Burnt out on Brooklyn? You could get paid to move to Maine

This could be you, on a boat in Brooklin, Maine via Flickr user @smilla4 To live in New York is to routinely ponder leaving New York. There are plenty of other places to live; some cities make fine locales for a casual absconding, and others, not so much. The general rule is that you are always free to leave, so long as you don’t write an essay about it afterwards. The state of Maine, whether desperate for bodies or eager to expedite the Brooklynification of their larger cities (err, city), has set a cunning lobster trap for any errant vacationers who were maybe starting to feel like, hey, getting into dodge is really the better idea. “Visit For a Week, Stay for a Lifetime” is a real campaign that promises to reimburse a week’s worth of trip expenses for any visitors to the state who end up dropping anchor along the rocky coast, aka, securing employment and relocating permanently. Maybe… Read More

Burnt out on Brooklyn? You could get paid to move to Maine : Brokelyn