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Maine

magicarpet

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2. Portland is becoming a bedroom community of Boston.

Reply to magicarpet (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 12, 2019, 04:04 PM

Jul 2019

The cost of living in Portland is nearly comparable to living in Boston.

Actually for those who are not aware,... the entire State of Maine was at one time part and parcel to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Our old time laws and common law are derivative of the Courts of the Commonwealth of the Kings Grant of the (British)colonial territory of Massachusetts.

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Okay TexasTowelie how come you know more about Maine than a god damn mainah,... ? magicarpet Jul 2019 #1

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