According to last estimates the population of the most populous city in NH is that Manchester has 109,691 people....
by comparison:
Manchester: 109,691
Keene: 22,778
Sarasota: 53,711
Danbury, CT: 78,736 (My Home Town)
Bath, Me: 9,257 (The towns I went to my boarding High School in)
Woodstock, CT: 1,211
I am well acquianted with low populations... by comparision... THIS is what an URBAN population looks like
Los Angeles: 9,519,338
NYC: 8,104,079
Chicago: 2,869,121
Boston: 3,406,829
Las Vegas: 1,563,282
I don't even really consider Tampa on the map of "real cities"
and it has 2,395,997 people.... I don't consider it like a real city becuase when you compare density from Tampa (2,707.8 people per square mile (in 2000)) to Chicago (12,750.3 people per square mile (2000)) It's QUITE a difference.
So, as you can see... it doesn't really matter what the population of a town in NH is.. its SUBurban at BEST.
I'll be fine... I grew up in the woods really... Danbury is where I spent most of my time... but my home was in Redding... (8,270) so there's my life living in small towns ... by the numbers.