Check out the "no income taxes" carefully. NH does have an income tax on unearned income which includes pensions (if I remember correctly). The absence of a sales tax is very nice.

Southern NH is just Mass sprawl. Much of it has become pretty ugly.

I've hunted grouse in the Great North Woods of Maine for many years and it's wonderful. Deer hunting is better farther south in Maine. Good grouse in northern NH.

Vermont has the fewest gun laws.