[TheForge] RE: Maine

[Steve Smith]

Bob Ehrenberger wrote:


> We lived in Conneticut for three years and got the same impression.  If your
> family hadn't been there for 5 generations you were an outsider.  The only
> friendly people we found there were other mid-west transplants.

While I found this to be true 25 years ago going to school in Boston, we 
haven't found this to be true of Maine at all. We've found people to be 
as friendly as elsewhere and really enjoy living here.

Actually, one of the things I really noticed as different from Colorado 
was that people on the other side of the counter (i.e. I'm the customer) 
are much more awake and alive than those I've been used to. They even 
make jokes, like the customer was a real person.

Steve Smith
Brownfield, Maine