No, no, no! VT is Bernie land, one of the most drug-addled hippy culture states in the nation. Do you *really* think I would want to live in such a place?
I know the two states have sort of the same shape, but New Hampshire has better character. It's got a whopping 12 miles of shoreline, and it's a much more conservative place. Unlike the people you'll find elsewhere in New England, New Hampshire residents are generally worth talking to. For now, at least. The state is changing. 
You must have been there. It's only a 4 1/2 hour drive!
BTW, my opinion of Maine is beginning to improve. But after 2018, I'm done with state-swapping.
To answer your question, my NH house is lonely. Very lonely. In the next 15 months, I have to move twice - once into a smaller place in Virginia while moving most of our belongings to NH, and then again in 2018 when we leave Virginia. I'm about 15 months from retiring.
It seems likely at this point that my son will be graduating from high school, so he'll be heading off to college in Summer 2017. We don't yet know which one, though he set his sights high. His top choice is likely to let him know next week. In the overwhelming likelihood that the answer from that school is 'No' (they have a 5% acceptance rate), he'll be applying to 14 others. He could even wind up there by you. NYU is on his list.
A low-prestige Virginia college named 'Bridgewater' has already accepted him. He says that if it's his only choice, he'll come to New Hampshire with us and learn how to plant corn instead. He applied to Bridgewater on a lark because it has no application fee. That says a lot about the school, doesn't it?
I don't know if you heard, but I bought a much more rural piece of land and struggled to have a driveway put in. That was completed this year. It's very peaceful, particularly for those more attracted to green and butterflies than asphalt and pigeons. I even made a video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tak1Q8cd-zQ .
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