Best place to settle down in Maine?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We own a SFH in Ward 3 DC and a house on the water in Boothbay Harbor. I mention the SFH -W3 for context— we’re not on a block with 49 restaurants and a walk score of 96. We’re ok with quiet and low energy vibes

… which is good, because Maine is really, really sedate. The pace is often moribund. Well, outside of outlet shopping and 6 weeks in Bar Harbor or Ogunquit. I like simple things like pie sales and geriatric a capella performances, I genuinely do. And botanical gardens and canoeing. But. Before anyone moves to Maine outside of Portland, you really owe it to yourself to spend six uninterrupted months — in a row — in your chosen town, without bailing October to February.

Also, yeah, health care.

The pie sale in front of the church on Saturdays! Get there early . . .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We own a SFH in Ward 3 DC and a house on the water in Boothbay Harbor. I mention the SFH -W3 for context— we’re not on a block with 49 restaurants and a walk score of 96. We’re ok with quiet and low energy vibes

… which is good, because Maine is really, really sedate. The pace is often moribund. Well, outside of outlet shopping and 6 weeks in Bar Harbor or Ogunquit. I like simple things like pie sales and geriatric a capella performances, I genuinely do. And botanical gardens and canoeing. But. Before anyone moves to Maine outside of Portland, you really owe it to yourself to spend six uninterrupted months — in a row — in your chosen town, without bailing October to February.

Also, yeah, health care.

The pie sale in front of the church on Saturdays! Get there early . . .

Wednesdays at noon here! And you legit can't show up late.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kennybankport, The Bush family summer town.

Are they even there that frequently? I highly doubt it. Most of them resident full time in ritzy towns in Texas, California, and Florida. And if they needed urgent medical care they probably have a helivac on standby. Proles aren't so lucky.

Yes, It was a summer White House for H.W and W visits several times a year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can tell most of the posts here are being written by people who have not, in fact, lived through a winter in Maine.

I lived there on the downeast coast and in the Orono/Bangor area, and one summer in Portland - but have relatives there I frequently visited, as well as relatives in the Augusta/Hallowell area.

95% of Maine is open year round, just a few drive ins and ice cream stands and campgrounds are closed in winter. But yes, as with any northern latitude state the winters are long and dark.

There is plenty to do in Maine if you live in or near a city, but as with anywhere else in America, when you get rural you get beans and franks dinners at the church and hunter’s breakfasts at the lodge and an ice fishing derby and maybe contra dancing at the grange hall once a month. People drink a lot and make a lot of crafts in winter - the stuff the people from away love to buy at summer craft fairs or in the quirky shops. In Maine we also make thousands of wreaths in winter.

Maine is a really nice place for people with a country mouse in them.

One of the better descriptions of rural Maine. Bravo poster!