Don’t think it’s the housing market, Portsmouth NH median home cost is 45% higher than Burlington VT. Supply/Demand pricing suggests the housing costs are greater in NH

Call the grocery store.

Are you just looking for suet?

Well, he’s good enough that the Dems haven’t been able to ticket a serious contender for governor since he has been in office. He’s good enough that if the Republican presidential primary was today, he would get my vote over any other currently announced candidate. Father was Bush I’s chief of staff, so have to assume he has a line on traditional GOP fundraising available to him. He’s anti-federalist, I think he handled Covid as (as a real and political minefield) as well as anyone in the country. Is he more likable than a Larry Hogan? I think so. Can a GOP centrist take the reigns from its current populist base… probably not. But, and this is a big but, but if somehow Trump and Desantis end up going into an open convention, a moderate with a couple of votes on the board might be a good place to be.

In fairness, I really don’t want the federal law to change, we don’t need a Budweiser of Bud dominating shelves nationwide

For the continuation of the I-95 corridor sprawl I would triangulate Portsmouth, Manchester and Nashua. The closer to a 4 lane road you are there the closer you are to mountains/Boston. Some may call this area North Massachusetts.

Inland, Keene is a very scenic downtown with a small college campus in town. The Lakes Region is beautiful. Northern towns like Woodstock, Littleton are nice.

I think it comes down to vocation. Working from home NH is your oyster, if you need a highway to connect to your office you are in the Portsmouth-Manchester-Nashua triangle

Are you vacationing or researching places to live?