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If you're looking for teaching, the "rumors" I hear is all the teachers in Maine get tenured 'til they die. I know one friend from LI who is looking at a teaching job up here - has been for a year. I have another friend teaching I believe at Sullivan.
Beltrams hit the nail on the head. I grew up with a working class family and married the same type of man and love my life I just feel like Massachusetts is not for us. When I was little I dreamed of moving to a farm and raising a family in a town where neighbors actually waved and people were friendly. My parents live on Cape Cod and it's beautiful there but the Cape's mentality leaves much to be desired. I grew up in western Mass in springfield and that's a mess and now I live on the north shore and I love it here aesthetically but as far as the people and mentality it, too, leaves a lot to be desired. My husband and I are low maintenance and just want a peaceful place to start a family.
I grew up in MA and just turned 50. There was a time when most of MA was what Maine still is, but MA became too economically successful and the hyper-professionals flooded in and pushed nearly everybody else out or onto the sidelines. I actually have a masters degree myself. I don't want to sound as if I'm against everybody successful and smart, but enough is enough already. I got tired of things such as The Boston Globe letters to the editor and OP ED pages where it seemed every letter accepted for publication was signed by some doctor, researcher, or hyper-specialist in some field, quite likely from one of the egghead schools in Cambridge. In other words, unless one was a super specialist in whatever was being discussed, one's opinion didn't matter.
It's nice that MA is kind of escaping the recession that much of the rest of the country has endured and that MA politicians manage to constantly milk Washington DC for all it's worth quite successfully, but MA, in my mind, is being killed and spoiled by that same success.
Thank goodness for Maine and all the other still-rural-like states where I can hang my clothes out on a line and not worry that my counter tops aren't granite or that my house is only 1050 sq feet.
Well said Beltrams... Well said.
My husband just turned 50 and remembers when the city we live in (Beverly) was a town. Our house has literally been surrounded by commercial businesses and apartment buildings. I just want to give him the peaceful life he so deserves.
p.s. We're totally against granite and think 1000 sq ft would be perfect for us! I'm looking more South towards Brunswick... we'd love the small towns more North along Penobscot Bay but I get worried with the work.
Massachusetts is fine if you are a doctor, a hedge fund manager, a big law firm lawyer, a biotech guru, a major CEO/CFO or one of the other hyper-"professional", beautiful people, but if you are anything ordinary, you will be outspent, out run, and otherwise pushed aside in Massachusetts. I for one got tired of just about being run over by a young, "professional" people in their BMWs or other overpriced cars, tearing up Rt. 128 in Burlington at 75 mph in heavy traffic while balancing their phone on their ear.
Then too there are the multitude of nanny state laws and regulations in MA, the fact that the police chief in my town doesn't think citizens should have guns (MA gun laws grant "may issue" hand gun permits, totally at the whim of the local police chief), the outrageous house prices, rents, and property taxes, driven up by all the "professionals" flooding the state, etc., etc., etc.
MA is also a much younger population where the youth culture is still a driving force and to a point that's good, but one also gets tired of hearing songs in public such as the current renaissance of "Face down *** up! That's the way we like to ****!"
Yes, Maine is poorer, but it's still populated by real people.
In my opinion, Maine is rich in the things that count. The best things in life aren't things.
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