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.
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.
You are not alone if Maine is on your where do I want to live now radar. The thought of of picking up lock, stock and barrel and relocating to Maine may be on your mind. These days especially, folks are looking for down to Earth family values and seeking our communities that provide quality of life. COVID19 and the Maine real estate market, the pandemic just added fire to what was already happening.
Time To Paddle On A Bottle Smooth Glassy Maine Lake. One Reason To Move To Maine.
The virus with the number accelerated the hunt for someplace where social distancing is easy.
Less people, more space and all this four season outdoor living. It easily makes Maine a top contender answering the where do we want to move next for quality of life question.
Maine is clean air, fresh water and not crowded.
The real estate is low cost and affordable housing happens all day long in rural Maine communities. Land to enjoy space, the same ground affords planting and harvesting good wholesome food. Or land is used for a life style and explored in recreational pursuits.
The attitude in Maine is tread lightly.
Easy does it. Respect the environment and pass on your property in at the very least as good but hopefully better than you received it. Mainers are good stewards and when using the trails across the land of others they realize it is a privilege not a right.
Respect operates round the clock and on the national scene today what’s broadcast does not mirror that simple Maine living theme. There is fear and anger and sensing something is seriously out of whack.
When you are surrounded by lots of land, the urge to roam and discover Maine nature is easy.
Especially when the low or no Maine population factor is figured in. Freedom, recreational trails, hills and mountains to hike. Ponds, rivers, lakes and streams to paddle, fish, swim or wade in happens. No parking problems or expense. Less waiting around in lines. Keeping your wallet in your back pocket or down in your purse. Everything does not have dollar signs attached living simply in Maine. Life is hands on and less hired out up here in the Pine Tree state. Is life like that where you hang your hat now?
So big step, moving to Maine.
Outdoor Living, The Space. The Biggest Reason To Move To Maine Is For Personal Space.
It often starts slow and small. Just a couple acres of Maine land is purchased.
The land used for low cost vacations for now. But in time, life events like retirement or just an itch to move from an urban area kick in. To make the once in awhile used recreation Maine land become something more. Either full time in the move to Maine or part time when you spend half your days here, the other half somewhere else. When you move to Maine whole hog and make Vacationland your zip code after living in a higher priced one, you are headed in the right financial direction. The move to Maine. Using the one 207 area code, and often with plenty of money left over from your out of state real estate sale.
How’s the real estate market in Maine today?
Strong. Because to own and enjoy some it is so much lower cost to buy real estate today in Maine. Part it is the long hike up the pike that insulates us. And part is due to the fact we have more wildlife than people. Vacationland is not spoiled or over commercialized. We safely parked up in the corner of the country. Like a thumb stuck up and almost in Canada. Like the other states of Alaska and Hawaii, kinda by ourselves and out of the cross fire of day to day ups and downs.
Space Where You Can Hear Yourself Think. Maine Is Outdoor Four Seasons Natural Beauty.
The Maine people are friendly, helpful, hardworking.
That’s the best treat that comes with the Maine real estate purchase. The further up into Maine and away from the expensive coastline, the cheaper the price and more property you get. The best value for Maine real estate is found in the small town living experience where the population is four thousand or less.
Internet broadband connectivity is the number one questions from those in the Maine real estate audience that depend on tethered or wireless connections to the copper, glass strand or through thin air. Pack up your job and bring it along. The Internet over the last thirty years sure has changed our I list, market, sell Maine real estate. It’s helped the move to Maine possible when before it was not in the cards.
Low crime, no pollution, no gangs, no drive by shootings, no traffic. Maine.
The big attraction in the move to Maine is not just the salty sea air, the steamed lobster, baked potato, fresh blueberry pie. The scenery is drop dead gorgeous. Money to enjoy Maine is not the end all and having lots to just survive is not necessary. Real estate is not the only item that costs less. Insurance on what you buy is lower, just like the premium on what you drive. Less crime, lower property values all reduce the need for lots of green stuff to spend. We don’t spend money like drunken sailors. Kids are taught to manage it better and see their parents doing the same. All circles around the respect approach to living life in Maine.
Hiking, Climbing Maine Mountains Gets Kids Off The Couch, Away From The Boob Tube.
Respect Nature, enjoy the four seasons around us and easy does it on the spending.
