Two retirement homes! Even better, get three or four.

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Originally posted by sourdough44:
Unless you have reason to move to Maine, family farm, kids, have to for a job, I think you can do better.

Maine doesn’t rate well in taxes or redness, should either be a factor.

Go find a spot in SD you like.

And don't make it Vermont!!

The coast sounds pretty nice, actually.

Good views, temperatures, humidity, water things to do, etc.

Is rural-ish coastal, on the actual water coastal, Maine particularly expensive?. I've never looked.

On the actual Atlantic, or on a river inlet or little island or some such. Land, acreage.

Expensive compared to what? Interior Maine yes. Coastal in the NE, no. Coastal in CA heck no. The rest of the south east coast yes.

Each year I get older, and hate winter more. The only small consolation is time now goes faster, so it's not quite as endless as it once was. I would certainly NOT move into it from NC. If you want rural, NC has that too. I've seen it.

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Originally posted by PowerBook:
I have a very good friend who lives in Kittery, ME.

He love it there. I would move here tomorrow if I had a way to make a living.

Used to go to the Navy shipyard in Kittery for my haircuts. One chair barbershop -- dude ruled.