Great, thanks for your input! Have yourself a wonderful Sunday.

It’s the ebb and flow all cities go through. Look at San Francisco, used to be beautiful in the 80’s…not no more.

It's "interesting" because the gender of the DJ shouldn't matter, and the idea of specifically wanting a female DJ is retarded as fuck. https://media.tenor.com/J1E831ZEdQAAAAAd/in-said-good-day-willy-wonka-and-the-chocolate-factory.gif

I’m 62f and people have been shitting on OOB since I can remember. But it wasn’t necessarily OOB itself, it was the Canadians and their tiny bathing suit, very robust women with a tube top on. Drunk ass men. You tell people you live in OOB and you get a funny face. We took our motorcycle and rode the streets, bought pier fries and left.

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Reasonably priced and scheduled flights from PWM to BGR would be a nice start.

The Penobscot River ain’t much to write home about after all the polluting we’ve done

To be frank, COVID hit Bangor really hard culturally. Before the pandemic it was definitely on the up and up (and I’m not saying it isn’t anymore or won’t be again), but it didn’t quite have the critical mass of entertainment venues, restaurants, etc to ride through the pandemic. Losing a few took a real toll in a way that larger cities like portland could absorb more easily.

Also, Bangor’s been a shopping/service center for the past few decades. As boring as it was, the mall area served a huge swath of Maine and Atlantic Canada and brought a lot of economic activity that has evaporated with the rise of online shopping. Downtown’s resurgence and a lot of great effort and investment from a dedicated group of leaders is making a difference, but those have been stiff headwinds.

Right? It's where all the teens loved to go cause you could definitely get alcohol and weed, very easily!

(Ya know, cause when I was a teen, weed was not legal)

It’s just one small aspect of many, but if we talk music venues, there are basically none anywhere between “dude in the corner at 100 cap bar/brewery” and “giant 5k people concert”. Portland has the State, as well as a bunch of other great smaller venues (PHOME, One Longfellow, etc). Those kind of places help build culture and vitality, and no one has taken a chance in the greater Bangor area to really make one (Bangor arts exchange has a super spotty schedule and sound is never good and it usually feels feels like cheap wedding reception, and the new Gforce thing theyve tried at the mall is sketchy and temporary).

I predict the next 20 years is going to be huge for Bangor.

DJ Corbin or DJ Gforce. Both very experienced and can play literally anything you want.

Portland was a shithole 30 years ago. Give it time.

I don't get the hate people have for OOB. It's nice and the people are great.

As long as it’s a request and not a demand I guess that’s reasonable.

Lol. To each their own I guess.

Not sure why that’s such an interesting request to ask for a female dj instead of a male, but thanks anyways.

That’s an interesting request from a bride with everything else that needs to be planned/booked. Good luck.

cis females only?

No, my fiancé would like a female dj so that’s what I’m looking for.

Is this a female only wedding? 🤔

Born and raised there. I've gotten stoned in that alley behind the ferris wheel more times than I can count. 🤣🤣🤣

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Very cool!

Love the vibes there