Nashua has a lot of tech companies if you would be ok with a smaller urban area close enough to Boston to enjoy the city too. Personally I just moved from Seat

Nashua has a lot of tech companies if you would be ok with a smaller urban area close enough to Boston to enjoy the city too. Personally I just moved from Seattle to Boston. I'm conflicted on the two places. I really liked the outdoors areas in Seattle, commute was shorter and rent was also cheaper. But Boston has a lot of cool things too, food better, more interesting activities todo (other than outdoors but you can find it NH) and cycling infrastructure is poor compared to Seattle. I'm not native of either place (from Montreal) so my experience is based on a few years of living in both. Boston isn't exactly better in terms of winter sunlight that's for sure. Both are grayish in winters but summers are great (less humid in Seattle). What did it for me is proximity to family. Being in the same timezone is huge. Cool fact I learned recently, Boston-Cambridge-Nashua, MA-NH area has one lowest unemployment rate for any metro area at 2.6%.