"The Hole" is whatever your captors in a particular facility decide they want it to be. It can be anything from a dark cell with a thin mattress and a blanket to an empty box with a drain to shit into and constant "checks" to keep you from sleeping in between freezing firehose sessions.

Look up Hazel Dickens. I think "Old and in the Way" was one album title.

You might also tell us the screen size of your current and expected future laptops. I use a Kelty Redwing 40 that works well with my 17" screen even after slipping the laptop into a semi hard case.

This. I was born in KY, mostly raised in the south and southwest as a child and thought I could at least basically understand any cracker I ran across until I met old Uncle Calvin from the panhandle who might as well have been speaking Etruscan. Then we came up here to NH which was a whole 'nother story. Hiwaiya! HafaBeeyah! Itzindacah,opendado-wa, itzondaflo-wa. AndthenCameeeYah! JeeeezumCrow! This was a rural lakes-region accent of the 60's, like the Boston cant but infantilized and opened up so consonants were almost impossible. Not everyone spoke like that but a lot of my neighbors did and were almost imposible to understand.

Definitely ignore the people burbling about "Tree Streets". Some of those streets are literally miles long, encompassing many totally different neighborhoods.

A. Affordable B. Habitable C. Available

We used to be able to tell you to pick any two. These days you're lucky if you get to pick one.

That's pretty much everything you need to know about renting in Manchester except... don't hand money to someone who offers to show you a place and then says the tenants are busy, or the tenants are missing, or "won't let us in today" or whatever. If they don't have the keys and don't bring you in, you're probably not talking to the landlord and are getting scammed. A Word To The Wise. It's a tough town and you are fresh meat.

I've lived in NH for many decades, and most of it here in Manchester. The only thing, and I do mean ONLY thing Manchester has going for it is geographic location. You're an hour from Boston, an hour from the beautiful Connecticut River Valley and Vermont beyond, an hour from the Seacoast and about an hour from the White Mts. Now, what's right here? I could say a lot of unkind things but will instead say the guys who say it's Portland without the Ocean are probably close enough to the truth. The housing situation is atrocious, the various political engines that gain and lose power whether Democratic (Usually DINO "centrists") or Repugnican (No description needed at this point, I should hope) seem to be in some sort of competition to see who can mismanage the city most completely for their own benefit... I'm hoping to be out of the state by the end of January because I just can't afford to live here any more, and I have a whole lot of company. If you're already settled in a good situation then just stay where you are. You're welcome to come visit as much as you like. If you can spend more than 50 hours in this city and still think you want to live here (and no I don't mean 50 hours in bars drinking or chasing hookers, crack, Meth and Fentanyl like so many of our tourists) then by all means, come on down and Welcome to The Land Of A Thousand Dances!

/u/TheGrateKhan is right... don't get the idea you can just cross off whatever you've been paying in state taxes and think it'll go straight to the income side... you'll be in for some nasty surprises. Property taxes are no joke either, and you'll be paying them whether you rent or buy... you don't expect our parsimonious landlords to take them out of their profits, do you? And if you are going to rent do all the research you can... we have the great, the good, the Bad and the Absolutely Horrible up here so use yelp, tenants rights organizations, word of mouth and whatever you can network including word of mouth to winnow out the worst of the worst.

I use to live in Greenland for a few years and can tell you there is a TON of money out there in Greenland, Rye, Newington & Etc so if you are a nanny with good references I am sure you can find good work with people who commute down I95 to the Boston area or people who have so much money they don't even need to commute. You'll need to commute though... a lot of people who work in the area have to commute from Farmington and even farther away because housing in the area is unaffordable and unavailable. Good luck.

Take it and leave a note - "Not responsible for items left over 30 days."

