Hope you're move goes well. I have three dogs. They've all been vaccinated against Lyme. It's a series of two shots. I only use flea/tick topical meds in spring and summer. My vet recommends heartworm medication year round. I have yard and live in a wooded area and I've yet to have a tick latch onto me. I also do quite a bit of hiking in the Whites and never had a tick bite. If you do get a bite and see redness around the bite, physician's will prescribe antibiotics. That's been my experience but others may have different experiences with these nasty insects.

The Over the Hill Soccer League is great if you are over 30. Or 40. Or 48. Or 55. Or 62. Or 68.

Highly recommended.

https://www.othsl.org/cgi-bin/socman.pl

Can some one post a link to tick tubes? I use “one guard” with a fogger.

Good folks at the Music Mill. Lock your doors while parked for sure.

Thanks!

Yes I do have an irrational fear lol the internet does wonders for that

Thank you for the info!

Not exclusively NH obviously, but I llove listening to Barred Owl hoots.

This looks like it is or should be on Craigslist. That's where all the serial killers, rapists, kidnappers are usually found.

Salem; the armpit of New Hampshire!

Swing and a miss. I dont belong to either party and you missed my point entirely. Nothing is perfect but….

I would much rather live in California over Florida.

I don’t like the humidity and I despise the right wing cancel culture in Florida.

No bathroom door screams not creepy. Lol

Yellow stitches

https://www.othsl.org/othsl.htm

If Lyme or other tick-borne illnesses are your concern, daily tick checks during the warmer months are the best prevention. In general, ticks need to be latched on for 48-72 hours to spread disease. If you check yourself every day, you’ll be making make sure they don’t stick on you for more than 24 hours.

I’m not a doctor, but I know that many doctors will prescribe you antibiotics if you have a tick latched on for 48-72 hours as a cautionary measure.

If you have a dog, make sure he or she is up to date on the Lyme vaccine. We also use preventative meds that kills any ticks that latch on to the pup.

TLDR - Ticks themselves are unavoidable, but you can drastically reduce disease risk by checking yourself

I won't what? Worry?

When I first moved to NH as a young, wide-eyed 21 year old, I was apartment hunting on Seacoast CL. Found what looked like a pretty good deal for a separate suite in a house. No idea where it was anymore, but I think in a more rural area. Emailed the posters, seemed like a nice enough old couple, so we talked on the phone.

Their first rule on the phone was "absolutely no interaction with the neighbors. You can't talk to them, you can't say hello to them, and never go over there." Next rule was ALL lights off after a certain time. Next was park at the end of the driveway, never drive up to the house. They continued to list some other insane, paranoid rules justified by how they "value their privacy". Dumbass me didn't notice the red flags, but thankfully they never contacted me again so the problem solved itself.

There were some other interesting posts too. Older male looking for only younger males, sex "preferable but not required," etc etc.

Free staters have a handful of community centers in the state, run businesses that are pillars of their neighborhoods, and have weekly potlucks. They aren't miserable, they're enthusiastic, supportive and excited about the ideas of freedom. Anyone who knows them would agree.

I could not explain this as perfectly if I tried

So no source.

As far as checking yourself… ticks love to attach to the weirdest places such as in your armpit or worse. I think most of us around here could tell you a story on that. I’m sure you’ve read that they can be as small as the tip of a pencil or poppy seed in the nymph stage making them tricky to find sometimes. Your pets will need to be checked often. Even with the flea and tick medicine, you will still find ticks crawling around on them and even attaching.

> Make it so that things don’t work well.

How's that working out for you? You think things are working better in Democrat or Republican controlled cities more? California or Florida?

Manchester Music Mill for sure.

As someone deeply imbedded in the Free State Project, how long before I can expect to figure out who these billionaires are? I've yet to meet them, and they certainly aren't sending any money to any of my projects. I'll happily accept a sponsor however.

>sending in carpet baggers

Actually you'll find freestaters of all walks of life. Plenty of us are blue collar, many are not wealthy at all. And we certainly aren't being "sent" to New Hampshire. Those of us in New Hampshire are asking for them to join us.

If you care about carpetbaggers, look to the progressives who actually have billionaires paying for people to move to NH to fuck up our politics. (Granite State Progress)

My partner and I are considering relocating to my home state for myriad reasons, and a big component is housing. I like NH, but it’s becoming increasingly less likely we’ll be able to reach our life goals here. Such is life.