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Moving, Relocating To Maine.

Moving, relocating to Maine, what creates the itch needing to be scratched?

And how long does the loving feeling for Maine last? What makes the longing grow stronger, dig itself deeper? Maine tugs hardest on the heart strings of those just not built to shuck and jive in a city. Maine is small town connected, helpful, honest. The cost of living is lower in a small Maine town. Because cars don’t get stolen, gangs don’t roam the streets collecting for chop shops. Less fender benders when population is low like Maine. We look out for those elderly drivers who we know on sight and who’s own has dimmed. Cut ’em some slack. Especially if they are wearing a yellow Fisher snow plow angled your direction on front of that well known pick up truck. Give them a wide berth Chummy.

Coffee Early In The Morning The Old Fashion Way! Get To Maine, Relax, Breathe.

Way way more land around whatever you purchase for real estate in Maine. House and land prices are lower. Slaving to make mortgage payments is not a given. When you fill in the spaces, tear off and send the checks in at the end of the month. Fun is outdoors, no or low cost generated. All four seasons offer something special that touches folks in intimate places they did not know they had. Fear, personal safety is not a drain on the brain of the people who live in rural Maine. No dead bolts and chain locks in the 4th lowest crime state.

Worry about making a certain salary, meeting some imaginary financial goal objective may be a seed planted by parents, educators.

Who live in a small town but longed to see what life was like in the bright lights, big city. Get away, shoo fly.

Travel cures that concern and folks that feel trapped in a small town should move and relocate. Try out what they think is missing. Those who have appreciate Maine even more. Because they have other surroundings to compare it to and the appreciation increases. The local whining and bitching stops.

A Break From The Water, Flying A Kite At The Wells / Moody Beach Seashore.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. And you don’t appreciate something as much as you should until it is removed from your life right? A couple of weeks of therapy living, surviving, struggling in say Boston’s Combat Zone oughta do it.

Living in small rural Maine does not mean retreating to the stone age.

High speed internet, telecommuters are common as you bring your online job with you to Maine. Those with an income that follows them flock to Maine too and they are not all retired, wearing the gold watch for all those years of service somewhere far from Maine.

One Beach Is Not Exactly Like The Next. This One In Maine In Kennebunkport At Dusk.

Maine only has a handful of cities. And the shift of folks living in the ones closer to Boston making the move deeper into the interior, pushing further north. It is happening as I hear in my day job some just don’t feel like they live in the Maine they grew up in because of increased population. All that is lost when the head count number rises.

Maine, why Maine?

The unspoiled beauty, the vast wide open space, fresh air, clean water. The simpler living in Maine. You are needed in small Maine towns, you have a role to do beyond raising your kids, holding down a job. You contribute in lots of little ways so collectively the pride of the small Maine town, your area of one of the sixteen counties swells. You work behind the scenes in the local community events, not just pay for the price of admission in small Maine town productions.

Fire engines send off and receive the sports teams that leave town boundaries lines to defend a title or earn a new one. We cheer on and had a hand in raising our youngsters. We know them by first name, their brothers, sisters too. Our households have hub bub from more than our own and kids grow up feeling a part in their community. And long to come back to it if forced to move but that leave their heart back in Maine. The state up here in the left hand upper corner which by rights should be in Canada. And shares a rich heritage with the land of the waving red maple leaf.

The Pets Socialize As Their Owners Do The Same On A Maine Open Deck. Chill.

Folks moving, relocating to Maine get the unexpected perk of venturing into the Maritimes.

No one told them in the four color brochure pushing Maine tourism how neat it really is to be a two nation vacation destination. And our sports teams drag us to other parts of Maine. We hang around after the game and get to know our Maine small town host by tooling the area, sampling what each has to offer. That is the sparkle on the facets of the jewel dubbed Maine.

Ever been Downeast Maine? This Me In Maine blog post channel tries to highlight the many areas of Maine. Folks that claim to have been to Maine but only the Kittery Trading post and a quick trip back across the big green bridge quick like a bunny like we urged the kids. They missed out on so much! Come back, go deeper, stay a little longer sometime. Make Maine a life long habit.

I love where I live in Maine.

