Move to Maine, the first big question is should you? And when is the best time for moving to Maine?
Living here as a life time Maine native, everyday means another chance to share what’s it like? In small rural areas, not as much ink used to showcase the local community landscape.
Maine Has Over 450 Small Communities, Only A Handful Of Cities. Looking For Small Town Living?
Less online about the best kept secret of small town Maine rural living.
What is pushing the urge to own a piece of Maine, to consider the move to Maine?
The fun you had on your last of many Maine vacations part of it.
The friendly local folks around you on a Maine vacation.
Relocating Moving To Maine Is On The Rise. Too Expensive And Dangerous To Stay In Cities Part Of Why People Move To Maine.
That is one of the biggest reasons visitors start thinking what if I lived here full time or part time?
But there is a lot more to consider if you want to make the best decision and to end up staying in Maine. Not moving again and again in search of something a few out in the audience have trouble finding.
Like multiple marriages and divorces where the partners think keep trying and hoping for the best fit to eventually happen.
Sometimes it’s not the Maine relocation, it’s you. What you pack up from wherever you lived before
My best advice to make the best use of your time and money? Check out what others say they like online and what was a surprise and not what was expected. All of us are different and at each stage of our life, what we
need changes.
Parked On The Waterfront, Vacations In Maine. Water Is One Big Attraction.
Add up what you do like where you live now outside Maine.
NO place is 100% perfect. Make the list of what has changed where you live now and that small town Maine offers you today. Obviously, lots of space, four seasons of outdoor recreation. Low crime, no traffic and low cost Maine real estate.
Plus friendly people. But there are trades offs and the gotta have, don’t want lists vary depending on who you talk to that thinks they want to relocate to Maine.
Videos About Living In Maine Community Events, Blogs On Communities Here Helps The Move To Maine.
Reach out to me anytime and read through the many blog posts on Maine on this blog.
Maine Is Lots Of Small Towns, Not Large Cities. The Perfect Back Drop For Raising A Family, For Vacations, To Start A Small Business And MORE!
These Maine simple living videos along with a few vacation stays before you pack up the Subaru and point it north will help you tremendously.
A phone call or two, lots of emails full of questions all help you know this move to Maine is the right one.
But give it time after you get here, have a nest egg. I have seen folks expect a duplicate of where they moved from and no two areas are exactly the same experience.
What are you trying to accomplish in the move to Maine and how will it improve your life?.
The answer to that question is the big reason a move to Maine happens.
Besides being the 4th lowest crime state and cheapest for car insurance premiums, Maine offers more than just cost savings. Affordable housing, unspoiled outdoor recreation and the small-town friendly vibe is a big draw trifecta.
Taking A Break In Maine On The Trail. No Foo Foo Coffees.
Maine is an ideal location if you are after a safe place to raise your family.
To start a business, the overhead is lower in a small town in Maine. Mom and Pop small business owner operators can operate cheaply and efficiently in a small Maine town setting.
The satisfaction serving your Maine small town population is a big reward and you fill an important role in the community.
You are needed in a small Maine town. Volunteering is huge to make the small community a better place to live. We make our own fun and much of the enjoyment is just the space, peace and quiet of the surrounding natural unspoiled setting.
Maine people are not in your face or pushy. You can get away from people living in a small town rural Maine setting.
Maybe you are looking for a waterfront property to use for vacations until you retire.
Here’s a log home on a Maine lake video to watch to see, hear what owning waterfront property would be like.
Maybe a farm property in Maine to horse around is the goal in your search for real estate.
Another video of a Maine home with land and major view to try on and test drive.
Planning to retire in a lower cost of living location and thought Maine is pretty unspoiled and low cost? Had a good experience on past vacations in Maine? That’s usually how it starts. A three day, week long Maine vacation and then whoa. Need more, can’t get enough happens. Maine is a healthy addiction and such a contrast to what a crowded, not so friendly urban setting provides.
Many times the move to Maine is because where you lived before used to be a lot like the small town community under the microscope for consideration.
Maine is a good idea for many people who want to spend time outdoors all year long.
Where you should live or relocate to all revolves around your lifestyle and expectations. There is no perfect location and always give and take concessions when sizing up where you should live at whatever stage of your life right?
