What was the breaking straw that moved you from CA?
Long story short? 2-hour-plus commutes, overcrowded, overpriced, overtaxed, overstressed.
Yes, I took a pay cut (almost 15 percent) to come to “Cow Hampshire”, but I don’t pay state sales or income tax, which makes up the 15 percent right there.
I have a larger house (2000 vs. 1400 sq ft) on a larger lot (300’ X 150’ vs. 65’ X 45’) for less than 1/3 the price, and I’m far enough north (Rochester—Maquest it) that I don’t have to deal with all the MA transplants who commute to Boston. My neighbors (the ones I can see) are great folks and very friendly. I didn’t know most of my neighbors in CA.
We’ve got our problems here in NH, to be sure—the Dems took over the state for the first time in a century and they’re hell-bent and determined to screw it up before they get tossed out on their ears in November ‘08.
We’ve got Mass libs who escape their socialist hellhole and then whine they don’t have the support system they had back there (thereby creating another one).
We’ve got Carol Shea-Porter (or Che-Porter, as I like to call her).
But all in all, waking up and seeing a BLUE sky (not brown) through the trees in MY woods, going out to my porch and waving to my next-door neighbor 200 yards away, ain’t nothing better.
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