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20. I lived in Maine for a spell...

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Reply #9)

Tue Oct 14, 2025, 07:33 PM

Oct 14

And I can tell you if there's any state that doesn't care about your age so long as you can do the work, it's Maine.

I'm in the restaurant business; when I was up there I worked with multiple 70+ year old purveyors, farmers and the like…I honestly had an 81-year old lobsterman. Who was just as energetic and enthusiastic as my then-29-year-old ass.

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