Putting On Local Productions Like Children’s Theatre Is One Huge Volunteering Event In Maine.
Today, there are strong opinions on what you should do with everything aspect in your life. We are all surrounded by marketing with an agenda. And it seems also a shrinking tolerance for different viewpoints.
Maine is an open-minded state and big enough so you can protect your privacy and living space.
More wildlife than people and spread out acreage has its advantages.
Common sense found in large supply in small Maine communities.
It still works here. Lots of sage advice and tried/tested options for best life practices are discussed daily down at the local diner or corner Maine convenience store or gas station.
Money From Working For Area Farmers. How To Make Your Own Money, Not Spend Mom And Dad’s Important Skill.
All I know is I like no traffic, lower cost of living, more of a connection with my friends, family and neighbors. I like pitching in and volunteering in my small Maine town. Finding the positive strengths and grateful. Not slamming where I live with what I don’t like about rural small town Maine is my attitude.
This blog outlines what the locals do for fun. The outdoor unspoiled natural beauty is hard to beat. There is a long list of reasons why people move to Maine and how to prepare for the relocation best.
How we approach living in a small Maine town is kept simple in Maine.
Help others living here. Be kind. Protect the environment. Work hard to make a difference. Family first.
Continue traditions and respect nature, your neighbor and family values. Learn all your can and find ways to give back. The folks that live in a small town are the community. Always looking for ways to improve and sustain the small Maine town simple living way of life.
It’s spring in Maine as I hunt and peck this blog post made of re-cycled electrons.
Just had a neat total solar eclipse in Houlton Maine andhere’s the video below to watch for a taste of what it was like.
So hosing off the Maine house and other buildings from winter dust, road salt and grime. Opening up Maine woods and lake camps. Ordering seeds for the backyard vegetable garden. Fiddle heading and smelting and yard work. Not necessarily in that order.
Changing up the trail toys. Removing the house banking. Thinking about the year after next’s firewood to be boy scout prepared and make sure it is well seasoned and safe to burn.
Digging out the canoe or kayak for a Maine river race.
Planning hiking trail adventures. When you live in Maine, all the four season outdoors recreation surrounds you. The fun is low or no cost and picnicking is a big deal.
Attractive, Preserved Victorian Style Brick Buildings In Market Square, Houlton Maine. Small Town Maine Living. Very Attractive To Many Moving To Vacationland!
Is the pack carefully and travel light move, relocation to Maine a good idea?
Sure do think so and glad this is where I call home in rural small town Maine. Here to help share the reasons I live in Maine and all the positives. What are your expectations moving to Maine? Where do you live now? Maine is seeing a lot of city dwellers making the transition to rural small town country living.
Small Town Living In Maine. Means Trail Rides With Your Family And Friends. Maine Is Outdoor Recreation, Hitting And Exploring The Woods Trails.
So is moving to Maine a wise decision for you?
Here to answer questions from a local insider native of Maine with lots of experience that wants to help.
So much of the move to Maine relocate or not depends on the timing in decision making. But just as important what are your expectations in Maine combined with the exit interview on where live now or in the past before packing up for the move to Vacationland.
Get calls from Maine real estate buyers who need to invest in property someplace else that where they now live.
Maine, The Way Life Should Be. One Big State, Lots Of Special Hidden Areas To Discover.
Some are looking for a vacation home location and Maine scores top of the list.
Moving to Maine.
Others just know they can not stay where they live now. Either to raise a family, run a business, to retire and enjoy the Golden Years as best they can.
Had a lady from Texas as a recent example who dreams of moving to Maine.
Getting Out Of The Maine Real Estate Office, Not Pinned To The Wall By A Desk. Lucky To Live In Maine Is How I Feel Every Day!
Her husband works for the phone company, she has MS and is from Maine.
Does not need a prepping on what it is like living in Maine.
The couple bought a house for around $150,000 years ago near Houston Texas that is now worth three times that figure.
“It’s too hot and burning up” is a remark I hear a lot these days and those exact words she shared with me on the phone today.
This lady says you know it is time to move when you come out of a big box store and your jeep is parked next to a Lamborghini on one side, a Maserati on the other.
There’s one of the signs. This couple in their early 60’s are looking to sell out and move away to get to Maine.
