Packing up, heading out and bee lining to the state of Maine. Is it time to trade the chaos of city life for simple living, no traffic, and the natural rural beauty of wide open rural Maine? Maine continues to gain popularity momentum as a top destination for those looking to relocate. According to the U-Haul Growth Index, Maine is lucky number 13 and pole vaulted an impressive 18 spots from last year—its highest ranking since 2021.
This makes Maine one of the fastest-rising move to states on the list, alongside Oklahoma and Indiana.
Your View Where You Live Now. Is It A 300 Lot Housing Subdivision Or Wildlife, Trees, The Waterfront?
People want to know the steps to take to do it wisely. They know they can’t afford the price of staying where they live now on the planet. More and more people are moving to Maine for peace and quiet, affordability, and a wholesome simple way of life. With the fourth lowest crime rate in the United States, clean air, and a strong sense of community, it’s no wonder that Maine is drawing families, retirees, and those looking to live a more no traffic, self-sufficient lifestyle.
Living and volunteering in a small Maine town. Be prepared to step up, dig in and help out on local projects. Not just for one year but for life. It’s how you meet the unique talent loaded folks around you in a small Maine community.
It’s like being brought into a large family and feeling you have a purpose when making Maine your new home base.
What if you could wake up each day on your own piece of Maine land, surrounded by rolling fields, towering pines, and the sound of birds instead of sirens? Low-priced farm properties in Maine offer just that. Whether you’re looking for a small homestead, a fixer-upper farm, or acres of land to build your dream home, rural Maine real estate is still surprisingly affordable.
Or maybe you just want to get below radar and stop the spin of the World.
Take a break from people on all four sides. Parking it in your waterfront log cabin on a Maine lake to rest and relax? That price of $32,500 and you own the land can’t be right. Right? What? Not a misprint? Whoa.
There’s something for everyone in drop dead gorgeous Maine that will grab you by the heart strings and never let go.
Are You In This Dream About Maine Vacations? Low Cost, No People, More Wildlife, Better Sunrises, Sunsets. Maine.
Raising your family in a small Maine town or starting a Mom and Pop family business is another reason to move to Maine for many!
Better Place To Raise Kids. Small Maine Town Are.
I’ve read other studies showing Maine squarely in the top ten as favorite places on radar to consider packing up and moving to today.
Farming in Maine isn’t just about growing crops—it’s about building a way of life. Families are rediscovering the benefits of multi-generational living, much like the classic Waltons-style households where gram and gramp, kids, and grand kids all share the same homestead. The quality of life soars and you realize more and more about why this move, relocation to Maine was so right.
It’s not just cost-effective; it creates a support system that modern life often lacks. Imagine having loved ones just steps away, sharing chores, meals, and memories in a way that strengthens family bonds.
Head To The Country, Get Away From Traffic, People, Smog, Crime. How Long Has The Dream About Moving To Maine “Someday” Been Playing In Your Head?
Maine’s small towns feel like a big extended family.
Neighbors wave as you drive by, people help each other, volunteer, and come together during hard times. Every person, with their own quirks, skills, and stories, contributes to the fabric of the community. Whether it’s a local farm stand, a town potluck, or a group gathering to help bring in the hay, there’s a strong sense of belonging here that’s hard to find elsewhere.
Moving, relocation to a small Maine town, what do you worry about or makes you not so sure if it is a hot idea? Often the doubt is not thinking such a place can exist in real life. Or folks around you that have never set foot in Maine are experts telling you don’t do it. Do your homework, reach out and let’s tackle the concerns. Discuss the pros and cons of moving, relocation to a small Maine town.
For those seeking a healthier, more active lifestyle, a Maine farm provides daily exercise, fresh air, and farm-to-table quality food.
Maine offers four distinct seasons, each bringing its own charm. The crisp autumn air and vibrant foliage, the snowy landscapes of winter, the lush greenery of spring, and the long sunny days of summer all make farming in Maine a rewarding experience.
Maine Small Town Living, Nothing Compares.
If you’ve ever dreamed of living off the land, raising animals, growing your own food, or simply having space to breathe, now is the time to explore Maine’s affordable rural real estate.
Whether you want to homestead, create a retreat, or start a small-scale farm business, there’s never been a better time to invest in a piece of unspoiled Maine countryside. Houses in town, property land acreage, a waterfront getaway in Maine. There are all pleasantly lower priced the further up into Maine you travel and explore.
Why keep putting off the dream that haunts you about relocating, moving to Maine?
Farm properties in Maine are still within reach, but as more people discover the benefits of country living, demand is growing. Find your perfect farm and start building the life you’ve always wanted—wholesome, peaceful, and connected to nature.
Check out a new Maine property 50 acre farm listing video, with an extra 25 next to that if you want more elbow room.
Would you like help finding the best affordable farms in Maine, homes, land, rental property, small business and waterfront listings ?
