Living in Maine PROS and CONS 

Just uploaded "The REAL cost of Living in Maine.." Video! Let me know what you think :)

"Everything is about a 5 - 15 minute drive" I literally laughed out loud. I'm from Houston, everything is a 45 - 60 minute drive.

"I'm from Southern Maine. I can't talk about Northern Maine, but I'm sure there's a bunch of beautiful trees" 😂💀

I just want to eat lobster and live in the cold without worrying about getting stabbed ;-;

Coming from Illinois, the 'owning a car' and 'winter' aren't really cons for me lol, I cannot wait to move out of my state, possibly to Maine.

I lived in Boston for 30yrs and love Maine even more.For me and most city dwellers Maine attraction is nature and low key small towns that are like jewels sparking in vast empty wilderness.As an Artist this appeals to me. Its my retirement destination Cape Elizabeth, Camden comes to mind.

I also live in Maine and although everything you said was accurate the experience can change a little bit depending on what part of Maine you choose to live in. For example if you live in a less populated forested area, like me, your problems change from tourists to blackflies and really bad cellular service.

I watched this specifically because I live in Maine. I personally love the state, but I live in Central Maine. So I see farms and large businesses every day.

This was a lovely video about northern New Hampshire.

Maine is really nice especially southern Maine Portland area. Great people, good food, beaches and night life.

I live in Arkansas and I really just want a change of scenery. I love fall and winter time and we don't get much of that here. I graduate with my bachelors in elementary education next year and I have been thinking of moving out of state but haven't been sure where to go. For some reason I've been drawn to Maine for a bit now and am trying to figure out as much as I can. I'm single though so I would have to figure out how to make it happen on a single teacher's salary

"They should give out lobster rolls at the toll booth" cracked me up! My wife and I moved from Waterville to Biddeford 5 years ago and love it down here. We were married and stayed at a beach house on Long Sands Beach for our honeymoon. Yes, people are pretty nice up here.

"sandy, clean beaches" shows the one of the rockiest beaches in maine

Hi, I am a dubstep Music producer from Maine, I'm actually living in Maine currently. Maine is a nice peaceful area, especially in the winter, I love it.. Great video, keep up the good work. =)

The Mrs. and I have lived on the Gulf Coasts nearly our whole life, and we are wanting a change after this last Hurricane. Having seasons would be a dream come true being boiled alive 345 days a year is a nightmare would love to be cold for once in our lives.

Hey man, thank you so much for making this video. My fiancé and I are from Georgia and are planning to move up to Maine (Bangor area) once we’re married. I’ve found close to zero videos on living in Maine for a while until I decided to look it up again and found this! Please please keep up these videos about Maine bc to someone like myself who has never been there or has any experience with it, this is super helpful. My fiancé and I are looking to buy a home up there, but we also don’t know a ton about the process. Keep up the good work man!

I’m here because of a friend. Told me Maine was the most beautiful state he’d ever seen in the u.s. I’m from Connecticut. But I’ll make my way to Maine very very soon. I love nature and thats what its got 😍

Thank you for this! I just got accepted into USM and was torn about going to Maine or IUP in Pennsylvania. Of course Maine is even further from my home state but moving from North Dakota to Maine seems like just the right decision.☺️

I live in Florida, but have been to Maine a lot over the last 40 years to visit my wife’s family. Over that 40 years I have eaten a lot of lobster rolls there, but I have never seen a lobster roll there that had that much lobster on it. That had to have been a specially made lobster roll for this video. And he forgot to mention how proud they are of their lobster rolls. They ain’t cheap, believe me. 🙂

“Got a lobster roll..took one for the team” 😂 That made me laugh. I’ve been thinking to relocate to Maine from Austin. This video was really good! Thanks Brad! 👍🏻

Great video! I lived near Machias when I was 18. I’m 74, and would love to go back to Maine!

You are talking about Northern Massachusetts.

Man once I move out I really want to move to Maine, but idk if I can, I don’t want to leave my family and friends, but it’s so unbelievably beautiful

I'm from boston and maine is literally my favorite state, during summers I went to maine for fun town splashtown alot😀😀

I'm thinking about applying to University of Maine for graduate school. I heard about how freezing cold it is! I went to college in Arizona for 2 years and it's literally an oven there! Now, I currently live in the state of Washington. I kind of got used to the cold, so I would be ready for whatever weather Maine throws at me :D

I think it's great that some guy named Brad from York who has never been further north than Bangor and thinks eating a lobster roll is "taking one for the team" is going to educate me on the pros and cons on living in Maine. -Actual Mainer

The biggest Con: The Price😃

Maine has many different sections with different lifestyles. It’s huge!

