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[quote=Anonymous]I work in Portland (hospital) and live 30 minutes north in Midcoast Maine. I like coming to Portland, and I like leaving it. It is SO small. There's the peninsula with cute restaurants and boutiques (especially Aristelle, the lingerie shop on Exchange!) and then some outer lying areas.. and then the sprawl of Westbrook and South Portland. I think I'd feel trapped if my world was just the little snow globe of Portland.

That said, I love Maine! And yes, the smaller population is a feature and not a bug. We moved from the West Coast. Love the lakes, the beaches, the hiking, the feeling of being 10 years behind the bigger cities.

There are not a lot of cultural events but there are certainly community events... the Christmas craft fairs are HUGE here and probably a remnant of the pre-Amazon, big box shopping days. People rely on eachother here, but you also must be resourceful yourself. Our power goes out 6-8x a year. You acquire quite a booty of tools in your shed to battle nature. I feel sometimes like we are in Lord of the Rings where the trees are plotting to creep closer and closer each year unless we bushwhack them back. A house's driveway can make or break your winter/spring!

There is also a reason it's called Vacationland and not Live Here Round-year Land - and that's the high cost of living and the lower wages. RN's make $24-26/hr. There's not much of a tech sector.

It's also an OLD state. There was a thread recently here about when you become invisible to men, and I'd say that in Maine you have 10 more years of being attractive than in a younger area, ha!

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