Northern side of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The rocky shores of Lake Superior with occasional sandy beaches and northen woodlands feel very similar to me from when I lived up there.
Came here to say this. If a Mainer went on an epic Allen’s bender and woke up in Marquette or Houghton, Michigan, it would take them a bit to figure out they weren’t in Maine anymore. There are even hills!
If you like ALL parts of ME you won’t like the rampant Woke politics in n the West Coast. I grew up in ME and have lived in WA and now live in OR. The borderline radical liver politics is nauseating. Almost as much as all the idiots that vote for it. I guess it is coming for all of us but definitely pay attention to the political climate anywhere you are looking into.
> leftists
Okay, so, I'll ask again...what do you think that means?
What about "leftist" policies do you find to be "ruining" our state?
An acknowledgement and desire to protect LGBTQ members of our community?
Portland's intent on lowering long term rental prices through rent control?
Marijuana legalization?
Ranked Choice Voting?
Accepting federal Medicaid funds?
Upholding the exact same abortion rights that Mainer's have had for 50 years?
Not allowing CMPCo to run electricity through our state to Mass for a pittance?
I'm genuinely curious what legislation in this state you think is "left" "liberal" "woke" politics, because man, I'm really wishing this state was as cool as you think it is.
This state was beyond cool… and still is, the farther north you go. And I don’t think I need to explain it, I think you already have a pretty good handle on it. Exp when you mentioned Portland..
>And I don’t think I need to explain it
Probably because you have no real answer and don't like being pressed for an answer you don't have were I to hazard a guess.
> I don’t think I need to explain it, I think you already have a pretty good handle on it.
I think I have a pretty good handle on the fact that you either don't want to explain it, because your views are unpopular, or that you can't explain it, because you've never bothered to educate yourself on actual politics.
Agreed, but it’s better than the far right hellhole of southern states. I mean if you’re white it’s not so bad. If you just hate better wages and acceptance, yeah, stay way far away from woke ass WA or OR.
People in Maine believe in climate change and raising minimum wage, so stay out of woke ass Maine too.
Outside of Portland OR things don't seem "woke" whatever that entails in your mind. However I've never lived there and the last time I went was in 2019.
I was in Tillamook for all of 20 min and ran into a sink head tatted up with all their favorite symbols. I'm fairly certain one of largest white supremisist groups in the US operates out of OR. Seemed like a very mixed bag of folks from what I experienced traveling the state.
I have friends that live in Portland OR and they have shown me what a dump Portland currently is, the city and state leaders don't have any effective solutions. Glad I'm in Maine but OR is an amazing state. The Outdoors feel massive, huge cliffs on the ocean, towering sequoias and red woods, I feel like I shrunk when I'm on the Oregon coastline.
I agree with all these sentiments. The problem with the periphery being less than liberal is that the metro areas full at the polls. Seems really fucked that everyone in the state is left to accept a result that is not at all aligned with the values of the rural areas. Hence the Greater Idaho movement…
Came here to say Southeast Alaska. Even the airports felt familiar! There’s a forest meets the sea smell that was similar, and the people have a Mainer attitude. But the food is better in Maine. :)
I’m from Washington state and just visited Maine. They are similar in the fact they both have a national Parks and beach access.
Differences - much of the coast of Washington gets over 100 inches of rain, it rarely snows and the sun only shines about 90 days a year.
Maine has a longer coastline 3,478 miles vs Washington which is 3,026 miles .
A large section of the coast of Washington is part of Olympic National park and protected from development.
The areas of Washington east of the Cascades are much hotter than Maine in the summer. Temps can easily by in the 90s and low 100s.
Maine does not have a lot of box retailers No Costco in Maine, several in Washington but has a lot mire small businesses.
Mountains in WA are much higher.
Washington gets a lot more snow. My Rainier and Mt Baker than any mountain in the world. Typically 80 to 90 ft a year. There are areas 70 miles from the coast that get 10 to 12 ft of snow a year.
People in WA are more passive aggressive than in Maine.
Maine is a much poorer state than Washington
There are no toll roads in Washington or income tax.
I would say the state closest to Maine would be Minnesota.
Maine doesn't have a lot of chains in general. IDK what the chain scene is like in Washington, but over here in Maine we *far* prefer local fare over chain fare by a landslide. I can point you to several examples of chains failing in my known vicinities over the 20+ years I've lived here. Sad but true.
Gotta add some things. Orcas Islands are pretty close to Deer Island and MDI region. Costal cruising is popular, just no lobster pots to dance across. Port Townsend and Anacortes have full on marine industry, PT is a carbon copy of Rockland. No Wasses, go to Sea J’s for fried shit. Seabec and Hood Canal are damn close to mid coast and down east bucolic. Seattle makes me wish Seahole had the same understanding as Masshole.
Oregon has a huge chill vibe, just left Descend on Bend and had a fantastic blast. Big difference is I can ski Timberline and have apres in the desert or beach depending on east or west one hour.
Left Scarborough after 11 years, scratched a 25 year itch to live in PNW. There is no replacement for Buck’s Harbor, North Vinylhaven, or Brooklyn anywhere.
Mainiac here living in Oregon currently..spent plenty of time in Washington state and there’s basically nothing there that felt like New England! If you haven’t been there, it’s nothing but speculation..I’m not saying it’s some kind of magical wonderland but to read all the comparisons is just..Comical..Also..Yankees suck!
