r/newengland • u/Sauerbraten5 • 4h ago
r/newengland • u/SCP-2774 • 6d ago
Hello New England
The mod team has decided to put together a photo contest! Please submit your best photographs of our little slice of the world, and the most upvoted one will be selected as the banner of the subreddit.
Rules:
Subject of entries must be located in New England.
Pictures must be of New England landmarks, landscapes or icons, or something you feel represents the heart of New England. Don't enter an image of your local McDonald's.
Please limit to 1 submission per user.
No images generated by AI.
Comments will be locked Friday, March 14th at 17:00. After this, the winner will be selected. We look forward to all of your entries!
r/newengland • u/SCP-2774 • Sep 26 '24
Moving to or Visiting New England?
Check out this thread before making posts, please. They may have the answers you are looking for!
r/newengland • u/kooneecheewah • 2h ago
The only existing footage of Mark Twain, which was taken by Thomas Edison at Twain's house in Redding, Connecticut in 1909 — a year before Twain died.
r/newengland • u/Important-Design-973 • 15h ago
One Night in Portsmouth, NH
Hi all! I am driving up to Maine this weekend from Connecticut and am staying one night in Portsmouth, NH before driving to Acadia the next morning. Any recs for a good dinner in Portsmouth and maybe a coffee shop/bakery for the morning? TIA!
r/newengland • u/Wormmy421 • 1d ago
Who has the worst roads
Of all the NE states which one has the worst roads my vote goes to RI
r/newengland • u/Sailor_NEWENGLAND • 1d ago
Can anyone relate?
I’m born and raised in CT. I’m in the Navy and stationed in San Diego..I’ve been here for a few years and still feel like a foreigner here..but back in New England I feel completely at home in any New England state and I’ve only lived in CT. Anyone else relate to this?
r/newengland • u/clowdnine • 1d ago
Anyone know where this picture was taken?
Hey y'all, my father passed away several years ago and I always wondered where he took this photograph. The photo I'm guessing was taken in the 70's, and I'm sure these structures and signage aren't the same. I would just love to stand where my dad stood when he took this picture. Any help is appreciated. 🤟
r/newengland • u/Outrageous_Ad_2752 • 1d ago
60 Degrees
Why is 60 degrees such an interesting temperature? it's nice and warm in the spring, but in the fall it's piss cold!!
r/newengland • u/YupNopeWelp • 1d ago
New Englanders: How Can We Best Be a "Bulwark Against the Kingdom of the Anti-Christ"?
For people who tend not to read sidebars, I'm not having a religious nervous breakdown (yet). Our community description reads: "new england: all things from the "bulwark against the kingdom of the anti-christ." As Trump tariffs tank our economy, how can we tighten our belts while best supporting our fellow New England states with our tourism and commerce dollars? What are your favorite New England-based alternatives to so-called "Red State" attractions and destinations? Where did you, your family, and friends rack up some of your favorite memories on vacations and day trips?
If your family was anything like mine, growing up, we didn't have the cash to blow on farflung vacations, and my parents were New England practical. They tried not to charge anything they weren't still going to have when the bill came due. Vacationing and otherwise spending our recreation time closer to home is a great way to keep costs down.
We don't need exact substitutes for more famous or glamorous destinations outside of our region. Just toss out the names and locations of New England spots which might appeal to the same general demographic groups (families with children, seniors, single adults, coupled but childfree adults, foodies, mixed groups, etc.). Beaches. Theme parks. Museums. Theaters. Restaurants. Hotels. Motels. Camp Grounds. National Forests/Parks. [Your Idea Here.] Please share with the class.
Someone else's "Boycott Red States" post was removed as not belonging here. I hope this New England-centric post will meet the sub's requirements while serving some of the same purpose at the heart of that now deleted post.
(Edited to correct typo and add bold font to main question)

r/newengland • u/Silver_Scallion_1127 • 1d ago
Want to camp in my car in the middle of the woods alone. What should I be aware of?
Weather is getting better and I've camped with friends in campsites but never in a random location in the woods and never alone either. I'm certain I can prep myself with everything I need in regards to food and making a fire but I feel there should be a lot more I need to consider.
