Denver sucks. The food is inedible. Every single meal, if it were up to Denverites, would be wet burritos. That’s all they eat. Wet burritos. There are so many crack-smoking schizophrenic homeless people that it becomes a permanent fixture of your eyes, always one or two twitching under the cover of a blanket while tying off against an abandoned storefront, or squatting against a wall of a middle school to squeeze out a diseased yellow torrent of diarrheal spray over a pile of used needles. One can hardly step foot outdoors without seeing a display of abject human degeneracy, and one needs only to remain outside for a period of ten minutes or more to hear the demented yelling of vulgarities that tweaking ghouls cast about the neighborhoods they terrorize. The architecture is tasteless glass skyscrapers intermingled with the once-robust failing brick building of earlier times. Even among the not drug addicted, the normal people are comprised still only of thugs and three-toothed thieves. The only redeemable part of Denver is it’s proximity to nature, which, ironically, means that the only good part of Denver is when you leave Denver.
Colorado is a big state. There’s a lot to love about it, and you don’t need to live in Denver to enjoy any of it.
Grew up in Denver, went in 2020 for a brief visit but didn't go anywhere/do much. Haven't really been since 2013. So disheartening for me to read this but yeah I know it's become a total shit hole. Park Hill will always have my heart.
>Is this a good idea?
I sold my house in CA and had a major surplus of funds to purchase a great deal of property in Maine. I had to outbid several people on it so be prepared to possibly pay more than you initially thought but at the prices you can pick property up for, it is a win/win.
I have several friends looking to move there too. CA is just too much to bare these days sadly.
>outbid several people on it so be prepared to possibly pay more than you initially thought
This is what morons do. Always lowball at least 20% off what is asking price. Even if they say no it seals the deal for getting it at what was listed. Imagine paying MORE than asking price. Imbecile.
You obviously havent bought property post-2020. The market isnt what it used to be. Only the shittiest of properties will go for less than or equal to the asking price
i don't understand why people get so upset about Californians moving to other states??
MOST of the californians who move to other states are at least right adjacent so it's not as if they're moving there to frick it all up.
they're bringing money and value to your broke ass states.
san fran gays don't move out of state, they move to fresno or Bakersfield.
quit b***hing you pussies. your state sucks.
Maine sucks. Lived and worked there for 15 years. Expensive real estate, super out of shape populace, no culture (everything is fake, prefab larping as old Maine if not just a nondescript gas station), an alarming amount of pedophiles, and a bit of a food desert, to boot.
I thought it was going to be this chic, white, WASPy enclave and it was just New England's Walmart. Everyone has a CPAP machine and talks about it, endlessly. Oldest average population in the country. A lot of mobility issues.
And stay the frick away from Portland unless you like maudlin junkies, dirty lawyers, super Karens, and libs with PCOS, long Covid, and Subarus full of McFlurry cups.
Try West Virginia, Idaho, Montana or North Dakota instead.
Of the two, West Virginia. Off the beaten path, but close to the Eastern Seaboard. Probably as cheap as it gets for the Upper South, too. The people are pretty rustic, but it still beats a bunch of neurodivergent degenerates.
Maine is great to live in but i'd strongly recommend against southern maine - personally just moved out of portland because I couldn't stand it. Both the local culture and economy are catered towards tourism and it's obnoxious. Portland and its suburbs are an awful place to live in if you're looking for work that isn't an entry level career with no advancement and the cost of living in horrible for what it's worth. Expect to pay $800+ a month (if you're lucky) on rent. Suburbs also aren't worth it because the cost of living is going up FAST - I couldn't afford to move back to my hometown even if I wanted to. If you want a comfy life in maine, buy actual property in either rural northern or western maine.
also been here for my entire life and everything this guy is saying is true especially about portland
Almost 10k a year. If you make 40k post tax that 25% of your salary just being donated to a landlord for the privilege of having shelter and if you don't pay once all your shit gets kicked to the curb and ruined. You build no equity. $800 a month down the drain for nothing absolutely nothing.
