mainers
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2/7/2016
Having lived in maine for 50 years in the portland area I must comment on my experiences. for the past three years I have been living on the eastern shore southern most point in delaware. Portland has transitioned from a working water front community quaint and hip to a over run Bayside collection of activities and people. The once safe city has turned to a more of an over run city with bars and hotels scattered with eateries of high quality hosting cruise ships vacationers and heavy tourist. Portland has lost its roots to the demands of the aforementioned creep. I am a true mainer and people who bleed the blood of maine are hard exterior but quality peopl but hard to win over by outsiders. We in maine feel our ethics,hard seasonal changes sets us a part from other regions. Now living on the mason Dixon line I have now learned that maine and Portland are losing focus, crime is up, government lacking leadership, and quantity vs quality is the driver. I love my home town, but with its evolution the hard nosed reality of the deep waters of Portland and maine has given way to a dollar store mentality and forgot about the waterfront. Even 'll beans seems more like a mall then what Leon and originals based the quality. Maine is nice but what was once easy to find in local life you now have to navigate mismanaged entities to return and really see what Portland is all about. Its there,there is just less of it to see. Cobble stones stay, historians no longer fight for the retention of the maine way. Maine is not a sothern state nor should it be. That is its beauty slowly giving way to the harsh reality of a generation of snot nosed jumpers trading a buck for history. I love maine and Portland but it's losing the battle of keeping the maine way real.
david | Gorham, ME