Year Round Waterfront Living - Moultonborough

Descant · 02-13-2021, 05:43 PM

I agree--winter can be pretty quiet. The "full-time" residents will have a high % of snowbirds. As kids get a little older, some of them migrate to boarding schools. There are some really good ones in NH, not just Brewster, Exeter and St. Paul's.
One solution: islands. Hard to calculate numbers, but anecdotally, island properties are often owned by people from NH, not always other states. All the glamour and romance of waterfront living goes away after Columbus Day and there is little to do except watch the ice freeze and melt. Live in a winter home near a nice school September-June and live on the island waterfront in the summer. There are a few, but not many island properties that are rented, so your island neighbors really are neighbors and friends.

Patofnaud · 02-13-2021, 06:42 PM

My sister's kids grew up in Moultonborough just fine. BUT, you will be hard-pressed to do that with the waterfront. Lots of seasonal folks.

Inland is where you will find more neighborhoods that live year-round and they can connect with.

winterh · 02-13-2021, 07:05 PM

I see a lot of negativity here about year round waterfront living. I did it and loved it. Great place to raise the kids. Definitely depends on where you are though. My dirt road of 6 houses had 1 other year rounder but they were an older couple so it was quiet but very close to town. Might not be other young families on the water but the neighborhoods around Cary beach had plenty of kids. Lots to do in the off season for the locals. Wolfeboro has a great youth hockey program, basketball leagues, youth football, lacrosse, skiing... Watching the nationally ranked high school basketball team at Brewster. Everything you would find in larger towns to the south plus the kids would swim from ice out until late fall.

02-13-2021, 05:43 PM	#1
Descant Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Merrimack and Welch Island Posts: 4,384 Thanks: 1,357 Thanked 1,629 Times in 1,061 Posts	Agree I agree--winter can be pretty quiet. The "full-time" residents will have a high % of snowbirds. As kids get a little older, some of them migrate to boarding schools. There are some really good ones in NH, not just Brewster, Exeter and St. Paul's. One solution: islands. Hard to calculate numbers, but anecdotally, island properties are often owned by people from NH, not always other states. All the glamour and romance of waterfront living goes away after Columbus Day and there is little to do except watch the ice freeze and melt. Live in a winter home near a nice school September-June and live on the island waterfront in the summer. There are a few, but not many island properties that are rented, so your island neighbors really are neighbors and friends.

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Patofnaud Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: Tilton/Paugus Bay Posts: 239 Thanks: 13 Thanked 64 Times in 45 Posts	My sister's kids grew up in Moultonborough just fine. BUT, you will be hard-pressed to do that with the waterfront. Lots of seasonal folks. Inland is where you will find more neighborhoods that live year-round and they can connect with.

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winterh Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 249 Thanks: 30 Thanked 135 Times in 62 Posts	I see a lot of negativity here about year round waterfront living. I did it and loved it. Great place to raise the kids. Definitely depends on where you are though. My dirt road of 6 houses had 1 other year rounder but they were an older couple so it was quiet but very close to town. Might not be other young families on the water but the neighborhoods around Cary beach had plenty of kids. Lots to do in the off season for the locals. Wolfeboro has a great youth hockey program, basketball leagues, youth football, lacrosse, skiing... Watching the nationally ranked high school basketball team at Brewster. Everything you would find in larger towns to the south plus the kids would swim from ice out until late fall.