My sister lives in Concord and every time I go to visit her I can't help but think how much wasted potential NH cities have. Concord, Manchester, Nashua, and Portsmouth are just tiny, fragmented downtowns surrounded by a bunch of single-family zoning. Imagine if everything was re-zoned and looked closer to Cambridge Mass.

Then again, I suspect people move to NH specifically because they like the rural character of the state.