I go to fit lab in Nashua on Amherst. Really nice gym that has all kinds of classes, a basketball court(a little dated for a court), it’s a touch pricey at 45.00 a month but that includes 24/7 access via a door key phone app. They do offer personal training sessions and there’s plenty of helpful people around to ask questions. Other benefits are a smoothie bar and a sauna(saunas close after staffed hours). The one thing I will warn you about is thier contracts. They are a little shifty in thier contractual shenanigans. When you’re signing up make sure you understand your contract terms especially if you sign up some personal training. Make it clear how many sessions you want, in what period of time and don’t let them pressure you into a long term contract, unless you want regular weekly training. Main point with them, read the fine print and don’t pay for what you don’t want. It’s an excellent gym/service otherwise.

Makes perfect sense now understanding that. During both arrests actual courts would look at the evidence and see reason. Never really had difficulty with them because I always had the right documentation. Never understood why I had so much success removing/expunging the misdemeanors for driving on a suspended with them, yet couldn’t resolve a stupid lane violation for over a decade. Never realized they essentially had no connection. I’ve always been proud of being an “honorary” masshole. I grew up on the border less than 10 minutes from my house to Webster mass. My college girlfriend went to school in Springfield so I spent a lot of time there. Then after college I met my wife who’s from the north shore and we had a place on Salisbury beach for a few years before buying a house in Nashua and getting married. She still works for a town government in mass and my business does a fair amount of work there as well. I’ve always loved the state, still do, but this shithousery is beyond comprehension lol.

Appreciate the sentiment, cheers!

8 of the 10 states with the highest violent crime per capita are solid red states. 7 of the 10 states with the lowest violent crime per capita are blue states, New Hampshire being one those. Statistics bud, not hyperbole. https://www.foxcarolina.com/2022/10/18/sc-makes-list-states-with-highest-rates-violent-crime/?outputType=amp

Don’t worry snowflake, New Hampshire will never flip completely liberal. Atleast not for several decades. Nashua is just barely removed from being apart of the “boston metro” area and the RT3/93 corridors between the mass state line and Manchester will continue to explode in growth because Boston is one of the most popular cities in the nation and those areas are an easy commute. North of Manch is a tough sell and it will be decades before that urbanization creeps north of there. FWIW your stats and economics are wrong. The further right a state leans the more economically depressed it is and higher the crime rates. Violent crime per capita is higher in solid red states vs blue states. Lucky for you NH is a left lean purple and not solid red.

It was simply an explanation as to why I didn’t know what network/news outlet channel 7 is. Without that context the converse answer would have been “what are you stupid? Just turn your tv on”.

That’s the most frustrating thing, Im an excellent driver! And I know every single state traffic law better than any course instructor. I am the production manager of major touring band and in the first 5-7 years of the bands major explosion I spent 9 months a year on the road driving a van-towing a trailer and even drove the tour bus on our first dozen tour bus runs. I’ve seen every inch of every major highway on the entire continent(US/Mexico/Canada) several times. I estimate I’ve driven over 1 million miles in the last 18 years and that ticket in 2008 is my only legitimate traffic violation lol. It’s nuts!

Ok so you’re one of the few people here who have had some inter-state experience with the mass RMV and them not being apart of the national reporting system. My license is currently in Connecticut. We bought our house in Nh just before the pandemic and I put off migrating my license. How disorganized is that system? When I move my license to New Hampshire I’ll have a new license number, new address etc…any chance mass looses connection with my precious issues because of this. This is literally my only issue/interaction with the legal system so excuse my ignorance on how the police and their systems operate. If I were to get pulled over in mass with my new NH license how much information do the police have? There’s no social security numbers on licenses and I have a mildly generic first and last name. Since mass doesn’t get information about licenses and their movement from other states is there a slim chance my issues wouldn’t be detectable? I have no idea what level of information pops up for a police offer when they run a license through their computer. I know it’s a long shot