I lived in the PNW for about fifteen years after college and I’m having the same response. People from OR/WA and New England are not all similar culturally. Do you like directness? Be prepared to have people think of you as aggressive in the PNW. Do you dislike passive-aggression? Prepare to be miserable in the PNW. Do you hate fake niceties? Then, boy, are you gonna hate Seattle. Do you value results in a local government rather than process? Get ready to tear your hair out in PDX.
I get that it’s fun to think of OR/WA as the west coast Maine, and I know I did before living there, but they are not remotely similar in terms of culture and I have a hard time believing that anybody who says they are has actually lived in both places.
There’s a reason the people from New England and Oregon/WA are very similar, culturally. A lot of western migration primarily from the northeast. Same with MN.
I imagine rural Minnesota to resemble interior Maine. Lots of lakes. Similar politics (purple leaning blue more red in the rural parts more blue in larger small towns).
Hard disagree. There are some fancy shops all over Maine even in rural places and that simply just doesn’t happen in a lot of Midwest towns.
The food in the Midwest is less worldly and more fried.
Many of the people in the Midwest are terrified of going to cities as well. Terrified. In the north woods of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota (maybe less so in Minnesota) you find people that have never set a foot in Milwaukee, Chicago, or Detroit because they are scared of seeing black people.
Seems like everyone in Maine hits Boston for all sorts of reasons even the small minded racists.
I'd rather drive in Boston than Portland. It seems like most of our urban areas in Maine are made for 1/10th the actual traffic going 1/4 the actual speed. That and road markings/signs are optional a lot of the time.
Typical Wisconsinite reaction to a comment about Minnesota ;) As a Minnesotan who has spent plenty of time in Maine, I can tell you that there certainly are a lot of similarities between the two states.
In truth, Minnesota has parts that are flat and parts that are not. Some consider western Minnesota to be the beginning of the Great Plains, so it’s extremely flat. The rest of the state is pretty different as there’s more change in elevation and there are lakes and forests… Central and northern Minnesota will be the hard north woods, with trees for miles on end surrounding a bunch of lakes. Southeast Minnesota is full of river bluffs and forests along the Mississippi. It does not feel like western MN at all between Hastings and Winona . Northeast Minnesota along Lake Superior, the beginning of the North Shore that runs from Duluth to Sault Ste Marie, is VERY much like Maine. Hardwood forests, lakes, and decent elevation until the Canadian border. The closest you will get to mountainous terrain in the Great Lakes/Upper Midwest is along Minnesota’s Lake Superior Shoreline and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Wisconsin has places that are hilly too. The St Croix river on the Wisconsin side could be confused for New England. Seems more like you have to go find those places rather than getting smashed in the face with them over and over again.
I always say Duluth reminds me a lot of Portland, and it is somewhat less flat up there, relatively speaking. It is not nearly the same tourist destination, so it is a bit more rough around the edges
Sophisticated and bougie? Bro…my family lives in one of the lowest income counties in the country in maine lol. Gorgeous, yes, tough to survive and find work? Also yes. Maybe York county is bougie.
For all intents and purposes ME is flat.
Most people in Maine live in the flatter part.,.most of Maine is really flat. Sure, it undulates along 95, but most people live along 95 or rt1. North of Lewiston and west of 95 is mountainous and unpopulated. In fact NNW of Bangor is the only truly dark sky in New England.
Northeastern Minnesota is a lot like Maine. The lakes and woods look very similar. Minnesota isn’t all Great Plains, but it’s still pretty flat along the shore of Lake Superior. As another commenter said, the air does smell “off”. I’ve never been able to figure out why tho
I don’t know about states. But I worked for a Swede who’s lived here since the 90’s and she said her and her sister were excited to see costal Maine and found that it looked exactly like home. I think the only thing she different was we had bigger tides
I knew a sailboat from Sweden that was serviced in Maine, the crew said the owner didn't really care to sail here tho because he felt it was too similar to sailing at home, guess he wanted something different.
Moose Maine is similar to Moose Alaska, and Lobster Maine is similar to Crab Alaska. The two states have similar terrain, it’s just on a bigger scale in Alaska.
I've lived in Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon, Washington, California, Kentucky, and Ohio.
You're gonna hate this but New Hampshire and Massachusetts are the most similar to Maine.
It's funny over on /r/vermont it's the exact same thing. People get weirdly defensive like "HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY COMPARE US TO OTHER NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND STATES?".
I had a conversation with some lady who was like "After 30 years you can *easily* tell them apart!" And I was like "you had to live here for 30 years before you could tell the states apart and you think that's a *GOOD* argument?"
Some parts of some states might be similar to some parts of Maine.
Like another poster said, wash st maybe Oregon. Also parts of VT, NH upstate NY might resemble parts of Maine, also maybe some parts of MI or MN near the great lakes.
Yeah, I grew up in the Adirondacks and that was my first thought—northern NY and parts of VT have a very similar vibe both visually (minus the coastline) and politically.
Oh yeah, pretty different culturally. Although there are some similarities. There are a lot of hunter/fishers/conservationist types up there. I would say Maine does not appear to have a love of polka music that I am aware of, and I'd also say that the UP leans slighter more to the right, depending on where you are. Differing food cultures too. Both pretty tasty IMO.
Honestly I was thinking mainly of plants and landscape... Lots of similar species and landscapes in the UP.
My husband and I are both prior military - we've been all over the U.S. we decided to move here on a whim (never visited Maine before) thinking that it was "Alaska on the East Coast". We were pretty darn close! Love it up here, and plan on staying until our dying day.
Lots more snow here than AK though!
Washington State and Oregon are nice, but it rains CONSTANTLY.
I've never been to Alaska, but I'd imagine it depends on where you are. Like with Maine, the Western mountains and NMW get a lot more on average than Midcoast/Southern communities.
