I'm thankful for my life in Maine because... (sale, apartment)

[KiddinAroundFarm]

Thought this would be an interesting thread. Tell us why you are thankful for your life here. Some things that have changed for you since you moved here... and how much you love it here!

For me personally, Maine is my paradise. While our lives have changed drastically since our move here, we will never regret it. In CT we were in our first home on a lake, happy, and with good paying jobs in which we were climbing in the ranks. Now in ME we live paycheck to paycheck, and sale to sale, but we LIVE! To the fullest extent. We farm (our dream) and we live in a beautiful home, on some beautiful land. My husband was able to landscape again here, which in CT was becoming a chore, not something he loved. Here he works for someone else, taking alot of the pressure and time constraints off him. He's happy and healthy, and gets to work outside again all day. Our lives here aren't perfect, we worry about gas prices, money, and such like everyone else, but perfect would be boring.

I am so thankful for the wonderful friends and neighbors we've met here as well. In our first community in ME we became involved w/ the local fire dept., and made many friends this way. We are still in touch w/ some of them. The sense of community here is much larger... people are still people. We wave at and get waved at as cars pass on the road, people stop by just to chat. We have wonderful times with some friends we've met right here on this board (Forest Beekeeper and B, and M, Starwalker and K, and B, and well, all the rest, lol) I'm sure there are lots of others that we will become friends with in the future. (Maine Writer and Msina, Mollysmiles, etc, we really need to meet!)

I'm just in a thankful mood tonight, and wished to share with everyone. Life in Maine is wonderful, beautiful, and not perfect. Just how I like it. Have a great night all, and a sunny day tomorrow.

[Maine Writer]

I'm especially thankful today for helpful people. I get beer boxes for the greenhouse. I went up to mail in my half baked laptop and get beer boxes. The post office is in the mom 'n pop store. While I tended to the laptop the store owner asked if I need more beer boxes. "As many as you have please!"

When I went to get the boxes by the door they were already in my vehicle. The store owner and a customer I have never before seen in my life loaded them for me. It was very nice of them and certainly appreciated.

And I'm thankful for 71* and bug spray, trout that jump, swirl and splash when I feed them at dawn, hissing and biting ducks that are setting on approximately 65 turkey eggs for me. Friends who drive over to say "couldn't get you on the phone so I drove. Coffee's on, take a break and come see the ducklings," and doesn't care if I come looking a mess.

I'll be thankful if my search turns up a duck before she turns up on her own with a dozen ducklings. I'll be darned if I can find her.

[MaineMathTCHER]

I am thankful, that while I now make the least amount of money in my whole career, I can live in a beautiful home by the ocean. I am thankful that my drive to work is what others do on their vacations. I go through a wildlife preserve, see majestic lakes, and often no other cars. Yes, we live pay check to pay check and do not shop/travel/eat out as before. But we do walk nearly every night, on sunday afternoons we sit on the black shale beach that is near our home, and search for treasures after a storm on the rocky beaches. I also get to have four glorious seasons. In Los Angeles, I did live at the beach, my little 2 room apartment cost me three times my mortgage here on a very large 1800 farmhouse with acreage. I often could not enjoy the beach as hundreds of thousands of people would swarm them on the weekend-forget about solitude and contemplation. Here in coastal Maine, the light is spectacular and I am amazed. I have lived in the desert, as well, before Maine and the sunsets there are intense and create a spectacular painted view -but here the sky is just as beautiful-just in different hues. So, when it comes to being thankful for living in Maine it really is about quality of life, not about consumerism and fast pace, it is about taking time to notice the little things.

[forest beekeeper]

Maine is great!

As are our neighbors

[Alaskapat528]

Originally Posted by KiddinAroundFarm

Thought this would be an interesting thread. Tell us why you are thankful for your life here. Some things that have changed for you since you moved here... and how much you love it here!

For me personally, Maine is my paradise. While our lives have changed drastically since our move here, we will never regret it. In CT we were in our first home on a lake, happy, and with good paying jobs in which we were climbing in the ranks. Now in ME we live paycheck to paycheck, and sale to sale, but we LIVE! To the fullest extent. We farm (our dream) and we live in a beautiful home, on some beautiful land. My husband was able to landscape again here, which in CT was becoming a chore, not something he loved. Here he works for someone else, taking alot of the pressure and time constraints off him. He's happy and healthy, and gets to work outside again all day. Our lives here aren't perfect, we worry about gas prices, money, and such like everyone else, but perfect would be boring.

I am so thankful for the wonderful friends and neighbors we've met here as well. In our first community in ME we became involved w/ the local fire dept., and made many friends this way. We are still in touch w/ some of them. The sense of community here is much larger... people are still people. We wave at and get waved at as cars pass on the road, people stop by just to chat. We have wonderful times with some friends we've met right here on this board (Forest Beekeeper and B, and M, Starwalker and K, and B, and well, all the rest, lol) I'm sure there are lots of others that we will become friends with in the future. (Maine Writer and Msina, Mollysmiles, etc, we really need to meet!)

I'm just in a thankful mood tonight, and wished to share with everyone. Life in Maine is wonderful, beautiful, and not perfect. Just how I like it. Have a great night all, and a sunny day tomorrow.

Please, please you Maine folks, stop! You are driving me crazy lol. Do you all know how badly I have always wanted to live in Maine? We are going to relocate out of Alaska, possibly into Ohio to be closer to family. I LOVE the water and I can't tell you why, but I have always felt the lure of Maine. This move is really scarey; it's a move of almost 4000 miles. I keep thinking of Maine and my fear is the job situation there, have read where new outsiders don't easily get work and then keep thinking how Maine is probably a good 12-13 hour ride from Ohio and does this defeat the purpose in moving closer to family?

Agonizing decisions here to say the least. We are just ordinary working folks (my husband and I), all I want is enough money to pay bills, have a nice home and a little $$ on the side. Quality of life is important to us both. Reading these wonderful posts just tears at my heart lol. Maine has winters similar to Alaska except for those Noreasters you get (hope I said that right). Opinions, insights, advice anyone? Thank you.

[Chinagoats]

I'm thankful for my life in Maine because...

We can hunt, fish and hike in the mountains, have decent employment and farm in the center and drop out of site in 'Pitlock.

For me its all I've known.....my husband likes to pee where-ever he may be and he can!

Most folks are kind and generous and helpful.....

[forest beekeeper]

Originally Posted by Alaskapat528

... Maine has winters similar to Alaska except for those Noreasters you get (hope I said that right). Opinions, insights, advice anyone? Thank you.

Winds blowing from the North-East are rare and can be a bad storm, or not.

More so when out to sea. When ashore, I am not sure that it is prone to be any worse.

[Maineah]

I'm thankful for Italian Sandwiches and Directv.

[island mermaid]

I'm thankful for summers on the island with my family.

[contented]

i'm thankful for the steady wisdom and the patience in the people that passed it along