If you haven't been, Montreal is so awesome and hip. Quebec city is a bit further but straight up feels like a small french city. It's absolutely beautiful and they don't speak much English lol. Very romantic city too with lots to do. The cafes and bakeries are phenomenal

It starts in February, but also March, and also April

Oh nice technically mixed use development, NH needs this. Only thing is the weirdly large amount of parking for a development downtown.

Manchester is meh alright, I still have my car and use it some days. I bet Portsmouth is the best bet in NH. Side note that Montreal not far from here is consistently rated the most bikable city in north America!

I was a bit surprised moving here. I came here for the mountains, I guess not many others did :/

• shoots self in foot not understanding where taxes go. Rail would lower your taxes

A common misconception in America is that services as such should generate "profit". While rail service like this is likely to never generate raw profit, it is astronomically lower to maintain than roadways as rail can go many years without maintenance and there are near zero treatment needs such as plowing and pothole repair.

The real gain or "profit" are two categories, local economy and gains with people who do still commute.

For the local community it's as easy to think hey, someone can live in Manchester and commute near Boston, this person lives here this generates revenue for local business with rent food etc.. it's proven time and time again rail infrastructure causes drastic economic growth near where it is implemented. Especially given that those who use it aren't tied to automobiles which frees up a lot of income for other expenses of theirs. These are naturally reinvested into the local economy.

For the other part, automobile traffic, trains can transport an impressive number of people quickly, not only will this remove those cars from the roads removing traffic we all hate, but it removes the cost of those roadways (granted the shrink or at least stop growing) which are dozens of times more expensive to maintain than a railway (for some reason we are all okay spilling our taxes on "one more lane" but not actually fixing the problem.

There are endless gains to rail as we see how most other developed countries have most of their population commuting by it.

Americans just need to stop thinking of it as a profit project but a tax saving project and economic growth opportunity.

I'm furious, they know we are getting closer and closer to rail finally returning to this state. Connecting nashua-manch-concord to the Boston metropolitan area would do wonders for our economy and the environment. It only hurts big oil and the auto industry, conveniently the guys lobbying against it and donating to the legislators.

Please please please reach out. We cannot afford to go backwards, this project will fix traffic and help our fuel and heat oil prices stay low by dramatically reducing oil use from automobiles. Also uh the environment lol

You guys sound fun! We've got probably some of the best of all the things you mention right here in the state. highland mountain bike park is the best. I go to Loon for downhill, it's cheaper and less busy (they have a 8 pack lift now). For xc biking there's trails everywhere! Join the NEMBA, a great group of mountain bikers meeting up mostly on week nights.

Skiing has been tough in recent years, climate change is hitting new England hard but we still get a couple good rippable months each year, I do the ikon pass as there are lots of big mountains nearby. If you like back country hit tuckermans ravine.

I'd recommend trips to Canada, it's so close to here and it's amazing for all these activities too!

New Hampshirites are kind of quiet and self contained, it's been a struggle meeting other outgoing people since I moved here. Naturally everything else you listed is found in the white mountains, you'll never get enough, if you want a challenge try "the 48" but be careful and prepared.

Two factors: sprawl, NH is very sparsely populated, this calls for a lot of lines at risk from trees and it also costs more for the state to operate so inherently lines are in rougher conditions. Mixed use medium density zoning which we see in a lot of other states or Canada has very reliable infrastructure and tax income to upkeep ratios for the city.

Other factor is climate, we are in the sweet spot for snow rain freeze-thaws, this puts ice and weight on trees and lines. Go north more and it's just snow, go south it's just rain.

Lol same

0 snow, we are nearing an all time record for low snow depth in the mountains. Looks like in a week or two some snow might drop up north

As a skier climate change has been devastating the last ten ish years :( even ruining my maple syrup harvest! The sap flows mid winter now and refreezes damaging the trees hence why it's not supposed to flow until it's warm out

65ish gallons, definitely want more!

27M in Manchester here, I've been to Portland a few times and love it but yeah maybe only as a tourist. The way you describe it unfortunately sounds so much like Manchester unfortunately. I just moved here from Nashua. I am very social, enjoy culture and people with the same intentions. I got involved in a lot of local activities and networks. I mean I wouldn't move here for your intentions. NH is OLD and trying to find young outdoorsy energetic people is devastatingly difficult. Manchester doesn't have much culture but if you pry into the woodwork you'll find some people. It's just going to be maybe ever slightly easier than your current location. I mean so far I love the city, but it's one strip of shops and stuff downtown that's about it.

Oh good luck! I've got 700, shooting for 1000 this year

Oh man getting out of propane was the first thing I did. I made a home-made oil drum, restaurant pot style evaporator that worked okay. How many taps do you run? I'm actually getting a leader micro extreme ro to replace my diy 400gpd membranes

Yes, I've visited his setup, the vacuum system does wonders! I'll invest in a vacuum system as well some day but man it's costly

I'm a maple producer. This actually ruins the season. Trees don't have unlimited sap. And at this time of year it's not viable to put taps in trees for most people, this is because the trees will freeze again and push the taps back out among other issues. So basically people like me just lost ~10% of their yield on top of the fact that thaws like this are detrimental to the health of a tree as all the sap that travels up the tree is going to refreeze now all the rest of winter

With the 60 degree weather on the way I think they might not at all this winter

As a skier, snowmobiler, ice skater; how in the world would someone participating in these activities not see climate change?? The ski season gets 5 days shorter every year, ice skating on lakes is rarely safe these days. Snowmobiling is almost almost actually dead in this region. It's kinda devastating. Just 10 years ago rocked. Climate scientists said new England has 15-20 years of skiable climate left, seeming more like 10-15 or less :(

Was at Sunday river by Bethel, can confirm, 28" of the good stuff. Was epic

Right now I think it's just some hikes scheduled, sometimes it's trivia or Dave n busters or bowling. I try to host socials at breweries here and there.

Check out 20's & 30's Hanging Out https://meetu.ps/c/QQmx/DCrX0/d on Meetup

Winter sports can be cheap if you find gear on fb marketplace and go to resorts like pats peak on cheap days to get started!