Muffler Bearing
Senior Member
It's pretty terrible, tell everyone you know, stay away from Colorado.
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Thinking about Moving to Maine
- Thread starter Zewnten
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Well, be prepared for sticker shock when you look at the houses listed for sale. Also, be prepared for the heat wave down there. We are soooo glad we moved out of Texas and up here to Ohio last winter. Don't think we will ever go back.
jeff
Truck Shop
Senior Member
Glad I live where I do. No Hurricanes, No Tornados, No lake effect snow, No swamps, No humidity.
Average winters, average summers. Off in the uncrowded SE part of the state, in the edge of the
Blue Mountains with the Columbia and Snake Rivers not far away.
Average winters, average summers. Off in the uncrowded SE part of the state, in the edge of the
Blue Mountains with the Columbia and Snake Rivers not far away.
Spud_Monkey
Senior Member
Blizzards, no humidity, hail storms, snow storms, tornadoes, extreme temperature swings, high barometric mean pressures (31.42) Hg 1064 mb), droughts, wild fires, gusting winds up to 80 mph, heat waves up to 115 degrees and arctic fronts down to 40 below zero with 60 below windchills... What's to not love about here 
Tongue and Yellowstone rivers not far away from here too.
Tongue and Yellowstone rivers not far away from here too.
Truck Shop
Senior Member
Doesn't rain like that here.
I didnt like it for several reasones were you live and what you like is your choice . We moved there when i was in school . It was a small school at the start of the year there was just a hand full in my class but before the year was up it had grown to 3 times its size there wasnt enough desks books or room i didnt have books for 2 classes and flunked one of them. That teacher was a real ass hole he cussed me out in class one day because i didnt anwser a question on some home work how could i with out a book. They had several complants about him but all the facalty were buddys and they couldnt get rid of him. Then all the kids that were born there didnt want to make friends with out siders because of the way things were every year a bunch of new kids moved to town and over crowed the school making it tuff on every one . The new kids didnt want to make friends ether they were from familys that were moving around alot and know they wouldnt be there long. On top of that it was a 4 day school week so it was a long day my mom was going through a bad time and i didnt ever have a lunch or have money for lunch. In was away from every thing i had grown up with. Any time you grow up in area and like it then move to some were along ways away its going to be different . Before that we lived in Iowa for 2 years i liked it there and steal have friends from there. What people do is there own choice and if it dosent affect me or hurt others i dont care but i liked the days of dont ask dont tell.
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BigWrench55
Senior Member
Beers?
Mike L
Senior Member
Says the guy from a state that nobody wants to live in.All I remember about Texas was steers and ............dam, what was that phrase?
I was in Oklahoma last August for my stepdaughters wedding. Didn’t feel much different than south Texas did. It’s hot. No doubt about it. But I’m fed up with the cold. And the snow. And the low wages. And the taxes. And the left leaning welfare recipients who think they’re owed a living. Oops, did I say that?
Truck Shop
Senior Member
To keep it straight--It doesn't matter what state anyone moves to there is always going to be political
issues.
Now lets keep it on track without political views.
issues.
Now lets keep it on track without political views.
digger doug
Senior Member
My friend worked a job near the border with vermont in Ny state (around LakeSays the guy from a state that nobody wants to live in.
Champlain) he said driving over the border was like entering ....."another country ?" I asked...
He said "No, like another planet."
Mike L
Senior Member
I’m not trying to get political but I was asked what things about maine I don’t like and I replied. Maine is a great place to live and a hard place to make a living. When I moved to Texas I took a job for a construction company that built roads and pads in the oilfield and also did ranch maintenance. I pulled 6 figures plus a house and a service truck. My wages were good but not out of the normal for the area. I never knew a mechanic could make that kind of money. When I moved back I went to work at a dealership running their service truck and took a 35% pay cut. I wasn’t able to make Texas money up here until I started my own business. Maine really should be divided into two states. The southern half is where the majority of people are and that’s where most of the people from “away” come from. We call that place northern Massachusetts. The northern half of the state is like old school maine- rural and sparsely populated. Unfortunately there’s not much of an economy there. I’ve got plenty more to say but HEF is probably not the place to do it. Also, Maine doesn’t have Texas bbq.
mg2361
Senior Member
Truck Shop
Senior Member
What about that five gallon bucket of dipp'in sauce?
treemuncher
Senior Member
And yet the fishermen are only getting paid $1.75/pound of fresh caught lobster here in Washington County. Lots of them have stopped fishing until prices rebound. Anyone burning lots of diesel knows their pain but when the market treats them like this, it hurts the entire community.
We rebound back to TN and the extreme heat at the end of the week. Maine is a great place when the temps run 50's-70's every day while it's been hitting 100 with high humidity at home in TN. Maine is not so nice if you don't like cold and snow in the winter months. Lots of miles of trails for snowmobiles and side by sides but this is the least motorcycle friendly state I've ever travelled in - the entire Northwest portion of Maine is off limits to motorcycles in the timberland areas. But it's home for the wife so we enjoy our visits with friends and family.
