Reviews & Comments
Damariscotta, ME
Too Perfect ... under siege -
11/16/2022 - 11/25/2013
Warning: Damariscotta is too perfect a New England Town and as such has been under siege by tourism and invaded by the wealthy from Mass, NY, NJ and others. Home prices now through the roof.
Wiscassett has a humongous amount of hubris to confer this title on themselves, particularly with D-Town just down the road !!! Damariscotta is 5 star quaint, exceedingly livable, and within a half hour of every kind of recreational activity. It really doesn't get much better than this without attracting swarms and swarms (and swarms) of ultra rich tourists. Not that it doesn't have it's share of well-healed away people, but the throngs are ...at this point, still manageable. I hereby submit Damariscotta as my entry in the Best Damn Town in Maine contest. (but then...there are sooooo many ties!
Bristol, ME
re: It really exists
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6/19/2021Hmmm....I suspect a RE Agent ??...??
Bristol, ME
re: It really exists
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6/19/2021Hmmm....I suspect a RE Agent ??...??
Bristol, ME
Go Away -
4/26/2016This town has "graduated" and has been transported to an alternate dimension. It is no longer accepting residents or tourists.
Damariscotta, ME
Prettiest Town In Maine -
11/25/2013Wiscassett has a humongous amount of hubris to confer this title on themselves, particularly with D-Town just down the road !!! Damariscotta is 5 star quaint, exceedingly livable, and within a half hour of every kind of recreational activity. It really doesn't get much better than this without attracting swarms and swarms (and swarms) of ultra rich tourists. Not that it doesn't have it's share of well-healed away people, but the throngs are ...at this point, still manageable. I hereby submit Damariscotta as my entry in the Best Damn Town in Maine contest. (but then...there are sooooo many ties!!)
Jamesport, NY
Losing its Rural Soul -
3/30/2007
Jamesport, NY is a town with two identities that are currently battling each other. Half of its population is comprised of indigenous vegetable farmers, migrant workers, trades people and horse owners. The other half is made up of an ever increasing number of wealthy urbanites who use it as their weekend and summer backyards. This classically pastoral North Fork town, known for its horse farms, vineyards, pretty main street village, and tranquil bays has become all but unattainable by the middle class as the average price of a single family home is now approaching the half million dollar mark. Like so many plastic soda bottles tossed into fields of wildflowers, so are the plastic housing developments built on Jamesport's farmlands and pastures. With names like “Meadowview” and “Country Farms”, they voraciously rip into and eradicate those meadow views. Any country farms standing in their way are bulldozed away and displaced by plastic “transitional” Victorians and modernistic capes by the hundreds. These homes are lined up in curvilinear perfection and positioned on their lots so as to accommodate the hallmark of elite suburban living; the seldom used, but obligatory “BIP”. With its growth in tourist popularity as a weekend day trip, many of the farm stands have experienced tremendous expansion and unimaginably profits. Harbes Family Farm, perhaps the best of them, and known for its supremely delectable super sweet (jumbo) corn has evolved into an agricultural circus of attractions, events and activities that bring people in (literally) by the bus load. Other farms have followed suit. It is not uncommon to see bumper to bumper traffic from 9am to 6pm on the weekends (especially during pumpkin plucking season) as people flock to these purveyors of “agritainment” to fill their cars with wine, flowers, farm fresh vegetables and faux “rural” energy. Jamesport is still an especially scenic part of Long Island, both inland and on its sandy coast, but like most of the North Fork; it is being actively “packaged, marketed and sold” to the millions westward who bring their Beemers, black leather, and aggressive and haughty “purchasing personalities” with them. Great for the restaurants, realtors, marina’s and merchants, but it has made life substantially less peaceful and far less “real” in this once tranquil but still lovely area. Many long time residents have reluctantly made the decision to move away and more will follow as the demographics rapidly alter th
Farmington CDP, ME
Great Sweet Little ...Slightly Impoverished...A Bi -
3/2/2006Farmington is all the above. Its best asset is the pretty little brick building-lined town that has just about verything you need for every day living from excellent restaurants, a movie theater, ski slope just outside of town, decent shopping, freshwater fishing near by, a couple coffee shops,a nationally recognized liberal arts college, a performing theater (small one at the college)gorgeous hillsides, sparkling night skies and friendly people. It's biggest problems, however, are; some unsightly poverty in the hills around the town, a significant population of hairy smelly mountain people who like hunting, mud, diesel trucks and living in run down shacks, and...the fact that it's so far away from a major city. I really like living here...but I would like to move closer to the coast and a bigger city like Portland. Oh, you can't get real good pizza in Farmington either. Major problem.