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icedcornholio t1_jdfshjf wrote

I don't get the strip malls one. Where is "surprisingly unfriendly poor people" ? My geography is not great. Is that Wolfeboro? I thought they weren't poor there (see Mitt Romney)

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Repulsive65 t1_jdfumun wrote

Sunapee friendly poor people..? Or do they mean newport/ claremont.?

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FaustusC t1_jdfuo0a wrote

Idk, the coast area could also be "Little Boston". But still accurate.

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Spiritual-Pen4766 t1_jdfusmt wrote

Between strip malls and Body Dysmorphia and God complexes there needs to be invasion of the massholes

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Hereforthemadness1 t1_jdfv2oc wrote

I wouldn’t recognize a Chevy equinox if it ran me over. More like “people who own massive new trucks…to drive to their office and bring their two trash cans to the dump.”

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1carus_x t1_jdfv55t wrote

Oh so that's what the exit 32 bumper sticker is lol

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Wader_Man t1_jdfw8fg wrote

Who are the worst type of college kids?

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timecoyote t1_jdfwqxq wrote

Replying to woolsocksandsandals (#2,328,605)

You know, I've never met anyone unfriendly in Claremont per se. I have watched a person buy meth from a bartender right over the bar and witnessed complete disregard for the sanctity of the Cumbies coffee counter on a daily basis, but everyone seems friendly enough.

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ThunderySleep t1_jdfy0x6 wrote

"Body dysmorphia & god complexes" should read "Not fat & has all their teeth".

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Mmnnh t1_jdfyniw wrote

Room temperature IQs 😂😂😂

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erindesbois t1_jdg1cqi wrote

Your last name is the name of your road overlaps rent and crash snowmobile territory.

It's also home to the Cohos Trail!

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Zachisawinner t1_jdg46kh wrote

I moved to Manchester as a young hippie! Haven’t decided if I’ll die here yet.

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Fickle_Dragonfly4381 t1_jdg4t4w wrote

As an Upper Valley native I'm glad you carefully phrased that one to not include the people who grew up there lol

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froststomper t1_jdg4yro wrote

Replying to icedcornholio (#2,328,732)

I’d say that the surprisingly unfriendly poor people would be the tri state area, Dover is suffering gentrification but Somerworth/Rochester/Gonic and parts of Dover fit that description, maybe going northward you’d have Farmington, New Durham, Milton, Wakefield all are also pretty poor and definitely not what I’d call friendly. (though when in Milton always stop at Mckenzie’s farm!)

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AMC4x4 t1_jdg6qrt wrote

I feel blessed to have come from the "Surprisingly friendly poor people" and "Underrated scenery and some trees" area of NH. I didn't realize how lucky I had it as a kid.

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jadedfox t1_jdgdzng wrote

Growing up in Portsmouth, I can for sure confirm that.

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tonylouis1337 t1_jdggh1e wrote

The Lakes Region, where I grew up, is definitely a whole buncha bullshit and lake houses 😂😂😂😂

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TrespassersWilliamTW t1_jdgjf34 wrote

Replying to rudyattitudedee (#2,329,940)

as someone from rural NY who keeps an eye out for more northern land to move to when my kids are grown, im surprised aging hippies are that far south. See i try to get as close to the great north as humanly possible without revoking citizenship. (it's honestly a weather thing for me, i really really like snow and rural back country. I was a trail worker and worked for parks and i just need constant snow n cold.

i see snowmobile country, but may i ask, is there periodical thaws during the winter or does it just stay frozen? i need consistency. it thaws way too much where i'm at. i need snow from november to march. are there already too many people moving there?

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7SFG1BA t1_jdgs48g wrote

This is Fuckin hilarious and so true especially the ones in the western part of the state!!! LOL

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IeMang t1_jdgx5fv wrote

Replying to TedBundysVlkswagon (#2,331,341)

It’s relatively small as far as colleges go. It feels sort of like a large HS campus. Additionally, since it’s a small state school it doesn’t attract the most serious students. Many of them call it either “keg stand college” or “kinda sorta college” with pride as they do the bare minimum amount of work to pass their classes so they can party as much as possible. There was also the great pumpkin fest riot of 2015 which certainly tarnished the school’s reputation.

