The Pros and Cons of Living in Portland Maine

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When thinking about moving to Portland Maine, it's incredibly important to know both the pros and cons of living there. In this video, we go over both the great things and the downs sides of living in Portland Maine so that you can decide if it's the right place for you.
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@Livetheseacoast Год назад

You can download our FREE Re-location guide right here: bit.ly/407Wmas

@ggosbenton 13 часов назад

Thanks for the video!

@cow1816 11 месяцев назад

A thing to note for nightlife and more commodities is that from Portland, it's only a two hour trip down to Boston. If you want, you can easily book a hotel room for a night, drive down and go around Boston, sleep the night and come right back up the next day. It would be cutting it, but it's also totally possible to just take a day trip down to Boston.

@marianonicolasguzman4870 Год назад

Loved your video! Great pictures, information and edition 👏💪

@Livetheseacoast Год назад

Thank you so much! I'm glad you liked it.

@josephshepard2962 Год назад

100% accurate. Well done.

@Livetheseacoast Год назад

@Joseph Shepard thanks man! I truly appreciate the support.

@birdlynn417 Год назад

Access to ocean, that's all I need.

@Livetheseacoast Год назад

I hear you on that!!

@suzannederringer1607 11 месяцев назад

I lived in Portland and Peaks Island (which is part of Portland of course) for several years. It's a nice little city. Nice restaurants and some arts, etc. I always enjoyed the Public Library and the Farmers Markets in season. Also the WHOLE FOODS is excellent - or was, when i lived there. Its the only WHOLE FOODS in the State of Maine. The AMTRAK service made getting to Boston easy and pleasant. But as you've said, it's pretty monochromatic culturally. Diverse, it's not. And since rental housing is limited, it is expensive. That's true throughout Maine. There's also a Homeless/Addict population which is sad and frustrating. I enjoyed my time there. Wouldn't go back, though.

@Ricky-mo6mv 5 месяцев назад

Well it’s certainly very diverse now.

@braxx02 Год назад

People moving from wealthier areas like New York and LA is literally the main source of rising costs of living in Portland (particularly housing). The demand is too high.

@Livetheseacoast Год назад

I've spoken with clients from Singapore, Chile, and Tennessee in the last week interested in moving to Maine...it's not just NY and LA, it's all over!

@Ricky-mo6mv 5 месяцев назад

Yes, that’s exactly true. And less housing availability in general due to housing of asylum seekers.

@braxx02 5 месяцев назад

@@Ricky-mo6mv The housing crisis was here long before we started receiving asylum seekers. Most refugees are either living in city shelters until they're granted work visas, or working multiple jobs to afford rent. Blaming them is reductive and useless; landlords are able to charge more because the rent still doesn't compare to big cities, so it doesn't drive away newcomers. That wouldn't be as big a problem if our state built housing at a faster rate, but we weren't even keeping up with demand 10 years ago.

@Ricky-mo6mv 5 месяцев назад

@@braxx02 Yes, I misspoke in a sense. What I meant by housing was shelter from the elements in the form of actual shelters, apartments, or houses. And they are being placed in housing but, it isn’t talked about. The more asylum seekers we are blessed with, the less room and resources we have for everyone else. So it just makes a bad situation all that much worse. Which of course is the plan.

@wicked-smaht Год назад

Portland Maine has a ridiculous homeless problem. It used to be normal, its out of control now. Needles in the Old Port, walking trails, along the highway, intersections, there are tents everywhere!!!

@Livetheseacoast Год назад

Thanks for the comment!

@cow1816 11 месяцев назад

and it should be noted that the homeless problem isn't necessarily filled with people *from* Portland, but instead all over southern Maine coming down to Portland as the laws aren't as strict as other cities and towns.

@samron7298 10 месяцев назад

Every major city does right now

@Ricky-mo6mv 5 месяцев назад

@@cow1816 And from foreign countries while they wait for their free hotel room apartment

@rdtskjegg1153 4 месяца назад

Great video

@Livetheseacoast 4 месяца назад

Thanks for the visit

@SenorJuan2023 Год назад

Our winters in Tahoe aren't as bad in Maine and I'm used to them (moved here from the Deep South). What IS really annoying, though, is how long it takes to get consistently warm weather (70 plus degrees). The highs in late March/early April is in the 40's/50's, yet it takes about 3 months to get comfortable. Uggh!

@Livetheseacoast Год назад

I hear you on that...it usually starts warming up here around May or so...

@SenorJuan2023 Год назад

@@Livetheseacoast Our high yesterday was 54, a record low for the high temp on that date. Twenty degrees below normal.

@Ricky-mo6mv 5 месяцев назад

Yup, Maine weather is absolutely horrendous. This past year we didn’t even have a summer. This has happened a few times in recent years.

@craignedoff991 Год назад

Mainers are the friendliest Yankees

@Livetheseacoast Год назад

I agree! Thanks for the comment.

@jamesjirik2245 10 месяцев назад

Im ready to visit live and work threre. I do door dash & deliveries for spark/walmart. I love the outdoors and to walk and bike everywhere.

@Ricky-mo6mv 5 месяцев назад

That’s because we are so depressed and oppressed that we don’t have the resolve to fight and be bitter. Inside though, we are always wicked pissed.