“5-15 minutes” I’m from the Midwest, I’ll drive triple that for almost anything!

I just finished a 4 day visit, based out of Rockland. I say "based out of Rockland" and not a visit *in* Rockland, because i was driving around *everywhere.* I must have put 1100 miles on my Jeep the last 4 days. Just cruising along the roads inland Maine. Went all the live long way to the White Mountains, went up to Bangor, Brunswick, and lost myself on every backroad on the way there. Best $100 on gas ever! Absolutely worth it. And it'll all be cheaper on my next visit, because then I'll have a sedan. Yes. You MUST have a car in Maine.

Thanks! Good video! I'm from Boston, my wife is from Pennsylvania, but we met in Los Angeles and have both been living here in LA for 20+ years. We NOW are seriously talking about moving back to the northeast and are very interested in greater Portland. The pros sound very good and the cons, not TOO bad.

What I love about Maine: A TON of local restaurants. We know how to cook. A lot of breweries and a few distilleries. Popham Beach state park is a gem. It's huge and the landscape changes with the tides. Bus system runs from Boston to Bangor along I-95. Bangor has an extensive bus system to get around the greater Bangor region. The patrons largely are on the sketchy side but you can get around inexpensively if you don't want to or can't own a vehicle. The summers are beautiful and lush. The humidity may be up to 100% but so worth the landscape and ability to garden without fear of drought. We have a great variety of temps in the summer from 65° cold days to 105° scorchers. Bangor has worked hard to compete with Portland which is much too far. So we get business from western, eastern, northern Maine. Excellent access to major concert tours. We have beautiful little towns like Hallowell that provide excellent atmosphere for dining, drinking, Maine-made shopping. In the winters we have fairly good mountains for snowboarding/skiing. I love going out snowboarding all morning and afternoon then hitting up their town for excellent food & cocktails. We have camp life. Camp is a unique lifestyle to us. It does not mean camping in a trailer or tent. They're lake cottages and traditionally they don't have electricity or plumbing but most do now. I live for lake life and we have a ton of them. Swimming, boating, reading in the sun, sitting on the deck over the water and it's crowded with family and company. We have great fishing and hunting. You're very likely to bag a moose, bear, deer, goose, partridge. I'm not personally a good driver but most of us are. It's our roads that will wreck you. The locals whose families have been in Maine for fifty years or more are incredible. They're tough and leathery but kind and giving. They'll go out if their way to help a stranger or a friend. Our state has a ton of French Canadian families. They are awesome. They're very close families. Usually huge families. They get together often and know how to have a good time. Their food is delicious. They sure know how to cook. Things I hate: There's not a lot to do if you aren't physically in shape or your family or friends don't have a camp or a boat. It gets more pronounced in the winter. Stuck indoors paying out the nose for fuel to keep from freezing. The mud, ice, and snow are no fun. Although they're common across the nation, it's just miserable. You have to drive. A LOT. This man is very far south and only an hour from Boston. He has quick access to things the majority of us don't. To have a life in Maine you have to be willing to drive. Bangor region. Lewiston region. Presque Isle region. Augusta region. Portland region. Calais region (if you have connections to that part of Maine I mourn for you. Those roads are like driving in outer space. If you breakdown there's no cell service, no villages. Just woods and a freaky sketchy long highway with nothing on it for miles and miles.). I have friends and family in all but Presque Isle and Calais region. Maybe Bar Harbor/Ellsworth is its own region, too. Our schools aren't that great. When I was a kid in early 2000s they were always striking or making us walk to our field trips. There was money for novelty laptops for every 7th grader in the state in 2003 but none for textbooks, home economics, arts, buses, new roofs, heat, you name it there was a problem. Our roads are terrible. I've been to other states that complain about their roads but if they knew what Maine drives on, they'd shut up and be grateful. Our potholes and frost heaves demand blood. And our winter road treatments will eat your undercarriage and panels up. Don't bother buying a new car unless you have the money to treat it so they don't rust out.

I love Maine. It's so beautiful!

i'm 13 and maine is so gorgeous and all i've wanted since i was little was to live in the quiet countryside with horses and since i found out about all of maine's hidden gems i wanna goooo

I really want to move to Maine. I've visited a few times. Thank you for your insights.

I’ll never leave!

I am. canadian from montreal planning to visit Maine in September I am pretty sure I ll love it. Thank you for the video

lived there for 2 years. 2 amazing years.

