The summer after college, hoping to earn money to travel to Europe, my then-girlfriend and I moved to Bar Harbor, Maine, to find jobs in the service industry. It was something of a bust: Even back then, long before Airbnb, tourist-sector jobs outstripped the housing available to seasonal workers earning minimum wage. We tried living in a campground for …
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