Jello forever

That's what I was thinking:

Step 1: mow

Step 2: Beers and Burgers

Ohhhh, so you're a nurse. You're not in the law profession. That explains a lot.

Again, I'm aware of where the sirens are coming from. I have a good sense of direction. I know where the hospital is. I've been to the hospital before. If I didn't have a good sense of direction then I'd be fucked over.

That being said, I never insinuated that ambulances and firetrucks = "Portland is a bad city". That's nonsensical, "I just pulled a hammy" reaching. People get hurt all the time, whether they're shot by a gun or have a heart attack. Pretty normal stuff. I'm not factoring that into the equation.

Hearing all that stuff was surprising in my first year of living there because I lived in the suburbs all my life, not in the city, and thus, that's what I was used to. I grew numb to it after that. Almost any Joe Nobody would be surprised to see a gun on the median strip in a residential neighborhood, but when you've seen enough things, it becomes more of a "meh" thing to you. Obviously, that was probably not true in your case. It was true in mine. You do you.

I mean you seem totally clueless about why their would be sirens near a hospital.

Re: the town codes, the easiest way to avoid this is just to buy land outside of an incorporated town or city area, which OP would likely have to do anyway to get some decent acreage.

Once you're living in whatever township or other unincorporated area, you can largely do whatever you like as long as there isn't a state or federal law against it.

Best chips in Maine. Hands down

As someone who is relatively new to Maine the property taxes here are so dependent on which town you move to. My NH town was considered low tax. When we looked at some of the towns south of Bangor I was shocked at how much more I was going to have pay in property tax alone over my equivalent NH house. (To be fair I’m told that the town I was looking at is where all the doctors and lawyers live but it was a huge increase in tax burden even when you consider some of the other ways NH gets you)

“Oh you think portland has bad areas?! How about I bring up two cities that are in the top ten for crime rates in America!!!”

… uhhh okay? Lol

I've lived in cities for the last 30 years. I don't consider any of them "safe". I leave my shop on congress Street at 1030 most every night and walk to my car. Like in any other city I walk quickly and don't talk to people when I'm walking.

That said, there were 29 homicides in all of Maine in 2022. 15 were domestic. That would be 14 homicides by strangers in the entire state of Maine. There were 333 murders in Baltimore city alone during that period. Not the entire state of Maryland. Just the city. I used to walk around Baltimore at night too. It's an absolutely wonderful place to live but yeah, I watched my back something fierce.

Anyway. If you're convinced Portland is unsafe that's on you but in the relative space of a US state, yes Maine is absurdly safe. Do I take precautions going out, of course.

People commenting here seem like they are shitting their pants leaving their houses which is sad.

They kind of are, but not in the way we consider the term. Broad spectrum or non-selective on a label means kills/has effect on everything or many of that type (insects or grasses). Most insecticides, especially residentially labeled products, are selective. Spectracide kills ants, Acelepryn (which we can't get in Maine but should be able to), kills weevils, grubs/the beetles they grow into, and cutworms/sodwebworms. Insecticides and fungicides all have specialties

Most products are also only effective in certain life cycles. If you water down a grub treatment, it's not going to work on surface feeding insects. Depending on what you can get, it also likely isn't going to kill beetles anyway. Products like Provaunt that inhibit the growth of eggs only work on egg laying periods.

Insecticides may have other things written on the table as effective, but that usually a low bar. University of Kentucky has good trials of herbicides and Penn State has been doing some good stuff with White Grub trials.

Sadly, using whataboutisms is common whenever I, or anyone else, brings up that Maine is not a crime-free state or, in this case, Portland is a bad city. They always have to bring up an entirely different city in an entirely different state that...well, most of the time, is more dangerous than anything Maine has to offer, just because...I guess they have to be right or something. It's funny to watch but also sad at the same time.

You're not gonna bait me into talking about cities or states I've never been to and their crime stats that I know nothing about. Not happening.

> just one of the reasons

Read that again, but slowly.

Crime is crime, visible or not. Crime is bad. People can be bad. Bad people can make a city bad. Not a hard train of thought to follow.

And I'm aware of where the sirens are coming from, but thank you anyway. I didn't make my way in downtown Portland by having a lack of directional skills.

In terms of crime in Maine? You could say that. I haven't bore enough witness to the homeless scene in Portland so I can't say anything about that with confidence and I actively choose not to lest I want to look like a fool.

Different strokes for different folks. Can't help someone who doesn't want to help themselves. Can't snap someone out of the "Maine is totally and 100% safe, so safe I would let my infant play in the road of a through street" haze if they don't want to come to reality. Pretty much every city I've lived in in Maine has been safer than the downtown area of Portland to some extent or another.

The more harsh stuff comes forth the further you go down Congress Street, near where the library is and such. Double that if you go out at night.

A gun on the street would get my attention too. It just would have the same effect as someone telling me I'm a woman.

Work in the law profession and then get back to me on what constitutes the subjective term of "bad neighborhood" to you.

Serious. Billy didn’t give one fuck.

It's a big state where local control is strong with a wide variety of town cultures and ordinances; you've asked a very localized question without specifying a location.

Agreed. I thought is was crazy to move back here and that was the truck they gave me and then even crazier a walrus was the mascot...

Caratunk and that area gets some nasty thunderstorms. I mean, anyplace can get storms, but I'm just saying based on my cousin camping in the Caratunk area for years. She used to talk about them.

True. I'm thinking you might have to go further north than that area, up past Lincoln. My great grandfather was a farmer in the area. Used to spend summers up there. Bangor being your major shopping center and airport.

😂

Well, the walrus is probably more at home in Maine, than in South Carolina....

Burlington has a store in Bangor, if it's still open. S. Portland too. I like taking a quick spin through there because you can get linens and tablecloths, Macy's equivalent of quilts and comforters, for decent prices. I still have one lightweight quilt that's just over 10 years old, in good shape.

I love your chips, the only reason I found them is all of the stores in Lubec and Machias sell them and I am up there for work frequently.

I bought 2 boxes off of you guys a while ago and gave them to everyone who came visit for a while to spread the word!

I love these chips and do my best to tell everyone I know about them!

Yeah I suppose. Speaking of fsu, I spotted one of their members riding a motorcycle around when it was -15 a few weeks back. The meth has to be super strong these days

> dethatch, fertilize, crabgrass, bugs

The who the what now? You do realize this shit just grows itself, right?