Maine population decline in past decade most significant in Aroostook County
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- According to U.S. Census, The County has lost around 6.5 percent of its population in the past 10 years and close to 10 percent over the past 20 years.
Your kids aren't coming home because they're young and they want to enjoy their lives with variety and new experiences. They don't want to pay all this money to live nowhere and do nothing.
Maybe they should stop charging so much for real estate so people can afford to live there.
It isn't just that. It's that there's nothing to offer at all. It's just endless mundanity every day. Some people thrive off this but I think most people enjoy a little bit of a variety every now and then. It shouldn't have to turn into a weekend trip just to see a Red Sox game or go to a concert. The county gives off this weird cultish vibes. They're having all these problems but they're too stodgy to fix them.
For sure
@SomethingSomethingg the county is beautiful, maybe you should be checked for ADHD? You're awful opinionated and ungrateful, maybe you should leave!
Three reasons. Weather sucks, black flies, and isolation. Maine a great place to visit but people are flocking to places with better weather, lower taxes and a better life.
isolation plays a big part too
I never realized how old the population of this state was until I moved out of state for 8 years and recently came back home. The vast majority of population is much older compared to other states. It was very noticeable to me when I moved back. It's concerning for the future of the state. Another thing that was noticeable was the ridiculous increase to the cost of living here. It has gone up everywhere in recent years, but much more so here in Maine
Cost of living may be a result of the number of non-Mainers owning vacation homes and not participating in the economy with the exception of a month to perhaps 3 months out of the year? Maybe need "summer tax" rates in order for Mainers to survive. People love us and use state and local facilities in the summer, but forget about those who live and work in Maine for the rest of the year. That's the way the world rolls and Maine probably needs to re-fresh it's tax codes accordingly.
@@rosemarieroth1984Send away the few people that are visiting? That would be a terrible idea. If they own vacation properties they are paying property taxes directly to the township and are not using the schools.
@@rosemarieroth1984I see your point but I own a second home in rural Vermont and my wife and I have contributed greatly to the local economy. Since we are very well off by local standards we have spend much more on our property than my local neighbors. Vt. does have an additional tax for those living near major ski resorts. It’s changed nothing and it’s pretty much a cash grab. We have turned what was pretty much a shack into a beautiful home. I actually think it’s mostly jealousy the locals feel. The have and the have not’s. We are there more than a month more like half the year, sometimes more. Take care
@@rosemarieroth1984 you're correct! The ability to homestead in tax havens like Florida while owning seasonal properties & avoiding paying taxes must be addressed! I've had coworkers in my past who've admitted they do this very thing!
I'm in agreement, vacationing out of staters who own these massive vacation properties absolutely should be hit with luxury taxes!
I'm sick of Maine being used & left needing.
@@clarkharms not true. Homesteading in tax free states like Florida provides tax shelters for many. No, they don't pay their fair share of taxes at all!
There is no way tourists will ever stop coming here. The increased traffic here is verifiable. Nope, tax the hell out of these multimillionaire mcmansions!
Well, if the government would take care of Americans first and foremost, pay a living wage, stop sending work overseas and hiring foreigners and paying less so the big company CEOs get more money for their corrupt selves, then folks could raise a family, buy a home.
the issue is that we decided, as a society, to make home ownership an investment. So we spent decades forcing housing prices higher and higher, in a generational war of boomers against everyone else. This is their hollow victory.
District 2 has been ignored for decades! Funds for militarized police forces but none for infrastructure, education and entertainment.
Susan Collins is so disconnected from the reality of Maine's people. No, there aren't affordable anything!
They truly were grasping at straws. I always laugh when people bring up "natural beauty" as a selling point. Bali is beautiful too and significantly cheaper. As are the Philippines or Vietnam. It's not like you can't find natural beauty anywhere else. And if you're trying to bring young people into the fold, they don't care about natural beauty. This is what old people care about. Young people want action and pizzazz. I'm not even sure how you have a social life up there or if you're single how you meet anybody.
@@SomethingSomethingg those in charge of policy aren't young so they don't think about what draws youth. They never have! D2 has endless swaths of nothing! Bangor is growing & even addressing their growing pains. That's still hours south of the areas discussed here.
"Leadership" in Maine is as antiquated as they come. It's not even about right or left like some of the comments in here. It's about Maine's future. The gentrification of D1 and the coast is literally driving me out of my home state! I'm actually having to move to another state because I've been priced out! My family has been in Maine since the 1600's and I am forced out! I'm not married and I have chronic health issues since childhood. This state has beaten me down my entire life. While Suzy & Angus court the wealthy driving up taxes in areas no one can afford increases.
