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Wanting to get out of Colorado bad. This place is insane how busy and expensive it has gotten even since i moved here just a few years ago. Houses are gaining $100,000 a year or more depending on the area. To buy a house here you have to put in a offer 40-50,000 over asking price to get the house. I cannot afford a $500,000 house... plus that. It is also way to busy for me. Next, I cannot stand how dry it is here in co. I had no idea that it was considered a desert before I moved here. My wife and myself have lived a lot of different places but really come from Michigan. So we are used to high humidity and tons of moisture. I have lived in kansas, missouri, nebraska, michigan, and Colorado.
I grew up in mo on like 300 acres of land , so I am wanting to kind of get back to my roots. I don't want to buy that kind of land or anything just a little space away from the city life. Maybe 5-10 acres. Looking for a place that gets a little more snow then other parts of the state. I love snow. We have snow here in denver on the ground for about 2 weeks out of the entire winter, its pathetic. I like having snow most of the time on the ground dec-march.Is the snow usually heavy wet snow, or is it ever dry fluffy snow? Also, does it rain a lot, I love good rain and storms. I was looking at the Rangeley area ? Although, it seems a little pricier then i thought maine was?
My wife works in government so not sure where a lot of those jobs are located. Forensic Science labs and such. So really that probably decides where in maine we would live instead of us saying ok lets move to this city. Would like to live by some type of lakes for summertime. What is the swimming scene like in the summertime in maine? I know it can get warm there. What about internet ? Is internet lacking there cause of a lot of rural areas ? How is healthcare and school systems?
... Next, I cannot stand how dry it is here in co. I had no idea that it was considered a desert before I moved here. My wife and myself have lived a lot of different places but really come from Michigan. So we are used to high humidity and tons of moisture. I have lived in kansas, missouri, nebraska, michigan, and Colorado.
At one time maps showed much of the middle part of the nation as 'the Great American Desert'. There was a political decision made to change this to the 'Great Plains' to encourage migration. Nobody wanted to migrate to a desert, but settling on a plain sounded much better.
Typically deserts lack rainfall every year. Another topic is that much of the same area is also prone to severe drought on top of the normal lack of rainfall, some years there is extremely little rain.
My ancestors used to farm in the Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas areas. A severe drought followed by bank closures and foreclosing on mortgages finally drove them out of that area in the 1930s.
If you like to see green every year, green that does not turn brown by June, you would need to avoid desert/plains and drought prone regions.
I have been seeing a lot of articles about 'water-stress' lately. Municipalities have been finding it harder and harder to manage their water distribution. Monitoring aquifers shows that water levels have been getting lower. Thus 'stressing' the ability municipalities to provide residential water.
Knowing all this we decided to migrate to Maine.
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... I grew up in mo on like 300 acres of land , so I am wanting to kind of get back to my roots. I don't want to buy that kind of land or anything just a little space away from the city life. Maybe 5-10 acres
Maine does have a lot of large parcels available.
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... Looking for a place that gets a little more snow then other parts of the state. I love snow. We have snow here in denver on the ground for about 2 weeks out of the entire winter, its pathetic. I like having snow most of the time on the ground dec-march.
Maine is well suited for people who enjoy snow.
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... I was looking at the Rangeley area ? Although, it seems a little pricier then i thought maine was?
I suspect that tourism is the culprit.
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... My wife works in government so not sure where a lot of those jobs are located. Forensic Science labs and such. So really that probably decides where in maine we would live instead of us saying ok lets move to this city.
You are likely going to be looking at Augusta.
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... Would like to live by some type of lakes for summertime. What is the swimming scene like in the summertime in maine? I know it can get warm there. What about internet ? Is internet lacking there cause of a lot of rural areas ? How is healthcare and school systems?
Maine is loaded with rivers, lakes and ponds.
There is work happening to get more internet fiber laid. Bills come up every year in the state legislature to raise taxes to for grants for fiber in a small handful of towns, every year.
There is one bill on the floor now to provide fiber in 6% of Maine towns. But ConnectME has not released the list of which towns they are focusing on.
If these bills pass everyone will pay higher taxes for a couple towns to benefit. Pretty much the same scenario as the solar power net-metering scam [tax everyone to benefit a few select professionals].
The swimming up here in New England is awesome. There is water everywhere and the water temperatures of the lakes get into the mid-70s. The natives complain about it getting humid here, but for the most part it is always comfortable with a few mildly humid days surrounding stormy weather.
Generally speaking, I think it is easier to find large tracts of land in ME for cheaper than over here in NH. However, do not rule out NH when checking out New England. I say this because you if you can't find work in ME, then see if you can in NH.
Co is so dry... Tons of fires going on right now here around my house as we haven't seen moisture in 70+ days. That is way too dry for my liking. I've lived in a lot of places in my life and Co is by far the worst.
"There is work happening to get more internet fiber laid. Bills come up every year in the state legislature to raise taxes to for grants for fiber in a small handful of towns, every year."
The fiber optic "backbone" goes by my house. It already exists in many rural towns, but the company that was subsidized to install it will not allow local towns to connect to it.
If you think it's humid in Maine - come to WV, the humidity is unbearable in the summer.
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