My wife and I escaped from Connecticut a couple of months ago after finding a beautiful one-floor home on a few acres just 15 mins from the shore and Camden. Guys shoot around me all the time and I actually got to shoot my new plinker myself for the first time, in my back yard, in my underware. No kidding. (I wear boxers)
Compared to Connecticut we are making money every month due to much lower taxes on virtually everything. My CT property taxes were $583 a month on 3/4 acre in a suburb. Here, on 2-3/4 rural acres, my property taxes are $191. I can't see one of my neighbors and the other I can barely make out through trees with no leaves. Both are 100% with firearms. My car insurance on both cars is $31 a month and that includes liability (we have stellar records). No tax on SS. It goes on and on. So, the old-hat argument that Maine has high taxes is all relative as the other poster above said. Now, that being said, there are some expensive towns in Maine that vye CT taxes, no kidding. Check out Rockland, Brunswick, and Portland. And, in Maine lobster is considered essential and I'm on #34 since June 1, but who's counting! Yesterday I bought my first handgun; no permits, just 4473. Before I could whip out my debit card the cheerful clerk had run my driver's license through NICS and I was merrily out the door with the new gun in a paper bag and me with a mask on. Go figure.
And one more thing, just to get ahead of this "Maine is too backwoods", I needed some follow up bloodwork from my old doctor back in CT. I had them fax an order to this lab in the Waldo County hospital. I dropped in yesterday morning at 10am. I completed my forms and sat for the blood draw in 10 minutes and was out the door. I got home for lunch after some additional shopping and there was an email for me that my doc in CT had already received my numbers and all is good to go! IF that isn't incredibly efficient, well, I don't know what is. We LOVE it here and tomorrow are heading to Acadia for lunch and some shopping in Ellsworth, enjoying the ocean vistas all the way up and down. We also eat lunch at least once a week at the shore.
Go for it!