Having grown up in a poorly insulated trailer in NH, yeah the winters were brutal. But I'm glad I learned how to drive there, knowing how to handle the worst conditions, like black ice, freezing rain and wet leaves that will make a car hydroplane even at slow speeds. Funny, I had no idea what a New Hampshire accent sounded like until after I moved away.
@@justinwentworth1467 I'm tryin' ta find a video of someone with uh decent New Hampsha accent, th' only thing's coming up ah people that kinda speak it but not really plus a long scholahly vid ya'd probably wouldn't wanta watch. If a Bahsten accent and a Maine accent had a baby, it'd sound like somethin I grew up with.
I lived in New Hampshire for five years I'm sorry I left . I got stupid and moved to Oklahoma for a woman that didn't work out so I'll be moving back soon it's the nicest place I ever lived and I've lived in Hawaii .
@@GoldDust412honestly it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. It’s dark gloomy cold from November till April/May then you get mud season till June. So really you have July, August, September, October you can enjoy.
There are slightly cheaper areas than others. I absolutely love Virginia but the rent prices are killing us over 3000 a month and there is nothing less and we can't get a home loan Desperately looking to leave even though the community and weather is perfect
How do they get tax without any state tax? LAND TAX….in Claremont NH which was a run down place our land tax for our home was almost $800 a month…almost more than the mortgage. So if you want to move there make sure you look into towns with the lowest property taxes. Plus get a huge snow blower and a huge whole house generator.
I moved here from San Diego two years ago. It’s really beautiful here. Winters are long and can be brutal, last March where I live we had 4ft of snow dumped on us. If you’re from a warmer climate you’ll need to be prepared, we have a whole house generator and I’m glad for it since we lost power for a few days during said snow storm. There isn’t much to do here unless you’re into the outdoors. Houses are also fairly hard to find, we managed to find a place with 22 acres but finding places with acreage now is tough. We also pay about 7k a year in property taxes. We manage fine because my husband still works remotely from his same company in California. It’s a great place if you love all things outdoors and winter activities. If you hate that, you won’t like it here.
im seeing all sorts of listings for plenty of acreage tbh, just not any with houses built on them hahaha. But I think for many, 3 acres is more than enough land. And those plots have dwellings on them.
Hopefully you vote to get rid of the cons that we have as state reps. Thankfully Sununu is gone soon! Also, I hope you're not anything other than white, bc life will be difficult for you here. It's like the North East version of Kentucky.
@@eurtostance shIt you better not vote left or right.. this is a libertarian heritage state and it's only getting better every year thanks to the Free State Project and it's migration movement.
@@KaceyManjarrez@KaceyManjarrez It's better in almost every single way you can think of. It's safer (NH has always ranked the 1st or 2nd safest state in the nation) and Smarter (NH has always ranked #2 or # or highest intellect). The cost of living is about 60% cheaper, sometimes less. You could put a Trump sign on you lawn, your neighbor a Harris sign, and you will treat each other no differently than if you had no idea who they supported. Freeway traffic? What freeway traffic?! School wise, it is always excellent for kids. I could go on and on. I live in Exeter, NH. I longed for a small ith that same old-time feel that we thought no longer existed. Now, when people ask me about Exeter, I tell them to listen to the lyrics to "Mayberry", by Rascal Flatts. We literally live in that kind of town. We loved it so much that we started a UA-cam vlog channel about NH and New England. We hope it gives you an idea about life here. Come on over here! We'd love to have you in NH!! www.youtube.com/@MagicalNewEngland
Lifelong resident a bit older than you. I would agree with almost everything in this video. The only part I would disagree with slightly is the tourism issue. New Hampshire certainly is a tourist destination but the tourist don't generally flood across the state. They go to the seacoast, the lakes region, and the White Mountains. Not many flock to the Cheshire county, Grafton county, the Concord/Manchester/Nashua area, or the Great North Woods.
Yea, you got to deal with leaf peepers a little bit, but for the most part this state's traffic is a non-issue. No matter what time I leave for work I'm at my desk within a few minutes. Even when I have to cross town it's never more than 5-10 minutes and in NJ the same size town would take me 45 minutes to cross during rush hour. For a population of 30k people that's insane. I can get anywhere in the southern portion of the state within an hour's drive. Concord, Manchester, Nashua, Keene, even Vermont. Any place that matters basically. And there is never anything I'd say constitutes real traffic.
Grew up in NH and still live here. I have a love/hate relationship with NH. Love it in the summer fall and sometimes spring when we actually have one but winters here, as well as Maine and VT are brutal. It's basically like living in Antarctica with a few Dunkin Donuts here and there.
I grew up in NH, lived there for 28 years, then upstate NY for a few years, then Maine for 10. I can say NH, like all of the Northeast is a beautiful place to live if you love the outdoors, winter sports activities, and you can live with mosquitos and black flies in the Summertime. It's a great place to live if you like those things and you can afford it. You need a house with a paved driveway or every Spring you get stuck in the mud. You need an attached garage or you're scraping off ice every morning and having to run your car for 20 minutes before you can leave or your breath will freeze to the inside of the windshield making it impossible to see. If you have a fireplace you can cozy up to a fire on a cold day. These things are expensive anywhere, but they're extremely expensive in NH and ME. Schools are run by towns, and fully funded by towns, so if you have good schools count on at least $10k in annual property taxes. The roads get destroyed every winter from frost heaves and potholes, it's very expensive to maintain the roads. Government there has to spend a lot to maintain the basics, so you get less for your taxes than you might in other areas because of this. Heating your home is almost always done with oil-fired boilers, in the cold months expect to spend at least $1000 per month heating your home. It's not a bad place, like I said, if you have the money to be able to afford it. I live in GA now, while I love and miss the beauty of NH, I don't see me ever moving back.
Good summary and right on point. Despite this I still say NH is better than CT or MA! That said, GA is a pretty good place especially if you’re in the mountains.
I drove through there a couple years ago, drove behind an abandoned building to take a leak, and a cop car swarmed in after me. He asked me if I was looking to steal catalytic converters and wanted my ID and to look in my car. He saw I was OK, and said their town had been poisoned by cat converter thieves lately, and they were dying to make an arrest. This was in the SW area near VT.
I often look online and coming from the midwest I find it odd that a lot of median value homes in NH don't have a garage and always wondered about winters.
When I was growing up, my dad would take us to Hampton Beach, NH every summer for vacation. If my situation was different, I would move there in a heartbeat.
I'm trying to talk to my wife into being Snow Birds. I love NH and want to spend late Summer, Fall, and the beginning of Winter there. We reside in Florida and I'm fed up with hot weather.
I have lived in NH my whole life, got tired ofwinter and now spend it in Yuma Arizona very similar in cost as here for food fuel. I didn't even like visiting Florida in the winter for a week or two too crowded and humid also winter homes are really expensive and insurance is going thru the roof.
Not friendly to outsiders even if they are legacy families. Summer giant flies are pretty awful, then 30 below in the winter. From a NE Legacy family circa 1630.
lmao what? its not the 1700's. youre more than fine in the winter. no one is unwelcoming to outsiders. it doesnt even start snowing till mid January here now. you have 2.5 months of winter, and it usually isnt that bad. Youre hyping it up for a whole 4 likes
It goes down into the thirties in May in Central New Hampshire. In early June, huge mosquitoes are nearly ubiquitous until mid-August. Late summer and early fall is the best time in NH. October can get very cold.
@@tylergagnon4850 I see this a lot in the "don't move to Maine" videos too. Total exaggerations. I worked in NH over 30 years. Never felt unwelcome no matter where I went in the state.
So many covid refugees moved here from the cities like late 2020 through late 2022. I'm hoping they start returning and the real estate situation calms down. I'm looking to sell my current place for a bigger house in the Seacoast NH area.
