Maine is no longer what it once was. It is now largely comprised of whiners and complainers and lots and lots of homosexuals. No tax is too big and no outrage is too small. That's the Maine of today.
Ever notice the gay folk tend to hang out near coastlines. Why is that?
Because major urban centers tend to be near coastlines (or falls or rapids or forks of rivers), and when you're a 1-in-20 minority or less it's easier to find a date when you're living in a concentration of lots of people than it is in rural areas. Also, they tend not to have kids and have more disposable income, and those areas have higher living costs and more cultural amenities.
In Maine,it's Ogunquit...in Massachusetts,it's Provincetown.
I think it's because of all the romantic sunrises and sunsets there...and because,given that they don't have children to support,they're the only ones who have the $$$ to buy expensive real estate.