It’s not just the cost of living outside rural Maine that is nose bleed high pushing the pack up push back to relocate to “Vacationland”.
Maine is drop dead naturally gorgeous and a four season stunner.
The simple small town way of living in rural Maine is the hook, the carrot.
The communities, the people who live in small town Maine are the best. You wake up and wonder who plowed your driveway and have no idea. A casserole shows up with a hand written note “I know you are going through a tough time in your life and hope you like this covered dish at meal time.”.
Or “heard your mom had fallen and hope she is doing okay” is also on the same note.
In large over populated rush rush hurry scurry areas, kind gestures don’t happen like that. In small town rural Maine they do all the time.
Smaller group of people, friendly happens. More intimate, personal and friendly. Less crime, no traffic and lower cost of living kicks in living in rural Maine. High price of fuel oil or gas, no problem. Heat with renewable resource wood and warm as toast.
Live Music, A Maine Community Band Supplies It Weekly For Free. That’s Maine.
Next year’s heating supply of wood is all cut, stacked, stored away. Mainers are more organized and well prepared. The root cellar in the home basement has canned fruits and vegetables. The chest freezer gets pulled from over the winter months.
A garden is a source of joy and tasty food your planted on your knees and kept weeded, watered, tended.
Sometimes searching online comes up with very little Chamber of Commerce type information blurbs.
Hard To Stay Indoors For Long Living In Maine.
No chamber, low population and just not a lot to browse and consider in typical small rural Maine towns.
Or other times, lots of write up on many websites created that just miss the mark. What should happen is testimonials on why do you live in Maine? What makes you some kind of glad everyday you live in Maine? What is life like and what do you do for fun?
One website I stumbled upon tries to pick a region of Maine and showcase a “day in the life” there.
The hour by hour break down would not attract anyone to come to Maine let alone stay here. The same format write up but find a different local coffee shop, insert it.
Life Is A Maine Beach. Salt Water, Fresh Air, A Summer Breeze At A Maine Beach.
Highlight the mill the local Maine native works at and mention how during break they take a walk to enjoy the outdoor location. That’s it. No images, no narrative written by the local native… just how someone outside Maine would describe what life is like. About as exciting as watching paint dry. It is obvious who threw together the copy does not feel grateful they live in Maine.
We Have A Green Light On Derby Hill! Heat 109, Drivers Ready…? Check Your Brakes.
I hope the images, the video embeds and what is blogged about on Me In Maine is worthwhile and transparent.
Living here, raising a family in Maine and enjoying four seasons of so much natural beauty is part of what pulls at a person’s heartstrings.
But the community spirit, the local population that steps up to help out and shares the same lucky to live in Maine attitude.
So many people in this World want to run far away to hide out somewhere, anywhere. Moving to Maine. Itching to run away and doing your home work on just where?
Maine, are you looking for small town friendly and real, wholesome, healthy?
Houlton Maine, Everyone Is Excited About The Total Solar Eclipse April 8, 2024!
If you know of a boy or girl in Maine, anywhere around the state who wants to race in the soap box derby, please reach out.
Every young driver should not have to wait until they are sixteen to get behind the wheel of a car. Learn the “thrill of the hill” happens at Community Park in Aroostook County’s oldest town each June.
The winner goes on to represent the state at the big All American Soap Box Derby Race out west in Akron Ohio.
Need to send them a race application for the big state of Maine race on Derby Hill in Houlton Maine.
Also, the count down has started. Ready for the big total solar eclipse in Maine? Here to help with logistics if you are heading North to experience it in Northern Maine, Aroostook County!
April 8th, 2024. Circle it several times in red magic marker please and thank you.
Sorry, you snooze and lose. It will be a lotta years before the next one in Maine. There is no rain date for the total solar eclipse in Houlton Maine 2024, the last location in the USA to experience “Totality.
The outward migration from city to country continues in the Northeast.
This blog post about why the move to Maine.
What to expect, why people pick Maine as the map location in relocation.
Packing up, breaking ties and filling out the change of address form. Your Worldly possessions sorted through to lighten the load for the trip north. The big heave ho, let’s go to Maine.
Big Green Bridge To Maine. Lots More People Using It To Move To Maine.
Why do people move to Maine?
Here’s top of the list I hear daily from out of state Maine real estate buyers.
