I Drink Your Milkshake

Share a Frosty with me in Maine

October 13, 2008 /
Let’s have a milkshake in Lewiston, ME! 
 
LEWISTON, ME
 
Campus Look – 7
Campus Feel – 7
Town – 2
School Size – 1700
Student:Faculty Ratio – 10:1
Faculty – 207
4BR 3BA – $199,900  OR $375,000, depending on something I cannot discern from the internet
Comments:
 
Lewiston is pretty durn little.  And ccccold.  Should we end up here, it would be a small town, cozy, wintry kinda life.  The school is almost completely totally exactly like the one that I went to, right down to the semester setup.  I don’t know if I would love it or hate it, being a family lady now.  But it looks kind of sweet.  A Norman Rockwell winter wonderland.  Almost nothing going on, but Boston is a daytrip.  Strangely, this little town has an inordinate number of castley kind of homes for sale.  Do a search on Trulia for 4BR 3BA and you come up with pages and pages of 9 BR, 8 BR, 5, 7, 6.  Most have been converted into multi family homes, but still.  Is this a feature of New England towns?
 
The campus is small but really lovely – several buildings on the historic register.  Several others that are slightly cheesy 80s decor.  I like that it has the same semester setup that my college did – two long semesters followed by one very short spring one, during which you take only one class.  It allows for a lot of off campus study.  If this ends up in the running, we’ll have to look harder, but at first glance it would be a cold but not terrible life.
 
Aaaand we’re moving right along to . . . Auburn, AL.

3 Comments

  • Vern

    October 14, 2008 at 3:32 pm

    Like I said, winters up there are inhumanly cold.  New England has a lot to recommend it in terms of culture, history, architecture, etc., but moving there from the Southeast is not for the faint of heart.  You\’ll need a whole new wardrobe.