It’s not a bad school though, and a lot of graduates have gone on to do some cool stuff. Their biology and chemistry programs were really good before Covid (they’ve had some faculty layoffs since which has stretched everyone thin and led to fewer available classes each semester), and they’ve also got a pretty good occupational safety program.

Source: I was one of the “keg stand college huhuh” students my freshman year and nearly failed out. I took a year off, worked a shitty job, did some traveling, and then went back to KSC to retake a class I had failed and boost my GPA so I could go to a more serious university. Met a cool girl, decided to stay and ended up declaring biology as my major, broke up with cool girl, still decided to stay because my professors were incredible. I buckled down, became a straight A student, and was presented with some really good opportunities many students at “better” institutions don’t get. I was an author on multiple papers due to my undergrad research, made connections with labs at larger institutions and got to collaborate with them independently, and I presented my research at multiple conferences. I also secured employment within my field a few weeks before graduating, as did many of my peers. The school’s biology program has an extensive network of students working in biotech now, and it’s made it very easy for graduates to get their foot in the door.

So yeah, KSC gets a bad rep, but so do most small state schools. In KSC’s case I think it gets a particularly bad rep because of the pumpkin fest riots from 2015 which made national headlines and embarrassed the entire town of Keene. It’s hard to be taken seriously as an academic institution when that’s what everyone knows you for. There are certainly worse choices than KSC to attend though, and the college is actually ranked fairly high in terms of value among liberal arts colleges nationwide. It’s a decent school all and all.

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EllieVader t1_jdgzalz wrote

Derry puts the OD into “Northwoods Law”

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woolsocksandsandals t1_jdh1lmr wrote

Replying to timecoyote (#2,329,192)

That’s just normal life anywhere. Pretty much every bar has an employee that’s a drug dealer and people are disgusting everywhere.

What’s unusual is how friendly people are here. It’s not just Claremont though, people are that way throughout the entire upper valley.

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sylvesterthecat11 t1_jdh28h6 wrote

Looking at this, I learned more about NH in a few minutes than I have in my entire life.

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barnabasthedog t1_jdh81y0 wrote

“Sand and a place for people from mass to litter on their way to Conway.”

Accurate.

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catsrule_meow t1_jdh8rhf wrote

Replying to TedBundysVlkswagon (#2,331,341)

Pretty much just the riots from 2015 but to me that seems like old news? I graduated a little before all that happened. It has always been and probably always will be a “party school” … but that doesn’t mean you can’t do well in school while having fun (like a normal college kid).

Personally I was super serious about my grades, graduated over 3.9 GPA, and I’m very happy with my career several years later. I also went to my fair share of parties and bars and came out with some good friends. It was a win/win for me :)

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GraniteGeekNH t1_jdh98hd wrote

Replying to erindesbois (#2,329,671)

Not just that part of the state, though - the dirt road opposite my house is the name of the guy I bought the house from, whose son and widow and cousin still live in town. We're within spitting distance of Mass.

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Queasy_Turnover t1_jdh9upk wrote

Replying to Teacherman6 (#2,329,419)

I live in that area and see kids with FPU hoodies on pretty frequently and they all seem like your average college kid. I'm assuming a lot of the younger people who work at the grocery stores in the area go to that school too and they also seem fine.

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SpellStrawberyBanke t1_jdhatgw wrote

I’ve lived in NH my whole life and this map didn’t really resonate with me.

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SRTie4k t1_jdhblcg wrote

Replying to TrespassersWilliamTW (#2,331,322)

As someone who was born and raised in Vermont, IMO hippies want a sense of community without the commercialization. That means small towns bordering bigger towns. And there are no bigger towns north of Concord that aren't complete yuppy enclaves.

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rudyattitudedee t1_jdhcvf0 wrote

Replying to TrespassersWilliamTW (#2,331,322)

Your best bet is Pittsburg but I know many people who didn’t get to spend as much time on the sled as they wanted this year due to poor coverage. But the last few years prior even south western sledding towns like Washington have great trail systems that get groomed on main trails and can have a pretty long season.

