Submitted by Illustrious-Study237 t3_znnbm4 in newhampshire
I promise not to bring any Floridian craziness and preserve what makes NH so great.
Submitted by Illustrious-Study237 t3_znnbm4 in newhampshire
I promise not to bring any Floridian craziness and preserve what makes NH so great.
And long underwear will be your best friend.
As long as it’s clean, yes!
Be prepared…
It snows more in NH.
Far more vehicles on the road with vanity plates. Some are impossible to decode.
Very strict when it comes to vehicle inspections. Insanely prohibitive when it comes to window tint.
Car or truck, all/4 wheel drive is a necessity if you are a commuter or enjoy the outdoors…and not just in winter.
Humidity is brutal for, on average, 17 days per year.
Weather prediction is wrong more than it is right.
Open carry and concealed are commonplace, more apparent the farther out in the boonies you go.
Learn to hate Massholes; the sooner you do, the better you’ll feel.
Don’t compare anything in NH to anything in FL.
Not a diverse state. Everyone has an opinion for why that is and how to change it, but here we are.
You definitely don’t need a battery powered jacket, lol.
You do need decent tall boots (I like Bogs or Perfect Storm) and I’m also a huge fan of wool socks (darn tough or smartwool). Montbell makes some amazing down fill winter jackets and the Patagonia Das parka is a solid synthetic.
Blaze orange hat/headband/bandanna if you’re gonna walk in the woods in the fall.
Watch out for ticks in the woods/tall grass.
Mentally prepare yourself for black fly season to begin in the spring.
Get a nice extendable snow scraper to keep your car roof clear.
We don’t “all carry” here to be “safe and free”. That’s ridiculous (and I say that as a person living in a home w/multiple guns). Some of us own guns bc we like to shoot. Some of us own guns bc we like to hunt. Not everyone here is a rabid gun owner who thinks that you need to constantly carry a weapon to be safe.
The only thing NH needs for you to keep it great is to not be a Free Stater. 🙂
The tick advice is super underrated, Lyme disease will ruin your life even if it doesn't kill you.
🤔🤔🤔 you sound like a transplant
You sound like a douchebag.
most people who live in New Hampshire are transplants, get over it.
Have you lived in the north before?
Seasonal depression hits people used to a lot of sun pretty hard, look up ways to keep your vitamin D up.
Cold will be an adjustment in the winter. Being cold once or twice is different than it always being cold for months.
In the winter it gets light at like 7 and dark at like 5.
Not trying to scare you away, I just like to provide the negatives because people don't need to be armed for the positives lol
Good pointers, can you imagine someone that lives in a tropical paradise that is pretty much the same year round seeing a picture of New Hampshire in the summer and saying that looks beautiful I will move there and arriving today?
*Sad trombone*
It's actually beautiful today where I live! 11+ inches of fresh fluffy white powder with more coming down overnight. It's all of February through April I'm worried about. 😑
"Daylight" LED bulbs also help some people with seasonal depression (I don't care for them in the "chill out" parts of the house, but they help my wife a bit).
I have not lived in the north before. Thanks for the advice.
It's great, it's just an adjustment!
NH is awesome. I do recommend picking up an outdoor hobby for every season.
Take it SLOW while driving in the snow for the first few times. You need more time to break and accelerate. Buy a winter jacket, boots, gloves, and face mask.
This is brilliant advice - !!
Bean Boots
Synthetic base layers and a good waterproof shell.
Limmer boots.
Darn tough socks.
Whiskey.
Wool > synthetic
Get a vanity plate. I believe it’s a state requirement
If you see a shop selling ‘tonic and grinders’, it isn’t a blacksmith business.
Quiet you.
If you have a house buy a generator if you aren't in a city
It's cold weah a sweatah
Wicked cold
When you see or experience a slippery area on the road, DO NOT follow your own instinct to hit the brakes. Let off the gas or stay the same. If it’s a corner, you should have already slowed down.
Think of driving in slippery conditions more like skiing. Controlled sliding. If your tires slip, simply turn into it to correct. Don’t panic.
>I promise not to bring any Floridian craziness and preserve what makes NH so great.
Good luck with that.