My company moved me out here in 2000. Laid down roots and will never leave. My neighborhood has lots of history to explore as well as amazing trails and river views galore. Bugs, oh heck yes. They're annoying as it gets. Better than earthquakes and wildfires and tornadoes or serious hurricane surge issues. (save the coast, because coast). I'd say we can remain God's little secret if it's okay with you.
NH has a high rooms and meals tax and in the top states in property tax. It does tax interest and dividends on investments. Food costs are high, gas is up there and heating the house in the winter months is brutal. I lived in NH forty years but had to sell the house and move to Florida when I retired. My kids and grandkids still live there but job prospects most likely will force the grand kids to move unless they compromise their careers like I did to stay in NH. Most good jobs are south in the Boston area unless you are a professional self employed or work in tourism.
@@connaryscott I love the increasing libertarians moving here. Keep those dems at bay and actually reduce taxes... not just talk about it like all the republicans. Did you know the state actually cut its budget not just taxes recently? Crazy! They're doing what the republicans always promised us but never actually did.
@@jickjackyoulooking forward to no regulations on anything, too. Wanna pollute that river? Dump your Roundup in my groundwater? Go for it! We’re Libertarians!
I can’t wait to get out of this state and move to SC lived in salem my whole life and can’t even buy a house anywhere not building enough houses and everybody from mass moving into all the new houses
I grew up in Salem and left about 22 years ago. I'm still in NH but not in Salem. Every time I go back there I can't believe how much it's changed. 28 looks like New Jersey and Joe Faro thinks he's the king of Salem.
You took the words right out of my mouth. People born and raised here who have jobs can’t buy anything because since covid everyone’s moving up here from MA. Since covid 4 of the houses on our road were bought by MA people. They complain to the town about everything, try raising the property taxes to pay for the lunch ladies dental insurance, the shit they are trying to do here is stupid.
Excellent video! I came Super Close to moving to NH in 1990. I was invited to a trip to Florida and never left. Hurricanes and all. I have zero regrets. Now I just fly to NH to visit when I really want to. It's s beautiful state. And so are the people. ✌️❤️ ~ 🦋
If you like paying property tax rates more akin to being rent New Hampshire might be the state for you! It's beautiful up there but the winters can be as brutal as the property tax!
I’m from Rhode Island. Specifically Providence. WTF is up with the property tax here in NH? I live here now, but wtf is up with this high price BS for small ass houses??
@@Kal-El207 In the early 2000's my mother was paying 6,000 a year in property tax on a 200k house. I told her that isn't property tax that is paying the state to rent your own house from them!
Buffalo winters make NH winters look like Club Med and it costs me $150 a month to heat my 2000 sq ft home. Why doesn’t NH have energy efficient homes like everywhere else in North America.
Buffalo has a 58% historical chance of a white Christmas, while Concord's probability is closer to 70%. Plus I used to live out in western NY and yeah, it can snow a lot but half the time there's nothing on the ground except maybe in the Tug Hill plateau. The snow is fluffy and lacks the density of New England snow, so it melts more quickly. That's because less heat of fusion (sunlight) is needed to melt the fluffier snow. On balance there's not a lot of difference between the two places, but for snow cover that's reliable I would give central NH the edge, esp. in the hills where I now live.
Property taxes are high, but with no state sales or income tax, it MORE than makes up for it! I moved from NH to Maine... my property taxes are 20% of what I paid in NH, but all of the other taxes make me regret the move. "Excise Tax" alone in ME is over $500 a year in ME, that tax doesn't exist in NH. I drove busses in NH... the company in Concord pays BETTER starting wages than Greyhound or Peter Pan! The jobs ARE there!!!
Sales taxes are less "invasive" if I have little or no money , I stay home and do less shopping; but I have to "live" somewhere, LOL... so I HAVE to pay my property tax bill...@@dennisdmenace6249
@@tedmartin5239 FALSE. State Income Tax in Maine, NOT NH. Sales Tax... Maine, NOT NH. The ONLY tax "benefit" in Maine is lower property taxes. Excise Tax...? NOT in NH.... In Maine... over $500 (for me). I am NOT rich, I earn just around 50k per year, so that excuse doesn't fly!
I’ve been there during the winter. I came from rhode island (so no shock of the change) It is fucking cold in the winter, and my beach life salty air face did not like the mountain air, but it’s beautiful.
@@timlewis9873 Currently live in SNH and have been looking into Maine - what would be your top 3 things you like more about Maine? Healthcare for me is probably most important as I get older.
Sounds like an awesome place for my retirement years! I live in Alaska so winters don’t scare me. But I do want all 4 seasons, which AK doesn’t really have. I love having white Christmas and New Year’s so I’m good with snow. No sales or income tax is great. AK has really high property taxes so I’m used to that as well. And that’s fine cuz my house will be paid in full so property taxes wont be as burdensome. Lack of job opportunities is not an issue to retirees, but having low crime rate and good health care system is exactly what I’d be looking for. I would also live being closer to cultural hubs and travel opportunities. It’s a nightmare getting out of Alaska doesn’t matter where you need to go. Even getting to Cali is all-day ordeal. I need to visit NH soon and get my hubby sold on it :)
The best state I’ve never been to? I used to LIVE there, in Manchester. Let me tell you about it. NH is a wonderful state, it has beautiful scenery, lots of opportunities for people who love outdoor activities. It’s also relatively cheap by New England standards, sporting lower property prices (just). Wages in NH can be lower, so most people choose to live in Southern NH and work in Massachusetts where salaries are higher, however if you live and work in NH you can enjoy an income tax free working experience. You can ALSO enjoy a SALES TAX free experience as well, which is also why a lot of people who live in NH work in MA, and people who live in MA go shopping in NH. If you like having civil liberties, you also can’t do much better than NH - which is by far one of the most largely libertarian states in the country. It’s particularly safe, and has constitutional carry laws as well. Recreational marijuana isn’t legal for some reason but it’s rarely enforced and medicinal marijuana is legal and sold in the state. Not everything about NH is all sunshine and roses though. It’s COLD in the winter, and snowy. Really snowy. And despite this, NH has an oddly trash policy on when it decides to salt roads in winter to prevent people from slipping and sliding all over the place… namely it feels like they never do. So invest in some fantastic winter tires and get ready to pull some sick Initial D moves on the road in winter to avoid hitting people, because most people in New Hampshire decide that auto insurance isn’t necessary and don’t fucking have it. How fun. Also if you aren’t super into outdoorsy activities, NH may be quite boring. It’s also not as cheap as equivalently cold or boring states, however don’t fret. There’s more than enough stuff around NH and in surrounding states to keep people entertained enough while they save up to travel elsewhere. NH is my favorite state, I recommend it to anyone who even feels like they’d just wanna stop by as a day drive. It’s worth visiting at least once I’d say. Destinations can include Nashua for shopping, Manchester for activities and food, Conway and North Conway for small mountain town vibes and some more shopping, Franconia Notch for mountain roads, pretty lakes and intense weather patterns with thunder storms like they write about in fantasy films.
I lived there fifty years ago, and the black flies made it impossible to be outside in the spring. Now I live in western MA which has been voted the best state to live in as well as the best state for raising kids.
I do electrical work in New Hampshire and they are building houses and condo developments like crazy. But they’re selling them way before they are even built. So many massive custom homes all along southern New Hampshire. Doing one right now up on winnipesaukee, they’re selling for just under a million.
They need to build up the south more, like Nashua and manchester. At least Salem has Tuscan village going up. But those are just sort of the over saturated high-end apartments. I think it's best to build on what's already built on. And try and preserve the more rural areas.