Let’s talk. Call, click, text, send smoke signals, come visit us in Aroostook County. Thank you for stopping by our Me In Maine blog post today and please explore the other posts! Anything “Vacationland” and what’s it like living here. What you need to prepare you for the moving, relocation to Maine. It’s all fair game in the blog posts about simple living in Maine.
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.
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!
Often the reason for relocation is all caused by people. Too many people and the traffic, crime and hub bub where they are trying to move away from today. Just too many folks in a small area jammed together is it’s own torture. Maine is wide open space, unspoiled and common sense still works here. Folks are on the hunt feeling they are notin their right place under the Sun. Life is short and should they pack it up but to go where? Maine, open space, less people. Find low cost inexpensive property to go hide up in Maine.
Why not move, relocate to Maine they ask daily on the phone, texts, emails and actual office visits?
Less people, lower population has it’s reward. Much of what you don’t like about an urban setting goes away replaced by wildlife, recreation trails and crystal clean lakes, rivers, ponds. And the people we do have are family first, hardworking and down to earth friendly.
It’s why this Maine real estate video caught the eyes and ears of 300,000 YouTube users on our video channel.
This property on a Maine mountain with an off grid log cabin and private lake lot waterfront access checked off all the boxes for many in the audience.
The 39 acres of Maine land and getaway property quickly went under contract. In Maine you get a lot more land with every property sale. Like extra helpings of Thanksgiving dinner but happening through out the year as a given. Maine, open space, less people!
This blog post about conversations I have in my real job listing, marketing and selling Maine real estate.
Life Is A Lake In Maine. They Say The Waterfront Fixes Everything.
Today a caller from North Carolina asking about Maine real estate.
Home On The Range… Er I Mean In Maine! More Space, Lower Maine Real Estate Prices, Less People Than Wildlife!
I’ll let you listen in and eaves drop on what he is sharing from his end of the signal. Jerry tells me when I moved to my small town in North Carolina, it was just 3 houses total on the country road. There was a peach orchard on one side of the road, another one loaded with apples across from it.
Friendly, small rural NC community where the couple lived stopped behaving that way.
Then it happened. The town’s 10,000 population doubled. Maine is not going through that kind of pressure or change but lots of states are!
Suddenly 4 subdivisions started up and here come traffic lights, slowing moving roadways and all these people. With the influx of population, the local government starts adopting lots of zoning regulations. Rules, ordinances and that’s what is needed to control growth and make things happen in an orderly fashion. In a short period of time, the neat friendly rural area in the country loses the charm.
What happened that caused the phone call to start the home work on Maine property listings?
Many Home Grown Reasons To Consider Moving, Relocating To Maine! Farmer’s Markets!
People showed up in groves. Lots of nice people, families, retirees but just too many people. Crank your head and lose count of all the new faces and names. Suddenly showing up and not just for a week’s vacation. They are here to stay. It’s time to cash in the poker chips. Push away from the table and travel light to a place like Maine. As you get older and think retirement, Maine looks pretty attractive.
Why Maine?
Because the further up into the state you go, the less people, the friendlier folks are. And old time values returns. Manners, courtesy and smaller circles where people care about each other happens again. As you get away from being an hour or two from Boston, Maine gets sweeter. Rural means less or no people. You are not bothering anyone if the people thin out and why not let the World think nothing up here in say Northern, Western, Eastern Maine regions. (Smiling).
Had A Hard Day? Make It A Double, No Triple Black Raspberry Ice Cream At The Dairy “Bar”.
The next caller from Florida, lived there thirty five years and same story line.
Was a happy camper when their area of the Sunshine state area was smaller. Back in the days when everyone was personable, friendly and your property location was safe. You did not need to lock stuff up, install multiple security cameras to monitor brazen porch pirates. This potential Maine real estate buyer lost his brother who died in his early 50’s. He is thinking better make adjustments to enjoy however many years and quality of life he has remaining.
Then right after this call from Florida ended, on hold another inquiry on the other line. Picked up, a real estate office caller, another one from Montana. This real estate caller today told me he and his wife had sold a house in Wisconsin, another in Minnesota. They live in Montana and want to sell there to move to Maine. Both grew up on farms in Wisconsin.
Lower real estate prices, lots of water, all kinds of trees and less people are part of the Maine attraction
This out west Maine real estate buyer had been studying the community videos, reading blog posts on life in Maine. Over the back to back end of the year holidays, many are thinking I gotta move and why not Maine? These are just three of the new daily prospects considering Maine for the move and relocation. Others plan to make the move to Maine when their looming retirement date arrives!
Why do people want to move anywhere in life?
Economics because it is cheaper comes up near the top of the list. Number one is the setting, the four seasons natural wonder of unspoiled Maine. Less people is a driving force causing the move to Maine too. Here is a moving relocating to Maine checklist to consider to streamline the transition.
