Best and worst places to live in ME

[Jpurvis]

Why is Augusta known as Disgusta? Just curious since that is the area I will be heading around.

[Bydand]

Originally Posted by Jpurvis

Why is Augusta known as Disgusta? Just curious since that is the area I will be heading around.

I always took it to be a shot at the mentally challenged people that are running the State from Augusta. Kind of like letting the Monkeys run the zoo you know. As long as they have all the bananas for themselves and their friends who cares about the rest. Kind of disgusting.

I always thought it was a decent area of the state land wise and location wise. Close to the Coast without being right on it, close to a population center without being mixed up in the problems that can come from being too close, close to the woods without being too far from anything else.

[Boomerang]

Originally Posted by MRVphotog

There must be two Windhams cause the one I'm familar with is not like the one you described.

There are two.
Windham and North Windham!
North Windham is the shopping mecca.

[BadgerNut]

Originally Posted by mainebrokerman

hi badger, good post, maybe we could better answer about the "worst" places, if you defined what "worst" means to you,,,

I guess "worst" to me would be high crime rate - that's it for me. I enjoy any setting although my wife doesn't really like the "bigger" cities - 60k and up. But I think she could handle anything in Maine. Portland doesn't seem overly "big". Does that help?

[angelo129]

Originally Posted by Fort Lauderdale mermaid

MRVphotog, that must be the same Windham I am familiar with too! The Rt 302 I know has a Hannaford, a Shaws and everything else you've described. Hmmmm....

You're referring to the shopping strip along Rt. 302, which is not the town of Windham. The town (and its Main Street, as you can see on a map) is located on Rt. 202 several miles from the shopping area on 302 and is as I described. If you're just shopping or passing through on 302, you might never actually venture into the town of Windham, but it's there on 202, with its post office, residential streets and abandoned factory (and, of course, the prison). As in many places, "Windham" describes both a small town and a considerably larger rural area (and some not so rural) around it.

[Northern Maine Land Man]

To return to the subject of this thread for a moment, Maine is bigger than the other 5 states in New England together. Maine is as varied as the towns in all of those 5 states. In addition to that variety we have more than they do in many respects and of course we have bigger than they do. NH has Mt. Washington, the highest mountain in the six states and Vermont has a better concealed weapons policy, but overall when it comes to people and places we beat them hands down. Of course they all have lower taxes than we do, but that could change if Maine people wanted it to.

[MRVphotog]

Originally Posted by angelo129

You're referring to the shopping strip along Rt. 302, which is not the town of Windham. The town (and its Main Street, as you can see on a map) is located on Rt. 202 several miles from the shopping area on 302 and is as I described. If you're just shopping or passing through on 302, you might never actually venture into the town of Windham, but it's there on 202, with its post office, residential streets and abandoned factory (and, of course, the prison). As in many places, "Windham" describes both a small town and a considerably larger rural area (and some not so rural) around it.

I realize that but in my mind if your going to describe Windham you can't avoid mentioning the mess over on Rt 302 IMHO which is part of the Windham community.

[dmyankee]

Originally Posted by Jpurvis

Why is Augusta known as Disgusta? Just curious since that is the area I will be heading around.

Come on up.

Set a spell.

Take your shoes off.

It'll become crystal clear!