Tiny Maine Hometown in NYT Today!

Kind of.  The NYT Real Estate section featured this house for sale for $629,000 in Winthrop, ME, the decaying former woolen mill town I grew up in.  (Sidebar: Who picks those amount?  $629k seems pretty odd. Why not $630k?  Anyway.)  Winthrop has about 6k people total, is in Maine and is entirely unremarkable, so it’s bizarre that it would make the NYT.  

I sent the picture to my Dad, who is still a proud Winthropian (Winthroper?), and his response is a perfect illustration of tiny town living:

I think that house may be on Annabesacook lake, down the road across from the blinker at the credit union.  

This is awesome because:

  1. He knew which house in town it was from a picture.
  2. He doesn’t use street names, just landmarks.
  3. The landmarks are his local credit union and a lake.
  4. The intersection only has a blinking light because there are so few cars on the roads.

This is amusing to approximately 0 people on Tumblr, but I’m enjoying it!

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  1. guysimnotahipster reblogged this from infinitezest and added:
    man, I know where this is, I love this house, its like my fifth favorite in town..
  2. thedept said: The $629k vs $630k thing has to do with how properties are searched for, I think. People search in dollar ranges. Your $630k house wouldn’t show up in a “<$630k” search, but your $629k house would.
  3. infinitezest posted this

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