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Originally Posted by mike0421
I've heard, that when adjusted for cost of living, interior Maine is the poorest area in the country. It's a little like California in that the coastal smaller towns are relatively prosperous, but in my travels to the interior areaas of Maine, it's a different ball of wax.
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It's certainly
relatively poor, though I would be shocked if it we're the poorest area of the country (vs. the Mississippi Delta, for example, among other examples). There are definitely some areas of interior Maine that have some 2nd home money around the lakes and mountains.
It's probably the most remote area east of the Rockies though, with most industries in the hinterlands logging/forestry related. Definitely a far cry from the imported wealth of coastal Maine, which was probably your broader point.
I'd still probably answer this question with New England or Upstate New York though. There are some perfectly nice towns
not full of weekend warriors from NYC & Boston that are still pleasant enough (places like Cooperstown, or Northampton, come to mind). Obviously college towns skew both small and successful so trying not to pick obvious choices like that (of which there are dozens there to choose from).
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