But just as much, exploring and discovering all the special areas of Maine living here is what adds the sizzle to the steak. The ice shacks are slowly leaving the frozen sheets of water, sap houses are in production making the maple syrup. Canoe and kayak race schedules are being circulated around Maine. We are scanning seed catalogs, planning for outdoor remodeling or renovation projects and shopping materials for the DIY updates. Little league, soap box derby registrations are landing in household metal boxes and email inboxes.

Maine Has A Lot Of This… Just Land. No People, No Wind Generators Or Anything Man Made.

Space in an under populated state like Maine creates the sense of relief and then bring in, cue all the wildlife. Everyone longs to see a moose, white tail deer, a whale vacationing in Maine right?

Birds singing, fish jumping, no highway hum of big trucks or all those city sirens. The sunrises, sunsets on a lake, a river, ocean front cause a person to let go completely. To gaze into the outdoor fire pit while friends and family collect to share, bond, to dream. Munching slow cook, locally sourced home made food. Much you raised yourself or others at the social gatherings contributed to the common menu.

Thinking you could benefit from a little Maine time spent wisely to ease back, enjoy life a lot more? Less distractions, more hands on skill building and help from your neighbors who join forces. Who wouldn’t benefit from that? Thought of moving, relocating to Maine?

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North Street Houlton Maine 04730 USA

March 28, 2017
Breakdown Lane, Parked Or Itching For Something Missing.

Point whatever you are driving north to Maine.

Load up the Desoto, Chevy Nomad wagon, van man to the gills. Hike, bike. Heck, stick out that thumb. Bum a ride to Vacationland if you have to as your last option.

You may have friends in Maine that are one option for lodging. Couch surfing here and there. Until your feet get planted firmly under you. And you end up “sponsoring” someone the same fashion to play it ahead. Pass it on.

Recharge, Unplugged In Uncrowded Maine.

Why do people move, relocate to Maine?

This link speaks volumes on the attraction eye candy one by one. A slew of reasons for the kick in the pants. The get up and go ambition building.

But the primary reason for the let’s make the ME move is something is missing in your life. You can attempt for awhile to ignore it.

Try the lazy, throw money at it medication that works half baked at best. But it all fetches up. There is a ghost in the machine running the show.

What’s missing?

Usually space, or the lower cost of living in Maine. Friendly make eye contact, glad to see you people. Not the ones that avoid your conversations, are in one major life or death serious hurry scurry. And the idea light bulb shines brightly like an arc welder. Or the glint of rows and rows of floating sunshine lake diamonds that mesmerize.

Guiding a person’s one by one steps. To make the life mental shift to home grown rather than store bought. Do I need it or just want it thinking. One big kick in the pants. Away from multi story skyscraper living and bring it all home as Johnny’s record producer said in the studio to launch a career.

Colors Of Just Winter White, With A Splash Of Shaggy Horse Chestnut Brown.

To high tail it out of a high crime, heavy traffic location to rural Maine.

Life is too short to be stuck in grid lock. To waste it in the race.

The days and night are made to live, experience. To learn and grow from the discoveries. To grow and expand to avoid becoming narrow and stagnant. If you are happy, passionate about where you hang your hat.

Where you live, work and play. Raise a family. No place better than small town values, without living in fear.

Some folks we hear from in our job as a Maine real estate broker for coming up on 36 years. Making the leap fueled by the cattle prod of regrets.

Stuck too long between the rock and hard place without the option of going sideways or around whatever life obstacle froze them dead in their tracks. Wanting to start over, do it again Steely Dan.

The burning desire for answers to life’s problems, mysteries.

You can hear yourself think in Maine . Because no one is in your space except you. Is is a comfort living in the 4th lowest crime state.

How To Cook Up A Happy Household, Create A Happy, Responsible Family Member.

Being able to fix and repair, do your home improvements yourself and not having every micro move tied to writing a check, sliding a magnetic card.

Not spending money like a drunken sailor into port.

Or a pirate out on a night of raising cane when the rum in the tum tum firewater kicks in. Just before the black out.

Respect, easy does it, slow she goes.

Growing your own food and knowing what you put down the hatch. More hands on and feeling pretty peacock proud of what took you longer.

But the next time would be done in shorter time with what was self taught watching a you tube how to video along the way.

