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Originally Posted by marinewife
Thank you all for your suggestions so far. There's so much for them to consider, and they will need to make more definite plans for sure.
My son is 33 and living in a rental in a suburb of LA. He will be working remotely from home at his current job and if/when the pandemic subsides, he traveled throughout the US every 6 weeks or so for work related events.
The Logan airport issue may not be a huge deal in the end, but visiting me from LA and driving a rental car up takes an easy 90 minutes, so he wanted to avoid a big drive, a 2hr wait in the airport, and then a flight if he visits family out of state or travels for the job.
He's a big restaurant lover as well as a good cook, so he was hoping to have a 'town center' with restaurants similar to what he was raised in- not strip mall living, more cozy town feeling living. No kids yet, but I assume on the horizon, and so good schools would be important.
The housing prices are through the roof everywhere, and he may be staying with us while he house hunts because buying sight unseen wouldn't be a wise option.
It took a few years to find our home up here, and I was driving 600 miles per weekend often, so he's aware of how difficult finding the 'one' can be...
Keep the town suggestions coming if you have other ideas, I'm thinking he'll land in northern MA or southern NH- he doesn't need a 'tourist' town, since he sees that when he visits here.
Thank you~
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Anywhere in NH Seacoast area is great! Not that Bedford isn't nice, but I just think there is a lot more to do on this side of 93. Portsmouth and Seacoast area are full of great restaurants and plenty of things to do year-round. Alton is 1 hour (Gilford, Wolfeboro and Tuftonboro 90 mins), Portland, ME is 45 mins, Boston is 1 hour, Manchester is 30ish. Lot's of other great spots are all within 1 hour. Best part is we probably end up at the beach 3-4 times a week to walk the dog, go for a run, random drive or whatnot when we aren't up at the lake. Can't count how many times we are on the beach in the morning and up to the lake for lunch on the boat :-)
Towns to consider in the 'Seacoast' are Portsmouth, Rye, North Hampton, Hampton, Stratham, Exeter, Greenland and Hampton Falls. Depending on what size and style house they want, acreage, proximity to the ocean, etc. etc. etc. will surely dictate price. You can get reasonable places in the $400k - $600K range and others well in the Millions. Rye and North Hampton floor will be much higher from a pricing perspective. Exeter has got one of the best school systems in the state in which some of those towns tie into, where Rye and Greenland feed into Portsmouth.
Before the pandemic, I'd fly anywhere form 80-100 flights a year and could be to Logan in an hour give or take 5 mins ANYTIME of moring / day. Have it down to a science and I'm sure they will too :-)