Where you decide to live on the planet, it’s a pretty important decision and explains why people move to Maine.
This blog post highlights the kick in the pants, what causes people to pack up and relocate to Maine.
It’s all like the old familiar song you learn as a kid… “if you’re happy and you know it clap your hands”.
Where you live should be a place you truly love. And what does it take to have that deep down giddy feeling to fuel your day and put a spring in your step?
A sense that I belong here in Maine.
This is where I am supposed to be at this stage of my life and for lots of other very personal reasons.
Yes, could have ended up in a different state, moved to another country but did not… you picked the state of Maine to call your new home.
“Feeling like I am in my right place up in Maine.”
That’s in the top three reasons people have for moving to Northern Maine that I witness daily in my job as an Aroostook County real estate broker.
The new to the area person can help enrich and preserve what makes Maine special.
Maine small towns need them and that tug gives them a sense of purpose.
But what makes you feel that kind of plugged in and part of the local Maine landscape?
Volunteering and pitching in to meet the challenges pulls you in to feel needed, a vital part of the Maine community.
In my job as a Northern Maine real estate broker, the most successful relocation moves to Vacationland are folks who dig in and help out sharing their unique talents, skills, experiences.
They look around, see where they can lend a hand and step up to contribute. These people produce, not just consume and make a difference.
These people are well traveled and an asset when they pick, move to a Maine community wherever it is in the state.
They have lived in other places and bring a new fresh creative perspective to the Maine community they end up investing it by purchasing a property.
Some migrating to Maine are already from the area.
Just moved away to city jobs awhile back but always intended to return to Maine.
Others went to college here, were stationed at say Loring Air Force Base in Limestone or Brunswick Naval Air Station or their parents were from Maine.
Elderly parents with health issues another factor in it’s time to come home to Maine.
Often, I can not believe the low real estate prices in Maine and just have to buy a property.
These out of state “from away” Maine real estate buyers feel like a kid in a candy store excited.
Like how about 24 acres, over a mile of river frontage on the Mattawamkeag River in Oakfield Maine?
Watch the real estate video for low cost Maine waterfront land.
The high-speed internet that connects rural Maine to the rest of the World means now you can telecommute, work remotely here.
Pack your job and bring it with you removes the “what am I going to do for work” if not a trust fun baby or retired and in my Golden Years. looking for a pond of the same color.
Tons of those in the move to Maine exodus remember fun Maine vacations as kids and decide why not move here full time.
Shouldn’t where you live feel like being on vacation? Similar to the right job does not feel like work because it’s a perfect fit, creates joy deep down inside? Does where you live, what you do for work feel like a good fit?
Learn more about Maine touring communities, property listings using real estate videos.
Well Andy, wait just a minute. Didn’t those move to Maine folks pitch in and help make a difference where they last lived? Lots did but the area changed to the point they could not stay.
Many felt more and more disenfranchised, the chemistry was not so intimate like small town Maine communities provide. No natural beauty and four-season space.
Over and over, the real estate buyer moving to Maine tells me they had no choice.
They either could never afford to buy and hold onto a property, a home. Or they did buy back when the area was decent but when all that went down the drain,
their house was worth a lot. So like a poker game with a large pot, they sold.
Cashed in their chips and high tailed it to Maine to start over in a new house, brand new community.
The high cost of living, crime, traffic where they lived before changed to the point they just could not stay there.
Their surroundings in an urban setting not spacious and unspoiled like Maine.
Too much commercial development, too much traffic, crime and a lot of angry people.
That’s part of the “why I moved to Maine” Heard it for the past 46 years in my job as a lifelong Northern Maine Aroostook County native.
Maine is a handful of cities, but over 450 unique small rural communities.
Let me be the first to say “Welcome to Maine”. Here to help with any questions about living here, the weather, food, places to make sure you see on your visit to Maine.
Unfortunately, many of the rural sections of the vast state of Maine does have a lot of press online. Not a lot of people, not many keyboard warriors blogging online about the far corners of Maine.
Heck even the state officials forget or have no clue how to get to Estcourt Station or Vanceboro Maine.
Do not make the mistake of being pulled into a Reddit thread about lots of untrue rumors about what’s it like living in Maine.
Come see for yourself. Do your homework but also your own thinking. Catch the vibe, watch and listen to community event videos for Maine.
Take some real estate property listing video tours for what’s for sale in the current market of a small rural Maine community or two.
The folks who like Maine the best often are living in a place no way like it is here.
Also, when you see the average price of a Maine home today is approaching $400K, wait just a minute. That figure is highly skewed because of southern Maine near the big green bridge.
Along the expensive “Gold” coast tourist trap regions of Maine.
In Northern Maine, that average real estate house sale figure is more like $137,000.
Big difference and where you end up in the big state of Maine is so vastly different in many ways.
Please don’t try to distill it all done with a quick catchy sound bite analysis.
And don’t rely even on tired worn out copy and paste Maine tourism marketing pieces.
Whoever writes the state’s promotion should live there and know how best to describe the special features, unique history and the “what’s it like” in you fill in the blank
Maine community.
You can not sum up Maine in ten words or less and truly describe all the regions around the sixteen counties.
Have you noticed many tend to believe life stops a third or half way up into the state of Maine?
Learn more about what you are missing, not getting in your inbox or swipe slide scroll about everything Maine.
And what is the age group, lifestyle pursuit and vibe you are trying to target?
You are correct, I think I am spoiled in so so many ways growing up here in Maine.
Raising a family and working in Maine is it’s own reward along with volunteering to help make the small Maine community why it is so special.
The deeper you go up and into rural Maine, the richer the experience smack dab in the middle of nature.
Come sample the wilderness, the unspoiled outdoor recreation and sheer natural beauty in Maine.
Maine, she tugs at your heart strings and never lets go. Come for a day, end up staying a lifetime in Maine.
I’m Northern Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers, ME Broker
207.532.6573 | info@mooersrealty.com |
MOOERS REALTY 69 North Street Houlton Maine 04730 USA