These days, they’d have grifter consultants like McKinsey study it for 30 years before they broke ground on reconstruction. Then they’d have four managers breathing down the neck of every worker, wondering how they can make him work 10% faster while they jerk each other off all day.

Car accidents are a lot more expensive than a hotel. I’m sure you’re a competent winter driver, but Massholes aren’t.

Find a hotel room…

You know all those highway signs they have up that say some variation of “winter storm, plan ahead?” They’re talking to you.

The unholy trinity is a church, a gun store, and a usurer (payday lender, title loans, cash for gold, etc). It’s proof that there is no god, because if there was, the goods and services peddled next door would introduce the bloodsucking capitalist parasite to Jesus one way or the other. By choice or by force.

Or an asphalt plant downtown…

Flatlanders? Dude you are a flatlander, Amherst has no mountains.

I don’t want to live in Qatar for similar reasons, if it makes you feel any better. I don’t really give a shit what you believe. It’s when you use the government to make everyone else believe it that I have a problem.

Either the last meter read was estimated, the wiring is messed up and they’re billing you for neighbors’ usage, or your electric heat stays at a safety temperature (50-55F) when you set it “off,” so some idiot tenant doesn’t freeze the pipes when they leave. My money’s on the last one, personally. Electric heat thermostats are pieces of shit that lie to you.

I hope you’re happier where you’re at now. I love VT personally. I’m up there almost every weekend in winter.

But there’s plenty of things to bitch about there if you look for the negativity in everything. Wherever you go, there you are… It’s very remote. There aren’t as many jobs. Taxes are high. Tourists are fucking stupid. AirBnB is a plague.

The Alabama-tucky thing is funny, coming from someone who just moved to a state which is substantially more rural. Parts of NH are only 30 miles from Boston.

I thought about moving to VT but proximity to work and family keep me here. The two states aren’t really that different. How could they be? It’s at most 100 miles to the border from any point.

Vermont doesn’t have a Manchester, but it does have a Barre and a Rutland, with similar problems. Both states have less desirable places for any given person.

It’s obviously not the same as NH, but after the wet season y’all have had, I’m sure everything is spectacularly lush and green in the hills if you get out of the concrete jungle. Wildflowers should be wild this spring.

Not the parent comment, but I imagine it has to do with the town they’re landing in. They’re naming states because there’s only one family moving from NH to Boise or whatever right now and they don’t wanna dox themselves.

Montana doesn’t have a Boise. Billings is a shithole. You can’t afford Bozeman unless you’re a white collar criminal. Most of Montana is extremely remote, in a way that’s hard to imagine as an east coaster. Even the furthest reaches of Coos County has easy access to civilization (and airports) by comparison.

Idaho has the largest concentration of white supremacists of any state. It’s full of religious nutjobs. NH is the most secular state in the country. It’s really nothing like NH IMO. I’d probably pick Oregon or Washington as the most New Hampshirey overall. Just leave their largest city out of it. Manchester isn’t very New Hampshirey either, after all.

Culturally, I’d pick Nevada as the most similar. They arguably deserve the state motto more than we do. There’s even a little sliver of the state by Tahoe that has the mountains, pine trees, and snow. More snow than you’ve ever seen, actually.

The food and beer being good is definitely a recent thing. It’s not nostalgia. Craft beer blew up 10 years ago and restaurants in New England used to cater only to the blandest, whitest palates.

I’d never move to AZ in a million years, but missing the mountains? In Arizona? The Arizona with the Grand Canyon? They have way more impressive mountains out there! Did ChatGPT write this post?

What’s the point? We already know every water source is contaminated with PFAS. 500 miles away, a little chemical warfare agent isn’t gonna be noticeable in the chemical stew we’re all existing within.

Things are just starting to fall apart. It’s not gonna get better. It’s too far gone. Go do something fun this weekend instead. Memento mori.

Yeah, all the car exhaust and wood stove smoke gets trapped by the inversion and chokes everyone out. It blows. It’s why SLC has some of the worst air quality in the country. The lake is forecast to be gone in less than five years because the morons keep growing alfalfa for export in the desert, and when that happens, it’ll be the worst in the world. It’s another Aral Sea disaster happening in real time before our eyes, but capitalism will get the new record time.

I’m an incorrigible enlightened centrist on guns. I don’t really give a shit either way. Both sides have some good points and some really fucking stupid points. It pisses everyone off. It’s great.

One of the really fucking stupid points on the anti-gun side is this deranged obsession with suing gun shops and manufacturers. If you want to change the laws, that’s great, go for it, but these are law abiding businesses. They shouldn’t be responsible for selling someone who was legally allowed to have a gun, any more than Home Depot should be if they sell someone a chainsaw that’s used in a Texas massacre. It’s a tool. It’s legal to buy, sell, and own. We have a constitutional prohibition on ex post facto laws in Article I, Section 9. The lawyers bringing these cases seriously ought to face consequences with the State Bar. They’re frivolous and absurd.

Ice, ice baby

Happened in Concord too, although they (allegedly) caught the bastard. Random violence like that can happen anywhere, unfortunately. Even sleepy Mt Vernon. It’s just more likely in some places. You’re already rolling the dice heavily by choosing to live in the US. This is a country that loves violence.

It depends on the blade and the bullet, but generally speaking, I’d rather get stabbed if I had to choose one or the other. Survival odds are better on average.

Higher population density means a lot less predators. All you got in the suburbs really are housecats, and while they are prolific serial killers, most of them are indoors, not on the loose.

No, but Manchester will remain the biggest shithole within 75 miles of Boston. All the other shitholes near Boston have gotten a lot better over the last 10 years. Manchester has gotten a lot worse. It’s the only one without commuter rail. That’s not a coincidence.

When they finish east-west rail, it’ll only be a matter of time before Manchester falls behind Springfield and Hartford, too. You’re cutting off your own dick to spite your masshole.

How’s your crypto beanie baby portfolio holding up without the backing of the evil State’s monopoly on violence? Your money only has value because the government accepts it as payment for taxes.

Trump cut taxes. Dubya Bush cut taxes. Sununu just eliminated the tax on unearned income in NH. Massachusetts cut taxes over the last 30 years, and fell to the mid-20s in the ranking of states by tax burden. Taxes get cut all the time. What are you talking about?