Best place for a second/retirement home

GREAT PLACE TO RETIRE -- A COLLEGE TOWN AND THE OCEAN TOO.
We are selling our land in Harpswell, fifteen minutes from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, a 6.5 hour drive from Maplewood. It is a level lot in a waterfront neighborhood. We pay taxes of $370/year. There are views of the water. The photos showing expansive views of the water were shot from the Right of Way (ROW). The ROW gives the property owner (and his family and visitors) the right to walk down to the Middle Bay, where there is swimming, kayaking, etc. There is another ROW to Sunset Cove. The lot, nearly half-acre, is $79,900. Thanks, Lisa
Mark Lomas
Homes & Harbors LLC
1 Harborplace, 1624 Harpswell Island Rd.
Orr's Island, ME., 04066
E-mail: mark@homesandharbors.com
Office: 207-833-0500 ext.#16
Cell: 718-408-0791

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PetuniaBird said:
My parents retired to Gold Canyon, AZ (east of Phoenix) and they love it. They are in a 55+ gated community with access to a pool, clubhouse, numerous activities and plentyof sunshine. With natural desert landscaping, they can leave the property for months at a time. They do travel in the summer when the temperatures soar.

I know some people who live in AZ and while they love the beauty and climatea, the citizens and local police are not easy to deal with. There are many locals who have very different beliefs in guns, openly dislike people from other places and make their life difficult in small ways. My friends were told not to write letters to the editors of local newspapers and were told by police not to bother filing complaints, they wouldn't do anything about it.

lisat said:
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Hmmmm. Now let's see some winter photos please!

MsSumida said:

PetuniaBird said:
My parents retired to Gold Canyon, AZ (east of Phoenix) and they love it. They are in a 55+ gated community with access to a pool, clubhouse, numerous activities and plentyof sunshine. With natural desert landscaping, they can leave the property for months at a time. They do travel in the summer when the temperatures soar.

I know some people who live in AZ and while they love the beauty and climatea, the citizens and local police are not easy to deal with. There are many locals who have very different beliefs in guns, openly dislike people from other places and make their life difficult in small ways. My friends were told not to write letters to the editors of local newspapers and were told by police not to bother filing complaints, they wouldn't do anything about it.

My mother is a die hard liberal and I think gives her a certain amount of joy to refute some of the more widely held opinions that contradict her own. It keeps her on her toes. That being said, she is white, so she isn't personally impacted by some of the intolerance/racism that occurs in the area.

mjh said:

lisat said:
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Hmmmm. Now let's see some winter photos please!

Hah! It really isn't bad along the coast -- and as NJ gets harsher winters, the Maine winters are comparing quite nicely. Although if I were actually retiring to Maine, I would probably nab one of those condos in Portland overlooking Casco Bay.

lisat, what are winters like in your part of Maine?

Tom_Reingold said:
lisat, what are winters like in your part of Maine?

We are on the coast, which makes the winters milder than inland. We went into Casco Bay at the end of our street on Christmas Day because the air was so warm (for winter). We started dipping into the bay starting the beginning of May. When I was growing up here, any dip in the ocean even during August would cause immediate numbing. But now, it's refreshing this time of year.

This past winter was a lot of snow, but we didn't lose power once.

MsSumida said:

PetuniaBird said:
My parents retired to Gold Canyon, AZ (east of Phoenix) and they love it. They are in a 55+ gated community with access to a pool, clubhouse, numerous activities and plentyof sunshine. With natural desert landscaping, they can leave the property for months at a time. They do travel in the summer when the temperatures soar.

I know some people who live in AZ and while they love the beauty and climatea, the citizens and local police are not easy to deal with. There are many locals who have very different beliefs in guns, openly dislike people from other places and make their life difficult in small ways. My friends were told not to write letters to the editors of local newspapers and were told by police not to bother filing complaints, they wouldn't do anything about it.

Just out of curiosity, what were they complaining to the police about? Different locales have different laws. If you live in Boulder CO, for example, you can't expect the police to do anything about your neighbors pot plant because it isn't against the law.

Personally, I have been eyeing Central Oregon. Flat land with a mild climate and easy access to both the Ocean and the Mountains. Folks are pretty liberal but they won't report you to the police if you forget to mow your lawn for a week. Great food, decent medical care.

basic quality of life issues which may seem small and trivial but add up after time. Whwn they went to the police, the family they wanted to complain about lived in the town for many, many years with political connections, and were basically told too bad. Another friend wrote a letter to the editor and his car windows were repeatedly broken.

Klinker said:

MsSumida said:

PetuniaBird said:
My parents retired to Gold Canyon, AZ (east of Phoenix) and they love it. They are in a 55+ gated community with access to a pool, clubhouse, numerous activities and plentyof sunshine. With natural desert landscaping, they can leave the property for months at a time. They do travel in the summer when the temperatures soar.

I know some people who live in AZ and while they love the beauty and climatea, the citizens and local police are not easy to deal with. There are many locals who have very different beliefs in guns, openly dislike people from other places and make their life difficult in small ways. My friends were told not to write letters to the editors of local newspapers and were told by police not to bother filing complaints, they wouldn't do anything about it.

Just out of curiosity, what were they complaining to the police about? Different locales have different laws. If you live in Boulder CO, for example, you can't expect the police to do anything about your neighbors pot plant because it isn't against the law.

Klinker said:
Personally, I have been eyeing Central Oregon. Flat land with a mild climate and easy access to both the Ocean and the Mountains. Folks are pretty liberal but they won't report you to the police if you forget to mow your lawn for a week. Great food, decent medical care.

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http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one?intcid=mod-most-popular

Maybe reconsider?

I'm thinking about this place. Looks about my speed.