Category: Moving Relocating to Maine

Maine, Live Here, Work Anywhere

More and more real estate buyers are thinking Maine, live here, work anywhere.

What’s It Like In Small Town Maine Rural Locations? Each One Shines Uniquely, Brightly.

The Maine real estate calls into our rural Aroostook County office tell the tale.

It’s families moving in, houses filling up, schools gaining student enrollments, and small businesses welcoming new customers.

Remote work is turning Maine around — not just in Portland or the coast, but right here in Aroostook County, all the sixteen counties.

It’s no longer the old story of “no jobs in Maine.” It’s a new story: “Live here, work anywhere.”

Welcome To Maine. You’re Here. You Made It!

Online living in Maine but working anywhere is a reality.

Reliable high speed Internet connectivity is the game changer.

No longer does a young family wanting to raise their kids in wholesome Maine pack the wagon.

Have to leave for more higher paying jobs in a population center.

Remote worker employment often means higher incomes than the local average, which helps support schools, municipal budgets and small Maine town community programs.

What’s the roof like on a property or is there a garage is just as critical as another question asked with greater frequency.

How’s the Internet broadband service at that Maine real estate property listing location?

Remote work is reshaping opportunities. Maine no longer has to rely on job loss replacement for timber, paper mills, potato farming, fishing and small manufacturing industries.

Grab a bar of soap and keep it handy for the local resident that still growls or mutters “no jobs in Maine”.

Ask many young people who outward migrated to southern New England for higher paying jobs if there was more employment opportunities, would you stay in Maine?

Remote work is a game changer that shifts the focus away from lack of traditional, in-person small Maine town and rural county employment opportunities.

The rise of telecommuting and online work is showing geography matters less.

That you can hold a job with employers in Boston, New York or even California while calling Maine your home. Many big companies are seeing it is cheaper to sub contract the freelancing, consulting, online business functions to online remote telecommuters.

Maine Is Small Town Friendly Living. Who Would Trade That For High Crime, Over Populated Not So Friendly Areas To Live If They Had A Choice?

Before Internet connected the state of Maine, rural meant woods, water, wildlife, few people.

Off the beaten path, taking hours to travel back and forth and a harder option for rural remote Maine to compete for business.

The Internet removed the “too far away” aspect. Blew open the Maine real estate market restriction to an audience that is now global not just local.

It made it easier to deliver information on Maine tourism.

To serve up personal experience testimonials from case after case of telecommuters who packed their current job there.

And moved it along to a new Maine location with all their other personal belongings and loved ones to “Vacationland.

Remote work makes if more realistic for younger Mainers or newly relocated to the state folks to stay, to buy homes and contribute locally while working globally.

Maine markets itself as a “quality of life” state. Loaded with natural four seasons beauty, the 4th lowest crime stat, no traffic and an intimate small town community vibe.

With remote work, these unspoiled Maine advantages tug hard on the heart strings of workers who are fed up, sick and tired. Who no longer need to be near corporate urban bub population centers. Local communities, organization and the state got on the bandwagon early. Live here, work anywhere. Maine.

Rural Maine where I live is ahead of the Internet connectivity curve.

In the East Grand Lake region as a recent example, Fidium has strung glass fiber high speed Internet broadband all over the northern Washington and southern Aroostook County. You want 500 meg speed of thought Internet connectivity? Pioneer Broadband Internet is another local Maine company options leading the charge to offer Internet in places that did not have it.

Perks Of Living In Small Town Rural Maine Spelled Out A-Z.

Dial in the speed like remember the old Sunoco gas pumps? To boost performance with street legal race track high performance octane 360 grade in your muscle car back in the 1970’s.

If you work online remotely it is a given that all your higher income goes to support the local small Maine town economy? Probably not. But having the Fed Ex or UPS truck deliver whatever you used to get in the higher population city setting is part of the decision making moving to work remotely in Maine.

You no longer have to trade off all the perks thanks to the same Internet connection that offers go away you want to live employment options.

The influx of new remote online works has helped cause the shortage of affordable housing and the knee jerk for local contractors and communities to get behind new home construction. The what is being built to sell though has to match the market.

How Many Times Have You Climbed Mt Katahdin? Do You Hike, Bike, Climb The Rec Trails? Use The Maine Waterways Or Hunt, Fish?

Your typical Maine home buyer is looking for affordable not luxury unless parked amount the pricey coastal zip codes of Maine.

The Internet has helps home buyers consider their lifestyle choice and where best in Maine to live it out completely.

Like say your passion to ski. It meant the Sugarloaf or Sunday River area built golf courses. Uses the snow ski lift for fall leaf foliage color peeking. Other events added to the local Maine landscape to make what used to be seasonal resorts into to year round full service ones.

Horse lovers are invited to build a new house complete with a stable to bring Flicker or Bullet with you to ride the Maine mountain woods trails.

Want To Horse Around, Life A Small Homestead Farm Experience In Maine?