The duopoly is failing this state & the entire country. We need infrastructure repair & improvements including mass transportation projects that open up D2. Put the money back into the hospitals, schools & communities. Offer incentives to stay and work the land.
Get rid of these antiques in Leadership! Stop fighting each other and rebuild the community that Maine has lost to petty partisan bickering caused by propaganda.
I've lost my state, it's beaten me after 53 years of fighting to just stay alive. I'm losing my home.
@@ChellyB71 It's the damn stodginess of the elders who run and occupy this state. They don't want anything to change and yet they're concerned because they're getting too old and no one is around to fill in the workforce for them.
Affordable to you…. Very affordable to people with marketable skills.
The weather is rough in Maine.
Winter and July, right?
Aroostook is the worst
@@robdioddo1483 lack of quality infrastructure.
They're leaving because they can't make a livable wage.
And the cost of living here has gone up much more than most states in recent years. I just moved back here after being gone for 8 years and it was shocking how much the price for everything has gone up compared to other areas of the country
@@la7era1u54 -Absolutely.This is corporate greed at work.
@@markmorris3579 No, this isn't corporate greed, this is inflation due to government overspending. When the Dollar is worth less, you need more of them to buy the same item.
If you know your history, you will know that the last time the dollar went through inflation it got to the point people needed a wheel barrel of money to buy a loaf of bread.
For real, my son left because there is no work.
Without jobs and excitement what young person would want to stay? It is good to have a job you hate and friends to go out with to complain about your job with. Seriously young people like to be around their peers, dating, hanging out with, etc. and all of that costs money which means for the vast majority of us work.
I recently drove through Lincoln looking for a camp to buy and it struck me the irony of it all. I was looking at $250,000 camps that can be used for maybe 3 months out of the year and to get to them I had to drive through a town that is economically depressed and where a year round in town home would cost about $50,000. Then the drug problems and all that comes with it.
It’s Cold up there 🥶
A noticeable lack of interviewing of women of all generations who live in the County
No services
Bad roads
Awful winters
Worst place in Maine
1940s
"The weather is cold and the people are colder" that was what I was told when I moved there, but didn't want to believe it, found out its true. Lived in Cumberland County for many years and the distain towards outsiders never stops. I still visit for the seafood and see it clearer now the attitude Mainers have.
Absolutely
Worst place in Maine
Only thing good is 4 hours to Quebec City
Southern Mainers
Laugh for hours about Aroostook county
High tax rates, insane electricity prices, lacking infrastructure throughout the state, few good paying jobs, southern maine passing laws that norhtern counties don't want, the list goes on and on and on.
I'd love to move up there but it's just too expensive
Aroostook county is too expensive?
@@buyerofsorts Maine in general & yes the county. Winters are expensive!
JOBS / Industrial Business AND POWER GRID must be dependable! You must offer sustainability. Insensitives for Diversity of growth within all communities.😊
Yeah, I don't know why people are so surprised. You pay a ton of money to have no life at all. What kind of logic is that? This isn't just the county. This is everywhere in the state. My mother pays $1,700 a month to live in a condo in freaking Sanford where the idea of painting the town red is going to Applebee's. It's ridiculous.
June will make my 3rd year here, and I just was able to get my Mother here as well. I love it up here in The County!!!
Hey! I love your channel! Glad you got your mom to join ya!
They put out 4 of these videos on the same day, and some of the comments on them have me scared. I just bought the 400+ acre place in Amity, and I'm worried by the things they say about "Welcome, now go home" Dude, Is it bad, or are those evil comments just trolls? Thanks- Lucky Younger
@@CASTERSRABBITHOLE As long as you are kind to the community and don't push your views onto others you will be just fine. Treat the land and your neighbors well and they will treat you well in return.
@@courtneymeehan504 Thanks man. I can't wait till I get the lodge repaired and can just Live. Trees! So Many trees! :D
@@CASTERSRABBITHOLE Of course. I live in the trees as well and talk to them everyday. 😁
Declining population is not all a bad thing for Aroostook. We're here in southern Oxford county, right near Carroll county, NH. LOADS of people have moved to the area since 2020--mostly from "away." With this have come downsides, like soaring property taxes (those coming from away usually want all the services they had in MA, RI, CT, NY, NJ, etc. and vote for tax hikes to pay for these), traffic, growing strain on local resources, and increasing crime. MY daughter attended MSSM in Limestone, so we have met and talked with a lot of County residents. Most live simple, austere lives and really DO NOT lament the fact the County is rural, "underpopulated," and not as economically prosperous as the southern counties.
