Always like 2 Share in Manchester on Union and Brook St. Beer is solid, large record collection, free board games, pinball and shuffle puck. Only complaint is I don't care for the name "2 Share", would've gone with "Union St. Brewery" or something but that's irrelevant.

Souhegan also has a unique philosophy that people either love or hate, i.e., students call teachers by first names, no bells, off campus privileges, and to put it in glib broad strokes, a hippy-dippy approach. Real good school if you're looking for a less-structured environment. No idea what Hollis or Bedford HS's are like, but I imagine they are more traditional than Souhegan. We can get into a stupid argument about which town is nicest/ richest, but all three are ballpark similar upper-middle-class affluence, so I doubt it's a funding issue.