Your home improvement project taking a lifetime to complete but the process savored. The results sweeter because the high on the tree fruit that takes effort to reach is always tastier than the quick grab low hanging fruit.

You can do it, attah boy felt inside. Reminded if it is to be it is up to me.

Maine Is Outdoors, Friendly People, Less Crowds, More Beauty.

Maine is simple living, raise your own from out back on the vast acreage, not hemmed by inches that surrounds you.

You are not on house arrest living in Maine.

And your can telecommute, bring that old job to make it your new on in Maine. Need almost speed of thought Internet?

Folks learn along the way with the dips, twists of life that nothing stays the same. Life changes, moves fast and you better keep up with the 5,6,7,8 hokey pokey. Life does not stop for anyone. The trick to keep it all in perspective.

Knowing 95% of folks are well intentioned, want the same gusto out of their short life on the revolving green and blue marble. To consider it all joy, smiling from a generator linked to the upward turn of the corners of the mouth somewhere down close to their souls.

Maine is a place of unspoiled beauty.

Of lots of room to roam and stretch your legs. Expand your mind and streamline how you approach conflict and avoid drama. Manure storms.

Paddling Your Own Boat, Raft, Canoe, Kayak In Maine.

You can do that easier and plane out, cruise at a more turbulence free altitude when you have personal space, freedom from the layers of players that plague you in the urban concrete jungle.

Maine, she’s personal, warm, friendly and you feel the local connect.

You can sigh “whew” and replace, shed the feeling of “meh” living in Maine. Ready for a second, third helping of that?

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |

MOOERS REALTY 69 North Street Houlton ME 04730

September 30, 2015
No Kicking Dead Horses, Maine’s A Better Place To Let Go, Move On.

Peaceful, Four Season Drop Dead Gorgeous, Maine. Breathe, See, Figure Life Out Here.

The city couple have dreamed of opening up, running a small sporting lodge in Maine.

But not one established, all commercial bought by mortgaging their soul. Giving up their first new born bundle of joy. Or handing over a duplicate vital organ or two to accomplish, pull off the feat. But starting small. First the Maine land. Then building a rustic, simple Maine log cabin. That will become the main lodge. And one by one auxiliary cabins as they can afford appear on the Maine land over time. Working like an in tune piano during a duet. A harmonious team with a shared desire, passion, carbon copy vision. Best friends that love the outdoors of Maine. Both watching the Maine dream channel. On the same page and working toward the common goal.

But like the couple who also live in a different concrete urban jungle setting and chasing the almighty dollar to stay above water, another pair of Jack and Jill’s want horses. Lots of them. A Maine farm spread where they can have wide open space. A wood lot of their own to heat their old New England farm house. Gardens, canning and preserving happening. Weathered farm buildings to restore. Patch up, spread the resources of time and money carefully. To improve with what they have. But in head over heels in love for life. Together tightly, hanging on loosely. Raising horses in Maine on the farm with some special name. Like Sabbath Day Farm. Rolling Meadow Brook Farm. Something that means Heaven, Nirvana to both the peas in the pod. Living on love as the song goes. Got each other and that’s all that matters.

As many acres of Maine land as they can afford from working two jobs a piece, going without the absolute necessary. To break free of the city’s strangle, life robbing stranglehold.

Neither lazy and both anxious, jumpy, more than ready. To get out of the beltway of grid lock traffic cloverleafs. Of hot, frustrated, not so happy crowds of people in the six lanes around them during drive time stall, delays. Where the melt downs are not pretty. To get to a place with less people, bluer skies, brighter stars called Maine.

A dream, both different but that happen in their heads first Maine. Patience to get here and take care of loose ends where they live but are not happy about it. Maine the target. Because everything is lower cost for real estate properties. And less layers of government regulations to restrict and put a kink in the happily ever after hose they want to unravel. To get to work with the daily graining, flakes of hay ritual of Maine farming. After cleaning out box and standing stalls. When turning out the growing horse collection is not possible. Times of a ground layer of Maine winter snow meaning “no go” on the rich clover, timothy to graze on, nibble until each steed has its fill.

Sometimes the dream is for a waterfront property to use part or full time in retirement in Maine.