Years ago the move to Maine was often for religious freedom. For the offer of free land to help build new communities. Maine was not a state until 1820 and part of Massachusetts til then. Today moving to Maine is all about a quality of life. For raising a family or to enjoy retirement tapping into the countless recreational options. A lifestyle on a lake, being in the deep woods, on a farm, ski slope, in a river raft or kayak. Riding a horse, hiking up a mountain trail, sailing out to sea in a Maine coastal harbor. Take your pick.
Just wrapping up this hunt and peck Maine blog post when notification down in the lower right hand corner about a new out of country email. The real estate email reads ….
Hello! I saw your video about the 40 acres with cabin in Linneus, ME, (69,000 USD) and was wondering if the property is still available? We used to live in Maine and own a house in Biddeford, but I currently work in Switzerland.
We are interested in purchasing an off-grid plot with a cabin back in Maine (The Way Life Should Be). If that particular lot is no longer available, we would love to hear about other similar properties.
Thank you and Happy New Year!
Curtis
Are you living in Maine and grateful to be here?
Earning Your Spending Money. Managing Your Own Savings! Creates Impulse Control & Life Skills.
Other outside and locally know how lucky we are for what we have and what is missing you don’t want.
It’s more than just a case of grass is always greener to move anywhere else. Happy New Year! Take inventory of how lucky we are to live in Maine. But realize what we have here is not like that many other places. Kids learning life skills and work ethic is one of the perks. Maine, open space, less people is not the norm, I hear how rough it is outside on a daily basis.
So if the low or no cost fun outdoors in Maine.
I went skiing with my youngest son and grand daughter Saturday at a small local Maine mountain. No charge for her being under five. $25 dollar lift tickets not $75 or higher for the adult skiers won’t break the bank.
Hearing her giggle and witnessing her down hill skiing skills steadily improve in just her second year of swish swish.
She is only four. It does not get much better than that. There is no better place to raise your kids or to start a business or to vacation or to consider retiring in Maine. It was a fun day at the downhill ski slopes. Get off the couch, shut off the device! Get to Maine, the way life should be! Maine, open space, less people.
Trying to showcase the four seasons of Maine and her drop dead gorgeous charm and natural beauty. To provide you readers with what is it like living in Maine’s nooks and crannies! Trying hard to stock the information shelves with what it like here along with the photos, videos to back up the type. Thank you for following our Me In Maine blog posts.
The state up in the right hand corner of the country, Maine.
What to expect traveling to experience Maine up close and personal.
Maine. Small Word, Big Place, Lots Of Unspoiled Space.
For starters, the further you head north, east and west to get up to Maine, the quieter it gets.
Man made noise gets replaced with song birds, a breeze in the rustling tree leaves. Waterfront settings and lapping waves, singing loons, where it just you.
Maine hiking trails where you can really hear yourself think and process life.
Spending time to unwind and get some exercise and perspective up in Maine. Space, time out. Not so hard in Maine with only 41 people per square mile in southern sections. Even less, just 11 folks per same 208’x208′ acre unit in the northern Maine region. Less distractions, sharper awareness happens when you remove the urban buzz and grind.
Maine White Tail Deer. One Of The Wildlife Sights You’ll Meet On Your Trip To Maine.
Maybe it’s the fresh clean air alone. Not just the natural unspoiled space that is the cure. Maine has lots to offer and just as much to enjoy that is missing.
Traffic, crime, rude and impersonal. Those words don’t describe Maine. Not why you come for a day and end up staying a lifetime.
We all hunger to get beside or out on the waterfront in Maine.
Maine’s Highest Mountain, MT Katahdin. Located In Forever Wild Baxter State Park.
Slowly you get away from less stress of crowds, traffic, the impatience and impersonal way of life surviving population centers.
In Maine, you see wildlife, watch out for it as you drive the scenic highways. You meet some of the nicest the down to Earth friendly hardworking people always willing to lend a hand.
Small towns in Maine are proud of their communities, their children and where they live all four seasons.
The deeper you push up into Maine, the more relaxed and personal the strong local connection grows. The space, all this unspoiled Maine land
and nature in your private backyard is never taken for granted by locals and returning vacationers to Maine.
Chances are if you love blueberries they came from Maine.
Lobsters from the coastal waters of Maine are hands down the best too. Especially when enjoyed in a quaint Maine harbor town.
But the state of Maine, it’s way more than Aroostook County fertile farm fields growing potatoes or being
the dominate producers of the World’s tasty blueberries, lobsters and spuds.
There’s lots more to this great state of Maine than one, two, three pick ’em up and put them in the basket then barrel potatoes.
Maine Farm Field Produce The Best Potato Varieties. Many White Blossoms, Some Purple Like Above Maine Potato Plant Field Photo Shows.
This blog post highlights the what’s it like living in Maine.
