My wife, son and I moved here from the Philly suburbs in the summer of 2002. I'm 65 now and I've also lived in many parts of the country. We bought our house in 2012 and I intend to leave it feet first.

Longevity tends to run in my family so I likely have about 25 years left. Unless, of course, Covid 19 bites me in the ass in which case it may be a few weeks.

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I lived in Lansdale a few years and youngest son graduated from North Penn. It was a nice place and good schools.

We usually drive from the Pittsburgh area every other month to see his family. We have not seen them since February and my heart is broken. We love Maine...you are so blessed to live there.

And this time of year is a big reason why.

So have made many a trek Downeast. My family and I have spent many a mile on the Airline, eyah.

We couldn't go this summer because of COVID. Missed out on our favorite blueberry stand near Eddington, a good cup of chowder at the Red Barn in Augusta, our yearly pilgrimage to Reny's just for stuff, a stop at the Chicken Barn outside Ellsworth, dinner of Hellen's in Machias, the Lubec lighthouse and shoreline trail, stops at Tim Hortons, a quick trip to the Standpipe in Bangor to give my wife the willies and much more. I'll stomach a trip to Acadia but only if we pack a meal and do at least one hike around Jordan Pond

I'll say the summers in ME have gotten like the summers down by Philly; last year it was 90 degrees in Neils Harbor, NS, Canada. I'd get a slight kick watching my sister's family (Bangor) wilt when the temperatures got into the 80s. I miss ME but truth be told we've moved our primary vacations into the Canadian Maritimes (to escape the summer heat and partially to avoid giving all our tourist money when LaPage was governor, sorry, he was a jerk^2).

Enjoy it up there. You live in a special place (and I think you know that). And don't forget you have to go through mud season to get to spring (black fly) season.