Remote work can reverse out migration trends and help young Mainers stay home while building careers.

Working remotely helps attract newcomers drawn by Maine’s quality of life. Clean air, community spirit, safety and outdoor year round recreation. The higher income strengthens small local community economies.

Freelance, consulting and digital businesses are giving people more job employment options than ever before.

Crossing Country Skiing, Snow Shoeing, Getting Outside In Maine To Fill Your Lungs With Fresh Clean Air. Is That Possible Where You Live Now?

For Maine, the benefits are telecommuting and working remotely retains young people who want to stay close to family but still build careers.

The challenge is building new housing stock to fill the needs of local and new incoming house buyers. Developers have to consider what the market needs, what is lacking and would quickly sell if it was built to meet the price point.

The building a house in Maine loaded with a slew of convenience features is great if you can afford it and for your own personal preferences.

A New Maine Lake Home Being Built From The Ground Up. Starts With A Foundation. How Many Angles And Jogs In It Drives The Price Up Or Down.

But simple, affordable ranch and cape style house structures are what is needed in rural Maine. Maine is 450 small communities, plantations and a handful of cities and the housing stock

Living Here, Working There. Your Local Life Can Include A Global Job With High Speed Internet.

has to match the need and price range the new home buyer can afford.

Can You Do This Where You Live Now? Everyday In Maine Is A Vacation.

It’s now new jobs not no jobs in Maine.

For years, people described Maine — especially rural Maine — as a place with “no jobs.”

The story was familiar: paper mills shut down, farms consolidated, manufacturing moved away, and young people left for Boston, Portland, or beyond in search of salary and career opportunity.

But today, that story is changing in Maine.

Live in Maine, work anywhere!

Remote work and telecommuting are quietly reshaping our state — and a Maine real estate broker, it is exciting to see the change up close, every single day.

Young Mainers that had to leave the state to “make a living” are returning home.

Their current out of state employer does not want to lose them and their rural Maine work ethic. The moving back to Maine family brings the job they already have.

Out of state buyers are moving in, sometimes sight unseen, because they can pack their current job and don’t need to replace it.

Retirees looking for a slower pace now have child or grandchildren who can follow them north because remote work is possible.

Today broadband availability in Maine matters as much as proximity to a mill or employer once did.

If Maine leans into the shift from live here, work anywhere. And if she continues to invest in broadband and promotes the clean unspopiled, simple lifestyle and supports new housing development.

Then Maine can turn “no jobs” into “new jobs”. Housing demand in Maine is the earliest signal of population and job trends. And the job trend is move, stay, live in Maine, work anywhere.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton Maine 04730

September 17, 2025
Blogging About Maine Winter Weather

When you start a blog about Maine, there is no shortage of topics to hunt peck post.

The Me In Maine blog is easy to feed because the state is so full of all this natural beauty.

Maine offers so many daily opportunities to collect and post photos, videos and simple daily experiences collected to share from around unspoiled Vacationland.

What’s It Like Waking Up On A Maine Lake? Like No Other Experience. How’s That?

Uploading personal photos of Maine is one easy way to fill a Maine blog post installment.

What’s It Like In Small Town Maine Rural Locations? Each One Shines Uniquely, Brightly.

These Maine images say a lot more than anything a typewriter tries to express. The small rural communities in Maine have plenty of neat activities and beautiful settings to promote but are often the best kept secret! Not a lot of press in small Maine communities.

Over the years, the travel blog posts to here and there around the state of Maine have been the easiest installments to create.

Go to some new location, sample the food, see the sights and post the photos with local copy on what this corner of Maine is like. So much to experience in Maine and it involves a little traveling even when you live instate!

Winter In Maine, We Are Outdoors Every Day, All Year Long.

But I think the meatiest ones are sheer FAQ.

You and I search for information daily and notice the questions asked around any query. To me, those frequently asked questions are the meat and potatoes of any blog about Maine.

I am lucky to live here and have past and present experiences to draw from whenever it’s time to feed the blog. But the questions asked by folks who do live here and have limited knowledge about Maine are the hungriest blog post readers.

So here goes for a Me In Maine newest blog post about a couple FAQ.

What are our winters like in Maine?

Who’s Walking Who? Maine Winter Stroll With Dog, The Owner.

This Maine weather question comes up daily and the answer for it is no longer cut and dry.

I used to carefully explain up here in Maine there are no polar bears, no one lives in igloos. That we are not amateurs handling winter snow in Maine.

Basically, explaining the stories about winter snow and temperatures in Maine are grossly exaggerated.

Maine Winter, The Golfing Is Usually Done By Snow Birds Who Beat Feet South Where A Snow Shovel Not Needed.

Why does Maine winters get the harsh press?

Because many who do not live in Maine and never experienced a winter just repeat what they heard or fear.

For starters, Maine winter snow is a big part of the economy.

New Maine Winter Snow Sugar Coats The Landscape.