>$800 a month down the drain for nothing absolutely nothing.
Except a place to live for an entire month and storage for all your belongings?
Are you the guy that rents a blockbuster movie and gets mad he can't keep it forever?
Maine is a leader in nothing to do, unless dying from alcohol poisoning is something to do.
Stick to ET. Most things "to do" are just empty psy-op driven degeneracy. Find a spiritual path and travel it.
And here I thought I could slash off a few seemingly shit states but you guys are actually recommending ones like WV? This is ongoing analysis paralysis and my parents aren't happy about it.
Maine is great if you arent in the middle of a shit town/city. The ocean, the winters, the forests, the lack of Black folk, safe from the insanity of big cities. If you like the typical social shit obviously you should go to a big city, when the people run out of food and start getting served bugs you might want to get the frick out of there though.
just as disgusting as any other city. seriously. plus rent is too much for what you get. but at least you arent buying cords of wood. also what peninsula?
heres what i do: visit the bigger towns (not cities) on google street view. rate them. take the best 3 and triangulate somewhere between. proceed to bet your savings against finding work nearby. then, try living there.
Maine is great if you arent in the middle of a shit town/city. The ocean, the winters, the forests, the lack of Black folk, safe from the insanity of big cities. If you like the typical social shit obviously you should go to a big city, when the people run out of food and start getting served bugs you might want to get the frick out of there though.
i can go years without seeing a black person or hearing a siren. i dont care where you idiots come from just dont frick this up for us
oh... i've already got a job lined up there (started remote). looking to buy a place too, cause frick renting... visited in the spring and gorham/scarborough seemed not too bad for the little i saw of it. was just wondering if there were any specific things to know about the town
peninsula - just meant portland proper, like the "island" not mainland.
there are other places doing it better with less. ellsworth is probably most recognizable but still a shithole. as for scarborough i get the impression of 1 big strip mall, reminds me a lot of florida. you get transplants who end up getting stuck, in fact the only homeless dude i talked to there was from florida.
but its all much more of an urban hellhole than other places especially because of this spitball tourism situation, which imo is a bit misplaced and undeserving; and now the residents have to wade thru the fallout in their daily routine. its fricking psychological torture being there. i know this cuz they come up to belfast and b***h about it.
and tourists are morons right? well they fricking LOVE portland and the greater metro area down to scarb. i say this because you rarely see a new york or mass. plate, or a rental, any farther north or outside of bar harbor, where the awesome stuff actually is.
ideally, as a tourist, you would visit maine to canoe or sail or some outdoorsy bullshit. not sit in traffic for 2 hrs just to order a lobster whipped up by a lousy underpaid overworked wagecuck whose dying to fricking leave portland metro some day. i will admit it gets so much nicer north and south of all that even on the major highways.
anyways i really hope you buy your suburban shithole house that way i still stand a chance in fricking t2r9. just dont get anything < 50 acres otherwise you will be facing that dumb crowd at every grocery trip. oh and the winter will not save you from it either. these same idiots love to go up to rockland to "ski".. so, long term? go to some of the whiter counties in SD, WY, WV, or TN ig.. -not that op
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Maine is great to live in but i'd strongly recommend against southern maine - personally just moved out of portland because I couldn't stand it. Both the local culture and economy are catered towards tourism and it's obnoxious. Portland and its suburbs are an awful place to live in if you're looking for work that isn't an entry level career with no advancement and the cost of living in horrible for what it's worth. Expect to pay $800+ a month (if you're lucky) on rent. Suburbs also aren't worth it because the cost of living is going up FAST - I couldn't afford to move back to my hometown even if I wanted to. If you want a comfy life in maine, buy actual property in either rural northern or western maine.
also been here for my entire life and everything this guy is saying is true especially about portland
Yes. Last summer I was up there were many people are driving alone masked up, same with people walking without a soul near them. every other house had BLM paraphernalia. Some houses had several sings and flags. I'm sure most of them have added Ukrainian flags. In turn people were really unfriendly.
