living in small maine towns Archives - MeInMaine Blog https://meinmaine.com/tag/living-in-small-maine-towns/ Maine Local Community Blog Mon, 08 Sep 2025 15:04:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://meinmaine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-moose-Maine-32x32.png living in small maine towns Archives - MeInMaine Blog https://meinmaine.com/tag/living-in-small-maine-towns/ 32 32 Houses In Small Maine Towns https://meinmaine.com/living-in-maine/houses-in-small-maine-towns/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=houses-in-small-maine-towns Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:34:46 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=17656 Houses in small Maine towns. You know the folks who called this, that place “home”. It’s not just a house painted a different color. Or one you walk by and remember when it was in better or worse condition. Small Maine houses are not found in 300 lot subdivisions with a sea of sameness. Or […]

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]]> Living In Small Maine Towns | Local News Collected Off The Grapevine https://meinmaine.com/living-in-maine/living-in-small-maine-towns-local-news-collected-off-the-grapevine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=living-in-small-maine-towns-local-news-collected-off-the-grapevine Fri, 27 Mar 2020 16:12:27 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=15955 Living in a small Maine town, the grapevine news is not just gathered filtering national sources. The latest happenings around the Maine community not covered by CNN, FOX, NPR, BBC, NBC, CBS, ABC or some other big name news source. No New York Times, Washington Post. Forbes Magazine does not have lots of small rural […]

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]]> The Local Rural Grapevine For News, Tailor Made For Small Maine Towns. https://meinmaine.com/maine-small-towns/living-in-a-small-maine-town/the-local-rural-grapevine-for-news-tailor-made-for-small-maine-towns/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-local-rural-grapevine-for-news-tailor-made-for-small-maine-towns Sun, 17 Sep 2017 20:10:02 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=12610 The majority of the space in the country is rural. Yet city beat news reporters don’t venture into rural areas very often. You had some tongue in cheek rural programming shows back in the black and white era of television. Andy of Mayberry, Petticoat Junction, The Waltons, Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies. The small town […]

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]]> Working Hard To Attract Small Maine Town Tourists. https://meinmaine.com/vacations-in-maine/working-hard-to-attract-small-maine-town-tourists/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=working-hard-to-attract-small-maine-town-tourists Sat, 05 Aug 2017 10:20:35 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=12555 The tourists who wander into your small Maine town. Looking to see a Maine moose, dine on lobster or a bucket of steamed clams. To get a t-shirt or nick nack labeled Maine. There is more that your Maine tourist is after after they cross the big green bridge on the south end of the […]

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]]> Living In A Small Maine Town, What’s It Like? https://meinmaine.com/maine-small-towns/living-in-a-small-maine-town/living-in-a-small-maine-town-whats-it-like/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=living-in-a-small-maine-town-whats-it-like Sun, 04 Jun 2017 21:49:34 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=12477 Small town living In Maine, how does it different than be surrounded by people in an impersonal city setting? There are so many differences. Ask people what they like most about small Maine town living and nine times out of ten the answer is the connection. With others living in that small Maine town. There […]

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]]> Okay, You Move To Maine, You Are From Away. https://meinmaine.com/uncategorized/okay-you-move-to-maine-you-are-from-away/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=okay-you-move-to-maine-you-are-from-away Wed, 01 Jul 2015 13:27:54 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=11493 Maine is a big place. Often crusty coastal folks of few words but ones that drive home the point with an verbal economy. Those are the spokesmen sometimes used in the tell me what Maine is all about stories. Or to weave into the stream of Maine humor if you are Tim Sample, Bob Marley. […]

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]]> Huckstering, Dog And Pony Smoke, Mirror And Glass… That’s Not Maine. https://meinmaine.com/uncategorized/huckstering-dog-and-pony-smoke-mirror-and-glass-thats-not-maine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=huckstering-dog-and-pony-smoke-mirror-and-glass-thats-not-maine Fri, 12 Jun 2015 16:52:05 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=11472 Slick, polished, smooth when you want something. Snooty and snarky, aloof when you don’t. That is not the way of the lay of the land in Maine. Down home, family centered and local pride in the small town in Maine the resident hails from is the heart beat. The love of where you live, being […]

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]]> Shared Experiences, And Is It Quiet Enough For You In Maine? https://meinmaine.com/uncategorized/shared-experiences-and-is-it-quiet-enough-for-you-in-maine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=shared-experiences-and-is-it-quiet-enough-for-you-in-maine Thu, 26 Jun 2014 02:51:37 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=9949 Quiet, can you stand it in Maine? When you live next to an city airport, near the elevated train overhead or subway that rumbles under foot. The clanging of garbage trucks on a steady beat to stay ahead of the rubbish. In a place that never sleeps. Quiet does not happen. Without ear plugs, sound […]

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]]> Asking For A Critique But Not Really Wanting One The Maine Way. https://meinmaine.com/uncategorized/asking-for-a-critique-but-not-really-wanting-one-the-maine-way/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=asking-for-a-critique-but-not-really-wanting-one-the-maine-way Wed, 21 May 2014 10:38:50 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=9790 If you are brought up, taught to just take what you need, leave the rest for others. To improve situations the best you can. Strive to make them better that they were. To contribute for the greater good. Well now Mister Man. You’d fit right in nicely in a small Maine town. Because there is […]

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]]> Forget The Gauges, Idiot Lights, Experts | Turn Up The Senses In Maine. https://meinmaine.com/uncategorized/forget-the-gauges-idiot-lights-experts-turn-up-the-senses-in-maine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=forget-the-gauges-idiot-lights-experts-turn-up-the-senses-in-maine Sun, 02 Mar 2014 16:21:49 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=9155 You know how when you really have to stay focused, have a task at hand requiring your full attention? When other things going on around you are a distraction and trying to pull you away from that goal? What do you do? In Maine, simple living is the approach to everything that happens. Some retreat […]

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