PORTLAND, Maine: Gloomy, Grey & Beautiful 

Portland is not always gray and gloomy, during the summer and fall and often the winter its sunny and bright . I hope you come back and see more of Maine that just Portland. Southern Maine from the NH border to Portland is very different that the other two thirds of the state. We are a largely rural place with vast expanses of country and coastal areas. Its a very diverse state with wealth along the coast and a lot of poverty inland. Its a beautiful place to visit and I am fortunate enough to live here.

I live in the Portland area and love it. As they say here there is no such thing as bad weather only bad clothes.

One of the few places i think i would enjoy.

I lived & worked in Portland about 26-28 years ago as an Operating Room Nurse. Loved everything about the city, including the weather. The Old Port had tons of great restaurants, coffee shops, and small retail shops. Really want to come back here some day now that I'm retired. My favorite city in the country.

Portland is one of the deepest ports in the east, and one of a few that can handle the huge oil tankers. They are quite awesome to see.

I was stationed with the Coast Guard back in 1969 (rough duty), and fell in love with the city and its friendly people.

Congress Street is the main downtown street here. It’s three blocks North of Commercial St.

FYI - Most of those 3-story houses are actually multi-unit buildings. The smaller buildings have 1 unit per floor. Some of the larger ones have 2 apartments per floor. There are single-family homes mixed in with the apartment buildings.

Portland is a great place to visit in the summer and fall. Spring? Not so much, though you could get lucky and hit it on a nice day. You are correct, on a sunny day, that view is spectacular.

There is an English (UK) vibe about that City. It's bigger than most English fishing villages and towns but the weather was certainly similar! :)

Portland, Maine and Santa Fe, NM are my favorite small cities. Both are beautiful and have great food scenes.

I am Texas born and bred but married a Mainer. All my kids are Mainers. Been exploring Maine for well over 30 years and still haven’t seen all it’s beautiful nooks and crannies. So many areas that are more spectacular than Portland.

Joe & Nic ... Go to Bar Harbor, Maine ... Beautuful place. Pronounced Baa Haabour !

Great video showing Portland! Love that you visited the docks and looked at the lobster boats.

I visited Portland Maine about 10 years ago…..was there on a cruise ship. I live on the west coast…..one one thing that stood out to me was the vendors on the piers selling the BEST lobster rolls !!,

Three story houses are New England's original multi family dwellings. I grew up where we called them 3 family houses.

I’m from Québec, so Portland is not too far (approx 5 hour car drive). I went 2 times there and fell in love the first time. Portland is a beautiful city, especially the downtown area. The building architecture is amazing and you have the ocean nearby on top of that. The Two Light state park at Cape Elisabeth is a place I will go every few years.

I would love this weather! I like it cold, wet and gray.

I come from Lake Michigan shores, which I believe is mystical, but I have never seen such an hypnotic shoreline, mystical and powerful! Thank you for this wonderful view of the North Atlantic Shoreline!!!!

I lived in Portland for a while it's beautiful and not gloomy all the time

We love Portland, Maine, one of the best small cities in the USA, with great history and an amazing food scene.

The cold, New England weather keeps us hardy. Thank you for sharing!

Worked up all over Maine in 2022 in April, loved the weather got to venture into NH as well...very refreshing from the Houston Heat Love the channel

I'm glad you enjoyed your little tour of our town. :) I hope you make your way back when it's a little more sunny and warmer. The bay on a clear day is really a sight to see. You couldn't see all the islands because of the fog. Please come back when you have a bit more time. There's a lot more to see here.

Thanks for the tour of Portland ME. Looks like a beautiful old city.

I love gray skies and an overcast. I'd take it over hot, humid, and sunny any day. I bet the wind really sucks in this city though.

should have come up further to west central part where the mountains and forests are, im about an hour and a half north of augusta, hello there and nice vlog

Go to Winter harbor, Rockland, or Booth bay if you want to see fishing boats or lobster boats

My Dad was born in Portland, ME in 1928. His father delivered supplies to all the lighthouses from New Bedford, MA. I was only there one day when I was a very small child, I’ve always wanted to visit that lighthouse! ❤️

Portland Maine has always been a place I wanted to visit . Hope to make it up there . Thank you for showing this.

