Lots of young professionals in Manchester and the population is only growing as more apartments pop up all over the city. The nightlife is great for a city of its size. There are fancy cocktail bars, country bars, irish pubs, dive bars. I would spend a night or two out bar-hopping on Elm St. before you decide to move here to get a taste for it. I’m personally in my mid 20s but a lot of the people I meet out on the town (besides college students) are in their late 20s or early 30s, so right around your age. Seems to be a healthy mix of liberals and conservatives but it’s hard to gauge how people lean politically, especially in a purple state such as NH. Politics aside, I’ve found people here are generally down to earth, much more so than in a place like Portsmouth for example. Huge diversity of restaurant/food options, depends what kind of cuisine you’re into. Google maps is your friend. Access to the outdoors is awesome, there are various cool parks and trails right in and outside of the city. Monadnock region is 45 minutes to the west, Atlantic Ocean is 45 minutes to the east and the Whites are just an hour north. Tourists are a non-factor. Manchester is a great place to live, but there’s nothing to really draw many tourists here at least at this time. Now for the negatives: homeless population is growing, crime is increasing, and parts of the city are rundown and depressing. Stay away from these parts and it’s not really something you ever have to worry about. Manchester is absolutely not a decaying shithole as most members of this sub would have you believe, and I think you should give it a chance.