No income tax and no sales tax more than makes up for the other expenses. Look at the ratings. NH always finishes near the bottom of total taxes paid. Usually only beaten by Alaska that gets oil subsidies. In every survey of quality of life, healthcare, education etc NH ranks in the top 5. Crime rate almost non-existent outside Manchester and Nashua. If you don’t want to pay high real estate taxes….then buy a smaller house. Smaller house, less heating, less maintenance less taxes. How much do you Southerners pay for AC from March to October? In NH I use AC maybe 4 or 5 days a year. Heating sure…you want you big house at 75 degrees you’re gonna pay. Smaller house 70 degrees and I have natural gas … I pay about $100 a month. You want a Mc Mansion, then be prepared to pay. Remember, the vast majority of those taxes stay in YOUR town not shipped off to some giant bureaucracy. Our legislature only meets 3 months a year and they’re paid $100 plus mileage, so the incentive to be a “professional” politician isn’t there. You have the best of 4 seasons here. I’m an hour from the ocean, 1.5 hours from Boston, I live in the mountains, skiing is 30 from the time I leave the house. Snowmobiling, ice fishing, you name it. Every season has its adventures. Even with our long winters our roads put Massachusetts’s to shame. Their roads…SUK! Sure, you live on a rural dirt road be prepared for mud season. Other than that our roads are great because YOUR taxes fix YOUR roads not someone else’s. No mater how cold it is outside I just out on another layer and I’m toasty. 90 degrees and 90% humidity? I don’t care what you do you’re not comfortable unless you’re trapped in the house with AC. No place is perfect, and personal preference is always key, but there is a reason we have a housing shortage and people are pouring into the state. Quality of life matters
Ain’t just tourists. It’s US. The people ain’t fighting for affordable housing anywhere. We’re just letting mayors, district officials and whoever else has power to change that, we’re allowing them to fuck us. I’m from Rhode Island and moved here after living in Ohio for 3 years. It’s the same issue as Providence. NOBODY is fighting for anything. Just complaining. We need to band together and force change. Force changes for affordable housing, more job opportunities, better healthcare, lowered property taxes etc. that’s the only way. Pointing the finger at tourists won’t do jack shit. FIGHTING back and reclaiming the right to live decently is the way to go. But ya’ll don’t hear me though.
I have lived in New Hampshire. Beautiful state. Freaking cold in the winter. All 6 months of it. Don't be fooled by the fact that NH does not have an income tax or a sales tax. Your property taxes are astronomical. 10 to 14 thousand dollars a year for property taxes are normal. Your tag renewal for your car is equally astronomical. 800 or more per year.
Yeah, 10% property taxes in Texas sounds fishy@@justinperez8668 ... I just checked the most expensive Ft. Worth area; the tax rate is 2.26%; so, a $500k house owner pays $11,300 per year, not $50k; compared that to $8k in a rural Texas area, and in another state like Nebraska is would be around $5,000 per year for the same house.
Looked into this state. Property tax is way too high (state has to compensate for no sales and income tax), cost of living is high, cold as hell, Lyme disease, houses are expensive. But the state is beautiful.
We have a vacation home in Colebrook and our next-door neighbors left New Jersey to live in Colebrook. They are so happy they did. But in small towns, you really need to be able to cook because good restaurants are hard to find.
It ain’t going down fam. I’m from New England. Specifically Rhode Island. I moved to the Midwest and then back to New England. I’m in NH right now. These rents ain’t never lowering. Ever. Unless people fight for it.
Because there’s people who love things like skiing, hiking, ice fishing, camping, backpacking, beautiful scenery, changing seasons etc. Not everyone wants to sweat 365 days a year
@@Metalmirq The most of us who want to enjoy those sports would rather go to Idaho, Wyoming or Montana than New Hampshirite, if for no other reason than avoiding the liberal mind hive that exists there. I just don’t want to spent my hard earned money there unless I had to go through on the way somewhere saner.
@@cherokeejack7757 “liberal mind hive”? In New Hampshire?! Hahaha that’s hilarious. Maybe the Mass transplants along the coast, but it’s more like gun totin’ libertarian in most of the state.
Moved here because I’m originally from New England. I’m from the capital of Rhode Island, I’ll let you Google that. I moved to the Midwest and it got too dangerous where I was at. So I came back to New England but didn’t want to be in RI. I can’t stand Mass and CT is a strange wasteland. ME is too far and VT ain’t my cup of tea. So NH was the perfect fit. I can’t say what I like about it. Idk yet. I hope things get better is all. Plus, I got all my family in Boston and Rhode Island. So it’s a perfect distance. That’s why I chose it. New England is all I know.
I couldn’t agree more. I lived in NH in my twenties and tripled my salary by taking a job outside the state in my thirties. Love spending time up there on vacations but I’ll never move back.
Anyone that actually wants a job in NH can find one. The unemployment rate is almost always one of the lowest in the USA. The overall tax burden is one of the very lowest. Insurance one of the lowest. You only have high property tax if you live in expensive housing. No sales tax no income tax and I believe the tax on dividends and interest was eliminated.
@@richardhoner7842 Don't know why you keep lying to people, you must not live here or you must live near Franlkyn bc there is nothing this state loves than over taxing property owners so the politicians can pad their pockets even though they don't live here.
You didn’t mention if you enjoy the wilderness that you will get Lyme disease which all my friends have they’re all crippled. The ticks are brutal in New Hampshire and that’s the best thing I ever did move out of that state the taxes were killing me. Property taxes .l moved out west I’ll never go east.
@@KrystynaSvon Not mandatory, there are employers that demand the shot and some have lost their jobs due to refusing the shot. My property taxes just went up. My taxes are insanely high for a small home. Also, the laws here are very much in tune with democrats except for gun laws. It won't take long for that to change in my opinion. The Governor of NH has vetoed many anti gun bills over his tenure and he is retiring. I don't see our new Governor doing the same.
So, I’m an architectural drafter, I’m currently located in Tennessee, western Tennessee, so no mountains, it’s more like Kansas with the occasional hill and Memphis 😭 brutal hot summers, mostly boring scenery, winters do get snowy, but like 6” of snow is considered a big one, we get tornados, and tropical storms, which I actually like, but it’s only a few months out of the year, I’m looking to relocate in the next 3 years to somewhere in New England, but I’m not 100% sure where, I would like to live somewhere I could find a good architectural drafting job, it’s just me and my dog, I’ve just always loved the north east US and it’s always been a dream of mine to live there. Do you have some good suggestions for smaller towns, neighboring towns, within 45 minutes of larger population centers, such as Boston, Manchester, Portland, etc
My wife grew up here (NH) and is why I now live here. We raised most of our children here and we may die here. That said.... NH does NOT have "harsh winters". It has WINTER. There are many other places though that DO have "harsh winters". But it also has the other seasons (in spite of many of the comments). Fall used to be stunning, but the past handful of years, not so much. But the thing about NH's beauty and different types of beauty, is that you can see them ALL in a single day if you like. They are within easy driving distances. PROPERTY TAXES SUCK though. Yes, there are other offsets for that, but in some places the property taxes actually drive people out of their homes. It is by far my only real complaint about NH.... aside from people flooding in from "other places" and trying to turn it into the crap holes they LEFT. Stop it.
There is an income tax if you work in Massachusetts regardless of living in NH, aka the state you will most likely work. NH has minimal factory, finance, tech, and basically every other professional field availability. It’s all in Massachusetts.
I lived in Bow from 1981 to 2011. There was not one year in 30 that my property tax did not increase. When I retired, if I stayed in my house almost all of my Social Security would be needed to just pay property tax and insurance. It took about $3000 year to heat and cool my house. I don’t know how my grand kids will ever be able to afford the state.
@@Metalmirq most places aren’t facing the kind of housing shortage New Hampshire has which is driving up rents and asking prices for homes to the point that homelessness increased by more than 50% in just the last year. Tent cities are popping up everywhere while an increasingly small number of residents (mostly old boomers) are living the high life. Is that happening everywhere?
@@steveclark8304 if I moved back down south where I grew up I could be living much better than I am now, the problem is all the psycho Christians live down there
@Kal-El207 it just sucks when you hear people talk about "good jobs" and you find out they only pay $20-$25/hr. That's nowhere near enough to live comfortably in RI, Mass or CT.
