Thinking about coming up with a plan to move my family out of Maine. After growing up in rural Maine and experiencing all the bad parts of rural life I have no interest in going back and there’s no options left in the city. We’re working harder than we’ve ever worked and getting bent over groceries, fuel, and paying twice what we paid for rent a decade ago. Employers aren’t budging on wages and god forbid you take a job for the benefits, good luck having a day granted off to even use the benefits. Trying to break out of the generational cycle of being poor and uneducated from rural Maine feels like a farce. I’ll never make enough to even take care of my aging grandparents and they had to sell everything off just to have a place to finish their lives with dignity.