“Not happy where I live now. “
What are they not happy about specifically? Just too many people where they live on the planet. High cost of housing and tired of renting, wanting to own. Crime, traffic and simply where do all these folks come from crowing into their daily lives wonderment.
Maine is the 4th lowest crime area and lowest cost state for car insurance for a reason. Less people, less problems caused because of too many folks squished in your living space. The pressure to protect yourself and possessions is a big concern in large population areas. All that goes away in small rural Maine communities.
Fun In Maine Is Low Cost, No Cost. Make Your Own DIY For Life Enjoyment.
When the city mouse travel to Maine on vacation, they notice how friendly Maine people are to each other.
Only natural beauty and space surrounds you when you live in a small rural community in Maine.
Skyscrapers and the wail of EMS vehicles fades away. Trees, lakes, rivers, streams, ponds and wildlife replace your background. Hiking the trails of Baxter, skiing down Sugarloaf or Sunday River, slowly paddling a kayak on a bottle smooth Maine lake. Picnic lunches on the rocks over looking the Maine coastal waters at Acadia National Park. Just the tip of the what to do on vacation in Maine fun things options ton consider.
Life Is A Maine Beach. Salt Water, Fresh Air, A Summer Breeze At A Maine Beach.
Maine offers a four season picture book setting of backdrops to complete the relocation dream.
With this kind of setting and on vacation in Maine, why wouldn’t you wonder what if I lived in Vacationland full time? Waking up to everyday in paradise. How could you not consider relocating moving to Maine between the ears and behind the eyes? It starts with a simple three day long weekend trip to Maine and then feel the tug on your heart strings. You want to be air brushed into the Maine landscape more than once a year on vacation.
Maine is a contrast to most places.
Refreshing, unspoiled, not discovered and like the state’s motto, “the way life should be.”
A move, any relocation to Maine or anywhere is a change. The older we get, the less easy upheaval is for most. There is lament and regret tacked on to the life change bill when you really love certain aspects of wherever you live now. But migration to Maine, lots of reasons for the transition consideration after COVID. The move to Maine for what is missing, what a city setting can not offer in the concrete jungle.
Growing Your Own Food, Knowing Where What You Put On The Family Table Came From Today, Tomorrow, Next Week.
The move to Maine, is it self inflicted and free and easy?
Or was it a take it or leave it job transfer? Is the relocation to be closer to elderly parents who need more daily assistance? Or to be closer to grandchildren? The lower cost of living, smaller house prices and what you do for fun no or low cost. That’s a big part of the tug of war to get to Maine.
The motivation to move to Maine has many facets.
The state of Maine is in the top ten healthiest places to live. But at the end of the day, it all distills down into expectations from the actual move to Maine. What do you expect the relocation move to Maine to mean in your life today? Everyone wants happily ever after until “The End”.
Walks, Talks, Everyone Brings A Covered Dish To Enjoy. That’s Small Town Living In Maine.
Give and take, more or less in any relocation should be expected moving to Maine or anywhere.
Second question I hear from folks from out of state Maine real estate buyers ask is “are people friendly”?
Will I fit in? If you did not where you are leaving before heading to Maine, there is a big red flag. Don’t ignore it. Where you live now, why or why not do you feel warm and fuzzy?
Getting involved, being accepted means to have friends, you have to be one first. Are Mainers friendly and accepting to new people sharing the landscape? Honestly, it depends on how things play out after the move to Maine. Volunteer, be sincere, want to help and pitch in to make a difference. Do that and you are an asset to any community.
Small Town Living In Maine, What’s It Like? Home Made, Local Talent, Volunteers Pitching In.
Three barking very large dogs on a very small lot and using your neighbor’s house lot for creating lawn fertilizer. Those disrespectful daily habits could cause tension. Lose your place on the neighbor’s Christmas card list. So does talking daily about where you moved from and what you liked better about “back home”.
I have eavesdropped on conversations at a corner store stop for coffee and heard “how stupid the people of Maine are” about a variety of subjects.
It begs the question, why did you move here then?
