Recent comments in /f/Maine

schilling207 t1_j53fste wrote

You’d better have a good paying job lined up or rich parents. Apartments are on par with Boston but salaries are not.

Aside from cost, it’s a great city. It has its issues (homelessness, NIMBYism, etc), but overall it has a lot to offer and the people I know living there now enjoy it.

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Pinkerton02 OP t1_j53c6dp wrote

Reply to comment by Deanho in WW2 Uniformed Man by Pinkerton02

Hey, do you have anything In specific article wise?? I’ve been doing lots of research about the Bangor area, specifically with a 1895 “Wild man” encounter with Lumberjacks logging up there, so any more info about people up there would be great!

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Fluffheady t1_j53buyn wrote

How does this make any sense? You can't just say "basic economics" and walk away.

There is a shortage. If prices increase to a "reasonable" level, profits remain the same even if prices increase. There are less eggs to be sold, so you increase prices to compensate for lower overall sales / lower supply. If you increase profits beyond a pre-shortage level, that means you are jacking up prices well beyond what they would actually need to be to "weather the storm" of bird flu.

It's because of corporate greed and oligopolistic practices.

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OC2k16 t1_j53brpk wrote

Maybe try looking local. My mother has 8 hens and they are laying a bunch of eggs. She has to give a bunch away, obv we take a bunch when we visit.

But I see signs all the time people selling eggs. They taste way better, look way better too.

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