Recent comments in /f/Maine

Carolina-Hurricanes1 t1_ja82c93 wrote

Not sure why I’m down voted but whatever. I agree, after living in AZ for a few years; I don’t think I ran the AC all but maybe a couple of times during the summer here. I’m more worried about the HEAT part of it which unless I’m running them constant full blast they are lacking in efficiency. Then I get hit with a sweet electric bill.

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gretchens t1_ja829xm wrote

Have there been any more details on how they were found? My hope, in being familiar with that area, and knowing it was a good weekend for sleds and ice fishing, was that the back roads and ITS would be fairly busy and increase the odds of discovery.

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gretchens t1_ja820ng wrote

I am familiar with the gaps in service, but I do think for people who typically travel in Topsham/Southern Maine, an airtag/ Life360/ FInd My service would have found them *before* they ended up at Nicatous. Maybe even before they ended up in Lincoln!

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thesilversverker t1_ja81rdz wrote

> My mortgage was $1500 a month

I agree with your overall point, this number suggests you found a house extremely cheap. Even with PMI, it's something like a 180k house with good credit. Renting or buying, you're paying 2k-2500 for housing if you are a household of 3.

$400 for food a month is doable, but tight. 3 years ago, it would have been luxurious. Say goodbye to fresh fruits for the kids!

Utilities will average out around $6-800 a month for that household.

Transport with a paid off car will be $3-400 a month as well - to get that low $2k housing you will be doing significantly more travel.

So of your $1700, we ate $1200 to simply not freeze, and travel to/from work.

Now add in: professional development/education costs, home maintenance (2-4k/year), any pets, any medical costs (your costs indicated a low-premium plan), haircuts & clothing...

Can it be done? Totally.

But people like mr "need 150k" arent wrong that to do it requires sacrifice. A $100k family in 2005 would get to take vacations, go skiing, go to camp in the summer - not so much now.

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Adventurous_Gap_2092 t1_ja7ztgy wrote

We will have to agree to disagree. I'm holding the opinion that an airbag will be helpful. Maybe not in all places right now ( I have service in Unknown) but helpful in general. You can believe it's not helpful because they might travel somewhere without tower access. Ultimately it's up to the ladies family members.

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MisterMan-Maine t1_ja7yqg7 wrote

No, I don't think you understand what I'm saying. Where they went on their journey doesn't matter for the future. Our state is a vast wilderness, what happens if this shit happens again and these two ladies end up going up a logging road into the vast wilderness of North Western Maine? Such as for example GPS Coords 46.5936801, -69.2576653? There's nothing up there for infastructure period and any tag that requires service from a phone and/or cellular service would be useless and they'd remain lost. A proper GPS Tracker that does not use Cell Service would still be able to ping the location.

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