[LukeL]

It is a shame because I am willing to bet that WV is a very beautiful state. Lots of camping, hunting, hiking, and fishing.

[867V309]

It is a shame because I am willing to bet that WV is a very beautiful state.

you would win.

my parents being from WV, we went there every summer in my childhood.     my grandparents WV farms-especially in the '50s and '60s-were an entirely different world from the city. I'm eternally thankful for that exposure to another style of life during my formative years.

[Badboo]

You might be right as I sit on my porch of my Appalachian styled log home, surrounded by my organic garden, orchards, my wife’s beehives in the distance, looking at the cliffs and mountains out my front yard bordering an 8000 acre state game land of deer bear and turkey. And in the back yard a stocked trout stream bordering the property for 1/2 mile.

We like to say we are no. 1 in WV. First in obesity, diabetes and opioid use in the nation.

The truth is the extraction industries was all WV ever had and they employ very few people today. The kids, like their parents don’t move away for jobs and education. Many are fine just getting by, working for the road dept., etc.,quitting and going on unemployment for hunting season. Sign up for work again after the firewood is in.

I am 67, and pull three shifts in retirement keeping this little farm going. I’ll be at it today, heat advisory or not, and on 90 % of the Saturdays and Sundays too. I have met very few younger folks that will work that hard. A very large share do not work at all. Drugs is all they have.