About teacher salaries, you can often find the district contract on its website or just do a Google search for a town and teacher contract. There will usually be a table that lists salary and the steps. If you work in SpEd, you might consider a master's in ABA.

Mass will be more expensive and salaries are higher, so it probably weighs out. About getting a Mass teaching licence, see the Mass department of ed (DESE) website. For a full license, you need teaching experience, pass standard exams, pass an English exam, and earn a master's. Lot of part time MEd programs at state universities, and it bumps you up the scale. I'm not sure what pediatric therapist is.. physician? physical therapist? clinical psychologist? But in any case, it probably pays better in Mass.

Like most states, Mass school quality varies by town/district, and the MCAS (standard exam) results are available on the dept of ed website. It roughly tracks school quality. But then again, Mass tends to rank at or near the top of state by state education quality.

Mass is a great place for well-educated people, and "real winter" is the main only drawback. But there were only 2 or 3 storms this past winter where we had to shovel.

Millinockelipse!

The drink menu is comprised of two choices: Moxie or Allen’s Coffee Brandy, aka the champagne of Maine.

Moxie!

He (Jason Alexander) attended BU, so knows about the cost to park.

Plymouth and Maine were absorbed into Mass Bay Colony in the 1690s. Plymouth lacked a royal charter and Maine was barely populated.

Allen's Coffee Brandy: The Champagne of Maine!

Battle of Little Round Top at Gettysburg

>The left flank consisted of the 386 officers and men of the 20th Maine regiment and the 83rd Pennsylvania. Seeing the Confederates shifting around his flank, Chamberlain first stretched his line to the point where his men were in a single-file line, then ordered the southernmost half of his line to swing back during a lull following another Confederate charge. It was there that they "refused the line"—formed an angle to the main line in an attempt to prevent the Confederate flanking maneuver. Despite heavy losses, the 20th Maine held through two subsequent charges by the 15th Alabama and other Confederate regiments for a total of ninety minutes.[16]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Round_Top

No state income tax in FLA.

People have been moving to New Hampshire and Florida, the top two states, from Mass, since the end of WWII. NH because housing is cheaper, making the southern part of the state a far suburb of greater Boston. Half the population of NH lives in greater Manchester and south, so within about a half hour drive to Mass. And people have been retiring to Florida, escaping the snow, and for many people, there are tax advantages moving to FLA.

ETA: no state income tax in FLA.

Maine North of Bangor is very sparsely populated, so mostly can draw from communities to the east and south, UMaine being the exception. Portland draws from all directions, and even into NH and Mass.

Excellent suggestion. It’s interesting to consider going to a high school (Philips Academy) with works by Homer, Picasso, O’Keefe, et al on campus.

Could it be.... shark poop?

Bath Iron Works and Brunswick NAS?

NH Pease AFB? Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. (Technically in Maine.)?

Long-story short, an IT-ish job, I made a fake user (to test things) "Tony Clifton." A co-worker reported resulting problems two or three times with "Clifton," not getting the reference at all.

Robert B. Parker got his PhD at BU, then was an English professor at Northeastern, I believe until the second Spenser book was successful, then move on to just writing.

The funny part about the Spenser TV series was him finding a parking place in front of each and every Boston location he had to visit. Sometimes the writers/producers would make odd mistakes, cops searching the junkyards in Revere or something, when there are no junkyards in Revere.

Grandpa -- amateur wallpaper hanger -- would be spinning in his grave to see this unmatched edge. Patterns were supposed to line up.

Or Aroma Joe?

Just remember: Klaatu barada nikto.

An old joke, the Maine Turnpike breakfast was a coke and a devil dog.

Plus expect a lot of second growth forest, trees not mature enough for building, useful just for newsprint, to become agricultural land, since longer growing seasons will enable farming for varieties of fruits and vegetables that are hit or miss today. Think beets, radishes, carrots, maybe broccoli, cabbage, etc.

The life expectancy in Mississippi is 5 years less than Mass. If that doesn't make it a shithole, I don't know what does.

The UP of New England.

There is or was one in the Lawrence industrial park.