Luckily we are an hour away from a pot shop in all directions.

Best - safety (if you’re not in Manchester) and the outdoors.

Worst - incompetent government bureaucracy.

Gotcha!

I think their sewage has backed up a few times. Maybe in the 50 times I’ve been, 2 had the smell.

Rural areas? More like 7 minutes any any direction outside of Manchester, Nashua, Salem, Portsmouth

Best - Landscape and Aesthetics, Live and Let Live Culture

Worst - # of police and getting pulled over all the time when driving and poor urban planning in Southern NH

No the owner of la Caretta…

OP, just a heads up: you'll soon learn that MA and NH have a symbiotic relationship.

The metro Boston economy is the lifeblood of all of northern New England, with its universities, hospitals, tech companies, investment companies and research labs. The area offers lots of social activities and cultural opportunities.

Southern NH is a bedroom community with tax free shopping and good schools. Neighbors know each other. People have actual land. With real grass.

Northern NH has all the outdoor activities you could ever want in a place where seasons are actual seasons, and a very relaxed vibe.

Pay no attention to the MA haters on the thread. They've just got a chip on their shoulder or a general bad attitude. These are both great states and we welcome you!

You’ve never been to the west coast have you

This will continue until there is jail time. Employer wage theft is about $8 billion per year. Per year. Billions. Zero jail time.

Ha ha! THAT was funny.

THERE ARE TOO MANY BIG FEET, BUT IT'S AWESOME.

I hope you pay better attention in your college courses, jeez.

Are you talking about a cartoon?

Best, nature, people, smaller towns, no sales or income tax.

Worst: weather in March and high cost of housing

personally i think the best part is no sales tax. no stressful rounding up in the middle of the store to estimate if you REALLY have enough for something. the worst part is the winter. its freezing cold, snows for like 7 months out of the year, and doesn't get warm enough to melt any of it throughout the season so old snow just becomes frozen dirt. their go to conversation starter is always along the lines of "do you ski or snowboard" which is an insane thing to hear when you're accustomed to believing skiing is a rich people thing. no sunlight whatsoever. its like every house and building in this state was somehow constructed with all north facing windows no matter what side of the house theyre on. i moved here from coastal north carolina a couple years ago and firmly believe these people have to have some kind of altered genetics just to be able to stay awake through the winter without going through psychosis.

also i noticed in another comment you said youre from new mexico, this next thing isnt a "bad" thing per se but just something i think is worth mentioning. im 100% white and speak english only, but all throughout school and growing up everything was always in english AND spanish. announcements were made once in english and again in spanish, school documents were double sided with english on one side and spanish on the other, wet floor signs were double sided the same way and advertisements were english with spanish subtext. my first day of school, after they said the english announcements and turned off the intercom, caught me so off guard. i mean it makes sense really there arent a lot of spanish speaking people in new hampshire. i thought maybe since they're closer to canada they do it in english and french instead of english and spanish but they just do everything in english here. not bad but kinda confusing when youre not expecting it

edit- would like to add that i dont have anything against nh, im just not a fan of that particular season. its a beautiful state all year round (especially fall)

If you're close to Manchester, both Consuelo's and El Rincon have excellent food.

I haven't tried El Rodeo, but I'm guessing both of these would be solid competition.

Seriously though, as much as I adore living here.. Reports made to our division of children youth and families about non-sexual abuse in schools and potential custodial abuse of the students I served at work resulted in them telling me that other people had bigger problems, and that my employer might retaliate because I called. Even though I was a mandated reporter!! F***** u*. Unless someone was being eminently raped or murdered they literally do not care. I found that in that world laws and statutes are very much applied in a discriminatory manner. The youth detention center named after the current governor's family has a horrifying history of sexual abuse and it's blatant that the government does not care and does not intend to help. I fear for every poor child that ends up there.

Very true

Tax free is a lie. It's just a shell game.

False.

Open carry state

Mud Season. There, I said it

I’ll take the property tax and no sales/income tax. You can have all three in MA

Best: nature Worst: Massholes

The best part of NH is you’re an hour or two from EVERYTHING. Beaches, mountains, small cities (Manchester), slightly bigger cities (Boston), farmland, outlet shopping, hiking, lakes, rivers… everything but desert. It really is pretty amazing you get it all right here.

The worst parts? Well… no pot is a problem.