Portland, Maine is a lot less of a fishing town than it used to be. Most of the "working waterfront" has been converted to really expensive condominiums. When a lobster man retires, no one replaces him. As someone who has lived in both Portlands (Maine and Oregon) I can tell you that the naming of the newer isn't as flattering as it seems. Two men settled in the north west where Portland, Oregon would eventually be. One was from Boston, the other from Maine. They flipped a coin to decide which city their new settlement would be named after. The man from Portland _LOST_. Neither man wanted their home city to be memorialized. They went west to get away from their birthplaces, and the families that lived there.

Thanks for this video. Just watched your rural Maine video. Looking forward to another one on Maine.

Thank you Joe and Nic! There are parts of the Maine coast are dramatically Beautiful as you know.

Try visiting Maine in the Summer. I will tell you something cool you wont read in a travel book. You can go to NH's lakes region and drive an hour east and be in Portland. Drive an hour south from Portland and be in Portsmouth NH or Hampton Beach. From the same Maine/NH lakes region, you can drive to Mt. Washington in an hour, too. So what i just said is you can be within an hour of great skiing, shopping or fishing and all those places have a great live music scene and fantastic food. You just got a bad weather day to be in Maine on your trip. Oh, yes and renting a room is cheaper inland most of the time as well. May i suggest you rent a lake cottage for a week in August when Dallas is broiling hot but Maine is perfect, then go to the moutains, go sea fishing, go swimming in the lakes. Go shopping for a day and spend some evenings dining at some of the best places to eat. I could keep going but it would take all day to write all the fun things you could do here.

You missed a lot of downtown based on this video and some cool neighborhoods too. Still a good video.

There are many places to visit if you go in the summer. Portland, at one point maybe not now, had one of the highest ratio of bars per square mile. Kennebunkport has the Bush family summer home. A lot of rich people. Also Bar Harbor. Lots of small niche bars and restaurants with Acadia National Park nearby. First national park east of the Mississippi. Western Maine is known for skiing in the winter. Clean lakes and rivers everywhere. Northern Maine has long trails for snowmobiles. Also the beginning or end of the Appalachian trail around Mt Katahdin if you're into hiking. Then not far from Portland is Bath Iron Works which is one of two shipyards making destroyers for the Navy. Grew up in Maine but for me it's a place to visit/vacation not live.

Awesome videos brotha I want to experience New England so beautiful out there

The weather flips on a dime in each season here, as Mark Twain said: "if you don't like the weather in New England, wait a few minutes. Windy and cold is not the norm for Portland, nor Maine. We are used to improvising, adapting and overcoming. If you come back, check out the West End, there are some pretty homes there. Also, check out Maine's first brew pub since prohibition, opened in 1988, Gritty McDuff' on Fore St. in the Old Port. The restaurant Fore Street is renowned for it's food as is David's restaurant. I worked at Gritty's for a few years as a cook and waitress while attending college at The Maine College of Art in the 90s. They brew on premise, make a nice stout and many other traditional English beers. The Halloween ale was my favorite. The summer ale is refreshing. At the time, the shepherd's, chicken/sweet potato, and steak & kidney pies were all customer favorites. I recall many early a.m. pastry making sessions, at that time, it was made by hand. ( I still have the recipe) I also made homemade pate for the ploughman's lunch. Being a native Mainer your surprise regarding education was not a surprise, Maine people have long been assumed as being uneducated, I realize that was not your intent though. Thanks for visiting Maine, I hope you can come back and visit some other places. I'd be happy to give you some cool local favorite spots to go to on your next foray into Maine.

Beautiful area in all weather. Follow more north to York Maine take back way into nubble light house follow further take a nice walk along the rocks in ogunquit beautiful views and old fishing area.

thank you but your take on the weather well lets just say this is great

Portland, gloomy & gray... for a second I thought you were describing our Portland, here on the West Coast.

Husband stationed Brunswick scenery like a picture winters bad.. people are friendly. I swear there are GHOSTS IN MAIN.. FOUND BEAUTIFUL OLD FURNITURE IN OLD OLD BARNS. CLAM BAITS.. FRESH SEAFOOD. WE HAD THE BEST LANDLORD BEING MILITARY AND ALL.

