101 Reasons to move to New Hampshire

[jrskblx125]

Im in mass but the fact that new hampshire is polling for romney is fucking scary. I live 10 min from nh i would have no problem moving there. I need to see legitimate potential though not just a catchphrase on a license plate

 

[ChaosControl]

Blah didn't realize this was an old topic. Evil old bumps from hades.

 

[Keith and stuff]

I was thinking Maine...

Maine has fewer gun restrictions than New Hampshire. Maine also has a law that prohibits the implementation of REAL ID.

On the other hand Maine taxes are very high and the size of government is about twice as big as New Hampshire. Now that the Democrats have taken over in New Hampshire that may change.

Although ME (like VT and NH) is known for having less restrictive gun laws than most states, I've never heard anyone say it's laws are better than the laws in NH before. Anyway, gun laws in NH should change for the better over the next two years. Maybe it will have the least restrictive laws in the nation soon.

REAL ID and all similar laws are banned from NH. In fact, NH made national headlines by starting the national REAL ID resistance movement in this country.

The GOP not only took back NH, but now it has more control than it used to have

 

[TakeThePowerBack]

I saw how NH voted in the primary and my first thought is that they need to retire the "live free or die" motto.

 

[Keith and stuff]

I saw how NH voted in the primary and my first thought is that they need to retire the "live free or die" motto.

The primary was amazing in NH. Libertarians (running as GOPers) won again and again. And the general election, well, more liberty lovers were elected in NH than the next several states combined.

If you are talking about 2008, this article suggests that Ron Paul did better in NH than anywhere else when you consider all of the factors, http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jsorens/rpvotes.pdf

 

[Promontorium]

How are you guys doing all these New Hampshire Necropostings when I can't see any post I've made before the update? I've got 1,000 posts MIA.

 

[One Last Battle!]

I am in Canada, so I have no objections to the winter

Sadly, though, they don't entirely accept Canadian medical licenses, so I can't go.

 

[Eric21ND]

I kinda think North Dakota would've been a good choice for this. We have half the population of NH, so you're votes would carry much more weight. The suck is that we have brutally cold winters and no scenery like NH.

 

[libertybrewcity]

Hopefully they make some changes. It shouldn't be to hard to get the legislatures on board to vote for pro-liberty legislation if it is only 3k per rep. It would be cool to see a gold as money bill, take out the property taxes, privatize the alcohol stores, and lower the drinking age.

 

[Keith and stuff]

I kinda think North Dakota would've been a good choice for this. We have half the population of NH, so you're votes would carry much more weight. The suck is that we have brutally cold winters and no scenery like NH.

It was one of the 10 states that the voters looked at but it got 10th place (last) in the vote because no one could think of any decent reasons why it was the best state. Maybe the worst weather in the US, no scenery, no mountains, no oceans, no major metros near-by, lack of a major airport and other things contributed to almost no liberty activist supporting the state in the 2003 vote.

 

[rhelwig]

Hopefully they make some changes. ...It would be cool to see a gold as money bill,

Believe me, I am watching for this one to be RE-introduced, hopefully in a more Austrian form. But realistically, it isn't politically worthwhile to introduce in this session, and as far as I know it hasn't.

The first time it was introduced, it went nowhere. There wasn't anywhere near as obvious a need for it as now, plus the legislature wasn't as good as it is now.

I am hopeful that in two years we'll have even more liberty loving legislators, and that will be the time to bring this back. (If we can wait that long)

 

[vita3]

Judd Gregg?

 

[FSP-Rebel]

Judd Gregg?

He's retiring but federal races tend to produce country clubbers for GOP candidates. State level candidates and lower are much more down to earth and far more accessible.

 

[Keith and stuff]

All of the recent good news about NH is scary. How can one state do so well when compared to other states?

NH had the fastest growth in New England
http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2010/12/census-fast-growth-states-no-income-tax

This leads to a second point, which is that growth tends to be stronger where taxes are lower. Seven of the nine states that do not levy an income tax grew faster than the national average. The other two, South Dakota and New Hampshire, had the fastest growth in their regions, the Midwest and New England.

NH had 2nd best job growth over past year
http://www.unionleader.com/article....rticleId=fc7ec25d-0f11-47d2-a4e3-0758796ea378

New Hampshire outpaced every other state except Nevada in job growth over the last year, according to information released by the U.S. Department of Labor.

NH people are tops in the nation for good financial decisions
http://forum.freestateproject.org/index.php?topic=22325.0

It looks like, according to just this survey, the people of NH seem to make better financial decisions and have better financial knowledge than people in other states. People in NY also do well.

People in NH and NY tend to have more money than the US average. I don't know the relation between how financially well off people are in NH and the good financial decisions they tend to make compared to other people in the US, though.

Students from NH are less likely to fail the ASVAB
http://forum.freestateproject.org/index.php?topic=22377.0

People that took the test from WY, NH, ID, NE and IN were most likely to pass the test.

