I think you summarized it well with the 50% of STRs are owned by just 7% of owners is the headline and as you suggest the outlier emotional anecdotes are disjointed from the main story.

Have you unpacked that 7%? I would assume that within that 7% there are probably more variations worth looking at.

I think that's why the upper valley is a great area. It really has a decent answer for many of those questions. EC Fiber for internet, Dartmouth Hitchcock for healthcare, 2 hrs to logan a little over 1 to Manchester airprt, great coffee all around.

definitely need multiple sets of tires and awd though and too spread out for food delivery.