Pros and Cons of Living in Kentucky - Are You Welcome Here?
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- Want to know the truth about the pros and cons of living in Kentucky and will you be accepted as a newcomer? As someone who's been through a cross country move to a brand new State, my story may help you decide what Central Kentucky areas may be right for you. Does Kentucky get a lot of snow? Where are the good schools? It is diverse? Will I fit in? There are a ton of questions when moving to a new area. We hope this video is helpful in answering some of those concerns. There's still a lot more to cover that we just can't squeeze into one video, so consider subscribing to see more.
Looking to move to Central KY? Hardesty Team is here to help show you around the I65 strip from Elizabethtown down to Bowling Green! We‘re very familiar with these areas as they have been home to us for over 20 years. If you’d like to see more about these areas, maybe you’re taking a new job at one of the many new plants coming to the Central Kentucky area, or you are getting orders to PCS to Fort Knox, our channel should bring you some very helpful content to help get you acquainted! We are local realtors here, so please feel free to contact us should you need assistance finding a home in these areas.
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God moved us out of democratic south Florida to a small conservative town in Central Florida at the start of covid before anyone really knew what was going on. Thankfully my children lived and continue to live free, go to school, never masked, etc. 5 yrs later, I now I have the same feeling like we need to get out of here now. I am seeing the town almost with new eyes so I appreciate this video. Many of us can relate ❤
So happy to have found your channel, and thank you for such a great review of Central Kentucky.
You are so welcome!
Good video, we have been here 6 months now. Thanks to your videos we are loving it here in Kentucky. Keep it the videos coming.
What part of Kentucky
What is it that you like so much
I just came across your video, and I found it very informative! I appreciate you being very candid throughout. Thank you so much!
Great video about your state. Thank you for posting
Thank you, glad you found it helpful ☺️
Thanks for the video, my wife and I are researching like crazy
Just curious, what State are you looking to move away from?
I'm a brown dude in my 30s from a crowded suburb in Los Angeles County. My wife and I bought a 12 acre farm in Clark County, Kentucky, joined a great local baptist church in Montgomery County...we became instant family with those folks. We feel right at home. Not a single person has judged us one bit for being from CA. I always reassure them that I'm here to keep the red states red, although their reaction to that seems to be mixed. Some HUGE high fives of course, but also some were more like "your grandfather's conservatism" where they just don't talk about politics much, even though they are conservative. lol
Welcome to Kentucky! I’m from NKY in Covington in the Cincinnati metro area, so it’s less southern and more midwestern here, but we are still as red as can be! Man, skin color doesn’t matter to us here. It’s only skin deep. We all bleed red. We share the only race that matters, the human race.😊 Glad you were able to make it out of that liberal hellhole. You’ll definitely live a calmer, happier life here! Hope you enjoy your time here in this great state! And yes, you’re right, a lot of older Kentuckians just don’t like to talk politics!
Happy to have found your channel. My husband and I are thinking of purchasing land in Kentucky. We currently live in a new jersey suburb, so I'm going through the learning process of what all is required (septic etc.). I'm grateful to have found your channel.
That is awesome!
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Thank you, we are tring to sell our home and move to Kentucky. Im praying it happens. Thank you for your videos.😊
We’d be happy to have ya! Thanks for the kind words. So glad you find the content helpful. ☺️
I grew up in Idaho, and I left for 100% that reason. It is not a very welcoming place at all. No sense of community or genuine care for others. I’m interested in moving to KY, thanks for the info 😊
Ok what you are saying is true about small towns everywhere. If you are in the larger cities that is not the case
I moved here in 2015 and have lived in Hardin County all this time. Neither myself nor my sons have made a single friend the entire time we've lived here. People are rude, clanish, and paranoid. As a matter of fact my neighbor routinely calls the police on me because she thinks I'm laughing at her. I got so fed up with it I made the decision that were moving back to Kansas. The good news is is I'm gonna make over 100% profit when I sell my house.
I 100 percent agree with you on your statement about kentucky . I have regrets moving here !! I tell my son it's not his fault . It's horrible and I've put up with all I can take from these people ....
@@centralkentuckyliving Bowling Green .