"Traffic" 🤣🤣🤣 This is why I am upset that I wasn't brought up somewhere else because Maine does not prepare you for anything in life. By your estimation, traffic is maybe five extra cars on the road than normal.
What's frustrating is that it's that very stodginess that is preventing Maine from prospering.
@@SomethingSomethingg 100%
@@SomethingSomethingg It's all relative, isn't it? I've lived in Philly, Manhattan, and Boston, and have traveled to New Delhi, Tokyo, Shanghai, Seoul, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Bangkok, and any number of other large cities with traffic like you could not possibly imagine. So, yes, I know what real traffic is--far better than you do, I'm guessing. As I said, it's relative. And, if you think there's no traffic here, I warmly invite you to visit North Conway, NH, any time during the summer months, over the holidays, or during any of the school breaks. Granted, it's not New Delhi, but it's pretty infuriating to sit in "traffic" on Route 16 for an hour, when you just want to do a "quick" run to Hannaford.
@@jtakayama6294Actually I've also been to all those places except India so I know what real traffic is as well. You didn't mention traffic in North Conway during it's peak times that are flooded with tourists. You mentioned a small town in NH with traffic being the result of people "from away" who relocated to NH.
The people will ultimately lament the County's underpopulation when they have nobody to help them as everyone gets too old.
Do not use this as an excuse to import people please. Jobs. Jobs are all that are needed.
What you're not seeing is thousands of us baby boomers like myself are retiring.Plus you add all the ones who are leaving.Companies have to pay a decent wage if they want to have enough workers to stay in business.It's their choice.
No it's not all about jobs. You actually need people who are able to work and the old people are dying off or retiring and the young people don't want to stay there because they actually want to have lives.
@@SomethingSomethingg Wouldn't that be related to work?
@@courtneymeehan504 Yes....and more people to fill these jobs. You need the imports. Tough s*** if "outsiders" change things up there. You have NOTHING to offer your youth so your only hope are refugees who are just grateful to be in the US. Young people are not coming back to Aroostook. When you're 24 you actually want to live life not just sit around and quietly look at trees like a catatonic. So you're going to need these "imports" as you call them who'll keep things moving as the elderly become to old to work.
@@SomethingSomethingg so what I am reading is that you are from away. Got it,
People cannot afford it. Rent is higher than a social security check. The jobs are low wage, no benefits. Maine is in trouble as is the rest of this country.
Not to mention that there's just nothing to offer in terms of a social life... Or any kind of life for that matter. Not everyone just wants to sit around and look at trees all day.
Social Security was never meant to live on. It was only meant to supplement ones income.
@@buyerofsorts incorrect, when your 80yo, don't have any savings wtf are you supposed to live on? Do better
@@ChellyB71 Are you dense or high? Read what I stated and try to understand it this time.
@ChellyB71 Pick yourself up by your bootstraps that's what Republicans say. While they stole ppe money from 150,000 to 500,000! I would have loved that but they complain because we got a 250 dollar check
When you have to wait 3 years to get a dentist appointment a dermatology appointment or any specialist appointment schools are subpar at best real estate is only for vacationers pay rate is horrible and then you've got everybody that's in any kind of office in any town in any county and they're all related somehow so you get completely shafted anything you go to do and then they go do whatever they want it's a horrible place to live I went there I tried it for five solid years we ended up in a camper me my three children and my four pets ended up living in a camper and there was no sight of anything good
Absolutely
You better go to Canada for dental care
Angus looks ready to fall asleep and Collins barely has the strength to even speak. When I think of Maine, I think “old people”. Kids don’t want to live there, especially up in the frozen tundra area.
I'd honestly rather raise kids in a big city than here because this state does not prepare you for anything LOL. I've realized that as I travel to different places. Something as simple as crossing the street scares me because I'm not used to traffic. Not used to crime, not used to crazy drivers, not used to noise, not used to anything even remotely uncomfortable or inconvenient. I'm not used to people being so friendly and full of energy and ambition. I'm not used to people having intellectual conversations that went beyond their everyday lives. Maine prepared me to walk and drive on snow. Short of that, I am basically relearning how to live. I feel like Briggs when he got out of Shawshank just scared and confused by a world that everyone else has no problem dealing with.
Somebody once told me that Mainers are the biggest pussies on the planet because they are terrified of absolutely everything unfamiliar to them and, having spent so much time away, I realize....yup!!! They're right. I feel like the biggest pussy on the planet. I went to Egypt and I literally had to hold my friend's hand as we were crossing the street because I was so overwhelmed with the traffic and I was afraid I'd get hit. He just laughed.
