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draggar t1_jc68jei wrote

Reply to comment by NHDraven in What is the deal with the NH grid? by decayo

This just isn't New England. I lived in south Florida for 10 years and all the older neighborhoods have above-ground wiring and the areas won't spend the money to put them underground, even though hundreds of poles and countless wires will go down with each hurricane - and the newer areas with underground lines are usually quick to get their power back since there's no individual repairs.

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HumboltFog t1_jc67iee wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Free agents looking to settle for the next 30 years: HELP! by [deleted]

Grew up in MN, it gets chilly in NH, but I have never blinked here and had my eyelashes freeze together here. You will do fin in NH.

It’s a little backwards for the NE, look at taxes for the area you are considering, we are childfree and chose a high tax area with a good school for resale but if you homeschool I’d look for a cheaper area.

Politics here are pretty quiet, we have right wing idiots up here that like to fly flags on trucks and some of the idiots still have Trump signs up, but 95% of the NH folks I have meet since 2014 are decent.

Good luck!

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decayo t1_jc66yff wrote

Reply to Chinese Soup Dumplings by Oakley7677

I've been looking with no success. I've started ordering XCJ frozen soup dumplings. Actually really good from frozen after an 18 minute steam.

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Truthislife13 t1_jc65fw2 wrote

Reply to What is the deal with the NH grid? by decayo

I was expecting rain until about noon (Merrimack), but I just turned around and came back home.

You’ll find that the most heavily wooded areas tend to have the most power failures. Some years ago some power companies around the country decided that they could lower their costs by doing less tree trimming, but it proved to be a penny-wise pound-foolish decision.

I don’t know how the power companies in New Hampshire balance that out. Years ago it seemed like power failures were quite rare. We had an ice storm that caught people by surprise, and we were the only ones in the neighborhood who had a generator. A few years later there was another major power failure, and our neighborhood was humming with generators and there were long lines at the gas stations that still had power.

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