Probably. But everyone looks at the national numbers rather than local. I don't think we have workforce participation numbers for NH, and definitely not for the Lakes Region.
With high transportation costs, and higher pay to the south, it is unlikely that working age population is willing to travel north... so we come up short.
If they immigrate here, and pay our housing prices, they would need a lot more pay than many of these ''tourist'' businesses are willing to pay on an annualized with benefit package basis.
Everyone that has left us is going to a higher paying job...
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