Not only is New Hampshire arguably the best place for bitcoiners, according to the just-released 2016 edition of the "Freedom in the 50 States" study by the Cato Institute, New Hampshire is again at number one most free! Alaska is nipping at NH's heels, but with thousands of libertarian activists slated to arrive here in the next several years, we'll hopefully continue to solidify our lead.
At the bottom of the charts, number fifty is New York, which is a long distance below number forty-nine, California. Where did your state rank? You can check out the interactive map or dig into the well-researched nearly 300 page study on their site.
With all the freedoms we have in NH, no wonder so many people who love freedom are moving here. Not only is there the most successful libertarian migration in the world happening here, but before that started there were already over 101 Reasons Liberty Lives in New Hampshire. Originally a persuasive text list, in recent years it was made into an excellent hour-long documentary which you can watch for free.
If you are a libertarian or voluntarist and don't yet have plans to move here to New Hampshire, why are you waiting? Thanks to migrations like the Shire Society and Free State Project, there are thousands of liberty-minded people who've already moved here in the last decade and thousands more pledged to come.
Concentration of libertarian activists into a small, low-population state like New Hampshire makes all the difference in the world for accomplishing our goal of liberty in our lifetime. If you're tired of the continued failures of the libertarian movement, get to New Hampshire ASAP.
For more on the study, we dug in deep on last night's Free Talk Live.
You can get more news and opinion from the world's largest libertarian migration over at Free Keene.
I agree that by most aggregate measures, NH is more free than most other states. It is even fair to say that there really have been some minor improvements over the years and that given the FSP, NH is the best chance for liberty in our lifetime...but.. part of me feels like we are getting less free but just at a slower rate than the other states.
I really need a solid metric to back this up but until i figure out what that metric is, I'd sure appreciate some additional backup so please, if you've signed the statement of intent move here now! If you've not signed please do so and move here now. If you are protesting the FSP due to any number of ideological differences but embrace the principles of liberty and voluntary interactions please move.
You won't regret it...
The bitcoin economy amongst Free Staters is like nothing I've seen anywhere else. In NH I know I can acquire or liquidate various different altcoins, at just about any time, in person. It's pretty remarkable.
I'm so glad I moved to NH in April 2015! It's been one of the best decisions of my life!
New Hampshire is a great place. It'd be great to see countries with similar values.
Some strange things to learn about New Hampshire:
More cool things:
https://freestateproject.org/about/101-reasons-move-new-hampshire
It boggles my mind that Arizona is up at #10. How? If THIS crappy place is -that- high, I can't imagine living in New Jersey or Connecticut.
Having lived in many states, I can say with all honesty that it sucks to try to live in places like NJ, CA, Conn. Really.
What I ended up doing is just living as quietly as possible, so as to avoid the bureaucrats.
Keep in mind that nowhere can enforce every law on the books. Anywhere that tried would come to a complete standstill.
the second you think you are free, try not paying... isn't that the definition of free?
One of the problems with the word "free" is that it means different things in context.
So free as in liberty, or free as in gratis?
I agree with you that so long as there is no state, you will not have perfect liberty. I believe that there is no service that must be provided through violence, and thus I work to remove the state from everything.
There are abusive people who point to those who want liberty who then say we're thieves who "don't want to pay for anything". This absurdity comes from their inability to separate "liberty" from "gratis".
Those who believe in political liberty are the first to stand up to pay for those services they want. Unlike the believer in state power, who wants other people to pay for his services through taxation.
Can we achieve some measure of increased liberty? Yes. It has been done. I hope that this time it can be done through peaceful evolution.
Thanks for another great post @ftlian! I just stopped by to let you know that my new post "The 40 anarchists you want to follow on Steemit!" is up, and you're on the list :-) You can find it here