There is a strip mall, I guess it won by default because otherwise it’s no man’s land.

Mt Agamenticus is up around York so may be a little more than 30 minutes from Exeter, but it’s got a handful of different loops so you can choose different distances and the peak has gorgeous viewing platforms of the ocean and the looking inland at the other mountains. If you go during berry season there are ripe blueberries, blackberries and raspberries all over. I used to live in Portsmouth and it was one of my favorite morning hikes.

No point in looking at what you could sell it for unless you need to sell it.

Hopefully when you purchased you have a home you can afford and won’t sell at a bottom. If you bought a house in 2007 and held on to it until today you’d be fine, if you tried to flip it in 2008 or 2009 you’d take a big hit.

If you are planning on living there for a long time your concern should be affording your mortgage, nothing but stress and lost sleep at this point worrying you timed your purchase wrong.

Lincoln or Bedford.

Hope springs eternal! Someday the Portsmouth naval shipyard will join its rightful home state.