quote:Originally posted by brink:
Cathy, you are leaving Limestone? Where are you moving too? I still get on the net once in a while and look for homes in Arostook (sp?) county. Nice houses and reasonably priced. So why the move? Just curious.
Yes, I'm leaving Limestone. It's turned into a ghost town since Loring AFB closed. I work in Presque Isle and have to drive 50 miles round trip each day, and I'm tired of doing it in the snow. I figure I'll get to PI before the snow this year, and just stay there.
Real estate outside of Presque Isle is very low. You can buy a nice house for $50.000. In Presque Isle, you'd pay double that or more. Presque Isle has a big hospital that just expanded and there are doctors moving in all the time. That's the reason real estate has doubled in the last five years.
The rest of the county is economically depressed. Most people travel to Presque Isle to work, whereas, when Loring was here, most people worked civil service jobs that were on the base, or located in other towns, but tied in with the base.
Aroostook county is beautiful, but it can get pretty harsh in the winter. We get our fair share of snow, generally 100 inches or so each winter, with two to three feet on the ground in the peak of winter. I don't mind the snow. I think it's beautiful. I don't like the 30 below weather with 60 below wind chills that we get each January and/or February, though.
I live in a farming belt. I once joked with Val that I live in a farming belt and she lives in a money belt. She carries money around in her money belt and I carry dirt around in my farming belt. That pretty much describes our way of life up here.
Cathy
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