Here an Idea for you. Do interviews with MAINER'S You know the one's whom where BORN and RAISED HERE. Do what TUCKER DID INTERVIEW HIS NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR. People commented how down to earth guy was. Hell i gave a shout out to Trucker for doing this interview.
Ummm....they ARE Mainers??? What the hell are you talking about??
It’s really all about jobs and opportunities. My daughter is attending a state university in Vermont, to become a mid-wife. She grew up going to Vermont every weekend to ski and spending a great deal of time in Vermont. We have a second home there. Now that she has lived there she no longer wants to stay. Yes she could get a job but her options are limited, other than outdoor activities there is very little to do. In the area she lives drug use is very high. This is something living in a ski area that we did not see. Young people need jobs and things to do. She also tells me there is a shortage of MD, she even had issues with her college not having enough professors to teach nursing. This part of Maine is super remote.
It's a lot more than jobs and opportunities. People of working age also want a life.
I think the problem with Maine is that there's only one metropolitan area in the whole freaking state and it's only at the bottom. If we could build more cities so that people could have options, maybe this wouldn't be a problem.
One? Portland sure but Bangor & LA are not small & growing. I'd like to see Skowhegan step up next.
@@ChellyB71 Compared to most of the world, they are. Bangor looks like every small town depicted in movies lol. I'm talking about REAL cities. Places with stadiums and big entertainment venues and malls and lots of public transportation. That way people don't have to travel all the way to Boston just to see their favorite musician or see a Red Sox game. Maine needs to be more like Ohio. You've got three big cities in a small space so that if you want the quiet Norman Rockwell life you can have it. And when you need that metropolitan fix you don't have to travel far to get it. If you live up in the county it literally becomes a weekend trip just to see a freaking Patriots game.
@@ChellyB71 whenever anything fun comes to me, it's something that is geared towards old people. Like Oxford Casino. Young people can't afford to piss away money at a casino. That's clearly an avenue for older people. Old people don't want anything to change but yet they want the young people to stay and yet they don't want to give the young people any incentive to stay. I'm sorry but there's a lot of beautiful places in the world. That's not exactly a selling point to move to Aroostook.
Something about this video smells funny, like an agenda. This is super old footage... Like from over a year ago...
The problem is housing prices and no real opportunity for alot of people up here when I was in highschool I meet alot of people who wanted to leave.
I would like to live there I’m on the coast near bar harbor traffic is like living in hell.
a “living hell” is a bit of a stretch 🚗
@@PM2024- Not in the summer its not. There is only one road on and off the island.
Aroostook is hell
With school enrollment declining in the schools on Mount Desert Island, it’s tough to imagine that there’s much hope for Aroostook County 🌲
The problem is over regulation, limited housing, and out of control energy costs.
Maine is beautiful, but it's cold 🥶
Not enough of a birth rate to replace the population. The Amish are growing and do not participate in the US census. Contraception is intrinsically evil. It is not the economy, but people's selfish desires.
It isn’t f*cking that has Maine f*cked. It is the lack of f*cking jobs! Even if they are born in Maine they move away because they want to earn a living wage.
So easy for a "man" to bitch about low birth rates when they aren't the ones giving birth.
Do you believe its evil because its unnatural?
It's irresponsible to bring children into the world that you cannot afford to take care of.
@ravenspellman8370 Absolutely. We need to take care of Mother Earth before she decides she will no longer take care of us
I'd be willing to trade off this Georgia heat for a long, wet, cold winter. I have family that live in NH and ME, though I've never been that far north they say I'll change my mind after one season. Just a few more years till all the kids are gone- then so we'll be. Might come up and start a population boom, haha. Not much different in the way of rural southern living I'd imagine with just a shorter growing season and longer winter. So be it. 😉
be careful what you wish for, you could have a gang of the ninjas move there that are dependent on WIC and SNAP and every other government handout they can get. Be damn glad you are not in the same boat as Memphis, Atlanta, Baltimore ...
Wolves shedding crocodile tears as sheeple is not reproducing
There's a reason why nobody wants to live in Aroostook county. Its cold and the people are colder.
A lot of backwards miserable dinosaurs live in Aroostook county. They provide no support for the younger generation. Don't forget how people here are like the ancient Chinese, always fearing an invasion of outsiders. Everybody I met from away said "Thank God I don't live in Aroostook county Maine". The fear in loathing in the backwards county runs deep.
Is this the county where the right wing proud boys groups ect are living and causing chaos I've seen in reddit people talking
It keeps getting more and more woke.
Be careful what you wish for, look whats happening in the middle and lower end of maine....nothing you want in the county.