People don't agree about what makes NH great. And just because NH is great, doesn't mean it can't be even better. I think most people would agree with that.
Even the people that are most vocal about not changing things usually just mean "don't change the things they like", and they are quite happy for it to change to be even more of what they like.
Bundle up. You can always remove layers if you get too hot
Oh boy are you going to have fun (jk). I moved to NH 4.5 years ago from VA.
Seasonal depression.
It freaking sucks but it affects a lot of NH folks. We recently got a dog and going on daily walks with her has really helped with that.
Also, NH is a purple state if that's what you're talking about when referring to "Florida craziness". THATS what makes NH great. Despite what New Hampshire subreddit may seem like, people are much more tolerant of each other despite political differences in real life here. I grew up in a very red district in VA and even though I'm conservative, I love that NH is much more welcoming in that sense. Also, if you're politically left leaning and want to be near people with similar views, I'd recommend staying near the cities because a lot of conservatives live out in the country or in small towns.
Also, be prepared for lots of snow. Driving sucks in the snow. And be prepared for loss of electricity. Get a generator. We have several black outs every year, mostly due to snow and ice. It gets cold if you don't have a generator.
Summers are lovely here! Lakes region is awesome to visit in the summer time! And the ice castles are dreamy in the winter time. The ocean is cooooold but I've heard it's tolerable come August.
Overall, NH is a lovely state! Lots of awesome things to do :)
Where in VA? I lived down there for 9 years before making the move back north. I’ve been in NH 9 years now.
Near Harrisonburg (Bridgewater, if you know where that is. I went to turner ashby high school)
Well then if it sucks, maybe you should go back?
"It freaking sucks" was referring to seasonal depression.
I'm assuming you didn't read much of my post if that's the assumption you made
We all get that. Deal with it & not complain?
Dude, what is your problem?
In this day and age, I'd expect talking about mental health would be pretty normal, but I guess not for you. If you need to open up about some feelings, there are plenty of subreddits, if you ever need it.
Seasonal depression does suck and this person from Florida should know what they are getting into because it affects a lot of people up here. Less sun=less vitamin d= feeling unhappy/miserable.
And I'm not even complaining. I'm stating fact. Not only that but I even wrote what had been helping me in order to try to offer up a remedy if this person ever needs it.
Guess I’m used to it. Are you not?
Ikr? It’s preference. The brutality of the sun last summer was far worse than anything winter can throw at me.
I love the spiciness of this subreddit lol. After a year goes by be sure to update us on how your expectations compared with reality. Good luck!
Be cool and enjoy.
You're going to hate the cold.
The end.
Buy ice cleats!
Tires are important. Doesn't have to be snow tires but needs to have good tread. Get a quality ice scraper/snow pusher for your vehicle. A snowblower isn't similar to the leaf blower.
Ski!!!
Snowboard!
We moved up here from Broward County about a decade ago! Get a Subaru!
Some of my favorite people in my town moved up from Florida. Definitely invest in warm clothes and find a winter activity you enjoy!
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The snow will be a very different thing for you. But if you’re the kind of person who can feel what’s going on under your feet, it’s not a big deal.
Bring your crazy. Most of us in the rural bits are a bit weird, by conventional standards.
New Hampshires pretty cool. If you’re relocating blind, avoid the Manchester/Nashua area. Seacoast is nice. If you’re a city type, you’d love Dover, or Plymouth. If you want to find a more rural place to live, go to the middle. You’ll be within an hour of anything you need.
Plymouth? Did you mean Portsmouth?
No. Plymouth is a different place, that may be more convenient for a relocated person, depending on where they’re finding employment.
Any particular reason to avoid those areas?
I suppose not, drugs, crime and shady people are everywhere to a certain degree. Just more so in those areas. I personally don’t feel unsafe there, per say. But one could feel more so, in those areas. The post was asking for insider tips on moving to NH. If I was going to move across the country to another state, I would want to move to a place that somehow embodies that state, not a trashy border town.
I grew up in Raymond, it was ok. We went to Manchester for stuff sometimes. I just see it as kind of a hole. Nashua is like Manchester, but crappier.
