I live in New Hampshire, just 12 miles from Keene.
Sorry to say that there are a lot more communists moving up here from Massachussetts and Connecticut than there are Free-Staters.
I had to laugh at the part where the Free-Staters were playing penny-poker in Keene, thereby breaking the law. Such laws are broken ALL THE TIME all around here, and nobody notices, least of all, the police. They have much larger fish to fry.
However, Law Enforcement here in the “Live Free or Die” state is politically motivated. If you are on the opposite side of the political fence from the zoning board members, and they know about it, you will have BIG trouble getting zoning permits that are no problem for anybody else.
Anyone remember Robert Ringer’s books from the 70s? “Looking Out for No. 1”, for example. Ringer was a libertarian and he made a great deal of sense. Today however, libertarians appear more like reactionaries—kneejerk critics of anything having to do with govt, regardless of success. The substitution of anarchy for freedom makes for a truly dishonest argument.
I live in Virginia and we (along with our neighbor NC) are getting an influx of liberals from WI, MI, NJ, NY and elsewhere.
It's mind-boggling that they moving here for jobs that were eliminated in their states, and for a more affordable cost-of-living and reasonable property values and lower taxes...etc. Then, they vote for tax-raising/spending-big-government-Librturd Democrats.
In other words, they are going to end up turning Virginia and North Carolina into the very same thing that they were forced to leave.