People will say stay away from Rochester and Somersworth, but to be honest you could find some good deals on rentals compared to the other areas.

They aren’t as pretty as Dover or Portsmouth but those towns were also not nice places at one point in time and now they’re some of the most desirable places in NH. People have a hard time seeing the potential in places like that and tend to avoid them but IMO they’re not as bad as some towns in the NH/ME area and they’ll probably be the next towns to get a facelift and become the next Portsmouth/Dover area.

They have some good amenities, are close by to Portsmouth, Dover and Kittery, about an hour and a half to the white mountains, have good access to the highway, good internet options and they have some decent restaurants