Young family finds happiness on remote island off Maine
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- A young family was met with raised eyebrows when they shared plans they would be moving to a remote island way off the coast of Maine. Steve Hartman goes "On the Road" to learn what led them there, and how they found happiness off the beaten path.
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At this point, I may wanna join them. Dealing with people has gotten exhausting. 🤨
wanna?
Yes agree
Don't do it. That's what they want.
Lmao I bet the government will label their file as “far right extremists” 😂
@@ManChan-w5pha ha, sounds like someone working from home office and doesn’t have to deal with hundreds of ppl every day! LOL
I had lived in Alaska for a few years. Same type of remoteness, same natural beauty. Enjoy, lucky people!
News Alert: someone is happy
Dang weird world huh
ill take it tbh, news is full of anxiety spiking bs these days
more like news alert- someone has chosen a remote life.
Deer Isle is my home now. Husband and I have never been happier! Paradise at its best.
Almost moved to Deer Isle from Nevada but aging family needs help here. It's so beautiful there and wish you all the best!
You guys go for out there. 😊❤ I'm envious of your quality of life.
Enjoy.
Probably one of the nicest wholesome stories I've seen in awhile. I wish them all the good fortune in the world.
There's no way that this would work for me. I'm too social and I love the arts, meeting new people, going to restaurants, etc. I fear that the mild depression I suffer from occasionally would deepen in such isolation. But I'm happy for them that they've found what works for them.
Urban city dwellers.
totally same. i want to go and see art house films and browse bookstores! lol
@@Denymymadness Angelica and St. Mark's bookstore?
Our daughter lives on Deer Isle / Stonington., About an hour's drive south of Bar Harbor. Winters are mild (still cold), summers are cool (rarely hot), and the community is tight. It's a beautiful area. Her brother in law pilots a ferry to and from Haut, ( or something like that). Stonington is Maine's largest lobstering port. It's a little too rural for our taste, but wonderful to visit for a change of pace.
“Bah hahbah”
I know the area well. I've been there a couple times before. I like remoteness and I'm from the mid-west.
@@gundy99223LOL
I went to Isle Au Haut last month, via a ferry out of Stonington. Loved it. So many seabirds (as an avid birder who doesn't live near the ocean there were many first time spottings for me!). Right before the boat went out I ate breakfast at Stonecutters and it was yummy.
Omg!! Beautiful story, wishing all the best for them.
We left NE cities & moved to a bluff off an island over two decades ago.Our crew were born & raised here.
In 1974 Charles Pratt wrote Here On The Island, an account of life on this same island. There were two dozen full time residents, with the same problems as in the video and how they solved them.
My library system has this book and I've reserved it. Thanks for the recommendation !
Thanks Steve! I pray that God continues to bless that beautiful family!
Maine is a beautiful state
Awesome wish I lived there❤❤❤
Wonderful kids, I wish them all well!!
How Lovely 🥰🙏🏻♥️!
So if you need medical assistance, what do you do?
Isle au Haut is magical place. Been there several times hiking. It is remote and I would imagine crazy in bad weather. If I were 30 years younger, I’d do it in a heartbeat.
peace and quiet
I'm a nature-loving, tree-hugging, solitude-seeking introvert. This isle is my jam. I'd absolutely move there but I'm an audiobook producer so I don't know how I'd get wifi to send my files. But I 100% would move there and I'd guarantee there'd never be litter with me around. ❤
I grew up there. Only left due to student loans and needing a different job than what is available. There's WIFI, satellite television, and cellphone reception (although spotty with some carriers).
🎼 🎤 A three hour tour 🎶🎵 😱
Nothing beats living in Moose River, Maine.
I live in New York City, after Covid-19, many people started to act as if they were wild animals due to mental health issues that was related to the pandemic. I was yelled at and almost assaulted by strangers back in 2021 were this also ruined my mental health and made me a different person in a negative way. If another pandemic happens, I hope there is a house for me here because I won’t be leaving this island until the World global health organization decides whatever pandemic is taking place no longer is a global health issue
I was in Steve Hartman's Boy Scout troop 201 growing up with his two older brothers. Toledo, OH
So cool.
