Cost of living, I'd say. It necessarily puts a squeeze on those in the middle and lower-middle income groups. And their financial betters also would not mind living in cheaper place, like NH ["live free or die anyway"] the next door.
But a hatred of cold winters doesn't explain New Hampshire's net gain of 78,000 transplanted Massachusetts residents between 1990 and 2002 ...
fewer and fewer people want to call Massachusetts home ...because of its oppressive and demoralizing political culture.
In the state that produced Michael S. Dukakis and Sen. Kerry...
Ted Kennedy keeps getting reelected...