That's why it's remained popular - the saying is utterly devoid of any semantic content when used generically other than to evoke a sort of prickly rancor. NH-ites usually think it was coined on the fly by General Stark but WikiP says it was already a popular phrase of the French revolution. No matter who came up with it, it is a revolutionary and militaristic call to arms and vigilance, not a fully formed let's use-this-every-day to hurt others and glorify ourselves lifestyle and governance philosophy that the societally-challenged often try to present it as today.

> fundie justice porn

Truth. You're "precious" until you can stand tall enough to get hired for $7.50 an hour and then you can go to Hell and/or a cheap Walmart tent and stay there.

Because we don't burn, stone or drown the mentally ill as much anymore as we used to do, though I'd keep an eye on Utah, Texas, Tennessee, Florida and a number of other red states if you're worried we're not doing enough of that sort of thing.

Yes, as someone else mentioned our state hospital in NH is a shadow of what it used to be even as the state has grown and the need with it. We do have cages and cells for the convicted though, and mentally ill people locked in them right on the old hospital grounds. Bty of course all that only comes into play -after- a tragedy occurs, becuz 'murica.

I hear that in Mass relatives can force a family member to receive mental health services against their will. In NH this is not the case and -might- be why she remained up here, if part of her condition had caused her to be avoidant.

Yep. Extreme cold, blood loss, etc etc and a probably hypothermic young woman who even in her no doubt disturbed mental state told them exactly where her baby was as soon as someone remembered to have the human decency to have her sit down and be warmed. 10 bucks says it was an EMT or fireman that made it happen.

Our local for-profit (!) shelter nearest to where this tragedy occurred only has 148 beds, completely full every night, with some overflow going to a nearby "christian" run building where anyone lucky enough to be let in the door must sit all night in folding chairs, -never- lie down, and doze as best they are able while all the "losers" in this game of Malicious Chairs freeze outside in tents on the sidewalk outside the shelter or various hiding places in the darkness of the city and outlying areas that the authorities call "camps" but are really just people desperately trying to improvise what shelter they can while being constantly hunted by police, local government and property owners. Manchesters city government actually has a "Help Us Hunt Down The Homeless" (my term) webpage where you can inform on homeless people you see trying to survive outside. No, I'm not making this up. They claim they will do "outreach" but somehow the "outreach" usually quickly devolves into "Blue Lights and Pepper Spray outreach", tents being slashed, penniless people being ticketed, desperate freezing people being chased away to seek another place to hide, etc. If you are at the christian "warming station" you must sign a sheet to patiently queue up to use the single bathroom. There are two bathrooms but they say they are not sufficiently staffed to allow both to be used. If you go outside for any reason you are not allowed back in. While they have their reasons for some of these rules and they certainly aren't getting much help from the city, the overall effect is hurtful to the psyche and body and the willful inadequacy of the state and cities response to overwhelming human need and tragedy is resulting in multiple needless deaths at all times of year but especially winter, of course. There are hundreds trying not to freeze to death out in the open every night in Manchester alone. The heartless among us say they "don't want to come inside", "don't want help". Spend a night with the bedbugs, lice, scabies, flu, tuberculosis, Covid & general indifference at the shelter and you'll understand why some are reluctant to go in there even when they have the opportunity. It's shameful, and our politicians, police and a sizable minority of citizens seem fine with it... until it's their relative that freezes to death. Heck, some of them are probably fine with it even then. More than anything else, we have an Empathy Shortage in this country at least as severe as our housing shortage.

Trillions for war, pennies for the rest, from health care to schools and school lunches, infrastructure, jobs, housing, legal aid, consumer protection, you name it. If any history is still being written 200 years from now we will be remembered as a greedy, warlike empire that was merciless to the weakest among us while lining the pockets of our "defense" industries as if they were our True Gods.