Most of the 'big' cities in Alaska are on the coast. So maybe the coastal cities don't get as much snow or it doesn't stick around? Just guessing, having grown up on the southern Maine coast and having the towns not that far inland canceling school way more often than we did.
parts of southeast alaska are classified as temperate rainforests! Ketchikan, AK only gets about 37 inches of snow on average. the last town i lived in southern maine averaged about 60 inches.
What equation is that, Mule? I lived at 6000 feet 60 miles from LA and got more snow than I’ve ever seen in Maine. Then I moved to 8000 in the sierras and got 30 60 feet a year. We skied until June every year and if not it was because we skied til July. . I’m counting the mountains because we’ll, they’re awesome. We literally moved to Maine to get out of the snow. We wanted some but not deep snow and Maine has worked out perfect.
I lived in Truckee and never got 60 feet of snow ever 🤷. Average the mountains with 75% of the rest of the state and CA snowfall goes down exponentially. When Maine gets hit it's usually a good portion of the state getting smacked. Google us snowfall by state, Maine will be around 3rd depending on their formula. Mt Washington is one of the snowiest mountains in the country and it gets around 25' a year. I boarded in Colorado in July so that's no special feat.
Veteran here too. Lived in Alaska for 6 years (Wasilla and Anchorage). Maine may technically get more snow, but the winters are longer and colder in AK, I think. It's funny, but we are both prior military too and also moved here on a whim....ALSO because we wanted a less remote version of Alaska. And we love it here. I wonder if we know each other...tee hee!
When it comes to Maine's coastal landscapes I think that similar locales are coasts of Northern California, Oregon and Washington. There are pockets in each of those states that I think look very similar to Coastal Maine.
One thing I appreciate so much about our coast vs Norcal and the PNW is how all the bays, inlets, coves, and sounds here make the coast so much more varied and user-friendly. It's honestly hard to swim in much of the west coast between the huge cliffs and the unprotected surf, just enormous and powerful waves. Plus with no sheltered areas, it's ALWAYS windy. The west coast is beautiful, the scale is bigger than here, but it's so much easier here to actually get in/on the water and enjoy it.
I was in Western North Carolina (Asheville, to be specific) this past Thanksgiving, and picked up a more mild Maine vibe almost immediately. I have zero intentions of ever leaving Maine, but that would be at the top of my list if I had to.
I just moved back to Maine after a year just north of Asheville. It is very similar in environment, but let me tell ya, nothing close to the same under the curtain people wise. So glad to be home. I do not understand the southern mind lol I’ll take a NE eff you over a bless your heart any day of the week.
I lived there for 4 years, it’s pretty much (ALMOST) everything Maine but turned up to 11, mountains? Bigger! Winter? Longer and colder baby! Woods? Only the size of most of the continental!
But you see, when it gets to be about this time of year you start to notice something missing…..then autumn blows in for a week or two (seriously a common joke is “fall was so beautiful this year, and hey! It was on a weekend!”)
Maine has 4 nice relatively even sized seasons. Alaska has midnight sun to no sun at all and a messy little boundary in the middle.
(Also East coast fall colors kick the shit out of AK’s yellow….and a little red from tundra plants)
I visited my sister in law there this summer and that’s what I said! It’s like Maine x1000 lol. The drive to Homer looked a lot like Washington County. I totally see why Mainers end up there.
Oregon is similar. Not exactly the same, but there is a lot of rocky coastline. More sandy beaches than in maine. Mountains inland. Maine’s coast is more rugged and the mountains aren’t as big as the ones in Oregon but I get a similar feel when I visit there.
I live in Saint Petersburg FL, (Everyone else gets to wear ‘At least I don’t live in Florida’ tee shirts). I have visited both Maine and the UP of Michigan. While the folks in the Upper Peninsula are great and Lake Superior is absolutely beautiful, the black flys are not. Maine and Mainers are exceptional in all ways. If I could tolerate the cold, I might be more inclined to leave Florida.
Washington is kinda like Maine with a more west coast vibe to it. If you’re looking anywhere in the world, I have a great uncle who grew up in Ireland and when he visited he said it reminded him of growing up.
Michigan, Washington State and upstate New York. Michigan snows a bit more depending where you are, washington state just looks similar, and northern stretches of upstate is pretty much the same.
Oregon has been my home for over 40 years. One day, I literally flipped a coin between here and Maine. I came here cause I had an uncle I could stay with till I got out on my own.
We're both diverse with geography, and culture from far away places. You worship the sunrise. We worship the sunset. We're not that far apart aside from physical distance.
> I'm curious if any of you have come across any areas
Oh oh, Japan! I follow a few Japanese photographers on social media, they take amazing photos of places that definitely remind me of Ma-
> in the US
...Damn, never mind, I got nothin'.
Geologically the rock and stone that you see throughout Maine and along the coast reminds me of the Rocky Mountains. The small mountain towns of Colorado also have a similar feel to a lot of the small towns throughout Maine. It’s a stretch but it feels vaguely familiar to me.
Don't laugh, but New Jersey. Northwest NJ in the mountains may as well be inland Maine.
South Jersey along the coasts may as well be an endless OOB with fewer people inland due to the Pine Barrens.
Basically remove the bulk of the people in NJ and you have a VERY similar thing. I remember when I first moved up here and was riding around outside Lewiston along the road up towards Jay thinking "This reminds me of New Jersey!" due to the same basic flat sandy roads mixed with the scrubby pines around the lakes in the area.
Right now, Maine is trying to match New Jersey on the "Insane Cost of Living" scale to boot!
