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Maine

mainer

(12,218 posts) Wed Jul 19, 2023, 08:06 PM Jul 2023

Are other Mainers feeling VERY FORTUNATE to live here as the world burns? [View all]

We're reading about the hellish heat in the southern states, the wildfires in Canada, and the 90+ degree water temperatures in Florida. And here we are in Maine whining about our rainy, foggy summer with temps in the high 70s. We have lots of water. We have cool temperatures. Yes, we have fog, but at least we're not dying in the heat.

I suspect that Maine is where climate change refugees are going to be fleeing to in the next decades. I feel so lucky I'm already here.

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Are other Mainers feeling VERY FORTUNATE to live here as the world burns? [View all] mainer Jul 2023 OP

Your turn is coming. Cartoonist Jul 2023 #1

30 years ago, friends of ours had to decide: move to Arizona or Maine? mainer Jul 2023 #2

I read about a man who gave a lot of thought to where he should live. Cartoonist Jul 2023 #7

Yeah. There's a place up north from you. Cooler weather year round, fog, snow and so forth. 3Hotdogs Jul 2023 #12

We Rhode Islanders feel fortunate, too splat Jul 2023 #3

In Northeast Kansas BOSSHOG Jul 2023 #5

The lobstahs are already heading,.. magicarpet Jul 2023 #4

If Maine turns into Miami, then I'm moving to Newfoundland mainer Jul 2023 #6

66 today on the Oregon coast. No fog. CanonRay Jul 2023 #8

I generally agree with you, but.... royable Jul 2023 #9

Yes. You are very lucky. I can't believe how much the weather has changed Scrivener7 Jul 2023 #10

I would like to think there is a safe place but Polly Hennessey Jul 2023 #11

After we divorced, I bought a condo in Wells Beach. That's about the same time that she started 3Hotdogs Jul 2023 #13