I don’t know why I’m being so stubborn about this, maybe just years of frustration. This whole thing is literally my only interaction with the legal system and I’m naively believing as long as I do everything right and keep impeccable records I’ll ultimately be rewarded by the correct application of the law. I know…naive. I’ve checked with the RMV and the jurisdictions that I was detained in prior and they have no record of me owing fines or have being previously arrested so it seems as the state finally lived up to the last agreement that everything was scrubbed from the court system and I’m no longer expected to pay fines. It’s just these classes. Someone suggested trying to contact higher ups at the dmv via the state and I think that’s my next move before getting a lawyer. Speed is my main goal right now and mental block is getting this resolved as fast as possible because I don’t really have the luxury of time for litigation to play out. It may come to that. I’m going to have to get real creative with solution though because I don’t know if anyway for me to avoid driving in mass while litigation plays out.

Sorry for my wife and I bringing two 6 figure salaries into a state we find beautiful and we can still commute to work in Boston? Sorry we have expendable income that we will dump into the local economy? I’m so sorry.

Fair criticism. It’s a good thing this Reddit post is longer than anything I have to write for work or I’d be in trouble lol.

Admittedly you’re not wrong and I’m being overtly passive in trying to just achieve the end goal as simply as possible. The first two instances when I was 20 and 25 are excusable. My first two interactions with the legal system. The biggest mistake was not lawyering up on what I thought was the final issue in Newburyport court. My issue with litigation is time, and the fact that I think I may have shot myself in the foot when I thought I was finally settling the matter and got all the official documentation that everything was paid and my license was considered valid based on no fines being owed. Looking through the paperwork vs state law im worried I essential “plead” guilty for moving violations in return for having the misdemeanor of driving on a suspended removed from my record. That’s not how it was presented to me in court, and why I feel stupid for not lawyering up at that point. So I’m not sure a lawyer could do anything for me now.

Oh this is excellent information. Because of the last interaction I had with the state I thought I kind of put the nail in my own coffin by paying the infractions in exchange for the removal of the misdemeanor driving on a suspended. Akin to a plea deal, I was concerned by doing that I’d have no legal recourse going forward. Knowing they’ve had legal issues themselves, potentially the period of time in which this first happened to me might give me some ground to stand on. I’ll look into that and proceed with contacting people higher up via the mass.gov directory. I didn’t realize the RMV had a court system/legal connection to the state(most traffic courts aren’t connected directly to the RMV/dmv in other states.) thanks for the info!

Apparently that’s what I’ve been unknowingly doing lol

Yeah through some comments here and a few DMs it seems that shit record keeping in mass is a running theme. Coming to grips that I might be stuck taking these courses. I have some mildly herniated discs in my neck that I do physical therapy and regular steroid injections for. My doctor is really cool, I might be able to get her to write something up explaining my issue over inflating the idea that I can’t sit in a classroom desk for significant periods of time and see if I can get off going to the in-person classes and take them online that is offered to out of new England drivers. I’ve driven every length of highway in every state in the country. I know the laws better than the instructors of the courses so if I could do it at home or on the road for work where I can just zone out and watch Netflix and not even participate, I could still pass whatever bs test they have at the end. Fingers crossed.

It shouldnt be too much of a problem. Especially if you intend to live in the southern part of the state closest to the Massachusetts border. That’s not to say the entire state is bigoted, not by a long shot. Many great open minded people here, you’re just slightly more likely to run into unaccepting people once you get north of Manchester and concord. Southern New Hampshire is so close to the Boston metro area that is growing increasingly more dense and surging in population so a lot of very liberal voters are moving into southern New Hampshire(myself included, bought a house in southern Nh just pre Covid). It’s a solid purple state now and will only grow more blue over time. We had extremists on the ballot in November that were handedly defeated in state elections. The Governor is a more centrist Republican(by todays standards) but still holds some moderately repressive ideologies. There’s def much worse places you could be with a GOP rep in the governors seat. We have one of the more restrictive abortion laws in New England and some fringe groups are trying to pass anti-lgbt laws but they don’t clear the legislature. The Governor has some mild ambition toward the white house so he plays more to the center and denounces the Maga wing of the party, usually. As I said if you plan to stay in the south-eastern part of the state you wouldn’t feel ostracized much. You’ll likely run into the occasional “old guard” of staunch religious conservative that may try to make you uncomfortable anywhere in the state but in the areas closer to the border, the less likely. Once you get further north and west you’ll see more yards and road sides littered with “Trump won” and “god says there’s only two genders” type of signs but you can easily avoid those people, they are not the effective majority they once were.