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Rough_Magician_8117 t1_jdhe5qc wrote

Replying to Fickle_Dragonfly4381 (#2,329,975)

Right? Though Dartmouth is like super high Asian student body isn’t it?

Off topic: I am still traumatized by when my sisters friend grabbed a little brown ball out of mascoma lake, and then like 5 seconds later my sister saw a diaper floating... we grew up too fast...

Edit spelling

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CLS4L t1_jdhgt8q wrote

Land of the vanity plates and no car insurance.

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woolsocksandsandals t1_jdhncz1 wrote

Replying to almamaters (#2,334,946)

At first glance, I thought that was sort of centered over the triangle that’s created by Tamworth, freedom and Ossipee and I thought “yeah that checks out“ because culturally it’s very similar to Western Maine and the Maine Lakes region But I realize now it’s further south. And I can’t really make a comment because I’ve never really spent any time in that area. I’m guessing Rochester…???

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t0rk t1_jdhnsm9 wrote

Replying to Peanut-Donut (#2,328,888)

Yeah, not sure those make a ton of sense. There is a small strip mall in Northwood, a couple at the Lee roundabout, and one in Barrington, but it'd be a lot more fitting in Rochester/Dover/Newmarket.

Overpriced antique shops would probably be a better label for that RT. 4 spot.

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[deleted] t1_jdhnuth wrote

“Your last name is the name of your road” oh my fucking god 😂😂😂 . I know a few Mainers that would apply to as well haha

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crourke13 t1_jdhr0mq wrote

I don’t know why but “Canadian border for people from Connecticut” just killed me. Thank you!

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rabbitholerandy t1_jdhrvmv wrote

The worst type of college kids and worst type of red necks 💀

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Puzzleheaded-Row-511 t1_jdhuioq wrote

This is pretty accurate lol. I live in Langdon and most people here are very friendly. There's a surprising amount of people with money though.

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SasquatchGroomer t1_jdhwnwt wrote

Chiming in from Keene to attest to the accuracy of the label they assigned to us.

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trimolius t1_jdhxzec wrote

I don’t understand the Northwoods Law reference. I thought this would be a Massachusetts joke.

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Novel-Star6109 t1_jdhyaly wrote

grew up in laconia and gilmanton/went to hs in gilford. room temperature iqs, copper pipe thieves, teen pregnancy and lake houses is scarily accurate😭😭

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mbeau55 t1_jdhzd9z wrote

Replying to SpellStrawberyBanke (#2,333,539)

I think it is pretty accurate except for the friendly people part. I guess I need go to that part of the state to see what the rare friendly NH person looks like. I have lived here for 40+ years and most people act like they have a hair across their asses for the first 10 years of knowing them.

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Peanut-Donut OP t1_jdi3o86 wrote

Replying to mbeau55 (#2,336,464)

Years ago my friend got his car stuck in Unity and a guy drove by and came back with an excavator to pull him out. Then he gave him a jar of maple syrup before he left.

Also in 2020 i got a random message from a lady in Washington about thanksgiving and ended up being invited to a random family's thanksgiving in washington. Unfortunately i couldnt make it :(

The upper valley and southern sullivan county are just pretty chill

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boldolive t1_jdi7xon wrote

Replying to GraniteGeekNH (#2,333,379)

Yeah, and Keene also has Antioch University, which brings a lot of very smart and talented older students to the area who have done a ton to improve the community. One example among many is that the Monadnock Food Co-op was the brain child of two Antioch students; writing a concept paper for the Co-op was their final graduate project, and they were deeply involved in raising money to build the Co-op after they graduated.

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jimsensei t1_jdiex9t wrote

My house is directly under the end quotation mark for “prodigies”. Although my area definitely relates more to the “room temperature iqs…etc.

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Different_Ad7655 t1_jdifb2k wrote

Definitely true of the pimp Mobile SUVs and pit bulls named diesel but a little closer to the middle on 93

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livefreethendie t1_jdihgdu wrote

Replying to SRTie4k (#2,333,636)

Tbh i have no idea what yuppy enclaves means is that like Littleton, Berlin and Gorham? Because in my eyes you nailed what hippies want and I think those are some northern towns that might have it.

