I live year-round on a small island...Mount Desert Island in Maine. Yes, it is bridged, but I spent most of my summers just offshore of MDI, on Gotts Island, which isn't bridged or electrified or plumbed.
Here on MDI I love the sea and the rocks. I wouldn't feel right being landlocked! The rocks are amazing here! I love the cool weather and living in a town of 400.
I don't like the constant summer fog, but we live with it! I don't like our dependance on tourism to sustain the economy here and watching people lose their homesteads and shorefrontage to people who live here for 2 weeks a year..watching traditional industries die to remain quaint!
Where are you located? What do you love about where you are and what brings you down?
Lisa
Here on MDI I love the sea and the rocks. I wouldn't feel right being landlocked! The rocks are amazing here! I love the cool weather and living in a town of 400.
I don't like the constant summer fog, but we live with it! I don't like our dependance on tourism to sustain the economy here and watching people lose their homesteads and shorefrontage to people who live here for 2 weeks a year..watching traditional industries die to remain quaint!
Where are you located? What do you love about where you are and what brings you down?
Lisa
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Re: Where do you live?
Fri, January 14, 2005 - 6:35 PMI can imagine how romantic it is to live on an island.
I am a software engineer that live in San Jose, Ca, I am not new to this live-by-the-shore kind of thing, my father was born in a shoreside village of Shantung, China back in 1933 and he told me a lot how grateful it is to live seashore.
How is the ocean animals in MDI, bundance?
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Re: Where do you live?
Wed, November 9, 2005 - 9:48 PMwe live on the west coast of canada on the mainland but the only way in or out is by ferry gets a little hard to take in the winter but is great come summer
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Re: Where do you live?
Fri, January 5, 2007 - 5:33 PMAnacortes Washington, Fidalgo Island. Almost the northernmost part of America's West Coast. Ours isn't so much of a town since there are about 15,000 inhabitants on the Island. Were down on the south end of the island close to Deception Pass bridge to Whidbey Island on Rosario Beach. I posted a picture of our beach right after a wind storm.