Ah. Thanks for the detailed reply! I think we might move there summer of next year to the Merrimack/Nashua area depending on where we find a place to rent. Unfortunately not much choice in other parts of NH as my job will be in the area.
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I've lived in Nashua for a long time. There are other areas that are "nicer" but to be clear, there are no neighborhoods where I won't walk/bike/run through. It is nice to be close to stores and restaurants. I'd love to live in the middle of nowhere...but also really close to everything.
Biggest downside is you really won't find a property where you can setup a shooting range in the backyard. If you want that sort of thing, you'll need to move to a surrounding town.
Yeah, that whole southern bit just isn’t great. It’s not Detroit, though. But to be perfectly honest with you, outside of going to a show and a hotel stay in Boston, and walking around hung over the next morning every few years, I hate the city. I am completely biased.
I’ll take all the opinions I can get just to be prepared. I’ll be moving from a small town in Pennsylvania where the only place to get food after 9 is the gas station, so I’m hoping Nashua will be a step up from that.
Depends on where you want to step, and for what reason. Rents are crazy everywhere in NH, since the Covid thing, for whatever reason. Wherever you choose to live, I’m sure you’ll be fine.
I love living in a small town. I’m a less is more type. Please pursue whatever floats the boat. You will not spontaneously combust if you move to Nashua.
When I lived in NH, mid ‘80s to mid ‘90s we had blackouts all year long, but it was because PSNH refused to cut trees off their right of ways, they blamed it on all the lawsuit money due to trying to open SeaBrook Station…duh
This is less of an issue these days.
It’s eversource now, and they actually do a really good job clearing trees off lines these days.
Just take it slow. If you’re a real Floridian you’ll fit right in.
You asked for rhe best advice. I gave it...what you do with it is up to you
We don't need anyone bringing meth and confederate flags up here
Why, because we already have enough of it/them?
Underrated comment.
Way more Confederate surrender flags in Sullivan Co. than one would expect.
Really now. Very interesting.
These are the kind of folks we're sending to Florida:
(he's from Madbury)
Don't
Go back to florida
Ugh shut up with this “New Hampshire is full” “go back where you come from” nonsense. Over half the state population is from out of state. How is this one specific person inconveniencing you?
Cry harder. The state is full. Maybe do us a favor and you leave. Florida guy is probably cool. Why am I not surprised even your avatar has purple hair.
If you leave and Florida guy comes then it’s a zero net gain. Marxachusettes welcomes you, purple hair
Cool. I’m from Virginia, so a little far off.
Then you have no say here. Fuck off
The guy probably has 4 teeth and beats his wife in his trailer. New hampshire has enough toothless wife beaters
I’m confused.
A guy must have 4 teeth and a wife with no teeth to beat her?
Is the trailer necessary?
Asking for a friend…from Kentucky…claims to have been a previous neighbor of yours…when you lived in Kentucky.
Sounds more like projection than not. Cope
No
My stepmom is from Florida and she has 0 regrets about living in NH. I asked her last weekend while we were in Florida for a funeral if she would ever want to get a second home in Florida and do the Snowbird thing, and she said never...
On the topic of what you should know... This is going to be long:
Drive slow in snow and if you feel yourself sliding pump the brakes like 5 times or so real fast and let your car slow down and regain traction. Do not slam on the brakes, make sudden turns, or accelerate through bad traction. This is something you will learn over time, much like how to regain traction while hydroplaning which I would imagine you've done before in Florida (obviously the pumping the brakes is a lot different but the "don't panic" mentality is the same)...
Get a heavy winter coat and a few hoodies and good insulated gloves. It's obviously a lot colder than Florida and you will hate yourself if you have to shovel snow with no nice gloves.
Keep a Ice Scraper/ snow brush in your car (I do year round as one time I took it out of the trunk and the snow came earlier than I had expected and I didn't have it that day which was annoying). There eventually will be a day where you feel like the character from the movie fargo scraping the ice off your windshield.
A shovel for your driveway / porch / deck
Waterproof boots, as the snow is often wet and slushy (it is currently super wet where I am)
Liquor is only sold at NH state liquor stores
Once winter ends the roads are typically f'd up from frost heaves, potholes, etc. Expect to have to take a detour every now and then come spring/summer as the road construction is basically an expectation on a yearly basis.
