CAMDEN, Maine (AP) — When Peg Davis was ready to find a retirement community to move to, she looked north — not south — for a place to spend her later years.
Rather than set her sights on Florida, Arizona or some other warm-weather locale, she packed up and moved from Big Flats, N.Y., to the small coastal Maine town of Camden.
Davis, 73, was in search of the slow pace of a small town with natural beauty, cultural opportunities and "a sense of place." She hasn't been disappointed since arriving in 2010.
"I wouldn't go south of Pennsylvania," said Davis, who vacationed here for years before making the move. "My mind operates like a Mainer. It doesn't operate like people who escape to Southern comfort."
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