>>1840357Houses and land are cheap because the state is chock full of old people (more elderly as a percent of total population than Florida even). No jobs and 9 month winter meant that children left for the warm winters of NYC or Boston... I'm not joking that's how they think. The land is cheap because it's mostly owned by forestry/lumber mills who don't give a fuck and sell it off dirt cheap so someone will pay taxes on it until they clear-cut it in another 80 years. Lymes is only an issue if you're pants on head retarded and don't remove the tick in 24 hrs. Source: spent last two years in Maine for work.