Also as you can tell already, NH, like Florida, is not free from dumb people... Most of us just ignore them.
Solid! Thank you
You had me til that last paragraph. Please don’t lump dumb people together with the ignorant. 😜
Just adopt the New Hampshire way and we will be good. We are pretty libertarian here. What I mean is we are a live and let live people. We keep to ourselves. Unless they are democrats or lefty maoist from east coast Bostonian bag of dick heads infecting our state.
Real granite staters are generally low key polite people who live and let live if it’s none of our business. Keep the state clean, don’t vote for anything coming in from Marxachusettes and get yourself a gun. We all carry here and this is why we are so safe and free. We don’t bother anybody and if it’s not your business then leave it.
People from Massachusetts are known as massholes but not all Massachusetts people are massholes. You still find old stock new Englanders who still adhere to the way New England should be: respectful, independent, self reliant, friendly, keep to yourself…but we got the liberal mind virus in Boston and down in CT and RI.
Basically upper New England and lower New England.
If you find a commie and lots in this Reddit forum (easy to pick out) make sure you ask them to leave and help them to move out. Nobody wants them here. Make sure you don’t vote for anything government. All things government is bad. Trust in people. Oh and buy yourself a gun. It’s a legal requirement for NH citizenship.
Drive more careful in snow. Help somebody on the side of the road because it’s the right thing to do. Help the old lady or man cross the road. We still have good values here. Wave to cars that give you wide birth. Wave to the guy who let you in. We do the right thing here in NH and this is why we are the best state. Don’t fuck up our state up. We won’t be happy. Be a good person. Do good things for people because it’s the right thing to do. Pick up trash on your street. I don’t give a fuck if it’s yours or not. Say good morning and thank you at the check out. Keep the state clean and beautiful and you’ll be welcomed around the campfire. If you don’t, we’ll expect to be looney and bored because you’ll be alienated and talked about. Parents will tell there kids “don’t be like that man” and encouraged to throw rocks at you.
New Hampshire is a really easy place to live as long as you live the way New Hampshire expects you to live
I’m so confused.
Half of this is great. The other half is terrifying.
No, don’t feel obligated to buy a gun. We’re solidly purple here, just don’t be a free stater who wants to defund education and you’re golden.
Which half is great? The first sentence of the massholes rant?
> Be a good person. Do good things for people because it’s the right thing to do.
That general vibe was lovely
Sounds like socialism to me.
It’s only terrifying because of you. It’s the truth. We are safe because we carry. We are free because we carry. We carry to protect our state and our fellow citizens from scum. Shocker. That guy with a gun is also smiling and helping the old lady cross the street or joking with the kid at market basket.
Yes, buy yourself a gun. Use your gun. Train with your gun. Take responsibility of being an adult and doing what’s right with that gun if necessary. You scared?
People from all walks of life and all political ideologies are welcome in New Hampshire. Is that what you meant to say?
That’s the problem, ideology
There was a time, New England was the bedrock of Kennedy democrats…something personally, I would describe myself as. That isn’t what we are seeing today. If you a classic New England democrat then I don’t have a concern; ideological nonsense can fuck right off.
You waste all your brain capacity typing that, and then you lose your credibility (and most of your audience) in the first paragraph by using the term "maoist".
Seriously, anybody who uses the term maoist or commie in reference to anybody in the democratic party is just virtue signaling. I didn't bother finishing your post because you showed me you are just an ignorant partisan ideologue. You'll may get some cheering from the Fox News smooth brains though, which is probably all you care about.
Just saying.
My head hurts. Sorry I asked.
Take some Advil my friend
Change is inevitable…or so they tell me.
Kennedy: a name synonymous with cover ups, corruption, greed and privilege.
See? Your heart rate just changed. 😝
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this guy is a dick, we're not all like this
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No. I’m not a dick. It’s just the way it is unlike hive mind Reddit.
You are. And clueless too.
Tell us all about communism and Maoism please. I'd love you to explain it to us.
