I lived in MA in the 70s and 80s and insurance covered the cost of windhields back then. I don't know if there's coverage in NH but it could help as I think that replacing glass is very expensive these days. I think that most times it is very hard to identify the vehicle that kicked up a rock that breaks your windshield.

Take a look at Fidelity in Merrimack. They have a campus of 3,000 to 3,500.

I voted Abentee this year and you get the form and they list the valid reasons but they don't ask your reason. It can be as simple as being out of the area for the day.

I tried to set things up last week and the webpage hung so I'm going to try again tomorrow. I normally use Firefox but will try another browser tomorrow given the comments below.

It would bug me somewhat.

I think that the combination of RSV, Flu and COVID has hospitals fairly full.

I assume that you are referring to Southern New Hampshire Regional Medical Center, the hospital with a mouthful of a name. Hospitals have to respond to demand and sometimes demand overwhelms their capacity.

I live within walking distance of the Fidelity facility and it's still empty most of the time. I also play tennis there in the summer with one of the employees. It's very easy to get to as it's just off Exit 10 on the Turnpike.

Good school districts are Bedford, Amherst, Wyndham, Hollis.

You can find childcare at the Nashua-Merrimack YMCA. They may be the largest daycare provider in the area as they take care of a lot of kids because small childcare operations were decimated during COVID.

Logan is a pain when there's a lot of traffic. I usually try to get really early flights. If I need to go to Boston, I leave at 4:30 AM or after 9:30 AM. There is the option of driving to Lowell and taking commuter rail in. You can park there but it's easiest if you have someone drop you off and pick you up if you're going to be gone longer than a couple of days.

Property tax went up $0.20/1000. I think that it's still under $4K. It went down a lot a couple of years ago.

We got this huge thing from Radio Shack that I put in the attic. I think that it was 10 feet long and five feet wide and that thing pulled in stations from Boston but we were also on a hill. There are a lot of factors that affect reception - at least back before digital.

After the digital transition, my son bought a big square antenna (don't recall the brand or model) and that pulled in a couple of stations but he was able to watch the show that he wanted to watch. This was also in the attic. We tossed everything five years ago and nobody watches TV shows anymore.

We've had Comcast since around 2011 and have only internet. We had a CRT TV from the 1990s and got rid of it about five years ago. We use OTA - one member of the household wanted to watch one show every week.

Network television keeps raising rates and there have been some very public battles between the networks and the carriers and I haven't heard about those kinds of battles for several years so I assume that the carriers have just given up and pass on the costs. Cable television is a declining business model and the networks and carriers are just milking an aging cow to those willing to pay for it. Similar to landline phones.

We don't use self-storage but I try to clean the place out regularly. I have about six computers to sell so that should free up some space. I'm also going to get a shelving system from Home Depot which should create about 18 square feet of floor space.

Formula: if you don't use it in five years, get rid of it.

I get these regularly but it's basically 50/50 on whether they are real or spam.

I usually go to Lowell and take commuter rail into Boston if it's during the business day. If I need to drive in, I take 3 to 128 but I make sure that I hit the border by 4:30 AM and it takes me under an hour to get in. What may work out is if you can get a spouse or friend to drop you off at Lowell and then pick you up later on.

Thanks. I looked at about four sites and they generally reported 100 gpd or 300 gph. I remember when we went with Toto toilets many years ago and was struck by how little water they use compared to the originals from the 1970s.

Water scarcity is not the problem here that it is in other parts of the country but I think that it's good to conserve wherever we can.

We have low-flow toilets, shower, etc. The difference in water use is pretty big.

They look like flying ants but it's hard to tell as you're some distance away. I'd recommend a vacuum cleaner to get rid of them in the short-term. You might need a pest control person to figure out where they are coming from if it isn't obvious.

US history has this going back a long time. Whoever the new group was.

Very efficient.

Immigration is a loser politically though. Merkel realized that they needed more people and allowed refugees in from a variety of places and paid a large political cost for it. I think that Governor Baker can do this as he is leaving and as Massachusetts is welcoming of immigrants.

I didn't realize that the problem was that big. 11K people is a big number. The US, most Western Countries, and, many Asian countries, including China, are having fewer kids and there's basically a demographic time bomb for a lot of countries. So countries need immigration if they can't sustain their populations.

Housing is a general problem that's separate from immigration. We just need a lot more of it.

I would give Governor Baker the benefit of the doubt on his plan as he's been generally pretty good in the job.

The plumber arrive shortly after 8 AM and left at 1 PM. The Electrician was 10 AM to 12:30. They drained and took out the old unit and put in a pan and water heater in the closet. The electrician put in a new circuit across the ceiling of the basement and put in a power box in the closet with the water heater. They put in a leak detector unit which automatically shuts off cold water flow if there's water in the drain pan. It would have been nice to have the WiFi model - it sends you a text and email if there's a leak detected. We do have hot water now and what's really nice is that the water heater is silent. It's also a 40 gallon tank instead of a 30.

I spoke to another neighbor and they put in a NG tank but he has a fireplace and also doesn't have a finished basement and he said that they put in a bunch of pipes to do it and I wonder if they routed it to their chimney.

So peace of mind now.

Thanks for all of your comments.

It may be time to buy some AEP stock (they run the NG plant in Londonderry). Yield is 3.5% and they've increased their dividend quite a bit over the past three years. I feel a lot better on costs after hearing what people here pay relative to NG.

Fastest way would be to come on a tourist visa, meet someone, decide to get married and apply for a change of status. If you go the fiance' route, you have to remain in your own country for some period of time before you can emigrate. The whole process is long, involved, and complicated though.

There is the H1-B visa route but you have to have skills such that an employer would sponsor you. These are more common in scientific fields like software and electrical engineering, biotech, etc. I've heard that some school districts have programs to hire teachers where they can get around the H1-B caps. I do not know if any NH districts do that.

I asked and he gave me the requirements and he was doubtful. The water heater is in the basement and is surrounded by concrete on two sides and is underground. The wall that it would have to go to is on the other side of the building so it would have to run the length of the house.