Need to be wealthy to live here. Rents are skyrocketing as people from surrounding states move here. I will probably be forced to move in the next year or two. Also it doesn't have a lot of resources for lower income or elderly. The waiting list to get on affordable housing list is 6 to 8 years and you have to literally be completely destitute to qualify.
New Hampshire people are very kind and welcoming unless you move here with a chip on your shoulder thinking you know better or are going to change the state to your liking. If you are like that it's pretty rough sledding. Just being honest
@@mangomaharaja6859 Lifelong resident, in my fifties. NH is not very diverse ethnically but in my experience New Hampshire residents are welcoming and curious about other cultures.
Don't move here to commute to mass. Route 3, 95 and 495 are the worst getting home. Takes hours. Massholes suck. But the White Mountains rule. If you haven't driven the Kancamagus in fall, you need to try it. So worth it.
Oh you don’t want people clogging up your roads down there but you’ll send them up north huh? Haha. Kidding it is a beautiful drive, as long as you do at least to posted speed limit and pull over to look at all the pretty leaves, it’s still a state highway that some people commute to work on.
@@Ogrematic you’re incorrect NH Rt112, the Kancamuagus highway, on the east starts in Conway NH and has homes along it, even neighborhoods off of it. It does cut through the center of the White mountain national forest however it is still a highway, people do live in it and I personally commute to work, as a guide, into the national forest. My point above was, if you’re peeping leaves pull over or drive the at least the posted speed limit please.
@Livetheseacoast that's great news. We are tired of California with their stupid laws. We are planning to visit New Hampshire this summer and hopefully will sell our property and move there. We love the idea of having normal neighbors, safety for kids, and the beauty of New Hampshire. We will contact you when we are ready to purchase a new home. Thank you for a great video.
@@josephbaumann292NH is mostly Homogeneously White, TX has a large population of the 6% of Americans that commit over half of this countries violent crime. FACTS.
Our Town Meeting form of local government is true democracy where every citizen can be heard and vote. Education is poorly funded by the state, so it falls on the property owners. Our state university is quite expensive because it relies heavily on tuition and fees. Much of the land is forested, so except for the cities electricity fails when there is a storm. Almost everyone in my neighborhood now has a whole house generator! The mountains and valleys interfere with cell phone service. There is virtually no public transportation except in the major cities. It's a friendly state because we have to rely on each other for services that other states provide their residents.
Dont waste your time. New hampshire pay is garbage. And homes are just as expensive as cali. To get any good paying jobs you might as well move to mass and your right back in cali. Inventory is very low. Most communities built in new hamp are 55+ and work shortage is horrible. 2 out of three people in this state are 55+ and taxes are no different than most states. Property taxes are extreme. Trust me they make up for no income tax.
Having grown up in a poorly insulated trailer in NH, yeah the winters were brutal. But I'm glad I learned how to drive there, knowing how to handle the worst conditions, like black ice, freezing rain and wet leaves that will make a car hydroplane even at slow speeds. Funny, I had no idea what a New Hampshire accent sounded like until after I moved away.
What does it sound like, I don’t hear it!!
@@justinwentworth1467 I'm tryin' ta find a video of someone with uh decent New Hampsha accent, th' only thing's coming up ah people that kinda speak it but not really plus a long scholahly vid ya'd probably wouldn't wanta watch. If a Bahsten accent and a Maine accent had a baby, it'd sound like somethin I grew up with.
I lived in New Hampshire for five years I'm sorry I left . I got stupid and moved to Oklahoma for a woman that didn't work out so I'll be moving back soon it's the nicest place I ever lived and I've lived in Hawaii .
Can’t wait to leave Hawaii -
@sirclarkmarz What part is the most preferred?
@@GoldDust412honestly it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. It’s dark gloomy cold from November till April/May then you get mud season till June. So really you have July, August, September, October you can enjoy.
Not unless you enjoy skiing
It's Expensive EVERYWHERE!
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And, Love where you Live!
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Best answer!
Besides, I'm from California. So almost anything is objectively cheaper no matter which state I move to 😂
There are slightly cheaper areas than others. I absolutely love Virginia but the rent prices are killing us over 3000 a month and there is nothing less and we can't get a home loan
Desperately looking to leave even though the community and weather is perfect
How do they get tax without any state tax? LAND TAX….in Claremont NH which was a run down place our land tax for our home was almost $800 a month…almost more than the mortgage. So if you want to move there make sure you look into towns with the lowest property taxes. Plus get a huge snow blower and a huge whole house generator.
I moved here from San Diego two years ago. It’s really beautiful here. Winters are long and can be brutal, last March where I live we had 4ft of snow dumped on us. If you’re from a warmer climate you’ll need to be prepared, we have a whole house generator and I’m glad for it since we lost power for a few days during said snow storm.
There isn’t much to do here unless you’re into the outdoors. Houses are also fairly hard to find, we managed to find a place with 22 acres but finding places with acreage now is tough. We also pay about 7k a year in property taxes. We manage fine because my husband still works remotely from his same company in California. It’s a great place if you love all things outdoors and winter activities. If you hate that, you won’t like it here.
Hi i would like to move to new Hampshire soon
im seeing all sorts of listings for plenty of acreage tbh, just not any with houses built on them hahaha. But I think for many, 3 acres is more than enough land. And those plots have dwellings on them.
You better not vote Democrat
Hopefully you vote to get rid of the cons that we have as state reps. Thankfully Sununu is gone soon! Also, I hope you're not anything other than white, bc life will be difficult for you here. It's like the North East version of Kentucky.
@@eurtostance shIt you better not vote left or right.. this is a libertarian heritage state and it's only getting better every year thanks to the Free State Project and it's migration movement.
Moved here from LA (after living there for over 35 years), and this state is the best place I've ever been to. I will NEVER move away.
@marcoslopez6030 Yes, it really is amazing.
I love hearing this, I’m in LA and thinking of doing the same. Can I ask why it’s the best place for you?
@@KaceyManjarrez No, stay in LA
@@KaceyManjarrez@KaceyManjarrez It's better in almost every single way you can think of. It's safer (NH has always ranked the 1st or 2nd safest state in the nation) and Smarter (NH has always ranked #2 or # or highest intellect). The cost of living is about 60% cheaper, sometimes less. You could put a Trump sign on you lawn, your neighbor a Harris sign, and you will treat each other no differently than if you had no idea who they supported. Freeway traffic? What freeway traffic?! School wise, it is always excellent for kids. I could go on and on. I live in Exeter, NH. I longed for a small ith that same old-time feel that we thought no longer existed. Now, when people ask me about Exeter, I tell them to listen to the lyrics to "Mayberry", by Rascal Flatts. We literally live in that kind of town. We loved it so much that we started a UA-cam vlog channel about NH and New England. We hope it gives you an idea about life here. Come on over here! We'd love to have you in NH!! www.youtube.com/@MagicalNewEngland
@@KaceyManjarrez I wrote you a long response a day ago, but it disappeared. Did you see it?
Lifelong resident a bit older than you. I would agree with almost everything in this video. The only part I would disagree with slightly is the tourism issue. New Hampshire certainly is a tourist destination but the tourist don't generally flood across the state. They go to the seacoast, the lakes region, and the White Mountains. Not many flock to the Cheshire county, Grafton county, the Concord/Manchester/Nashua area, or the Great North Woods.
Yea, you got to deal with leaf peepers a little bit, but for the most part this state's traffic is a non-issue. No matter what time I leave for work I'm at my desk within a few minutes. Even when I have to cross town it's never more than 5-10 minutes and in NJ the same size town would take me 45 minutes to cross during rush hour. For a population of 30k people that's insane. I can get anywhere in the southern portion of the state within an hour's drive. Concord, Manchester, Nashua, Keene, even Vermont. Any place that matters basically. And there is never anything I'd say constitutes real traffic.