I had my first lobster roll at Andy's! Thanks for helping me relive great memories

Try visit Maine again. The richest towns are Scarborough, Cape Elizabeth, Yarmouth, Falmouth, etc. basically the entire Cumberland county. Booth bay and kennebunkport are spectacular too. Maine also has great beers. My favorite is the Red Ale by Nonesuch brewery in Scarborough. Nothing better than a summer night in Maine with good beer and lobster.

Westerrn Promanade is all three story condos since before 1999. I lived in the city there for over a Decade in the80's, early 90's. Far different and more diverse people then. It was a very easy place to live on a small budget, while doing Uni. Quite different than you went, and much more so today. Go in the Summer. Everyone's on an island or hiking in the mountains. It's busy with tourists, but overall, quite nicer than whenever you chowe to go.

I was stationed in Brunswick, there was a Naval air station there. Lot's of snow in the winter. My friend and I found the base rented canoes . So we got one. First place was the ocean. Dumb, didn't understand tides. we floated about 1 mile down and had to paddle like heck to make it to the shore. So we figured we would go to this pond. Mistake. The guy that lived there put out Lobster traps. As we were going by them he started shooting a gun at us. My friend panicked and turned the boat over. So we hung on to the boat and swam to the edge of the pond. Good thing we put our wallets in sandwich bags.

I truly enjoyed the Vedic you. We went though were I grow up

I relate to your comments about the weather. Weather in the Northeast, almost anywhere, is atrocious. I lived in NYC for 40 years, having moved there from Texas, and the weather was a constant thorn. Nice, mild sunny days were golden, but there were so few of them. Except for the two summer months, it was mostly overcast, rainy, chilly, windy. Finally, after 40 years of it, I'm now living in San Diego, Calif. It's better by a long shot, but not as nice as Texas. Having said that, Texas weather has become extreme in recent years, due to climate change - not sure I would be that happy with it nowadays.

Love cooler weather. We ate at the Portland Lobster Company, you walked past at 5:20 into the video. Gotta try the Holy Donuts in Maine. Did Cape Elizabeth and the Portland Headlight, too.

Thanks for sharing i grew up in Portland Maine. Congress street is the Main Street. Munjoy hill was where all the large homes are overlooking casco bay. The weather stinks from September to April-may. I joined the army to escape and never moved back.

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I always feel bad for those who visit Maine and miss so much. You missed a lot of old forts. If you really wanted to see Maine you have to travel well past the city of Portland.

Bet it's beautiful when the sun is out.

You should introduce yourselves to the Maine Cabin Masters, they are on youtube as well. You might decide you want a cabin in the woods for you and your family one day. They are that good. :)

I know you're from Texas but it's still funny that you find 45* so cold. That's barely windbreaker/hoodie sweatshirt weather for a New Englander lol. Still, I'm glad you find our corner of the country enjoyable!

When I was growing up in Portland, Congress Street was downtown not Commercial St ..... Congress Street has Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's house on it, City Hall was there ... Old Port off Commercial Street had some great restaurants ... altho it has been 25 plus yrs since I have been there ...

Portland has such a concentration of people with college degrees because it’s about the only place in Maine with a decent amount of good jobs requiring college degrees. For most Maine college grads the choice is move to Portland or go out of state (I chose option 2).

surprised to see fall had fell already! No leaves

Maine can and does get hot during the summer months. Talking 80s and 90s with humidity. To bad you visited during a cold damp period. By all means come back during the summer.

My brother and his wife often go to Portland in order to buy fresh fish.

The only way to see the Old Port area is on foot. There are a lot of hidden gems down those cobblestone alleys.

Should head to Bucksport. Kinda partial because its my hometown but its beautiful. One of the most beautiful towns in Maine. Spoiled me. I go anywhere and its a dump in comparison. They have a view of fort knox, penobscot narrows bridge, and has an awesome riverwalk that stretches the downtown. Townspeople are kind, even to tourists. Lol. Also, Bucksport is like Salem, Massachusetts ' little sister. Their were witch trials and controversy behind the towns founders, and actually had public hangings at city hall ( im gonna guess not the current one). If you like nature, bucksports 90% wooded. It has gotten alot better than when i grew up and even though our mill closed, we refused to let it kill our little town.

I love your videos!

I like it a lot

I spent one winter in Portland ME it was brutal! I grew up in NJ and PA It was way worse in Portland . And I'm the kind of person that likes 4 seasons.