You can not rely on reports from online folks who have never been to Maine but have very loud and negative things to say about Vacationland. What are your expectations and everyone is not just like you and me is a good start before broadcasting the wrong idea about Maine.
Who would want to visit like 37 million folks do a year that vacation in Maine?
Those vacations and return visits are what lead to reasons to consider moving to Maine.
Often water has something to do with your picking Maine. Water is tied to your Maine vacation or relocation location selection. Nothing compares being parked on the ocean, lake, pond, river or stream in Maine. It is a spiritual experience if you are lucky enough to have the Maine waterfront for a property neighbor.
Listening To Maine Loons. Seeing Them Paddling Your Kayak On A Maine Lake. Priceless.
Breathing in the salt air, touring the Maine coast on a guide boat ride hearing and seeing the local highlights. Each trip in or around Maine is an education. Maine, you can’t say you been to a Kittery ME shopping outlet and be dubbed an expert of “what’s it like living in Maine. You barely entered the very big state. Keep going and sampling after you cross the big green bridge entering Maine.
Can you get there from here? Sure can. What’s it like in this part of Maine? Not the same take away coastal experience in say Wells Beach area as in Eastport or Lubec Maine.
Traveling Downeast Maine. Where Is It Exactly Along The Jagged Rocky Maine Coast?
Camping, hiking, biking, hunting, fishing, boating in Maine.
What’s it like in Maine depends on what you like to do, which of the four seasons you visit. The close knit villages and small towns of Maine offer a unique quality of life. The work ethic
develops at an early age living in Maine. Growing up, everyone in the Maine family no matter how small has a job. Mainers are productive, producers and not just consumers. Mainers are not lazy. Don’t have so much time to whine and complain. What’s it like living in Maine?
The spirit of pitching in and volunteering in Maine communities is unstoppable.
Putting On Local Live Productions Like Children’s Theatre Is One Huge Volunteering Event In Maine. Community Theatres, Bands Are Fun To Attend.
Maple syrup operations and sugar shack sap collection events in Maine.
Picking fiddlehead ferns in spring along river or stream banks. Witnessing wildlife in their natural habitat in Maine. Maine lupines and their vibrant colors. Shucking fresh farm corn. Diving into a pot of steamed clams or oysters, fresh fish right off the boat at the Maine harbor pier. Hoisting a sail on your own self propelled powered by wind boat. Lots of suggestions on the list of what it there to do in Maine. To answer the what’s it like living in Maine.
Reading a good book or better yet writing one for others to share.
Painting a Maine setting or trying to capture it from the best angle at the perfect sweet spot time of day for natural lighting. Maine is the playground to do all of this. Hobby farming and horsing around or managing a Maine woodlot. Building a camp or cabin up in Maine. To live remotely to get below radar and live off grid. Heating with wood and nothing eaten that was not made from scratch. Farm to table all natural without sprays. You know your Maine farmer or have a hand in what you eat that was raised on your own patch of fertile Maine farm soil.
The Family Farm Owned And Enjoyed By Me In Maine Author Andrew Mooers.
Cutting and splitting next year’s firewood for the Maine home or camp stove prepared a season ahead.
Following orange bouncing balls around high school college circuits. Try to keep your eye on the round black circle at local high school and hockey level hockey games. There is lots to do and enjoy living in Maine. Youth sports is big and you know, maybe are related to the players. Possible coached a few in peewee rec leagues.
Lots of good valid answers to the question what’s it like living in Maine.
Walk The Old Port In Portland Maine. Cruise Ships Seen. Take A Ferry Ride To An Island Visit.
Apple picking, making the pies with all the Maine local fruits from raspberries, blueberries to mince meat and pumpkin flavors.
Churning your own home made ice cream. Looking and see lots of Maine moose, wearing flannel in the fall, LL Bean boats tramping the Maine woods. Attending Maine farmer and lumberman museum public suppers. Maine snowmobile sled club breakfasts cure hunger. Then helping twitch the trails that always needing repair. Or a bridge repair, new short cut trail created with many hands and a few chainsaws.
Leaf peaking the amazing Maine colors of fall around farm harvest time.
Things to do in Maine suggestions? Attend A Sea Dogs baseball game.
Play Ball. See The Sea Dogs Play Excellent Baseball In Portland Maine.
Collecting Maine lighthouses.
Many Get Snap Shot, But All Maine Lighthouses Are Unique And Beautiful.
Over 60 of those Maine lighthouses to find and return to many times while on Earth. I have collected 45 Maine lighthouses and counting. Do not forget your camera and make sure the battery is charged and ready.
Head to a Maine beach.
Sandy, Sea, Salt Water Air, Swims,Walks And Talks. Maine Beaches Attract Like No Other Vacation Travel Visit Attraction Or For Life Long Locals Alike.
