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[ThatGuy]

Theres things about city living I can appreciate but I love the country. Can count on one hand the amount of times I’ve been to NYC and I only live ~3hrs away. Grew up in the sticks and plan on staying out here. Think it depends on what you value in life and what pace you live at. I would rather live in a city than suburbia though.

 

[KustyTheKlown]

Theres things about city living I can appreciate but I love the country. Can count on one hand the amount of times I’ve been to NYC and I only live ~3hrs away. Grew up in the sticks and plan on staying out here. Think it depends on what you value in life and what pace you live at. I would rather live in a city than suburbia though.

suburbs are death. i can see myself living in a rural area near skiing or in a small town with a downtown core surrounded by rural area (mmmm montpelier). but suburbs, ewww. i call my buddies who have moved to long island or suburban nj 'lawn shovelers'

 

[deadheadskier]

I enjoy cities a lot and probably spend 40 nights a year or more between NYC and Boston.

The reason I wouldn't want to live in either place is the time it takes to escape to the mountains. It would drive me insane sitting in NYC or Boston traffic trying to get north on a Friday. It would also drive me crazy having to commute into either from the Burbs. I'm glad I don't have to do that for work daily.

We've lived in our small little NH town for 14 years now and I don't see ourselves moving. Serviceable skiing an hour away and really good skiing 2 hours away. 20 minutes to the beach, an hour to the best boating lake in New England where I have a slip. Great restaurants and the best small live music venue in New England. Absolutely love our town and location.

 

[KustyTheKlown]

I enjoy cities a lot and probably spend 40 nights a year or more between NYC and Boston.

The reason I wouldn't want to live in either place is the time it takes to escape to the mountains. It would drive me insane sitting in NYC or Boston traffic trying to get north on a Friday. It would also drive me crazy having to commute into either from the Burbs. I'm glad I don't have to do that for work daily.

We've lived in our small little NH town for 14 years now and I don't see ourselves moving. Serviceable skiing an hour away and really good skiing 2 hours away. 20 minutes to the beach, an hour to the best boating lake in New England where I have a slip. Great restaurants and the best small live music venue in New England. Absolutely love our town and location.

havent i taught you anything over the years? you abuse prescription drugs to go to sleep at 8 pm on friday, wake up at 3 am, set the cruise control for 88 and time travel to sugarbush from NYC in 4 hours. then you sleep in a heroiny place in rutland.

 

[KustyTheKlown]

aslo @deadheadskier, i had never really been to the beach in new england except for cape cod but work recently brought me to a conference that was held one day in Newburyport and one day in Salisbury. so i wasn't at NH seacoast, but was damn close to it. holy smokes its so nice there! newburyport felt like if Georgetown DC was plopped onto a bay near the ocean. Salisbury felt like the jersey shore but less skeezy. Plum Island seemed super exclusive and not very open to the public but i was able to park and walk on the beach because it was tuesday. super nice places, i really enjoyed my little work trip. could def live in that area and be totally happy, with great proximity to all the things you mention.

 

[deadheadskier]

I know you love it and it works for you. The dedication is impressive.

I'll take walking home from a club show at 1AM, up at 6:30 and be at Cannon or Wildcat by 9. Pretty tired by my drive home though unless I stay in a methlab motel in the mountains.

 

[KustyTheKlown]

my favorite was when i lived in Williamsburg and when i lived on the Lower East Side, the neighborhoods weren't even remotely asleep and quiet at 3-4 am on Friday nights, and i'd get the best strangest looks from late night drunks while walking to my car with skis on my shoulder

 

[deadheadskier]

aslo @deadheadskier, i had never really been to the beach in new england except for cape cod but work recently brought me to a conference that was held one day in Newburyport and one day in Salisbury. so i wasn't at NH seacoast, but was damn close to it. holy smokes its so nice there! newburyport felt like if Georgetown DC was plopped onto a bay near the ocean. Salisbury felt like the jersey shore but less skeezy. Plum Island seemed super exclusive and not very open to the public but i was able to park and walk on the beach because it was tuesday. super nice places, i really enjoyed my little work trip. could def live in that area and be totally happy, with great proximity to all the things you mention.

I'm 25 minutes from Newburyport and hang there frequently. Great town. I like it better than Portsmouth as it's less touristy. Portsmouth is similar, just larger.

You just made Salisbury's day. "We may not be number 1, but we are better than the Jersey shore!"

We have some great beaches nearby up here, only problem is the water is frigid. Hence why my boat is on a lake. I could have a slip walking distance from my home with ocean access, but I like to float in 75 degree water drinking beer in the summer.

 

[KustyTheKlown]

i walked along the beach barefoot and got ankle deep and was like these people swimming are fucking crazy

 

[machski]

I've enjoyed my time in Utah but the homelessness here in plain sight has been equal to that of NYC. Every other freeway ramp has panhandlers on it. Took my car in for an oil change downtown, took a mile walk and back, probably saw 20ish homeless people in that timespan. Not something I was expecting. Not saying its unsafe though.

I enjoy runs up City Creek Canyon when on trip layovers in town, but I tend to avoid it before full sunrise these days.

 

[MadPadraic]

Great restaurants and the best small live music venue in New England. Absolutely love our town and location.

Would you kindly define small for me so, I can then post a snotty thing about some club in my part of the world?

But seriously, of all the venues/restaurants that were lost during Covid, I miss Great Scott the most (which would have probably closed anyway due to an uncultured landlord).

If you wanna go very small, Atwoods would have once taken the prize, but only because Vapors of Morphine had an extended residence there.

 

[MadPadraic]

Plum Island seemed super exclusive and not very open to the public

If you are young and not planning on having kids, Plum island is the place to buy not yet ocean front property. Just wait, and eventually it will be.

 

[KustyTheKlown]

If you are young and not planning on having kids, Plum island is the place to buy not yet ocean front property. Just wait, and eventually it will be.

yea, a lot of the houses on the ocean beach side were def too close to the water for my comfort

 

[ss20]

havent i taught you anything over the years? you abuse prescription drugs to go to sleep at 8 pm on friday, wake up at 3 am, set the cruise control for 88 and time travel to sugarbush from NYC in 4 hours. then you sleep in a heroiny place in rutland.

I never have to daytrip 8 hours roundtrip total from CT to Killington ever again and that's OK with me!!!

 

[MadPadraic]

I never have to daytrip 8 hours roundtrip total from CT to Killington ever again and that's OK with me!!!

We've daytriped Sugarloaf from Boston a couple of times. It was a lot easier when Snowmonster was around, as he never tired of driving.