But often the couple relocation is for a better place to live goal. To raise a family in crime free surroundings where no one is scared. Living in fear. When no gangs control the turf. And just going without, being starved for small home town values Maine is famous for provides the real kick in the pant’s motivation to make the move, relocation.

And if life has been rugged so far, if relationships ran for a season not til death do us part, it is a place to regroup. Start new, fresh. From a complete mash up of their to date daily routine of no fun. To shake the life Etch O Sketch and have a blank canvass, clean gray screen. To paint with brand new full spectrum four season natural colors provided by Maine. If you can just get here. To experience the difference the place with the space creates. An unspoiled, unfiltered, uncrowded pristine area that is four seasons. Where you can hear yourself think. Figure stuff out. Letting go. Relax and enjoy life more.

Kicking dead horses, hooked by mental barb wire and dragged around, roughed up by life in the bright lights, big city takes its toll.

Causes unhealthy, life is flying by delays. Is why there is a place like Maine to simplify, remove the store bought things in your retail therapy approach to living. Replacing with the down to Earth, real living experiences that are healthier, richer. Nothing money can buy. Get to Maine, don’t keep her waiting. Come for a day, end up staying a lifetime in Maine.

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

August 12, 2013
The Best Time To Visit Maine…

Maine, Like When We Were Kids, We’re Outdoors Most Of The Time.

Trick question because there is no best time to visit Maine.

And your particular availability depends on the balls you juggle in the game called Life. When the kids are busy in activities ranging from T-ball to horse riding to cheering camp and hockey clinics, your ability to venture out revolves around school vacations.

But when the kids are grown, you have the leisure to schedule some spur of the moment trips to Maine for rest and relaxation.

You suddenly have boatloads of options. Really. As for sea coast towns and harbors, a little before and a tad after the main tourism season give you a more personal glimpse into the unique flavors each area offers too. Less crowded, more elbow room. And what about Maine weather, climate, any myths? Oh yeah.

Things to do in Maine. Whoa. That is a tough one because of all the choices. As for area parks, bring your bike to explore the 50 plus miles of carriage roads. Take in the unique stone bridges of Acadia National Park. Or hike one of the many trails, the big selection of mountains at Baxter State Park and others around Maine. Being retired in Maine, relocating here for full time fun is cool. But you have lots of day and two day options. For a quick fix of Maine to tide you over until the next visit. All I know if one week would never do me if I was forced to live outside of Maine. Not nearly enough, need more in my system, day to day.

Or if it is people you want to avoid, replace it with scenery and wildlife. You see more of both up close and personal by yourself, or as a couple. Maine was made for those kind of personal encounters. It’s not because we are anti social in Maine. But less people, more unspoiled wide open spaces on water, in the woods, on a hill top. Or peering out to sea at a Maine lighthouse. It’s not like this other places.

No matter the season, or the reason, Maine.

Always, always your best case scenario. Maine, are we there yet? Not just kids use the whine to show they are anxious and ready to bound out of the family car along the trip to get there. Stretch those legs, arms, your mind in Maine.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker
207.532.6573
Email info@mooersrealty.com

September 10, 2012
Maine, If You’re Looking For Layers Of Complexity, Keep Searching.

Maine, Get Fed What You Need, Not Everything You Think You Want.

Not many on the green blue marble can not see the wisdom of keeping it simple, avoiding complicating life styles.

But not every place is like Maine. Careful though. When we say life is simple in Maine, it is not because the people are backward. Not see Dick, see Jane slow. It is a choice to put family, community, working hard at your vocation first. And avoiding the traps set by all the marketing rays the average guy and gal is exposed to in country.

Stand up. (Running Geiger counter up and down in body scan)

Hear that stratchy radioactive static sound?

You, I, all of us are bombarded with messages, sales pitches cleverly spun. Hidden agendas to scare you about this, but quickly offer a remedy for the condition, situation. With three easy, one not so easy payment if you order before midnight tonight. Marketing has advanced to a degree that “retail therapy” and shopping for something, anything has become the drug to temporarily knock back the addiction. And many in this country rely too heavily on others for a small fee to tell you what you need, where to get it.

Mainers don’t fall in to the trap of happiness tied to over spending. Something new, shiny, costly.

