Watched some dudes ice climbing at Stonehouse Pond. Damn cool.

Not saying there still isn't a massive opioid problem in Manch Vegas, but the BBC mini-doc was published, I believe, in 2015. Manchester is, from an outsiders perspective, getting better (i.e. more private investment in housing and technology). It seems to me to be a smaller version of Dover from about 10 years ago. Dover definitely isn't Shangri La (sp?) but it's vastly improved owing to developers' investment. Some of these same developers are now eyeing Manchester as are others. I expect it to be much better in less than a decade. JMO.

Grew up there and was there visiting folks this weekend. It's a crying shame. That whole area was jamming in the 80s and early 90s. The Snow Angel Tavern and Eidelweiss Hotel (sp?) are a disgrace and should be razed straightaway.

I hear George Costanza's rates are reasonable. He gets paid in pretzels and Gatorade.

Through June of 2022 - at that point DraftKings had been operational for 19 months - NH raked in $44.2 million from the company.

Ummm...yeah. So there's that.

Live in NH now and bet all the time online via DraftKings. DraftKings has the exclusive rights to provide sports gaming in the state. You just visit a casino that hosts sports gaming (I did it through The Brook in Seabrook) and show them your license and then you can do it on your phone/computer as long as you're in the state. Learned that last item when I was visiting my folks in VT and tried to make a bet.

When I lived and worked in Vermont, I had a bookie that would meet me at (not going to name the place but it was in downtown Burlington) every week or so. His vig was high (don't blame him, of course), so I'm happy to do it through DK now.

You're not going to stop sports gambling, sorry, you're just not. Why not profit off it?

Still not a good enough reason to move there.

What else ya got?

Ditto.

What make, model, year?

Asking for 84.5k friends.

Smart, concise, timely and accurate.

Probably the best tweet I've seen from a politician. Damn good job.

Every time I've ridden, it's been on time. A weekly commuter would know better, though.

Third the Shaskeen. And they have Redbreast Irish Whiskey.

Bummer. Guessing the owners retired.

Not sure it it's still open, but Barre had a great breakfast spot back in the day. Soups n' Greens.

I have pretty bad IBS so when I have to go, I have to go NOW. Took my gf, now wife - surprising after this story, to a nice dinner in Georgetown (back when we both worked in DC) and on the way back to my apartment it hit me. I had to go immediately and thus parked the car and scurried into the bushes to do so. This was at, like, 8 at night. And right in front of the US Department of Energy. It wasn't quick, either. I was hunkered down for probably 20 minutes. Finished my biz and left. Tried to play it cool with the girl and she was like, "You know there's cameras everywhere." Had to laugh thinking of security watching that scene in the morning.

Oh well. Gump was right. Shit happens.

That's some funny shit. Laughed my ass off as it caught me off guard.

See you got a lot of downvotes but I know you were kidding.

Well crafted!

For the 100th time. If you're going to link to a story, please cut and paste it into the description so we can all read it.

Can lead a horse to water...

https://www.thewordbarn.com/events-nh

There sure is. Go ask Foss Manufacturing, any hospital, Sig Sauer, Harmony Homes, etc., etc., etc. These aren't $15 p/h jobs. There's those, too, but it's systemic. Here, this'll help:

https://www.nhes.nh.gov/elmi/products/documents/economic-analysis-2022.pdf

https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2022-07-20/n-h-jobless-rate-drops-to-a-new-low-as-worker-shortage-persists

Timely info.

Even if you want to put it in a town that has zoning that disallows it, one can always get a variance if the local board is pliable.

Let me help you here. You say:

"I'm from Ohio where we have real shoulders on the roads."

That's because Vermont has a thing called mountains. You say you didn't pull over right away, so already the cop is pissed. If you had Ohio plates and a local-yokel cop saw that, and had the opportunity to pull you over for speeding, he might have wanted to check you out and see if you 'looked' like you might have drugs. Big bust for a guy like that.

Two things.

#1 Research the Free State Project before calling yourself a libertarian. The movement here is erratic and useless. I think you just want to live in a "free-er" state, which New Hampshire absolutely is. So, if you can pull it off, good on ya.

#2 We have a massive workforce crisis in this state, so getting a job shouldn't be as difficult as others are espousing. H1B is the way. Success all depends on what field you aspire to. What are you currently studying? Once we know that we may be able to make specific suggestions.

Got it. Point taken.

Was wondering the same thing.