Syria is basically three countries now with no clear internationally recognized legitimate government. We're super friendly with one of the sides, and they invited us in.

I prefer looking in most cases. Except in parallel parking, at least in my car turning my head gives me more info.

lol, my bad. I was listening to a radio show on right to repair while typing this.

I need to not multitask or I type stupid shit.

The deficiency is that there's no training, as they don't recognize Maine's right to repair unless forced

They will dodge until they get the AG call, then they fold. This is the way

> Forbes List

That's problem number one right there. Forbes is pretty mediocre for cherry picking, and rarely accounts for things like reduced services, privatized costs etc.

Unless you're doing a cost of living comparison, a tax burden comparison is less informative than you might think. I'm not saying Maine's the best! (we're not) nor that we can't improve, but any argument that's just is about how Maine's taxes are terrible, you can pretty much just discount that argument. It's almost always based on biased or poorly calculated sources (you can't compare taxes in a dense, warm climate state to a rural poor state fairly). But even just going off taxes and nothing else, Maine's taxes are higher, but compared to other cold weather states on a relative scale, not so much.

> You add Maine's exceedingly high taxes to the mix

The whole tax burden thing is pretty much bollocks. Most states have very similar effective tax burdens. Costs are costs, and payment will be extracted. Maine is just more straightforward in how we do it, while a lot of states with supposed lower tax burdens just get you in other ways. Some states are more expensive, but overall costs that the state imposes are very similar between most states. We do have higher costs in some areas like heating of course, and cost of living does vary, but that's usually outside of state control.

Getting home in my town was like a mouse maze, avoiding downed trees, powerlines and closed roads. Sometimes you had to go back to go forwards.

Such a weird account. Two years old and only some recent cooking bullshit.

Clearly a scammer.

That's about two miles from my in-laws. The house near that sign has an extraordinary amount of lawn decorations.

That’s about the level of skills i had back when i was 8

Even at my most broke, I saved for retirement. So much rice and beans, only free entertainment. Sucked at the time, but that little bit a month, starting at 20 gets amazing with compounding.

> There's no high paying jobs here, except in government

That's actually not true.