That's pretty good to hear. Especially if the childcare is included with that, thats an incredible value and its frankly great to see that kind of a solution. I don't know enough to form an opinion on this specific case, in general I think I don't like relying on the benevolence of an employer to provide affordable housing/childcare. This sounds like a local employer with roots in the area, so that probably helps. I hesitate to say this is a good scalable model (meaning vertically integrated employer provides employee housing at a cost) just because i have a hard time thinking the amazons of the world are going to be very benevolent.

< 600 sq ft houses being touted as "affordable" when they're anticipated to go for 1200/month seems like the perfect picture of what's gone wrong here. I'll avoid calling this a company town since it's not explicitly housing built for one specific employer -- but the employer's big motivation is having housing for their workforce. Glassdoor says the assisted living facility in the article pays 14-16 an hour. If we naively call it an average of 15 an hour, you're taking home $913 every two weeks. 613/month does not seem like a lot to pay for the rest of living, especially when you consider that these houses are meant to largely be starter places for young people. It feels extra fucked if you frame it in light of your employer saying "hey live in this house I built and work for me. Here's your pay check, I'll have 2/3 of it back now"

If you haven't try speckled ax coffee also from Maine. I like em better than tandem, and tandem are pretty great themselves

I have a 3 bed 2 bath ranch, 1600 sq ft above ground and another 900 sq ft of finished basement. Triple pane windows throughout, attic and crawl space is blown in insulation. I have oil heat and hot water. This winter electricity has been about 150/month (2 adults working from home and a kid at home). Just about to get my 4th delivery of 180 gallons of fuel oil since October, think average price has been about 4.60 a gallon. Electricity in the summer months was around 300 running the central air.

Xfinity mobile uses the verizon network. It seems that many people are getting worse and worse service with VZW lately around southern NH, myself included.

I think I'm going to try out google fi. I last used it in 2015 and it was worse than VZW, but I've heard it's gotten a lot better (uses TMo and US cellular networks). I'm just so tired of my phone showing 2 bars of 4G LTE and it still taking 12 minutes to load google maps for directions.

Yeah, sounds about right. I also couldn't believe how expensive it was and the portions weren't exactly big. Wr had a group of 4 adults and a 1 year old. One person had a hot plate, the others were room temperature. $120 with tip for breakfast and coffee, no booze. Think I'll dtick out the wait at Tuckers next time

Feels like the toast gets by on old reputation still. I don't like to be a big complainer when it comes to the service industry but the Bedford location gave me the worst breakfast experience of my life. I'll never go back, and I used to love going to the toast.

Hey OP. I lived in Epping for 8 years. I loved it. I lived in town, and it's a very townie kind of town; people got to recognize us out walking every day and say hi, chat a bit, we made some friends, etc but it took a while. It's a small place but it's got everything you need and it's pretty convenient. The one downside is the schools are pretty lacking. For your budget you could do a whole lot better in Durham, Madbury, Exeter, etc.

Do you and bigfoot go to the bars in manch together

Party culture exists at every college. Some will be more than others, but it's all about what you want to do. Guarantee you if you don't want to partake you will find a group of likeminded folks at either school.

Not to stress you out OP but think about what you want to do with a biochem degree post undergrad and talk to profs about where their students go. Some schools treat programs more generally, others will be more focused on producing students that want to go do a masters/PhD, or some will have a really strong pipeline to different companies post grad. Consider what you think you want to do and use that to help guide you.

yes lol

Get a marg and some food at El Rincon. Best margs I ever had.

For places like schools and daycares though, how expensive is end point filtration/treatment to remove lead? Lots of things cost money and I can see where replacing an entire city's water infra would be cost prohibitive (as sad as that is) but it seems like it would be do-able to have endpoint treatment on site at places like schools and daycares.

I'm not sure why this is even a question. Yes, file an accident report and give all of the relevant info on the guy over to the police.

Yeah, depending on how far away you're willing to live from Concord, Exeter and Newmarket might be options. Goffstown has a little bit of quaintness to it and is closer to Concord

When you say a nice downtown, what are you picturing OP? You want to go for a walk down mainstreet with your fam every night? Cafe, bookstore, bars, restaurants? Or you want to drive 15 minutes and park and walk around somewhere quaint?

IMHO (not a lawyer obviously) but you not know where it came from other than the vehicle in front of you would absolve them of liability. Even in the case it came out of the sand/salt spreader, if it were me I'd take my L and just stay further back next time. Those thinga whole job is to shoot sand/salt out the back. An unsecured load of debris is different because there is a presumed responsibility of the drover to secure their load and maintain the safety for others

Think you're eating the cost on that one. Can't say I've ever heard of holding people accountable for rocks that their vehicle kicked up into a windshield, but maybe I'm the naïve one

I haven't skied everywhere in NH yet but that's because I really enjoy Cannon so that's where I usually wind up.

Ragged mountain is pretty nice too actually. Not huge, and I loved the $20 student lift tickets when I could take advantage of it.

Everyone else is posting neighboring states production too, so I'll just add Rancourt and Quoddy -- both make leather shoes and boots that are exceptionally high quality and are made in Maine. Both are known mostly for their handsewn moc styles but both do other styles as well.

I would have switched already but my mom and sis are on my plan and they live elsewhere and its the opposite for them, so for now I just deal. I tried google fi several years ago and it wasnt great, but I would be willing to try it out again now that Tmo is nuch improved from what I hear

I have family that has At&T and the consistently have better service than me when they visit. I have verizon and it has done nothing but get worse and worse

Is the fried chicken place in the Newfields shell station still open? If so, then that

I have no idea about finance, marketing or banking jobs but the engineering job market is very good as long as you live within commute distance of Massachusetts. EE, ME, Test Eng, controls/automation, and software jobs are plentiful. Salaries in MA are significantly better. A year ago or so I had offers for the same positions doing the same thing at a company in Manchester and a company in Andover, Andover was 50% more vacation, better 401(k), 40% higher salary.

If you're willing to drive anywhere in NH just go to Portland and go to either Micucci's grocery or Slab. Both serve incredible sicilian pizzas. Believe Micucci's has made the list of top pizzas in the US before.