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Living in Rumney with no Car
Russ Keanewrote: A little exaggerated. You should be able to get by for half a year with a bike and bumming rides if you are careful and really have to, but things will be a lot easier and more pleasant with a car. . Rumney is a nice little New England village with one pretty crappy (last I was there) country store, a fairly good café and one or two restaurants that seem to regularly go out of business due to their bad business models and mediocre food (NH is not generally known for great restaurant food, but that seems to be improving). Plymouth is a smallish college town which does have bus service from Concord, and a handful of other NH cities and Boston. |
 https://nh.craigslist.org/bik/d/hollis-adult-caroma-scooter-500-watt/7836799289.html Who knows, you might even be able to convince a college chick to head back to the campsite with you on this fine set of wheels. |
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I lived in Rumney for a few years, I would never recommend anyone live there without a reliable car. Anyone suggesting anything else hasn't lived there. |
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I know someone who lived in this area with no car as a form of self denial. He had to finish writing his PHD thesis. He had someone drop him off and then he lived in rumney with no car and no internet during the weekdays. I think that it worked pretty well for him. He spent a couple hours per day climbing with strangers and then he had nothing else to do but write for the rest of the time. It probably helped that he's an ardent anti drinker anti drugs sort of person. |
Christian Donkeywrote: Dating can’t be part of plan A with a bike. Young love is insatiable so never say never. |
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That scooter would be a death sentence for getting into Plymouth, from Rumney rocks. Even just turning from the campground and going into Rumney village itself on that scooter sounds hazardous. |
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Some of these comments feel a bit dramatic given that you're not moving to Rumney and will only be here May - October. Rumney is rural, yes. But AAC is 6 miles from a WalMart + two grocery stores and 8 miles from a hospital, a university, and a dozen restaurants. This is silly, but doordash says it will deliver a cappucino with oat milk and a croissant directly to the campground in 35 minutes or less. Point is: it's rural, but not isolated. Plymouth is pretty built up. The one mile jog from AAC to Rumney Village is safe enough and pleasant. Biking to Plymouth is dangerous, and IMO shouldn't be the Plan A for groceries. The wet weeks will be socially isolating and unless that's the point of your summer you'll want to get to Plymouth. If there's a way to have a car, you should get one. But as long as you're comfortable with some potentially lengthy periods of stoicism, I'd think you'll survive a summer, at the AAC campground, as a climber, without one. Make sure to leave before winter sets in, of course. If a car is impossible, I wonder if a motorcycle (or at least a moped) would be a good middle ground. I feel like if you can hit 30mph-45mph then you can probably get to Plymouth safely enough as long as it's light out and not raining. |
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I would not go moped. The vespa style scooters are bad ass. |
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In winter you just put your pad stack on and wait in the road for the plow to come along. That'll get you your eight miles pretty fast. |
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this thing is $850 bucks brand new |
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Living in Rumney without a car or moto would suck. public transport in rural NH doesn’t really exist. Most areas you can’t even get a uber/lyft. riding that road during dawn,dusk, rain or fog to the grocery would be the most dangerous part of your stay and I would want a road bike to speed up the commute (likely close to the below option). I recommend looking at a KE100, TW200 or similar small sized street legal enduro bike. They can be found for 1,000-2500 on the area. |
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I live in Rumney. I would say you kind of need a car (or motorcycle) - even for 6 mo. It's rural - no public transport, no uber, very quiet town, no trash pick up - you have to drive your trash to the transfer station (dump) every week (tho actually maybe the AAC has private pick up). I think biking everywhere would get old very fast and its pretty dangerous on Quincy Rd. It also rains a lot in the spring through fall - like 30-40%. I would just get a junker here. The NH House of Representatives just voted to eliminate annual car inspections (...still has to go to the Senate). But good for junker buyers if it gets through. |
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Agree with the advice to buy a cheap car that’s going to be the most comfortable option. Also agree that people are being dramatic on their assessment of biking as an option. Really if you chose to bike every day the things I would be considering are: How comfortable are you biking in the rain? Do you have the clothes/ gear for it? it’s going to rain a lot How often are you willing to ride to get groceries? Are you going to get panniers or just stuff everything in a backpack? How’s that going to work in the rain and when it’s 80 degree? How much do you bike now? Are you going to be excited to get through the phase of your ass hurting while you build up tolerance to sit on a bike seat? Lastly how often do you plan to have free time? Are you going to want to climb other places out east while you are here? Are you going to want to chase good weather and climb 3 hours away when conditions are bad at Rumney?
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Can't believe how light weight most of you are. We are talking a young tough kid and one summer. I am not sure that there is such a thing as a cheap car that dosen't suck you dry. I would be more inclined to spring for the Vespa or other small motorcycle. Motorcycles suck in the rain but BINTDT and its viable. You will survive. |
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Car = Sport Motorcycle = Trad Bicycle = Free soloing Walking = Alpine |
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Lol Steve Levin. Perfect!! |
Steve Levinwrote: I hear CA is gonna require you to wear a helmet if you’re clipping anything other than bolts.
Those E-unicycle thingies = LRS. If we’re honest they are about as dangerous as a bicycle and probably slower than a bicycle… but despite all that you gotta admit it’s kinda cool in a dorky way? self-driving car = French free but also you have to roll some dice at every rest and if a 1 comes up you have to mono through the next bolt instead of clipping it. How many die do you have to roll? You don’t know. The manufacturer probably also doesn’t know. The number probably changes from week to week. Also you need to pay $10 per route you climb and if you buy the premium cams the number is probably usually smaller. |
