As a kid, let's have fun, full time.
For adults to talk among themselves about how peaceful and beauitful being in the north Maine woods camping, hunting, fishing did not register totally then. Oh sure, growing up and climbing Mt Katahdin with your family or hiking and those picnics with mom's world class food were fun. Family gatherings every Sunday afternoon taking turns on which aunt or uncle's home we would visit. Family and all the ages that occupy it together, laughing, sharing. But the great outdoors without people mixed in time to time was part of everyone's life in rural Maine too. Everything in balance, playing with your friends, getting your chores done and likeing the small town you were born in. Safe, secure, loved. Contenment. Seeing the older folks build into their schedule time to be off alone to look out over a lake with a hot coffee. Walks admiring the beauty of our surroundings! But now being a little older, that peace and quiet and running away to a corner of the world that is unspoiled, unpopulated and peaceful is regenerating. Heck, mowing the lawn is time away where you can spend time with yourself. Why the need to escape? Turn on the television, or radio or consider this blog entry is sending you one more opinion or giving you advice. Or giving you something more to think about. Information. Tons of it. Opinions...self help, tell me what I need, tell me what I just heard. Look where I've been self serving attention getting information too! Bombardment of strong slick constant signals of what I need to buy this Christmas, what book I need to read. What stock to dump, which candidate to pick and why. Communication gives me the latest on what everyone else is doing...what "music" the herd or society needs me to dance to.
When I was a news director in Bangor Maine at a station Stephen King owns, I learned what "herd journalism" was all about. News is reported in the Maine Sunday Telegram in Portland and comes out Saturday. That's what is on the journalist plate for early Monday morning as left overs due to the sunday gap when folks are with their families and until more news is generated Monday. Making news Friday afternoon in Maine gave you a three day run of exposure. The Associated Press picks up whatever is in the big major newspapers and runs with it. Every smaller radio, newspaper and television outlet "rips and reads" whatever came across the wire. All covering the same story, taking our lead from everyone else and trying to dig to add a local approach, bring in someone related to the story on a home town approach to show how it is relevant to our listeners, readers, viewers. In the cities as the conveyor belt of life speeds up, and as you get older so you feel the time that conveyor belt robs, you look for an escape. Load on the wagon, bring the kids, head to Maine. With eleven people per square mile in Northern Maine, Aroostook County, you can get the space, the fresh air, the space and time off the conveyor. Loosen up your sneakers. Maine is where you spend time with youself to figure out the course your life is on. To learn what you need to add more of, what you need to weed out, what you are no going to change and basically what course 
you are on. In Maine, no traffic, no tons of people to maneuver around or to avoid. No crime because Maine is the 4th lowest state in that department. The best part? If you chose to own a piece of Maine, it is attractive AND affordable. Maine..the way life should be.
Maine REALTOR Andrew Mooers - Escape To Maine For Attractive, Affordable Real Estate
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