considering vacation home (Machias: camps, living, retire)

[dch]

I live in new jersey and am considering selling a vacation home in the poconos in pa. and looking in the eastpoprt, lubec, machias area. houses are very reasonable. Is it a good idea? are people there welcoming to seasonal residents; and for a fee is it easy to find good people to look in on an empty house. I am a clergyman and would only be able to get there a few times a year; but am also considering it as a place to retire.

[Acadianlion]

Originally Posted by dch

I live in new jersey and am considering selling a vacation home in the poconos in pa. and looking in the eastpoprt, lubec, machias area. houses are very reasonable. Is it a good idea? are people there welcoming to seasonal residents; and for a fee is it easy to find good people to look in on an empty house. I am a clergyman and would only be able to get there a few times a year; but am also considering it as a place to retire.

Sure, there are people there who maintain homes for seasonal residents. One thing you might try is to be a "summer guest" preacher in a church in the area. It'd make it easy for you to break the ice, so to speak.

[lqbell]

Machias will enchant your sole and awaken the dreamer in you. I love it there and I am currently building my dream Log Home off of Gardners Lake. Do as I did just a few short years ago pay a visit and you will find it becomes you.. Q

[forest beekeeper]

In my area, I think we have about the same number of permanent residents as we do 'camps' for folks that only come to visit.

It is a nice feature, of living somewhere that the cost-of-living is cheap enough that folks can do that.

I just like living here.