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Could you elaborate on Southern NH? Does this apply to Nashua / Manchester? Been considering moving to that area.
by twbarber 10y ago
Could you elaborate on Southern NH? Does this apply to Nashua / Manchester? Been considering moving to that area.
- douche 10y agoI imagine it depends heavily on whether you actually work in Southern New Hampshire, or you live there and commute to Boston. There isn't a huge tech scene in Manchester/Nashua/Portsmouth, but there is a healthy number of jobs - more in the 9-5 corporate or lifestylish vein, than in the nose-to-the-grindstone startup type scene. Lots of people do head down to the greater Boston area, though, and that commute is pretty brutal.
- foobarian 10y agoThe trick to have a good time in Boston for me has been to live close to the office. It's 40 minutes per day instead of 40 minutes per week but it's still a far cry from what I hear some of my friends are doing in SV. And the housing here is such that it's entirely within the realm of reasonable to find housing that close.
- throwaway2016a 10y agoTech companies in Southern New Hampshire pull partially from the same talent pool as Boston. A lot of people commute to Boston every day and the other way. Those people sacrifice almost two hours a day which isn't great from a work-life balance standpoint. If you do get a job in New Hampshire itself, the high tech companies that have to hustle to make enough money to keep up with Boston salaries or risk losing people to the commute. I live in New Hampshire and I love it but I can't say my work life balance is any better than when I lived in Boston. But my quality of life is quite a bit better. I have a house here, I could never have that in Boston.