SperlingViews - Brunswick, Maine
93.97% of people are white, 1.28% are black, 2.18% are asian, 0.21% are native american, and 2.36% claim 'Other'. 2.36% of the people in Brunswick, ME, claim hispanic ethnicity (meaning 97.64% are non-hispanic).
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Brunswick Resident - 10/7/2010
Brunswick is almost impossibly lovely. Towns like this aren't really supposed to exist, but this one does.[read more...] |
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Expensive living - 12/18/2005
Maine in general is an expensive place to live. Plus there really aren't very many well paying jobs. You'll see a lot of college grads working manufacturing jobs for $8-$10 an hour. Plus your average home is about $225000 or so and the taxes are outrageous. The maine government is lousy as well, and the people here continually vote against business, against lowering taxes (recentely against a cap on property tax, which is very high in Maine) and for borrowing (just voted to borrow another $72 million in bonds). My fiancee and I are looking for a cheaper place to live, hopefully one with better paying jobs, less taxes and people who actually have a clue when it comes to economics.[read more...] |