When no snow shows up, harder to attract the Maine snowmobilers.

Hard to groom winter snow sled trails without accumulations of the white stuff.

You can make snow at Maine ski areas but it adds to the overhead costs.

Maine Winter Homes, Snow Has To Be Managed, Plowed, Shoveled.

Man made is not the same as homemade courtesy of Mother Nature and Jack Frost working in tandem.

Those spreading the bad press about Maine winter weather need to consider a few things. First, how you dress is a big part of how comfortable any season in Maine is. Second, the weather patterns in Maine have changed our winters.

Lack of snow, warmer temperatures during Maine winters have seriously changed the season.

So daily I explain Maine winters were never as bad as many portrayed. That we are outdoors daily in Maine all year long. That you dress for the occasion here in Maine. And if you cross country ski, snowshoe, etc you have to be careful not to be over dressed.

Maine’s Highest Mountain, Katahdin. Snow Covered And Majestic Towering High In The Clouds At Baxter State Park.

And last but not least, our Maine winters are tamer and lost some of the crisp clean and clear air bite.

The state of Maine just does not get the snow accumulations and colder temperatures to keep it around over the winter months.

So does Maine have four seasons? Sure does. Some would argue there is a fifth one, mud season.

Small Town, Living On A Maine Lake. Priceless.

Are winters harsh in Maine?

Not if you dress for them, prepare for them and tackle them like a boy or girl scout to be prepared.

Warm As Toast Inside. Dressed To Be The Same Outside During A Maine Winter.

What is it like living in Maine during the winter?

Great, fun, snow covered fluffy white and offering a whole ‘nother level of outdoor recreation fun!

Does Maine get much snow?

Not as much as she did. The stats for snow in Maine.

How Many Inches Do You Think We Got Last Night Of New Maine Snow?

What state has the worst winters?

Not Maine. I can only tell you from experience in Maine and not venturing out on a limb to judge other states, areas I know zip about. Have spent some time in Colorado and the terrain adds to the snowy adventure.

What are winters like in Maine?

Fine, great, fun.

Maine Outdoor Winter Snow Does Not Hamper The Farm Yard Animals.

What do people do in the winter in Maine?

Snow ski, snowmobile, ice fish, ice skate, snow shoe, sliding and all around enjoying being in Maine winter, the other three seasons too.

Crust, Ice Glazed Maine Winter Snow. Pretty Total Sundown.

Once all the weather in Maine questions are addressed, we move on to what the pay scale is like?

How do people make a living in Maine. Like the weather, I have to explain how simple living in Maine works.

You live your life easy does it in Maine and savor the outdoors, woods, wildlife, waterfront and nature.

Others around you who feel the same way and respect the environment. Are good stewards of the land and pass it on in as good or even better shape than they received it.

This attitude and approach to life helps shape how you chose to live it in Maine. We deal with anything that comes down the pike. Take it in stride and prepare for all possible outcomes.

Mainers expect there is going to be adjustment and corrections necessary in our day to day living.

Maybe it is the weather that sets the ground rules of preparation, expectation living in Maine. Have your own set of questions or concerns about Maine? Reach out, here to help and let’s talk! Email, text, come visit us and start the communication connection.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

June 24, 2025
I Just Want To Be Left Alone.

I just want to be left alone.

Leave me along, just let me be. Hear that desperate plea desire uttered almost daily from Maine real estate buyers.

Space, privacy, peace and quiet. In crowded populated areas it may be impossible or just too darn expensive to create it. In rural Maine, not hard at all.

Farm Property In Maine. Your Nearest Neighbor A Half Mile Away.

The wanting to be left alone. It’s not that most are anti social. The group just share the common goa for different reasonsl. Getting away from people too close for comfort. Especially the ones constantly on your case on how best to lead your life. That have to point out where you are doing it wrong, missing the target.

Ever notice many of the folks self appointed to help you with your life should spend more time housekeeping their own?

It gets old living with the evil eye and wondering here it comes again. Tightening up or smiling and trying to back away and run for the hills. What I am doing wrong now in someone’s opinion?

So Maine is the perfect place to create some space.

Land Not People. That’s Maine. Loaded With Wildlife But No HOA’s, No Four To Six Lanes Of Traffic.

Less people, more wildlife and 450 small communities, villages. Just a handful of cities in Maine.

Like the old song “Stop the World and Let Me Off”, the Waylon Jennings song … The poor love sick guy wanted to stop the spinning.

Couldn’t function with the “As The World Turns” of romance gone bad. Can not survive without the other.. just sick of tired of going round and round when the partner’s flame went out and passion elsewhere sparked. Missing the kissing and tender hearted care after his love went away.

Where is the lever anyway to stop the carnival ride, the one called pull here in an emergency for relief from day to day round and round?

The Carnival Food, Fun, Games, Rides. Did You Get Your Fill This 4th Of July In Maine? Everyday Maine Is Not Crowded, Not Wall To Wall People Or Bumper To Bumper Traffic.

