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Dream Towns
By Jack Kenny Monday, March 8, 2010

If you are daydreaming about waterfront property, a low tax rate with great services, postcard charm, access to the great outdoors, excellent schools, easy commutes or an invigorating place to retire, we’ve picked a place where each of these dreams can come true. Now all you need is the house. In pitching baseball and in buying real estate, according to the popular cliché, only three things matter: “Location, location and location.


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NH Magazine Dream Towns
Monday, March 8, 2010
If you are daydreaming about waterfront property, a low tax rate with great services, postcard charm, access to the great outdoors, excellent schools, easy commutes …
A Place to Call Your Own?
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Scanning through the real estate listings can be a bit like browsing the personal ads. Those lonely, lovely properties sound attractive, but is there a …
NH Magazine I Hate Town Meeting
Saturday, March 1, 2008
I hate town meeting. Town meeting is a laboratory sink for psychologists. Every dreadful facet of human nature reveals itself at these gatherings. One must …
NH Magazine Historic Opportunities
Monday, March 2, 2009
Our Top 10 neighborhoods where History and community combine. "I think what makes New Hampshire special is that many of our villages are still intact, …

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Insider Guides

NH Magazine Insiders Guide to Winter Romance: 34 Ways to Woo Your Valentine
Monday, February 1, 2010
Anybody can buy a box of chocolates or order a dozen red roses, but it takes imagination to have an affair to remember. Our redoubtable …
NH Magazine Inside Multicultural Manchester
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
If you have international tastes and a domestic budget, a Queen City daycation has a lot to offer. Manchester’s federal status as New Hampshire’s refugee …
NH Magazine Art and Autumn in the Foothills of Mount Monadnock
Thursday, October 1, 2009
The Monadnock Region is the go-to place for fall beauty, right? Right. But not all the exquisite light, color and panoramas are on the trees. …
NH Magazine Our Green Valley
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Plainfield, N.H: The field is not plain, despite the name. It is on a plain — a plain renowned for a fertility borne of the …
NH Magazine Sunapee 2009
Friday, July 31, 2009
Our lake and mountain view guide to good eating, sleeping, antiquing, crafting, shopping, schlepping, hiking, history and the many ways to access the sparkling water …
NH Magazine Postcards from the Edge
Monday, June 1, 2009
Tom wanted to revisit his childhood summer in the quaint camps and villages that surround our state's biggest lake. His wife, Stacy, a city girl, …
NH Magazine Head North
Friday, January 30, 2009
For some people the words "snow" and "North Country" automatically lead to dreams of packed powder and ideal ski conditions. But the rest of us …
NH Magazine A Tale of Two Cities
Monday, December 1, 2008
Concord, N.H., hums with political power while tipping its hat to shoppers and sightseers. Stay-at-home moms grip strollers in the coffee shops behind representatives, senators …

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