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My town of Bridgewater has mostly dirt roads and very low taxes. Acess to a clean swimable NH lake was also important to me. Although I "only" average 80-85" of snow my retention is good because of cold air damning. Very rare to have bare ground in December through March. It's a balance of what you want in life, just snow and sking or closer to civilization. For me I lucked out picking this 15 acre plot. My other advice is to wait until we know how this pandemic works out. With sky rocketing unemployment land and home prices might plummet up here.

This topic comes up from time to time on the boards and I respond to each time it does... I made this exact decision back in 1989 when I lived in Boston. I wanted a fixer upper with land and a view up in the mountains. As a skier and a snow lover I looked all over NNE. I needed some balance between weather but social activities and even medical care. Living far away in a rural area has some downsides. I found my place in the foothills of the White Mountains of NH. In a low tax town of 1000 people called Bridgewater NH. I'm high on a hill at a elevation of 1100 feet. Plenty of snow (over 80") but only 13 miles from interstate 93 so I can be in Boston in 2 hours for everything a city has to offer. So for me it was a balance of services, taxs, weather, skiing, shopping and medical. Also make sure you have wifi access. Much of NNE does not. Good Luck

38.9F Light rain about .90" We had mixed rain and snow most of last evening with temperature around 35F Fields are brown and pond is full. Grass should greenup in the next week or two

34.6F 50/50 snow and rain. As it was getting dark looks like snow line is around 1600 feet on the ridgelines

34.9F Light rain mixed with mangled flakes. When it comes down hard it's more snow and when it lets up more rain.

Alex says 2" of snow there abnd snowing at 5pm Rain snow mix here 35.5

Down to 36.2F rain trying to switch to snow

37.5/34 Light rain mixed with catpaws

36/31 Light snow just started

Yeah, I noticed the 12Z Euro chance of giving me a bit of snow. Let's see if 18Z takes it away Here's a video of today's snow and the clearing adverting from the north. One minute it's winter and then by midday it's gone https://video.nest.com/clip/5322466be1a248e89b927e7596858d7b.mp4

About 1" of snow last night.

32.4F Light snow. Looks about 1/2 to 3/4" everything is white

34.2F Light snow vis about 1 mile 515pm. Looking at webcams in my area it looks to be rain down where most people live.

34.4F Vis 1 mile light snow Snow showers began mid afternoon. At first a mix of rain and snow with temp around 37F. It's all snow now. Judging by the visabilty looking down my hill the elevation of all snow is not much below me, perhaps 750 feet?

35.8F Light snow showers About 1/8 to 1/4" of sleet with TS last evening. Trees have glaze remaining at mid day above 1500 feet

Enjoyed last nights thunderstorms. We had a couple move through during the evening. The best one was late evening. Temp at 33F with heavy rain turning to heavy sleet. Enough to whiten the ground. At first I thought it was hail and maybe under certain unique weather conditions both could fall if there was enough convection above the cold lower layer. That's a question for the Mets... Looking forward to some snow this afternoon and then we are under the wheel of misfortune for awhile

32.7f thunderstorm heavy sleet whitening up ground.

Heavy sleet here too.

33F Just had a convective heavy shower of rain and hail or rain and big sleet pellets. One lightning bolt. That line entering VT looks interesting. Wonder what it will be when it gets here

Just switched over to snow grains up here. Temp down to 33.4F Edit Light snow vis 1 mile 33.3F

33.9F Light rain mixing with IP but main echoes are now moving east.

34.3/33 Light rain (no cat paws yet). Temp has fallen from 38 this morning. Noted on the Waterville Valley and Loon cams it is mixed or snowing there.

38F light rain but must be very thick clouds. It's a very dark day here for March 29

38/36 light rain up here this morning. Wondering if I'll change to some ice or snow later in this system? No big deal but maybe I can add an inch or so to my seasonally total.

38F light rain on this Sunday morning... It's pretty unclear to me what will happen in my hood. Change to light ice or snow overnight? Not looking for much but some white or icing might keep my mind occupied. 24/7 COVID info is not good mentally...