Maine median home price is 330k, CT is 337k. And before you say well that's because Portland, that's where you're gonna find any decent paying jobs, CT is going to have way more anyways. The jobs where I live in West Virginia pay same/more than similar positions in Maine and you can rent for well under a grand here and buy houses for 200k in the city. Maine is expensive for what you get.

What part? It is is a very simple statement. I am just pointing out that poisoning soil is like ruining the future.

>You don't have to zone the entire town that way, just a couple of acres

That's called what, spot zoning? Prohibited. There is a reason it is called zoning.

Nonsensical rubbish.

I know folks who worked at BIW who lived over by China Lake. They were resilient.

When I was in high school, my summer job was 14 miles distance but I had no way to get there except my bicycle. I did not spend my time whining about it. The next year I found a different job.

Minimum wage in Maine is what, $13.80/hr? Hardly depressed when compared to other states - a large number of which remain at $7.25/hr. CT's, a much more expensive state, is only $14/hr.

So, you fail at the "very depressed" claim.

Since Maine is very white, what is your point?

Yes for sure.

I only learned that from the house price post on the sub today. That's a fucking crazy minimum.

Would you shit upstream from your camp? Time is a stream.

I’m sure the lower prices for single family homes are in isolated, far away areas.

I’d like to see more housing built where there are jobs.

Oh noes, people that aren't rich and white might be able to move here.

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Wages in Maine are also very depressed compared to most other states.

Beautiful! Is this on Saponac?

Median is used for housing for a reason. Mean would include $10M waterfront compounds, unreasonably skewing the numbers high, since 99.9999% of mainers aren't looking at those properties. And while those properties are "included" in median, they do not have the same effect.

https://www.manausa.com/blog/mean-median-mode-real-estate/

I agree I had 2 shoulder surgeries, hip, and knee done at togus. I highly recommend togus. I had a shoulder done at maine med and was having surgery on it again within the year. Togus fixed it.

>We need to make it possible for builders to build more multifamily homes all over Maine to provide affordable first time homes for buyers and stable rents.

If builders are not building new housing then folks need to look at why that is the case. Hint: it is not because builders cannot turn a profit.

>$328,000, (which is the median price of a 1 family in Maine).

The median price swings by quite a bit amongst the websites. Neighborhoodscout uses ~$200,000. Zillow nearly $400,000.

I find the use of median to be misleading. But it does point to half of the prices being below that figure. Using average, imho, would provide a better - and truer - figure.

Whatever happened to being resilient? If conditions change, we change. If one town does not have what can be afforded, look elsewhere. Man has long desired for a better life. And for the better things in life. This whining about how others have what you do not have is... childish. Be better.

Or get a better job.

I guess that's a bad thing, eh? If I take what I earn and buy what I want, that's bad because... someone wants to work at crack donald's and they don't want to walk to far to get there? I'm guessing that putting in extra hours and saving up for something better is bad, too, eh? Because "libertarian."

Under your theory, I should never have bought anything better than a yugo.

>Building new housing doesn’t help now. It helps 15 years from now. If there was adequate construction 15 years ago rent wouldn’t be as crazy as it is today.

I totally get that, but in addition to building more housing, stopping the rent prices hikes would help immediately. There is no reason that the apartment I used to rent 5 years ago for $600 should be $1200+ now, except that property management places can get more profit.

>The best way to bring down rent prices is to build more housing

That will help in the future. In the present what would help is somebody stopping the ever increasing rental prices, right now.

We need an aggressive land use tax for seasonal and recreational properties.

This would provide funding for social programs AND encourage those land owners to open up to the rental market.

Any way to get some of the thumbnails bigger than thumbnails without trying to download?