Life in Maine

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Anonymous wrote: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.

OMG. This post is nutso as Augusta & Lewiston are crime-ridden dumps.

https://wcyy.com/most-dangerous-places-live-maine-2024-crime/

You must be a very negative human being.

Maine has THE LOWEST CRIME RATE IN THE NATION. Of course there is some crime, and most of it is happening in cities - just like everywhere else in the country. You forgot to mention the crime that happens in Portland/So. Portland.

That has nothing to do with the fact that Bangor, Lewiston and Augusta are like large small towns in terms of culture and amenities etc.

Some of the former mill towns in Maine are fairly blighted in terms of little business opportunity and the lack of good jobs and other opportunities has exacerbated drug issues in those communities.

But no place in Maine is a dump, except the dumps where refuse is transferred.

Please stop with your BS. We get it. You like Maine regardless of the facts.

Nonetheless, there are very nice towns in Maine--but NOT Augusta/Lewiston or Bangor !

OP: I have been to Maine many times over many decades. Family had a 3 house compound on the coast for several decades.

If you want a nice small town, look at Camden, Maine.

This person is why Mainers hate people from outside.

Because the truth hurts ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

OMG. This post is nutso as Augusta & Lewiston are crime-ridden dumps.

https://wcyy.com/most-dangerous-places-live-maine-2024-crime/

You must be a very negative human being.

Maine has THE LOWEST CRIME RATE IN THE NATION. Of course there is some crime, and most of it is happening in cities - just like everywhere else in the country. You forgot to mention the crime that happens in Portland/So. Portland.

That has nothing to do with the fact that Bangor, Lewiston and Augusta are like large small towns in terms of culture and amenities etc.

Some of the former mill towns in Maine are fairly blighted in terms of little business opportunity and the lack of good jobs and other opportunities has exacerbated drug issues in those communities.

But no place in Maine is a dump, except the dumps where refuse is transferred.

Please stop with your BS. We get it. You like Maine regardless of the facts.

Nonetheless, there are very nice towns in Maine--but NOT Augusta/Lewiston or Bangor !

OP: I have been to Maine many times over many decades. Family had a 3 house compound on the coast for several decades.

If you want a nice small town, look at Camden, Maine.

This person is why Mainers hate people from outside.

Because the truth hurts ?

Because so many outsiders, like you, talk about Maine like Marie Antoinette would. DP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

OMG. This post is nutso as Augusta & Lewiston are crime-ridden dumps.

https://wcyy.com/most-dangerous-places-live-maine-2024-crime/

You must be a very negative human being.

Maine has THE LOWEST CRIME RATE IN THE NATION. Of course there is some crime, and most of it is happening in cities - just like everywhere else in the country. You forgot to mention the crime that happens in Portland/So. Portland.

That has nothing to do with the fact that Bangor, Lewiston and Augusta are like large small towns in terms of culture and amenities etc.

Some of the former mill towns in Maine are fairly blighted in terms of little business opportunity and the lack of good jobs and other opportunities has exacerbated drug issues in those communities.

But no place in Maine is a dump, except the dumps where refuse is transferred.

Please stop with your BS. We get it. You like Maine regardless of the facts.

Nonetheless, there are very nice towns in Maine--but NOT Augusta/Lewiston or Bangor !

OP: I have been to Maine many times over many decades. Family had a 3 house compound on the coast for several decades.

If you want a nice small town, look at Camden, Maine.

Your family had a "3 house compound" on the coast and you've visited many times over the years....yeah, I wouldn't take advice from away especially someone whose family had a compound on the coast. Was it Kennebunkport or midcoast?

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People from the DC metro fussing about crime in Maine is rich.

[Anonymous]

Here is the NYT article about the fence.
I Put Up a Fence in Maine. Why Did It Cause Such a Fuss? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/15/magazine/maine-fence.html?unlocked_article_code=1.B04.z5N8.HEtwbv4Abyqv