We are number 1

Greg1959 · Mar 31, 2014

Nothing to be proud of though!

This is the area I live in...
"the so-called Tri-State region of Huntington-Ashland, comprising parts of West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio ".

It is also called the Oxy Triangle.
Gallup Poll

rrlund · Mar 31, 2014

I'll tell you what,when I was over there,I really wanted to love it,but I just felt funny around there. Had anxiety like I can't even explain.
Coming back home,as soon as I crossed the Kentucky state line I could feel myself relaxing and settling down in to the seat.

Greg1959 · Mar 31, 2014

rrlund-I understand that feeking. There is nothing like the feeling of coming home. Whenever I had to leave home from some time and then to return home, there was nothing like seeing the "Welcome to Kentucky, the Bluegrass state" sign at the state line.

I guess what I was trying to post about was how depressed our area is.

Greg

Buckeye · Mar 31, 2014

Not much has changed in this area. I wrote a paper in college in the mid eighties that compared our region to a third world country. Only thing different today is the coal industry is a lot smaller than it was then thanks to our government.

MarkWV · Mar 31, 2014

Its everywhere, 3 people missing since 2011 in Wyoming countyWV, paper says they know its drug related. Prescription drug abuse is going to be the demise of our country. Legitimate drugs , needed by some for pain, stolen and sold or Drs handing out scripts for "favors"

Ultradog MN · Mar 31, 2014

I wouldn't put much stock in that poll.
Bunch of sissified, nanny state, shun the individual and embrace the collective kinds of criteria.
The quality of life is defined in many ways and a guy living in one of those "bad places" could, in many ways be happier than some fellow who is supposedly better off according to some pointy heady elitist's formula.

howdy1960 · Mar 31, 2014

At least your not #1 in TAXES. New York State is.

JerryS · Apr 1, 2014

My town is No. 8 on that list. Funny thing, I'm not miserable at all. Maybe I'm missing something.

Bret4207 · Apr 1, 2014

(quoted from post at 21:35:50 03/31/14) At least your not #1 in TAXES. New York State is.

Yeah, boy there's something to be proud of. "The Empire State"....what a joke.

Donald Lehman · Apr 1, 2014

Yup. The only reason most of us are still in NY is that by the time we get done paying the taxes, we ain't got enough money left to buy enough gas to get to the State line!

rrlund · Apr 1, 2014

I know what you mean there too. I don't know where we are on the list but since 2700 high paying union jobs left our area,this place looks like somebody dropped an atomic bomb. It's been several years now and things are still getting more and more run down and depressed. You can tell just by looking at the condition of the cars on the road and how the homes are falling in to disrepair. You'd think we'd find the bottom and start to turn it around some time,but it's still going down hill.

rrlund · Apr 1, 2014

That reminds me of a CBS special one time on that very thing. They were in Appalachia telling how bad it was for folks who lived there. All the usual crap about how it didn't compare to the "civilized world". The folks they talked to seemed to be happy enough. They had their families,friends and the only lives they'd ever known. I can still see that newscruds shiny shoes that looked so out of place and his condescending attitude that if you didn't live where he does,you're lower than dirt.

keh · Apr 1, 2014

Spartanburg, SC, no. 4 on the list is the county seat of my county. Problems can be attributed to the collapse of the textile industry(which wasn't unionized, BTW, so high union wages weren't a factor) and a long standing welfare class. OTH, it has two outstanding 4 year colleges, a 2 year college, also highly rated, and a new school of Ostepathy(sp?). It also has 2 large hospitals. There are too many drug problems and crime related to them. Smoking is mentioned in all these cities but locally smoking rates have declined. I remember going to visit someone in the hospital and seeing people smoking in the halls and in patient's rooms. Now, no smoking in the hospital and recently they extended the no smoking to the sidewalks outside the hospital, where patients who were able would go to smoke along with visitors. That aroused some opposition, but I have seen patients with their oxygen tanks and bags of IV fluid stanting outside the hospital doors smoking.

The job market and real estate sales are in poor shape, in spite of optomistic reports the authorities give out occasionally.

KEH

LAA · Apr 1, 2014

I bet land prices are not going down though, I live in one of the poorest areas in the USA and land prices are at all time highs and climbing.

rrlund · Apr 1, 2014

Depends. Not going up as fast as you might think. As chairman of Board of Review here in the township,I was just looking at the land values chart a few weeks ago. Vacant residential property values are about the same as Ag property.

DaninKansas · Apr 1, 2014

Kansas is trying to be #1 in that class.

DaninKansas · Apr 1, 2014

There is a reason the TV show "Justified" is based in Kentucky.

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