Going for the raw oysters in late September. Staying in York and Boothbay Harbor! Driving up from Asheville, NC... another popular and beautiful location.

Thanks for the information. It's nice to hear realistic viewpoints.

Keep doing these videos Brad, you have a great presence and style

dang wish i could live there, i had my opportunity in 2017, dang...i still have faith that opportunity will come back and i can still move there

Thank you Brad!

Brad I'm a Cali girl my kiddo keeps telling me go to Maine and there's a island lol 🤣 I'm just so glad I found this no disrespect you are just so handsome 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻💕

I live in the other Maine farms, mills (the ones that are left) and woods. Nothing like southern Maine.

I'm from the second biggest city in Maine. Lewiston. SOOOOOO colddddd ❄️🥶

Family owns a summer seasonal up at wells Beach for about 20 yrs now. Prior I owned a summer seasonal for almost 10 yrs., back in the 80's-early 90's at York Beach, Cape Neddick. Can't beat it.

Beaches when is cold as fuck..

I MIGHT move to Maine, from Los Angeles, Cali...a friend want's me to move here so badly, lol...I don't know yet, but it sure is pretty here!

I used to live in Harrison as a kid n I loved it!

😂😂 the music when you were eating the lobster roll. Currently trying to convince my husband to move to Maine. It’ll be a long game, for sure, but I think we’ll get there eventually.

You also forgot to mention it’s not crowded there’s very little traffic and that there is great sporting scene.

I’m moving to Maine in July, with my husband and our son. We are so excited. Still looking for our home , we’d like to be in southern Maine. If anyone has any advice. We are moving from Tampa Florida, where the entire world is moving too. Lol. So yea, we are leaving

You live in Massachusetts.

I’m from the east coast (Virginia 23 years total) and I recently moved to Dallas for the year but I was talking to my brother about moving to Maine and buying a house with our family.

I greatly appreciate a balanced review. And I'll tell you right now, a 15 minute drive to the grocery store ain't shit! Where I live in Mississippi, I am 35 miles away from pretty much everything. That's a 30-45 minute drive depending on weather and traffic. Thankfully finding a job won't be an issue as the company I work for has locations all over the state, York being one of them.

That's the most sincere ask to like I've ever heard haha, may not get me everytime but it got me this time

Love the Olive Garden Waitress, Wing-Flapping "Whatzupguys" intro.

SOUTHERN Maine....metro Boston. Lived in central Maine for 6 years.....three separate towns. Winters are LLLOOONNNGGG. Summers are nice. People were mixed, some friendly, some not. Left in summer 2020. Would loved to have tried northern Maine, "The County" but don't think I could have survived the winters. Heard people up there are friendlier... Renys, Mardens, Hammond Lumber......

Sweetie, if you live in York you are practically in Massachusetts.

What about cost of living, salary wages an housing prices as a local what are your thoughts

A Excellent Video.. Highly Recommended.. Thank You Very Much For Sharing..

I'm from Portland Oregon and thinking of moving to Portland Maine! Isn't that ironic? Thank you for the great video :)

This guy is a clean neat freak minimalist with no possessions. Just look at how clean that room is he is in.

Now I'm ordering Poke because of YOU

I heard so much good things about Maine looking for retirement place with 4 season love skiing and outdoors thanks for your videos!👍👍

Biggest con living in Southern maine is mass , con , ny , nj

Best place in the world for 3 months. But the winters are ugh!

Bonus pro: much less likely to be targeted by nukes.

If everyone out in Maine is like you then Imma love it!!!!

I lived in Portland for 5 years and moved for work. Will get back hopefully in the next 5 years and go north but not to the county.

I wish i could be there once in my life.

I live in Pittsfield very rural and underratted

Seeing you bite into that lobster roll was the best part of this video!

Love your video. We are retiring to Maine in 2023.

Northern Maine and southern Maine are two different worlds. Southern Maine has places like Kennebunkport, old orchard beach, wells and so on tourist attractions and multi million dollar summer homes on the coast mostly out of staters. While northern Maine is very rural and almost stuck in time, where people still pump your gas and bring out your groceries to your car. Northern Maine is more like Canada while southern Maine is more like Massachusetts. To be honest when younger I couldn't stand it and was bored alot but now I couldn't see myself living anywhere else. I will say southern Maine has changed so much in the last 10-15 years, things happen today that 10 years ago would of sounded crazy but today it's the norm. Craziness has reached even the most out skirted places.