Love NH in the summer! Its gorgeous. Maine as well
Grew up in NH and still live here. I have a love/hate relationship with NH. Love it in the summer fall and sometimes spring when we actually have one but winters here, as well as Maine and VT are brutal. It's basically like living in Antarctica with a few Dunkin Donuts here and there.
I grew up in NH, lived there for 28 years, then upstate NY for a few years, then Maine for 10. I can say NH, like all of the Northeast is a beautiful place to live if you love the outdoors, winter sports activities, and you can live with mosquitos and black flies in the Summertime. It's a great place to live if you like those things and you can afford it. You need a house with a paved driveway or every Spring you get stuck in the mud. You need an attached garage or you're scraping off ice every morning and having to run your car for 20 minutes before you can leave or your breath will freeze to the inside of the windshield making it impossible to see. If you have a fireplace you can cozy up to a fire on a cold day. These things are expensive anywhere, but they're extremely expensive in NH and ME. Schools are run by towns, and fully funded by towns, so if you have good schools count on at least $10k in annual property taxes. The roads get destroyed every winter from frost heaves and potholes, it's very expensive to maintain the roads. Government there has to spend a lot to maintain the basics, so you get less for your taxes than you might in other areas because of this. Heating your home is almost always done with oil-fired boilers, in the cold months expect to spend at least $1000 per month heating your home. It's not a bad place, like I said, if you have the money to be able to afford it. I live in GA now, while I love and miss the beauty of NH, I don't see me ever moving back.
Good summary and right on point. Despite this I still say NH is better than CT or MA! That said, GA is a pretty good place especially if you’re in the mountains.
I drove through there a couple years ago, drove behind an abandoned building to take a leak, and a cop car swarmed in after me. He asked me if I was looking to steal catalytic converters and wanted my ID and to look in my car. He saw I was OK, and said their town had been poisoned by cat converter thieves lately, and they were dying to make an arrest. This was in the SW area near VT.
Matt, btw, yours was a 5 star comment. Should be 'pinned'.
Lifetime resident, he is basically spot on!
I often look online and coming from the midwest I find it odd that a lot of median value homes in NH don't have a garage and always wondered about winters.
It's absolutely gorgeous here. 😊
When I was growing up, my dad would take us to Hampton Beach, NH every summer for vacation. If my situation was different, I would move there in a heartbeat.
I'm trying to talk to my wife into being Snow Birds. I love NH and want to spend late Summer, Fall, and the beginning of Winter there.
We reside in Florida and I'm fed up with hot weather.
Me too. I live in Orlando now and it's too hot. I would love to move up north where it's a little cooler.
Keep Rhonda Santis down there
Don’t do it. You’ll regret it. We flatlanders need not subject ourselves to such pain.
Hot and humid sucks it drains you takes the life out of you.
I have lived in NH my whole life, got tired ofwinter and now spend it in Yuma Arizona very similar in cost as here for food fuel. I didn't even like visiting Florida in the winter for a week or two too crowded and humid also winter homes are really expensive and insurance is going thru the roof.
Not friendly to outsiders even if they are legacy families. Summer giant flies are pretty awful, then 30 below in the winter. From a NE Legacy family circa 1630.
lmao what? its not the 1700's. youre more than fine in the winter. no one is unwelcoming to outsiders. it doesnt even start snowing till mid January here now. you have 2.5 months of winter, and it usually isnt that bad. Youre hyping it up for a whole 4 likes
It goes down into the thirties in May in Central New Hampshire. In early June, huge mosquitoes are nearly ubiquitous until mid-August. Late summer and early fall is the best time in NH. October can get very cold.
Nashua is a 3rd world country so is Manchester
@@tylergagnon4850 I see this a lot in the "don't move to Maine" videos too. Total exaggerations. I worked in NH over 30 years. Never felt unwelcome no matter where I went in the state.
New Hampshire is the best place ever born an raised an here an dont have pla s on moving any time soon gearing up for another winter
So many covid refugees moved here from the cities like late 2020 through late 2022. I'm hoping they start returning and the real estate situation calms down. I'm looking to sell my current place for a bigger house in the Seacoast NH area.
My company moved me out here in 2000. Laid down roots and will never leave. My neighborhood has lots of history to explore as well as amazing trails and river views galore. Bugs, oh heck yes. They're annoying as it gets. Better than earthquakes and wildfires and tornadoes or serious hurricane surge issues. (save the coast, because coast). I'd say we can remain God's little secret if it's okay with you.
NH has a high rooms and meals tax and in the top states in property tax. It does tax interest and dividends on investments. Food costs are high, gas is up there and heating the house in the winter months is brutal. I lived in NH forty years but had to sell the house and move to Florida when I retired. My kids and grandkids still live there but job prospects most likely will force the grand kids to move unless they compromise their careers like I did to stay in NH. Most good jobs are south in the Boston area unless you are a professional self employed or work in tourism.
For dividends and interest , It’s being phased out. 2022 5 %, 2023 4%, next year 3% … until it’s phased out completely in a few years
@@connaryscott I love the increasing libertarians moving here. Keep those dems at bay and actually reduce taxes... not just talk about it like all the republicans. Did you know the state actually cut its budget not just taxes recently? Crazy! They're doing what the republicans always promised us but never actually did.
@@connaryscott they are going to have to reverse that..booze sales starting to decrease and ed funding increases coming
@@jickjackyoulooking forward to no regulations on anything, too. Wanna pollute that river? Dump your Roundup in my groundwater? Go for it! We’re Libertarians!
I can’t wait to get out of this state and move to SC lived in salem my whole life and can’t even buy a house anywhere not building enough houses and everybody from mass moving into all the new houses
I grew up in Salem and left about 22 years ago. I'm still in NH but not in Salem. Every time I go back there I can't believe how much it's changed. 28 looks like New Jersey and Joe Faro thinks he's the king of Salem.
SC dangerous af. Have fun.
You took the words right out of my mouth. People born and raised here who have jobs can’t buy anything because since covid everyone’s moving up here from MA. Since covid 4 of the houses on our road were bought by MA people. They complain to the town about everything, try raising the property taxes to pay for the lunch ladies dental insurance, the shit they are trying to do here is stupid.
I lived in downtown Nashua for 4 years. It was fantastic. That was in the late 90’s tho. I have no idea how prices are now
I actually like living in New Hampshire.
That whole area is just awesome.
Excellent video!
I came Super Close to moving to NH in 1990.
I was invited to a trip to Florida and never left. Hurricanes and all. I have zero regrets. Now I just fly to NH to visit when I really want to. It's s beautiful state. And so are the people. ✌️❤️
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If you like paying property tax rates more akin to being rent New Hampshire might be the state for you! It's beautiful up there but the winters can be as brutal as the property tax!
I’m from Rhode Island. Specifically Providence. WTF is up with the property tax here in NH? I live here now, but wtf is up with this high price BS for small ass houses??
@@Kal-El207 In the early 2000's my mother was paying 6,000 a year in property tax on a 200k house. I told her that isn't property tax that is paying the state to rent your own house from them!
@@Kal-El207 "Tax free NH". Yeah right!
Buffalo winters make NH winters look like Club Med and it costs me $150 a month to heat my 2000 sq ft home. Why doesn’t NH have energy efficient homes like everywhere else in North America.
Buffalo has a 58% historical chance of a white Christmas, while Concord's probability is closer to 70%. Plus I used to live out in western NY and yeah, it can snow a lot but half the time there's nothing on the ground except maybe in the Tug Hill plateau. The snow is fluffy and lacks the density of New England snow, so it melts more quickly. That's because less heat of fusion (sunlight) is needed to melt the fluffier snow. On balance there's not a lot of difference between the two places, but for snow cover that's reliable I would give central NH the edge, esp. in the hills where I now live.
Property taxes are VERY high in New Ham[shire.
True!
Why do people let it stay that way? Fight for affordable housing.
