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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.
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[quote=Anonymous]The health care concern is interesting...we lived outside Portland for a couple of years, and the quality and availability of health care was the best of any place we've lived. Portland gets the cream of the crop of Boston medical schools who enjoy the outdoors in a lower COL area. Getting specialist appointments was easier and the facilities better than any we had in the DC area (outside of JHU).

Anyway for all but about 6 weeks it's great weather with a ton to do. And along the coast not much colder than NYC. People were great too, so much less materialistic than we find DC. Different strokes I suppose.[/quote]

We moved to greater Portland several years ago and have not looked back.  Our quality of life has improved tremendously.[/quote]

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