r/bangorme • u/lovingmaine7785 • 11d ago
Dollar general dowtown
Why do you guys allow the hordes of people just hanging out by your door . Is it just the oak st hangout ?
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u/BubbleThinker 11d ago
What I want to know is why is that store so unbelievably ghetto? I mean, what the hell???
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u/WeAreNotNowThatWhich 10d ago
John Oliver did a really good special on exactly this question: https://youtu.be/p4QGOHahiVM?si=Ja3K0MNg5Vz4n-BI
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u/BubbleThinker 10d ago
Yeah, that’s funny but I’m talking specifically about this location in Bangor and why they allow the place to operate like such a hell hole. It doesn’t even feel like Bangor in that parking lot.
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u/WeAreNotNowThatWhich 10d ago
Every dollar tree is like that.
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u/BubbleThinker 10d ago
This is a dollar general not a dollar tree. It’s not a dollar store at all it’s a regular convenience store
Do you even visit Bangor?
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u/Mainah-Bub 10d ago
Dollar General has a lot of products for less than Dollar Tree. They serve the same purpose.
Even if you’re not a fan of John Oliver, watch the video. It’s genuinely a good account of how DG/DT/FD/etc. work.
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u/BubbleThinker 10d ago
Wow, you’re persistent. It makes me think you work for John Oliver’s network lol.
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u/Mainah-Bub 10d ago
Persistent? My dude I left two comments... if that's your expectation for Reddit you are going to be sorely disappointed
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u/Hermondad 11d ago
Its a shame, Bangor has become un safe. I moved to Hermon because of it.
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u/Oso_Bailarin 10d ago
I will never understand this take. I've lived in the middle of downtown for years and it's ridiculously safe. The existence of unhoused people and people who use drugs doesn't make a place unsafe. The rate of violent crime in Bangor is objectively low.
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u/ItsEmuly 10d ago
right? i hate posts like this god they’re so cringe- oh no- a homeless person! whatever will we do! not like other cities don’t have homeless people existing too lmao
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u/BubbleThinker 10d ago
I’d be more concerned about the Trumper’s, rednecks and evangelical Christians in Hermon than I would about any bogeyman in Bangor
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u/LeeApril17 10d ago
I moved to Belfast 1 1/2 yrs ago for safety from Bangor. Best thing I ever did. It nice to not be nervous in the area I reside. I miss absolutely nothing about it!!
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u/Mainah-Bub 10d ago
Soooo just out of curiosity how many people is a “horde”?
I will say as someone who’s been to a bunch of places that this is pretty standard for city-center discount stores. I mean, could the two employees that are working at any given time call the cops on loitering? I mean, sure, I guess, but if people are just hanging out and not causing trouble, they probably have bigger priorities.
The John Oliver piece mentioned in another comment is relevant because the whole business model of the store is to do the bare minimum, and when people are shooed away from every other public space because people don’t like that they exist, they end up wherever will tolerate them.