The NH way is to keep your opinions to yourself and don't bother others, not to force your beliefs on others. I may agree with a good chunk of what you posted, but you won't catch me going around saying you have to believe in this or that. It's trashy.
You do your thing, I do mine.
Where did I say you have to believe anything I say?
It's the way you want it, not even close to the way it is.
99% of the population will not even talk to you unless you engage first, so you can completely ignore all of his political gibberish.
Outside of reddit you'll very rarely hear anything at all to do with politics.
That being said, he's trying to gaslight you with the Libertarian schpiel. They're a VERY small portion of the state.
Also, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_Party_of_New_Hampshire
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Libertarian Party of New Hampshire
>The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire (LPNH) is the New Hampshire affiliate of the national Libertarian Party (LP). Active since its foundation in 1972, it is the third-largest political party in the state having had multiple members elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives as well as being ballot-qualified multiple times. The party became ballot-qualified after receiving over three percent of the popular vote in the 1990 gubernatorial election and maintained that status in the 1992 and 1994 elections. The party elected multiple members to the state house with the use of electoral fusion with the two major parties.
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Libertarians are the butt of many jokes in this state. I wouldn't consider them a valid representation of the mindset.
They are the vocal minority; much like a wailing infant at a wedding.
We are not libertarian. They are moving here in droves to fuck this state up. As for fl. It’s cold. It’s hilly. You don’t need ac but you’ll need heat.
Just don't move next door to this xenophobic gun obsessed asshole and you'll be fine.
I live wayyyy up north and have for all of my 38 years. You sound like a fuckin' loon. Don't lump me in with your "real NH" shit.
Doubtful. And a whole 38 years…👍🏻
What's doubtful? That not all of us can be lumped in with your backwards thinking? I used to think I was Libertarian, until I grew up....
Your statements.
It's kind of ironic, because to me, YOU are the flatlander, and it's annoying as fuck.
Lol. You have absolutely no idea where I am 🤣🥱
I know plenty of people like you. You fuckheads go sit at the Buck Rub and jerk eachother off about your Trump NFT's and think you are cool because the 3 locals that hang out there let you think you are one of them.
Lmao. Echo echo echo chamber chamber. What does this have to do with anything. Nothing. Trump? What does that have to do with anything. Knew you were lying. 16 year old and nothing more
Ya, because obviously I couldn't possibly be a well adjusted adult born and raised in Coos County and think that you are some hardo flatlander masquerading as a "real patriot". I had it right the first time, "fuckin' loon".
Who anything said about real patriot? You clearly have mental health issues and projecting things I’ve never said. Yawn. Get out your moms basement in Manchester
I mean if i check out your past comments it's pretty obvious what kind of Chad you are. Probably live in the lakes region and have use a confederate flag for curtains.... "An American flag. Map of the US, regional foods, cheeses, and spices, copy of the US constitution and declaration. Peanut butter, fireworks, a good knife, pepper spray, bug spray, bottle of bourbon or whiskey, a small book of the history of the US, an AR15…little statue of the Statue of Liberty, BBQ sauce, Hershey kisses, some yankee candles
It was in relations to what you would make a foreigner who is coming to America. Many people said the same thing. You’re so upset you’re stalking my posts. What a beta.
I'm not upset about anything, just think it's hilarious when a transplant acts like they get to define what makes New Hampshire, you've probably never even seen the Old Man in person, Kyle.
Lmfao. Transplant…been here for centuries.
Cope, child
How'd you do that when you are 41 and lived I'm Ontario for 22 years?
Do the math dumbass
Maybe metric centuries are different than imperial idk
Fuck off free state poser.
“Free stater”. Naw. Keep crying child
Even more hilarious is that you guys think you are the only ones that have guns when in reality the guy who lives in the trailer on the dead end road up on the hill has 10 times more than you, he just ain't gotta advertise it to everyone who will listen.
What does this have to do with anything ? Hive mind coming out. Nobody said anything about guns 🤦🏻♂️
Echo echo echo chamber this one
Holy fuck man..."get yourself a gun, we all carry here and this is why we are so safe and free." ...."oh and buy yourself a gun, it's a legal requirement for NH citizenship." .....are you having a stroke or something? All that big dick energy taking blood away from your brain?
