Tag: small town maine simple living

Your Fun And Amusement, In Maine, Often No Hanging Price Tag.

Talk to someone that say lives in Boston MA and ask about Bruins, Red Sox, Patriot games.

Assuming they go to lots and are lucky to be right there in Bean Town with the teams for the home games.

(OBNOXIOUS BUZZER SOUND)

Growing Up In Maine, The Fun Home Made, Outdoors. Back To The Land Never Stopped. There Is Now A Resurgence. With Younger Maine Micro Farmers.

Wrong. Jimmy tell the contestants leaving for home, the parking lot what we have for them today would you?

Reasons for missing the city game, concert, museum or play, etc.

Too expensive or the crowds bother me or too busy with a second, third job. Too tired. Just plain exhausted or worried about crime, traffic, something that robs the experience. Makes it why bother.

Maybe all the above, working a little in combination the cause for empty seats you would like to be filling in the stadium, concert, court side or the other side of the rink shatter proof glass and protective netting.

Often it is not just those reasons for saying pass.

Missing the game. More of the how do you like to use any spare time that you can whittle out of the schedule of life.

Space. No or few people. Turning up the volume of wildlife, scenery of natural surroundings. And fun that does not involve parking garages, long waiting in line, lots of swipes of the plastic card with the magnetic strip.

One reason why camping in Maine is so popular.

Bring your food, pack a wicker basket. Don’t need a thick stack of tens and twenties to fuel the experience. Cooking food outside on a grill, the open fire after a day of hiking is its own reward.

On A Mission, Mainers Are Busy Bees But Enjoy More Space, Less People In The Natural Beauty.

Walking and talking along a seacoast location in Maine.

Meandering through a farmers market. Without peeling off lots of dead Presidents to fund the adventure.

The price you pay for the best things in life. Comes from hard work, determination, right thinking. Making your own luck. Working with the weather of sunshine, summer breezes and storm fronts, cloud bursts opening up around you.

Maine is slow cooking not fast food. It is home grown not coin operated. It is lasting.

Small town connected and special. Not fast paced and impersonal. Lots of open and wooded spaces without the clumped together throngs of people. Relaxed not tense. Natural not artificial. Memorable and safe not scary and dangerous.

Maine is outdoors and low or no cost entertainment.

More dependent on you up on stage in the performance. Pitching in, not sitting like a bump on a log in the passive audience. Waiting for someone else to make your laugh, to put on the show.

Maine opens up a person to be more self sufficient in how they approach day to day living. DIY, bartering, trying your hand at many trades Jack.

Bored people are the unhappiest. And you have to be grateful before happy that lasts happens.

The Unique State Of Maine Hand Drawn, Creatively Depicted. Like The People That Are The Fruit Of The Tree.

Basic, simple, real, honest.

That is small town Maine. Because the low population and distance away from major markets keeps up insulated. I did not say isolated with high speed Internet, Interstates, lots of technology.

But living without the gizmos, taking a break from the silicone chips and flat screens, smart phones. It is not backward. Not primitive.

It is refreshing to explore Maine. Missing the commercial do dads that take away from the total focus on the Pine Tree State.

Maine. The way life should be. Still is when you are ready.

What could be more important? Holding you up. Maine, don’t keep her waiting. Watch the four seasons change, be part of that in Maine.

Unplug, refresh, recharge and see what is missing up here in the right hand corner where Maine is parked. With the keys always left in the ignition. The house doors unlocked and the people warm, friendly, smiling.

I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker

207.532.6573

info@mooersrealty.com

May 6, 2015
Your Life Destination (Dialing In Clicking Sound) Is Maine. Why Vacationland?

Why you live where you do is not always because it is your preference for surroundings.

Destination Maine. It’s Living Outdoors, Small Town Friendly, Families.
If eight out of ten people live in urban areas, it is often due to the abundance of jobs. Pulling down a bigger paycheck. But spending more money the downside of the higher cost of living. Employment is a nice daily habit if you don’t grow your own food, heat with fuel from your wood lot. If you are not living off grid and totally self sufficient.

But Maine as a destination with a handful of cities and over 108 small unique communities could mean bring that city job with you.

If Maine won the coin toss of your next move, relocation, consider telecommuting to Vacationland.

Why do people move to Maine, retire, relocate and make the trip up here in the right hand corner?

