As someone who was more or less forced to move to southern New England for his career I love northern New England but I have less than high opinion for people who talk it up as though it's the greatest thing ever. People moving to Northern New England for the taxes (after counting government fees and other taxes it's not really that low when it's all said and done) or the low prices or other shallow benefits and don't understand that these are different places with different cultures (though if their only experience is the I95 or I93 corridor I can see how someone might miss that) will be the death of it. I have lived in ME, NH and VT, they all have distinct cultures that are different than the culture you get in MA and CT (haven't lived in RI). I'm not gonna say they're wholesale superior (obviously it comes down to personal values and preference) but I find the things their culture does right very important personally and the things it does wrong very unimportant so naturally I like them all a lot better than MA and CT. If you're gonna move to NH, ME or VT do it for the culture fit, not for the shallow crap like being able to buy beer at Walmart. Also, to anyone from NH, ME or VT reading this, sorry for lumping you all together but I think we can all agree you have more in common with each other than you do with any state to the south.

So yeah, it's a great place to live but please stop broadcasting that or it will stop being that way.