Wow. People experiencing hypothermia and perhaps especially mentally ill people experiencing hypothermia rave, can be combative or lethargic or both by turns, give non-sensical or hostile responses to questions and generally seem dysfunctional? Add shock, blood loss and possible addiction or intoxication issues, lack of adequate shelter and food over long periods of time, and their responses in a catastrophic situation don't match your standards? Who-da-thunk-it. Good job of virtue-shaming there, pretty standard for patch posts. As soon as they stopped "interrogating" her in the freezing cold and brought her into a warm ambulance she fairly quickly regained her composure and told her captors -exactly- where the child was. This doesn't fit the cruel lurid narrative that many are favoring, so they don't mention it.

> You immediately elevated a candidate not getting as many votes as you expected to a conspiracy theory.

"Elevated" some candidate? A Conspiracy Theory? I hope someone has some idea what you're talking about... good luck with that and Merry Xmas Whiskey Tanqueray! Wait a minute... is this Don Bolduc?

WMUR is a Hearst property with the usual agenda. If you're looking for unbiased quality journalism you are definitely in the wrong place. I have no idea why they are an ABC affiliate.

What makes you think I've got a candidate? At this point I'd like to get Chris "My ego is bigger than yours" Sunlooney and Maggie "To Hell With a Living Wage For You Peasants" Hassan in the same elevator. The one with the frayed cable.

Your post was downvoted to zero. I just poked it up to One but that probably won't last long. I've gotten pretty much the same response when I've tried to bring up the issue of Sununu's ambitions. I think he either has one of those reputation-management firms or possibly just his trumpy howler monkeys voting down any outbreak of these discussions. Why he/they are afraid of public discussion is a bit of a mystery, maybe he wants his "people" to frame all such talk? I dunno, but he'll try to break out of the local scene into the national at some point, you can count on it. And hopefully fail.

You may find this useful. Remember that it is one thing to have the law on your side... it is wholly another to get a NH judge to side for the tenant against the interests of a landlord. We have no protection and few rights in a state where the landlords are a powerful lobby supporting republican interests.

(Note: I am not a Lawyer. And someone who claims this statute doesn't apply to you may not be one either, or may not have your interests at heart.. A first consultation with a legal professional is free. You may want to try that, or you may want to contact Legal Aid and/or try googling for tenant advocacy groups. For more free entertainment perusing NH Statutes, browse to https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/NHTOC/NHTOC-LV.htm where you will see many of the laws benefitting landlords and very few in defense of tenants. You may also want to keep in mind the following as you study up - Section 540:28:
540:28 Lease Provisions. – No lease or rental agreement, oral or written, shall contain any provision by which a tenant waives any of his rights under this chapter, and any such waiver shall be null and void.
Source. 1985, 244:9, eff. Aug. 6, 1985 )

https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/LV/540/540-11.htm

(OP, see See Section I.)

TITLE LV

PROCEEDINGS IN SPECIAL CASES

CHAPTER 540

ACTIONS AGAINST TENANTS

Section 540:11

540:11 Termination by Lessee. –

I. A lessee may terminate his or her lease by notice in writing, in the same manner as the lessor, and the notice shall have the same effect for all purposes as a notice by the lessor to the lessee.

II. A tenancy at will, from month to month, may be terminated by the lessee upon 30 days notice; provided that if the date of termination given in the notice does not coincide with the rent due date, the lessee is responsible for the rent for the entire month in which the notice expires, up to the next rent due date, unless the terms of the lease provide otherwise.

Source. RS 209:6. CS 222:6. GS 231:6. GL 250:6. PS 246:6. PL 357:11. RL 413:11. 2018, 18:1, eff. July 14, 2018.

Agreed, I've been there for years. If I don't know who you are, chances are I have absolutely no need or desire to hear from you.

Anyplace with a good heated pool pushes my button at that time of year. Bonus points if it has a sauna and/or decent restaurant.

Randy's too smart to take the job. We need someone smart enough to do the job and dumb enough to show up to do it. Randy Rainbow! No. Wait a minute. Stephen Colbert for President, AOC for vice-pres, and Randy Rainbow for press secretary.