Maine offers a natural unspoiled setting for recreation and nature.

Four season’s worth of oodles of options. For leisure time spent fishing, paddling a kayak or canoe. Hiking a trail. Down hill, cross country skiing all providing exercise and a jaw dropping view.

Follow The Path Less Traveled. The One Up In Rural Maine.

The term “backyard” is very different depending on where you do live on the blue and green spinning marble.

To someone in Maine, your country neighbor is half a mile away. There may be a rock wall separating your property from the two hundred acres or more next door. In a 300 lot urban subdivision, everyone calls the fence company. To define the “backyard” that is measured in feet not acres. No side lawn, front yard and zero lot lines happens.

Grass, do you mow and how long does it take each week? Weed wack only and lots of bark chips not grass to shorten?

In Maine, we mow lawns like we hay.

Big open nicely mowed for the weekend lawns are the norm. Maybe they put drink holders on riding lawn mowers for a reason. I know people who say they do their best thinking mowing the lawn. Not in circles but angled, neatly trimming like you learned from a family member black belt lawn specialist growing up in Maine.

Maine Homesteads, Big Lawns, More Wide Open Space. No People In Sight To Spoil It All.

If you live where why have side windows but you can see the grain of your neighbor’s vinyl siding. No side yard, no back yard and parking. What about parking? Where do I do it? It has to be done out on the street. Or round the corner at a multi story parking garage for a hefty fee.

To get a sense of space, where you live now do you have to trot out of the cul de sac and down the street to a nearby park to get some?

Here’s a perfect example of a new property listing with 60 acres of land Maine homestead and only large land acreages, not people surrounding it.

Watch the Maine real estate video.

Looking for peace and quiet with plenty of elbow room?

Maine, one more reason to consider Vacationland to get space. You can spend time with yourself and figure things out or enjoy not having people people people.

The statement “I just want to be left alone” probably happens because the person crying out for space can not get it. Wall to wall people everywhere you look where they live now.

Life On The Maine Farm. Easy Does It Simple. Early Morning Chores, The Day Wraps Up Late At Night.

Spending some time with yourself in rural Maine but also prepare to get involved and volunteer.

Living in Maine is home grown not store bought. And more “if it is to be, it is up to me” approach to simple living in Maine.

No traffic, little crime, just pure and natural without the privacy fencing, zero lot lines, plenty of parking.

Maine is the way life should be. People are friendly because their personal space is protected and no problem maintaining it on a daily basis. Not just a week’s vacation in Maine for rehab. Maine, is she what is missing in your life? Do you want, need a piece of ME?

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

August 11, 2024
Cheapest Places To Buy A House In Maine?

Cheapest places to buy a house in Maine?

This Maine real estate market report runs down where you can get your best bang for your housing buck. It also answers other current market questions that come up daily running a Maine real estate office.

The lower priced Maine real estate is part of the attraction. But so are the home grown local community events and all natural recreation options to consider in Maine. That’s no bull.

Everyone Pitches In And Turns Out In Small Maine Towns! Parades Are Big And Popular In Maine Communities!

First things first, the current Maine real estate market highlights.

Have to set the stage on what’s shaking now in Maine listing sales. For the fourth month in a row, Maine house sales increased. Maine is in the top ten states for desirability due to lower prices, less crime, little traffic in rural areas especially.

Maine has a very low percentage of renters, more home owners.

All Natural, Outdoors In Nature. That Is The Big Maine Attraction.

The state’s available Maine housing inventory is the ninth-lowest in the nation.

The latest figures from Maine Listings via the ME Association of Realtors shows 1,180 homes changed hands, up nearly 4 percent.

The Maine median sales price increased over 7 percent. Maine is a more affordable state for owning your own house. Especially as you head up into the rural interior areas away from the pricey coastline.

Because Maine is such a large state, the real estate market report is not a one size fits all.

You cannot broad brush sum it all up accurately without breaking down the numbers. Listing inventory continues to be in short supply and multiple offer situations are still happening.

Sneak A Peek At The Maine Real Estate Housing Numbers.

Waterfront real estate listing sales especially are often bidding wars with the higher than list, cash buyer seeking few if any contingencies coming out on top.

When you list and sell properties in Maine, the housing, just land, small business properties, apartment, etc all the markets within a market behave differently. Region by region no two market property listing segments show you the exact same statistic.

Maine Waterfront Property Listings, Never Enough. Always A Little Higher Priced And Precious.

Where are the majority of Maine single family house buyers coming from in the current real estate market?

Maine Listings data tracking buyer zip codes says the majority statewide are from Massachusetts (7.44%) and next New Hampshire (3.88%). Florida house buyers purchasing in Maine come in at nearly 2% of the transfers, Connecticut at over 1.5% of sales.

