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Maine is beautiful. I have visited and will visit again. This time I am checking out a place to live. Lots of towns to choose from. Any comments, suggestions, descriptions. What is the humidity like" Lots? None?
Maine is beautiful. I have visited and will visit again. This time I am checking out a place to live. Lots of towns to choose from. Any comments, suggestions, descriptions. What is the humidity like" Lots? None?
Some areas may have humidity, to be expected in any region without droughts though.
Today's newspaper - a local person writes about a place they love, but it is prefaced with:
"I often point out that I’m not a true Camden native because I was born in Rockland and did not move to Camden until I was a year and a half old ..."
Camden is 8 miles from Rockland. Such is the ingrained "from there," "not from there," disturbance, that even someone born 8 miles away and who has nothing but praise for their 'non-native town', will never feel, nor be allowed to feel, a true sense of belonging. This is serious. This mentality has effects with health, business, finance -- it touches everything, and it's constant. It's not the rare comment or thought at all, or that only held by a few. It is insidious, and spoken and written about every single day.
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Today's newspaper - a local person writes about a place they love, but it is prefaced with:
"I often point out that I’m not a true Camden native because I was born in Rockland and did not move to Camden until I was a year and a half old ..."
Camden is 8 miles from Rockland. Such is the ingrained "from there," "not from there," disturbance, that even someone born 8 miles away and who has nothing but praise for their 'non-native town', will never feel, nor be allowed to feel, a true sense of belonging. This is serious. This mentality has effects with health, business, finance -- it touches everything, and it's constant. It's not the rare comment or thought at all, or that only held by a few. It is insidious, and spoken and written about every single day.
You also have to take into consideration that the vast majority of "natives" do this in jest, sarcasm, tongue-in-cheek. While folks that move here from somewhere else (whether 8 miles, 8 minutes, or 800 miles away) take it seriously and use it as discrimination; worn as a badge of honor at times. Personally, I have heard this phrase used, when not in jest, as a way to rationalize why these people do not get their way (building permits, registering vehicles, etc). Just because some can't understand a Maine dry wit does not make a saying responsible for global warming/cooling/change or the end of the world as we know it.
Today's newspaper - a local person writes about a place they love, but it is prefaced with:
"I often point out that I’m not a true Camden native because I was born in Rockland and did not move to Camden until I was a year and a half old ..."
Camden is 8 miles from Rockland. Such is the ingrained "from there," "not from there," disturbance, that even someone born 8 miles away and who has nothing but praise for their 'non-native town', will never feel, nor be allowed to feel, a true sense of belonging. This is serious. This mentality has effects with health, business, finance -- it touches everything, and it's constant. It's not the rare comment or thought at all, or that only held by a few. It is insidious, and spoken and written about every single day.
Today's newspaper - a local person writes about a place they love, but it is prefaced with:
"I often point out that I’m not a true Camden native because I was born in Rockland and did not move to Camden until I was a year and a half old ..."
Camden is 8 miles from Rockland. Such is the ingrained "from there," "not from there," disturbance, that even someone born 8 miles away and who has nothing but praise for their 'non-native town', will never feel, nor be allowed to feel, a true sense of belonging. This is serious. This mentality has effects with health, business, finance -- it touches everything, and it's constant. It's not the rare comment or thought at all, or that only held by a few. It is insidious, and spoken and written about every single day.
I think the person was being satirical. Making fun of the stereotype of Mainers.
Yep. It exists, but largely tongue in cheek. A guy from Lubec was elected to the Eastport town council. He told me he was surprised he was elected, being from Lubec. He was in Lubec and had the same discussion. An older Lubec native corrected him with, "your not from Lubec either, you were born in Bangor, you didn't move to Lubec until you were 3 days old."
That is the tongue in cheek humor Mainers are known for. It takes a bit of getting used to, because they say it completely dead pan. All in fun, after all, I will always be a "PFA."
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I, for one, am offended that my jokes offend some people and that they point it out. Humph! (toungue-in-cheek for those that can't tell.)
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