We never lock our house- we have guns. Much safer, not that they've been needed.
No truck needed. We have real roads up here (/sarc). The plows keep everything moving. We are still quite self-sufficient though in comparison with cities.
My wife is a Brooklyn girl who has become a fine specimen of a Maine woman these last 21 years- she's no fishwife or lumberjack but she sure keeps that wood stove going.
Good luck.
Could I ask what car you’re driving? I only see flat-beds and those large 4x4s here in mid-coast Maine. (A friend of mine driving a Honda Civic had his fender torn off on the stump of a fir tree. He was driving cavalierly as if at home in Virginia and we giggled behind his back.)
How lucky you are. My firmest friend in Tenant’s Harbor is married to a Bk’lyn girl. (Hope she’s not a bigamist, lol!!!) I’m a NYer, too, so maybe we’re drawn to the region.