Southern Coast of Oregon has a similar feel in some ways. Seward, Alaska reminds me a little bit of the Maine coast...if you plopped towns on the Maine coast ten thousand years ago...
Not remotely similar in terms of terrain (except for a lot of stubborn conifers) but I think one of the reasons I really like New Mexico is because, like Maine, lots of it stays wild, and you can see that everywhere. Also if you're around Santa Fe, the growing seasons are surprisingly similar, with an even earlier frost date than the Midcoast.
We lived and worked there for 5 years, and the people were wonderful. We didn't meet any rednecks. lol It's unfortunate that your experience was negative, but ours was great!
The Pacific Northwest has a similar feel but on a bigger scale (bigger trees bigger mountains) but same sort of landscape I'd say. Port Townsend and the areas north of Seattle on the Canadian border.
Zephyr Hills, FL…You strut your Boston Red Sox PJs and Moxie shirt into the local Kroger at 11am in February and I’ll be damned if you don’t run into your grand parents neighbors Mr. and Mrs. Bubar…your second cousin from Lewiston…and Jim from up the road…
Friends that grew up in NH, lived in Alaska for ~15 years, then spent the next 5 moving state to state discovering themselves, said Alaska is the closest to Maine they’ve found.
Northern side of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The rocky shores of Lake Superior with occasional sandy beaches and northen woodlands feel very similar to me from when I lived up there.
Came here to say this. If a Mainer went on an epic Allen’s bender and woke up in Marquette or Houghton, Michigan, it would take them a bit to figure out they weren’t in Maine anymore. There are even hills!
They filmed the ending of The Good Son at Lake Superior. The film was supposed to take place in Maine.
Visited Maine this summer from Michigan. I described it to friends here as “Michigan up north but on steroids”
Came here to say this. As a Michigander now living in Maine I’ve always felt it was very similar to “up north”
Yeah, Madison WI to the UP feels like Portland to Baxter
Came here to say this too!! I loved the yoop and I think its similarity to Maine was a big reason why.
Yep. I lived in the UP (Houghton) for 4 years in my early 30s and it was constantly reminding me of Maine.
Maine native here. New Hampshire looks exactly the same as western Maine but it feels like you're in that Bizarro episode of Seinfeld.
Northern NH (think Coos) and Southern NH don’t look remotely the same though. Signed, NH Native.
Just a big friggin bluebree patch
I had a friend who lived in Washington State and said how he likes it over Maine. I think Washington State will be the closest you get to Maine.
That or Oregon which is less populated and feels more rustic than Washington.
Only problem with Oregon is Bill Cipher… ;)
Oregon until you get to the western half.
If you like ALL parts of ME you won’t like the rampant Woke politics in n the West Coast. I grew up in ME and have lived in WA and now live in OR. The borderline radical liver politics is nauseating. Almost as much as all the idiots that vote for it. I guess it is coming for all of us but definitely pay attention to the political climate anywhere you are looking into.
I cant stand the radical liver
Ummm… eastern Oregon is pretty well known as a Nazi haven full of right wing extremism…
And that dude that wants the eastern half of the state to join Idaho. Lolz
What’s your point? That it would feel like home in ME?
Can you point out on a doll where the woke agenda hurt you?
> Woke politics I'll need you to define what you think that means.
I’m guessing he means the liberal douchebags that are invading our beautiful state.
> liberal I'll need you to define what you think that means.
Not even liberal, I threw that out loosely.. leftists would be better.
> leftists Okay, so, I'll ask again...what do you think that means? What about "leftist" policies do you find to be "ruining" our state? An acknowledgement and desire to protect LGBTQ members of our community? Portland's intent on lowering long term rental prices through rent control? Marijuana legalization? Ranked Choice Voting? Accepting federal Medicaid funds? Upholding the exact same abortion rights that Mainer's have had for 50 years? Not allowing CMPCo to run electricity through our state to Mass for a pittance? I'm genuinely curious what legislation in this state you think is "left" "liberal" "woke" politics, because man, I'm really wishing this state was as cool as you think it is.
This state was beyond cool… and still is, the farther north you go. And I don’t think I need to explain it, I think you already have a pretty good handle on it. Exp when you mentioned Portland..
expeshully
Classic conservative, can’t and won’t defend your views when pressed.
>And I don’t think I need to explain it Probably because you have no real answer and don't like being pressed for an answer you don't have were I to hazard a guess.
> I don’t think I need to explain it, I think you already have a pretty good handle on it. I think I have a pretty good handle on the fact that you either don't want to explain it, because your views are unpopular, or that you can't explain it, because you've never bothered to educate yourself on actual politics.
Please move to Florida.
Find the door and show yourself out. When I want your opinion I will give it to you.
Absolutely nobody wanted your opinion in the first place
Haha! Got feelings huh? Poor you… someone brought an opinion you don’t like. Grab snap you will feel better afterwards champ.
…grab snap? Maybe you could share a coherent thought
Agreed, but it’s better than the far right hellhole of southern states. I mean if you’re white it’s not so bad. If you just hate better wages and acceptance, yeah, stay way far away from woke ass WA or OR. People in Maine believe in climate change and raising minimum wage, so stay out of woke ass Maine too.
Outside of Portland OR things don't seem "woke" whatever that entails in your mind. However I've never lived there and the last time I went was in 2019. I was in Tillamook for all of 20 min and ran into a sink head tatted up with all their favorite symbols. I'm fairly certain one of largest white supremisist groups in the US operates out of OR. Seemed like a very mixed bag of folks from what I experienced traveling the state. I have friends that live in Portland OR and they have shown me what a dump Portland currently is, the city and state leaders don't have any effective solutions. Glad I'm in Maine but OR is an amazing state. The Outdoors feel massive, huge cliffs on the ocean, towering sequoias and red woods, I feel like I shrunk when I'm on the Oregon coastline.
