Ye gads...that part of Red Hampshire (also known as East Vermont for obvious reasons) really sucks...a mish-mash of foul-mouthed morally-bankrupt elitists from California, Massachusetts and New York. Dartmouth? The clowns that can't tell the difference between a heart attack and anxiety? (Personal experience.) Cheap housing??? Compared to Manhattan, perhaps. Rentals $1000-1500...IF anything is available. You might be able to purchase a bungalow-sized residence near Dartmouth for a cool $450,000. Then there are the back-breaking property taxes... Good people? Yeah...if you like obnoxious wine and brie liberals wearing Che t-shirts. Beautiful woods...just watch for ticks; lyme disease can be a bitch...of course; many of the 'doctors' in Red Hampshire don't think such a disease even exists. I'm sure Steyn loves it...but you would need his income to get by. You like it? G-d love ya, but for the rest of us...don't even THINK about it. (Keep in mind Boston, Springfield and Hartford with ALL their gangs are just a short, beautiful drive up Interstate 91...they'll be along when TSHTF.)
Enjoy. :-)
Yet you still live in NH.....too funny. If it’s so bad you can split. Good luck finding a better place. If you know of one let me know. There’s a lot of affordable housing in NH, and even more so north of Concord. I don’t like how much the state has changed in the last 20 years any more than I suspect you do; but it is what it is. The whole nation is falling apart. Rural northern New England is as good as anyplace IMO when TSHTF.