Those three story homes are multi family homes not single family, one thing I've realized bringing people from away to New England is they assume everyone has really big houses but don't realize they are apartments because they don't look like apartments where they are from

This is where I'd live,if I lived in the US. Love it.

Grey and gloomy in April and May but the rest of the months it's sunny.

Poor Lobsters, I always feel so sorry for them. No, I don't eat shellfish. Thank you, for your tour, I like your style and you made it comfortable.

It looks so much like England

You could always take the ferry over to Peaks Island.

Its a nice city, the downtown has places to walk. Visit Reid State Park about 10 miles away for a cool beach, clean and sandy. So you went there in the off-season?, hit some weather? waaaah its cold!

It's the norm for early March - so what? It's gorgeous in the late spring through early fall. You can film in L.A. and have grey, rainy days. Sheesh! BTW: I'm from NYC, not Portland.

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Hey Spoda...if I heard correctly you said that Portland Maine is right across the bridge you showed us in the video you did in Portsmouth new Hampshire...if that's true then talk about a double whammy...what a beautiful area to visit...

3:57 -- Lots of Scandinavians in Maine.

Lol.... here in Maine, we have something called "winter". You will notice there are not even any leaves on the trees. If you visited here during the summer, especially lately, you could easily find weather nearly as miserable as that in places like Texas!

I have never been to that part of the country. I would love to visit Maine. I hope you have a video of cities in Rhode Island, Vermont, and Massachusetts.

You are not in northern Maine untill you hit Bangor

I’m sorry you visited when it was gray and gloomy. We are not a Seattle or Portland Ore. other than winter most days are sunny and warm. The graffiti you portray are not gang related like other cities such as Boston or NYC with gangs but local artists trying to just color up the brick city. Moved here in 2005, never felt safer, and will stay here. This place is the best. You want mostly sunny days (other than winter), safe neighborhoods, good jobs, and friendly people, welcome to Portland ME!

Portland is actually pretty hot in the summer. Lots of 80 degree days and even some 90s. Too hot for me. As others have said, the Portland area is not representative of the rest of Maine. I live about half way up the coast on the ocean side of an island and we only have a few hot days (above the high 70s) a year. Also, the only significant fishing in Maine is lobstering with scallop fishing a distant second.

Yeah, you definitely need to come back. This is not "Life here" at all. I get you could assume that... However, its cool that folks assume this because we like to keep it quiet here.

Graffiti competition with Portland Oregon?

When you are highlighting gas prices/house averages/age groups/etc, please include in your verbal narrative the year you are noting/filming these figures. Your videos are enjoyable and helpful, however as years go by it would be nice to allow for some probable fluctuation in current market figures.

Contrary to popular belief, it can get extremely hot in Maine. It's not like Canada where it's frozen all year round.

What is recommended accommodations? I really want to go up all around there

Portland is a nice place and worth visiting. I do have some memories when I was 13 we were there, our car was broken into and they stole anything of value. The best part the imbeciles stole our double salted licorice ( from the Netherlands) they must have gotten one hell of a shock when the bit into it. But it’s still a great place to visit.

You mention how many 3 story homes you see @4:53. You should have checked out Worcester, Ma. while cruising through New England. Surprised you didn't as Worcester is the 2nd largest city in New England. It would have blown your mind w/your reaction. The city is well known for having "one" of the most 3-Deckers as we call them, in the U.S.. Even in the nicer neighborhoods of the city there are 3-Deckers "3 family" homes everywhere. Most are very nice except in the South portion of the city off of Main Street.

Portland does not have anywhere near a metro of 550,000. Its about 125,000. Maines entire population is 1.2 mil.

Just up the road is B&M Baked Beans !!!

Many immigrants in the early 1900s would buy these three story buildings and rent the apartments they didn't need. My family owned a bunch of them in Cambridge, Massachusetts until about 15 years ago.

Those three story houses are probably subdivided into apartments.

More like sky cover.

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It was 82 at 6 AM

Don't fall in Joey. Although , that would be Epic , lol

Have you seen the state of US cities? College degrees mean nothing and few people are actually being "educated" these days. God Bless the good people of Portland.

Looks like a dreary cold day? The only thing cold weather is good for is snuggling and sleeping

Why can't you call a house vacant, instead of empty or abandoned?