The “more it costs the happier we get” thinking is not the artifical air we breath in Maine.

The price is too high, the money we work hard for more precious than to be spent that way. We avoid debt like the plague and consider too much of it like living in poverty because it sucks the life out of you. Worry about not having enough to impress someone, to maintain a high on the hog lifestyle is not what we teach our kids. Getting value, considering if you just want it, or need it logic applied daily.

Maine is 46th lowest in the nation for FSSR (foreclosure, short sale, repossession) for a reason. Better spending impulse control. And not falling in to having every pitchman on the media telling us what we need and where to buy it right now. We have not lost the art of thinking for ourselves. Frugally stretching our every day household dollar with habits that never go out of style. Not doing one load of laundry with only Susie’s jeans in it because air raid sirens, a national emergency has been declared in the four walls called home. She hisses, reminds all within scream shot she has a dance in under two hours people.

Desperately needs that certain pair of jeans this instant. To complete the look, put icing on the mirror ball music event.

And the entire household is on red alert status until she has them. We do full Maine laundry loads Suzie. Kids plan for events, or learn from tough love because they didn’t. But only once.

Maine is blessed with four season outdoor entertainment. The kind that is a natural HBO that costs nothing if you are lucky enough to live here in Maine.

That’s why many retire, relocate, move to Maine.

Or very low cost if all you do is use a Vacation tankful of gas to get here. Pick up some grub. The food you cook, grill, steam under the sunshine cobalt blue days, star lit black velvet nights camping by a Maine lake. Listening to a loon, spending time with yourself away from the concrete jungle roamed by gangs, riddled with crime, noise, pollution. Maybe the Maine fun is amplified because the cinderblock of debt is missing in the 4th lowest crime state. Because we take the need for money to fuel our entertainment out of the equation. Wiped off the table completely.

The desire to impress others with flaunting those Benjamins, Hamiltons and Grants not needed because it doesn’t work that way in Vacationland. Who you are, what you contribute to the local Maine village is more important than the size and number of bank CD’s in Maine. I know someone that can help you with the move, relocation, retirement to Maine. To show you the low cost Maine real estate.

Maine living. Simple by choice, years of experience.
I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, Broker
207.532.6573
info@mooersrealty.com

March 8, 2011
Maine Real Estate Buyers From Out Of State Ask “Any Bad Areas, Towns To Avoid?”

Maine, Less Of What You Don’t Need, Want. Way Way More Of What You Do.

Hear the question from Maine real estate buyers… a lot when the caller, emailer, visitor to the Houlton Maine office wonder, worry about bad crime riddled areas or blighted towns like where they come from.

They explain that where they live now in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island or Connecticut there are some neighborhoods, towns that you avoid like the plague. Night or day.

The type of areas where you don’t stop at that next red octagon sign…rolling thru and at the same time, nervously hit the automatic door lock button manually, for the thrid time. Risky places where things happen. Bad things and you just don’t take a chance. Often these areas are a short cut to the place you are ten minutes late getting to but hung up in slower than death city, urban traffic.

So the answer to are there any bad towns Mr Maine Real Estate Broker Man, to program in to gps to steer clear of, make a wide berth around? No. Can not tell a fib and the consideration of which town to pick in Maine to retire, relocate, move to depends more on how far from Walmart, the hospital, shopping, schools do you want to be? Knowing traffic has been wiped out of the equation with 11 people per square mile in Northern Maine, Aroostook County.

If a ten mile circle with magic marker, one of the 8 primary crayons in the top real estate office desk drawer is used as the perimeter to stay within, it is for time reasons, not jitters over crime, damage to personal property or your person. The taser you use in the city, have the safety off and ready for anything as you race out the back door to hop in the car and head off to work is going to be gathering dust in Maine.

Maine is water and air. The kind that is crystal clear, clean, that you can not get enough of like a horse turned out in the spring for the first roll in the rich clover.

Pace yourself, you’ll get used to a lot of things in Maine that are so different than where you live now.

Maine, you’ll love the four season outdoor recreation options, the hard working friendly family comes first people. But the long long list of what we don’t have in Maine, in Vacationland that includes crime, traffic, crowds, noise, pollution is bound to make you smile too.

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

July 29, 2010