Wow! What a place. Super jealous of that couple.
RIGHT ON...
Now the world knows about the island….r.i.p to it everyone is on their way
I love it. ✌️
sounds fun and peaceful
I would Love to live there. ❤️
I’d move there 🥰 but like being close to emergency 🚨 services.
My wife and I honeymooned there. Magical but no thanks on the winters there
Sounds wonderful to me! As long as it never gets hot.
I’m in!!!
This is usually how horror movies start. 20 minutes in baby Amelia learns to shoot a 12 gauge shotgun. Because you know everyone needs to learn to defend
How do I get in touch with who ever is in charge of that island?? Am very interested
The beginning of a Stephen King Book.
He said never been on the ocean before but he was out hunting lobsters…
And we have always been around
Love it
ok where do i sign up?
Is there a hospital around or just a caring unit ?
I didn’t see how they live other than the location. Remote island, only a few dwellers. Lots of trees. Other than that, what is so different?
I'd live there. Build my own pizza oven and make my own cheese. Start making pizzas for my couple neighbors lol
Paved roads? A country store? Compared to some islands in Maine, that's very "modern". Watch those winters, they can be tough.
1:48 if you have money and inheritance you good....
Too cold. But if this waa in the south it would be paradise.
Beautiful area but I’m sure it gets bitterly cold in the winters.
Midnight Mass, good luck
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Beautiful & a true blessing! Hopefully too many won’t want to move there and ruin that privacy…now everyone knows about it….here come the developers 🙄
Love it, my ex boyfriend said to me years ago, "convenience equals death"-----so true. Most Americans always wanting more and more, most people just are NOT happy, it's sad...Profit over People..
God bless capitalism.
Matinicus is more isolated
What do they do for work?
The stuff that you didn't pay attention to while watching the video.
The Kid is wearing no seat belt while sleeping in the back seat. When they say "thrown from the car", that's what they're talking about.
That was your focus? On the whole island maybe you might hit 40mph as your top speed, since you have to traverse those enormous distances. And did you see the traffic? It was like rush hour in L.A.
Where do they get gasoline and diesel fuel? Electricity? The winters must be brutal.
You really don't need those -- only fuel for boats, because you don't drive around like you have to on the mainland. (I spent a lot of time on a small Maine island as a kid). How much power you have is a little flexible, but many places have cisterns and wells, lanterns are very common for after dark, and wood does any heating. Cooling is a non-issue, due to the geography. Not all islands are overwinter ones. There's a caretaker on those -- just someone to make sure trespassers don't interlope during the off-season. You'd be very surprised how much you don't need. You just have to get used to everything not being instant, is all. That's most of it. Out of milk? Grab the radio and let someone know you want some, and the boat will come with it on Monday. That sort of thing. It might sound inconvenient, but the whole idea of convenience being important is only a thing because you're in a rat race in the first place. Step off that boat, and you'll instantly realize you no longer need convenience at all, and that you have something indescribable you've never known. I wish I could put it into words, but I can't. It's a deep, peaceful contentment, wrapped up in the smell of pines and the sound of crashing waves. Distant fog horns and little dinging buoys. Waves of tall grasses. Well water and the darkest night skies ever. No alarm clocks. No car horns. Birds and fish and deer and cottages. Ahhhhhh. Electricity? Meh. Wouldn't want to be without it on the mainland, no way. But it's actually one of the best things on islands, and really not so much needed. There are some generators, and now I'm sure some solar. But you can't beat islands. They'll blow your mind. Can't recommend them enough, at least once in your life, try to visit one. Because WOW.
Agree but I would need a veterinarian. Can't live ve without my dogs@@marthajean50
@@marthajean50how do you get to a hospital in an emergency?
