Recent comments in /f/newhampshire

TacoLoco2 t1_j9hscmx wrote

I’m from Mass, living in NH 15+ years, and fear the wrong type of masshole coming to NH. I moved here because I don’t like how Mass is controlled. If people turn this into that, then what? Those are the people nobody wants. Leave us alone. Mind ya business. Contribute in a meaningful way. Otherwise, stay in Mass!!

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raxnbury t1_j9hqr6r wrote

I think you kind of hit the nail on the head though. They want zero change. They want their little town to stay just like it is forever. I mean Jesus, go drive around grafton or coos county. More buildings boarded up than not. But hey, at least there’s no scary big city folk.

Seriously though, once you get north of concord you might as well be somewhere deep in Mississippi or Alabama

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mamercus-sargeras t1_j9hp7qy wrote

I don't really know the right solution to attract more productive young people. A lot of the issue just has to do with the housing stock being inappropriate for what most young people want and can afford, which is a nationwide problem. In our town, we've had one apartment building conversion go well, but the forces of NIMBY defeated another proposed development on the basis that the town needed "more forest." NH's issue isn't necessarily jobs (apart from professional white collar jobs anywhere that isn't the south), but that the housing stock for the productive slices of the population just isn't there.

I moved from NYC about a decade ago and I vote straight GOP every election even when I know the candidate is a criminal, a degenerate, or both.

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