More than likely its you that is the problem ! Sorry - i live near bowling green for 1 year after moving from a nid sized city in the SF. bay area for 62yrs. i have been here 18months, joined a church and have more friends than i ever had in Ca. ! @@brianarnold4368
I’ve lived in Kentucky for seven years , some of the rural areas are still fighting the civil war , if you see a lot of stars and bars flags or here dueling banjos keep driving !
Everything i hear from Kentucky and Tennessee is the same in Ca only cheaper and better. I get 5feet of snow, brown recluses, snakes, ticks. The humidity is the only thing that scares me. My place in CA gets down to 12degrees and i love it. You almost have me talked into it.
Loved this video and your honesty. This was the first time that someone addressed welcoming communities. My wife and I have lived a nomadic life for the past 22 years. We lived in 10 very different locations, mostly mid-west and west coast. We lived in White House, Tn, and Boise ID as part of the moves. Currently live in Morgantown, WV. In my opinion, the mid-west including Kentucky and Tennessean are generally the most friendly. My test is if you walk by people how many look you in eye and at least smile or acknowledge you. The worst places that we lived in are Idaho and West Virginia. In Boise I walked a trail on my lunch hour for two years and maybe one person acknowledged my presence. In all places, the people that I work with were nice. Any ways, in 30 months we will be looking to move as I will be retired. We are seriously considering Bowling Green or Huntsville. Our Daughter lives in Nashville which is way to expensive. One other consideration for us is Healthcare since we will be retired. We will be touch in about 30 months.
I moved from the Napa Valley area to Southern Kentucky. It’s beautiful out here and some of the scenic drives remind me of the beauty out in California. People seem much nicer and down to earth in Southern Kentucky and it’s way safer and a better place to raise children. It seems to me that Bowling green will prosper as Nashville acts as a strong anchor and inevitably folks will settle in Bowling Green for hybrid work in Nashville.
Don’t California my Kentucky especially if you’re a Democrat!
@@thelastrebelshow1627 I left California because I was raised there and disturbed by their politics and godlessness . I am in support of the way Kentucky is run and will honor its character and values. I will discourage attempts to in anyway follow the policies or values of California . I’m strongly against that
@@generalstack6540 Perfect, welcome.
Hi! Im in San Diego, Im so ready to move out of California- I love California, but the state's future looks grim and evil....I visited Idaho, and I considered Texas, but I have never considered Kentucky until I came across this video and your comment. Im so happy to ready your comment! I just got another nursing license to be working in Virginia, but now, Im really considering Kentucky. Nice to know its good to raise children there, its just me and my little boy. scary, but all things always work out.
@@jeanettepimentel9758 You are wise for following your instinct. The longer I have been out of California the more I am relieved to have escaped the “descent into the abyss” as California continues to deteriorate . It’s a pity what the politicians have done to the once golden state, but as they say, sometimes you have to vote with your feet
I moved from Vermont to Cape Girardeau, MO and I literally never heard of biscuits and gravy before I moved. I was so deprived!
My hubby & I were originally native born Californians, but left it for becoming texans that fulltime RV travel. Definitely got us out of the nasty mindset of CA & opened us up to bew possibilities.
12 years later, we landed in Paducah KY, best move we made! We've lived here now about 1 1/2 yrs and still love it. Yes, people are friendly & slow to open up to you but it's still welcoming!
I visited la center, and Paducah,in May. The humidity, is awful there.
Join a church !
This is a really good video because I was hesitant coming from Chicago wondering if I could fit in. That's a big part mentally. I absolutely did not like Florida , they hate Yankees and fort worth Texas was just odd. Moving to Louisville here soon. This was reassuring
We can totally relate to God moving you to a new place and trying to figure out why. We felt that God had us leave liberal Oregon to move to "conservative" Kansas only to watch Kansas descend more and more into liberalism. Case in point... A few months ago we voted in full blown abortion with no limits and have now become an abortion destination state. Since we don't want any part in that we're now pondering another move. We've been here for a year and a half and often question why God brought us here. We know there must have been a reason but sometimes it takes time to figure it out. Thanks for sharing your story. God bless!
