Life in Maine
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Anonymous
| How is it if you visit often or have a house there? What do you like/not like? Are people nice in coastal areas? Specifically outside Portland to mid-Coast, coastal area? Or would they be sort of hostile to a newcomer? Newcomer would be a middle class person from a rural area overseas, not a rich person. |
Anonymous
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The people we’ve met are very nice.
Lots to do - hiking, boating, kayaking, fishing, etc. Much cooler than DC in the summer. We love it. |
Anonymous
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Maine Reddit hates outsiders but overall I’ve never had an issue in Maine. We go to Acadia.
Maine has biting flies, mud season, and ticks. Be prepared and you’ll be fine. I’ve never seen a moose but moose crossing signs are plentiful in many areas. Our friend was lucky enough to see one on the way to work one morning leaving NH. Also - Bangor mall is dead! |
Anonymous
| Most of New England dislikes outsiders. |
Anonymous
+1 We moved here two years ago and we love it. |
Anonymous
How are you doing in winter? Do you find yourself bored or not so much? |
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My sister moved 2 years ago and has really found a great group of people. Some who were born and bred there and some who are transplants like her. It helped that her kids were still young enough when they moved that she was very involved with their friend making group and in turn became good friends with their parents.
I will say the areas right out of Portland (Yarmouth, Falmouth, Cape Elizabeth) are very wealthy and would be hard to move to unless you make some serious money, ie definitely over $500,000 HHI. |
Anonymous
PP here whose sister moved there - everyone skies and does hockey. They LOVE winter up there. That is the one reason we can't move up there. I hate the cold and dark. It is hell to me. I would rather it be hot out and swim with my kids than bundle them all up to go skiing. But to each their own! |
Anonymous
+1000 |
Anonymous
| Track down the article that was in the New York Times in the last few weeks, about a women (transplant Mainer) who put up a fence. |
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I lived there for a total of 12 years, before during and after college/graduate school (U of Maine, Orono) and law school (GULC).
I lived in Bangor/Orono, Ellsworth area, and Portland for a time. I traveled extensively all over the state for work and recreation. If your thing is high end shopping, haute cuisine or endless cultural opportunities, you won't like anywhere but Portland. If you can truly embrace a rural lifestyle and more limited social opportunities, you'll love rural Maine which starts within a few miles of Portland and extends to everywhere else. Bangor, Augusta and Lewiston are really just larger small towns. Plenty of Mainers are friendly and welcoming, and some are not - like anywhere else. Maine is more conservative, especially in the rural areas. You can find a group of progressive friends if that's your thing, but the more rural you are the more intentional work it will take to find such folks. |
Anonymous
Not at all, there's quite a lot going on in terms of music, theater, adult education, groups to join, etc. Everything is much easier to access because of lack of traffic and crowds, waitlists, etc. |
Anonymous
Be prepared for April blizzards. Get outside as much as you can. The SAD can be brutal. I moved here 7 years ago and live equidistant to Durham/Freeport/Brunswick/Lisbon. I split my time between Lewiston (Catholic community), Brunswick (kids school) and Portland (work, medical, hair appts). All are very different places. |
Anonymous
I'm an independent in a purple area now (going to vote Harris/Walz before anyone asks!) so I don't mind politically mixed. The house I'd buy would be on some acrage. I don't want to be super close to a neighbor. We work remote and don't eat out much. I would like some good supermarkets/produce access though. |
Anonymous
OMG. This post is nutso as Augusta & Lewiston are crime-ridden dumps. https://wcyy.com/most-dangerous-places-live-maine-2024-crime/ |