# 27 Reasons to Move Back to ME and NH (help me reach 100) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 6, 2002, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-reasons-to-move-back-to-me-and-nh-help-me-reach-100/135560 "2002-11-06T15:28:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2002, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-reasons-to-move-back-to-me-and-nh-help-me-reach-100/135560/1 "2002-11-06T15:28:46Z")
I was born in Maine (Damariscotta), lived there until I was 14 (moved to Litchfied when I was about 3), and then lived in Exeter, NH until I was 18 at which point I came to Atlanta (my mother’s job brought us here). Ever since I left, I have always been nostalgic about moving back, and going there on vacations has made it even only more desirous. The following are the reasons/memories that are requiring me to go back (in no particular order): 1. Hampton Beach and the huge banks of pinball machines in the arcades 2. Lobster rolls 3. Humpty Dumpty brand potato chips, especially Sour Cream and Clam 4. Reid State Park 5. Harness Racing 6. Skowhegan Fair 7. Lake Winnapausakee 8. Funtown USA, the Astrosphere in particular 9. Candlepin bowling (an earlier thread inspired this post) 10. Thomaston State Prison and their woodcrafts shop (I cannot believe this is gone!) 11. Red’s hot dogs 12. Downhill skiing 13. Fudge at Boothbay Harbor 14. Canobie Lake Amusement Park (where I took my high school physics final exam, thanks Mrs. May!) 15. Maple Syrup 16. Apple Cider 17. good Clam dip 18. Beanpot dinners 19. whale watching in Bar Harbor 20. the White Mountains 21. L.L. Bean open 24 hours a day (a friend and I spent a night there waiting for the local garage to open when his car broke down) 22. Kankamangus Highway 23. Trees changing colors 24. Clambakes 25. Yoken’s (Thare she blows) =) 26. No sales tax or state income tax in NH 27. Wolfeboro Railroad (I think this is gone now too, grrr) ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2002, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-reasons-to-move-back-to-me-and-nh-help-me-reach-100/135560/2 "2002-11-06T15:53:59Z")
Um, it’s New England and it’s beautiful. Oh, you want specifics? Four distinct seasons. There’s none of that measly winter you get in Atlanta (hey, I spent 2.5 years there and grew up in Chattanooga. I know what the winters are like). Real county fairs - they are all over the place in the fall, you can’t miss them. Lobster bakes (as opposed to clam bakes :p) I’d do it in an instant. I had four years in Maine and fell in love with the state. I’m already trying to finangle a way to get back there once I’m done with grad school - maybe the UMaine or UNH libraries will be hiring… ---
**Author:** ![Serendipity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Serendipity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serendipity)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2002, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-reasons-to-move-back-to-me-and-nh-help-me-reach-100/135560/3 "2002-11-06T17:34:37Z")
New Hampshire is the home of America’s Stonehenge. What more could you want than that? ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2002, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-reasons-to-move-back-to-me-and-nh-help-me-reach-100/135560/4 "2002-11-06T17:40:58Z")
The looks of excitement on peoples faces when they see you cross the state line. The freedom to whistle Yankee Doodle in a crowded bar without losing copious amounts of blood. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2002, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-reasons-to-move-back-to-me-and-nh-help-me-reach-100/135560/5 "2002-11-06T17:49:55Z")
Unless you have a job lined up, put it off. The job market in NH is rough right now- sadly, I know more people looking for work at the moment (as I am) than people with full-time jobs. Fosters, one of the largest papers in NH, today has a total of 43 help-wanted ads, if that paints a clearer picture. Oh, and the apartment vacency rate across the state is 1-1.5% so unless you plan to own a home, or have housing arranged… Maybe you should move to ME 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Morgainelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Morgainelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgainelf)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2002, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-reasons-to-move-back-to-me-and-nh-help-me-reach-100/135560/6 "2002-11-06T21:51:04Z")
State liquor stores Pumpkin Picking Cider Donuts Foggy spring mornings Attitash Portsmouth Kittery Trading Post Real Maple Syrup (and Maple Syrup Candy!) Steamers Arcadia National Park ---
**Author:** ![Firebat023](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a4c791/32.png) [@Firebat023](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Firebat023)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2002, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-reasons-to-move-back-to-me-and-nh-help-me-reach-100/135560/7 "2002-11-07T01:03:19Z")
Nubble Lighthouse Rye Beach, NH Stone walls And the fact that you go far enough north and you’re away from all that is wrong with America. ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2002, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/27-reasons-to-move-back-to-me-and-nh-help-me-reach-100/135560/8 "2002-11-07T01:31:31Z")
I live in New Hampshire. So there you go. 😉