A fork of Rural Dictionary
Acronym for South East New Hampshire, which consists of the Merrimack Valley and Seacoast regions and sometimes the southern parts of the Lakes region. It has its very rich parts, its poor parts, its picturesque New England towns, and its boonies. See also: Massahampshire
The Wilson family moved to SENH from Boston to get away from the taxes and nanny-state.
Cliche term for Nashua, used primarily by the rich white people who live in the good part as well as the ultra-wealthy people who live in Hollis and Amherst to describe the ghetto downtown where all the lower-income immigrants and trashy white people live. This is also the place where the old mills, which brought in 99% of the city's income 140 years ago, are located.
Hollis kid #1: I'm bored. Hollis kid #2: Wanna get high? Hollis kid #1: You have? Hollis kid #2: Nah, but I know a Mexican in Trashua who sells. Hollis kid #1: Fuck man. I donwanna get stabbed walkin' through there.
To those of us from New England, "The Valley" most often refers to the Merrimack Valley, a bi-state area along the Merrimack River. Most of the Valley is suburban. The largest cities are Haverhill, MA, Lawrence, MA, Lowell, MA, Nashua, NH, Manchester, NH, and Concord, NH. All of these cities are former mill towns powered by the river. If you live in the Merrimack Valley region, chances are you tell everyone you're from the "Boston Area", have a Boston accent, and cheer for all the Boston sports teams, even though Boston is an hour away. About half the people in your high school graduating class went to drug rehab before the age of 18. Unless your zip code is 01810, 05501, 01899, 01921, 01985, 01886, 03110, 03031, 03049, or 03087, you are working class/poor. Chances are, if you are from the working-class areas you pretend to be rich, while if you are from the rich areas you pretend to be "ghetto". Ethnic pride is high in The Valley. You will see more Irish, Italian, Canadian, Lebanese, Cambodian, Brazilian, Puerto Rican, and Dominican flags than American ones, though almost every other street is named for a KIA war soldier. All in all, The Valley is a place of contradictions, not to mention a shitty place to live and an even shittier place to say you're from.
Situation #1: Angie: I'm from the Boston Area. Milly: Wonderful! Where in Boston? Angie: Methuen. Milly: Hmmmm that's funny. I live in Boston and have never heard of any place in the city called Methuen. Angie: Ughh, actually, it's in The Valley. And it's not Andover, Boxford, or Windham. Milly: Ew! Do you live in a slum? Are your kids potheads? Do you shop at Marshall's? DO YOU SPEAK FLUENT ENGLISH?! Angie: What? Situation #2: Ryan: Yo, yo, I rep The Valley. Santos: Sweet man. What part? Ryan: Amherst. Santos: Shit man, you ain't ghetto! You probably live in a colonial mansion. Try living in Nashua with a drug bust or gang fight outside your house every ten minutes. Ryan: No way homie. Am-town has way more oxy and e than Trashua, cause we have the bank to buy all our shit off you! The Valley: the trashiest place in America's northeast.
A project (joke) started by a group of paranoid right-wing nutjobs in 2001 with the goal of moving 20,000 Ron Paul ass-kissers/people who masturbate to "Atlas Shurgged" to New Hampshire in hopes of influencing the New Hampshire primary and local state politics. As of August 2009, only 750 members have moved to the Granite State, meaning the FSP has accomplished less than 4% of their initial goal. Their organization is utterly ridiculous and their members usually rely on pathetic stunts and continuous whining to get what they want, which includes the privatization of otherwise public goods and services. The final goal of the project is to have New Hampshire secede from the rest of the USA, an action which was tried by the Confederate States for similar reasons and failed miserably.
The other day I saw some members of the Free State Project protesting public education down in Concord, and the day before that I saw a bunch of them protesting universal health care in Portsmouth. I take it public services take away our liberty.
Free Keene is the name of a group of free staters (or at least people who describe themselves as libertarians, voluntaryists, and "anarcho"-capitalists) who live in Keene NH and participate in libertarian-oriented activities in the town. These activities include smoking weed in the town common, standing in front of police cars, walking naked in public, illegally parking their cars, refusing to pay taxes, standing outside the local high and middle schools screaming, "School sucks!" in an attempt to persuade students to drop out of school, drinking beer in court, and participating in the black market/"agorism" as attempts to either remove "victimless crime" laws or for the sole purpose to defy the laws. According to a February 2011 report on WMUR-TV, Free Keene's civil disobedience tactics are mostly hated by Keene residents, who deem them as offensive. The report also informed viewers that each keeniac stay in jail costs the town $100 per day in taxes.
Last time I was in Keene I saw members of Free Keene holding a nudie sit-in to protest state obscenity laws.
Similar to a JAP or guidette, a Phoenician Princess is pejorative term for a heavily spoiled female between the ages of 14-30 of Lebanese-American descent. She is usually very tan, wears tight close, has expensive jewelry and handbags, and talks endlessly about how her grandfather was a millionaire in Lebanon before the civil war broke out in the 1970s. These young women are known to dwell all over Salem, NH and Methuen, MA as well as Dearbornistan in Michigan.
Alicia is a straight-up Phoenician Princess. Would you believe her umm and aba gave her $5000 worth of gifts for her high school graduation?
A suburb in southern New Hampshire on the Massachusetts border. Makes up the bottom left part of the Windham-Pelham-Salem-Atkinson rhombus. While Pelham is quite nice, as is its neighbor Windham, it is surrounded by ghettos such as Lowell, Massachusetts and Nashua. Drugs frequently enter the town from such areas and infest the Pelham youth, but it's no wonder considering how boring the town really is.
Pelham NH would be a great place to grow up if it had more stuff to do and if Gov. Lynch built a wall separating it from Nashua, Methuen, and Lowell.