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People from the Merrimack Valley (Newburyport, Amesbury, Merrimack, Groveland, Haverhill, Lawrence, Andover, Methuen and Lowell) are "born Democrat" if you know what I mean (Marty Meehan, for cryin' out loud!) and have been moving to southern NH since the late fifties.

They moved to get away from the regulations and high taxes, yet started beating the drum for municipal services as soon as they got there.

In the late fifties and early sixties Salem, NH was the race track, a bowling alley and a Mom and Pop convenience store that was overjoyed to see three carloads of high school football players pull up and order ten cases of Black Label.

Look at Rt. 28 in Salem now. Ugh!

Oh well...

The mantra of Eastern Massachusetts DemocRats: "One hand washes the other."

I hear you. I ask my liberal friends WHY they want to move up north and they say "It costs less," and then I ask them why they seek to recreate the same situation up there.

They dont know how to respond. My answer is if you love all of the services in Mass, then you should not move to an area which has none and then demand them. They unknowingly recreate the SAME thing.

It kind of shows you how deluded some people actually are.

As far as "One hand wahes the other," I could not agree with you more. I dont believe I ever will see a state that is corrupt as Massachusetts. It is my belief that the city of Boston CAN NOT be suatain itself economically without state and federal funds. In my mind, this means it is a failure, yet they LOVE the funds rolling in. Look at the Big Dig... third world countries have a lower rate of cost inflation for gods sake!