small maine towns Archives - MeInMaine Blog https://meinmaine.com/tag/small-maine-towns/ Maine Local Community Blog Mon, 08 Sep 2025 13:46:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://meinmaine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/cropped-moose-Maine-32x32.png small maine towns Archives - MeInMaine Blog https://meinmaine.com/tag/small-maine-towns/ 32 32 What’s It Like Living In A Small Maine Town? https://meinmaine.com/living-in-maine/whats-it-like-living-in-a-small-maine-town-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=whats-it-like-living-in-a-small-maine-town-2 Sun, 07 Sep 2025 20:35:25 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=18400 Maine is a handful of cities and over 450 small community rural towns. Sixteen counties and the one I live in is the largest east of the Mississippi in land mass. Aroostook County, sparsely populated, a little longer drive time to access but so worth the extra  effort. What’s it like living in a small […]

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]]> “From Away” When You Live In Maine https://meinmaine.com/living-in-maine/from-away-when-you-live-in-maine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=from-away-when-you-live-in-maine Mon, 01 Jul 2024 13:49:02 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=18099 “From Away” when you live in Maine. How do those two words make you feel when you hear them? I am a Maine lifelong native but if I was labeled “from away”, I don’t think I would glow warm and fuzzy inside. Maybe once someone discovers a place they love, there is a need to […]

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]]> Small Maine Towns, Big Local Community Involvement https://meinmaine.com/living-in-maine/small-maine-towns-big-local-community-involvement/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=small-maine-towns-big-local-community-involvement Sun, 10 Jul 2022 20:40:39 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=17364 Small Maine towns, big local community involvement. When you live in a small Maine town, you volunteer. All the time. Year after year, you are expected to show up and put in the effort to make the local event you worked on last year even bigger the next. This working together and home grown productions […]

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]]> 4th Of July In Maine https://meinmaine.com/living-in-maine/4th-of-july-in-maine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=4th-of-july-in-maine Sun, 05 Jul 2020 21:08:54 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=16236 4th of July In Maine. Maine, what the COVID19 virus pandemic has shown the outside World, the locals. Internet technology demonstrates you can enjoy living in four seasons Maine. Get uncrowded nature rich Maine but work online. The best of both Worlds, Maine with all she offers that is unspoiled, rich and real. But promoting […]

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]]> Halloween Trick Or Treating In A Small Maine Town https://meinmaine.com/living-in-maine/halloween-trick-or-treating-in-a-small-maine-town/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=halloween-trick-or-treating-in-a-small-maine-town Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:54:12 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=15355 Halloween, trick or treating, door to door canvassing for candy. Trick Or Treat! Small Maine Town Fun October 31st. The goblins low to the ground, most eye level with the heaping bowls of sweets and treats. The high caloric ammo stocked up and ready to distribute in handfuls. To the motley crew of pan handlers. […]

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]]> Maine, Pretty Hard To Sum Up The State In Just A Few Words. https://meinmaine.com/maine-real-estate/maine-pretty-hard-to-sum-up-the-state-in-just-a-few-words/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=maine-pretty-hard-to-sum-up-the-state-in-just-a-few-words Fri, 08 Feb 2019 19:56:53 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=13216 Maine is a big, spread out, sparsely populated state. And on the glossy four color tri-fold tourism brochures, the description of life in Maine is pretty skimpy. So so much is left out of the discussion. The introduction to Maine’s local lay of the land landscape and how things rock and roll on a daily […]

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]]> Maine Is Outdoor Fresh Air, Wide Open Space. https://meinmaine.com/vacations-in-maine/maine-is-outdfoor-fresh-air-wide-open-space/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=maine-is-outdfoor-fresh-air-wide-open-space Sun, 06 Jan 2019 19:08:17 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=13197 Sometimes you have it made but can lose track of just the why part when you live in Maine. It is easy to take for granted what we have so much of when it is not this way many other places on Earth. What makes you tick and whatever you need is found in the […]

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]]> What’s It Like Living In A Small Maine Town? https://meinmaine.com/living-in-maine/whats-it-like-living-in-a-small-maine-town/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=whats-it-like-living-in-a-small-maine-town Tue, 18 Oct 2016 08:19:34 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=12108 Life in a small Maine town. Too slow for some, just a dream never realized to others. What’s important in your life has constants. No matter where you live. But there is a shift in how much of this, how little of that we desire. To improve the life experience. Maine is outdoor living all […]

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]]> Getting Away From Store Bought, Turning Toward Home Grown In Maine. https://meinmaine.com/living-in-maine/getting-away-from-store-bought-turning-toward-home-grown-in-maine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=getting-away-from-store-bought-turning-toward-home-grown-in-maine Tue, 14 Jun 2016 08:11:14 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=11976 The term home grown extends way way beyond just where the food comes from that you serve up, put down on the family table. What you cultivate on the local level is a known product though and takes away the mystery of where did this stuff come from anyway? But the attitude of doing things […]

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]]> Making A Game Of Living On Minimum Wage And Feeling Rich. https://meinmaine.com/uncategorized/making-a-game-of-living-on-minimum-wage-and-feeling-rich/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=making-a-game-of-living-on-minimum-wage-and-feeling-rich Thu, 06 Aug 2015 15:25:57 +0000 https://meinmaine.com/?p=11550 Maine is not a state known for a giant population. More wildlife than people in the wide open, unspoiled spaces and places we traipse. Chasing, then stretching the dollar is one reason the numbers are low. Not everyone will and some argue it is more survival than living in Maine. But hunger improves the taste. […]

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