You have two separate and unrelated issues here. 1. Your last venture failed. 2. You have to take care of your elderly parents, apparently in an obscure small

You have two separate and unrelated issues here. 1. Your last venture failed. 2. You have to take care of your elderly parents, apparently in an obscure small town hundreds of miles from any tech or cultural center. The first issue, business failure, is normal and not a problem at all. Entrepreneurs deal with failure. Either get on the horse again, or switch to a corporate job with a steady paycheck. Either choice is a valid one. The second issue, elderly caretaking, if you don't want to do this, given that it sounds like they object to you being there, don't do it then. Let the rest of the family deal with them. If despite this you are still committed to staying with the parents, then the obvious solution is to either do remote design work, or to start your own company. You are not going to be taking care of the parents 24 hours a day, this leaves much free time to create a product while enjoying low living expenses. Congratulations, you're a start up with almost no overhead. If you prefer to take the corporate job to resolve issue #1, and still want to take care of the parents, then they will have to move to the city where your new high paying corporate job will be. If they are going to be dependent on you to take care of them, then you get to make the calls.