Is Maine right for me?

[OpinionExperience]

Originally Posted by katharsis

I lived in a small town in Maine in the Lakes Region (about an hour northwest of Portland) from 2004-07, coming from Colorado. Maybe things have changed since then, but this is what I remember:

- Politics NOT a problem, no matter what your ideology is
- Winters NOT a problem (they did a good job of keeping roads clear)
- Bugs were bad for just a couple of weeks
- 90% of the service people we employed were very unreliable, to say the least, and most were actually incompetent
(even with references)
- Very difficult finding a doctor or dentist accepting new patients
- Beware of dishonest real estate people
- A LOT of pine trees
- We had to take our garbage to the town dump ourselves until someone started his own garbage pick-up service

Also, with any small rural town, be very aware before you move that you will NOT have much of a choice in shopping. For the first two years until a Hannaford's was built in town, we had to actually go the WalMart in North Conway, and the W-M was the closest thing to a major supermarket in our area.

In short, be aware that rural life is VERY different from suburban or city life in many areas, and locals do not like newbies making "suggestions" or complaints. (We did not do either one, but we heard plenty of grumbling from the natives about newbies who did.)


*We had one who was so dishonest I was surprised she had a license, and she was part of a national firm. Btw, dishonest real estate agents were a problem in New Hampshire, too -- and in talking with other people, dishonest real estate agents and incompetent construction and service people in New England were not rare, or at least they weren't 18 years ago!


P.S. Sorry -- I just saw that this thread is for the Bangor area, so take the above with a grain of salt!

Well said. They just voted in three refugees immigrants while pushing out the people that moved to Maine just like it was with no intentions of changing anything.

[Submariner]

Originally Posted by OpinionExperience

Well said. They just voted in three refugees immigrants while pushing out the people that moved to Maine just like it was with no intentions of changing anything.

Where did this happen?

You are saying that two groups of people, who were both immigrants moving to Maine were competing and one group of immigrants got into office while pushing out the other group of immigrants?