Why you live where you do is not always because it is your preference for surroundings.
Destination Maine. It’s Living Outdoors, Small Town Friendly, Families. If eight out of ten people live in urban areas, it is often due to the abundance of jobs. Pulling down a bigger paycheck. But spending more money the downside of the higher cost of living. Employment is a nice daily habit if you don’t grow your own food, heat with fuel from your wood lot. If you are not living off grid and totally self sufficient.
But Maine as a destination with a handful of cities and over 108 small unique communities could mean bring that city job with you.
Why do people move to Maine, retire, relocate and make the trip up here in the right hand corner?
Less people, more space, no bad towns with gangs to avoid. Bag the traffic too. No time in our too short life on Earth for killing time like that. But there is more than what we don’t have in the natural unspoiled space.
The local people in Maine are honest, hardworking, friendly, family and community minded. Step up, pitch in. Maine Moonlight, Far Away Lonesome Train Whistle, Simple Living. Priceless. It is all about others and there is a strong connection.
Obvious to anyone who lives here. Ditto to those from outside the town limits that pick up the signal right off the bat. Pot luck supper special and all home grown, highly creative, memorable. Because everyone in the small Maine town has a role, steps up and year after year makes it happen. They know their role, they assume the position.
And the locals live like preparing for a recession, a set back braced for around the next corner too.
Saving for that rainy day. More self reliant, garden variety jack of all trades happening. Mainers not worrying themselves sick because we are all in it together. And practice living in Maine gentile poverty. Making frugal living in Maine an art form.
If you are looking for a neat place to raise your family, where the village pitches in from the side for support. If you like not living in head over heels debt. Replacing it with no or low cost recreational four season healthier options. If you want to step up and pitch in and do your part in a small Maine community. Do we have a small town experience ready, waiting for you when the time is right.
Maine, the way life should be. Used to be pretty much all across the land. But not so easy to find any more.
Patten Maine Deer Pose, Smile, Stop For The Camera.
When you live in a city, urban area life comes at you from all sides, with greater intensity, stress.
Maine is not like that. Rural means less people, more wildlife. Greater natural surroundings that have not been spoiled, over taxed. And when it comes time to build something, whoa. No big run around like large, expensive population areas. Where it’s layers and layers of government. Take a number, have a seat.
Don’t get me wrong. Cities are vibrant, fun to visit and Maine has a few. But the connection in smaller communities in Maine give you a sense of being needed. Home grown and special. And everyone pitches in. Needs each other. Cares deeply about other individuals besides just taking care of themselves.
Life is short and worry about Maine crime is not a past time in the 4th lowest state for it.
Lack of traffic makes things smoother, less of a bottle neck too. The four season outdoor recreational living, the scope of fun that is low or no cost is a bonus. One of many folks living in Maine full or part time quickly discover when retiring, relocating or just investing in property here. Making this a good place to retire, relocate, invest in Maine real estate.
Maine, you’ll love her for the long list of what is unique about the place. But get just as up and down excited, Antsy, anxious in a good way. About getting to the state in the upper right hand corner of the country with the even longer list of what we don’t have to put up with. That other places have to put up with, that interfere with healthy, happy living. And providing the sane, drama free surroundings needed for raising a family, working a career that satisfies fully. And having fun in the process being in a state of Maine. get here quick as you can. Find your place in the space called Maine.
Remove What Robs Your Happiness, Consider A Move, Relocation To Maine.
When you climb Mt Katahdin with your family, looking out from the summit in all four directions around Baxter State Park and from Maine’s highest mountain, all in the party go speechless.
Something clicks, hits deeply and you suddenly start to figure out what is important. Where you need to be. It’s easier to be happy here in Maine just with the four season surroundings as a back drop to all you do here. Minus all the problems that come with too many people is one big postive check mark or reason to circle in red the word, place called Maine.
Being lake side with your family, a sun setting after a good meal, laughter, conversation in Maine is healthy, the way life was meant to be. Add in other positives to just further enhance the experience of living in Maine which include low low, yes cheaply priced real estate so you get way way more for less. Maine is the 4th lowest crime state. Toss situations, stressors like wall to wall traffic, pollution too in Maine. And the best thing about Maine besides the wildlife, scenery, low population? The people we do have are family oriented, hard working, home town proud of their area of “Vacationland”.
