Dreaming of moving to Maine, the attraction of all this low-cost wide-open space?
But what they don’t tell you to expect in the packing up and relocating to Maine.
This blog post is not about all the reasons real estate buyers are attracted to small town friendly rural Maine.
Over the years, lots of blog posts hunt and pecked on the keyboard on the simple life moving to Maine.
It’s no secret the Maine real estate is cheaper priced. You can buy land in Maine measured in acres not feet and inches.
But Maine real estate buyers who pack up and relocate should do some soul searching first before signing a purchase and sale agreement to buy a property.
This is a big life step.
It is way more than just the attraction surrounded by nature, less crime, no traffic.
More than this time you might not even need a home mortgage.
Because your last house sale profit allows you to live free and clear in small town rural Maine.
What they don’t tell you to expect moving to Maine.
Will you be happy and content in the transition from hustle bustle big city bright lights?
The pace of living is different in small town Maine.
You don’t run to the yellow pages and have row after row of names and numbers to reach out to for help living in a small rural Maine community.
Trading it all in for a different approach to living in small town rural Maine?
It starts with you. Who are you? Your history and outlook expectations. What is important to you and what are you willing to tolerant to get it?
Some Maine real estate buyers make it all about one thing that is the end all.
Like, I don’t want any neighbors for a mile in every direction.
They are bone weary worn out leaving the constant fights with HOA’s or whoever lived next door in their old location.
But what about social interaction beyond your lots of land and not a neighbor in sight?
Why are you moving, what are your expectations of how your life will change, what will it be up in Maine?
What are you trying to accomplish in the move to Maine?
Starting over after a nasty divorce, seeking a better place for raising a small family?
Just looking for part time vacation second home location tied to a lifestyle choice?
Or you like to hunt, fish, hit the recreation trails or horse around and want some ponies?
Homesteading and living off grid self sufficiently is a big draw in the move to Maine.
Yes, working on line remotely and telecommuting to your far away job you pack up and bring with you is possible.
The motivation for the moving to Maine is important to study in the “is this a good fit for you” question answer.
You don’t get everything you want but you always get what you need. Or it’s call UHaul, load up and here we go again.
I’ve helped a lot of people move to Maine and buy property.
But it does not mean some property buyers are in a habit of moving, relocating non stop every few years.
Family needs me, I miss my grandchildren is part of it.
But so is discontent, no matter where you live.
More than just a tad too many miles or hours away from my old home, where you did like parts of the location.
But slowly more and more reasons popping up to tell you it’s last call. Time to leave and move to a new location in Maine.
It is not just jokes about lighthouses, lobster, moose, Maine winter weather, exaggerations about black flies and mud season.
The personal baggage and whether your class is half full or empty follows you even up to unorganized remote locations in Maine.
How do you get along with people?
It’s not just what is it like living in Maine and that’s it.
Some folks would be happy anywhere or transition free and easy. Like to fight and wound up about life in general? Others can be their own worse problem in the search for happiness.
What’s that Eagle’s song lyric about we all don’t realize we possess the key to unlock the problems we carry in life?
Not judging, just fact or the result of past trauma, wearing a chip on your shoulder and a sour disposition or poor outlook on life in general.
So maybe more outdoor space and less people to share it with is your place to heal and improve your life.
Population is at the heart of it, not just Maine weather patterns.
You give up what a large population can support for goods and services.
You gain what a small population can provide for a closer, more intimate experience.
This Maine blog post is all about what happens in the day to day living.
What is it actually like living in small tow rural Maine and will your life improve in whatever Maine zip code?
Here is more on my home town of Houlton Maine for an example to drill down into and consider and compare.
And where in Maine that is a pretty big state is your best bullseye target to aim for?
You start by making a list of the pros and cons of staying where you are now outside the state of Maine.
The timing of your move is important to consider. What is causing you to want to move in the first place?
Life is always a series of choices, tradeoffs and so is the move to Maine.
But remember, what’s important to you should be your own decision to make at any stage of life right?
Be careful wandering into Reddit threads, being pulled in by some pretty critical, negative opinions.
These often harsh online rant reactions distill down into the move was wrong for them but maybe not you.
Maine offers plenty but are you, me, everyone else looking for the same thing?
No and maybe Maine is not a good match for everyone.
Or the timing too move to Maine is rushed.
If the real estate buyer had waited until their old home sold first or the right job was available. That can be part of it.
No so much due to the area is good, bad or meh.
But that some who regret the move to Maine climb on the keyboard to brand Vacationland as bad bad bad for everyone.
Do your home work, think for yourself in the relocation move to Maine.
Unhappy people don’t suddenly change in the moving to Maine process. It takes time to adjust and often doubles back to what did you expect?
How would you know until you actually tried it. I’ve seen people buy quickly, move just as fast and then down the road come back.
It’s a lot like someone who goes to college, drops out, goes back later because of their own personal life experiences.
Or just lack of patience or maturity. Or their partner is happy living in Maine but the other half is not.
As a Maine real estate broker for 46 years, I daily witness excitement from brand new property buyers.
And sat at a kitchen table listing a house for sale in Maine where by the time the paperwork is done, three empty Budweiser cans were guzzled.
You wait, come back a day later and make sure, is this what you want to do?
Are you sober and still feeling let’s put a sign out front and start up the real estate marketing machine?
You don’t have to hate where you live now to suddenly be handstand happy about changing it up to live in small town rural Maine.
But give it time, easy does it, and maybe rural small time Maine is not the best fit for you.
What I can help with is learning more about the local communities in Maine.
And share blog posts about everything Maine. The what to do for fun community video playlist.
Watch some real estate listings in Maine videos.
Come vacation, spend some time in Maine to get a feel for what is like.
To consider what if you live here part time, full time.
But the should you relocate, move to Maine?
A lot of it is up to you and that very personal question some answer easily and others struggle with where I should be all their life.
I’m Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker
207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |
MOOERS REALTY 69 North Street Houlton Maine 04730