The Portsmouth area is really booming the last few years. It's starting to get a little bit of a Bay Area style housing/infrastructure crisis brewing as well, albeit on a much smaller scale. But house prices are up significantly over just the past three years, and rents are worse. So many offices have gone into the former Pease Air Force that traffic is starting to be a real problem, compounded by the the never-ending construction on the Spaulding Turnpike bridges north out of Portsmouth.

It's not the sexiest tech company, but Liberty Mutual has a huge presence in the area and employs a significant number of people in IT.