The 113th Carnival of Personal Finance was released today at My Open Wallet. I am pleased to have been chosen as one of the editor’s top picks with my post, Cleveland versus Boston: A study in housing costs.

On that note, my wife and I made a short jaunt up to Salem and Nashua, New Hampshire this weekend to look at housing up there. We had noticed online that the houses there are quite a bit more reasonable than nearly anywhere on the east coast of Massachusetts. The major downside I saw was increasing my daily commute ten-fold (as I live in the same town where I work, it would take me instead nearly an hour if I lived in New Hampshire).

Unfortunately, we soon realized that these New Hampshire towns were far from suburbs. While we weren’t able to fully explore the area, what we mostly came across were rural areas spotted with strip malls.

This weekend, we are instead going to look at Durham, New Hampshire, home of the University of New Hampshire and hopefully an area closer to what we are looking for.