Hi everyone. Me, my wife and my son are likely moving to New Hampshire before the end of this year. I grew up in Connecticut and then lived in Florida for the last ten years. We want to move to New Hampshire because we love freedom, are looking for good schools for our son because the ones in Florida generally are not very good, looking for lower crime and because I miss the North East and the higher quality of life.
Two things I wanted to mention is that we've never been been to New Hampshire, but we both used to live in New England. I lived in CT for 19 years and my wife lived in Massachusetts for 2 years.
I really hate to bring up race, because I find it annoying when other people bring race into things, but I wanted to mention that we're an interracial couple, and I wanted honest opinions if people in New Hampshire have problems with interracial couples since I noticed New Hampshire is an extremely white state. We're not paranoid, but we don't want to be harassed. Just an FYI, I'm white and my wife was born in Haiti. My wife is college educated, speaks perfect English and loves this country.
As for schools, would you say that certain regions of New Hampshire have better schools than others? Any recommendations would help. Our budget for a home depends on how certain things play out for this move, but it will be at least $270k and could potentially (if everything works out perfectly) be almost $400k. But we're planning on $270k just to be safe just in case but (like I said) it could be much higher. So we're trying to find a good area for safety and quality schools.
We both have a "live and let live" attitude which is one reason why New Hampshire appeals to us so much.
Anyway, we're looking forward to (likely) moving to the great state of New Hampshire before the end of the year.