@JohnBaxter-kn5zf 8 месяцев назад

So popular i moved outta there, places are closing up, the homeless is off the charts, rampant dug use.. Going down hill fast

@Ricky-mo6mv 5 месяцев назад

It can’t be overemphasized how true that is. Portland has turned into a highly priced ghetto, and everything it once had to offer has been destroyed. It’s called democrat leadership.

@lbozo7386 Месяц назад

So sad when baseball players start using all the dugs 😢

@michellebuckley1482 10 месяцев назад

I have lived here for forty years and Portland is not the POrtland that made people want to be here. In the past decade it has been obliterated by development to a city that you can’t even recognize anymore. It’s appeal was the diversity of classes… millionaires at the bar sitting next to fishermen sitting next to homeless people, all sharing a conversation with each other. Now it’s just a city of outsiders and elites, who have taken over and pushed out all of the locals, and it breaks my heart every time I drive through the airport, Portland used to have a great city Council that did not allow any chain businesses in the old port section of town. Now all you see are Dunkin’ Donuts Starbucks and all of the others. The entire town has been just polluted by it. Portland is not Portland anymore and you cannot advertise it as that anymore. It’s a perversion of what it used to be and it is sad to anyone who has ever lived here before.

@samron7298 7 месяцев назад

You can say the exact same thing about every decent city in this country, it’s the way of the world my friend 😊

@Ricky-mo6mv 5 месяцев назад

I have lived in a town 20 minutes away for all 47 of my years, so I know Portland very well. What you say is right on the money, but don’t forget about the “asylum seekers.” Oh boy! Portland couldn’t be any more disgusting if you tried. I don’t even know anyone that doesn’t avoid it like the plague these days. It makes you want to vomit. I honestly feel the presence of evil whenever I am unfortunate enough that I have to go there. So terrible that Portland has been sacrificed, and we both know that the same inflictions that destroyed Portland are migrating to surrounding towns/cities.

@lbozo7386 Месяц назад

Good thing those stupid homeless people aren’t talking to me!!!

@Filmblanc 9 месяцев назад

This is a laughable endorsement for Portland spoken like a true realtor who's trying to upsell you. The city is crawling with homeless people, homeless encampments, utterly insane cost of living, chain businesses and so on. All of the nice aspects of the city come nowhere close to compensating for these issues. Sure it's fine to visit in the summer, but I never want to stay for long and can't wait to leave. Living there would be absolutely out of the question.

@Ricky-mo6mv 5 месяцев назад

The only people who can afford to live in Portland are “asylum seekers” and Americans working the system who then sell drugs out of their apartment. Taking a ride through Portland, Maine is like looking through a window at the end of times.

@suzannemiley2141 4 месяца назад

How do homeless people live there in the winter 🥶

@brennanplante2779 Месяц назад

@@suzannemiley2141they go to the shelters until summer

@S3aCa1mRa1n Год назад

Is it really 66 I thought the population was higher because of the influx of people during COVID

@Livetheseacoast Год назад

I think it's closer to 68K now, but yeah it's right around there. Thanks for the comment!

@Ricky-mo6mv 5 месяцев назад

They probably don’t even count illegal immigrants- because you can’t. So it’s really 96.

@nikitakucherov5028 Год назад

Con - cold 🥶 very very cold 🥶

@Livetheseacoast Год назад

So true it is cold! Thanks for the comment!

@blackpillfitness9136 Год назад

It’s cold half of the year and Fu€%!@$? perfect the other half. It got the name vacationland for the great spring and summer weather

@freddy7304 Год назад

@@blackpillfitness9136 hot weather is overrated, ive lived in south florida for 30 years.

@heatherjordan8038 Год назад

Sure is! That's how we keep the tourists away lol

@ryantinker8598 11 месяцев назад

It’s actually not that cold anymore. Few weeks out of the year.

@vonBottorff Год назад

I moved from a Lake Superior resort town to Portland earlier this year, tried it for a few weeks, then moved back. My main criticism is that Portland is a city, and I (age 67) discovered (the hard way!) I'm just not doing cities anymore. On the up side I'd say Portland is a tremendous city if you're not able to completely relocate to Europe. I noticed immediately there is cultural and historical, if not intellectual depth that we in the Midwest simply don't have. But again, Portland is a modern American city, e.g., downtown has homeless and mentally-ill people. And let's face a fact, America is going through a "bad patch" socially, psychologically, politically, and, yes, Portland is better than most, but not Shangri La. Still, if you're young then yes, Portland! Not the other Portland or anything West Coast for sure. For an American city Portland has probably the best cost-benefit ratio. But again, it's a city in modern America. I want to try New England again, but just not a city. HTH.

@heatherjordan8038 Год назад

We have hundreds of towns and some of them are close to Portland with access to the whole southern Maine area. I live in one off of the 95 and I can get to anywhere within 20-30 min.

@pierreaucoin2480 11 месяцев назад

So being an inland Mainer, (real Maine). I visited. I was wearing my army veteran hat, standing in line and had some young Portlander jump in front of me and called me a neo-facist. Then he disappeared before I could even fathom what he said. I will avoid going to this liberal dump the rest of my life. And I will never forget it.