter needs to pay for everything else. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5...80947342_zpid/

[OneDawg]

Mike: I have a 4/3 custom log home of 4000sqft in the No GA mountains, butting up against TN & NC on several hundred acres. The walls and floors are R36 and the ceiling has foam blocks R48. I built it myself (and other family). It has two wood stoves - and so far this winter have burned 4 cords. I have only another pellet stove as my additional heat source. And my property taxes are less than that house in Berlin.

[Levi.Dunn]

Property taxes vary greatly by town in NH. I just closed on a very nice 4bed 4bath home that is 3,300sf and built a decade ago, and the taxes are 3.5k a year.