Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

dilznoofus t1_jc4v19h wrote

we relocated to NH last year after a lot of hunting around; I have previously lived in Wyoming as well. I think NH is a great place that is close to very concentrated urban areas while being astoundingly rural, if you want it to be.

I am a remote worker but I occasionally need to travel for work and while Boston is a very legit option for travel, since we are in SW NH I find hopping down 91 to Hartford (BDL) is so much easier... about 90 minutes of a straight shot on the highway, easy airport, a fair number of direct flights due to business travelers. with PreCheck and Clear I've found I can be from the parking lot to my gate in 10 minutes, which is pretty awesome.

I love that NH is a purple state with the entire gamut of opinions and yet people manage to coexist and get along, like we used to before the world went insane. So happy we moved here.

1

[deleted] OP t1_jc4xcto wrote

[deleted]

1

dilznoofus t1_jc87cpr wrote

we have two small children and we homeschool as well. NH is very supportive of this; if you end up looking into public schools, many of the schools here are fantastic, but you really have to do your homework on this as every town runs its own schools so it varies dramatically from one town to the next. for most NH towns, paying for schooling is ½ to ¾ of the town costs on a yearly basis, so it's not a small item!

We didn't want to live in the Boston-commuter-belt that is the swath from Wilton all the way over to the seacoast... it's expensive and I have zero need to go to Boston for anything, so the proximity is not worth any expense (for us.) Your mileage may vary.

We live in the Connecticut river valley and we love the proximity to mountains, Vermont, easy transit down the 91 corridor, actual local farms for food, and a sense of being very separated from things while being reasonably close. Keene is our nearest town and it has most of the things we need for shopping within a reasonably short drive.

for the more rural/distant areas bear in mind that some services will be hard to come by - like dentists, accountants, pediatricians, any kind of contractor, etc. for SW NH the Cheshire medical center in Keene is the regional hospital and Dartmouth Hitchcock up in Lebanon/Hanover is the main "big" hospital for the broader region, with lots of specialists and whatnot.

If you'd like to chat more I'm happy to discuss with you via DM or on the phone or whatever, we're super glad we moved here and NH needs more young families with kids to relocate here to help replace all the aging folks :)

(and the old people in our town LOVE seeing our kids around town - I was thinking they might be cranky retirees - nope! it's like being a in town full of surrogate grandparents. fantastic!)

1