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I must disagree with this. Have you been to a Fisher cats game, or a Monarchs game, or a Wolves game. The city supports it's teams. They might not spend $100 at a scalper but they go and enjoy them and support them tremendously.
I don't doubt you within the context of Manchester, but all of those teams are exclusive to Manchester. Otherwise people around the state aren't rallying around another city's minor league sports teams.
The Dem's will loose there majority next election. Promise. Too Many people are pisses about the Governor and his cronies. Screw the hypocrite, and Take back NH before it becomes the Next VT. If we lynch, The Lynch Liberal Party Now Maybe NH will be saved. It should be A Live free or Die state we all love. Not A liberal Scum whole like the one to the south.
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Yes, I don't like the direction New Hampshire is taking and I moved here two years ago to get away from some of this same liberal nonsense that batters the rest of New England in terms of its costliness and nanny-mentality. At least be assured of the fact that New Hampshire is still, at least for now, well ahead of the curve in comparison to the rest of New England and probably the whole northeast.
And it seems Maine never gets mentioned in this conversation and Mass does. I understand because of the Mass influx, but I just want to make people aware that Maine now has the heaviest tax burden in the country, yes even more than New York. There is an incredible amount of government intrusion and obstacles to operating a business in that state and the lack of fiscal repsonsibility by the current Baldwin administration is starting to rival what happened during Gray Davis's tenure in California. Taking the whole state top to bottom, not just a section, and excluding I suppose Alaska, Maine is probably the very last state I would choose to live in, all factors created equally.
Worst things...
1. Proximity to Boston
2. No alluring urban draws (Portsmouth constitutes urban to some, not others)
3. Overfully cold at times
4. Persistent rain and gray skies at times
5. Influx of Taxachusetts mind-set
6. No big-time local sports spirit- I mean local, not Boston pro teams. This is the worst area for March Madness, but I guess that's the way it is when there aren't good local programs.
7. Hampton Beach
8. Tolls ( though they're cheap)
9. Lack of legitimate social services- again, "live free or die" is great, but it naturally has to come w/ a price.
10. Low wages by northeastern standards
Gotta say:
1) Only downside, is the tourists that come up here and occasionally drive us crazy. Still, think of it this way - Boston is where my wife's heart specialist is. You're close enough to a city that has great medical and educational facilities without having to live in it. And it's fun to visit, there's lots to see and do.
2) Why do you need an alluring city draw when Boston is nearby and you've got tons of non-urban draws in the state? But if it makes you feel a little better, Manchester's Courier Art Gallery is one of the best art museums of its size in the country, the Verizon Wireless arena gets a lot of national tours, and the airport is convenient.
3) Yeah, it's cold - but I have friends in Minneapolis. THAT'S a cold place!
4) I lived in Buffalo - all clouds, November to March (at least). We're not that bad.
5) If a place stays the same, it's stagnating. See Upstate New York. It's still a heck of a lot better here than elsewhere (based on current tax burden surveys).
6) We don't care about March Basketball Madness, but we're huge on March Hockey Madness, since UNH is a huge college hockey program. There are lots of fans of the local minor league teams, too (or they wouldn't keep building arenas and stadiums and moving teams here).
7) Hampton's nuts in the summer - like any summer beach town (like Va Beach, Old Orchard Beach, Coney Island, etc). It's pretty quiet off-summer, though, and that's the best time (to me) to visit). In season I prefer walking the rest of our coast, or driving it on 1A. It's short, but pretty.
8) If you're complaining about tolls, you must be from Merrimack!
9) Agreed! If you want services, you have to pay for them.
10) True again, compared to immediately around Boston - wages haven't kept up with escalating housing costs. But on the other hand, housing's still cheaper here than around Boston, NY, or the other big Northeast cities.
Alas this is so true. The Dem's will loose there majority next election. Promise. Too Many people are pisses about the Governor and his cronies. Screw the hypocrite, and Take back NH before it becomes the Next VT. If we lynch, The Lynch Liberal Party Now Maybe NH will be saved. It should be A Live free or Die state we all love. Not A liberal Scum whole like the one to the south.
I don't want to burst your bubble (well, okay, maybe I do) but here are poll numbers from a 4/19 report (though the Senate one was a few weeks old), courtesy the conservative Union Leader:
March 29, 2007
3/28/07 Shaheen(D) Sununu(R) Undecided
All voters 44% 34% 22%
Jean Shaheen leads John Sununu is a possible 2008 US Senate re-match in New Hampshire.
I don't want to burst your bubble (well, okay, maybe I do) but here are poll numbers from a 4/19 report (though the Senate one was a few weeks old), courtesy the conservative Union Leader:
March 29, 2007
3/28/07 Shaheen(D) Sununu(R) Undecided
All voters 44% 34% 22%
Jean Shaheen leads John Sununu is a possible 2008 US Senate re-match in New Hampshire.
Don't go counting your chickens til they're hatched
It was just 2 months ago, The (IMO) hypocrite , Lynch had an 80% Approval rating. Now it is 58%. Ya If you don't see that as a tide turning than you must have gone to West when Baines was principle. LMAO, Just Poking. Yes I know his numbers are high. But They are dropping with everything he does lately in case you haven't noticed. As for Shaheen, that woman had to wait for us to forget her Governor term before she can run. That Woman couldn't do a damn thing, without paying a commission to make up her mind for her. Well that and she did a great job of screwing up NH Health insurance rates. YA that was her doing. Bet that comes out if she reruns.
