Is Maine the new California?

[Submariner]

Originally Posted by beach43ofus

CA building codes would never allow submariner's airport hanger metal building to be built as a residence anywhere near civilization. It would have to be way out in the boonie's in rural Cali...outside Eureka perhaps.

I'm surprised a County in Maine allowed it.

The first time I saw a metal building used as a residence was in California.

I think they were calling it a 'FROG' [furnished room over a garage].

The building was an automobile repair shop [that could hold six cars] with a paint booth in one corner, while the second floor was walled up and fitted into a nice apartment.

[Three Wolves In Snow]

Originally Posted by Last1Standing

How does one make a steel hangar cozy and home-like? Care to share some photos?

I've been there a few times. It is definitely cozy.

Huge kitchen. (according to me)
Big 'living room' or 'living area', AND! They have a fire pit. Inside. With benches to sit on. It's fricken cool.
Never went to the bedroom so have no idea what that looks like.

But what it may 'lack' for 'beauty' on the outside (what most think of when thinking of a house), the inside is well thought out.

[Arktikos]

Originally Posted by DuchessLyratheKind

Been looking for a house in Maine for 2 years and have become concerned about some of the legislation being introduced at the state level and the attempt to keep Trump off the ballot in November. Then this article came out today.



https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop...iberal-bastion



Regardless how you feel about this media outlet, it can't be denied that the lean toward the left is happening.

How old are you, where are you coming from and what is it about Maine that has appeal?
Also, what legislation has you concerned? I don’t imagine the proposed EV sales goal has much chance of advancing. Besides, it’d be easy to avoid buying one if they are not your cup of tea.
I don’t know much about the state but can safely say it’s not the new California in any way, shape or form.

[G1..]

Originally Posted by TheSheepleWillHaveTheirSa

Lived in Maine for 55 years, and sorry to say but it's A LOT closer to being the new California than it is to NOT being like it in any way, shape or form.

If you have been in Maine for 55 years 1) seriously good for you. 2) you don't know what California is like(respectfully).

[Submariner]

55 years ago, so, 1969 ?

I attended highschool in the 1970s. For me, it was all about the Pro rodeo circuit, farming, horses and cattle.

I returned in the 1980s for college. I bought some rental houses and did some work as a gun smith.

In the Navy if I told anyone that I was from California they assumed that I had spent a lot of time on the beaches. My hometown is at least an hour and a half from the nearest ocean.

People have a lot of different ideas in the heads when you say California.

Now that I live in Maine, what I see projected about California is entirely different from the culture of where I grew up.

If you were there in the 1960s, I would think it was different from what I saw in the 1970s and 1980s.

[Maine Writer]

Originally Posted by TheSheepleWillHaveTheirSa

Lived in Maine for 55 years, and sorry to say but it's A LOT closer to being the new California than it is to NOT being like it in any way, shape or form.

How so?

[G1..]

Originally Posted by TheSheepleWillHaveTheirSa

I'm not going to argue with you. What a disrespectful thing to say.

........ it's not. If there is information you are not letting us know that is on you.


You live in Maine for 55 years and I think that's great but it all so means you don't know what CA. is really like or about.