Considering moving to Caribou Maine. How is it there? (Portland: sale, motel)

[CoastalMaine]

Originally Posted by island mermaid

www.cariboumaine


This might help?

It might, if the link worked Mermie! roflmao

[island mermaid]

Originally Posted by CoastalMaine

It might, if the link worked Mermie! roflmao

LOL, I was trying to help!

[goldenretrieverlover]

In doing my fact-finding on the property we were interested in, the people we have spoken to have all been very helpful and nice - kinda like life the way it used to be. We're in Florida and, although the weather is nicer here than in Maine right now, the crime, hurricanes, foreclosures, property taxes, homeowners insurance, etc. are just too much. We wanted to do a life style change and live in Caribou from April to the end of October and come to Florida for November thru the end of March. The cold in Caribou during the winter would be too much for us, especially since we've become such winter wimps from living in Florida year round for a number of years.

[AlisonL]

Caribou wouldn't be bad during that time frame. I gather you will not need jobs to get by?
But its not a city by any means. Portland is Maine's largest city with a pop. of just over 60,000.

[island mermaid]

Originally Posted by goldenretrieverlover

In doing my fact-finding on the property we were interested in, the people we have spoken to have all been very helpful and nice - kinda like life the way it used to be. We're in Florida and, although the weather is nicer here than in Maine right now, the crime, hurricanes, foreclosures, property taxes, homeowners insurance, etc. are just too much. We wanted to do a life style change and live in Caribou from April to the end of October and come to Florida for November thru the end of March. The cold in Caribou during the winter would be too much for us, especially since we've become such winter wimps from living in Florida year round for a number of years.

Wow, are we neighbors?

I'm a winter weather wimp, too.

[Maineah]

Originally Posted by goldenretrieverlover

In doing my fact-finding on the property we were interested in, the people we have spoken to have all been very helpful and nice - kinda like life the way it used to be. We're in Florida and, although the weather is nicer here than in Maine right now, the crime, hurricanes, foreclosures, property taxes, homeowners insurance, etc. are just too much. We wanted to do a life style change and live in Caribou from April to the end of October and come to Florida for November thru the end of March. The cold in Caribou during the winter would be too much for us, especially since we've become such winter wimps from living in Florida year round for a number of years.

I'm not sure Caribou would be my first choice as a summer residence. There are many places in Maine with much more to offer than Caribou has especially in the summer. Look into the Harrison, Naples lakes region for a summer place. Lots of things to do there, nice lakes and far less travel involved. The link does work CoastalMaine it's just the wood fired server in Caribou takes a few minutes to respond!

[goldenretrieverlover]

Neighbors? We're in yuckky Port St Lucie now and we can't wait to leave here. If we do the Caribou/Florida routine we will be planning on going like to the Keys for the winter months, it would definitely not be PSL!

[Acadianlion]

City or town are not descriptions of the commercial or social activity. City or town merely identifies the kind of political structure or administration of the place. A town could have a large populationa and a huge commercial center and a city can have comparatively few people and no commercial activity whatsoever.

Most cities and towns in Maine are very, very small interms of almost everything by way of comparison with Florida.

I doubt that you will find Caribou, Maine will offer much of what you are looking for simply because it is so far removed from any large shopping, medical, cultural or social center. But you need to consider the distance from Bangor, the major commercial and retail center of the upper portion of Maine and the largest of the northern Maine cities, and Caribou.

It is 115 miles or so from Bangor to Houlton, all via Interstate 95. Once in Houlton, just before your cross over the border into Canada, you turn left and follow Rte 1 to Caribou, on a two lane reasonably good road....for an hour at least.

Make no mistake: I LOVE Aroostook County and the people of Caribou and all the little towns "up country" are wonderful folk. But it is a LONG way from almost anywhere, and by all means, before you even THINK about plunking down money for real property, you need to come up and see where and what it is.

And if it weren't that my feet are irretrievably rooted in the salt water of the coast, I would live up in "the County" in a heat beat.

[wabanaki]

You going for the extreme here hah, the father north of US1 and the southern most of US1.

Originally Posted by goldenretrieverlover

Neighbors? We're in yuckky Port St Lucie now and we can't wait to leave here. If we do the Caribou/Florida routine we will be planning on going like to the Keys for the winter months, it would definitely not be PSL!

[Nor'Eastah]

Originally Posted by goldenretrieverlover

We wanted to do a life style change and live in Caribou from April to the end of October...

Hey, wait a minute.

Nobody here warning this poor innocent about the 9-month winters up there???