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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;geekpryde, post: 1716472, member: 36248&quot;]Maine is truly a great state, however, I recently had the misfortune of sitting in a Gorham (Maine) Town Council for a few hours, along with Westbrook (Maine) City Council. After witnessing first hand the minutia they spend hours / days / months talking about, voting on, moving back and forth between committees, and they way the control every aspect of life for a resident or business, you just want to give up, move to extreme Northern Maine, plant a vast vegetable garden, and start building a bunker.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Southern Maine is absolutely not a &quot;free&quot; place to live. Gorham seizes private property and then does nothing with it for more than a decade, and with no explanation or compensation for the property owners. They use tax payer dollars to sue and intimidate their own residents. If a few people in City Council don&#039;t want to you start a business, it ain&#039;t happening. There are fees for literally everything you want to do, and you better not do it without official sanction from the city. Lemonade stands, garage sales, bon fires, pets, coin shows, you name it. I could go on.... Basically, the concept of starting a business and seeing it survive or fail on it&#039;s own merits does not exist here. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m getting depressed just writing this.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe Maine is still better than a lot of other places in the USA, I don&#039;t really have experience outside of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. (all great states, by the way). There are many more free countries and more pro-capitalist countries in the world than America in 2013, many people may not realize that. A simple vote on a town council can put you out of business or on the street.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope that the promotion company can get it all approved so it can happen in 2014, I was looking forward to this event.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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