My sister lives in Concord and every time I go to visit her I can't help but think how much wasted potential NH cities have. Concord, Manchester, Nashua, and Portsmouth are just tiny, fragmented downtowns surrounded by a bunch of single-family zoning. Imagine if everything was re-zoned and looked closer to Cambridge Mass.

Then again, I suspect people move to NH specifically because they like the rural character of the state.

What's stopping New Hampshire's cities from developing? It's like the "cities" in that state are just oversized towns.