I thought you were referring to our conversation here. Yes. My original statements. What about them? You’re asinine statements of “your the only ones” didn’t make sense…what makes you think “we (who is we??) are the only ones.
Echo chamber says what ? I can hear the key pounding from here
Bro you acted like you were the spokesperson for the entire state, I'm disagreeing with your sentiment. I'm not echoing anyone, I'm calling you out for being a flatlander and trying to act like your values are more important than anyone else's.
No. That’s how you want to read it. You are not calling anything out because you clearly have reading comprehension issues. An opinion was made, too bad you don’t like it. Cry harder Manchester
When did I say I was a spokesperson? Didn’t. Cope. When did I say my values are better than anybody else’s? I did’t Cope.
Chad? You’re 100% 16. So convenient that it’s coos you happen to claim. Jesus man make it believable. I’ll wait for the Google picture of Berlin for “proof”
Besides, no native who has been here uses the term flat lander. It’s a new concept…of course being 30 however you claim to be you wouldn’t know that…more proof
I'm 40 miles from a stop light and I'm 3rd generation for this town. I live a different lifestyle than you can imagine and suffer through all the inconveniences associated with living in the poorest County in the state so that my kids can have the same type of upbringing that I did. Berlin? Nice name drop, but that's the city for me. Some of us can survive without a Walmart in our sights. Get back to your gravy seal training.
You still mad Manchester? “Suffer from all the inconveniences”
😆😆😆
…such a martyr for a 16 year old in mom’s basement. Pounding keyboard keys but having children….Suuuuuuuure 👍🏻👍🏻
I wasn’t even thinking Walmart. Clearly you do need one since it’s within your cognitive processing. Yet, child for sure. Too much projection.
I can't believe you think "flatlander" is a new term. Like you invented it when you moved down from Canada. You scissorbeaks are all the same. Keep on posing, poser.
Lmfao. That’s not what I said, stalker. God your reading comprehension sucks. And yes, from the centuries of my family living here, the centuries of friends and extended families living here…the term was never used
Nice try transplant. I find it sadly funny you claim you lived a life but clearly never left your moms basement. As for myself I’ve lived in different countries, speak different languages. Complete joke this one. Keep pounding those keys child. Stay mad.
Check my comment history, son. My whole issue was you acting like you somehow represent everyone in the state with your asinine diatribe, yet you aren't even from here. I've seen it my whole life, know your role and quiet down.
I don’t care enough to check. That’s how disinterested I am in anything you say. Again. An opinion was made. Stay mad, and don’t care, stalker
Keep pounding away at the keyboard but clean off the cum or mom will be mad again.
Not even from here 🤣🤣🤣 sure thing Manchester 👍🏻👍🏻
Know my role, I’m sure you’re told that before you’re bent over. Stalker and incel vibes now..projection is strong with this retard
Nah I get laid, never had to pay a stripper for it either. You are a bitter bastard, I'll give you that, it's a good start for in case you have to survive a real winter, you'll need that.
Again, says more about you Manchester 👍🏻 Mentioning strippers, worried about winter. Yup. Clearly we see what’s on your mind, stalker.
I’m not bitter at all. Just the truth.
“I get laid”….watching porn in his mom’s basement. Apparently an almost 40 year old priority is “getting laid”…what an incel. You talk so much about yourself
Sorry your PP was too small for that stripper but don't sweat it big guy, the right girl won't care. I'm pretty bored and I got work to do so I'd like to call a truce. Sorry I stepped up to the one and only true native who has been here for centuries, BTW, moms trailer doesn't have a basement, but my house does.
Why are you thinking about my dick? What a homo
School. You’re going to school.
The only thing I would add, you might want to look into a Milwaukee (or other vendor) battery powered jacket. Had someone move up from the south, didn’t take my advice and froze their ass off until they did.
Legit? Hilarious.
Don't vote blue
Yeah idk wtf the dems are doing up here lately. I've been thinking about running Dem myself to get us back on track.
Take vitamin D for seasonal depressional disorder.
FenwaysMom t1_j0itqkg wrote
Invest in a damn good winter jacket.