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Hi, currently live along the coast in Cambria,ca. My husband is a nurse and has an offer to work there for a year. It seems very pleasant,and all the info on schools looks good. Looking for some thoughts from the locals about your town,Cape Elizabeth. Community, churches, things to do for the whole family(teenagers)anyone care to offer some support? Thank You
Clare
Jumping in here ~ have visited Portland a few times on way towards downeast summers. Husband and I looking to re-locate from midatlantic. We like the city, like the cape's proximity to city, ( someone do enlighten me about 'tony'....) and wondering if there is an an Asian polulation in the schools for this culturally diverse family. Seeking less ignorance and more tolerance ~touchy subject, I know~any other international adoptive families out there?
Hi, currently live along the coast in Cambria,ca. My husband is a nurse and has an offer to work there for a year. It seems very pleasant,and all the info on schools looks good. Looking for some thoughts from the locals about your town,Cape Elizabeth. Community, churches, things to do for the whole family(teenagers)anyone care to offer some support? Thank You
Clare
Cape Elizabeth will be fine. It's a great community. The schools are fine, and the people are nice. CE has its tony areas, but for the most part its a well-run and up-scale community. You will like the entertainment and night life nearby Portland. Good music, great restaurants, pro baseball, hockey, museums, art festivals, clam festivals, Old Port festival, beaches, boating skiing, lots of concerts. Old Port rocks.
You can do a year on the coast of Maine standing on your head. I moved to Laguna Woods from Maine...the CE area, so I'm familiar with both areas. The medical community in Portland is fairly progressive with fine facilities and professional staffs.
If the winters weren't so long, and if the summer humidity and bugs would disappear, I would have stayed in Maine. The winters finally got to me. 55 years of Maine winters were enough.
Cape Elizabeth is great. It's wealthy by Maine standards, but not by California standards. It's a great community. The people living there year round are kept fairly down to earth by having to deal with the weather.
The summer crowd are something else, but overall Cape Elizabeth is a great place to live. Close to portland, great schools, great scenery. If my career didn't pull me away I'd happily have lived there for a long long time.
CE is considered the exclusive suburb of Portland. Falmouth runs a close second. Both are close to/on the ocean. Neither town's schools are considered as good as Yarmouth's and Cumberland's, but they are considered good. Gorham and Scarborough are other alternatives with more of a mix of incomes.
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