The states with the highest house sale price tags are another group paying cash for Maine houses, other property listing types. The attractive to sell high there and buy much lower in rural Maine is a trend.

Interest rates are not a factor for a Maine housing buyer purchasing with cash. Here’s a sample of what house prices in Northern Maine property listings look like to compare to where you currently live on the planet now.

The cheapest places to buy a house in Maine?

Despite Maine’s healthy brisk housing listing sale numbers, the National Association of Realtors reports a housing sales dip of 2.1% across the country.

Looking, Flying Over Houlton Maine, The County’s Oldest Town. Aroostook County Has The Cheapest Maine Housing Of All! Prices Up, Supply Is Down.

Slicing and dicing the Maine real estate market into the sixteen counties and individual communities tells the real listing sales story. Study the latest Maine Listings PDF real estate listing sales housing report.

Aroostook County is the lowest median priced for buying a house.

The average price is $158,132 and house sales are down over 16% due to sold out, lack of inventory.

House prices in Aroostook County are up 1.80% this year compared to last. When an area of Maine has smaller salaries, the property listing prices on all the real estate is lower too.

Kinda like money is taken out of the equation and many locals can do their own household repairs.

Skills taught earlier in life are tapped into to make later living easier and less costly.

Working On A Maine Farm. Outdoors, All Kinds Of Weather, Long Hours Laboring Year Round.

To show the contrast, Maine’s Cumberland County numbers show housings sales are down 2.35%. But the media house price in Cumberland County is up 6.24% from $536,500 last year to

Maine Outdoor Music Band Concerts Get High Local Attendance!

$570,000 in 2024 YTD.

You better make more money, have a higher paying salary to pull of buying a house in Maine in the more expensive coastal zip codes.

The closer to population you get, the higher the Maine house price tags increase. The cost to insure your Maine house goes up too along with the price to pay for property repairs.

Quite a contrast huh in how things shake, rattle and roll real estate wise in Maine?

As a Maine real estate broker for close to 45 years, I’ve witness first hand in the foxhole trenches a wide variety of markets.

But one factor remains the same, everyone is on the hunt for the lowest cost places to buy a house in Maine.

But what really gives the wrong information is the one stat for the entire state of Maine for median sales price, the days on market, for anything that tries to size up “Vacationland”.

If you are searching for Maine real estate, my advice is don’t try to cover the entire state.

Instead, do your online homework first, then take a trip to sample ME.

Maine Farm Fields Bloom With White, Purple, All Kinds Of Potato Blossoms.

Once you find the area that matches your lifestyle interests best and pleases your wallet at the same time, drill down into any and all new property listings.

Otherwise, you will need a helicopter or private jet to zig zag back and forth like a dragon fly to tour the communities, the property listings in it helter skelter.

Draw a circle of how far you want to be from a hospital, your job, schools, Walmart, a golf course, a lake, the wood land rec trails.

Then take a deep dive into what is available and be patient.

To find the cheapest places to buy a house in Maine.

Study what comes up that matches most of the items on your “gotta have / don’t want” Maine real estate property listing search list.

Selling a house out of state and buying a new one to replace it in Maine.

When the new Maine house is in a attractively priced rural area, be prepared to have money left over.

It’s the trend shown in other earlier Maine house sales real estate property listing reports.

Living free and clear, debt free and caught up helps you enjoy life fully.

Living in the 4th lowest crime state of Maine does not hurt either.

Grow Your Own Food, Raise The Flower Gardens On Your Own In Maine.

Rural Maine the cheapest places to buy a house.

No one wants to have two and three mortgages to struggle to make ends meet.

Your home is the largest investment most of us ever make right?

Everything subject to change for Maine real estate house listings sale prices and supply of what is available on any given day.

Thank you for stopping by!

Hope this Maine blog post is helpful.

That’s the current run down on cheapest place to buy a house in Maine, other current factors in the state’s real estate list.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

July 9, 2024
Living In A Small Maine Town, What’s It Like?

Living in a small Maine town, what’s it like?

Maine is a handful of cities and over 450 small towns, plantations, unorganized areas. More open space and wildlife, less people and no billboards.

There is no shortage of opinions on anything these days. Where you should be living is one of those hot topics. Strong opinions and often the pros and cons are deeply personal.

Attractive, Preserved Victorian Style Brick Buildings In Market Square, Houlton Maine. Maine is full of small friendly towns.

This blog post is to spell out the what to expect without the sharp barbs or any resentments about small Maine town life.

For starters, who best to describe living in a small Maine town then someone who lives there full time.

Not a scathing report based on never set foot in Maine, never ever been there but I’ve heard blah blah blah. Or and here-say from one or two not so happy campers where the complaint experience might be legit or their own short comings caused.

So small town living in Maine, anywhere has a garden variety list of differences compared to a populated setting.

Small towns are fewer cars and traffic, more unspoiled outdoors. You experience lower crime, less pollution, friendlier first name basis living but not everything at your fingertips.

