This is ironic because I posted a similar statement months ago and several New Hampshirites were all over me with their condemnation.
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This is ironic because I posted a similar statement months ago and several New Hampshirites were all over me with their condemnation.
Please post a link, I've looked and can't find any. Just to be clear, we're talking manager/director well into the six figures.Actually Yes……From where I live it is 30mins to Westfield, 45mins to Springfield, and 50mins (and a very nice ride) to the Windsor CT corporate area where I worked with many "Sr.Level IT" people up until my retirement. So go ahead and sit in that eastern MA commuter traffic for a half hour and bitch about how you don’t want to move west and commute another 15min.
The winter weather north of Boston is definitely worse than south of the city.- Many years ago a friend told me "the snow doesn't know where the state line is" in response to the oft-heard statement that NH has a lot worse Winters than MA. At least near the border, the weather isn't much different than MA (up in the mountain region this wouldn't be true). And some of us (me) can't tolerate the constant high humidity and high temperatures of places like FL.
YMMV
Most bad weather USED TO come down from Canada. What I've noticed is that starting with the Blizzard of '78, most of the really bad weather has been coming in from the South or West. Nothing is 100%, but there have been changes in weather patterns.The winter weather north of Boston is definitely worse than south of the city.
This x 100 Property taxes alone are killing me here. $605 per month with an abatement. It'll be $900ish per month after the abatement is gone.I have been in Mass my entire life. My parents are in Mass. My business is in Mass. I need to get out of Mass. It goes way beyond 2A. Watching the news each morning makes me cringe. Everyday a new tax or new law is proposed... every day. Traffic is getting worse by the day. I have a dilemma. I am very close to my parents. I visit them four times a week. They are in good health but in their late seventies. I am in my early fifties. I really do not want to leave them behind when they may need me the most. But I am running the numbers and anticipating what traffic, laws, taxes and the population will be like here in ten years. I do not want to leave them behind but there is no way in hell I am still going to be here in ten years. This place is done. Nobody is ever turning this place around. I will fly back as needed to help out.
We live a simple life. We enjoy fishing, hunting, shooting, hiking, cooking things from scratch, gardening.... you get it. Basically, we are the outliers in this community. As my mom said last week to me, "honey, you were born a 100 years too late". I figure my wife and I have 30 years left to live. We worked very hard to get where we are, and we hope to retire by age 57. We are trying to figure where we can go and be happy for the last few decades we have left. New England will not make the cut. Even NH will be cooked in ten years or so.
Not guilty!
The other side is better organized. We keep pissing in our own drinking water.
Everybody's situation is different. I wasn't born in New England, I was raised in the midwest. I literally started NES to bring the New England shooting community closer together in 2005. I've always fought for constitutional rights and I will until the day I die.
I left MA for many many reasons, guns was pretty low on my list but had Larry Frisoli beaten Martha Coakley in the MA AG race I would have stuck around. It was a landslide loss for Larry and I told myself why do I subject myself to this liberal lunacy? MA literally voted against a income tax reduction when I lived there.
When I lived in MA every single time I turned on the news it was another BAN, TAX, shitty LAW, attack on law abiding gun owners, criminals and illegals being handled with kid gloves, etc. Its literally EVERY SINGLE DAY. I'm much happier in NH, no income tax for my wife or I, I can order anything I want and have it shipped to my house. I have a range in my backyard and have my other crazy libertarian buddies over for shoots, matches, tannerite, bbq, etc all the time. My town isn't trying to ban anything. When I turn on the news its mostly shitty crap that is happening in MA.
Life is too short to deal with liberal shitheads every day. I'll always have my brothers and sisters backs who stay in MA and when the time comes I'll be running overwatch for them as we close the lines and fight back the commies. Until that time comes I choose to surround myself with like minded people and enjoy the few years we have on this planet. I have so many fellow NES'ers up here with me, we have a pretty good f-ing time.
People in NH fail to see that the front line is currently in MA. If this line falls, their OpA is next.
I disagree- There is no "next" - the antis have been banging away simultaneously on a lot of different fronts since sandy hook bullshit happened.
Everybody's situation is different. I wasn't born in New England, I was raised in the midwest...
I grew up in NJ. Moved to Indiana for a year around 2000. Then to Arizona for 8, then to MA in 2008 for 11. In Arizona I got caught in the housing bubble, got laid off, lost 150k equity in my home and avoided bankruptcy (but not foreclosure) by a public hair. So safe to say I've been around a bit.
Lady Radtekk was born and raised, married and divorced in MA...
Point is, there IS life outside MA. It may have been "home" to my wife, but it never was to me. I'm an AMERICAN...
Ahh, thanks for clearing that up!I think you have it backwards.
Maura and Beacon Hill are to Enblocs front and probably smack dab in the middle of his range card.
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Other than the usual (graft over golf games), NH is small business friendly cuz not ridiculous on taxes hitting small biz. It's extremely UN-horseshit-big-business friendly cuz (1) Business Enterprise Tax, and (2) the aforementioned unwillingness to golf.You do have to ask, though, why do they fly complicated medical cases from NH to MA hospitals?
Why so many people ride the traffic from 6:00 AM down to MA for work?
MA has a very regressive inheritance tax structure. If all your assets exceed $1Million when you die (and houses are worth a very large part of that in much of Eastern MA), the inheritance tax STARTS at 16% (from the first dollar) and the tax rate increases if you have more assets. So those that saved/invested and did well through-out their lives and hope to pass on their money to an heir cause a lot of it to be wasted on the corrupt Mass DOR/gov't waste machine. NH has no inheritance tax.
We did a LOT of reading, research, mapping, etc. The country got REALLY small. Eastern Tennessee, Southern Kentucky, Western Carolinas is pretty much what was left.
We have been going through the same exercise that @Radtekk mentioned above. New England is done. Heck, all coastal states because of the politics. Carolinas, Tennessee, Kentucky sound perfect, but we really enjoy winters. We love to ski, and quite frankly I love that cold crisp air when there is snow on the ground. So we started to focus on Utah, Montana and Wyoming. We have done a few trips so far and have more planned. Utah got ruled out because it is changing rapidly. So we are down to two states but leaning toward Montana.
I'm quite fond of promoting partition. The fact of the matter, though, is by definition the Progs won't leave us be, even to leave. Their entire raison d'être is control.It is amazing that I am considering a move not just for enjoyment, but to get away from such a large chunk of population that I cannot stand. It is sad really. We all are from the same country yet we have such different beliefs. We can't even agree on standing for the Pledge of Allegience! I have said this before. This country will slowly split geographically, as people look to be with others of same beliefs and philosophies. More and more areas of the country will turn into total crap-holes like Seattle and San Fransisco, especially when those who can get out, leave.
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I'm quite fond of promoting partition. The fact of the matter, though, is by definition the Progs won't leave us be, even to leave. Their entire raison d'être is control.
Moving e.g. to New Hampshire is (as someone has already pointed out) about regrouping behind defensible battle lines. Such places haven't completely fallen yet. Constipation, Twoshits, etc., have.