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  • When I Was A Kid, Thought Moving From State To State, Out Of Maine The Plan.

    We Don't Spend Much Time Inside In Maine. Golf Is One Fun Exercise Routines. So Is Kayaking, Lake Fishing, Outdoor Hiking Trails.
    We Don’t Spend Much Time Inside In Maine. Golf Is One Fun Exercise Routines.

    Encouraged to travel, realize there is a big world outside of the state of Maine growing up.

    But after college, and thinking a life in broadcasting, working my way up the ladder to larger radio markets out of state, that all changed when the kids my wife and I wanted to raise came in to the picture. I enjoyed living in Maine so much that to consider raising a family outside of Vacationland with the four season’s beauty, friendlier people, no traffic and no crime here made it an very easy decision.

    Growing up in Maine developed survival skills. How to have fun, be entertained with the great outdoors and developing your own skills to fix, create things. Lots of money and impressing people with that money is not how Maine people operate. We remove money from the equation and no one is out to impress any one else. Family, being a good community member, working hard, helping others is what Maine boils down to.

    Every day I hear stories from emails, phone calls, visits of people that are not happy where they live now. The crime, the pushy pace, noise, high prices of everything to make ends meet shows on their faces. Is heard in their voices as bone tired, weary folks. Wandering, looking, wishing for a better place to call home.

    Maine is not flashy, pretentious, false, store bought. The large state offers outdoor recreation second to none. Hills and mountains to hike, trails to bike, atv, snowsled. Waterways to kayak, swim, fish. Quiet and plenty of scenery, ME wildlife, natural resources to help you get centered, settled down and comfortable within your own skin. Our fun, past times, recreation is home made, down to earth like the people. That’s what Maine is really all about.

    Maine, is something missing in your life? You can own properties, Maine real estate out right easily. No mortgage or a very small one. Car insurance is a quarter of what they pay for vehicle coverage in say Boston MA. It’s a million little things that make Maine special that we have.

    It’s another long list of what we don’t have that make the state of Maine really shine.

    4th lowest crime state, no traffic, low property price tags. Friendlier but way way fewer people spread out for plenty of elbow room.

    Is it like this where you live now? Maine, wake up, start your dream. Consider moving, relocating, retiring, investing to Maine. “Vacationland” means sneak away to Maine as much as you can. Get here as quickly as you are able and grab your coat. Tell your friends you are heading to Maine.

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers
    207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com

  • Maine, An Entirely Different Backdrop, Canvas Behind You Here.

    Maine Living, You Listen To Loons, Not 18 Wheelers, Freeway Sounds.
    Maine Living, You Listen To Loons, Not 18 Wheelers, Freeway Sounds.

    Maine people, all people are all different.

    I know a Maine soil tester that designs septic systems named Bill Hersey from Caribou Maine who’s business card says “Like People, Soils Are Different”. And those differences are what make each day special or not so much fun depending on who you bump in to, rub shoulders with living in Maine.

    But when the population is lower, like 11 people per square mile, suddenly whether a person is a happy camper or a habitual whiner matters less. Because we have space, elbow room. Is it that way where you live now?

    And with no people wall to wall, or traffic, or man made noise, living in Maine becomes scenery, wildlife, unspoiled lake and woodland, farms for neighbors. No freeways, no carrying a taser and worrying about your personal safety living in Maine.

    Heck, we don’t need to lock our Maine doors and the front entry is secured by a standard kitchen butter knife wedged sideways to protect from the wind blowing it open, not to keep burglars, intruders out.

    In Maine, we are blessed with clean lakes, ponds, rivers and have many of them to enjoy water outings on. Swimming, fishing, relaxing in a boat, paddling a kayak. Or roaming the woods trails, hiking up Baxter State Park and Mt Katahdin. Or taking in a sunrise on Cadillac Mountain, treking down the Allagash Wilderness Waterway. Man has not messed up Maine. And Mainers protect their resources knowing we are lucky, very fortunate to live here.

    Maine, less people, lots of land to go with your lower priced house, home on the lake, hobby or working farm. Living here is fun, four season, the way life should be. Maine, always your best case scenario.

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers
    207.532.6573
    info@mooersrealty.com.

  • On My Way This Weekend For Quick Trip To Washington DC To Pick Up Son Alex Mooers.

    Elliot Mooers Anxious To Get On The Ice To Play Hockey As A Mite Player At Five.
    Elliot Mooers Anxious To Get On The Ice To Play Hockey As A Mite Player At Five.

    With four kids, college trips are common to pick up, deliver return to school and this weekend I am logged on at a motel in York Maine, watching the Spartan movie “300”, blogging on a lap top.

    Alex, the oldest son has one more semester at George Washington University. And it will be nice to have he and his younger brother Elliot home from Colorado Springs, Colorado where he is returning next week from completion of his first year of college. Youngest daughter Amanda is thru school in Boston and moving to a new apartment the end of the month so talked with her on the way down Interstate 95 in the jeep. Her oldest sister Elizabeth in New York City plans to come help her make the move and all is well among the four children.

    Kids, family, raisng children is most precious, valuable time spend in a person’s life time. Kids teach parents things, keep them honest and have an enthusiasm, drive, vigor that is healthy to be around.

    I am glad the four siblings were raised in Maine, they are lucky they grew up in “Vacationland”.

    Maine is a simpler approach to life, backed by work ethic, family values, ourdoor respect for the four season resources we are charged to be good stewards over. Picking potatoes to earn spending money did not hurt the kids and helped shape their sense of what effort is needed to earn a dollar. How to hang on to that dollar and when it is exchanged, value in return is part of the frugal bargaining.

    Maine may be what is missing in your life. Thank you for following this blog, and your comments to help shape its direction. Please watch our videos on the local Maine community and follow our 1300 plus Active Rain blog posts. Visit our state, meet our people, learn and sample the flavor of what every Mainer knows. Being grateful to live up here in the right hand corner of the nation, on the Canadian border far enough to not be spoiled by over population, pollution, crime.

    I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers
    207.532.6573
    info@mooerrealty.com

  • Maine….You’ve Never Been Here, What Is The State Of ME All About?

    MeInMaine Blog Author REALTOR Andrew Mooers
    MeInMaine Blog Author REALTOR Andrew Mooers

    You have heard good things about the state of Maine.

    You know presidents have vacationed here, have homes here, that Maine lobster, blueberries, potatoes are pretty tasty. It’s obvious Maine is a big state, so far north up here in the right hand corner of the USA that it’s nearly in Canada with New Brunswick and Quebec to the east and west. But what about the nitty gritty, the details, the facts? Tell someone tell you more about the inner workings of this great state of Maine? Love to.

    Welcome to Maine 101, and over the next few blog posts on MeInMaine, you will become a Jedi on Maine knowledge, or at least a brown belt.  They say air and water are pretty important to life so what is the air like for starters? Bluer skies and brighter stars than you are used to in Maine. No pollution/ Fewer people, fewer yard lights, less light or air pollution. The Maine climate is divided into three regions. Coastal, southern interior, northern interior. I live in Aroostook County, as north as you can get of the sixteen Maine counties. Start by a visit to our other blog’s 1200 entries, to our video collection of local community events and not just Maine real estate. And sometimes just Maine pictures, images can say a lot without anyone’s lips moving, or sound coming out.