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re: Tell Me About Skowhegan, Maine
Posted on 7/14/21 at 7:22 pm to Bengalbio
Posted on 7/14/21 at 7:22 pm to Bengalbio
Skowhegan used to have a huge outdoor gun shoot where people would bring fully automatics to aim at all kinds of discarded objects.
The government is nanny-state lite, the people are not the highest caliber in the world, and the winters are brutal. They have lots of trees in Maine, and they fall on lots of powerlines. Power was out for me like once a month in Maine because of this.
Waterville and Augusta are nearby. Towns are full of opioid abusers. I honestly didn't see much meth in Maine; I knew of a couple people busted for it, but opiates are the problem.
I honestly don't know who I'd recommend Maine for. You can get a lot of land cheaply there, and the outdoors stuff is really nice. The coast is interesting to visit in the summertime.
It's not the worst place in the world to spend a couple of years. Some people like ice fishing and snow mobiling. You will see over 100 inches of snow every winter.
The government is nanny-state lite, the people are not the highest caliber in the world, and the winters are brutal. They have lots of trees in Maine, and they fall on lots of powerlines. Power was out for me like once a month in Maine because of this.
Waterville and Augusta are nearby. Towns are full of opioid abusers. I honestly didn't see much meth in Maine; I knew of a couple people busted for it, but opiates are the problem.
I honestly don't know who I'd recommend Maine for. You can get a lot of land cheaply there, and the outdoors stuff is really nice. The coast is interesting to visit in the summertime.
It's not the worst place in the world to spend a couple of years. Some people like ice fishing and snow mobiling. You will see over 100 inches of snow every winter.
This post was edited on 7/14/21 at 7:56 pm
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Posted on 7/14/21 at 7:25 pm to HabaneroBuck
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You will see over 100 inches of snow every winter.
This makes me very happy.
This makes my wife very upset.
This is why I don't live in Maine.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 7:28 pm to TXTIGERTAIL
Maine is beautiful in the fall but the winters are absolute hell.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 7:39 pm to LSUJD_04
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but the winters are absolute hell.
I spent a winter never seeing above freezing for four months. The average low was 15 below, the average high was single digits. We hit -56 one night. I was very acquainted with hoarfrost.
I shite every day in porto-potties with snow blowing in on me. We had ten foot fences I was able to walk over in the snow.
Maine winters are a joke.
This post was edited on 7/14/21 at 7:41 pm
Posted on 7/14/21 at 7:50 pm to TXTIGERTAIL
Posted on 7/14/21 at 7:51 pm to TXTIGERTAIL
Posted on 7/14/21 at 8:04 pm to Bengalbio
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One other thing, when you begin to first get frosts early in the year after living there for a couple of years…. There is a dread that creeps…. Cold, wet, dark for a bit. Like I said, the folks that make it work are out bundled up doing outdoor activities year round, because the outdoors are all you’ve got. One other thing, there’s nothing better than being outside in absolute cold and still warm with good clothing. Also, nothing better than being by a fire when a nor’easter starts blowing and you are sipping a coffee brandy by the fire
Sounds like a good setting for a story
Posted on 7/14/21 at 8:08 pm to OweO
A friend's Father retired to near there from Shreveport. His Father and Mother loved it. The growing season was short and efficient, with longer days, good soil, abundant water, they had successful vegetable gardens, canned and froze enough for the rest of the year, and had time left over with pretty nice weather to enjoy. Downside: his brother who always had drug problems moved in on his parents and the drug problems got no better.
Skowhegan: we visited there the year Obama had lots of money for shovel ready jobs. We saw lots of money wasted in Vermont rebuilding roads that didn't need it and doing one mile stretches separated by two miles to the next one. Maine didn't get the money like Leahey delivered. We went to a bread conference there: got tired of the catered meals being vegetarian. Lots of retirees and lots of young people hustling for gvt funding. Not much in the way of hotels or restaurants. Long time resorts in that part of the world show their age. Seafood is worth appreciating.
Another friend who was from Virginia, married, moved to Maine, divorced, remarried, and as soon as his and her children were out on their own, they joined most of their friends who had chosen to live in Florida year round, below Frostproof. His family (second husband) had a lot of kin in and around Skowhegan. The ones who hadn't moved south in search of heat and humidity.
Skowhegan: we visited there the year Obama had lots of money for shovel ready jobs. We saw lots of money wasted in Vermont rebuilding roads that didn't need it and doing one mile stretches separated by two miles to the next one. Maine didn't get the money like Leahey delivered. We went to a bread conference there: got tired of the catered meals being vegetarian. Lots of retirees and lots of young people hustling for gvt funding. Not much in the way of hotels or restaurants. Long time resorts in that part of the world show their age. Seafood is worth appreciating.
Another friend who was from Virginia, married, moved to Maine, divorced, remarried, and as soon as his and her children were out on their own, they joined most of their friends who had chosen to live in Florida year round, below Frostproof. His family (second husband) had a lot of kin in and around Skowhegan. The ones who hadn't moved south in search of heat and humidity.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 8:11 pm to TXTIGERTAIL
If you can handle the cold, I’d do it. Maine is tough to beat in the summer and you’re close enough to Boston to for an easy weekend trip to catch a game or enjoy one of the other many things the city offers
Posted on 7/14/21 at 8:12 pm to OldmanBeasley
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and you’re close enough to Boston
Which is also the downside of living in Maine.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 8:13 pm to Centinel
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Which is also the downside of living in Maine.
Boston is a really fun city with tons of history
Posted on 7/14/21 at 8:16 pm to OldmanBeasley
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Boston is a really fun city with tons of history
Yes. And full of complete and utter shitbags.
See: San Francisco, Seattle, LA, NYC, etc.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 8:17 pm to Centinel
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Yes. And full of complete and utter shitbags.
That hasn’t been my experience at all
Posted on 7/14/21 at 8:18 pm to TXTIGERTAIL
It's a bathroom break from Portland to Quebec City.....pretty scenery in the area
Posted on 7/14/21 at 8:20 pm to SaltyMcKracker
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Away from the large population center Maine is much like the south, full of rednecks. They just have thicker coats and better insulated mobile homes.
Northern Redneck
Posted on 7/14/21 at 8:34 pm to keakar
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with all the wokeness and liberalism you see in california.
Rural Maine was heavy Trump country the coast is liberal
Posted on 7/14/21 at 8:48 pm to turnpiketiger
Yeah, and Mainers love Bob Marley. No, not that Bob Marley...this Bob Marley.
Recent Stand Up
You watch some of his standup bits when he performs in Maine you'll get a flavor for some of the state. He really is wicked funny!
Recent Stand Up
You watch some of his standup bits when he performs in Maine you'll get a flavor for some of the state. He really is wicked funny!
Posted on 7/14/21 at 8:52 pm to TXTIGERTAIL
Watch North Woods Law, and report back.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 9:04 pm to Ralph_Wiggum
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Seriously a lot of Cajuns and French Canadians settled in Maine
Yes, I know.
Posted on 7/14/21 at 9:05 pm to BatonrougeCajun
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Their crawfish are HUGE!
I would bring some boil with me and crawfish boil some lobsters in a heartbeat.
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