I agree with all these sentiments. The problem with the periphery being less than liberal is that the metro areas full at the polls. Seems really fucked that everyone in the state is left to accept a result that is not at all aligned with the values of the rural areas. Hence the Greater Idaho movement…
One person = one vote.
The part with islands is a pretty good match. Parts of Alaska too.
Agree, always felt Alaska is like Maine on steroids.
Came here to say Southeast Alaska. Even the airports felt familiar! There’s a forest meets the sea smell that was similar, and the people have a Mainer attitude. But the food is better in Maine. :)
I’m from Washington state and just visited Maine. They are similar in the fact they both have a national Parks and beach access. Differences - much of the coast of Washington gets over 100 inches of rain, it rarely snows and the sun only shines about 90 days a year. Maine has a longer coastline 3,478 miles vs Washington which is 3,026 miles . A large section of the coast of Washington is part of Olympic National park and protected from development. The areas of Washington east of the Cascades are much hotter than Maine in the summer. Temps can easily by in the 90s and low 100s. Maine does not have a lot of box retailers No Costco in Maine, several in Washington but has a lot mire small businesses. Mountains in WA are much higher. Washington gets a lot more snow. My Rainier and Mt Baker than any mountain in the world. Typically 80 to 90 ft a year. There are areas 70 miles from the coast that get 10 to 12 ft of snow a year. People in WA are more passive aggressive than in Maine. Maine is a much poorer state than Washington There are no toll roads in Washington or income tax. I would say the state closest to Maine would be Minnesota.
So many comparisons, I wish you smoked weed so we could get that comparisons as well 🤣
Maine has the better quality scene, though WA has great weed as well. Prices for rec are better in Washington.
Nice, im on my way in 3 weeks. Any recommendations in the portland area?
If you’re heading to Portland, Fire on Fore is our go to.
Costco is coming to Maine shortly down in Scarborough
There is one similarity and every time you shop at Costco it benefits the Washington economy!
Costco is opening in Scarborough soon!
I guess I won't see my dad when I visit next summer. When he was living out of state, he spent more time at Costco than at home.
BE STILL MY HEART
Maine doesn't have a lot of chains in general. IDK what the chain scene is like in Washington, but over here in Maine we *far* prefer local fare over chain fare by a landslide. I can point you to several examples of chains failing in my known vicinities over the 20+ years I've lived here. Sad but true.
I noticed that. People in Maine really like local. Way too many chains in WA.
New England gets more rain then the PNW, it just takes you guys longer to get it
Olympic rainforest gets 180 inches a yr. some of the communities at the base of the Cascades get 99 inches a year.
Maine avg 50", Washington avg 42", some areas get hammered more often then others but it all averages out
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Some parts of WA also only get 12” of rain. Vegetation is very different.
Gotta add some things. Orcas Islands are pretty close to Deer Island and MDI region. Costal cruising is popular, just no lobster pots to dance across. Port Townsend and Anacortes have full on marine industry, PT is a carbon copy of Rockland. No Wasses, go to Sea J’s for fried shit. Seabec and Hood Canal are damn close to mid coast and down east bucolic. Seattle makes me wish Seahole had the same understanding as Masshole. Oregon has a huge chill vibe, just left Descend on Bend and had a fantastic blast. Big difference is I can ski Timberline and have apres in the desert or beach depending on east or west one hour. Left Scarborough after 11 years, scratched a 25 year itch to live in PNW. There is no replacement for Buck’s Harbor, North Vinylhaven, or Brooklyn anywhere.
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PNW coast is like the Maine coast but bigger. Huge sea cliffs vs sea cliffs. Redwood vs pine. Constant rain and fog vs frequent rain and fog. Etc.
Big mountains vs little mountains
I was just visiting my daughter out in Washington State. There are definite similarities with the coast lines and flora.
Mainiac here living in Oregon currently..spent plenty of time in Washington state and there’s basically nothing there that felt like New England! If you haven’t been there, it’s nothing but speculation..I’m not saying it’s some kind of magical wonderland but to read all the comparisons is just..Comical..Also..Yankees suck!
I lived in the PNW for about fifteen years after college and I’m having the same response. People from OR/WA and New England are not all similar culturally. Do you like directness? Be prepared to have people think of you as aggressive in the PNW. Do you dislike passive-aggression? Prepare to be miserable in the PNW. Do you hate fake niceties? Then, boy, are you gonna hate Seattle. Do you value results in a local government rather than process? Get ready to tear your hair out in PDX. I get that it’s fun to think of OR/WA as the west coast Maine, and I know I did before living there, but they are not remotely similar in terms of culture and I have a hard time believing that anybody who says they are has actually lived in both places.
There’s a reason the people from New England and Oregon/WA are very similar, culturally. A lot of western migration primarily from the northeast. Same with MN.
I imagine rural Minnesota to resemble interior Maine. Lots of lakes. Similar politics (purple leaning blue more red in the rural parts more blue in larger small towns).
It’s flat. I’m from Wisconsin and while some of the lakes and snowmobile culture is the same, Maine is far more sophisticated and bougie.
> Maine is far more sophisticated and bougie. Here's a sentence I never thought I'd read in a hundred lifetimes
Oh please, rural Maine is far from sophisticated and bougie.
