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.

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