If it is so great, why did you move? Remember you relocated, no one hooked a chain around one leg and pulled you to Maine. It was your idea to cut the ties to the other side of the Big Green Bridge. Lots of local resources for moving to Maine. Lots of things living in Maine that you will enjoy that were missing from your last out of state address. Plenty of what’s missing in Maine that makes you smile too. What traffic lights, what road rage, what porch pirate, etc living in small town Maine.
Moving to Maine means planning to volunteer.
Local home town proud Mainers are actively involved in their communities. You are going to be too for the easiest way to feel part of the local fabric. Just pitch in, try not to complain and be an asset.
Reading A Book, Not A Care In The World! They Say Life Is A Beach. The Maine Waterfront In Maine With A Good Magazine Just Before Dozing Off.
Because you lived somewhere else, new ideas on how to make a local event even better the next time happens. There are so many ways to make a difference and everyone in the community glad you moved to Maine.
You take ownership of a successful event. A small Maine town is really like a big family. It is not uncommon to find others moved to Maine before you from the same area you just left.
Ways to make others in Maine wished you had picked somewhere else to relocate.
Complain pretty much all the time about anything and everything.
Don’t volunteer but expect your neighbor to meet your every need.
Forget contributing to the local charities and being proud of where you live.
Put up way way too many no trespassing and keep out signs.
Don’t mow your lawn and make sure your property is a pigsty eye sore.
Play loud music round the clock and be a nuisance.
Argue with teachers, neighbors, the police on a regular basis.
Complain, find fault and never offer solutions.
Post your unhappiness all over social media.
You get the point. Be friendly, have manners, take pride in a community makes you an asset wherever you land in Maine. But easy does it. Making the transition relocation move to Maine takes time and the first year is critical.
If you are not happy where you live now, do some soul searching to study the reasons why. It may not be all economic reasons. More than just living cheaper thought about driving the bus to get you and loved ones to Maine.
Multi generation reasons to buy a lot of Maine land with the option for family members to all get their very own a piece of ME. Hear that reason for the move to Maine a lot too. Where else can you get all this unspoiled Maine land and for such a low cost per acre??
How’s This For a Back Drop Reading Your Favorite Vacation In Maine?
For some it is starting over in a new relationship. Or putting the drama of where you live now in the rear view mirror as you head up Interstate 95. Did you come from a family of inlaws or outlaws and too much interference? Maybe smaller school classrooms, a better place to raise your kids is near the top of your move to Maine list.
Personal safety is right up there for many Maine real estate buyers picking Maine for relocation. It’s an investment buying property in Maine like hedging a bet. Feeling deep inside the World is changing and if all heck breaks loose, Maine seems a sure thing. Have many who bought Maine land, not done anything with it but enjoy knowing I own a piece of Maine. It does not make them preppers or end of the World doomsday predictors.
The last bit of advice relocating to Maine, moving to the Pine Tree State is sample lots more than one blog post or video.
Make the trip to Maine to look around and size her up before cashing in your poker chips.
Maine Is Family, Teaching, Walking, Talking And Doing Things With Your Kids.Watching A Parade Of Local Friends Family Neighbors In Your Small Maine Town. Part Of Living Here In Maine. Open Front Porches Used A Lot In Maine.
It’s ideal for many but all of us are wired a just a tad differently. Why the move to Maine is thrown into gear tied to a lot of personal factors. What do you hope to achieve moving to Maine? Today there are many strong online opinions on how you should lead your life. Not a lot of tolerance to other ways of doing it for some. Ever noticed vacation rentals for all the hints on the walls about Breathe. Relax, Nap. Laugh, Live, Love.
The biggest critics online have never been to Maine.
Or lived here for such a short period and in only one corner of Maine. Some have a vendetta. Like they are producing a 60 Minutes expose to save the World. Not the best resource when charting your life course on should you move and where if you do. Some critics are sincere, others would not be happy no matter where they live. The later are not the best to provide the list of reasons to move to Maine.
Tasty And Wholesome, That Is Maine Simple Living.
Living in Maine and not expecting a quick fix to what’s wrong that caused your relocation move means easy does it.
Stay positive and be sensitive to why so many love calling Maine their home. Realize where you left has some features you will miss. Many times it takes lots of people, a bigger population to offer this, that.
Is the gain and sacrifice worth it on your personal quality of life list of what’s important? Maine resources to help in the transition and doing your home work relocating to Maine .
