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Neat-Ad11 t1_j6tl7v8 wrote

Reply to comment by BigJeff25 in Do all homes in New Hampshire look like a commander from Handmaid’s tale lives there? by BigJeff25

There’s more to New England than hiding from global warming. You don’t sound like you’d be very happy with our architecture and, probably, not the culture. Have you been here? I mean you’d be welcome if you were coming for the right reasons but move here and start complaining about things and you won’t make many friends or probably be very happy. Come up with an open mind and an honest interest in taking on and understanding why things are the way they are here and you’ll be fine. Just don’t plan on it being at all like where you are now, and architecture is only scratching the surface. Maybe visit a while?

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BigJeff25 OP t1_j6tlucn wrote

Of course. I’m just a fool who pissed off a subreddit online. Not a total hapless moron. I like the way the towns look quite a bit. In person I get along with most ppl and travel a lot. But yes a long visit is appropriate. It just blew my mind that every single neighborhood looks the same. Maybe an adjusted and finer eye starts to appreciate some nuance.

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Neat-Ad11 t1_j6tn6vn wrote

I think it’s hard to look at someplace so different when you’re still in your current environment and understand or appreciate it fully. You’d probably be able to make a better decision and know if the architecture (which we are proud of) suits you or not. Places grow on people once they have a home and friends there so maybe it will work for you. So many people outside of New England don’t appreciate the things that we really love about it and that just rubs people the wrong way here when it’s criticized.

And to answer your original question, assuming it was sincere, yes, there are new houses here but most are built in the older styles (colonial, Victorian, farm house) to compliment what’s already here. If you’re looking for those plain, functional, and lifeless neighborhoods of cookie cutter houses that you see in the rest of the country, you’re not likely to find it here.

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