That may be a dated opinion, I’ve been in NH since 2014 and it’s always felt like a nice place to me. Sure, Vermont is cooler, but we’ve got like 23 miles of sweet ocean coastline!
Most of the assholes here seem to arrive in 7 row SUVs from Massachusetts. Also Dodge RAMs.
It wouldn't be so bad if the reactioinary Libertarian jackasses that infested the state some 15 years ago would kindly fuck back off to wherever they came from.
Yes, we have had our share of right wing assholery - most famously the Leob family - William and then his wife Nacky, they ran the Manchester Union Leader newspaper and were die-hard conservatives.. but both have been dead for decades now.
The no income and sales tax thing (while being taxed up the ass on property) attracts a metric ton of right wing idiots from elsewhere.. ad they move in and live high on the hog - UNTIL - they hit retirement, then they can't get fast enough out to a place with lower property taxes.
We're actualy solidly aligned as New Englanders except for the low-income, low education, reactionary folks up in Coos county that lost their livelihoods when the paper mills shut down decades ago.. they are the ones you'll see rolling coal and driving with confederate flags in the windows of their rusted out pickups..
However.. you'll get the Red Sox, the Celtics, the Bruins and the Patriots (who've actually done good this year!) Can even throw in the Portland SeaDogs which are a super fun minor league team to go see.
But NO NY Yankees.
They can go to New Jersey.
My northern NE sensibilities must throw down the obligatory Bostonian utterance: "Yankees suck!" (..and when they win the pennant, they suck even more! - LOL!)
Welll. I was being sweet on the guy furter down who asked if New York can come too, as they do not want to leave Zohran behind... which makes sense.
Am excited to see how well he can start to pull NY together for the working people there, and keenly interested in how far he gets before the 1%-ers really step up their agitprop against him..
As much as I’d dream of this. If the blue states left, it would tank the red economy and make them pissy. They would then pull a Russia and try to force back those states. You’d then have old US being attacked by Mexico, Canada and New US. The other issue is that most of the weapons of mass destruction are currently residing mostly red states.
Since this side of the world would be in turmoil, I’d have to assume Russia and China would take advantage of that for their own gains.
33 Comments
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 40 pts · 250d
NGL, am native New Englander and resident.. Wouldn't mind one bit if we left and joined our cultural bretheren in Canada.
WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org · 11 pts · 250d
New England and the west coast + New Mexico and Colorado.
Except NH. NH can be the island of assholes it always has been.
wattanao@fedia.io · 4 pts · 250d
Please don't leave us behind. Maybe we can cut a deal and cut the state in half?
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 248d
Bold. Let's take the half that doesn't suck.
HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 249d
"Live Fee or Die" ugh
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 249d
Living will cost you $5000/month. Otherwise we whack you. There are no other benefits.
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 248d
5k a month? Ooooo.. lookit you, Mr. Mansion on 1A in Rye..
LOL!
MSids@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 249d
That may be a dated opinion, I’ve been in NH since 2014 and it’s always felt like a nice place to me. Sure, Vermont is cooler, but we’ve got like 23 miles of sweet ocean coastline!
Most of the assholes here seem to arrive in 7 row SUVs from Massachusetts. Also Dodge RAMs.
zeroday@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 250d
NH's got a lot of guns, might be worth having them on your side. Or is it really just an island of irredeemable assholes?
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 250d
Am native Granite Stater.
It wouldn't be so bad if the reactioinary Libertarian jackasses that infested the state some 15 years ago would kindly fuck back off to wherever they came from.
Yes, we have had our share of right wing assholery - most famously the Leob family - William and then his wife Nacky, they ran the Manchester Union Leader newspaper and were die-hard conservatives.. but both have been dead for decades now.
The no income and sales tax thing (while being taxed up the ass on property) attracts a metric ton of right wing idiots from elsewhere.. ad they move in and live high on the hog - UNTIL - they hit retirement, then they can't get fast enough out to a place with lower property taxes.
We're actualy solidly aligned as New Englanders except for the low-income, low education, reactionary folks up in Coos county that lost their livelihoods when the paper mills shut down decades ago.. they are the ones you'll see rolling coal and driving with confederate flags in the windows of their rusted out pickups..
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 250d
No thank you. We have enough problems.
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 249d
We all do my friend.
However.. you'll get the Red Sox, the Celtics, the Bruins and the Patriots (who've actually done good this year!) Can even throw in the Portland SeaDogs which are a super fun minor league team to go see.
But NO NY Yankees.
They can go to New Jersey.
My northern NE sensibilities must throw down the obligatory Bostonian utterance: "Yankees suck!" (..and when they win the pennant, they suck even more! - LOL!)
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 249d
wouldn't the yankees just remain in new york since new york isn't new england?
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 248d
Welll. I was being sweet on the guy furter down who asked if New York can come too, as they do not want to leave Zohran behind... which makes sense.
Am excited to see how well he can start to pull NY together for the working people there, and keenly interested in how far he gets before the 1%-ers really step up their agitprop against him..
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 250d
You have wonderful clam chowder, so as an exiled Nova Scotian, please feel free to join us!
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 250d
Thank you! I've visited your beautiful province.. Truly, God's country.
4am@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 250d
Can New York come too? I don’t want to leave Zohran behind
tmyakal@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 250d
Anything in the WAMC listening area is New England. I'll accept no other opinions.
dhork@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 250d
Maybe they can become New New England
the_q@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 250d
mtpender@piefed.social · 5 pts · 250d
Cyberpunk UK when?
boolean_sledgehammer@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 250d
Newest England.
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com · 12 pts · 250d
Can PA come too
nodoze313@lemmynsfw.com · 7 pts · 250d
Idk, the vaccination rates are questionable, though wtf NJ? https://www.axios.com/2025/12/31/measles-flu-vaccine-mmr-rates-2026
JakoJakoJako13@piefed.social · 6 pts · 250d
Philly is a country of it's own.
Drusas@fedia.io · 5 pts · 250d
Philly will do what it wants and fuck you.
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com · 1 pts · 250d
Hell yeah.
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 249d
I fuckin' love Philly.. Spent some WILD weekends in the mid 80's partying at the Rocky Horror Picture Show screenings at the TLA on South St.
I hope it still is there!
Drusas@fedia.io · 2 pts · 248d
It is.
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 248d
Nice!
NGL, that's gotta be one funky-ass building. It was pretty beat down decades ago.
ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 250d
Finally, a permanent solution to the Patriots.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 249d
Paging Billy Bragg.
fort_burp@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 250d
Free Texas!
ApollosArrow@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 248d
As much as I’d dream of this. If the blue states left, it would tank the red economy and make them pissy. They would then pull a Russia and try to force back those states. You’d then have old US being attacked by Mexico, Canada and New US. The other issue is that most of the weapons of mass destruction are currently residing mostly red states.
Since this side of the world would be in turmoil, I’d have to assume Russia and China would take advantage of that for their own gains.