There are things that are sad about how that growth affected southern NH. I spent huge amounts of time bicycling & motorcycling through NH when I lived there.

There are things that are sad about how that growth affected southern NH. I spent huge amounts of time bicycling & motorcycling through NH when I lived there. Southwestern NH (everything pretty much west of Nashua) stayed pretty nice other than the stuff along Rt. 101, the big box nonsense expands further west along 101 every year and it expanded shockingly between 2000 (when I first moved there) to 2009 (when I left the 2nd time). But Southeastern NH.. it feels like one continuous zoning disaster all the way from Nashua to Portsmouth... almost every main road just turned into a horrible procession of traffic and stop lights and big box stores and generic American chain businesses. It's happened lots of places in the US but it's really bad there.