Vacationing In Maine. Returning To The Same Favorable Haunts Or Somewhere New? Maine is small town, not crowded, not riddled with crime.

The “gotta have and don’t want” list changes in your life no matter where you hang your hat.

Quality of life, healthier simple living is attractive but as parts wear out, medical centers come into the consideration of where you should live.

Too expensive to live somewhere causes moves, relocations to Maine.

Or you can not afford to retire where you are now can make you go online to do a Maine real estate search. If you live now in a not so great place to raise a family, the pack up the moving truck maneuver is on many folk’s radar these days. Or over population, high taxes, crime and temperatures can cause the pull the plug to want to live off grid in a Maine homestead with land.

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So Maine small town, what it is like?

A Toby Keith song but all the time? Everybody thinks my tractor is sexy Kenny Chesney like? I’ve blogged about 4000 population towns in Maine and it is all relative.

How small is the size you are examining for a Maine town?

If the town is 100 people, you might have a church or two, maybe a small convenience gas station outlet nearby to tide you over. Until the trip to a larger population center that can support a Dollar General or maybe a small Piggly Wiggly or Yankee Grocery food store.

Life Is A Maine Beach. Salt Water, Fresh Air, A Summer Breeze At A Maine Beach.

Small town living in Maine can make you think of out west in the farm belt.

Or a small coal mining community where farming or mining is pretty much all your have. Healthy Maine small communities are diversified and don’t have all their eggs in one economic basket.

Farming, woodwork, fishing, tourism for the sportsmen, families on camping trips are all big. So is transportation because unfold the map. See all those miles that separate small Maine towns from large population centers? That’s a big 10-4 on trucking in and out the goods we need and what we grow or create heading the other direction.

Working On A Small Maine Farm. Kids Benefit, The Farmer Wins Too!

So the life in a small Maine town.

You hear about a fire in your home town from a neighbor who posted a photo or two on social media. Or someone down at the service station or in the aisles of Walmart mentions did you hear about it?

If you are two or three degrees separation from the person in the news or making it, you hear through the family grapevine.

If you are not from the small Maine town originally, you will hear some negatives about never being accepted. Or feeling like a true local native of the Maine small town.

More Outdoor Space, Owning More Land With Your Home In Maine. Working Together To Earn Your Keep.

But if you volunteer, join a local club, church or school event, you will make new friends. If you are not always complaining about back in Jersey or wherever you lived last or grew up on how they do it better.

You are valuable if you are a worker, an asset to a small Maine town.

If you have a positive attitude and hopefully a sense of humor, that is a plus when moving to a small Maine town.

Live Music, A Maine Community Band Supplies It Weekly For Free. That’s Maine.

If you are from a sprawling urban area with million of people, it is hard to get your head wrapped about a small Maine town population of under 1000. Lake resort communities in Maine that swell and then go back to small numbers as the “snowbirds” head to the sunny south or southwest.

Long distances to travel for goods or services are part of the drawbacks to small Maine town life.

But access to Interstate 95 makes the travel pretty easy when no traffic and designed for moving 75 miles an hour or faster.

But because we are parked a little further up the pike, the surroundings become less traveled and more unspoiled all natural. Look up, see the stars on a walk at night? Hear the crickets and Maine lake loons in the moonlight? You can not duplicate that in a city setting.

Taught How To Fish, Survive Early In Life. Missing His Mate, Crying About It Heard On A Maine Lake.

So what are you after, what are your expectations and how did you grow up and was it a good experience or not.

You want more of what you like, less of what you do not and a change in zip code is driven by expectations. If they are met, you stay and pitch in to add to the local community in Maine.

Our job in the Me In Maine blog is to introduce the many corners of Vacationland to the readers. Some who grew up here and appreciate what we have in small town Maine living. Others who long for it because it sounds so delicious but so foreign to where they live now. I love living in a small Maine town and think you will too!

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North ST Houlton ME 04730 USA

May 26, 2024
Relocating To Maine, Making The Move

Relocating to Maine, making the move.

The outward migration from city to country continues in the Northeast.

This blog post about why the move to Maine.

What to expect, why people pick Maine as the map location in relocation.

Packing up, breaking ties and filling out the change of address form. Your Worldly possessions sorted through to lighten the load for the trip north. The big heave ho, let’s go to Maine.

Big Green Bridge To Maine. Lots More People Using It To Move To Maine.

Why do people move to Maine?

Here’s top of the list I hear daily from out of state Maine real estate buyers.

“Not happy where I live now. “

What are they not happy about specifically? Just too many people where they live on the planet. High cost of housing and tired of renting, wanting to own. Crime, traffic and simply where do all these folks come from crowing into their daily lives wonderment.

Maine is the 4th lowest crime area and lowest cost state for car insurance for a reason. Less people, less problems caused because of too many folks squished in your living space. The pressure to protect yourself and possessions is a big concern in large population areas. All that goes away in small rural Maine communities.