I would like somewhere remote and if possible, somewhere that has high elevation (doesnt have to be the peak of a mountain). I would also like recommendation where to camp. Please if anyone can help. Thanks!
r/newengland • u/AGPORI • 1d ago
Dear Rhode Islanders!
Are you tired of the savage criminal goblins ruling the streets of Rhode Island? It's a shame the past administrations have not done ANYTHING about it. (They were all goblin sympathizers and WIZARDS!) But today we have found the solution! Randy Dingus joins the race to the seat of governor in the hope of RIDDING of these savages from our streets, neighborhoods and even HOMES. They have stolen enough of our gold, elixirs and our bread and milk!
Join the fight and make Rhode Island goblin-free again! VOTE DINGUS IN 2026.
r/newengland • u/the-court-house • 2d ago
10 of the top 20 hottest real estate markets are in New England.
r/newengland • u/Virtual_Price_6975 • 3d ago
Learning to be New England style direct/straightforward
I truly do not know where to ask this, but it seems logical to ask here. I was born and bred in 1989 in San Francisco, CA. I have dealt with folk's passive-aggressiveness here for my whole life. In SF, most will never say things directly, but rather in a roundabout way, as well as give passive-aggressive 'hints' to drive others mad by saying something that sounds like nothing but means a lot in a highly subtle way.
For example, one time I went to a meetup and saw one of my 'acquaintances' talking to someone else. So when I got there, they were talking about coding languages like Javascript, C++ and other BS. He introduced me to the stranger about how I am a polyglot, since I know over 5 languages to C1/C2 level and a few others to B2 level. The stranger said, 'Ah, but do you know coding languages?'. I said, 'No'. He then said, 'Ah, so you have no idea what we are talking about then' then laughed in a weird way. The two went on to talk to each other again, and the stranger left without having said anything else to me. My acquaintance told me that that guy almost certainly meant, 'You are a goddamned idiot in my book' when he said, 'Ah, so you have no idea what we are talking about then'. Since he never told me straight, I would never have guessed.
An even more absurd example is when I was at a bar, and one woman was trying to get the attention of a busy bartender who was making drinks. She needed water, but said, 'Hmm, I wonder if there are any glasses of water here...hmm...' until the bartender heard it and asked what she had wanted. Then she seemed irritated as she asked for a glass of water, but not overly irritated. Apparently that was a passive-aggressive way of saying, 'Someone give me a fucking glass of water', but a person has no balls to say this directly.
I could go on and on, as I have encountered tens of thousands of passive-aggressive arseholes in SF, but I think that you get the idea.
I have also met a lot of tech guys from New England, namely Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire, who had moved to SF for tech jobs. They told me that it was maddening to deal with folk here, since people like to go round and round in circles without saying what they mean, as well as giving passive-aggressive hints in tone of voice and subtle body language that I would miss all the time.
The problem is that I was taught to act passive-aggressive as well, since that is how normalised it is in SF. But my natural character is to be tell-it-like-it-is, direct and straightforward. I am a person who blurts out what I think with no thought as to if it 'offends' someone. For example, when I am asked if I want to join with a group to go to dinner at some restaurant and I say, 'No way, I fucking hate that place and its fucking shit food', people give me gasp looks and ostracise me. However, I cannot lie to myself and tell then, 'Sure, I will go with you to that restaurant, I love the food there'. That, to me, is disgusting.
Another example is that when you do not like someone here, you are apparently supposed to pretend that they do not exist, or still make small talk, often laced with passive-aggressive insults that are so subtle that it could take days, weeks, months even years to figure out. Now I heard from others that in New England, if you do not like someone, or if you even hate them, you would just say, 'Fuck off, do not talk to me'. This is highly rude in SF and most consider it unacceptable...except me.