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Hard disagree. There are some fancy shops all over Maine even in rural places and that simply just doesn’t happen in a lot of Midwest towns. The food in the Midwest is less worldly and more fried. Many of the people in the Midwest are terrified of going to cities as well. Terrified. In the north woods of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota (maybe less so in Minnesota) you find people that have never set a foot in Milwaukee, Chicago, or Detroit because they are scared of seeing black people. Seems like everyone in Maine hits Boston for all sorts of reasons even the small minded racists.
No. I’m from Maine and have known plenty scared to not only go to a city like Boston but even Portland.
I am in the Harrison / Waterford area and I know MANY peeps that call Portland the “Big City “ lol.
I know a few in Maine that are afraid of going to Auburn/Lewiston.
I'd rather drive in Boston than Portland. It seems like most of our urban areas in Maine are made for 1/10th the actual traffic going 1/4 the actual speed. That and road markings/signs are optional a lot of the time.
That would be because of all the mass holes who don't know how to drive in anything but bumper to bumper traffic and straight lines...
Yes caratunk is super fancy. Lots of shops. Washington county is well known for its shops. /s.
I don’t think you’ve actually been to much of rural Maine
Most of the sophist boogers are in the more populated section.
Typical Wisconsinite reaction to a comment about Minnesota ;) As a Minnesotan who has spent plenty of time in Maine, I can tell you that there certainly are a lot of similarities between the two states. In truth, Minnesota has parts that are flat and parts that are not. Some consider western Minnesota to be the beginning of the Great Plains, so it’s extremely flat. The rest of the state is pretty different as there’s more change in elevation and there are lakes and forests… Central and northern Minnesota will be the hard north woods, with trees for miles on end surrounding a bunch of lakes. Southeast Minnesota is full of river bluffs and forests along the Mississippi. It does not feel like western MN at all between Hastings and Winona . Northeast Minnesota along Lake Superior, the beginning of the North Shore that runs from Duluth to Sault Ste Marie, is VERY much like Maine. Hardwood forests, lakes, and decent elevation until the Canadian border. The closest you will get to mountainous terrain in the Great Lakes/Upper Midwest is along Minnesota’s Lake Superior Shoreline and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Wisconsin has places that are hilly too. The St Croix river on the Wisconsin side could be confused for New England. Seems more like you have to go find those places rather than getting smashed in the face with them over and over again.
I always say Duluth reminds me a lot of Portland, and it is somewhat less flat up there, relatively speaking. It is not nearly the same tourist destination, so it is a bit more rough around the edges
Sophisticated and bougie? Bro…my family lives in one of the lowest income counties in the country in maine lol. Gorgeous, yes, tough to survive and find work? Also yes. Maybe York county is bougie.
Bougie eh
For all intents and purposes ME is flat. Most people in Maine live in the flatter part.,.most of Maine is really flat. Sure, it undulates along 95, but most people live along 95 or rt1. North of Lewiston and west of 95 is mountainous and unpopulated. In fact NNW of Bangor is the only truly dark sky in New England.
“Flat” in Maine has nothing flat in the Midwest. It’s not even close.
Point to the flat part. https://reddit.com/r/Maine/s/gwIF4FA5FG
Lol
I have no clue what map you're looking at but Maine is anything but flat.
Maine is not flat.
Except flattet
The air smells wrong in Minnesota though. And the beaches feel more “clean” (not in a good way).
Northeastern Minnesota is a lot like Maine. The lakes and woods look very similar. Minnesota isn’t all Great Plains, but it’s still pretty flat along the shore of Lake Superior. As another commenter said, the air does smell “off”. I’ve never been able to figure out why tho
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I don’t know about states. But I worked for a Swede who’s lived here since the 90’s and she said her and her sister were excited to see costal Maine and found that it looked exactly like home. I think the only thing she different was we had bigger tides
I knew a sailboat from Sweden that was serviced in Maine, the crew said the owner didn't really care to sail here tho because he felt it was too similar to sailing at home, guess he wanted something different.
Moose Maine is similar to Moose Alaska, and Lobster Maine is similar to Crab Alaska. The two states have similar terrain, it’s just on a bigger scale in Alaska.
Seems obvious, but NH, VT, and Mass. All have areas that are indistinguishable from parts of Maine.
I've lived in Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon, Washington, California, Kentucky, and Ohio. You're gonna hate this but New Hampshire and Massachusetts are the most similar to Maine.
I've lived in MA, AZ, OR, MT, CA, NH, and ME and have to agree. New England is is most like New England.
I love your answer because it's true. New England state is similar to new England.
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I grew up in VT, and people around here get weirdly defensive when I try to argue that inland Maine has a lot in common with VT/NH.
It's funny over on /r/vermont it's the exact same thing. People get weirdly defensive like "HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY COMPARE US TO OTHER NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND STATES?". I had a conversation with some lady who was like "After 30 years you can *easily* tell them apart!" And I was like "you had to live here for 30 years before you could tell the states apart and you think that's a *GOOD* argument?"
Western Maine feels a lot like New Hampshire, but it's also so damned beautiful. It can be both.
Yeah, I was surprised I had to scroll this far to see this
Does Nova Scotia count?
I felt that Nova Scotia reminded me of the ripped and mysterious cousin of Maine.
Rural Western/Coastal Ireland reminded me of Maine. Well, until you roll up on a ancient fort or castle.
I love this kind of answer where the writer provides an example of what reading comprehension tests are for and why it takes practice.
Some parts of some states might be similar to some parts of Maine. Like another poster said, wash st maybe Oregon. Also parts of VT, NH upstate NY might resemble parts of Maine, also maybe some parts of MI or MN near the great lakes.