The island has had electricity for over fifty years, and telephone! Ferries carry all sorts of necessities, vehicles, and passengers.
@katewoolf6059 The mainland is only six miles away. Like many parts of the rural United States, Life Flight is well used.
That logo is way too distracting nobody is stealing your a cbs clip why are you blocking 1/4 of the screen…
Would love to have a ranch there. Be a chicken farmer or fisherman. Seems like a good simple life.
Where’s the doctor?
The doctor is in your dreams.
Life flight 🚁
Wait until they come up with off-grid tax.
Blue berries for Sal ?
Clean the spark plug on the outboard !
Wrong title !
One Morning in Maine is a picture book by Robert McCloskey set in Brooksville, Maine. It was awarded the Caldecott Honor in 1953
Family lives on a Maine island , great kids book . Nice drawings ! Top book of the year published .
Fallout: Far Harbor
😊
all fun and games now....but wait till it gets to be below 0 degrees every other day with power outages....pretty sure kiddies not gonna like that so much.....=/
Island kids have plenty to do, actually. Taking care of any animals, fishing, building rope swings, carpentry and sewing, learning to pilot and take care of boats, gardening, cooking, that kind of thing. It's kinda fantastic to see how much kids actually love it.
In northern states or high altitude areas, there are weeks of below zero temperatures and we are used to it and well prepared.
@@marthajean50 kinda?
@@Capecodham Editing typo, I think. It's amazing, yeah. And so much better for the kids in lots of ways, especially when they're young kids.
@@marthajean50 kinda is not a word.
yes,dont over expose the place,too many times when people see a place like this ,well,there goes the neighborhood,keep it small and friendly
Wait until winter comes❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️💨💨💨💨💨💨💨❄️❄️❄️❄️
Loved the story itself, yet found the journalist's over-production approach, used car salesman voice, sentimentalizing view to be unbearable. This is why I don't own a TV or subscribe to cable.
Prom will get awkward….😅
Yet, uh, how do they go food shopping?
No seat belt for Flynn?😮
Civilized people.
I'm sure it severely lacks diversity...and is aboslutely wonderful
Stephen King will pay a visit.
W
Crazy humans you can't escape the matrix
Have they thought about climate change?
If you got money, move to Maine. Otherwise, there is not much there for the young working people.
Of course the resilient they have millions of dollars in old money
What about all the little black flies they sing about?
Queue all the billionaires who are about to buy that island and make it unlivable for anyone who isn't rich. They did it to Hawaii, they did it to Wyoming....sounds like Maine is next.
Most generational locals don't have generational wealth that newcomers have when buying rock island or live in them so $ is happiness, yuck!.
lol you know that place is haunted like badd
Plenty of room for thousands of migrants!! VOTE BLUE PEOPLE!!
Mainer here, let's not romanticize it... winters are tough here. Really tough. And winter lasts a good 6 months. If you come here, be prepared to always wear ice grippers and winter coats and either you're shoveling snow or plowing it. But yes, I'm super blessed to live in my state of 4 seasons. Well 5 seasons, we got mud too!
Wisconsin is the same way. Beauty comes at a price. ❤
never heard of the slip on shoe spikes as ice grippers, aka crampons. They are definately a MUST, even for people who don't live in Maine. I have seen hundreds of videos of people slipping on the ice and getting seriously injured. I keep an extra set of the ice grippers in my car at all times, often there will be no ice at my house when I leave in the mornnig, but when I arrive at work the parking lots have a lot of ice (since it is at higher elevation).
I'm in NH so similar weather. Winters are not super tough. Winter blows but def not really tough. 💕
I'm in Michigan, I don't think we have it quite as bad as Maine.... but we are surrounded by lakes and that lake effect snow is not something outsiders are prepared for in the winter.
I don't think anyone is romanticizing it. Just from this video alone I can tell you I would never want to move to a place like that but I understand why it has an appeal to some. For all of civilization's shortcomings, I like having neighbors. And I like the sun.