Re taxes. They don’t fund the whole state from those liquor stores on the highway. Property taxes much higher than neighboring states.
Property taxes are among the highest in the NATION...
Property taxes are high, but with no state sales or income tax, it MORE than makes up for it! I moved from NH to Maine... my property taxes are 20% of what I paid in NH, but all of the other taxes make me regret the move. "Excise Tax" alone in ME is over $500 a year in ME, that tax doesn't exist in NH.
I drove busses in NH... the company in Concord pays BETTER starting wages than Greyhound or Peter Pan! The jobs ARE there!!!
Sales taxes are less "invasive" if I have little or no money , I stay home and do less shopping; but I have to "live" somewhere, LOL... so I HAVE to pay my property tax bill...@@dennisdmenace6249
@@dennisdmenace6249 That only happens in the case where one has a LOT of money and goes shopping a LOT...lol
@@tedmartin5239 FALSE. State Income Tax in Maine, NOT NH.
Sales Tax... Maine, NOT NH.
The ONLY tax "benefit" in Maine is lower property taxes.
Excise Tax...? NOT in NH....
In Maine... over $500 (for me).
I am NOT rich, I earn just around 50k per year, so that excuse doesn't fly!
as someone who lives in Portsmouth its funny watching this video and recognizing pretty much every place he films
I’ve been there during the winter.
I came from rhode island (so no shock of the change)
It is fucking cold in the winter, and my beach life salty air face did not like the mountain air, but it’s beautiful.
2007, I got flooded out and moved from Concord NH to the Bangor Maine area. I've been in Maine for 16 years and will never go back to NH.
Maine is better than New Hampshire all around .
@@tedmartin5239 Lived in N.H. for 18 1/2 yrs. Moved back to Maine with no regrets.Love it.
@@timlewis9873 Currently live in SNH and have been looking into Maine - what would be your top 3 things you like more about Maine? Healthcare for me is probably most important as I get older.
Is Maine better all around? If so, how? Or why?
Beautiful video!
Sounds like an awesome place for my retirement years! I live in Alaska so winters don’t scare me. But I do want all 4 seasons, which AK doesn’t really have. I love having white Christmas and New Year’s so I’m good with snow. No sales or income tax is great. AK has really high property taxes so I’m used to that as well. And that’s fine cuz my house will be paid in full so property taxes wont be as burdensome. Lack of job opportunities is not an issue to retirees, but having low crime rate and good health care system is exactly what I’d be looking for. I would also live being closer to cultural hubs and travel opportunities. It’s a nightmare getting out of Alaska doesn’t matter where you need to go. Even getting to Cali is all-day ordeal. I need to visit NH soon and get my hubby sold on it :)
Would love to move there but all of the houses are contingent!!
I love the life here in Coos county.
dang, the place is stunning, but i would pass living the during there the winter tho.
Cheers from Sao Paulo, Brazil
The best state I’ve never been to? I used to LIVE there, in Manchester. Let me tell you about it.
NH is a wonderful state, it has beautiful scenery, lots of opportunities for people who love outdoor activities. It’s also relatively cheap by New England standards, sporting lower property prices (just). Wages in NH can be lower, so most people choose to live in Southern NH and work in Massachusetts where salaries are higher, however if you live and work in NH you can enjoy an income tax free working experience.
You can ALSO enjoy a SALES TAX free experience as well, which is also why a lot of people who live in NH work in MA, and people who live in MA go shopping in NH.
If you like having civil liberties, you also can’t do much better than NH - which is by far one of the most largely libertarian states in the country. It’s particularly safe, and has constitutional carry laws as well. Recreational marijuana isn’t legal for some reason but it’s rarely enforced and medicinal marijuana is legal and sold in the state.
Not everything about NH is all sunshine and roses though. It’s COLD in the winter, and snowy. Really snowy. And despite this, NH has an oddly trash policy on when it decides to salt roads in winter to prevent people from slipping and sliding all over the place… namely it feels like they never do. So invest in some fantastic winter tires and get ready to pull some sick Initial D moves on the road in winter to avoid hitting people, because most people in New Hampshire decide that auto insurance isn’t necessary and don’t fucking have it. How fun.
Also if you aren’t super into outdoorsy activities, NH may be quite boring. It’s also not as cheap as equivalently cold or boring states, however don’t fret. There’s more than enough stuff around NH and in surrounding states to keep people entertained enough while they save up to travel elsewhere.
NH is my favorite state, I recommend it to anyone who even feels like they’d just wanna stop by as a day drive. It’s worth visiting at least once I’d say. Destinations can include Nashua for shopping, Manchester for activities and food, Conway and North Conway for small mountain town vibes and some more shopping, Franconia Notch for mountain roads, pretty lakes and intense weather patterns with thunder storms like they write about in fantasy films.
NH has the best State government. It always rated as one of the best States to live or have a business.
Yeah move here and you’ll see the opposite. High property tax. High rent. Little to no job opportunity. And everyone LOVES driving like they hate you.
I lived there fifty years ago, and the black flies made it impossible to be outside in the spring. Now I live in western MA which has been voted the best state to live in as well as the best state for raising kids.
No gun rights in Massachusetts, the voters and politicians are all leftists and communists.
Hey sport, you misspelled TX.
You got that right. I’ll never even waste my time visiting.
Best title ever.
Haha thank you so much for the comment!
The jobs that are in NH pay significantly less. Driving into MA to work is a challenge to say the least.
I’ll stay here in NH born in Boston which is a mess down there glad I’m here no sales tax beautiful mountains lakes
There are no homes available in NH. Not one take my word for it you are wasting your time
You are true, there is a very real inventory shortage in New Hampshire.
I do electrical work in New Hampshire and they are building houses and condo developments like crazy. But they’re selling them way before they are even built. So many massive custom homes all along southern New Hampshire. Doing one right now up on winnipesaukee, they’re selling for just under a million.
There is NOTHING available! Stay in Mass.
This is patently false. I saw a 3br 1 bath home near Ossipee for $1.5mm last week.
Oh, and it is a teardown.
They need to build up the south more, like Nashua and manchester. At least Salem has Tuscan village going up. But those are just sort of the over saturated high-end apartments.
I think it's best to build on what's already built on. And try and preserve the more rural areas.
No income tax and no sales tax more than makes up for the other expenses. Look at the ratings. NH always finishes near the bottom of total taxes paid. Usually only beaten by Alaska that gets oil subsidies. In every survey of quality of life, healthcare, education etc NH ranks in the top 5. Crime rate almost non-existent outside Manchester and Nashua. If you don’t want to pay high real estate taxes….then buy a smaller house. Smaller house, less heating, less maintenance less taxes. How much do you Southerners pay for AC from March to October? In NH I use AC maybe 4 or 5 days a year. Heating sure…you want you big house at 75 degrees you’re gonna pay. Smaller house 70 degrees and I have natural gas … I pay about $100 a month. You want a Mc Mansion, then be prepared to pay. Remember, the vast majority of those taxes stay in YOUR town not shipped off to some giant bureaucracy. Our legislature only meets 3 months a year and they’re paid $100 plus mileage, so the incentive to be a “professional” politician isn’t there. You have the best of 4 seasons here. I’m an hour from the ocean, 1.5 hours from Boston, I live in the mountains, skiing is 30 from the time I leave the house. Snowmobiling, ice fishing, you name it. Every season has its adventures. Even with our long winters our roads put Massachusetts’s to shame. Their roads…SUK! Sure, you live on a rural dirt road be prepared for mud season. Other than that our roads are great because YOUR taxes fix YOUR roads not someone else’s. No mater how cold it is outside I just out on another layer and I’m toasty. 90 degrees and 90% humidity? I don’t care what you do you’re not comfortable unless you’re trapped in the house with AC. No place is perfect, and personal preference is always key, but there is a reason we have a housing shortage and people are pouring into the state. Quality of life matters
Been here all 24 years of my life and cant afford to buy my first home due to tourist scooping up all the homes. Dont move here it sucks!