I know that none of this is unique to Brunswick but its obviously a sign of a sick culture.
Boomer here. It's funny you kids are creaming your jeans about Maine. My generation always knew Maine was the shitiest state in the union. No one wanted to live there. Then because millennials refuse to get jobs Obama, Bush, Trump and Biden had to import 88 million Latinaxes and Latrinos to replace your labor, polluting the entire country forevermore and driving up rents. Now you're like omergawd I heart Maine but it's so expensive. Heck you could have bought houses with 20 acres a few years ago for $25,000. And now it's full of blacks too do you guys regret voting for Obama who spitefully diversified Maine? Of well, you made your bed b***h boys. Toodleooo , oh and I always get a chuckle how you kids have to fly to Thailand to lose your virginity, back in the day we just went outside and talked to girls at the soda parlor.
If you’re white, yes
Why not Denver, Colorado?
Californian locusts are in the process of destroying it
Someone needs to look in the Mirror
How can mirrors be real if our eyes aren’t real?
Denver sucks. The food is inedible. Every single meal, if it were up to Denverites, would be wet burritos. That’s all they eat. Wet burritos. There are so many crack-smoking schizophrenic homeless people that it becomes a permanent fixture of your eyes, always one or two twitching under the cover of a blanket while tying off against an abandoned storefront, or squatting against a wall of a middle school to squeeze out a diseased yellow torrent of diarrheal spray over a pile of used needles. One can hardly step foot outdoors without seeing a display of abject human degeneracy, and one needs only to remain outside for a period of ten minutes or more to hear the demented yelling of vulgarities that tweaking ghouls cast about the neighborhoods they terrorize. The architecture is tasteless glass skyscrapers intermingled with the once-robust failing brick building of earlier times. Even among the not drug addicted, the normal people are comprised still only of thugs and three-toothed thieves. The only redeemable part of Denver is it’s proximity to nature, which, ironically, means that the only good part of Denver is when you leave Denver.
Colorado is a big state. There’s a lot to love about it, and you don’t need to live in Denver to enjoy any of it.
I just got back from Colorado and I concur. 98% of Denver is a shithole.
Grew up in Denver, went in 2020 for a brief visit but didn't go anywhere/do much. Haven't really been since 2013. So disheartening for me to read this but yeah I know it's become a total shit hole. Park Hill will always have my heart.
Tell us more about the circumstances, moron.
I've just always wanted to live there. It's so out of the way. Is there a specific area you guys would recommend?
Lewiston Maine is where you want to move friend. Especially if you can get a house on Bartlett Street.
Ironic?
>Is this a good idea?
I sold my house in CA and had a major surplus of funds to purchase a great deal of property in Maine. I had to outbid several people on it so be prepared to possibly pay more than you initially thought but at the prices you can pick property up for, it is a win/win.
I have several friends looking to move there too. CA is just too much to bare these days sadly.
Frick you CaliBlack person! Stay in your containment state!
frick outta maine you gay
I hate you so much
hint fellow californian: never say this
also stay in your containment state
>outbid several people on it so be prepared to possibly pay more than you initially thought
This is what morons do. Always lowball at least 20% off what is asking price. Even if they say no it seals the deal for getting it at what was listed. Imagine paying MORE than asking price. Imbecile.
You obviously havent bought property post-2020. The market isnt what it used to be. Only the shittiest of properties will go for less than or equal to the asking price
You have to go back.
i don't understand why people get so upset about Californians moving to other states??
MOST of the californians who move to other states are at least right adjacent so it's not as if they're moving there to frick it all up.
they're bringing money and value to your broke ass states.
san fran gays don't move out of state, they move to fresno or Bakersfield.
quit b***hing you pussies. your state sucks.