Fun In Maine Is Low Cost, No Cost. Make Your Own DIY For Life Enjoyment.

When the city mouse travel to Maine on vacation, they notice how friendly Maine people are to each other.

Only natural beauty and space surrounds you when you live in a small rural community in Maine.

Skyscrapers and the wail of EMS vehicles fades away. Trees, lakes, rivers, streams, ponds and wildlife replace your background. Hiking the trails of Baxter, skiing down Sugarloaf or Sunday River, slowly paddling a kayak on a bottle smooth Maine lake. Picnic lunches on the rocks over looking the Maine coastal waters at Acadia National Park. Just the tip of the what to do on vacation in Maine fun things options ton consider.

Life Is A Maine Beach. Salt Water, Fresh Air, A Summer Breeze At A Maine Beach.

Maine offers a four season picture book setting of backdrops to complete the relocation dream.

With this kind of setting and on vacation in Maine, why wouldn’t you wonder what if I lived in Vacationland full time? Waking up to everyday in paradise. How could you not consider relocating moving to Maine between the ears and behind the eyes? It starts with a simple three day long weekend trip to Maine and then feel the tug on your heart strings. You want to be air brushed into the Maine landscape more than once a year on vacation.

Maine is a contrast to most places.

Refreshing, unspoiled, not discovered and like the state’s motto, “the way life should be.”

A move, any relocation to Maine or anywhere is a change. The older we get, the less easy upheaval is for most. There is lament and regret tacked on to the life change bill when you really love certain aspects of wherever you live now. But migration to Maine, lots of reasons for the transition consideration after COVID. The move to Maine for what is missing, what a city setting can not offer in the concrete jungle.

Growing Your Own Food, Knowing Where What You Put On The Family Table Came From Today, Tomorrow, Next Week.

The move to Maine, is it self inflicted and free and easy?

Or was it a take it or leave it job transfer? Is the relocation to be closer to elderly parents who need more daily assistance? Or to be closer to grandchildren? The lower cost of living, smaller house prices and what you do for fun no or low cost. That’s a big part of the tug of war to get to Maine.

The motivation to move to Maine has many facets.

The state of Maine is in the top ten healthiest places to live. But at the end of the day, it all distills down into expectations from the actual move to Maine. What do you expect the relocation move to Maine to mean in your life today? Everyone wants happily ever after until “The End”.

Walks, Talks, Everyone Brings A Covered Dish To Enjoy. That’s Small Town Living In Maine.

Give and take, more or less in any relocation should be expected moving to Maine or anywhere.

Second question I hear from folks from out of state Maine real estate buyers ask is “are people friendly”?

Will I fit in? If you did not where you are leaving before heading to Maine, there is a big red flag. Don’t ignore it. Where you live now, why or why not do you feel warm and fuzzy?

Getting involved, being accepted means to have friends, you have to be one first. Are Mainers friendly and accepting to new people sharing the landscape? Honestly, it depends on how things play out after the move to Maine. Volunteer, be sincere, want to help and pitch in to make a difference. Do that and you are an asset to any community.

Small Town Living In Maine, What’s It Like? Home Made, Local Talent, Volunteers Pitching In.

Three barking very large dogs on a very small lot and using your neighbor’s house lot for creating lawn fertilizer. Those disrespectful daily habits could cause tension. Lose your place on the neighbor’s Christmas card list. So does talking daily about where you moved from and what you liked better about “back home”.

I have eavesdropped on conversations at a corner store stop for coffee and heard “how stupid the people of Maine are” about a variety of subjects.

It begs the question, why did you move here then?

If it is so great, why did you move? Remember you relocated, no one hooked a chain around one leg and pulled you to Maine. It was your idea to cut the ties to the other side of the Big Green Bridge. Lots of local resources for moving to Maine. Lots of things living in Maine that you will enjoy that were missing from your last out of state address. Plenty of what’s missing in Maine that makes you smile too. What traffic lights, what road rage, what porch pirate, etc living in small town Maine.

Moving to Maine means planning to volunteer.

Local home town proud Mainers are actively involved in their communities. You are going to be too for the easiest way to feel part of the local fabric. Just pitch in, try not to complain and be an asset.

Reading A Book, Not A Care In The World! They Say Life Is A Beach. The Maine Waterfront In Maine With A Good Magazine Just Before Dozing Off.

Because you lived somewhere else, new ideas on how to make a local event even better the next time happens. There are so many ways to make a difference and everyone in the community glad you moved to Maine.

You take ownership of a successful event. A small Maine town is really like a big family. It is not uncommon to find others moved to Maine before you from the same area you just left.

Ways to make others in Maine wished you had picked somewhere else to relocate.

Complain pretty much all the time about anything and everything.

Don’t volunteer but expect your neighbor to meet your every need.

Forget contributing to the local charities and being proud of where you live.

Put up way way too many no trespassing and keep out signs.