Check out local artists at local Maine craft shows. Maine quilts, 4H exhibits around the local Maine fair circuit. Antiquing, checking out farmers markets, take a balloon, train or motorcycle ride. Golf, fish, look up and see amazing night skies in Maine where there is no light pollution. Paddle the Allagash Wilderness Waterway and see the ghost trains.
Lots to do year round that attracts folks that come to know what’s it like living in Maine.
Downhill and cross country ski in Maine. Strap on a pair of snowshoes and easily go up and down rolling trails and fields blanketed with fresh pure white powdery snow.
Hang on and shoot a rapid in a rubber raft on a Maine river with other adventuresome sorts.
River Rafting In Maine. Hang On, Paddle Hard, Get Wet. Take Your ME Whitewater River Rafting Ride Down Penobscot, Kennebec, Dead Rivers.
What’s it like living in Maine?
Sample the state parks in Maine and start out with simple, low cost camping vacations. Picnic lunches and mini instate vacations in Maine are so common and
enjoyed by locals and new visitors alike.
Craft breweries, Moosehead Lake, Gulf Hagas, Maine’s Grand Canyon.
These are just a few examples of what’s it like living in Maine. Why we do it and what we enjoy about the state of Maine.
Biking Acadia National Park in Bar Harbor Maine. Or returning to see it in the winter walking the perimeter roads. Camping on Mt Katahdin in winter is unforgetable too.
Winter in Maine, just one of the seasons.
But remember, Mainers are outdoors everyday. Dressed a tad different but always happy, warm and filling our lungs with fresh Maine air.I love to downhill snow ski, to snowmobile on the well groomed and marked ITS trails.
What you See On Maine Winter Recreation Trails. Wildlife, Scenery, A Bald Eagle, Moose.
To set you straight on lots of myths from folks repeating them who have never been to Maine, Vacationland. Folks come to Maine to stay that are wanting a better quality of life for their kids. To become involved and make a difference in their small Maine town location and community spirit of volunteerism. Retirement in Maine is an obvious choice for the Golden Years group of active seniors.
Some retirees, transplants are snow birds. Flitting back and forth twice a year to and from Maine waterfront camps and cottages to shared home locations where snow shovels are not used. Many retirees moving, relocating to Maine are from here. Natives who returned to Maine, knowing it is truly the way life should be.
MOO Yourself. Milek Cow Calves In Maine Farm Visit Say Hello.
Back to the land homesteaders and off grid living in Maine.
The living off the land in Maine is not a new movement. Some come to Maine colleges and Universities and end up staying in the town where they get their higher education. Don’t forget while vacationing or living in Maine, quick trips to Canada happen. Maine is borders by Quebec and New Brunswick Canada. The I-95 highways starts in Maine, ends up in Key West Florida and is your gateway to the Trans Canada Atlantic Maritime Provinces.
Seeing, hearing, being taken by the hand and introduced to Maine by a local insider native is the best way to use your time in Vacationland.
Just ask, the folks are so willing to give advice and help out with suggestions. The locals in Maine love where they live, work and play.
Thank you for being a loyal reader of the Me In Maine blog.
And if this is your first blog post visit, thank you for sticking around to the end. Hope you return for more Maine blog posts on what’s it like living in Maine.
Smaller local community newspapers, radio stations, any television broadcast outlet if your Maine area is lucky enough to have one struggle to stay in the black ink. A steady decline in population and rising costs caused the problem. As those local “news voices” become regional, then statewide entities, the reader, listener and viewership lose out on the pulse of whatever Maine town they serve. This post on blogging on Maine.
Battling Coronovirus, Whatever Life Dragon Needing Slaying. Small Maine Town Living Blog Posts. Helping People Who Are Thinking Moving, Relocating To Maine.
Maine’s simple way of living surrounded by all this natural unspoiled beauty is more popular than ever though.
I believe with high speed Internet chased down, heavily funded and implemented through beefed up connections around Maine communities, that our population will stabilize, then grow. COVID19 has taught naysayers that you can bring your work home with you and operate efficiently in the virtual high tech World. The eight out of ten people living in a city trend is reversing. The search for low cost land and lots of space around where you live is causing many to head for the country hills of Maine.
Blogging on Maine.
Telling the story of everything Maine. The state of Maine already had more second homes that any other state for a reason. It is easy to forget just how lucky a native Mainer is to be here full time. Now those vacation getaways are being reworked big time. Taking what was a simple Maine cottage or camp and retooling it into more is the trend statewide. I talk with other Maine REALTORS and the Maine Listing numbers bears out the up tick in real estate activity. Quarantined for two weeks, folks carry on their person those 72 hour tests showing no high temps and a negative test for COVID19.
Locals Are Put To Work On Maine Community Events. Year After Year For Life.
People in a city setting have been on house arrest and severely cooped up, doing lots of online searches.