To prepare for setbacks that will happen right on schedule ahead. More do it yourself and developing a skill set to avoid being highly dependent on others to help you through life. We pitch in and volunteer and make being in a small Maine community worthwhile for our families and others around us. Positive not negative is the atmosphere all of us strive for to enjoy life not simply endure it until “The End”. Moving to Maine, lots of folks are soul searching that topic these days.
Pure and natural is big attraction and major positive change for many who have gone without it for far too long. But what we don’t have, that long list of what you don’t want all adds into the decision to move to Maine. Maine’s low population makes traffic, crime, pollution and heavy layers of building regulations go away. Common sense still rules the day. We strive to make our days worthwhile and fruitful and a lot it is simply worth ethic. Lessons learned in the woodlot, out on the back forty farm field or in the barn.
A Wicked Witch Of The West Spent Summers Hear. Maine Cast A Spell On Margaret Hamilton. Who Also Pushed Coffee Not Just Flew Blooms And Terrorized Dorothy, Her Little Dog Toto Too.
Running a small business, maybe on the docks or the skipper of a fishing boat off the coast of Maine.
Or making a living sharing the experience with tourists sampling Maine on their vacations. Simple living, hard work, not needing a lot to be content. Isn’t that the best approach to life when you reduce it all down and stop trying to keep up with the Jones’s or what highly effective marketing tries to convince you that you need and lack?
Many move and relocate to Maine in retirement.
To replace the forty hour work week with close to the same amount of time spent differently. Their days and nights split between relaxation and volunteering in their new Maine community. Moving to Maine is not just for the space, the lower cost real estate. It’s a whole new lifestyle that is thrown into the mix when you move to Maine.
Moving To Maine, You Ready For Some Of This?
How’s the real estate market in Maine?
Are you in moving to Maine mode? Good time to list and sell in definitely a seller’s real estate markets outside of Maine. Healthy, vibrant and listing sales fast and furious is the temperature of hot real estate sales in Maine. You get more for less in Maine. The real estate market sales are up because so many folks don’t like where they live now outside of Maine for lots of very good reasons. And Maine real estate buyers are able to sell for top dollar, often over list price because of bidding wars with multiple buyers. Maine. I admit it, I am spoiled and feel so lucky to live in Maine full time. Thank you for following our Me In Maine blog posts!
You read, hear, see lots of signs of depression, unhappiness.
And wonder where did all the angry people come from? Why folks are angry, are frustrated is fueled from lots of sources deep inside. My Mom used to call it “stinking thinking”. Not being grateful, counting your blessings. Simpler Small Town Living In Maine.
The approach that you are better off than you deserve, others have it a lot worse than you.
Sure chemical imbalance, something missing in the inside chemistry can trigger the highs and lows. But your outlook, what you were taught has a hand in the “how’s it going?”.
Anger turned inward causes depression. Having the wrong, skewed set of expectations that are not realistic or forgetting the struggle, hard work to pull off change spells disaster too.
In my Maine real estate job, I find a person, couple upside down with a mortgage loan that is unhappy. Worried about losing the place. And beyond the housing stress to get payments caught up or the place sold, you quickly find other areas of the owner’s life is out of whack.
Not happy about their job, all the mountain of debt, the relationship too is a struggle and hanging on by a thread.
It’s all making everyone bone tired. Discouraged, depressed, not such a happy camper. Sometimes the anger that fuels, is the mortar of the short temper, unhappiness comes from knowing the individual or couple had a role. Made mistakes, but not always cranked up about taking ownership of their contribution. In the fine kettle of fish they find themselves swimming around in. Maine Is Having Land, Using It For Farming, Hobbies. Or Just Enjoying Wide Open Space.
Grass is always green kicks in and just looking for relief. But self medication, retail therapy, affairs don’t fix the problem.
Adjustment in life to correct the off the road should be done carefully, in small measures. Kinda of like apply power to a skid on a slick Maine winter road of ice. The ribbon thread of up, down, twisting sideways dips and no thank you ma’ms.
When you live in Maine, the approach to living is less expensive, lower key and time always spent outdoors.
Being on a Maine lake or something waterfront is the setting to figure out, hear yourself think. To consider where you are now, where you have been, where you want to end up. Hard work, determination, patience but right thinking… not the stinking kind needed in large supply.