I adore NH . I've lived my entire life in Florida and my husband is from New England. He spent most of his life about 15 mins from Canada in the tip top of maine.. We went on in October of 2006 so I could see what New England looked like since I'd never been. We went to NH and I said thats it we're moving. 1 month later my husband was in the police academy and I'm not moving up in 5 weeks. I love the people, the scenery (the fact that the beach is hours away from me so I don't have to smell it or see it, that's a floridian talking there) And tourist season up there is a breeze compared to where I live in Naples. Your tourist seasons are much shorter than ours , ours last for about 6-7 months nonstop. Naples Population goes from about 200,000 to over a million in season.. So a couple leaf peppers I can handle You just can't beat it. We're in Keene so We're not far from Vermont or boston or Mass. Its perfect. And as far as the snow.. I'll take that any day over the repeated hurricanes we've gotten the past years. And well Christmas doesn't feel like christmas when its 95 degrees outside.
Gotta say:
1) Only downside, is the tourists that come up here and occasionally drive us crazy. Still, think of it this way - Boston is where my wife's heart specialist is. You're close enough to a city that has great medical and educational facilities without having to live in it. And it's fun to visit, there's lots to see and do.
2) Why do you need an alluring city draw when Boston is nearby and you've got tons of non-urban draws in the state? But if it makes you feel a little better, Manchester's Courier Art Gallery is one of the best art museums of its size in the country, the Verizon Wireless arena gets a lot of national tours, and the airport is convenient.
3) Yeah, it's cold - but I have friends in Minneapolis. THAT'S a cold place!
4) I lived in Buffalo - all clouds, November to March (at least). We're not that bad.
5) If a place stays the same, it's stagnating. See Upstate New York. It's still a heck of a lot better here than elsewhere (based on current tax burden surveys).
6) We don't care about March Basketball Madness, but we're huge on March Hockey Madness, since UNH is a huge college hockey program. There are lots of fans of the local minor league teams, too (or they wouldn't keep building arenas and stadiums and moving teams here).
7) Hampton's nuts in the summer - like any summer beach town (like Va Beach, Old Orchard Beach, Coney Island, etc). It's pretty quiet off-summer, though, and that's the best time (to me) to visit). In season I prefer walking the rest of our coast, or driving it on 1A. It's short, but pretty.
8) If you're complaining about tolls, you must be from Merrimack!
9) Agreed! If you want services, you have to pay for them.
10) True again, compared to immediately around Boston - wages haven't kept up with escalating housing costs. But on the other hand, housing's still cheaper here than around Boston, NY, or the other big Northeast cities.
1. Actually my mention of the tolls were almost made from what I could see from the perspective of a newcomer who isn't use to them. I'm actually shocked some natives complaing about them to the extent they do. Someone I believe on this board was complaining about the Hampton tolls being a nightmare! Unless you choose an obvious bad time- day and early evening on a summer weekend, I've been thru a thousand times and never had a wait behind more than a line of 3 cars! Plus one remedy solves any of these issues: all one needs is EZ-Pass. Also, I lived in NY and went thru the tolls daily, as well as in NJ. That is the definition of a nightmare, even w/ EZ Pass!
2. Hampton Beach I hate for more reasons than the crowds and some of the people. It is just plain ugly and not worth my time when the rest of the NH coastline is more serene. But I can understand autumn and spring strolls there. At least also, one won't walk away with a migraine from the screaming sunburned children and the teenys blaring their god-awful hip-hop music!
3. The Mass influx issue- it is more than just the politics for me!
4. I just can't get into college hockey. If I'm going to watch a professional or college sport, I just can't take an interest unless it captures the spirit of a national audience. Maybe part of it also is that basketball is in my blood from the time I was a kid.
5. Yes Boston is wonderful on many fronts, awful on others.
6. I want to believe NH weather isn't so bad and certainly it's not the tundra like some will sterotype, but the rain is aggravating. Four floodings across much of the state in two years I've lived here. I don't believe the sun has come out in the 62 combined days making up the month of May in two years. I know it maybe not the norm, but when does it return to normal? I keep saying it will, but who knows?! I don't think I've experienced as many floods my whole life living in many places as I have here in two years!
Hate to break it to you, but the falling of snow can start the end of October and end in April here in NH. Snow is beautiful, but cold is COLD. You have to love winter sports to have a good life in New Hampshire. I don't like the cold or winter sports so that's why I'm getting out of here and will only come back to visit.
Hate to break it to you, but the falling of snow can start the end of October and end in April here in NH. Snow is beautiful, but cold is COLD. You have to love winter sports to have a good life in New Hampshire. I don't like the cold or winter sports so that's why I'm getting out of here and will only come back to visit.
The Oct to April thing is the exact words I have been preaching to my husband for the last two years and that is why we are moving too!! That and the rising real estate taxes. We are off to NC if we can ever get our house to sell.
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Too Many people are pisses about the Governor and his cronies.
Screw the hypocrite, and Take back NH before it becomes the Next VT.
If we lynch, The Lynch Liberal Party Now Maybe NH will be saved. It should be A Live free or Die state we all love. Not A liberal Scum whole like the one to the south.
10 bad things?
Well that and she did a great job of screwing up NH Health insurance rates. 