This is yet more research showing that people in NH tend to have more knowledge than people in other states.

Union Leader, front page 2011.01.02: Poll: Youth pot use on rise in NH
http://forum.freestateproject.org/index.php?topic=22478.msg257565#msg257565

Quotes:

In the state youth survey, about 40 percent of New Hampshire residents 18 to 25 years old reported having used marijuana -- the highest percentage in the country, a ranking the state shares with Vermont and Rhode Island.

"New Hampshire is actually No. 1 in having lowest perception of harm," said Metzger, with the state HHS. "This is correlated to a high use rate."

"At the same time, however, it appears alcohol abuse among New Hampshire teenagers has been on the decline."

Guys in NH have larger penises than in other states
http://limewedge.net/states-ranked-by-condom-size

# Top Ranking State by Average Penis Size: New Hampshire

 

[Keith and stuff]

more good news about NH.

NH Students Top National Science Test

Fourth graders in New Hampshire score higher on a national science test than fourth graders in all other states.

Additional Sources:

http://www.unionleader.com/article....rticleId=69dad0ae-7b72-4c41-95dc-b11276c67438

 

[WilliamShrugged]

How legit is NH as a libertarian state? Im 22 and wouldn't mind moving out of Nevada one day, but how much of the state is libertarian? The majority of people? Or is the movement still new and only in the beginning stages?

 

[Keith and stuff]

How legit is NH as a libertarian state? Im 22 and wouldn't mind moving out of Nevada one day, but how much of the state is libertarian? The majority of people? Or is the movement still new and only in the beginning stages?

NH is definitely the freest (most libertarian) state in the US. Studies in 2009 and 2011 http://mercatus.org/freedom-50-states-2011 showed that. I've been to pretty much every state, most of them 3 or more times and NH seems the freest from my personal experience.

The majority of people in NH aren't libertarian. Maybe around 25% of the adults would show up at libertarian if the Worlds Smallest Political Quiz was taken by all of the adults in NH.

Freedom isn't something new in NH. People have been moving from MA to NH in search of greater freedom for over 200 years. The state motto has been Live Free or Die since well before I was born. In the 1990s, there was a Libertarian Party caucus in the New Hampshire House of Representatives and it had 4 members. That was better than any other state has ever done as far as LP support. Now, there is a caucus in the NH House of Reps called the Natural Rights Council http://naturalrightscouncil.org/ It is a libertarian caucus (not LP) and has 30 something members, I beleive.

Just this year, the state budget was shrunk by 11%. I think the state budget only shrunk at all in 2 states this year. Funding for government universities was cut by 45% which I think is around twice as much as the government university funding cuts in any other state. Dozens of pro-liberty bills became law this year with more to become law after the override Gov. Lynch's veto, http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?303849-2011-New-Hampshire-Liberty-Related-Bills-Report

But yes, more liberty lovers are moving to NH all of the time. Liberty may not do as well in NH every year as it has done in 2011 but the overall tend will continue to improve as more and more liberty lovers move to NH and get active.

NH is arguable already the freest or one of the freest places in the first world but NH will likely get much more free as time goes on, especially if more people get involved and move. Who knows, 30 years from now NH may be twice as free as anywhere else in the first world and you may be one of the vanguards.

 

[Keith and stuff]

Good news for NH (bad news for everyone else). A report just came out that shows that while poverty is on the rise in the US, it is falling in NH.
Poverty is up in the US as a whole from 14.3% in 2009 to 15.1% now, poverty is down in NH from 8.6% in 2009 to 6.6% now.
http://news.yahoo.com/census-us-poverty-rate-swells-nearly-1-6-142639972.html

Last month, another report praising NH came out.
NH ranked best in U.S. to raise children.

The foundation’s annual Kids Count survey placed New Hampshire first for the fourth year in a row. The Granite State was tops in four of 10 separate categories the survey includes. The survey ranked the state highest for its lowest percentage of children in poverty; teen birth rate; teens neither in school nor working, and its highest rate of high school graduation.

New Hampshire was the only state to rank first in more than one of the key indicators on which the survey is based. It was in the top 10 in every category.

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20110818/NEWS/708189985

 

[Keith and stuff]

More good news for NH.

According to CNN, averaged over the last 2 years, NH has the highest median household income in the US at $65,028.

Some other states:
1 New Hampshire $65,028
2 New Jersey $64,918
3 Connecticut $64,644
4 Maryland $63,828
5 Alaska $62,675
6 Virginia $61,126
7 Utah $60,396
8 Massachusetts $59,732
9 Hawaii $58,469
10 Washington $58,404
42 North Carolina $42,33
45 Montana $41,587
50 Mississippi $35,693

http://money.cnn.com/2010/09/16/news/economy/Americas_wealthiest_states/index.htm

 

[Vessol]

Guys in NH have larger penises than in other states
http://limewedge.net/states-ranked-by-condom-size

# Top Ranking State by Average Penis Size: New Hampshire

Lolwut?