Maine/Colorado (Bangor, Orono, Burlington: homes, school, universities)

[ddsoccerteam]

I am looking at moving out of Colorado moving to maybe Bangor. What I am wondering is what is really is like living there?

[EastwardBound]

Originally Posted by ddsoccerteam

I am looking at moving out of Colorado moving to maybe Bangor. What I am wondering is what is really is like living there?

We are considering the same move in a few years. Getting sick of the endless growth, highway expansion, parking lots, strip malls and crowds. Amazed at the affordable price of acreage there compared to Colorado, where one needs a minimum of 35 acres to be able to use water on his own land per state water conservation policies.

[Northern Maine Land Man]

We love it. That said, Maine is like Burlington, Vermont and Point Judith, Rhode island. You see, Maine is as big as the other five New England states combined. Burlington, Vermont is further south than most of Maine. One thing is for sure; Maine is not plagued with "endless growth". There is still some private land remaining in Northern Maine. You can get on an ATV and ride 100 miles to the ocean - legally. There is no other state where you can do that; not even Alaska, due to the vast amount of government land in Alaska.

They sell Maine spring water for over a dollar a pint down in the cities. Here, it runs out of the ground. Many towns have town springs where people come to fill 5 gallon jugs of delicious spring water to bring back to their city homes where water is chlorinated and has other chemicals added.

[Submariner]

Originally Posted by ddsoccerteam

I am looking at moving out of Colorado moving to maybe Bangor. What I am wondering is what is really is like living there?

Bangor is not bad.

It has a downtown section with older housing and some homeless people.

It has a couple of hospitals [St. Joseph, EMMC] and universities [Husson University, New England School of Communications, Eastern Maine Community College, University of Maine-Orono is nearby]

It serves as the economic and healthcare 'hub' for roughly 2/3s of the state.

If you started in Canada and headed South, Bangor is the first city that you would come to. Just North of Bangor, on I-95 in the Southbound lane, is where the Border Patrol sometimes sets up roadblocks looking for drug-mules hauling drugs from Canada going down to Boston.

Bangor was once home to a HUGE Air Force base called 'DOW'. It was closed decades ago, but it left in its wake a massive over-sized airport [currently used as an 'international' airport] and a lot of old government housing.

It has a shopping mall with a standard assortment of big box stores. Bangor has a large assortment of new car dealerships.

I personally do not like cities, I live 20 minutes North of Bangor, but I do not mind going into Bangor for all that it offers.

[Northern Maine Land Man]

"Bangor has a large assortment of new car dealerships."

Bangor has the northernmost Volvo dealer in Maine. It primarily serves the faculty in the area colleges. When Volvo drivers venture further north than Orono they bunch up convoys.

[nalabama]

That’s funny!