Ain’t just tourists. It’s US. The people ain’t fighting for affordable housing anywhere. We’re just letting mayors, district officials and whoever else has power to change that, we’re allowing them to fuck us. I’m from Rhode Island and moved here after living in Ohio for 3 years. It’s the same issue as Providence. NOBODY is fighting for anything. Just complaining. We need to band together and force change. Force changes for affordable housing, more job opportunities, better healthcare, lowered property taxes etc. that’s the only way. Pointing the finger at tourists won’t do jack shit. FIGHTING back and reclaiming the right to live decently is the way to go. But ya’ll don’t hear me though.
@@Kal-El207I with that all the way. Btw love your pfp.
@@Kal-El207yes !!! We need people to band together
You do pay sales tax on hotels and prepared foods like bakeries and restaurants thought
I have lived in New Hampshire. Beautiful state. Freaking cold in the winter. All 6 months of it.
Don't be fooled by the fact that NH does not have an income tax or a sales tax. Your property taxes are astronomical. 10 to 14 thousand dollars a year for property taxes are normal. Your tag renewal for your car is equally astronomical. 800 or more per year.
Yeah like Texas, You find a house for $200k but the taxes are $20k per year 😂😂🤣
@@lifeasithappens? Taxes here are anywhere from 2-4%? Who gave you this information
Yeah, 10% property taxes in Texas sounds fishy@@justinperez8668 ...
I just checked the most expensive Ft. Worth area; the tax rate is 2.26%; so, a $500k house owner pays $11,300 per year, not $50k; compared that to $8k in a rural Texas area, and in another state like Nebraska is would be around $5,000 per year for the same house.
@@StephenDoty84That’s still high. $1000 dollars per month in property taxes is my entire mortgage/taxes/insurance combined.
Wow, in Texas, it's like the rent/mortgage never ends. @@BezmenovDisciple
Looked into this state. Property tax is way too high (state has to compensate for no sales and income tax), cost of living is high, cold as hell, Lyme disease, houses are expensive. But the state is beautiful.
Spent a week in Wolfeboro - couldn’t find a good place to eat. We are kinda gastronomically spoiled here in NJ:)
We have a vacation home in Colebrook and our next-door neighbors left New Jersey to live in Colebrook. They are so happy they did. But in small towns, you really need to be able to cook because good restaurants are hard to find.
@@timothymark970 you sure do:)
@@Stakan79 Even when we're not at our vacation home, we don't eat out much, maybe once a month. So it's not very important to us.
@@timothymark970 we were in AirBnB. Lack of good restaurants wasn’t a deal breaker, of course. It was just an observation.
I am considering moving there; sadly, the rent is too high for me. Maybe in the future.
It ain’t going down fam. I’m from New England. Specifically Rhode Island. I moved to the Midwest and then back to New England. I’m in NH right now. These rents ain’t never lowering. Ever. Unless people fight for it.
Beautiful but Too cold for me. I live on Cape Cod and spend winters in FLA. Winters are brutal up there
You don’t have that warmed coastal air coming up from the south like you do in cape cod
Not only have I moved there, I've moved there three times.
Nice place to see two months out of the year, but why would anyone move there?
Because there’s people who love things like skiing, hiking, ice fishing, camping, backpacking, beautiful scenery, changing seasons etc. Not everyone wants to sweat 365 days a year
@@Metalmirq The most of us who want to enjoy those sports would rather go to Idaho, Wyoming or Montana than New Hampshirite, if for no other reason than avoiding the liberal mind hive that exists there. I just don’t want to spent my hard earned money there unless I had to go through on the way somewhere saner.
@@cherokeejack7757 another political obsessed weirdo
@@cherokeejack7757 “liberal mind hive”? In New Hampshire?! Hahaha that’s hilarious. Maybe the Mass transplants along the coast, but it’s more like gun totin’ libertarian in most of the state.
Moved here because I’m originally from New England. I’m from the capital of Rhode Island, I’ll let you Google that. I moved to the Midwest and it got too dangerous where I was at. So I came back to New England but didn’t want to be in RI. I can’t stand Mass and CT is a strange wasteland. ME is too far and VT ain’t my cup of tea. So NH was the perfect fit. I can’t say what I like about it. Idk yet. I hope things get better is all. Plus, I got all my family in Boston and Rhode Island. So it’s a perfect distance. That’s why I chose it. New England is all I know.
Trust me its not overlooked its unaffordable and not many jobs
I couldn’t agree more. I lived in NH in my twenties and tripled my salary by taking a job outside the state in my thirties. Love spending time up there on vacations but I’ll never move back.
@@exhausted.dad.here-where did you end up moving?
Anyone that actually wants a job in NH can find one. The unemployment rate is almost always one of the lowest in the USA. The overall tax burden is one of the very lowest. Insurance one of the lowest. You only have high property tax if you live in expensive housing. No sales tax no income tax and I believe the tax on dividends and interest was eliminated.
@@richardhoner7842 Don't know why you keep lying to people, you must not live here or you must live near Franlkyn bc there is nothing this state loves than over taxing property owners so the politicians can pad their pockets even though they don't live here.
Former masshole. I'd love yo move to New Hampshire, but the property taxes for retires would kill us.
I hear you! Thanks for the comment!
What state did you wind up in? I’m still a masshole and I’m looking to get out.
Wherever you go just do everyone a favor and stay together 😂 all joking aside you guys are tame, New Jersey worst attitudes in the country IMO
@@blackened872Stay in Mass. we don’t like you anywhere else. Stay there.
freeze..ice... mud... black fly...short summer... beautiful fall .. snow..... best to snobird
You didn’t mention if you enjoy the wilderness that you will get Lyme disease which all my friends have they’re all crippled. The ticks are brutal in New Hampshire and that’s the best thing I ever did move out of that state the taxes were killing me. Property taxes .l moved out west I’ll never go east.
There is another solution. Vote in the libertarians. They're trying to gut the budget and eliminate the taxes altogether.
Please to what state would you recommend to relocate? It’s so hard to decide! I thought New Hampshire was the best state
My son has chronic Lyme disease 😢 I wish I never lived in this trash state. I'm moving as soon as I can
@@christined9210 were covid💉 mandatory in your state? How harsh were restrictions during lockdown?
@@KrystynaSvon Not mandatory, there are employers that demand the shot and some have lost their jobs due to refusing the shot. My property taxes just went up. My taxes are insanely high for a small home. Also, the laws here are very much in tune with democrats except for gun laws. It won't take long for that to change in my opinion. The Governor of NH has vetoed many anti gun bills over his tenure and he is retiring. I don't see our new Governor doing the same.
I see lots of comments about high taxes. I live in westen WA and taxes are almost as high here.
So, I’m an architectural drafter, I’m currently located in Tennessee, western Tennessee, so no mountains, it’s more like Kansas with the occasional hill and Memphis 😭 brutal hot summers, mostly boring scenery, winters do get snowy, but like 6” of snow is considered a big one, we get tornados, and tropical storms, which I actually like, but it’s only a few months out of the year, I’m looking to relocate in the next 3 years to somewhere in New England, but I’m not 100% sure where, I would like to live somewhere I could find a good architectural drafting job, it’s just me and my dog, I’ve just always loved the north east US and it’s always been a dream of mine to live there. Do you have some good suggestions for smaller towns, neighboring towns, within 45 minutes of larger population centers, such as Boston, Manchester, Portland, etc
Are residents accepting of people from other states? Or do they feel ‘we’re full!’ ?
NH is Boston's best suburb.
I live in southern New Hampshire an hour north of Boston. I go to Massachusetts about once a year.
Yup I’m sold
You couldn’t pay me enough to live in that New England hellscape. I lived there for two years and couldn’t leave fast enough.