Home On The Maine Farmstead. Lots Of Chores And Outdoors Year Round When You Decide To Homestead.
Relocatin To Maine … Cashing in on your house equity and toying with moving to Maine because just sick sore and tired of city life?
Getting more space inside and out is a big perk of owning and enjoying Maine real estate. Less rules and more control of your life. Pursuing an outdoor healthier lifestyle in Maine is way easier than a crowded urban landscape with over the top regulations, zoning, HOA’s.
Gardening, exercise, heating with wood, pitching in on the local level of community affairs. Maine scores top of the class for a simpler healthier lifestyle. But where you should be at this point in your life? Life is a series of continuous adjustments. Relocating to Maine involves lots of considerations and your real estate needs and quality of life needs change.
Only Fresher Maine Seafood Is Still Swimming In The Sea,
Pretty high on Maine but what if your loved ones are somewhere else? Have seen many make the mass exodus in this direction. More than one family member deciding let’s move to Maine to help each other out .
How’s the Maine real estate market today?
The outward migration to Maine still has the real estate market like playing musical chairs. In a nut shell, the real estate market nitty gritty is a tight market due to too much demand and a lacking inventory supply. This makes relocating to Maine mean expect to lose out on a big of multiple buyers after the same property listing.
Lots of qualified Maine real estate housing buyers in all sixteen counties.
But prices statewide in December a 9.23 percent price increase over a year ago statistics. With a 5.51 percent decrease in housing sales.
Videos for real estate are by far the easiest way to tap, slide, sit back and listen, watch, learn. Here to help whoever is reading this Maine blog post. To learn the lay of the land, to study the short cuts to make the transition less painful than it has to be. Glad will give you the local insider perspective as a life long native of Maine.
Where you live now and why? Where have you lived, where you think you would like to hang your hat next?
Just where is home, is it Maine?
Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood and a host of other musicians create the musical statement and the being stuck, “can’t find my way home.”
What fuels the need for “home” and what is missing when you are stayed away too long? Or you know you are way way too far from home. Musicians on the road in rock bands know what missing home feels like. If you are on a whirlwind gazillion city tour around the World. Where you played last night, where you will be on stage taking care of business again tonight is not so crystal clear.
More Wildlife Than People. Your Move To Maine Is Often To Get Away From Crowds Of People.
In my real job listing and selling Maine real estate the search for a home in Maine, property in Vacationland is a strong one.
Folks from around the globe are on the move. Some for work advancement, others to locate a safe place to raise a family. Your lifestyle pursuits, what you like to do for fun when you pause and refresh makes Maine a perfect glass slipper fit.
Finding Your Way Hiome In Maine. Is A Victorian House The Goal?
For many, the crystal clear Maine waterways, the lack of lots of people and the traffic jams they create all point in the direction of Maine.
Your move to Maine, leaving wherever you call home by putting it in the rear view mirror. Takes lots of courage. Plenty of faith. To pick a place, pack up and move to Maine is easier when you sell a property and pocket lots of cash. To be in a position to buy a home in Maine outright. Living mortgage free, look mom, no house payments.
The cost of living in rural Maine is way lower.
Wages if you are working to make ends meet are smaller too just like the house prices. It is all relative but more than the cost of the Maine house itself, the community spirit that permeates around the four walls, roof and floor are key considerations. Where to live, why to move and when is the best time to put your exit strategy into motion?
Finding Your Way Home To A Maine Lake Home. Is That’s Just The Ticket You Want To Purchase To Get To Maine?
Often kids in school delay the relocation to Maine. Or an elderly parent that needs you close by can make the move to Maine a recurring dream that stays on the drawing board. Maybe Maine. Someday.
Vacations to Maine are the temporary fix.
What’s It Like Living In Maine? Owning A Simple Maine Camp Means Lots Of Vacations First To Find Out.
Those Maine vacations are the reason why not Maine happens inside a person to consider this state so far north it should be in Canada.
When it is time to move and the how to do it best is tied very tightly to how’s the real estate market at your current house address? Real estate is way more than the three locations mantra everyone recites and knows by heart. Today, more than ever it is timing, timing, timing.
All Ages Love Going Up To A Maine Camp. Pets Too!
Sure, many want to move to Maine.
But can they? Pull it off.
