That escalated quickly

It’s New Hampshire. Regardless your in one of the safest states in the country. That being said crime happens in some of the nicest places, just use your head and avoid a situation or area that your gut tells you isn’t a good idea. Realistically though 99% of the time your safe and there won’t be an issue.

I remember riding down 15 to NYC and just seeing cardboard boxes ALL over the road.

They were EVERYWHERE.

About a mile down there was a box truck that looked like it had exploded because it had clipped one of the bridges, presumably going 65.

No clue how it didn't cause a massive pileup/jam.

That was my first experience going through CT.

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I’m a west coaster living in NH and at least the massholes know how to drive. As for VT shitting on NH and vice versa, I don’t get it….I was at a NYE party in VT w new friends and they asked why the hell I live in NH! I don’t see much difference.

Yup. Can confirm CT drivers are the worsttt. I cringe everytime I see a CT plate.

Well that's because the gop are a bunch of backwards clowns

As a Mainer legalized weed sucks. Smell is worse than cigs and any event you go to reeks or driving down semi popular roads.

The highest crime rate in the state is in somersworth and even that’s not much above the national average

I grew up in CT and have been living up here since I started college and my driving has mellowed out so much. My friends tell me I've been reformed lol. Any time I go down to visit I always see some crazy shit.

I think what turns a lot people off about Manchester is that it’s overwhelmingly low income (and we’re all aware that a large part of the city is brownskinned, and that’s too scary for a lot of people) so there aren’t any super swank neighborhoods and a lot of the city is run down, and people automatically equate that to very bad/dangerous. Shit happens there and I’m happier where I am now but it’s not a place where people move to die

If someone can’t handle living in Manchester for a few years they probably can’t handle living in a real city unless it’s in a guarded building and they never go anywhere other than their own neighborhood

Have they found bodies/skeletal human remains on the rail trail a few times in the last decade or so or am I thinking of somewhere else? I just remember being shocked by it because NH— even Manchester— just isn’t very murdery

I would take a look at the Somersworth crime statistics. They are not good and I would never choose to live there

But I agree that in general there aren’t really rough places in NH. Manchester can be sucky sometimes for petty stuff like car breakins or a stolen package (I lived there for a few years, on a tree street no less) but the sharks and the jets aren’t roaming around snapping and looking for people to fight, and the way people talk about it sometimes you wouldn’t know that

this is accurate

there are a couple areas that aren’t taken care of well and can get a little ~rowdy~ and there’s some smashed TVs on the sidewalk etc but I was still able to walk in those areas alone— or with my young child— regularly without a problem when I lived in Manch for a few years

I got aggressively catcalled once by a really drunk guy near where the Dominos is on Maple St and I told him to suck my dick and kept walking home with my pizza 🤷🏻‍♀️ (*my kid was not with me that time)

the furthest north ends of all the tree streets are fine; it’s like being in a different city when you get to north ash street, it’s actually bizarre how fast it shifts in that area

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Yeah, I’m from Nashua, have lived in Bed-Stuy Brooklyn for 7 years now. If anyone thinks anywhere in NH is “rough” in any capacity, it’s 100% subconscious racism or classism. Working class/diverse areas are not “the hood”

>Stanton Park

I used to throw a frisbee with my friends at Stanton Park all the time. Mid-day. Never noticed anything sketch—what was I missing?

I think you dramatically overstate how Democratic the NH electorate is. The state legislature is majority Republicans and has been for a couple election cycles. Both parties have viable candidates for most races

Part of that is their moronic use of left hand exists.

But I think New Yorkers are even worse... It's like things just keep downhill as you head South and West.

Yep, their stance has been this way for years and will continue this way. You gotta vote in libertarians or liberals if you want legalized weed, or any other drugs.

Because that's not a retail item