I do kind of like the idea of living in New Hampshire with the libertarians, but there’s not enough cool stuff there AFAICT.
Also, I think people pretty rarely drive/train an hour to go places unless that’s where they work, so I predict that if I lived an hour away from some big city, I would basically never go there. But maybe there are benefits to being near a big city that don’t come from ever going there?
There’s loads of cool stuff in New Hampshire and the environs. If Peekskill is in serious contention, then there is good reason to check out New Hampshire, which is significantly better along most axes. I’d recommend that you physically send people to look around for a couple of weeks.
I will second the claim that being more than an hour from a city means most people will not casually go there.
We’ve spent physical time in Bellingham, Peekskill, NH, and various other options on our list. (And I expect us to continue making more visits as we weigh the options.)
Want to emphasize this point. Peekskill is in a partially recovered Rust Belt area, you will not find that many enjoyable activities, except after the ~2 hour train ride to NYC.
Portsmouth and a large number of towns in southern New Hampshire are extremely nice places by themselves, in addition to their proximity to Boston.
I do kind of like the idea of living in New Hampshire with the libertarians, but there’s not enough cool stuff there AFAICT.
Also, I think people pretty rarely drive/train an hour to go places unless that’s where they work, so I predict that if I lived an hour away from some big city, I would basically never go there. But maybe there are benefits to being near a big city that don’t come from ever going there?
There’s loads of cool stuff in New Hampshire and the environs. If Peekskill is in serious contention, then there is good reason to check out New Hampshire, which is significantly better along most axes. I’d recommend that you physically send people to look around for a couple of weeks.
I will second the claim that being more than an hour from a city means most people will not casually go there.
We’ve spent physical time in Bellingham, Peekskill, NH, and various other options on our list. (And I expect us to continue making more visits as we weigh the options.)
Want to emphasize this point. Peekskill is in a partially recovered Rust Belt area, you will not find that many enjoyable activities, except after the ~2 hour train ride to NYC.
Portsmouth and a large number of towns in southern New Hampshire are extremely nice places by themselves, in addition to their proximity to Boston.
Anyway all the above makes the WA location look better than the NY one to me, in terms of the top two choices.
Which of the above? Isn’t the WA location substantially farther away from Seattle?
The above two comments. WA place is further away from Seattle, but my sense is that both are de facto infinitely far away from the nearest big city.