Serous questions how friendly are they towards Mexicans ? I'm going to check it out spring or summer of 2021 before we move from California

Really good humor. Good video

Hey man, i love the content. Hope to see more from you!

I recently moved from Maine to Minneapolis and I love where I live now. Having spent nearly all of my 40 years in Maine I can emphatically say that the best years of my life were going to school in Boston and these last two years living out West. Every facet of my life is better now, its so hard to even compare Third World Maine to the capital of the Great Lakes. Things he forgot to mention: Maine has one of the worst opiate problems in the country. Maine has more methadone clinics than states 4-10X their population. Alcoholism is rampant in fact in the 1800's the Temperance movement was started there. There was one distillery for every square block of city space and they rang the church bells at 10am and 2pm for what locals called Rum Hour. Everyone would pound spirits for an hour and go back to work.Even in 2020 Maine ranks as one of the worst states for alcohol addiction nationally. Maine has one of the highest rates of births resulting in mental or physical disability. No one wants to talk about why twice as many people there are born incapacitated than in any other part of the US. Maine is the only New England state with a history of extensive KKK membership. Racism is abundant there given the fact that in the 1920's almost 50% of the state were card carrying, dues paying members of the Klan. I worked for a local pizza chain when I was young and met the family who actually founded the KKK in Maine(the family that owns _ats Pizza). The most disgusting, misogynist hate filled rednecks I've ever met. The job market is abysmal and wages are even worse; you can kiss your career goodbye. The only people who seemed to thrive there were retirees and trust fund kids. The cost of living is deceptively high; income and sales taxes are on par with national numbers but property taxes are far higher than other states and you get less in return. Imagine paying $5000-7000 / year in property tax on an avg. priced house and not even having running water or trash removal provided. Electricity, natural gas, heating oil, car insurance, food and clothes are all more expensive than national averages by a factor of 1.5-2X. Aroostook county is one of the fastest growing centers for methamphetamine arrests in the country. Lyme Disease is rampant and if the ticks don't carry Lyme they probably have have Anaplasmosis, babesiosis, Rocky Mountain Spotted fever or worse. I once found 14 ticks on myself after a walk in the woods. Crime is under reported for more reasons than I can get into. Half my friends were diddled or raped growing up and schools, parents and authorities always looked the other way. That sort of thing doesn't happen here, its all good people here they would say. Nevertheless Maine has a higher rate of sexual assault and child molestation, as do most rural states. And just in case you're still reading; the locals are rude, insular, they have an inscrutable form of Pigeon English only they can speak and they smell like the mold covered trailers they all live in.

Cheers from York Maine, love seeing this awesome video. Not like the other bullshit ones up, nice work bub

Im 43 been in maine since i was a lio kid. York county

I live in Hancock my self. And I love every second of living here.

Hey!!! I live in York, Maine too! I work at a store in York, I’ll have to say hi if I see you!

Great breweries in Maine and little diners.

Southern Maine I don't even consider Tru Maine. Then again being from Aroostook County, it's also No Man's Land. Living there half my life and being away for the other half really makes miss it

BRAD BRO We share the same County in Maine! Glad to see somebody on yt that shares the same county as me 😄😂

I'm from Nebraska and I love your accent!! Lol:)

Do you recommend me to have an expedition as a student and live in York / Maine for the next 8-6 years??

If you drop your wallet in Ogunquit, kick it to Wells before you bend over to pick it up......Uncle Ray

Southern Maine is northern mass

Like Eastern Canada basically. Geographically at least.

I am moving to Florida and I live in Yarmouth Maine and I hate Maine..... it’s so cold it is pretty but there are a lot of trashy areas. There’s good food but in Yarmouth every thing is closed and you can’t go any where

I live in Las Vegas, Nevada and planning on moving to Maine (huge change I know!). I’m excited but scared. Thank you for the video!

I live in Connecticut :( literally counting the days until I can move up :)

The coast is fantastic to visit and good if you need lots of work options but up north are where the cheap property is at, especially if you can work remote.

Now the true question that everyone has been thinking, are the women hot or are they fat for eating too much lobster rolls?

Realize that the most desirable places to live in Maine are sporting more and more multi million dollar homes, driving the housing markets higher and higher. But you can still find neighborhoods at reasonable prices within Portland, especially if you’re used to the markets around the big cities. I follow the market there just for fun because I grew up there. I live on the west coast.

Northern Maine is the best . No Massholes

Honestly, northern maine begins at Bangor in my eyes. Augusta being central, York being south. Despite Bangor not being anywhere close to the actual northern region of Maine