Having lots of space around you and acres not inches is the setting that helps the general mood. On everything that happens in life that spills from that location. Too tight, too small, up close and way way too personal does not make you easy going. Able to let things roll off without a fuss, a frown, a string series of four letter words anger. Growing Up In Maine, The Fun Home Made, Outdoors.
Lack of fear, missing crime is what Maine provides a healthy dose of for day to day simple living.
Being productive, worthwhile and having a purpose. Skills developed because it is up to you, no one else empowers a person too. Shows the grit, what the person is made of to persevere, dig in, hang on and move beyond the rock and a hard place.
Coming to Maine debt free works best. Knowing what you got paid there and just skinned by with is not the same pay in the envelope here. Scaling back on the spending if still needing to work here in Maine. But you gain so so much more than you give up. Maine, outdoors, fresh air, clean water, wildlife. Ready for some for quality of simple Maine living?
Park It Here, Next To Something Wet, Some Maine Waterfront To Relax.
Do you live in a crowded, busy, noisy, crime riddled area?
Where wall to wall angry people are elbow to elbow, bumper to bumper day in, day out? How’s that setting, surroundings working for you on gaining a greater inner peace? Is that the ideal setting to empty your mind of negative thoughts, worries? Can you find a deeper level of relaxation in an over populated area flooded with all that stress encircling you?
That’s where a place like Maine comes in. New Jersey has 1000 people per square mile. Aroostook County Maine in the same 208 x 208 square has only 11. Think that spacing helps you see, collect, experience stepping stones of life that lead to personal growth?
Do you think a four seasons drop dead gorgeous state like Maine is the best setting to work on your character?
That maybe Maine is a better place to raise your kids and have them have the essential lessons needed to survive in a crazy world? That’s why I live here and this is my Maine story.
In a pristine state like Maine, it is easier to feel, hear, talk to God too. All the unspoiled natural beauty helps a person open their heart, mind. To begin to trust others more, to believe in themselves as we all get on our knees and work daily to improve.
Because relationships with the people God puts in our path, other people are the most precious institution we should be working on round the clock. Not just thinking of our selfish natures and expecting heaven on Earth to happen. That comes later if….
You can see the original and intended shape of your life if you let him come in to your life.
He wants you and me to take on his values. To develop character, attitudes that reflect him. You don’t lose your unique personality when you turn your life over to him. But your character gets hoisted up on the lift and and the power tools, air wrenches start whirring with NASCAR efficiency.
You exist for God’s purposes.
Other people can not make you happy and often some of what you need only God can provide. Even if others in your life bend over backwards to try to give you what you want, need.
Give them an “A” for effort but also realize why they get exhausted, why the other retreats because needs are not known or not met. On both sides of the relationship. Then silence, resentment, hurt feelings and lonliness happens. Not what God intended.
We make a mess of things when we try as males to fix them ourselves without taking everything by God first. To make sure it is consistent, Biblical and is led by the Holy Spirit. God is working in me, giving me a desire to obey him and the power to do what pleases him.
We live in an age of spin, all about me, half truths, situational ethics and rationalizing, playing God.
Thinking our success is because of your own creative efforts alone. Stop lying, fooling yourself and get on your knees and give credit where it is do. Trust and obey.
Open your heart, mind and ask for a head to toe review but be prepared for surprises, to be broken, to not like all the junk or be proud of all that comes out. But if you don’t and just sweep things under the carpet, major speed bumps will stop your dead in your tracks in time. Sooner than later is the key for the loved ones around you to benefit from a new and improved you.
Be accountable.
Get to church and stay there in fellowship, community. Renew your minds, life, family, relationships. Become more beautiful on the inside and worry less about the external appearance, the flesh.
Die to self. Turn over your life to God who directs our thoughts, actions, helps us rebuild our missing pieces of our total character that we are not to proud of when exposed for the world to see. Maine is the state for the overhaul of your insides…your heart, mind, soul.
Are you ready to leave the rat race and settle down on a Maine farm for self sufficient living? By a Maine lake for some peace and quiet to find your inner peace? Life is not easy, but is more enjoyable in Maine where you will like what we don’t have as much as what we do. No locked doors, people wave, care and pray about you. Check in on you. We need each other. Simple living, friendlier people, better family values…Maine. Consider working harder on your relationships. Moving, relocating, investing in Maine.