Wonderful kids, I wish them all well!!
I Love Maine with all of my heart. Raised my sons there and the people there are the best in the world.
I’m treating my parents to a trip to Portland and Camden in a few weeks. We’ve never been. It looks beautiful!!
Used to be. Changing more and more. 😢 (Lived near Portland 21 years.)
Maine coast in winter may change their attitude but I wish them well. It is beautiful.
That and Hurricane season 😅
They won’t last 3 years
@@stephencottens2521They came from central mass, trust me, the winters are better than the diversity.
Don't sugarcoat it to much because winters here in New England can be brutal, especial Nor'easters along the southern-New England coastline and Maine's coastline. All the same I wish their family all the best and happiness in their new home.
Reality sets in...tried living in blizzard prone winters and spectacular warm seasons. Native born people talked of slippng on black ice, concussions as a matter of routine. Residents tend to be likeable. Evaluating what's important in my druthers.
It's a lovely island but I would LOSE MY MIND there!
Stephen King loves that.
We know someone who gave up his beautiful 150-acre home to move to one of those remote islands and he hates it. Not because of the remoteness, he knew it going in but the weather, damp and cold. He lived in New England, so he knew the weather, or he thought he did. He did not factor in the endless fog and dampness. Fortunately, he can always come back but the property he sold was truly special and that's gone. These islands look more like summer places to me, a winter on a small island with no skiing no thanks.
I didn't realize how big this island is. Hard to believe it now has such a small population compared to years ago. Would love to hear from those people who left on why.
BEING FROM CT I KNOW
BAR HARBOR ACADIA PARK IVE SEEN IT ALL
UNTIL THE COLD COMES IN
NICE BUT WOULDNT WANT TO
SUPPOSE YOU NEED MEDICAL HELP AND GO TO HOSPITAL?
@@ekop1778 I'm sure that they have arrangements for helicopter service in extreme cases. Question is who foots the bill - I'm sure island residents are not exactly raking it in financially. I would probably get my appendix removed electively as one hedge against a possible crisis. There's much to consider here before making that kind of life style leap.
A number of these small islands dot the coasts and are in the Great Lakes as well. It takes a certain personality to weather the inevitable seasonal storms that blow through. Cool climate island areas have resorts catering to an upscale clientele wanting an escape from summer heat and urban density. It just makes good economic sense. An example is Mackinac Island, which has had success as a car free island for over a hundred years.
@@Golf05you can get insurance that will explicitly cover heli ride to mainland in emergencies.
Seems great, but I need a veterinary emergency room in driving distance! :(
🌲 Lovely story but CBS forgot to mention that 60% of the 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞 island is part of Acadia National Park. Isle au Haut is the park’s most isolated area 🚤
Sold everything, retired, and moved into an rv. Best thing I've ever done
But where do you park it?
@@snowygirl131 in a parking spot probably
@@nightfighter7452 how much is the parking spot?
I spent an amazing summer on this island when young, assisting on a research project that was looking at visitor numbers on small islands. It was unforgettable. We had incredible times in beautiful parts with no-one around, I still think about that time decades later. How wonderful that their children will know every inch of that island in time. Lucky them!
Looks like heaven to me..Best of luck to them..🎉
Give them a few winters and see
No worse than central Mass.
They'll be perfectly fine they have millions of dollars
@@harrisond8132😂😂😂 wait you serious?
@@harrisond8132literally way worse than Massachusetts. They’re on an island, they can lose power and not get it back for days, seas too rough for the ferry they’re stuck. It’s not comparable to Massachusetts at all
NGL the setup and headlines does sound like the opening synopsis of a horror movie. That's its in Maine only reinforces that. Now it might be a very lovely place, but on paper with no context...
How to deal with waste management and recycling? Zero waste is very difficult, if not impossible.
Have a great life!❤🙏