Self study, hunkered down. Low on hugs, stuck in the cell of four all too familiar walls. Those in rural Maine are well aware of COVID19 too. But adapting quicker to it to preserve their unique community quality of life. There are less obstacles. That’s what the blog post follower learns as post after post tell it like it is from a local who lives here and loves Maine. Those in the blog post audience have a connection to Maine or wish they did. Many starting to think what about moving, relocating to Maine.
As the migration out of Maine to meet financial career objections gets questioned by those jammed in a city, what about Vacationland? The Maine small rural setting as the better way life solution is being discussed in lots of out of state households. Family decisions to move to Maine are common conversations these days.
Case in point, I personally have a little Maine log lake cottage property.
The little red waterfront structure originally built in 1959 and an addition added on about fifteen years later. I bought it at first only because the peace and quiet next door due to the place just not being used could all change in a real estate transfer.
The Before Image Of The Little Red Log Lake Camp Up In Maine.
The small, cozy red log lake camp bought partially out of fear of losing the solitude now enjoyed.
Knowing the best neighbor is often just no neighbor right? Wanting to continue to enjoy the lake loons singing or crying depending on your perspective on any given day or night without a noisy neighbor. The LC Andrews traditional log cabin purchased also because waterfront properties in Maine are never in large enough supply. The selection is limited and the demand is Jedi force strong within people who desperately need recreational water. It was a good investment and for possible rental use being very careful on when and to who Maine vacations next door. I have been spoiled by no one using the little red camp which can give you a false sense of don’t need to own it. Nothing like a bad neighbor to spoil a Maine lake setting.
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The lack of use by the family that once owned the entire point of a Maine lake meant the structure was in need of repair and renovation.
So over the winter months, the Maine lake cottage torn apart like the Wizard of Oz scare grow. Re-stuffed and put back together with a lot of thought. Google simple vacation cottage ideas and search the images, videos and blog posts on that topic. I did for inspiration to learn what I did want, what would not happen to shape the new and improved parked next door log structure sharing the Maine waterfront.
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Input from my kids because they would be the primary users of the place and should have a say in how the cottage transformed right? Lots of native Maine woodwork added to replace paneling. Pretty much one man running the hammer and power tools kicked the rehab project into a slow but steady gear. Only so much space and maximizing it, improving the layout for simple lakeside living on the Maine waterfront.
Jimmy was glad to be able to work so close to home because he lives on the other side of the same Maine lake in Northern Maine.
He appreciates the Maine lake as much as I do. You see he, his wife Debbie, a golden retriever together plying the water slowly each summer night as another sunset approaches.
It was something different each day for the many projects ahead to keep the routine anything but boring.
There is something extremely satisfying working on the A to Z pretty much by your lonesome. When you see it taking shape, as the momentum with a crow bar and finish nails to what replaces whatever is torn out to hauled away to the transfer station. A local plumber, electrician, hardware store clerks too. And plenty of mail order for whatever you can not buy in a small Maine town combined for the finished product..
This little Maine log lake cottage is now the home away from home.
Ready to go online. To create a reprieve for one daughter, her husband too and the proud parents of a new born son. To create a pod in Maine where only another brother, his wife and their eighteen month old daughter are in the COVID19 free circle of life. Internet with 25 meg broadband speed is connected to the little red log lake camp way up north in Maine. That is the connection to the outside World, the same one used to telecommute online to work daily for the son in law who lives in Bean Town. He can make the leap only because of Internet connectivity to this remote rural outpost. Working from home, educating kids from your house not at public or private school facilities. Blogging about Maine all needs a strong Internet connection that does not go flat or missing.
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The Maine town I live in is lucky too.
Because every single household within the community borders has access to Internet fiber for blazing 100 megs broadband connection speed. The Internet company is based in my home town, not far away. The local electrical provider that powers the same little red camp is community owned, not for profit. If it makes money, the funds are used to further improve the grid lines or the rate the consumer pays is lowered.
I see my little Maine town growing and connected to the outside World for commerce and enterprise. But offering the home grown local community flavor of friendly small town living. With COVID19, everything back six feet or more and observed wearing a mask. In my job, disposable gloves, booties to complete the mask ensemble for safety sake are standard garb for everyone’s protection.
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Single line please, limited entry and please, no one tough anything in the home or apartment unit being toured these days in Maine real estate.
Or better yet, one on one face-time or using the whats app phone firmware to take the personal self guided tour to follow up on the real estate video already uploaded and being watched around the clock by more than the local buyers.
So blogging in Maine, why local residents who live her need to do it. Because the trek north up into Maine is a long one taking hours of time when travel is restricted and not so easy. The days of just hopping into whatever you drive or clopping down the airport plane gate connector to locate your seat number are stalled. The search online is critical and the local Maine blogger is the signal being tapped into and trusted for information. The media sources in a small Maine town were already pretty slim pickings. All due to the small populations tapped to support the news and entertainment outlets. Blogging on Maine can be like pot luck. Not sure of what you are gonna get and it is a lot like feast or famine.
