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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have you spent time there? I would caution you to spend some time there in the winter (and late fall, late spring:early summer. Not uncommon to have cold temps and snow in may. Also, be aware it gets dark very early in the winter. Like 4pm. It’s brutal if you are someone that likes the sun. [/quote]

+1. I am a native Mainer. Live in DC now, but still summer there and will move back eventually (read: after my child goes to college) to a family home we have inherited but my spouse is not from there and we may never do 100% in Maine. Will most likely keep our DC house. It’s a big move and although I love it and have over 6 generations of family history there, it’s definitely not for everyone and that is the truth.[/quote]

Can you (or other PP native Mainers) share more about this? We've been going up to the midcoast for the past few summers and are having some FOMO about whether we should move here from DC.  But it is difficult to get a feel for what it would actually be like to live here.  We've met some outdoorsy families who do interesting work around Brunswick, Freeport, and Harpswell, but there seems to be a weird vibe with massive houses increasingly taking up the coastline and, depending on the community, very little public access.  Also, we haven't had any affirmatively bad experiences, but for sure there is skepticism of outsiders.  Oh - and we hear gunfire pretty frequently at random times of day - like people just shooting their guns a few doors down after dinner.  This has not been in particularly rural areas.[/quote]I’m only 45 minutes outside of DC in Calvert County and we also hear gunfire from people just having target practice on their land, or scaring off foxes, stuff like that. It caught me off guard me at first, but I’ll take this over gunfire in the city any day![/quote]

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