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V O L . X X I X N O. I V W E A LT H M A N A G E M E N T / R E T I R E M E N T Maria ran restaurants and Phil was a family physi- cian. Both are in their 70s and retired, though Phil fills in two to three days a month at Martin's Point Health Care in Biddeford. After deciding to move to Maine on a flight back from Detroit, they settled into a downtown Portland condo four months later — conveniently across Casco Bay from their grandchildren, ages 4, 7 and 9, and walk- ing distance to restaurants and symphony concerts. "We were living in a large home on a lake in Michigan, and we thought, we'll live on a lake or the ocean in Maine," says Phil. "en we started to find out what the costs were to do that." Here in Maine to stay, Maria — who was born in Poland and educated as a physicist — says she likes to say that "we can survive on one chicken a week." "I'm very happy we moved here," she says, "and we are so blessed." In Scarborough, Anne Bartol Butterfield and her husband, Sandy Butterfield, feel the same way, after relocating from Boulder, Colo., in 2020. ey came for a combination of reasons, including a desire to protect the family beach place built by Anne's great grandparents from worsening storms. Since coming back, Sandy has organized construc- tion of a sand dune and sea wall that Anne says was highly effective in the last storm while Anne has recon- nected with childhood friends. A board member of WildEarth Guardians, a nonprofit defending wildlife and wild space across the western United States, she is looking to expand her environmental work in Maine and considering her future commitments. "When it comes to nonprofits," she says, "I like lots of them" Family history also brought Susan Cary and her husband, Larry Borysyk, to Maine, decades after her parents built a house on Peaks Island where they retired and that's still in the family. Previously living in western Massachusetts, Borysyk, 77, is a retired exercise physi- ologist who had worked in cardiac rehabilitation, while Cary, 72, is a partly retired addiction psychiatrist. ey live in Cape Elizabeth, where he is a backyard beekeeper with three hives that are currently dormant but honey-filled, and they go on regular walks to Fort Williams Park with labradoodles Gracie and Growler. Comparing prices between here and their previous residence, "Income taxes don't seem to be a big differ- ence," Cary says, "but everything else is more expensive — groceries, gas, all that stuff." On the plus side, she admits to "getting spoiled" in a short time by the wide choice of good-quality local restaurants. Back at Cumberland Crossing, Adams and Hopkinson are delaying travel as long as they have cockapoo Buddha, who is blind and has an enlarged heart and accompanies them everywhere in his carriage, even to church in Yarmouth and shopping at L.L.Bean in Freeport. e couple has lived in many places over the years, including the country of Mexico after retiring early. Despite their previous nomadic wanderings, Hopkinson says, "we feel like we're here to stay." Renee Cordes, Mainebiz senior writer, can be reached a t r c o r d e s @ m a i n e b i z . b i z a n d @ r s c o r d e s » C O N T I N U E D F RO M P R E V I O U S PA G E P H O T O / T I M G R E E N WAY Backyard beehives are quiet this time of year, though full of honey, at the home of Susan Cary and Larry Borysyk in Cape Elizabeth. F O C U S F E B R UA R Y 2 0 , 2 0 2 3 16 P H O T O / J I M N E U G E R Scarborough residents Anne Bartol Butterfield and Sandy Butterfield, photographed with their dog, Teton, at Ferry Beach in Scarborough, previously lived in Boulder, Colo.

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