>in December.
why this month? Did you rent something yet?
Maine sucks. Lived and worked there for 15 years. Expensive real estate, super out of shape populace, no culture (everything is fake, prefab larping as old Maine if not just a nondescript gas station), an alarming amount of pedophiles, and a bit of a food desert, to boot.
I thought it was going to be this chic, white, WASPy enclave and it was just New England's Walmart. Everyone has a CPAP machine and talks about it, endlessly. Oldest average population in the country. A lot of mobility issues.
And stay the frick away from Portland unless you like maudlin junkies, dirty lawyers, super Karens, and libs with PCOS, long Covid, and Subarus full of McFlurry cups.
Try West Virginia, Idaho, Montana or North Dakota instead.
I was thinking about North Dakota but I live closer to West Virginia. Of those two, which is better?
Don’t move to North Dakota if you’re single. I would highly recommend not moving there at all
Why not? Why do I need a partner?
>partner
Are you a queer?
>partner
Very inclusive there, anon.
>partner
Yeah, ND has the worst ratio of women to men. And all the women are strippers for the oil workers. ND is the wild west
Of the two, West Virginia. Off the beaten path, but close to the Eastern Seaboard. Probably as cheap as it gets for the Upper South, too. The people are pretty rustic, but it still beats a bunch of neurodivergent degenerates.
Maine is great to live in but i'd strongly recommend against southern maine - personally just moved out of portland because I couldn't stand it. Both the local culture and economy are catered towards tourism and it's obnoxious. Portland and its suburbs are an awful place to live in if you're looking for work that isn't an entry level career with no advancement and the cost of living in horrible for what it's worth. Expect to pay $800+ a month (if you're lucky) on rent. Suburbs also aren't worth it because the cost of living is going up FAST - I couldn't afford to move back to my hometown even if I wanted to. If you want a comfy life in maine, buy actual property in either rural northern or western maine.
also been here for my entire life and everything this guy is saying is true especially about portland
>$800/mo. rent
> this is" horrible" cost of living in Maine
Almost 10k a year. If you make 40k post tax that 25% of your salary just being donated to a landlord for the privilege of having shelter and if you don't pay once all your shit gets kicked to the curb and ruined. You build no equity. $800 a month down the drain for nothing absolutely nothing.
>$800 a month down the drain for nothing absolutely nothing.
Except a place to live for an entire month and storage for all your belongings?
Are you the guy that rents a blockbuster movie and gets mad he can't keep it forever?
did you really just act as if paying 800 bucks a month in rent is expensive LMFAO
a 300 sqft studio in my city is like 1400
You don't even say from where you from, how can we tell you if it's good or bad compare to your current location.
I'm in eastern Tennessee right now.
Many people consider North and East parts of Tennessee to be heaven on Earth, particularly in the 90% White counties. What’s your malfunction
It's in the middle of nowhere, there's nothing to do.
moving to north dakota will fix that how?
Forget any advice about North Dakota, W. Virginia, or Maine and stay put. East TN is perfection.
Maine is a leader in nothing to do, unless dying from alcohol poisoning is something to do.
Stick to ET. Most things "to do" are just empty psy-op driven degeneracy. Find a spiritual path and travel it.
Haha you are a loser citytard afraid to go outside in nature, banana baaaaaaa
>it's in the middle of nowhere
>wants to move to Maine
???
And here I thought I could slash off a few seemingly shit states but you guys are actually recommending ones like WV? This is ongoing analysis paralysis and my parents aren't happy about it.
Maine is great if you arent in the middle of a shit town/city. The ocean, the winters, the forests, the lack of Black folk, safe from the insanity of big cities. If you like the typical social shit obviously you should go to a big city, when the people run out of food and start getting served bugs you might want to get the frick out of there though.