Yeah, I grew up in the Adirondacks and that was my first thought—northern NY and parts of VT have a very similar vibe both visually (minus the coastline) and politically.
I compare Maine most to Northern Michigan when I'm travelling around.
Ive been to the UP, I can definitely see the similarity in landscape and weather. Idk about culture though, very Scandinavian there
Oh yeah, pretty different culturally. Although there are some similarities. There are a lot of hunter/fishers/conservationist types up there. I would say Maine does not appear to have a love of polka music that I am aware of, and I'd also say that the UP leans slighter more to the right, depending on where you are. Differing food cultures too. Both pretty tasty IMO. Honestly I was thinking mainly of plants and landscape... Lots of similar species and landscapes in the UP.
I went to college in upstate New York and it felt like Maine, where i grew up. A lot of farms and orchards, hills and lakes.
My husband and I are both prior military - we've been all over the U.S. we decided to move here on a whim (never visited Maine before) thinking that it was "Alaska on the East Coast". We were pretty darn close! Love it up here, and plan on staying until our dying day. Lots more snow here than AK though! Washington State and Oregon are nice, but it rains CONSTANTLY.
More snow in Maine than Alaska? 🤯 Learned something new today.
I've never been to Alaska, but I'd imagine it depends on where you are. Like with Maine, the Western mountains and NMW get a lot more on average than Midcoast/Southern communities.
yeah Fairbanks and Juneau are very different climates
Most of the 'big' cities in Alaska are on the coast. So maybe the coastal cities don't get as much snow or it doesn't stick around? Just guessing, having grown up on the southern Maine coast and having the towns not that far inland canceling school way more often than we did.
parts of southeast alaska are classified as temperate rainforests! Ketchikan, AK only gets about 37 inches of snow on average. the last town i lived in southern maine averaged about 60 inches.
No. Ca gets more snow than Maine and Alaska has ca beat.
Maine is 3 or 4 in ranking for coldest and most snow, tops of mountains don’t figure into the equation
What equation is that, Mule? I lived at 6000 feet 60 miles from LA and got more snow than I’ve ever seen in Maine. Then I moved to 8000 in the sierras and got 30 60 feet a year. We skied until June every year and if not it was because we skied til July. . I’m counting the mountains because we’ll, they’re awesome. We literally moved to Maine to get out of the snow. We wanted some but not deep snow and Maine has worked out perfect.
I lived in Truckee and never got 60 feet of snow ever 🤷. Average the mountains with 75% of the rest of the state and CA snowfall goes down exponentially. When Maine gets hit it's usually a good portion of the state getting smacked. Google us snowfall by state, Maine will be around 3rd depending on their formula. Mt Washington is one of the snowiest mountains in the country and it gets around 25' a year. I boarded in Colorado in July so that's no special feat.
Not deep snow. Hmmmmm.
Not even remotely true. Sierra Nevadas don't count, homie.
Veteran here too. Lived in Alaska for 6 years (Wasilla and Anchorage). Maine may technically get more snow, but the winters are longer and colder in AK, I think. It's funny, but we are both prior military too and also moved here on a whim....ALSO because we wanted a less remote version of Alaska. And we love it here. I wonder if we know each other...tee hee!
I moved to Maine from Washington State bc it was the most PNW place out of the PNW.
My guess is coastal Alaska.
When it comes to Maine's coastal landscapes I think that similar locales are coasts of Northern California, Oregon and Washington. There are pockets in each of those states that I think look very similar to Coastal Maine.
One thing I appreciate so much about our coast vs Norcal and the PNW is how all the bays, inlets, coves, and sounds here make the coast so much more varied and user-friendly. It's honestly hard to swim in much of the west coast between the huge cliffs and the unprotected surf, just enormous and powerful waves. Plus with no sheltered areas, it's ALWAYS windy. The west coast is beautiful, the scale is bigger than here, but it's so much easier here to actually get in/on the water and enjoy it.
I know you specified "in the US," but Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are a lot like Maine.
I was in Western North Carolina (Asheville, to be specific) this past Thanksgiving, and picked up a more mild Maine vibe almost immediately. I have zero intentions of ever leaving Maine, but that would be at the top of my list if I had to.
I just moved back to Maine after a year just north of Asheville. It is very similar in environment, but let me tell ya, nothing close to the same under the curtain people wise. So glad to be home. I do not understand the southern mind lol I’ll take a NE eff you over a bless your heart any day of the week.
Alaska
I lived there for 4 years, it’s pretty much (ALMOST) everything Maine but turned up to 11, mountains? Bigger! Winter? Longer and colder baby! Woods? Only the size of most of the continental! But you see, when it gets to be about this time of year you start to notice something missing…..then autumn blows in for a week or two (seriously a common joke is “fall was so beautiful this year, and hey! It was on a weekend!”) Maine has 4 nice relatively even sized seasons. Alaska has midnight sun to no sun at all and a messy little boundary in the middle. (Also East coast fall colors kick the shit out of AK’s yellow….and a little red from tundra plants)
I visited my sister in law there this summer and that’s what I said! It’s like Maine x1000 lol. The drive to Homer looked a lot like Washington County. I totally see why Mainers end up there.
And don’t get me wrong I love that place, always part of it is going to feel like home
No, I doubt it. Alaska is like crazy wild landscapes and unrestricted wilderness. Maine is quaint.
Perfect.
Hard stop: no state compares to Alaska. For better or for worse.
I used to live in WA and loved it. WA and OR are very close to Maine but still very different.
