Just an FYI that your neighbors selling eggs locally have had the same prices for the last 3 years, it might be a good time to consider going local for your eggs.

I agree to agree to disagree, enjoy your weekend

Just as the energy industry is accountable for their life-cycles, footprint, infrastructure impact, future big box stores need the same accountability. It should be incentivized to refurbish and repurpose and decentivitized to blight for hedging tax recoup into portfolios.

Building without contributing to road / sidewalk infrastructure, building without contributing to the expansion of services, building and blighting without consequences needs to go. These buildings created in the 80s and 90s are destroying communities and driving further why Maine and other big box centric infrastructure across the country have brain drain issues

As long as people keep buying Chinese-made trash from Amazon and Walmart, Marden’s will be prosperous.

Quality is a thing of the past in the United States. Most things have no competitors.

Are you going to buy a wooden spoon with hair made by a Granny in the county for your daughter or are you going to buy the latest Barbie or Disney princess made in China? We as a country are addicted to chinesium: buy, use once, trash.

Are you going to buy the Restoration Hardware couch made in North Carolina, or are you going to buy the chinesium dupe on Amazon for 1/2 the cost?

That isn’t our reality. Our reality is that there hasn’t been any new tenants in many of these structures and many current tenants are renting shithole end-lifecycle properties.

Easiest example is the Airport Mall in Bangor. Every drop panel is brown from water damage at the dollar store, and 90% of it is vacant. The Bangor mall has like 4 out of possible 40 tenants. The landowner will keep running it into the ground and shorting the value of neighboring structures.

These landowners waiting for “someone to bite” are creating blight and butterfly effects the surrounding community. Blaming blightingly buildings on the lack of tenants is like a vacuum salesman blaming the customer on not wanting to buy a vacuum.

All of these pseudo-commercial shopping districts are heavily subsidized by the taxpayer, from the wasted land use within the city limits, to the extra road/sewer/power maintenance. Rather than incentivizing the repairing of these structures, it’s incentivized to just build more 30-year big boxes and let the old ones rot.

People love to cry about the “shelf life” of both solar and wind energy, but these strip mall structures barely have 25 years of an expected life. That isn’t even including the shelf life of a parking lot that is larger than the physical building.

Most of these were built 25-35 years ago, for big box convenience, and the upkeep is too expensive for anyone to care. These structures are starting to blight and rot across the country.

Look at most of the big box / massive parking lots. Almost all the drop ceilings are brown from rain water, parking lots are a disaster with no paint, and no one is improving these structures. Almost of half of these structures in Bangor are either abandoned or are about to be and on purpose. These landowners are purposely letting the structures rot to devalue themselves and neighboring land for acquisition / tax purposes.

This isn’t a Maine issue but a country issue, we chased the cheapest price for everything so we can have more and let businesses get subsidized by our dollars. Now that the profit has been extracted they’re moving to different investments and leaving our car-centric “commercial shopping centers” to blight towns and cities.

Donate it to charity then.

Yeah of course! And if you work later than these places close, there are plenty of breweries/bars all within the block you can walk into to wrap up your workday

Bagel Central if you like crowd noise while working

The Grind House is a bit quieter

Nest has a new location in Bangor too, nice newer city vibes

Artisan Coffee house is nice too and close to the parking garage

All locations are a quick 3 minute walk from the parking garage. Free for the first two hours and super cheap/easy ticketing system.

Eh really almost any place (cafe > bar > restaurant) in Bangor if you’re willing to do a bit of extra driving.

Ellsworth is more of a “get what you need and go home” type town

You need 25 households for every 0.25 miles of Road to break even. Anything less dense and you’re being subsidized by Portland

Why does transportation need to turn a profit?

We have no problems dumping trillions into road repair so that GM can profit from making cars that break down after 100k miles. The amount we subsidize for a car centric culture is now turning against us, we are 70% overweight and 50% obese because we moan about walking distances longer than a driveway. They had no problems stealing farmland to build 95 and the state roads, so why not do it for railroads?

Trains long term are cheaper. But Nope! GM and Elon Musk can’t profit from it so it’s a bad idea

The metro area has grown +50%. They’re leaving Bangor for its suburbs, and those people still would use the rail whether they lived in Bangor, or moved out to Bucksport

She also needs her driving license taken away. Her pickup truck with the 20’ canoe on top has almost crashed into me 3 times, and it’s always her turning left onto Hudson road and never looking at the traffic that’s coming.

Glenburn gets some of the largest welfare in Bangor metro despite being the most Republican

“It was okay when I had children, but now it just seems too wild”

“The water pressure”

“The traffic flow”

“Loss of open space”

“Deforestation”

“Non-SFHs ruin the town”

• Typical democrat/republican NIMBYer

Big honkin cocks

Source: gay

^^^^^ THIS!!!!

Wrong. This is why people are underpaid; talk about salary with the people you work with (that you trust), your manager, and your friends.

People that underpaid are either taken advantage of or don’t have talent. If people can bark up the tree to ask for more money, they need to be able to handle the truth on why they’re not making more money.

Ive complained about making a household income of $250k, I’ve complained when I made $150k, 50k, 35k, 20k (32 years old now). Ultimately it’s finding happiness and balance in your current situation. It’s amazing how the middle class trap is set up where you can always end up paycheck to paycheck if you don’t practice smart spending. It’s the exact same concept of body weight.

At the end of the day you need to consider the balance of work and time. Your salary with a solid 40 hours (never need to stay late, never need to fly for work, never need to commute more than an hour, never need to work early) is a good deal

There is a upvote button to confirm/support the comment. It saves time for you and we also don’t have to read your comment that brings no value to the conversation

We get about 1000-1800 kids a year. Most of Penobscot county and the surrounding metro will cart their kids to the neighborhood to have a good and safe experience

“Word of mouth” means shit CV looking for a nepo-role

I spent $300 dollars this year for Halloween in Bangor.

We get so many kids running through the neighborhood I like to overstock and give extra to the neighbors when the run out.

And I drive a ‘03 LL Bean Outback if that really matters

Ugh oh! 19th generation now!