I LOVE MAINE

Ogunquit, Bar Harbor and Acadia Natl Park.

Maine born - current CT resident for work, but now also a part-time resident in Maine. I cannot explain, but am totally in love with the place. Gay marriage approved by popular vote of the people says a lot of what I feel. I am between Portland and Ogunquit.

I spent a year there at a boarding school near Bar Harbor. It is beautiful...although the school was dreadful.

I spent a summer there in college, working for Americorps on a trailbuilding crew in the Appalachian. Loved all of the wilderness and the quaint small towns. Dover-Foxcroft, Watertown, Camden, Farmington. Not very many young people though -- it seems there just weren't all that many or they all moved away.

you must be over 60 years old

Do you love Susan Collins?

Do you love Paul LePage?

Do you love the lack of diversity?

Do you love the arctic winters?

R5, I'm not quite 60 yet, at 35. I'm not the OP though. Maine was nice for the one summer I was there — I didn't experience their brutal winters, and being from CA, I don't think I could quite hack it.

It's pretty but there is no there there.

I love the IDEA of Maine. Not sure if I could handle the climate.

ME TOO!

Maine, the Alabama of New England.

Ugh - it takes a certain person to like Maine. Harsh, not beautiful in my opinion, mostly shacks for housing, brutal winter, horrible Republicanism of the old and new kind, far from anything. Opioid addicts, unemployed. One of the last places I would ever consider living. Even Portland. But for the hearty, Ted Kaczinski type, I’m sure it has its appeal.

Are there lots of French people there?

The lobstah up there is AWESOME 👏

I could never get into lobster rolls when I was there. Either I just had mediocre ones, or they just weren't my thing.

I have a friend that’s sick of city life and constant sunshine here in LA. He says he wants to move to Maine. I’m like have you ever been there? How will you support yourself? It’s like I would never move anywhere without a job waiting for me.At least visit the place you know?

I'd like to live in Collinsport. From what I understand, a nice family live nearby that I'm sure would have exciting stories to share with me. Stories I could really sink my teeth into.

I posted a picture of their charming house.

This winter has not been too bad in Southern Maine this year.

I enjoyed my time at Bowdoin. Wouldn't have wanted to remain in the state.

Maine loves me.

Grew up in Massachusetts, but spent significant time in coastal Maine, which is unbelievably gorgeous, but I’m not sure I’d want to spend winter there, or stray too far into the interior.

Thank you, R11, for encouraging others to avoid Maine. Owing to a lack of diversity, we are the safest place in the USA to live. The only dangerous places to live in Maine are the cities that were forced to accept thousands of African welfare recipients. Sorry if that offends you, but it's true. If you aren't here already, please don't come here. And if you do come here, please leave soon.

It’s all yours R21. Other than 1 month in summer, Maine is one of the most depressing, depressed places you can live. Not sure why anyone - especially a gay man - would want to live there. Unless you’re a misanthropic Deplorable who has been rejected by society and is already a deep dark depressive anyway.

DID UNTIL I FOUN OUT LL BEAN IS ALL REPUG.

^^ FOUND

R21 isn't a "true Mainer" called a Downeastah?

Much of Maine is cultural Appalachia. Though they were supposed to represent Vermont, think: Larry. Darryl and Darryl.

Portland is a fantastic small city. I would move there in heartbeat.

[quote]Not sure why anyone - especially a gay man - would want to live there. Unless you’re a misanthropic Deplorable who has been rejected by society and is already a deep dark depressive anyway.

Let's just say you've got me almost pegged. Let's also say that Stephen King is in many ways a typical Mainer.

Yes, yes, we know you judge every state by its congressional representatives and percentage of POC. Yes, we apologize, we wish we were Chicago or San Francisco. Sadly, we're not. We'll just have to live with fact that at night you can see all the constellations; perfect strangers will plow out your driveway without you even asking; and that AOC and Rashida Tlaib and Kamala Harris don't even where the fuck we are.

Lesbian heaven.

Gorgeous state in summer. Unfortunately, home to every biting insect known to man during that season. Mosquitoes by the trillions, black fly, horse fly, deer fly, no seeums. And they chase you and bite you even as you swat. Slowest driving state anywhere. Somewhere 20 miles distant as the bird flies will take an hour with all the twisty turny roads and 15 mile an hour zones through little villages.