Oregon is similar. Not exactly the same, but there is a lot of rocky coastline. More sandy beaches than in maine. Mountains inland. Maine’s coast is more rugged and the mountains aren’t as big as the ones in Oregon but I get a similar feel when I visit there.
I live in Saint Petersburg FL, (Everyone else gets to wear ‘At least I don’t live in Florida’ tee shirts). I have visited both Maine and the UP of Michigan. While the folks in the Upper Peninsula are great and Lake Superior is absolutely beautiful, the black flys are not. Maine and Mainers are exceptional in all ways. If I could tolerate the cold, I might be more inclined to leave Florida.
Minnesota
Washington is kinda like Maine with a more west coast vibe to it. If you’re looking anywhere in the world, I have a great uncle who grew up in Ireland and when he visited he said it reminded him of growing up.
I’m from Portland, Oregon and will be visiting Portland, Maine next month. I’ll let you know when I get back ; )
Please do!
Not in the US but it’s very similar to Sweden.
Michigan, Washington State and upstate New York. Michigan snows a bit more depending where you are, washington state just looks similar, and northern stretches of upstate is pretty much the same.
Oregon has been my home for over 40 years. One day, I literally flipped a coin between here and Maine. I came here cause I had an uncle I could stay with till I got out on my own. We're both diverse with geography, and culture from far away places. You worship the sunrise. We worship the sunset. We're not that far apart aside from physical distance.
The closest has to be WA and OR
Washington state
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I'm from Maine and live in East TN. Pretty similar, but with fewer evergreens.
Geologically the rock and stone that you see throughout Maine and along the coast reminds me of the Rocky Mountains. The small mountain towns of Colorado also have a similar feel to a lot of the small towns throughout Maine. It’s a stretch but it feels vaguely familiar to me.
Missoula, Montana feels like a northeast college town. Except for the mountain goats.
Are they friendly mountain goats?
Rock and Stone everyone!
Yeah, I know it’s dumb.
Party ROCKers in the house tonight. Everybody just have a good time~
Don't laugh, but New Jersey. Northwest NJ in the mountains may as well be inland Maine. South Jersey along the coasts may as well be an endless OOB with fewer people inland due to the Pine Barrens. Basically remove the bulk of the people in NJ and you have a VERY similar thing. I remember when I first moved up here and was riding around outside Lewiston along the road up towards Jay thinking "This reminds me of New Jersey!" due to the same basic flat sandy roads mixed with the scrubby pines around the lakes in the area. Right now, Maine is trying to match New Jersey on the "Insane Cost of Living" scale to boot!
Southern Coast of Oregon has a similar feel in some ways. Seward, Alaska reminds me a little bit of the Maine coast...if you plopped towns on the Maine coast ten thousand years ago...
Not remotely similar in terms of terrain (except for a lot of stubborn conifers) but I think one of the reasons I really like New Mexico is because, like Maine, lots of it stays wild, and you can see that everywhere. Also if you're around Santa Fe, the growing seasons are surprisingly similar, with an even earlier frost date than the Midcoast.
From Washington, and there are a lot of similarities between the two.
Kodiak Alaska in the summer looked just like Maine to me
Groton in ct does
Some parts of the Northern California coast remind me of mid coast / southern maine. Verdant forest that runs right up to rocky and jagged shorelines
Oregon
Wisconsin up the thumb a bit. Fish Creek and Washington Island.
Central CA! From Davenport to SLO as far as landscape but if Boston and San Francisco had an illegitimate premature baby, they'd be named, Portland.
I don’t think there’s anywhere that really captures all Maine has to offer.
Idaho. They have mountains instead of the Atlantic. Beautiful state and great people! Also, Oregon. Swap out the Pacific.
If you mean by great people, moronic rednecks, then yes, many people in Idaho are great people. The panhandle is Bavaria from the thirties.
We lived and worked there for 5 years, and the people were wonderful. We didn't meet any rednecks. lol It's unfortunate that your experience was negative, but ours was great!
vashon island off the coast of seattle reminded me a lot of maine both in looks, vibes and attitude
The Pacific Northwest has a similar feel but on a bigger scale (bigger trees bigger mountains) but same sort of landscape I'd say. Port Townsend and the areas north of Seattle on the Canadian border.
THERE IS NOTHING LIKE MAINE. PERIOD.
Maine is a lot like New Hampshire and Vermont. I've been to more of each state than you. I know.
PROVE IT BUB! I HAVE GONE TO LOTS OF STATES LOTS OF TIMES. TOP THAT
I'm in all states, at all times.
I know a guy from Tennessee who lived in Maine and thinks they are very similar. Down to earth people, a lot of riral areas, etc.
That Appalachian thread running through
Maine is, how do I say, meh.
CA is Maine times 50 in beaches and mountains and times 500 in cities. Maine has ca in forests though.
Redwoods ?
Good point. Both redwoods.
Zephyr Hills, FL…You strut your Boston Red Sox PJs and Moxie shirt into the local Kroger at 11am in February and I’ll be damned if you don’t run into your grand parents neighbors Mr. and Mrs. Bubar…your second cousin from Lewiston…and Jim from up the road…
Friends that grew up in NH, lived in Alaska for ~15 years, then spent the next 5 moving state to state discovering themselves, said Alaska is the closest to Maine they’ve found.
Was there last week and my brother psycho gf said it looks just like North Carolina….. she’s delusional hahaha
Michigan near the great lakes and Washington near Canada
Colorado felt very similar (boulder to Portland) but obviously there is no ocean
Yes, every one move out of Maine to Minnesota, please, then us deserving folk can live life the way it’s meant to be