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OurWhoresAreClean t1_j1zaxth wrote

Reply to comment by metalandmeeples in Newcomers to New Hampshire and Maine continue to drive population growth: More people are dying than being born, so population growth depends on people moving in from elsewhere by TurretLauncher

>What do you trust then? Personal anecdotes? Statistics may not tell the whole story, but they certainly tell the current ending.

I'm just pointing out that there are some things that you can't quantify with statistics, but that doesn't necessarily make those things unimportant or irrational.

I like the laid-back, kinda not-moving-with-the-times feel that this state has, and I believe that importing residents from Massachusetts would thoroughly ruin that, but that's not something that can be expressed on a spreadsheet. Does that mean it doesn't matter? Or that it's wrong?

So yeah, you can come up with any number of data points that "prove" Massachusetts is better, and while that might satisfy an economist, I remain unconvinced. I think that saying "Maine is nice because it's not Massachusetts" is both perfectly valid and perfectly indescribable using numbers and stats.

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joeydokes t1_j1zjk4k wrote

Your same observations could be made for Vermont. Where much of the northern half is salty and Hicks in The sticks, the southern half trends more to the manicured look; with very different expectations.

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OurWhoresAreClean t1_j1zo9c6 wrote

Yup, New Hampshire too.

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joeydokes t1_j1zr1nf wrote

Moreso even, considering proximity to Boston/N.Shore

UNH grad and 5yrs little Squam area resident before moving to VT; which is uniformly pastoral . Southern NH, unlike lakes region or whites' is really developed; less greenspace between hamlets, more billboards... :)

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