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11-20-2008, 01:07 PM
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ready for any thing
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: some where maine
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I belong to a clann,the city data clann.or if you prefer tribe.
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11-20-2008, 01:26 PM
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lost in space
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Portland, ME.
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Originally Posted by chaosX5
So, what your saying is you think Maine is worse than "normal"?
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No, not at all. |
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11-20-2008, 01:48 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: New England
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My mom and dad have met many people over the last 30 years through their line of work. It seems that people that move here either love it or hate it. It seems that the ones that hate it did no homework before they came or visited in the summer and didn't know what a real winter meant. Or came from a big city and couldn't adjust to small town life. But the ones that came here and already knew what they wanted and what they were in store for loved it and fit right in. I know a few people that had a lot of their family move here after they had been here for a couple of years. My uncles a farmer and his wife and family are from NJ and now fit in and even have the aroostook county accent, although it sounds a little perculiar mixed with the Jersey accent, which still comes out on occassion.
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11-20-2008, 02:07 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Maine
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Originally Posted by chaosX5
So, what your saying is you think Maine is worse than "normal"?
This is a concern to me, no one wants to think that they will be rejected simply because they are "from away". I know that there have been other threads on this subject, and it's always a somewhat mixed answer. I'd like to believe the friendly, small town, welcoming Mainer version. I have heard, from Mainers that moved here,that the communities are "close knit". Are they hinting at something?
Elcarim has friends to greet her, she's lucky in that regard.
If someone does not have that, but you move there with an open mind, join a church, have kids activities(scouts, etc.) and love everything about the place, will people still shut you out? Everybody has been so friendly(and hilarious  ) on this forum, that I assumed that Mainers are great people! 
I like my version of Maine reality  |
You are aware that all my friends in Maine were met right here on this forum and have never met me in person yet, right?  Therefore, anyone with an open mind and open heart toward Maine and Mainers can have the relationships they desire, just as I have found. That should give us all hope!
When you have people who have never even met you face to face offering to put you up for a few days, feed you, take you shopping, give you a place to live and help unload a truck full of furniture in the freezing cold and snow......wow, talk about clannish & stand-offish people! What the hell is wrong with you people??  
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11-20-2008, 02:25 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Central Maine
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Originally Posted by AliceT
Like everything else, all topics refer to one's own experience. If someone comes along acting all high and mighty and declaring their way is the best way, then yeah, everyone that they offend will seem cold and all Mainers will seem clannish to such people. Mainers tend not to be hospitable to the rude and crude. And personally, I would just as soon those folks didn't move to Maine anyway. They would only spoil it.
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I couldn't have put it better than this. Reps all around! |
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11-20-2008, 05:12 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Brooklin, Maine
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Originally Posted by Elcarim
My step-dad keeps using this term. He's been "talking to people"......not that I'll be deterred one little iota, but tell me about it. Personally, I don't get it. I've been there, interacted with the wonderfully helpful folks, and I've been friends with some of you on this forum for over two years now. So, why do Mainers get this rep all the way down here in Texas? |
You're not from here... you'll never know. |
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11-20-2008, 05:25 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Central Texas
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Originally Posted by AustinB
You're not from here... you'll never know. |
Exactly. |
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11-20-2008, 05:38 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Jul 2006
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Since Obama was elected it seems some Mainers have been a little Klanish!
WGME 13 News Story Detail |
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11-20-2008, 05:42 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Central Texas
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Originally Posted by Maineah
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Well, that just gives me a warm fuzzy feeling...thanks for the heads up! |
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11-20-2008, 05:50 PM
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Maine is home
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: 26° 55′ 34″ N, 82° 21′ 35″ W
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I'm just wondering why they had to draft a resolution? Wasn't that made illegal several years ago?
Obviously it was meant as a joke pool, right? Of course it was. In extremely bad taste I might add.
Not to worry txmom, the secret service is all over it!
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