Expect that your pay will be about the same (or less, Maine is stingy for education professionals) but your housing costs will be double or more.

Housing is egregiously expensive because of the Boston and NYC areas slowly spreading into smaller town zones in the Northern New England states. Specifically in Maine, lots of wages don’t match up to what housing costs and opportunities for career growth are much fewer than in a more populated area. Kansas and Maine are both places to settle and drop anchor, but much tougher if you’re looking to cultivate a new and improved beginning. Unless you luck out and find a job that earns you more than 50k per year, I wouldn’t move here.

Around 20k per year.

I wish I made more, but early childhood teachers don't make shit. 😕

Hey just so you don’t get your hopes up, queer people still have it rough in many rural parts of Maine. Not trying to keep you out but just want you to have a realistic idea. Trans people in particular would not want to live in my town, for instance. It would be quite tough for them.

Portland and other bigger towns and cities are very accepting though.

What’s your income level? Housing prices have doubled for the most part over the last 3 years. So an average $200K home now goes for $400K+.

Southern Maine is the more diverse/accepting area of the state but it’s also the most expensive. Most of the jobs are found here.

1-bedroom apartments are now going for $1500+ in the Portland area (our largest city).

Paint me like one of your maine scenes

Go to Starbucks, grab a fancy coffee. Go to liquor store and grab some nips. Sit someplace cool and enjoy. 😬

Very cool, I love it!

What an.....interesting take.

This is stunning and so beautifully done! It looks like a real photograph.

Housing market sucks ass but we could certainly use more early childhood educators

Culturally you'll get along fine. Maine has a small-town culture where people get by how they can, help each other out, and mostly leave people alone to live their lives. It's not too different from what I've seen in the rural Midwest, just with trees and hills instead of corn.

Edit: we also have our share of backwards-ass bigots but for the most part they aren't as loud or aggressive as in Kansas and they don't have any power in the legislature (at least for now)

I see.

I feared the housing situation was gonna be the toughest.

Ugh. Why is it that the states most accepting of queer people tend to be the most expensive, and the most affordable states tend to be hostile???

Though DEW Haven markets themselves as an animal rescue sanctuary, they actively breed exotic animals and buy/sell animals from other similar facilities to display. They have been investigated and cited for the illegal importation of exotic animals into the state and for the mistreatment and poor conditions at their facility.

From a moral standpoint, neither Dew Haven nor York's Wild Kingdom should be in possession of the animals they currently display.

So housing is going to be the toughest aspect of your move. Neither renting or owning is cheap nor easy as we have a serious crunch. Probably the biggest change will be having access to a coast but to be fair i don't know Kansas from the price of eggs in china. We have fewer bigots but not zero and some of the areas of the state that are most affordable could feel like they are every where.

It's the only place I've ever felt sick on the Merry-Go-Round. I swear they have all the ride speeds turned up and keep you on for an unreasonable amount of time.

I am from York and I will never go there.

Won't ever go to DEW again. We have been multiple times, used to live near the area. I find the enclosures - while bigger than York - to be too small and just dirt. It basically looks like a run down farm that somebody put wild animals at without cleaning up the place. The owner comes across as unbalanced and doesn't know how to properly relate with customers. Was on a tour with a group of young girl scouts and had him going off on this experiences in war (sounded like he was talking about Vietnam) and interactions with "stupid animal lovers" (which turned out to be scientists with animal behavior degress) who don't actually know anything they are talking about while he knows how to take care of all his animals. I'm not saying he doesn't love them or he is intentionally treating them badly, but loving something and doing the right thing do not always go together.

Lol it actually wasn't bad in late July. But I do think of that with lake/pond paintings haha.

As someone else commented, the family will always have access to the plot. Of course it could make selling the property more difficult, because the buyer cannot use or develop the burial area, and they have to allow family access to the graves permanently. The burial plot can't be more than 1/4 acre, so it's probably not that big of a deal in most cases.

Dammit. Busted

Not all vehicles.

Who says oil and water don’t mix?

Not sure if this got up and running but it’s in Dresden:

https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/state/proposal-would-allow-viking-style-funeral-pyres-in-maine/97-736af899-9606-4951-940e-1b4ee0ea187d

Check out Rainbows End in Orrington. We've used them before.

I thought it was fine