This is MyTown, ME and this is why I chose it. (Augusta: flat fee, sale)

[ExAirForce]

Originally Posted by K-Luv

I have feeling I am the youngest active participant in the Maine forum, so my choice might make sense. Simply put, I want more choices. I don't want to live in a place that is completely homogenized. I don't want to live in a place where you can't fart without the entire town knowing about it. I do not mean this as any disrespect to anyone who lives outside of my city, but I want to live in a place that has some culture to it.

K-Luv, I can totally relate to you based on what you wrote. 23 years ago, after being born and growing up in Central and Northern Maine, I could not wait to get away so I could "experience life". I joined the military and have spent 14 of the last 23 years in Europe and 8 of those 23 years in Colorado. Got to experience and see allot as well as meet tons of different people with different viewpoints and ideals on life and never ever thought I would reach a point in my life when I would actually want to move back to Maine.

Here 23 years later, I am married with a wonderful wife and daughter and in the earnest planning stages of moving back in 2009. What has driven our choice of town is the school system and the proximity of available jobs as well as mil rate (property tax).

The term different strokes for different folks I have learned is so true. Do what is best for you and your situation and what makes you happy (as long as it is legal :-) and if you do move away you might be happy with your new surroundings or like me you may reach a point in your life when you look back and miss some of the Maineness.

Good luck.

[Maine Writer]

Thanks to the Air Force I've lived in a few places. We settled back in Maine when I was six. I started school in the Philippines. I left for a year after high school. Florida's nice and all but The Mouse just doesn't have the same pull on me as the moose. Our oldest daughter spent two years in MN working in a group home for men with traumatic brain injuries a few miles from Mayo Clinic. She's been home for two years. She's glad she went and more glad that she came back. It's good to see and experience new places, ways and people.

I can't think of a single place uncultured place. Culture isn't one specific set of standards. I hope we all keep this in mind when we're out and about in the state. There's much to learn about Maine's huge, diverse cultures.

[Abbymoulton]

I was born and raised in Cape Neddick. I spent the first 37 years of my life in that town and have wonderful memories of childhood. Sliding and skating on the little pond in the winter. Fishing at Lake Caroline in the summer. I Had to leave and come to Florida 20 years ago. At first, Florida was great....No snow to shovel, no need for all those heavy clothes and just "Look at those palm trees.beautiful". THAT grows so old so fast!!!
I sit here this morning reading your posts and feeling them warm my heart. We are moving home to Maine in June and have picked the town of Woodland to finally settle in. Woodland is next to Washburn and you all have read how wonderful that it. We have to rent in Limestone for a year until we can start building on the land. Can't wait to be back. Funny that when we are young we always want for what is on the other side of the fence. But, as my Nanie used to tell me..." the only reason the grass is greener on the other sid of the fence, is that there is more MANURE over there". BOY, WAS SHE EVER RIGHT!

[Bydand]

Where about in woodland? Nice little school for the elementary level. Welcome to the area, well at least when you get here that is.

[Abbymoulton]

Originally Posted by Bydand

Where about in woodland? Nice little school for the elementary level. Welcome to the area, well at least when you get here that is.

The land we bought is on the road from caribou to washburn (right on the town line of Woodland/Washburn. OUr children are FAR beyond grade school,
But, my sister in law is coming in a few years and she would be glad to hear that. My sister lives in Mapleton and her oldest daughter lives in Washburn. Thanks, I can't wait to get there. I miss Maine so much!!

[Bydand]

Oh, I think I know the place you are talking about. Enjoy!

[Abbymoulton]

Originally Posted by Bydand

Oh, I think I know the place you are talking about. Enjoy!

Thank you so much.

[Elcarim]

Haven't heard from Miss M on this one. I'm very curious what took you from Bangor to Eastport to Calais....not sure what order it was in, but please share.

[contented]

raised in boston, i spent many summers in maine on deer isle, where my father remodeled one of the oldest houses on the island for some friends who were going to retire there. i can still remember my excitement as a child when he opened up the exterior walls and i found some old musket balls and indian arrow heads inside.

in later years, he semi-retired there and ran a small building/remodeling operation and i had been travelling the country for 10 years in a travel trailer doing carpenter work. my wife at the time became pregnant with our first son and at 35 i moved to deer isle to raise my family.

there wasn't much i didn't know when i arrived, if ya know what i mean......lol, and yet somehow i was still allowed to stay and i guess it surely was the best for me because island life taught me (some would say slowly) some old time maine values and ideals.

i guess what i'm trying to say is, i feel lucky and fortunate to raise my family there and that it will always be home to me.

[7th generation]

My story follows similar circuitous routes other Maine CDer's have.
Born and raised in the same buildings I live in now. After graduating from high school the only work available was the paper mill or in the woods. I chose the military and was in Texas,Missouri and Germany. After leaving the service, I came home and worked for a short time in the mill but wasn't content. Worked in NC,Virginia and Wyoming and settled in SLC,Utah. Received a degree from the U. of Utah and worked as a union ironworker to support myself. Worked all over the inter mountain west as a crane and rigging supt. and ended up working for Bechtel overseas. Wanted to come back to SLC and finish my "degree" in skiing , so started a crane company.
A few years later my dear Mom had a heart attack so I sold it all to return to Maine. Was headed to Portland to start another crane company and stopped to visit friends in this town and was told Grampa and Dad's store had been shut down for 2 years and was for sale. So......here I am.
Love the manure scenario abby!!!
They will plant me here and the grass will grow greener above...cause I'm full of manure!