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What’s it like living where you do in Maine?
Show me images, upload videos of the local community events, create Maine blog posts please. Anything Maine. When something is missing where you live now, the itch to pull up stakes and relocate only grows stronger. People all over the World are considering am I where I need to be for my family ‘s sake? Is there a change underway that means don’t get too comfortable and a move to Maine, somewhere else is in the cards? Blogging on Maine, I do that because it’s hard to contain the excitement of being blessed to live here. I know it is not like this many other places.
Is there something missing in your life?
That is what usually is pushing the move to Maine. The pleasure on a past vacation fuels the fondness for Maine too. The slogan is Maine, the way life should be. That is the greatest motivation to consider Maine for a simple vacation getaway or with COVID19 much more happens. To propel the delicious dream of moving to Maine. Many smart forward thinking small Maine towns are retooling with gusto. The same vigor as the planet hunts down a virus reversal vaccine. Because it is the key to survival. Internet connectivity is the life line to avoid loss of the small Maine town lifestyle.
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America, the World in general is rethinking where is the best place to live for the highest quality of life.
Examining what exactly at this stage of your life makes what area the best stage for obtaining the most of what is really important in life.
So back to searching for the final touches to complete the feathering of the nest. Put together one of the two twin beds in the spare bedroom Sunday afternoon. In the off hours when you have a job that is a jealous master for your time because you work when others don’t and are available, it’s search for ideas. To find out solutions to the lake camp needs to make it a home away from home for whatever family member needs a safe haven. A roof over their head in Maine. I have two weeks to wrap up the finishing touches before the grandson and his support duo arrive to quarantine in place.
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Blogging about simple living in Maine is important to anyone out there searching for current, accurate, helpful information.
What’s it like living in small town Maine? The questions are answered best by someone who lives and is invested in the small Maine community. Not a giant news gathering operation in a major market many hours away. Who has other topics to cover like high crime, friction caused from too many people in too small a high cost living space.
What’s important to a small Maine community is very different than what you get fed by journalists in large urban markets too.
Heck, even in Maine that has only a handful of cities, what is broadcast from Portland, Lewiston-Auburn, Bangor-Brewer is not always representative out in sticks. You can get a county or state perspective or a slant on the tie in for a national news story as it trends. But what about the local happenings in a small Maine town. Blogging on Maine topics is what this post platform tries to do with not just words but imagery, video embeds.
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These days, more people want to be rural if they have the Internet tether for income and the security connection. For the peace and quiet and simpler living. Maine is natural beauty, not crowded, less fighting over which direction to take. Small groups can reach a consensus quicker and start the steps today to implement what is needed to survival and quality of life.
Grass roots and home grown also makes a person feel like empowered living in small town Maine.
Like they are a cog in the wheel and vitally needed. Like being loved, everyone wants to feel needed. You are in a small Maine town that only has so many people to tackle the problems collectively.
A steady journal of daily or weekly happenings tapping into the blogging channel. Maine bloggers are the story tellers, the ambassadors to their local area where the hunt and peck original posts put their communities on the map. Posting images of Maine beauty to prove the point and to remind themselves. Proud of where we live, concerned about the national events in our country. Glad to live where it is less frustrating because we all are not passively watching but actively doing. Blog posts on Maine simple living tell the story from where it happens.
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The small Maine communities are a tight knit fabric of people.
Hands on to pitch in along the front lines. No one takes a back seat, it’s all hands on deck because the entire village has a role in what happens there. We’re not spectators and whine or complain but do nothing. In small Maine towns, each and everyone of the population is empowered to make a difference.
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Small Maine towns are places where folks wave, make eye contact, worry about elderly shut ins.
We are protective. The small spread out population is invested in what happens in the area. When a community loses a member, you think about family a lot. We are so inter-connected living and working together in small Maine town activities. Blogging on Maine means some of that day to day spills into the Me In Maine channel. That’s the stuff mainstream media on the national level does not cover.
You know the people who live around you and in many instances are somehow related in Maine.
Or worked together on a school board project, a local church event or coached little league, some other team sport together on the same bench. Pitch in and get behind whatever is needed and be prepared you are going to have the volunteer job for life. Blogging on Maine. I blog about what it is like living in Maine. Why I love living here in Maine.
Moving to Maine, because where you hang your hat now is not the right fit.
For lots of reason, relocating to Maine is a good choice and appeals to many in the real estate audience. Maybe you want to buy land in Maine and start fresh with your own dream built house. Could you get the place weather tight and endure the slowly put together home in Maine? Howe do you feel about a table saw parked in your living room after it is lifted up and leaves the kitchen, the dining room, sun room and other areas of your home sweet home in Maine?
