I wouldn't worry too much. If you're in a rural area and have a generator, make sure you have gas. Maybe grab some extra food that is shelf stable if you don't keep much in the house. You don't need to be ready for nuclear war but having some basic food that will last you a week is appropriate.

Car stuff is useful to have too - ice scrapers, one of those snow pusher things, lock deicer, spare pair of gloves in the car. Snow pushers are amazing for heavy snowfall. Also you should have a spare shovel. A mini one in the car can come in handy too.

Most of us have been through 2+ feet in one night. When that happens things slow down for a day or so and then go back to normal.

The pandemic definitely hurt them a bit but it was still probably my favorite restaurant in the state. Things weren't always perfect but they were generally excellent, which is saying a lot for a relatively inexpensive restaurant!

I personally preferred Republic before they merged them.

Cardiacs.

90% chance you'll want to stab your ears out.

10% chance you'll fall in love with them.

Makes sense to me.

I don't have ADD but having some form of music playing can help me focus on a task.

For me at least, it generally needs to be instrumental or mostly instrumental.

What I think it does for me is removes the drudgery of doing something that is repetitive and boring.

That being said, I don't need it to be the same album over and over again. I have broad tastes and a lot to pull from musically.

I dunno, when I was younger and bought albums I sure as hell would listen to them over and over - maybe in part because I didn't have an unlimited supply of new music. Even today when I encounter something new these days I'll listen to it a lot. I think "exclusively" probably falls a bit on the ADD or OCD side, but "listening to one album more than everything else combined" is definitely quite common.

As with everything in life, there is a very wide range of ways that people interact with music.

10 is a lot. Not surprised at the diagnosis.

Most people don't have an opportunity to listen to music that much, never mind the same album on repeat ten times in a day.

Welcome to Planet Earth, where such things have been happening since the dawn of civilization.

This is happening all over rural Japan, and it's not pretty. All the kids leave, because they literally need to.

Too many people look at someone that lives 20 miles away moving over an imaginary line as if it's terrible or something. It's just normal movement of people and it happens everywhere.

You'd think that the way some people sound, that NH is the fastest growing state in the union or something (plot twist, we aren't, and it's not close)

2 times? Not odd.

10 is a bit weird though.

Hansi is a great singer. He sang on a couple of Ayreon albums, you should check them out (If you're not familiar, it's a collaborative group that pulls in different singers for each album - including Mikael Akerfeldt, James Labrie, Bruce Dickinson, and Devin Townsend).

It's a very common way people listen to music.

Like... Exceedingly common.

That's not living in the middle of nowhere but it is pretty normal. That's about 1/6th of an acre per house.

I grew up with a 1/4 acre yard. It's not Sherwood forest but it is hardly living on top of each other...

Eh, there should be more variety in housing than apartments and mcmansions. We don't have enough of the in between stuff. Having different densities is a good thing.

These look appropriately sized for an individual or a couple without a lot of material stuff. It's not going to be for everybody, but these look like they would be good homes for people that have modest means and don't want to live in an apartment.

You *could* go out to start your car naked in -10F weather.

As long as you're not hanging around outside you'll be fine. At -10F with 30mph wind you'll be fine for 5 minutes (Frostbite calculator says 9 minutes at that temp/wind)

Not that I'd recommend it, mind you. If you locked yourself out of your house you'd have a problem pretty quickly.

If you're that worried about it you could just take Locust over to exit 35 exit 90.

I realize that this is a bit old, but some perspective on crime rates:

Boston has about half of the violent crime rate of Wichita, and there is no suburban sprawl in the city, either. The property crime rate in Boston is around 40% of Wichita.

Manchester has a violent crime rate that is around 40% of what it is in Wichita. Property crime rates are about half.

Nashua has a violent crime rate that is around 12% of what it is in Wichita, and about 22% of the property crime rate.

NH is a very safe state. Manchester is rougher than NH is as a whole, but compared to the vast majority of small cities, it's not bad at all.

In the south, riverside cafe in Milford. Try the CB stack or the pig pile.

In the north, Polly's. I am a pancake hater and theirs are great. Their other food is good, too.

Tucker's is fine but I think it looks a bit better than it tastes. It also has a more... corporate feel.

That's going to be difficult. You'll probably be able to get a studio apartment somewhere, but you won't have a lot of choice in the matter. Nashua is going to be too expensive, Manchester is definitely cheaper. If you go north from Manchester it will get cheaper and less convenient. You're likely to be living further away or in a not so nice area of town. You could probably swing a 1br in Concord, but another alternative would be to find a roommate in a nicer place in Nashua.

For what it's worth the commute south to Nashua and then north towards Manchester isnt too bad. There's some northward traffic, and Fridays can be problematic during the summer, but it's not a nightmare by any means.

What exactly is pretty about this scene? Underexposed, no subject (a pile of snow with some trees in the distance is not a subject), and it's as straight as a hill in San Francisco.

It looks gray and miserable.

As of late 2022, NH had a 0.3% vacancy rate for 2 bedroom apartments, and 0.5% for all units.

https://www.nhhfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/NHHousing-2022-Rental-Cost-Report.pdf

Things are pretty tight up here right now. I don't know what your budget will look like, but the places that have some vacancies tend to be places that price at a premium level and intentionally keep some units open by pushing rents up to higher levels. Less premium locations can be difficult to snap up.

Registration, not inspection.

It's not really bullshit any more than a tax is, but it's NH so it can't be a tax.

My car cost nearly $1k to register this year. But I didn't pay sales tax!

And it'll be cheaper next year.

/Shrug

$76/year is a lot cheaper than in NH...

Eh - the defining thing of a new England accent is that they are non-rhotic. The Maine drawl isn't really out there. Other aspects of the accent - a few words are pronounced differently, but everyone has heard "aunt" versus "ant".

"There" might be "theh" in Boston and "theyeah" in Maine.

If you have an example of a ridiculously strong Maine accent id be curious. The strongest ones I've heard in person mostly sound like a combination of a slowly spoken Boston accent with a rural southern twang (more like Georgia than, say, Texas or Mississippi).

There's always some regional slang, of course. Nobody around here would ever be found whipping shitties, but tonic and bubblers might take some context for someone not from the region to figure out.