Gig harbor Washington
Ive lived in yarmouth, OOB, Biddeford, and portland AMA
Where are the best lobster rolls?
touch choice
might be lucinda's between freeport and yarmouth
how's scarborough - going to be moving up in the fall and seems like a decent town
was originally thinking of finding a place on the peninsula, but holy shit the amount of homeless people and druggies is insane
just as disgusting as any other city. seriously. plus rent is too much for what you get. but at least you arent buying cords of wood. also what peninsula?
heres what i do: visit the bigger towns (not cities) on google street view. rate them. take the best 3 and triangulate somewhere between. proceed to bet your savings against finding work nearby. then, try living there.
i can go years without seeing a black person or hearing a siren. i dont care where you idiots come from just dont frick this up for us
oh... i've already got a job lined up there (started remote). looking to buy a place too, cause frick renting... visited in the spring and gorham/scarborough seemed not too bad for the little i saw of it. was just wondering if there were any specific things to know about the town
peninsula - just meant portland proper, like the "island" not mainland.
Born in raised in Scarb. Lovely place but heading in the wrong direction.
can't just say that and disappear... how?
i know it's more business centric, with no real downtown - is it continuing to shift that way or?
there are other places doing it better with less. ellsworth is probably most recognizable but still a shithole. as for scarborough i get the impression of 1 big strip mall, reminds me a lot of florida. you get transplants who end up getting stuck, in fact the only homeless dude i talked to there was from florida.
but its all much more of an urban hellhole than other places especially because of this spitball tourism situation, which imo is a bit misplaced and undeserving; and now the residents have to wade thru the fallout in their daily routine. its fricking psychological torture being there. i know this cuz they come up to belfast and b***h about it.
and tourists are morons right? well they fricking LOVE portland and the greater metro area down to scarb. i say this because you rarely see a new york or mass. plate, or a rental, any farther north or outside of bar harbor, where the awesome stuff actually is.
ideally, as a tourist, you would visit maine to canoe or sail or some outdoorsy bullshit. not sit in traffic for 2 hrs just to order a lobster whipped up by a lousy underpaid overworked wagecuck whose dying to fricking leave portland metro some day. i will admit it gets so much nicer north and south of all that even on the major highways.
anyways i really hope you buy your suburban shithole house that way i still stand a chance in fricking t2r9. just dont get anything < 50 acres otherwise you will be facing that dumb crowd at every grocery trip. oh and the winter will not save you from it either. these same idiots love to go up to rockland to "ski".. so, long term? go to some of the whiter counties in SD, WY, WV, or TN ig.. -not that op
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Have you ever visited Nova Scotia and how much is Maine like it?
I hear it’s real nice up there, just watch out for the ghost of Carmel (aka shadow dude).
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCfU57E2xeSnEWx7481QMFKg
I lived in Brunswick for a few years as a kid, I remember liking it. Am I misremembering it being nice?
Yes. Last summer I was up there were many people are driving alone masked up, same with people walking without a soul near them. every other house had BLM paraphernalia. Some houses had several sings and flags. I'm sure most of them have added Ukrainian flags. In turn people were really unfriendly.
I know that none of this is unique to Brunswick but its obviously a sign of a sick culture.
I live in Wiscasset in the summer and Sarasota in the winter. I’m so sick of seafood bros.
Boomer here. It's funny you kids are creaming your jeans about Maine. My generation always knew Maine was the shitiest state in the union. No one wanted to live there. Then because millennials refuse to get jobs Obama, Bush, Trump and Biden had to import 88 million Latinaxes and Latrinos to replace your labor, polluting the entire country forevermore and driving up rents. Now you're like omergawd I heart Maine but it's so expensive. Heck you could have bought houses with 20 acres a few years ago for $25,000. And now it's full of blacks too do you guys regret voting for Obama who spitefully diversified Maine? Of well, you made your bed b***h boys. Toodleooo , oh and I always get a chuckle how you kids have to fly to Thailand to lose your virginity, back in the day we just went outside and talked to girls at the soda parlor.
What a boomer