So if you find an anxious feeling, jittery and wondering is this living in fear due to crime, over population, or just you…maybe Maine is all you are lacking. Happy is a choice, an attitude of counting your blessings, being grateful for all you do have. But if your surroundings on the outside in Maine help the inside work you do to be content, at peace and centered, maybe you should check this right hand corner state out first hand.
Maine, you’re not you when you’re not here.
Ever thought about moving here, a relocation to Maine? Or to own a piece of Maine for seasonal use, recreational purposes to give you something to look forward to?A place to run away on those vacations, three day weekends? That’s my day job…and I start by listening to your Maine real estate requirements, your budget, about that burning desire. Scope out some videos on Maine living, the low cost ME property options here. Maine, it’s always your best case scenario.
Picking Maine Potatoes..Dusty, Hot Sun, Long Days But Part Of Growing Up.Slow Dowh To Live The Good Life In Maine.
Around Maine, most folks would consider spoiling a child the worse abuse you could lavish on your sons or daughters. Worse than neglect of that child.
When money is in shorter supply, better impulse control with that money comes in to play. Kids watching a Maine mom and dad see how hard they work for what they have. How well they take care of, respect whatever they do purchase so they don’t have to run back out to spend more money. Spoiling a child and giving him or her undivided attention, unlimited resources and not insisting they have chores, odd jobs that increase in time and skill as they get older is worse than neglect. They go out in to the world thinking it revolves around them and expect others to treat them the save lavish way. That is not survival of the fittest, or giving something back to earn your keep.
When Maine kids pick farm potatoes, rake blueberries, dig for clams and help fish or work in the woods, they learn the value of any dollar earned.
Like their parents, they don’t part with that hard earned money easily unless there is value, quality exhanged with those released dollars held so tightly. When money is not the fuel to run the every day living, it does not become the “drug” to keep those kids entertained, from becoming bored or to waste time.
If everything is handed to a kid, and nothing is worked for, saved for, dreamed about owning as he or she labors, the items mean nothing special for long when obtained without effort. And just desire for more “stuff”, happens, more material objects to artificially give joy or temperorary contentment. The buying, spending, shopping help kill ideal time that should be spent with chores, household obligations, helping out in the community and making that child’s own spending money. That is real world and creates self sufficient, reliable citizens of tomorrow that don’t have their hand out expecting the world to provide them a living.
Our Maine youth are not arrogant with an entitlement attitude.
They are empowered with independence and a fierce pride of workmanship, some control of their own destiny and course of their life. They know their place in the family and that the family would not be the same without them because they contribute, are part of it. Not feeling picked on or abused. Seeing the other members pitching in and working to carry their share too. That makes them more involved, partners in the process. Keeps them occupied in a healthy way too.
Because Maine is not known as a super affluent state other than pockets of coastal concentrations of wealth, I believe we work harder to create our own existence from the grass roots up. The “necessity is the mother of invention” thinking serves us well and runs thru famliies of three generations..often under on roof like the family farm. When everything day to day does not hinge on having lots of money, or require spending of financial resources a person worked hard to sock away, save, then freedom enters the room and becomes the pattern, rhythm of life.
Maine’s four season aspect of unspoiled outdoor beauty and license plate label as “Vacationland” means camping, hiking, hunting, fishing local lakes, rivers, streams is the recreation right in our backyard. We’re already in paradise, a heaven on earth setting. And with being the fourth lowest crime state, a sense of local community pride to pitch in and that family is everything, Maine is healthier, sane, simple living. We exist nicely well within our means. Don’t like debt, are not slaves to owing money for anything we don’t really need. Our wants are simple. Family, a house we want to get paid off. Or that we build slowly living in the cellar or in unfinished parts slowing paying as we go with materials and bartered help from friends that we return the favor to. Shouldn’t the country’s government, spending, policies be operated the same down to earth, feet on the ground way? Has that gone out of style or is the pendulum swinging back to minimalist, simple living. Day to day where reduce, resuse, recycle and gain control of spending is the daily goal?
Maine’s property prices are probably what you are used to divided by three and four or more. Way way less zeros in those real estate selling figures.
The low cost Maine real estate is one big reason it is easier to live the simple, lower cash outlay life and depend on less of a salary but get so much more quality of living for our kids, families.
Plus being a little further up here in the right hand corner of the country helps insulate us from all the factors folks do not like about urban areas around cities. We don’t have the crime, smog, traffic, high cost of living. Maine is the way life should be. Inexpensive.
