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Old 12-20-2023, 07:30 AM
 
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Great info, thanks everyone.
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Old 12-20-2023, 10:36 AM
 
Location: Maine
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I guess it's all a matter of comparisons. As a tourist from New York, I never encountered a rude resident of Maine. After living in Massachusetts for nine years, I found the residents of Maine are open and downright friendly! Of course, I've only been to the tourist areas of Peaks Island, Bar Harbor, York, Kennebunkport, Freeport, etc. It may be different inland away from the tourists, but it can't be as bad as Massachusetts.
Hang out in Lewiston a while.

I kid. Most folks in Lewiston are perfectly nice people. But of all the first class a-holes I have run into since moving to Maine, all but one of them were in Lewiston. The other was in Bath, but I'm pretty sure he was just driving through on his way to Lewiston.
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Old 12-20-2023, 12:13 PM
 
Location: Forests of Maine
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Thanks. I was kind of looking closer to cities so I am within reasonable distance to ammenities and medical.
Bangor serves as the economic, healthcare, and shopping center for 2/3 of Maine.

I live about 25 minutes from Bangor. I live in an Unorganized township. Everyone here hunts. Private rifle ranges are very common.

When driving on ice, if you slide off the road EVERY vehicle that passes will stop to offer assistance.

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Old 12-20-2023, 02:34 PM
 
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Advice for newcomers typically includes visit first at different times of the year and if you make the move, rent a year before you buy. Sales of construction products . . . Working for a store such as Home Depot, Lowe's or Hammond Lumber?
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Old 12-20-2023, 03:03 PM
 
Location: Maine
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Hang out in Lewiston a while.

I kid. Most folks in Lewiston are perfectly nice people. But of all the first class a-holes I have run into since moving to Maine, all but one of them were in Lewiston. The other was in Bath, but I'm pretty sure he was just driving through on his way to Lewiston.
As someone that lives in Lewiston, I endorse this statement. We are an angry lot here in The dirty Lew.
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Old 12-20-2023, 04:18 PM
 
Location: Maine's garden spot
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As someone that lives in Lewiston, I endorse this statement. We are an angry lot here in The dirty Lew.
Angry wasn't the word I would think of first...
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Old 12-20-2023, 06:38 PM
 
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Advice for newcomers typically includes visit first at different times of the year and if you make the move, rent a year before you buy. Sales of construction products . . . Working for a store such as Home Depot, Lowe's or Hammond Lumber?
I do specialty construction sales and bid materials. I would never survive on a home depot wage.
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Old 12-21-2023, 06:18 AM
 
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Bangor serves as the economic, healthcare, and shopping center for 2/3 of Maine.
I really like Bangor. It has everything you'd want in a small city, but it is within very easy driving distance of true wilderness.

And if you're into concerts at all, Bangor actually gets much better acts than Portland does more often than not.
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Old 12-21-2023, 07:30 AM
 
Location: Forests of Maine
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I really like Bangor. It has everything you'd want in a small city, but it is within very easy driving distance of true wilderness.

And if you're into concerts at all, Bangor actually gets much better acts than Portland does more often than not.
Yes, exactly.

In Maines's history of development, Maine has formed a paradigm that is unique to Maine metaphor. The 'UT' [Un-organized Township].

Most of Maine is UT.

The state of Maine is surveyed on a 'plate', divided into 986 roughly equal checkerboard squares, each is allowed to 'organize' on its path toward becoming urban. Yet regardless of how urban a township becomes it can never expand its borders because its physical boundaries are pre-defined by the plate. Maine's most densely populated city has pre-defined boundaries, and it is not allowed to expand beyond. The total plate of the state is divided into 986 townships, period. Most of these [554] are 'un-organized', only a minority [432] are organized or incorporated into city tax-structures.

The most rural tax-structure that Maine has is the UT [Unorganized Township].

I live in a UT about 25 minutes from the heart of Bangor.

Most UTs of Maine have populations of 4 people or less, and yet each UT has roughly the same boundary size [in terms of square-miles] as the city of Portland.

It is an interesting metaphor.
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Old 12-25-2023, 08:41 PM
 
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So is medical in Bangor good? Some more rural sized cities provide medical that people aren't always happy with.
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