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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have spent a bit of time in Portland and a bit of time in a pretty rural area.  In my opinion, Portland is lovely.  I'm sure the rest of the coast is similar.  But it's a radically different vibe once you go inland.  Very rural.  Lots of guns, lots of people living on the precipice of poverty.  I don't know about the "crime rate" in these rural communities (I'm not talking cities like Lewiston, but the areas outside of those small cities) but there's a lot of drug use and drinking.    I don't think that results in a higher crime rate necessarily, but it's not a place where I would easily be able to find a community.

I think you can probably drive an hour from many settled parts of Maine and hit a big box store or major grocer to do extensive food shopping.

There's just not a strong economy outside of the coast.  It's [b]pretty[/b], but so rural, and so remote.[/quote]

A lot of towns in Maine are not all that pretty. The 6000 lakes and ponds might look intriguing on a map, but many are developed all the way around, and in pretty haphazard ramshackle fashion.

And this has likely been mentioned, but the coast Down East of Bar Harbor does not have a strong economy. [/quote]

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