I remember when my parents moved to Maine in 1999 people telling us that nobody in Maine uses the front door, so this is definitely a thing.

And thinking back, never at any point in my childhood or adolescence in Maine do I remember anybody ever ringing our front door bell. Delivery people, political campaigners, friends, acquaintances, plumbers, tree guys, new neighbors introducing themselves — they all come to the side door.

And my parents actually do have a path to the front door from the driveway. They even shovel it, but that's because my dad (who's now lived in Maine nearly 25 years) considers it an emergency fire escape route.