Don’t mow your lawn and make sure your property is a pigsty eye sore.

Play loud music round the clock and be a nuisance.

Argue with teachers, neighbors, the police on a regular basis.

Complain, find fault and never offer solutions.

Post your unhappiness all over social media.

You get the point. Be friendly, have manners, take pride in a community makes you an asset wherever you land in Maine. But easy does it. Making the transition relocation move to Maine takes time and the first year is critical.

In many ways simple living in Maine is becoming a minimalist.

If you are not happy where you live now, do some soul searching to study the reasons why. It may not be all economic reasons. More than just living cheaper thought about driving the bus to get you and loved ones to Maine.

Multi generation reasons to buy a lot of Maine land with the option for family members to all get their very own a piece of ME. Hear that reason for the move to Maine a lot too. Where else can you get all this unspoiled Maine land and for such a low cost per acre??

How’s This For a Back Drop Reading Your Favorite Vacation In Maine?

For some it is starting over in a new relationship. Or putting the drama of where you live now in the rear view mirror as you head up Interstate 95. Did you come from a family of inlaws or outlaws and too much interference? Maybe smaller school classrooms, a better place to raise your kids is near the top of your move to Maine list.

Personal safety is right up there for many Maine real estate buyers picking Maine for relocation. It’s an investment buying property in Maine like hedging a bet. Feeling deep inside the World is changing and if all heck breaks loose, Maine seems a sure thing. Have many who bought Maine land, not done anything with it but enjoy knowing I own a piece of Maine. It does not make them preppers or end of the World doomsday predictors.

The last bit of advice relocating to Maine, moving to the Pine Tree State is sample lots more than one blog post or video.

Make the trip to Maine to look around and size her up before cashing in your poker chips.

Maine Is Family, Teaching, Walking, Talking And Doing Things With Your Kids.

Watching A Parade Of Local Friends Family Neighbors In Your Small Maine Town. Part Of Living Here In Maine. Open Front Porches Used A Lot In Maine.

It’s ideal for many but all of us are wired a just a tad differently. Why the move to Maine is thrown into gear tied to a lot of personal factors. What do you hope to achieve moving to Maine? Today there are many strong online opinions on how you should lead your life. Not a lot of tolerance to other ways of doing it for some. Ever noticed vacation rentals for all the hints on the walls about Breathe. Relax, Nap. Laugh, Live, Love.

The biggest critics online have never been to Maine.

Or lived here for such a short period and in only one corner of Maine. Some have a vendetta. Like they are producing a 60 Minutes expose to save the World. Not the best resource when charting your life course on should you move and where if you do. Some critics are sincere, others would not be happy no matter where they live. The later are not the best to provide the list of reasons to move to Maine.

Tasty And Wholesome, That Is Maine Simple Living.

Living in Maine and not expecting a quick fix to what’s wrong that caused your relocation move means easy does it.

Stay positive and be sensitive to why so many love calling Maine their home. Realize where you left has some features you will miss. Many times it takes lots of people, a bigger population to offer this, that.

Is the gain and sacrifice worth it on your personal quality of life list of what’s important? Maine resources to help in the transition and doing your home work relocating to Maine .

Home On The Maine Farmstead. Lots Of Chores And Outdoors Year Round When You Decide To Homestead.

Relocatin To Maine … Cashing in on your house equity and toying with moving to Maine because just sick sore and tired of city life?

Getting more space inside and out is a big perk of owning and enjoying Maine real estate. Less rules and more control of your life. Pursuing an outdoor healthier lifestyle in Maine is way easier than a crowded urban landscape with over the top regulations, zoning, HOA’s.

Gardening, exercise, heating with wood, pitching in on the local level of community affairs. Maine scores top of the class for a simpler healthier lifestyle. But where you should be at this point in your life? Life is a series of continuous adjustments. Relocating to Maine involves lots of considerations and your real estate needs and quality of life needs change.

Only Fresher Maine Seafood Is Still Swimming In The Sea,

Pretty high on Maine but what if your loved ones are somewhere else? Have seen many make the mass exodus in this direction. More than one family member deciding let’s move to Maine to help each other out .

How’s the Maine real estate market today?

The outward migration to Maine still has the real estate market like playing musical chairs. In a nut shell, the real estate market nitty gritty is a tight market due to too much demand and a lacking inventory supply. This makes relocating to Maine mean expect to lose out on a big of multiple buyers after the same property listing.

Lots of qualified Maine real estate housing buyers in all sixteen counties.

But prices statewide in December a 9.23 percent price increase over a year ago statistics. With a 5.51 percent decrease in housing sales.

Watch real estate videos for Maine properties.

Videos for real estate are by far the easiest way to tap, slide, sit back and listen, watch, learn. Here to help whoever is reading this Maine blog post. To learn the lay of the land, to study the short cuts to make the transition less painful than it has to be. Glad will give you the local insider perspective as a life long native of Maine.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

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