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LIME_09 t1_iw0ge74 wrote

Oh, you meant Paris, France. At first I thought you meant Paris, Maine and thought "well, I guess Dder Isle is small but I would think people have heard of it."

I read "Paris" and first thought of Paris, ME. Today is the day that I reached a new Maine Achievement Level.

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RagnarDaViking t1_iw08dzz wrote

Whoa I love that! I have lived in Maine for the last 9 years or so but grew up in California and bumped into a customer who grew up where I did in California. It's cool when stuff like that happens

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SplinterLips t1_ivwncar wrote

I was staying in a hostel in London a number of years back. I met a guy from Tennessee. When I told him I’m from Maine he asked if I knew Gino. To be funny I said the the last name out loud of the only Gino I know, someone who I was friends with in high school, before he said the last name. Turns out, same Gino. They were roommates in college. It was crazy.

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Eleanor-Hoesevelt t1_ivwmr5u wrote

My boyfriend thinks this is my super-power, but really everyone I grew up with had to move away to find work, so we’re scattered pretty widely

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Outrageous_Extension t1_ivxt7ql wrote

Lot of Mainers move out West, but because Maine is proportionally about .4% of the US population it blends.

I'm a transplant from the West coast and all my young Maine friends are moving to Seattle, Oregon, and Bay Area. But then all the 40 something's in Maine say that's common and they'll move back once they start a family.

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efshoemaker t1_ivy9tbf wrote

> But then all the 40 something’s in Maine say that’s common and they’ll move back once they start a family.

Not anymore. This was always my plan, but the housing market is so out of control that we’re stuck in the Midwest.

By the time we can afford a down payment on a house near my family in southern maine the kids are going to be in like middle school and I’m not sure we’ll want to move them at that age.

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Outrageous_Extension t1_ivyaehc wrote

Very true, Maine is by far the most expensive state I've lived in which includes California, Oregon, Alaska, and Washington. Both the rent and the food. It is certainly nice here, and I moved because there was opportunity in my field but the costs are obscene.

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Shilo788 t1_ivzaw8i wrote

I live in the County and I found food and gas, propane cheaper than PA. I do use farm stands and buy in bulk when I can.

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Aggressive_FIamingo t1_ivx1p8u wrote

My high school likes to have national reunions - if they find out there are a lot of former students in a particular city they'll plan an event in that city, and there were a solid 30 people at one in Los Angeles, which surprised me. Like 8 people alone from my graduating class of less than 300 students.

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pukkileroux t1_iw014tb wrote

Hey, I'm in Sacramento and probably know three families that you know. We're basically related.

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kmkmrod t1_ivwmiea wrote

I have family in Maine. I visited and was in a bar and a woman started talking. I was replying but wasn’t interested. She kind of made a shitty remark and I said “I’m related to everyone named … … … …” and listed about 8 last names. On the 8th she went 😳 and I said “yeah, you’re my cousin, that’s why”

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kmkmrod t1_ivwu6w0 wrote

You’re 0 for 3.

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EldVrangr t1_ivxr1ev wrote

They've got to be French names. Drouin, Gagne, LaChance, Lemieux, Vachon, Veilloux.

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trailstomper t1_ivy1nuf wrote

Lol you've named about half my highschool hockey team, no Vachon, but add in a giroux, a bilodeau, and a Grenier and it's pretty close.

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EldVrangr t1_ivyh7m6 wrote

I've got a Franco-American grandmother in central Maine, I basically couldn't date anyone with a French surname.

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andreq92 t1_ivxu9yq wrote

Maybe even Roy or Bolduc

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EldVrangr t1_ivyie4b wrote

Possibly even Dubois. Though I'm surprised Michaud was a bust so maybe I'm wrong and should be guessing Irish surnames.

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LesIsBored t1_ivyk46g wrote

One of my best friends from high school is a Gagne.

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gigglybubbles t1_ivysjd4 wrote

I'm probably related to you. I have wicked Eaton and weeds in my family. A lot were from deer isle too.

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LesIsBored t1_ivykus4 wrote

The big families I remember that haven’t been named were Moody, I knew a Dempsey in my high school… Rogers, I’m living in Olympia Washington and one of town founders is a Rogers from Brunswick which is right across the River from where I grew up and there were a few Rogers in my class.

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old_lady_tits t1_ivzcjox wrote

Harmon. There are so many unrelated harmons I know. They are everywhere.

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CandlesandMakeuo OP t1_iw0f88i wrote

Grant, Moody, King, Shaw, Michaud, Berry….