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The kick in the pants to leave where your mail comes now could be totally financial.
Like last call, you can not afford to stay if your income was cut in half or more. You live in an area where real estate properties have peaked on their value and it is time to sweet in the profit from a house sale. And to slowly, carefully push away from the table. As a retired resident of where you work hard now, could what you have for fixed income keep you afloat and still offer a quality of life? Do you want to run away from traffic, crime, the high cost of living and when is the best time to put the moving gears in motion?
You are not the first living outside of Maine to want to retire in Vacationland.
The fresh air, clean water, four season recreational options and a healthier way of living is pretty appealing. Less stress chasing the dollar is replaced with being skilled at frugal living. You do more yourself, become savvy at using you, yourself and I on the items you squibble with the pencil on the daily to do list. The pace of life changes and what’s important does too.
Maine Is Real, Peaceful, Not Crowded. One Of The Lowest Crime States.
Early morning kayak rides on a smooth as a glass bottle Maine lake becomes a ritual. So does cross country skiing a woods trails that leads to an opening with spectacular views of the landscape. Not buildings, not people, without artificial noises. Wildlife replace the population you have had to navigate around for far too long in a high population, pretty impersonal urban setting.
In Maine, money is not worshiped or whipped out to solve a problem or fulfill a need.
Resourcefulness, bartering become a tool reached for daily. Sometimes old skills that have become dusty from lack of use get polished and refined. As you swing a hammer or re-load the nail gun to piece together the house that you built. Or the old Victorian, the lake front cottage that has sags and deferred maintenance that you step in to help in the catch up job jar list. No hurry and prioritizing what needs the most attention in a triage order like an ER room approach to the structures on the Maine land you become attached to tightly.
Space, lots of it, no parking issues, just wide open unspoiled room around you is a new sensation. Wrap yourself with forty acres and you feel like you own a kingdom.
Be deprived of it too long and you do feel like an animal in a cage. Like a prison cell that becomes all you expect because that is all there is. Maine is under populated, a tad off the beaten path and that is a good thing. It creates the insulated not isolated setting where so much that you can not achieve in a city without a boatload of money is possible.
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Small town Maine living enriches your existence because you are needed. The small Maine community rises and falls with the efforts of the people populating it. There are not bad neighborhoods to avoid like a city infested with gangs, with lack of respect for people’s lives and property and your ideas. Where to locate in Maine is more of a geographical consideration.
The further you trek into the interior, the deep woods and fertile farming areas, the mountains, rivers, lakes, streams as you get away from the coast, the more natural sounds replace the man made ones.
You don’t hear round the clock emergency responder sirens in a six by six rural Maine township of under 200 population. What’s missing is just as important as the perks of living in lower cost Maine where your dollar stretches further.
Better use of the hard earned dollars you have because suddenly a Maine garden is part of your down on your knees exercising.
Taking better care of yourself to reduce health care costs because multi layers of stress are peeled off because your life load is lightened. Maine simple living can free up the got no no no time that Burton Cummings sang about. Sit on a Maine lake dock and stare out, letting go and feeling like someone opened up all the windows, lifted all the shades or turned off all the whining motors.
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I think your awareness increases, that living in a safe uncrowded lower cost area like Maine clears the way. Like shaking an Etch-o-sketch and having a brand new clear back drop to lay out your life in Maine. Could you live on minimum wage in Maine? Sure could because what many need money for is gone or seriously reduced in Maine. People help each other and consider how fortunate each and every one of us really is. So take what you need and pass along the extra to someone that reason needs it. Without fanfare or trying to get credit or look good. Because it is the right thing to do.
The elderly house owner down the road or two streets over in a Maine town may have no children living close by.
Asking her if she needs anything at the grocery store or better yet including her in your runs up and down the aisles at the Piggy Wiggly adding items to the wire cart. No one is too busy to be helpful in some way in a small Maine town.
Moving in the right direction from expensive crowded city settings to a rural Maine small community with natural beauty and down to Earth friendly people with manners.
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Thought about more than vacations in Maine and picking a small town location in one of the sixteen counties to create a new home experience?
Then easy does it put up a structure with just the right living space for you. Does not have to be a tiny house show box but whatever it is creates the container for living, for hobbies and quality of your life.
Research it online. Watch your you tube videos on the DIY. Call in favors from your buddies in the building trades. Do as much of the work as you can and call in the experts for the big things like a crane lifting and securing into place the roof trusses or the purloins for the cathedral ceiling in your log home.
What starts to shape up has many uses in its design. It’s a cheap vacation destination for now on the land, just Maine land. But like a good book or old black and white movies, it evolves into a full time or half year residence down the road. When you decide that’s it. Like the bell on the micro wave telling you it’s done. Put into motion the process to start drawing those social security checks. It’s Maine, for so many good reasons. Should most of your life feel like a vacation because you are where you need to be?