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NeLaX44 t1_jdiok5u wrote

Can confirm lake houses. Squam Life!

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glockster19m t1_jdittxc wrote

Everyone is complaining about the inaccuracy of this, meanwhile my area is pretty dead on.

One of my inept coworkers tried to break into my parents lake house while it was under construction to steal the copper pipe

His wife was 22, buttt on her third baby, so a teenage pregnancy was definitely somewhere in the mix

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ThunderySleep t1_jdiu1t3 wrote

Replying to SnooPeripherals5969 (#2,333,956)

That's how I took it. I don't like the term "Karen", but it's a thing and I've never seen more of them, or to such unbearable degrees, than in Portsmouth, and I've lived in a lot ritzier places than this. For body dysmorphia, I'd say people here take a little better care of themselves, then once you get inland, it goes the other way on average.

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ThunderySleep t1_jdiw38d wrote

Replying to IeMang (#2,332,274)

Almost any school will be what you make of it, but the small state school stereotype's a thing. Where I grew up had a couple of them. Fine schools, but most people are going to experience college and because it's what they were supposed to do, then move straight back to their hometowns to become teachers, cops, nurses, or work at some relative's business etc.

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IeMang t1_jdj1c8b wrote

Replying to Ryan-The-Movie-Maker (#2,333,218)

Yeah that was largely non-KSC students. There were still KSC students participating, but they weren’t the majority. I knew a few people who were either expelled or “suspended” (for lack of a better term) for the rest of the semester or year without reimbursement for the tuition they’d already paid. The administration took the whole situation very seriously, and any KSC students who were proven to have participated in the mayhem and destruction were punished harshly.

Also to be fair to the current students, that was seven years ago. Nearly two classes of graduates have passed since then, so it’s not like the current student body had anything to do with the whole thing. Most seniors now were probably around the age of 15 when the riots happened.

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nullcompany t1_jdj7bgr wrote

I live in Lee.

I don't have a God complex.

I am God.

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djdirectdrive t1_jdjvbxw wrote

I feel like that Canadian border should be moved to just above Nashua though

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Dramatic-Wing-4052 t1_jdk4o3o wrote

From Keene NH and I go to Keene State. Can confirm that we have the worst type of college kids. We also have weird wannabe rednecks who think they’re tough as nails

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SavesNine9 t1_jdk8x25 wrote

Damn. My extended family lives in surprisingly unfriendly poor people territory

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AMC4x4 t1_jdmqe3h wrote

Replying to akmjolnir (#2,354,079)

It does have a special, unique quality in its beauty that I haven't found anywhere else in my travels. Pillsbury State Park seems to encapsulate it publicly, but I find joy in its back roads, hills, woods, fields, and old farmhouses. I feel like it's one of the last places in Southern NH that money will change. It's much the same today as it was 45 years ago.

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akmjolnir t1_jdmqrz7 wrote

Replying to AMC4x4 (#2,354,194)

On the flip side I've noticed a bunch of new builds in the area I grew up in. Didn't realize it was it was happening, but after leaving NH for a few years, and coming back, it's amazing how much of the land has been cleared and built on.

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TheTr7nity t1_jdn3ru1 wrote

Your last name is also the name of your road. This is awesome! LOL

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Roberto-Del-Camino t1_je7s1nz wrote

Keene should be “Free State Idiots and kids going to their college safety school.”

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froststomper t1_je7zyuc wrote

Replying to Roberto-Del-Camino (#2,467,702)

You know I have no idea why that area is referred to as tri state and never really thought about it either. I know it’s something they used more often decades ago, when the quickest way north to the white mountains was through Rochester so maybe tri state refers to Mass traffic? I tried to look this up and couldn’t find an answer.

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or maybe tri state refers to the three towns as they were a largely populated area of NH in the past with economic growth seeing as major roads and highways used to pass directly through them. (obviously not anymore)

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