Cheers!

Not a terrible idea. Who is channel 7? Are they the most popular news outlet with an investigative team? Since meeting my wife(who’s from mass) and subsequently spending time in the state/eventually moving to Nashua we’ve always been cord cutters and haven’t had live television. The only Boston/mass network I’m familiar with is wmur(ch 5 I think) just because I use to use their weather app on my phone before I traveled so much for work.

Yeah, I’m not trying to roll the dice at all. Especially when I have to drive in mass while working, or even down to Logan to fly out for work. The only reason I’m not considering litigation is time. That shit could take forever. I also think I may have screwed myself on what I thought was the final say in the matter. When Newburyport superior court told me I could just repay all the fines and they would issue me documentation that the matter was settled I essentially traded the misdemeanor driving on a suspended for admitting to moving violations. Even though one violation was for the lack of an inspection window sticker(didn’t need one on a vehicle registered in CT) and the other was for rolling through a stop sign(when the cop in Amesbury pulled me over he flat out admitted it was a made up violation as he thought I was driving a vehicle suspected of being stolen and he needed a reason to pull the vehicle over(he seemed genuinely upset and apologetic as he was arresting me for the license suspension issue when he was just looking for a thief)). So by taking that deal I didn’t consider they would leave those “moving violations” on my record despite them not being valid motor vehicle stops. I think once I paid those final fines to “settle” the matter I unknowingly and stupidly admitted to the infractions. I’m not sure there’d be any technicalities I could hit the state with because of that, despite my impeccable record keeping. The classes also put a time strain on me. I’m irreplaceable at my job and I just took my first vacation in nearly a decade for 3 weeks in Europe and it put crazy strain on the business. I only have a single weekend off there scheduled between now and October. In between a rock and a hard place right now. Blows lol

That’s the one marginal reason I do see need for an attorney. I think the biggest mistakes was not having one when I thought I had finally settled the matter with Newburyport. I screwed myself with that deal. I paid fines for “moving violations” in exchange for the misdemeanor of driving on a suspended license dropped. I believe they held me over a barrel and got the state off the hook for thier mistakes by getting me to pay for moving violations. I’m sure a lawyer or even someone level headed without my lingering annoyance would have realized that was a bad idea. My criminal record remained clear but my mass licensure still had all its strikes. That’s on me for caving and thinking “one last” payment would be the end of it as long as I kept meticulous record.

Hoping to avoid that. The RMV confirmed that I don’t owe any fines, and they don’t see any motor vehicle related arrests on my driving record. Just that I’m required to take this course 1 time per each moving violation in order to reinstate my license. The course is only 100.00 and a lawyer seems costly to get me out of 2 of them. I’m more than willing to take it once, I can find time for that. But 3 times is impossible. I just spent 3 weeks in Europe and my business was really strained with me gone for so long. I literally don’t have the option to skip 2 or 3 work trips for these courses. Was hoping someone here had experience with having been given notice of needing to take the same stupid course multiple times and finding a way to reduce that. I mean it’s literally an 8 hour drivers ed course with a brainless test at the end, surely someone in the RMV system can see reason and realize that’s pointless. Shit I’d even pay for all 3 courses, but taking them is redundant as hell.

I wouldn’t blame anyone for choosing to ignore my rant lol. Especially considering I didn’t include a TLDR of any kind.

Have we tried Nuking the hurricane? They come off the coast of Africa, can’t we just drop a nuclear weapon in there and destroy it?….I still can’t believe a god damn president of the United States actually suggested this lmfao.

He’s from Texas where their power grid cant handle a simple snow storm. Pretty sure he’s learned the hard way to have a second source of heat by now lol (unless he’s all the way down on a border/gulf town, but they also have massive hurricanes instead of crippling ice)