Yup! I just came back from Texas and saw 15+ year old cars without a spot of rust on them. It was remarkable.

Do you want to get murdered? Because that's how you get murdered.

We have quite a few here. You have your standard Goodwill and Salvation Army, but also other secondhand shops like The Growing Place, Polish, and Generations.

Because they decided to buy out all the housing in Maine and completely screw over the people who actually live here.

I agree... However, I find myself laughing a bit here as I work remotely for a tech company based in NH while I live in Maine. The thing keeping me from moving to NH? Not wanting to pay $8-10K/year in property tax on a house I could get for the same price in Maine and pay 1/4 of that in property taxes.

Sure, cheap booze and no sales tax or state income tax would be nice along with proximity to Boston, but it's not worth budgeting 1/4 of my salary in property taxes IMHO. I'm looking at other locations out of state as I have family/work connections in Minnesota, and I could get more house for my money there.

Not if you shop online. I may do most of my online shopping undressed.

>Most places are doing 15 at a minimum.

Exactly... Oddly enough, I had a teacher's aide who left to work at Target because it paid more than what he was making as a teacher's aide at $15/hr. I know actual classroom teachers considering doing the same.

And all the damn carpet... I have allergies, asthma, and love animals. I'm house hunting so I can have a dog. I'd rather not have carpet for all of the listed reasons.

Yes! Chinese on the holidays is bomb! Changing it up with Indian food for Thanksgiving this year, but Chinese is my go to.

Jesus (things are pretty Jesus-y up north) and peer/family pressure are pretty strong motivators (or demotivators to do anything else, really)

I'm the only one of my high school graduating class of 36 who "escaped" the north and the only one without kids. Coincidence? I think not.

Now it's Gen. Z having kids here. My niece is 24 and has a 1 year old and she's considered to have had kids "later" in life when compared to her peers/our other family members except my sad, single 30 something self.

I'd say it is. I also stream. YouTube is particularly obnoxious with the ads.

We don't have Cumbys here. Try Irving.

That, or wait until 2024. Hopefully, prices will have gone down by then and more signs will have gone up.

Same... I don't put anything indicating my beliefs on my home, car, or person, because I can't risk any of these freaks getting violent (as they often do) as a solo female.

However, I'm in the process of house hunting, so it has helped me to determine which neighborhoods to avoid by the number of certain signs (and other symbols) that I see.

I do have this feature in my car (newer model Subaru). I have no idea how people aren't paying attention with it. The damn thing beeps at everything.

They think? More like it still does. Massholes have bought up all our housing and priced Mainers out of our own state.

It's a great distraction. I live in Maine but my workplace is based in NH. While I mostly work from home, when I am on-site, I stock up on cheap booze.