And if you’re from the Portland area:

Geisinger, Leo, Ferrar

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5YouAreMySunshine5 t1_ivxh5ce wrote

“Maine is a small town” is one of my favorite sayings.

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tonyforeman t1_ivxuxep wrote

Not the same but want to share. I lost touch with my GF from high school . I didn’t know what happened to her . I just assumed she moved away , got married etc . 27 years later I get an email from her for helping her mom in my town . I ask where she lives now . I had been driving by and admiring her house in Freeport for years . She had lived there for the past 20 years . I had no idea. We are now married ( got married in the snow in front of Freeport town hall) . Maine is really a small town.

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CandlesandMakeuo OP t1_ivwgjaq wrote

Hope this hasn’t been shared to death, but living in Cincinnati now, I get this about once a month lol.

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IamSauerKraut t1_iw0gckv wrote

I once knew an Albert family that lived in Mainesville just outside of Cinci.

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McHitman t1_ivwvane wrote

I live in Pittsburgh now, happened to me last weekend. Met some guys at a party who had partied with some guys I used to hang out with up there.

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CandlesandMakeuo OP t1_ivy97qo wrote

Also there’s the “Your David’s daughter?? Yeah I know your dad!” Lmao.

Idk if anyone else had a father well known for shenanigans 😂

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LesIsBored t1_ivylgvr wrote

I’m living out in the PNW. So everyone’s polyamorous out here and I start dating my partner she’s not from Maine but she starts dating another trans girl and welp turns out the other woman she starts dating at the same time as me is from The County I’m from the mid coast region so kind of on the other side of the state.

We figured out we were both from Maine because we both liked British humor from all the bbc syndication on the Maine public access channel.

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CandlesandMakeuo OP t1_iw0ed5z wrote

Ok so I didn’t know this about the PNW and Poly being a thing until my sister moved out to Bend Oregon.

We had a road trip a few months back, she flew from Bend to Cincinnati, met up with me, we take my truck and drive the 1k miles to Maine. Let me tell you, that’s a long fkn drive and I have never been so entertained, and simultaneously embarrassed, in my life😂 She’s telling me all about these apps I’ve never heard of, and the couple she just met, and directing an orgy🤣 PNW is wilddddddd

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DidDunMegasploded t1_ivwrkrc wrote

This would explain why I seem to attract people I know (but granted, am not related to) everywhere I go.

It might also explain why my mother told me that I had a seemingly infinite number of cousins growing up, too...

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yawnfactory t1_ivy7ko2 wrote

I've found that Maine's definition of "cousin" is a little looser than in other parts of the country.

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draggar t1_ivxnmpf wrote

No joke, my step-daughter is now living "on the other side of the hill" where my dad grew up. :)

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seeclick8 t1_ivy5w39 wrote

I know. One time a few years ago the speaker of the Maine House called me and asked if I’d run for a state rep seat in my area. I’m nobody important although through work I knew a lot of people in the area. I told a friend in another state and they were like “wow!” I explained that I had never met the guy but I knew two people who knew him and one who had worked with him. Lol. But then again, after taking students to the State House for student activities over the years and observing state senators and reps informally, I realized the pickings are slim. Scary

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evantually421 t1_ivys3m4 wrote

I’m born and raised in South Carolina but have spent many summers at my grandparents house on Little Deer Isle. I was at a house party my second year of college and met two kids from Maine. We get to talking and one of the kids grandpa owns/owned the ice cream shop in Stonington, where I spent a ton of time as a kid.

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annie_wynn t1_ivzqwxe wrote

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redditvivus t1_ivwlz95 wrote

Oh, that's just Cactus Pat doin' his "I'm from Maine" thing.

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janbrunt t1_ivwubap wrote

Just joking about this with someone the other day. Should be a joke except… yup, accurate.

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annie_wynn t1_ivzqpx7 wrote

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Vel0clty t1_ivxvklq wrote

Am in usually related to “so and so” as well lol

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MakingItUpAsWeGoOk t1_iw6zm8s wrote

Happened to me in Bulgaria. Driver who picked us up from Sofia airport worked in Rockport area in college. We had 3 mutual acquaintances and I don’t live near Rockport.

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Lerch737 t1_ivy4pp8 wrote

You know Jim or Jim knows you?

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Beautiful-Elephant34 t1_iw08ov0 wrote

Omg, this happened to me in the Navy. Knew a guy who knew someone from Maine and it turned out I went to school with him.

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DaytonaDemon t1_iw0gmyt wrote

Accuracy? It's condescending nonsense. This state has a population of 1.3 million. Most people know probably no more than 300-400 others.

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