Sell their old home in wherever is “there” to buy “here”.
Maine Sunrises, Maine Sunsets. Collect And Enjoy More Of Those In Your New Year 2022.
Short term rents come into play in the where you want to live today shuffle finding your way home to Maine.
Getting a job. Heck two or three part time jobs. Whatever it takes. Or bringing your work online remote employment with you. Making ends meet. Paying the bills. Funding the costly move from here to there all comes at a price. You gotta be sure. The stakes are high and time’s a wastin’. But it hard tellin’ not knowin’. You gotta be sure.
Parked In The Last Stall Of A Maine Barn. Folks Forced To Live Trapped, Contained Outside Of Maine. They Can’t Seem To Find Their Way Home To Maine.
If you have “issues” where you live now, some soul searching is needed to figure out what’s the real problem.
Where does it hurt and why. Gotta an itch to fix? Don’t move to Maine to “fix” things that follow you here. It is not other people that control all your happiness and despair. The inner attitude and who to blame, how to correct and your life expectations have to be true and realistic.
I have witnessed first hand folks buying a Maine home, and doing an about face less than a year later.
Packing up to relocate again and again. Making the move one more time continuously searching for something missing. Fuel by the anxiety of FOMO. Fear of missing out. Life is passing by and closing in just intensifies the “I’m screwing up my life royally”. Desperation is an awful way station to be parked at full of worry and wondering what’s next.
A Peek Of The Blogger’s Homestead Where Sheep Graze On A Fall Afternoon In Northern Maine’s Aroostook County.
Often what is missing is inside and the key to the lock binding the chains and holding you back is within you.
Isn’t that an Eagles classic song? Something about you can see the stars yet still not see the light? Already gone. No one wants to eat their lunch all by themselves.
Moving to Maine, way easier if it is just you, yourself and I. Or a couple, a partnership of two. When there are lots of kids in the mix, where they are in school, are they in a relationship, are they where they should be takes consideration. Moving to new areas is healthy if done for the right reasons and when the time is right.
Moving to Maine. Ever stop and wonder why not? What’s holding or pulling you back, what’s pushing you forward? The motto is “Maine, the way life should be”.
Find Your Way Home In Maine. Trading In The Crowded City For Country Living.
Finding your way home to Maine.
Tell me about the area. Show me around the local surroundings in the nooks and crannies of Maine. Full time, local native Mainer. I’ll give you the local insider guide tips and all the simple living in Maine list of short cuts. Thank you for reading and following our Me In Maine blog posts. Here to help when the time is right on your end. It starts with asking lots of questions, getting the answers and doing your “homework”.
Worry About Parking Spaces Does Not Happen In Maine. Concern For Other More Important Stuff Occurs.
You must not be in small town rural Maine.
When the space to park your Civic or RAV4 is just not to be found in a crowded city landscape without digging deep into the purse or opening wide your wallet. Had a caller from Cambridge MA looking to relocate to Houlton Maineshare with me about a parking spot she saw listed for $375,000. Come and get it, hot and ready admit one vehicle parking spot up for sale. Better hurry. I believe she said it just hit the real estate market in the Charles Street area where parking spaces have all but evaporated.
Like sports or musical arena seats, the better the parking spot, the proximity to where you need to be, the cost increases exponentially.
Parking Near Fenway Park, Home Of The Green Monster And The Boston Red Sox. It’s A Trick And Usually Costs A Few Coins To Be At Red Sox Nation HQ.
For safety sake in the urban jungle, you want to be close to the three chain locks, two dead bolts and security cameras of home sweet home right?
Not to have to hoof it head down and trying to look small. To not call attention to yourself for the stroll of many blocks away from home hoping your tazer still has a full charge. Did you remember to plug it in last night wracks your brain as your breathing increases in the ready to fight or flight.
Paying for a parking spot.
In small town Maine, the down town has plenty of spaces to park the iron horse. Fewer people competing for them and a large supply of where to park that works best for where you need to shop. Not miles from where you want to go in the pouring rain or wading through new fallen white fluffy snow. We spend money on other luxuries like groceries, heating oil or fire wood, property taxes, not a parking permit. The cars and trucks we drive are practical, made to last and treated with respect. Because money does not grow on trees to allow it to be any other way in frugal, common sense thinking Maine.
