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Old 03-24-2022, 09:16 PM   #36
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Originally Posted by John Mercier View Post
Probably. But everyone looks at the national numbers rather than local. I don't think we have workforce participation numbers for NH, and definitely not for the Lakes Region.

With high transportation costs, and higher pay to the south, it is unlikely that working age population is willing to travel north... so we come up short.

If they immigrate here, and pay our housing prices, they would need a lot more pay than many of these ''tourist'' businesses are willing to pay on an annualized with benefit package basis.

Everyone that has left us is going to a higher paying job...
New Hampshire’s employment-population ratio numbers closely mirror the National numbers

https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LASS...de_graphs=true

..so, about Giuseppe’s…they have a great pepperoni calzone, among other things
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