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Is your wife from the area as well?

yeah my wife had the same concerns when we first moved to Maine, one positive for you is her sister in the area, it was pretty difficult for my wife the first year since we didn't know anyone up here

weather wise it's pretty comparable, the UP probably gets more snow due to lake affect, Maine has a lot less population density, Bangor has a population of 30,000 people and is the third largest city, we are pretty highly taxed though, Maine usually is in the top three for that, housing and land it all depends where you want to be, you can get some pretty remote land very inexpensive, we bought 30 acres a couple years ago for 16,000 and it's about 20 minutes from Bangor, you get north of Bangor and it get's really inexpensive, there's not much up there for work since most of the paper mills have shut down

Anything along the coast and in the southern part of the state will be pretty expensive