Not Your Typical Maine Car Seen On The Less Traveled Highways. This One Spotted On The Way Into Boston, MA Of The Maine Turnpike.
This real estate home buyer hoping to telecommute from Vacationland in Houlton Maine.
Plans to pack up the job to bring it up the pike along with the rest of her Worldly possessions.
Where she lives in the Boston area, she says her Subaru has a war torn battle weary front and rear bumper. No reason to repair or replace them because more dings and dents happen daily. She says people more and more drive like they are behind the wheel of a bumper car. Tar instead of a metal floor the only difference.
Maine is easy to drive, not hard to do the parking.
You don’t have to own by buying your parking spot and around your home, lots of where to park options exist. The houses lots boundary lines are not zipped tightly around the buildings and have lots of side, back, front land components for breathing room. You don’t find zero lot lines zoning happening in sparsely populated Maine.
Not Maine, This Is What You See In Cities. Tunnels, Bridges, One Way Streets Of Boston MA. Think Quick And Dig Deep For Another Toll.
With COVID, she read there are 30% more cars in the Boston area circling the parking lots and trolling the streets competing for a parking spot.
New drivers have not mastered the art of parallel parking either. So they screw up 1.5 or 2 spaces cocked eyed sideways when they throw the transmission into park and walk away.
The less than black belt city drivers also don’t hug the curb to get in out of harm’s way of the busy multi lane Bean Town streets.
So their ride is over the parking line and kitty corner spilling into the traffic. Great situation for body repair shops I guess. Depends on who’s ox is being gored who wins or loses.
The commuter lanes are closed off too for repurposing to handle all the bike traffic.
COVID made folks a little queasy about hopping on the many colored lines of growded in your face commuter trains. Many drive or bike that used to climb up and into all those big diesel smelling buses. You never really forget how to ride a bike or to kiss right? It’s more of a sport when vehicles are weaving in and out off lanes like asteroids all around you.
Our Highways To Thrill And Maneuver In Maine. Less Traveled, Sometimes Watery.
But no doubt ER’s have a little more customer base hobbling in the automatic sliding doors due to bike injuries.
Too much traffic moving along way too fast for safety sake leads to casualties and fatalities at a time hospitals are already red line RPM jammed to the max with a high no vacancy COVID census.
Maine, where I live only 11 people per square mile.
Where in New Jersey, the head count per same space is 1000 Earthlings. We don’t lock doors, the cars don’t get stolen. Plus not much that is exotic to temp the car jacker and most rides proudly display 200,000 and more odometer miles. Not all the fender colors match but the longer you hang onto and nurse or doctor a car, the more attached you get to it. You have lots of history with the vehicle that becomes an important part of the family.
Plenty Of Parking At A Maine Ski Area Or A Small School Soccer Game. Welcome To Maine! Elbow Room, No Road Rage, No Paid Parking Necessary.
Maine, where house lots are measured in acres not inches or a few feet.
Parking spaces, paying for one would cause a raised eyebrow at the mere suggest. Parking spots surround going round and round into a dark concrete multi level garage. Or you checking your watch to drop and stop everything. To hustle back in crunch time to feed the hungry parking meter. We park in our yards, own the land far from our houses in all four directions. Lots of breathing room and parking happens in our yards. Not out on the street to compete with a winter snow plow that can steal a side mirror in the blur.
Where To Park? Never Ever Out In The Street In Rural Maine. You Don’t Have To Buy Your Parking Spot In Maine And Have Lots Of Options For Stop And Go.
Plenty of parking, not wall to wall living or pushing, shoving, road rage out of control.
You don’t dish it out like you receive it. Not grazing another’s vehicle bumper to open up a car parking space. Can you imagine being sardined in and hopping into your car, removing the car jack wedged into the steering wheel. And accelerating to ramming speed to push the car in front and behind you hard. A couple of times to open up some room. To back off jack “nulldozer”. To create space back and forth whittle your way and blast off into the high speed stream of traffic.
Paying for a parking spot.
That’s not living, that’s not Maine. Save your money for other more important things. The high cost and stress of parking is missing in Maine. One more reason to consider hanging it up, bailing out, taking your real estate poker chip winnings and high tailing it Maine, the way life should be.
