Concord will give you quicker access to Concord Hospital and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. The best rated medicine in the State of New Hampshire. Concord also boasts quick access to the White Mountains national park system, it is less than an hour to the New Hampshire Seacoast, is about an hour to Boston Massachusetts and a half hour to Manchester, an even bigger city than Concord. Concord is a pretty large but not huge city with plenty of night life, theatre, books, museums a wonderful planetarium, tons of shops etc. It is a BEAUTIFUL city. Keep in mind, New Hampshire real estate can get a bit pricey as far as property tax etc. Many Concord suburbs are even more beautiful than Concord itself.