We lived in the NEK for 3 years. Populated by morons with guns, Karens and more trumpanzees than you ever thought possible. A lot of people there are unhappy, have reason to be, but keep voting for Rs when Vermont has clearly gone progressive with supermajorities in each house, thankfully, but that just makes them madder. Rural VT is dying, slowly, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it and probably shouldn’t, anyway. The utter imbecilic resistance to change of any kind is astonishing. Education is important, but if you are utterly opposed to it there’s nothing anyone can do to improve lives until the offending generation and demographic has succumbed to Darwinian evolution or just plain died off.