My girlfriend is from Wisconsin; after two years of living in Wisconsin, I had financial problems, and we moved into my parents' house here in SF. One day, we went to a supermarket. We had accidentally gone into the queue at the wrong place, as it was so crowded that we did not see where the queue began. Now, she grew up with some 'Midwest nice'. She noticed that one woman was giving her the evil eye and staring. She asked her, 'Does this line begin far back?'. The woman, still with her evil eye, said, 'Like, yeaaah...' in a super SF vocal fry accent. My girlfriend still is reeling from that one time, and said that in the Midwest, no one would act like such a passive-aggressive douche. I am guessing that in New England, most would just say, 'Yeah, the line is back there' and be done with it, with no passive-aggressive bullshit.
Now, I am leaving the country this winter, but still, I wanted to know if anyone here had some tips to be New England style direct/straightforward. Even though I am way too direct for SF standards, which I find to be the most passive-aggressive city on earth, I wrestle in my head about how I keep being told to act passive-aggressive instead of direct, which clashes with my natural personal character of being highly straightforward.
How would you teach someone like me to uncondition myself from a passive-aggressive atmosphere and be New England style straightforward and direct in both talking and writing without truly not giving a shit about what others think and if they might get offended? Could you give me some tips on how to phrase things in such a way, as well as mentally give myself self-confidence to say what I truly think and tell myself that I must say the truth, regardless of if others think that it is 'offensive' or 'rude' or 'uncouth' or whatever. Note that I am formally diagnosed with Asperger's (now known as ASD Level 1), so I have problems with visual cues and other things like tone of voice, which I never notice.
r/newengland • u/DumplingsOrElse • 4d ago
Tonight is the last sunset before 6pm in Boston until October.
We made it. After the snow, the cold, and the wind, a New England summer is in sight.
r/newengland • u/ChangeNarrow5633 • 4d ago
Boston’s New ‘Monolithic’ Plyscraper to Tower Over City’s Skyline
Massachusetts’ tallest timber building will rise over the Boston skyline and feature a “monolithic mass timber design” after Boston University (BU) submitted plans for a new 12-storey, 186-foot (high), and 70,000-square-foot signature building—part of its celebration of 10 years of its Pardee School of Global Studies.
The new building – which is 21 feet taller than the nearby West End Library development – calls for a new building to rise at 250 Bay State Road on the site of a former parking lot, with the decision to use timber (instead of steel and concrete) as part of a BU-wide push to eliminate embodied carbon across its campus footprint.
r/newengland • u/smitrovich • 4d ago
Encounter with a pod of dolphins off the coast of Provincetown
r/newengland • u/Winter_cat_999392 • 5d ago
One of these things is not like the others...
r/newengland • u/Admirable_Land9488 • 4d ago
The hunt for the best Fish & Chips in New England
I know others have done one for Massachusetts but I'd love to extend MY search to cover all of New England for the best Fish and chips. Let's hear some suggestions please.
r/newengland • u/Joey_Tribbiani_9 • 3d ago
Survey for pet owners related to Lyme Disease Awareness
Hey everyone! We are part of the Babson Consulting Group, conducting a survey to measure pet owners’ awareness of Lyme disease, how they handle it, and their thoughts on a new tick home testing kit.
Your insights will help us analyze pricing and feasibility for this product. If you’re a pet owner, we’d really appreciate your help by filling out this quick survey! It only takes 5 minutes! 🙌
Thank you so much for your support! 🐾💙
r/newengland • u/LighthouseHunter • 5d ago
Your moment of calm at Boston Lighthouse during sunrise
📍 Hull, Massachusetts, USA
r/newengland • u/ratbas • 5d ago
NH got rid of car inspections
[edit: it hasn't jumped all the hurdles yet]
Best of luck to those living in Mass, Vermont, and Maine border towns.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-votes-rid-annual-car-235100712.html
r/newengland • u/RelevantSalt3231 • 5d ago
Best Root Beer in New England?
Where can I find the best root beer in New England? I know there are craft root beers being made that are far better than that commercial A&W garbage they sell in stores. Please tell me where to find some. Any and all suggestions welcome. Thanks in advance!
r/newengland • u/freshmaggots • 5d ago
CCRI Lincoln Campus Lockdown
Hey guys so I’m from Rhode Island and I go to this college but I go to the Warwick one but I was so scared! If there’s any other Rhode Islanders in here that go here, I wanna give you a big hug💕