u/CompletelyAnonFish

Weighing the pros and cons of moving to New Hampshire. What are your personal experiences with living there?

My boyfriend and I are going to get married sometime in the future and are thinking about good states to live. We’re going back and forth about a couple states with my mother who would likely be moving with us. What are your personal pros + cons with living in New Hampshire?

For us:
Pros: hopefully mild summers, away from huge cities (like NYC + Orlando), property tax is lower than what it is for the state we currently reside in, and of course we looked into the sales + income taxes, which also beat our state since it’s one of the highest lol.

Neutral: the “harsh” winters (my boyfriend and I don’t mind, but my mother hates it)

Cons: we don’t really have any at the moment.

My mother brought up some issues in regards to how far Costcos, Walmarts, hospitals, and emergency vets are from where we’re thinking about living, but we’re thinking about living near Manchester or Nashua at the moment. We’d be hopefully about 20 min away from the city life so it wouldn’t be too far of a drive from necessities

She also wants to know about internet providers since we’ll all be using the internet pretty heavily as my boyfriend and I are both gamers and it’s a hobby we really enjoy together. We play first person shooters and would require about 1-2gb download if we wire it in. My mother enjoys her streaming services and playing on her tablet, so internet is heavily used in our family.

We’re mainly concerned about financials since we’re pretty young and are planning our entire future together, along with avoiding the really hot summers of where we are now.

Edit: my boyfriend and I are in the culinary/medical fields so also want to see how those fields are doing in NH

Can’t reply to everyone but I think I’m going to steer clear from reddit for now and use google to try and piece together what might be a better place to live than our current state.

Thank you to all the helpful replies!

My boyfriend and I are going to get married sometime in the future and are thinking about good states to live. We’re going back and forth about Maine with my mother who would likely be moving there with us. What are your personal pros + cons with living in Maine?

For us:
Pros would be mild summers, away from huge cities (like NYC + Orlando), and a decent job market for the medical field (my field), property tax is about half of what it is for the state we currently reside in

Neutral: the “harsh” winters (my boyfriend and I don’t mind, but my mother hates it)

Cons: we don’t really have any at the moment.

My mother brought up some issues in regards to how far Costcos, Walmarts, hospitals, and emergency vets are from where we’re thinking about living, but we’re thinking about living near Portland at the moment (like the outskirts).

She also wants to know about internet providers since we’ll all be using the internet pretty heavily as my boyfriend and I are both gamers and it’s a hobby we really enjoy together. We play first person shooters and would require about 1-2gb download if we wire it in.

Edit 10p EST: Still getting comments. Decided a couple hours ago that Maine won’t be for us lol. Maybe a vacation spot. Considering New Hampshire and some other states!