My wife grew up here (NH) and is why I now live here. We raised most of our children here and we may die here. That said.... NH does NOT have "harsh winters". It has WINTER. There are many other places though that DO have "harsh winters". But it also has the other seasons (in spite of many of the comments). Fall used to be stunning, but the past handful of years, not so much.
But the thing about NH's beauty and different types of beauty, is that you can see them ALL in a single day if you like. They are within easy driving distances.
PROPERTY TAXES SUCK though. Yes, there are other offsets for that, but in some places the property taxes actually drive people out of their homes. It is by far my only real complaint about NH.... aside from people flooding in from "other places" and trying to turn it into the crap holes they LEFT. Stop it.
In the hills the snow can get crazy deep. Wish I could post a picture from 2023, you wouldn't believe it.
I lived in plaistow for 6 months
I wouldn't think about spending winter anywhere but Florida. Simply the best!
living in florida is disgusting
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I tried wintering in Florida once. Its vertical drop and snowmaking capacity were not up to my standards.
That sticky , humid swamp you are referring to? What a miserable place
@@M1978-p8j You are totally, and I mean TOTALLY, ignorant.
Cons? What cons? I friggin’ LOVE winter, and as long as I’m not near any tourist attractions, I’m good baby! New Hampshire, here I come!!!
Some great info, nice part of the world…
Thanks for the comment!!
There is an income tax if you work in Massachusetts regardless of living in NH, aka the state you will most likely work. NH has minimal factory, finance, tech, and basically every other professional field availability. It’s all in Massachusetts.
Guide to costs in NH leads to living in Maine video where it’s still a long cold winter
I've lived in NH since 2005, it's not as great as people think and the cost of living just keeps going up
Are you considering all costs are going up globally?
That’s happening everywhere, my guy
I lived in Bow from 1981 to 2011. There was not one year in 30 that my property tax did not increase. When I retired, if I stayed in my house almost all of my Social Security would be needed to just pay property tax and insurance. It took about $3000 year to heat and cool my house. I don’t know how my grand kids will ever be able to afford the state.
@@Metalmirq most places aren’t facing the kind of housing shortage New Hampshire has which is driving up rents and asking prices for homes to the point that homelessness increased by more than 50% in just the last year. Tent cities are popping up everywhere while an increasingly small number of residents (mostly old boomers) are living the high life. Is that happening everywhere?
@@steveclark8304 if I moved back down south where I grew up I could be living much better than I am now, the problem is all the psycho Christians live down there
With the high cost of living and lack of liveable wage jobs, its hard to live anywhere in New England
If you’re from there like I am. It’s all you know. I’m from Providence.
@Kal-El207 it just sucks when you hear people talk about "good jobs" and you find out they only pay $20-$25/hr. That's nowhere near enough to live comfortably in RI, Mass or CT.
Need to be wealthy to live here. Rents are skyrocketing as people from surrounding states move here. I will probably be forced to move in the next year or two. Also it doesn't have a lot of resources for lower income or elderly. The waiting list to get on affordable housing list is 6 to 8 years and you have to literally be completely destitute to qualify.
@1:00 Anyone know where this is?
Looks like the Franconia notch. But I could be wrong on that. The area where the old man on the mountain used to be.
Looks like Dixville notch in Northern NH
How many clearooms are on Pease afb
Hi you can talk about reception to new people
New Hampshire people are very kind and welcoming unless you move here with a chip on your shoulder thinking you know better or are going to change the state to your liking. If you are like that it's pretty rough sledding. Just being honest
@@jdds1165 Thanks, we are humble.
@@jdds1165how's diversity like in NH?
I'd say overall NH is very used to welcoming people from all over the country. Most people move here from Massachusettes.
@@mangomaharaja6859 Lifelong resident, in my fifties. NH is not very diverse ethnically but in my experience New Hampshire residents are welcoming and curious about other cultures.
I live here. I thought his assessment was quite fair.
winters suck
Agreed!
Winters do every where in New England. From NJ to Maine
Don't move here to commute to mass. Route 3, 95 and 495 are the worst getting home. Takes hours. Massholes suck. But the White Mountains rule. If you haven't driven the Kancamagus in fall, you need to try it. So worth it.
Don’t cry those people you call Massholes bring in a lot of money so stop your sniveling
Oh you don’t want people clogging up your roads down there but you’ll send them up north huh? Haha. Kidding it is a beautiful drive, as long as you do at least to posted speed limit and pull over to look at all the pretty leaves, it’s still a state highway that some people commute to work on.
@@thefullaj No, it isn't, it's a road No-one lives on. It's a park, there are no homes on the Kancamagus.
@@Ogrematic you’re incorrect NH Rt112, the Kancamuagus highway, on the east starts in Conway NH and has homes along it, even neighborhoods off of it. It does cut through the center of the White mountain national forest however it is still a highway, people do live in it and I personally commute to work, as a guide, into the national forest. My point above was, if you’re peeping leaves pull over or drive the at least the posted speed limit please.
Constitutional carry? Not listed?
So since the "old man in the mountain" fell is he still the state symbol?
How is the Heating and cooling repair business going there?
Plenty of business!!
@Livetheseacoast that's great news. We are tired of California with their stupid laws. We are planning to visit New Hampshire this summer and hopefully will sell our property and move there. We love the idea of having normal neighbors, safety for kids, and the beauty of New Hampshire. We will contact you when we are ready to purchase a new home. Thank you for a great video.
The reason the crime rate is low is because any state resident can open/conceal carry without a license.
@@josephbaumann292NH is mostly Homogeneously White, TX has a large population of the 6% of Americans that commit over half of this countries violent crime. FACTS.
Lol no. It’s because there are basically no black people or Hispanics. You just cut crime by like 70% that alone
My guess is there are certain demographics that dont exist iin large enough numbers to cause an issu. But we aren't allowed to talk about that.
@@messagesystem333 that and the whole state has a low population. Most populated city doesn’t even crack 150 thousand. Not even close actually.
@@josephbaumann292 Texas has low crime rates outside of its major cities which lack a certain thing the other fella commented about.
The entire east coast can be bad in the winter not just NH
House 900 sq ft will sell for 900,000 then a 5000 sq ft home in same area will sell for 1,200,000 how’s that happen ?
If it's so good, what happened to Old Hampshire? did you ever think about that?
Thought about it, it’s still in England🤤
To cold for me, it is a nice state though
Our Town Meeting form of local government is true democracy where every citizen can be heard and vote. Education is poorly funded by the state, so it falls on the property owners. Our state university is quite expensive because it relies heavily on tuition and fees. Much of the land is forested, so except for the cities electricity fails when there is a storm. Almost everyone in my neighborhood now has a whole house generator! The mountains and valleys interfere with cell phone service. There is virtually no public transportation except in the major cities. It's a friendly state because we have to rely on each other for services that other states provide their residents.
infrastructure is small town... tourist season its jammed and traffic
also where gg allin is from
NH is for rich people and for those Crafter types that need more freedom to do their crafts. 💖
Yes rich people indeed. They’re the only ones enjoying life out here.
Under cons you forgot the bugs; tics, black flies, mosquitoes, deer flies (mosquitoes on steroids), fruit flies, etc.
I thought it was like that anywhere in the US outside of major urban areas or deserts/mountains though isn’t it
Hamspire cost of living is high?
Very
Too expensive.
Wrong, I moved here and love it .
They should add a sales tax. That would lower real estate taxes. Values would then climb
No it wouldn't. it would just embolden NH Democrats to spend more money.
Pro: Summer. Con: The rest of the year.
shhhh don't tell anyone
Dont waste your time. New hampshire pay is garbage. And homes are just as expensive as cali. To get any good paying jobs you might as well move to mass and your right back in cali. Inventory is very low. Most communities built in new hamp are 55+ and work shortage is horrible. 2 out of three people in this state are 55+ and taxes are no different than most states. Property taxes are extreme. Trust me they make up for no income tax.
NH homes are not cheap but nowhere near as expensive as CA homes.
Property taxes are ginormous