I Went To The Poorest Place In Kentucky: Appalachia Road Trip Day 1

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  @NickJohnson · 3 years ago · pinned

  Here&apos;s the entire Appalachia Playlist: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq-_cmf3H6yrVA4HLAJ9hgylkyIiI4Az6">https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq-_cmf3H6yrVA4HLAJ9hgylkyIiI4Az6</a>

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  @pitmatix1457 · 3 years ago

  Most hotels in the world would be incredibly apologetic if a guest found a blood stained quilt and had to take care of it themselves. &nbsp;Calling the police on you for swapping it with one in an unused room? &nbsp;Madness!

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  @tiff1681 · 3 years ago

  I grew up in Appalachia Kentucky. And it didn’t used to be like this. My whole life I’ve watched the whole region slowly fall apart. The world came in and took hold, and that was the beginning of the end. <br><br>The companies came in, developed everything up, stripped the area of its coal, limestone and other resources. And then they pulled out and left crumbling stores and people that had been stripped of their heritage, self sufficiency, and left them to figure it out. <br><br>Some did. Most didn’t. And now, most people that live there, have even less trust for outsiders than they did before.

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  @RebeccaWilson-b6q · 3 years ago

  Bryan is my dad and is an amazing person he has helped not only his family but so many others. Thanks for all the kind words

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  @whynot8901 · 2 years ago

  I loved listening to the older man, reminds me of my dad, a great storyteller with a lot of common sense

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  @eroseberry74 · 3 years ago (edited)

  I was raised in Eastern Kentucky. We were poor, but mom made sure we were fed and had clean clothes to wear. I remember packing water from a creek to drink,cook and wash with.Cutting wood and busting coal in the winter to heat our trailer. Mom didn&apos;t have a lot to choose from when choosing a meal to cook. I ate lots of soup brown beans ( pinto beans) and cornbread. The sad thing is I had some cousins who thought we were rich at the time. I remember mom getting government cheese, some of the best grill cheese sandwiches.We use to make toys that our mom taught us that she made as a child. We would take a corncob and put 3 chicken feathers in the big end and a nail in the pointed end. It made a great throwing dart.Made toy guns out of inner tubes. That would shoot an inner tube out of it. Catching crawdads in the creeks. I love listening to my mamaw and great uncles tell me about their childhood.<br> &nbsp;Now from what I learned growing up about 5 families ran our part of the county. They kept new business and factories from moving in.They wouldn&apos;t let a Toyota engine and transmission factory move in. So Toyota went to W.V.. They try to say they wanted to stay a small rural town, but they wanted to keep the pay rate around minimum wage. So they didn&apos;t have to pay more to keep their employees. <br> &nbsp; &nbsp;I wouldn&apos;t trade my childhood with anyone.I had fun as a child,heck we would take cardboard boxes and slide down boom sage on a hill. It was like sledding down the hill in snow.Stay in the hills until dark playing and sometimes looking for bigfoot . I would get whipped if I needed it. I learned if I wanted something I had to work for it. I got a good union job and made a good life for my family.

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  @kerimonczynski-hj8nr · 3 years ago

  I grew up in this county. I remember when I took my husband back there to show him where I grew up and I remember him say that he expected it to be that rural, but not that poor. I lived in a holler and we had electricity on my side of the road as well as well water and some springs. The other side of the road lacked both, including the church we attended. The hotel you stayed in actually used to be very nice! We took our high school prom pictures there. When the county got a McDonald’s it was pretty crazy because we didn’t have to drive to another county for it. I went to McCreary Central High and lived right between McCreary County and Wayne County. In high school I’d drive home from school and then drive to Wayne county, where there were decent jobs. Seeing the video was a little surreal because I remember the county looking basically like the video showed and I guess I didn’t realize “how poor” it was. Great time growing up with the rivers, nature, and just the peacefulness. I’ve been to 15 countries and 29 states, but the feeling of peace sitting in a field in the Daniel Boone National Forest listening to the wildlife will forever stay in my mind. A much simpler life ❤

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  @Bob-rd9vd · 3 years ago

  I have some news for you, young man. &nbsp;Social Security and Medicare are not entitlements. &nbsp;It&apos;s not a benefit either. &nbsp;It&apos;s the government repaying us a quarter on a dollar of what they took. &nbsp;I paid into those for your parents entire lives and your entire life. &nbsp;For 54 years I gave a portion of my paycheck each week. &nbsp;In return I get 25% of a living wage. &nbsp;Thank God I saved money my entire life.

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  @brandonmetzger8447 · 2 years ago

  I found the attitude of the presenter to be very low key disparaging throughout the video, but then I loved to see how overwhelmingly positive the comments are. &nbsp;This is one of the most beautiful parts of the country with some of the most beautiful people you could ever meet. &nbsp;There is so much pride among the people in this region.

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  @Blessedhope83 · 3 years ago

  What’s crazy is in the 80’s -early 90’s McCreary didn’t look like this. It was much more like a little mountain town. The pills got bad in the 2000’s, which forced the county to pump suboxine into every region, which of course forced everyone to turn towards meth. It’s really sad. I grew up there, was raised there , up on rattlesnake ridge. My family is still there, someday I’ll be burried on that mountain, . <br>Not everyone in The county is dope heads, there are some of the finest folks you could ever meet along them hills and hollers, it all depends on where you look. McCreary is like anywhere else on earth, you’ll find what your looking for.

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  @johnspinelli9396 · 3 years ago

  I&apos;m from NJ but i briefly lived in Eastern Kentucky for a little bit. Its sad the south and east ends of the state suffer from poverty, but their spirits are full there. Ive never met so many nice and welcomig people during my time living there

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  @ppkaci · 3 years ago

  if everyone had a neighbor like brian, the country would be a better place. genuine, hard working, no bull s &nbsp;t people are getting hard to find.

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