Less people, more space, no bad towns with gangs to avoid. Bag the traffic too. No time in our too short life on Earth for killing time like that. But there is more than what we don’t have in the natural unspoiled space.

The local people in Maine are honest, hardworking, friendly, family and community minded. Step up, pitch in.
Maine Moonlight, Far Away Lonesome Train Whistle, Simple Living. Priceless.
It is all about others and there is a strong connection.

Obvious to anyone who lives here. Ditto to those from outside the town limits that pick up the signal right off the bat. Pot luck supper special and all home grown, highly creative, memorable. Because everyone in the small Maine town has a role, steps up and year after year makes it happen. They know their role, they assume the position.

And the locals live like preparing for a recession, a set back braced for around the next corner too.

Saving for that rainy day. More self reliant, garden variety jack of all trades happening. Mainers not worrying themselves sick because we are all in it together. And practice living in Maine gentile poverty. Making frugal living in Maine an art form.

If you are looking for a neat place to raise your family, where the village pitches in from the side for support. If you like not living in head over heels debt. Replacing it with no or low cost recreational four season healthier options. If you want to step up and pitch in and do your part in a small Maine community. Do we have a small town experience ready, waiting for you when the time is right.

Maine, the way life should be. Used to be pretty much all across the land. But not so easy to find any more.

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

December 17, 2013
Maine, Keeping Up With Life, Not Letting It Get Ahead Of You

Life picks up speed or maybe you realize the velocity of it all when you find chunks freed up turning one of its corners.

Child rearing full time if done right should and does consume a parent. So will building a career. Getting it off the ground. But when empty nest happens, or retirement knocks at the door, a person notices in their life the miles per hour radar check print out. Shows we all have been speeding. Going way way too fast.

Unless poor health takes over standing at the time clock check in and out daily ritual, sometimes the issue is the habitual living for tomorrow mode we are stuck in. When this won’t be a problem, when this is paid for, when you fool yourself you’ll have more time. You have the time now. It is how you chose to use it. Fill your days. Reach for the bottle of moderation. Crack it open, pour a little out to season your daily activities diet.

Maine is a place where community involvement happens. Each of possess gifts, talents that make us unique, distinct.

We are taught the value of simplicity. The importance of solitude built into your daily hokey pokey of sensory stimulating events. Natives, full time Maine residents live in a state many only outside get to visit once in a life time. Or that try cramming the entire state into a seven day vacation capsule annually during the return visit. Experiences harvested to take back to the hustle bustle of city living that they have to strap on the other fifty one weeks of the year. Maine is the band aid for their gunshot wound, inner city bruises in rough neighborhoods. A temporary fix, a something to do when they have more time destination. Some day is too late to land here. Once a year or lifetime does not cut it.

Life is simple, we are the ones guilty of making it too complex. The happiest days are when we had little, were starting out and full of wonder, excitement, hope, faith and ambition. Everyone was poor financially but did not know it. Because of being grateful, rich in appreciation and saddled with an attitude of having more than enough to accomplish much. Kids, youth know how to have fun, apply a sense of fairness to keep everyone in the game. Not taking their bat and ball and heading home.

Discovering in our own Maine backyard all we need to thrive is right here.

No need to travel to mountain tops and spend time with gurus, monks, wise hermits to unlock the life keys to happiness. Cook your food on an open fire camping at Baxter Park’s South Branch Pond. With the full moon shimmering on the smooth as a bottle lake top. As a moose to your right feeds on reeds, chutes, new growth of shoreline tree branches. Sharing the landscape as you hear an occasional Maine loon call, the constant sound trail of crickets in concert. After a never fade memory making day besting Mt Katahdin, a yearly trek as important as a doctor’s check up.

Pick a season, lock and load a back pack. As you lace up, secure hiking boots to explore a Maine trail. As you swish swish on boards to cross country or down hill ski powdery new fluffy snow. As you rack focus your tripod camera studying a Maine light house offshore, birds in their natural habitat, the fall foliage explosion of colors Jack Frost controls, conducts.

Come meet the people of Maine, the spark, the drive of one of the 108 small towns that makes her special.

Learn what locals already do about life, balance, moderation, volunteerism and family. Maine, the way life should be. Used to be like every other place until that simple honest approach to living was lost. Thanks for following our Me In Maine blog posts!

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

September 24, 2013