Agreed. We owned a home across the street from my parents (in Los Angeles County). My 3 girls had their grandparents directly across the street. God had other plans. We sold and moved. My parents were heartbroken and maybe none of us fully understand why this job door opened but they visited us here on our farm this past summer and were like "Oh, I get it." Crazy how things turn out.
Seems the whole of North America and the UK are becoming less and less conservative each day, sadly.
I'm leaving Kentucky to go back to Kansas.
I really appreciate your videos. So far I've watched 3 or 4 of them, mainly to get a feel for Kentucky as a place to live. We're currently in central MI where COLD is a 4-letter word! However, we have 3 married daughters that all live in either VA or NC. Those two states are way too expensive now to find a house, so we've decided to look in Kentucky. Always love the scenery when we drive through. Your videos help a lot in the decision of "where to live" in KY. And we're looking at middle to southeast KY, but not too much into the mountains. Thanks again, for your great videos and information!
As someone who is currently living in California (not born or raised but landed here and got stuck), I understand Idahoans' sentiments, completely. For several years I've been listening to the conversations from people who are moving and those who have friends/family who moved. Few of them are talking about how much they love the culture or environment of another State. Nearly all of them are talking about how easy it is to sell their house here, bid over asking price somewhere else, and walk into a new home, with plenty of money to spare.
Yeah, that's great for them but meanwhile, they're gentrifying entire States. People from Idaho - who _love_ Idaho - want to be able to buy houses in Idaho. Now they're having to bid against Californians with lots of money, who don't really care about Idaho. They just want to leave California. I'd be pretty upset, too.
Kentucky is an amazing State that isn't given enough credit. If I ever end up there, it will be because I love it there. I'm just a working class guy with a family, and a modest home, so I have no intention of throwing money around, to get my way. Here's hoping I make it some day and that it will still be Kentucky when I get there. It's weird missing a place so much, where I never lived.
What part of Kentucky would you recommend for homesteading fishing outdoor activities
Grayson county ,half way between E-town and Bowling green.
Ky is very different depending on where you live. Etown is Louisville area. We don't claim them in the rest of the state. Stick to central Kentucky.
I'm looking to relocate to Kentucky and we're looking more like east of i-75 roughly the Clay county area Jackson county area and I was wondering what kind of areas are there that are good. I'm 57 years old and going to be retiring soon. Is that area good for retirees? Right at this moment I have like 35 acres in Colorado but I realized that it's not for me and maybe the climate is just too dry which is kind of nice but in the winter time it can get really cold there at night. Summertime is just the opposite and in the daytime it can get sweltering hot but the knights you can literally hang out outside and it is so comfortable.
A successful relocation requires a degree of flexibility. I have lived ocean to ocean and border to border and speak with some degree of experience on the matter. Your statement about choosing friends for children is applicable to adults as well. We tend to find the same folks in a new location we left in the old. They merely have new names and faces. Kentucky is generally viewed most by most people as a southern state which is actually incorrect. Kentucky is a borders state, neither wholy southern, northern, eastern, or midwestern. It stretches almost five hundred miles from east to west, borders all of those regions, and is an average of between one and two hundred miles from north to south. It posesses five separate, geologic regions, a ployglot of cultures, a long, and somtimes dark history, and a variable climate. It offers something to all comers and rarely everything to anyone. No matter my location I have always found four continuous months of weather not to my liking, a segment of population whose temperament and attitude I found disagreeable, and Iritating circumstances sufficinent to extract foul language from a saint. I have never failed to find something to like, someone to call a friend, and something beautiful to look at or experience. Life, you see, is what we make of it.
I've been in KY for about two yrs. I moved here ( Lewis county) for cost of living and taxes. However with Bidenomics it could be much better,but I'm doing my best to be a good neighbor ie if it's going to rain and you have hay in the field...that sort of thing.
I miss Keeneland Race Course
Thank you 🙏
I don't know about the Bowling Green area, but I'm lots of Kentucky towns theirs a Church on every corner as the saying gors
Personally I kinda of like seeing that, but I don't know if everybody thinks that way or not.
I am glad you spoke at length about people and acceptance. Even though I have heard the south is friendly, I am still a little nervous coming from WA state we will be judged and told to leave. I am originally from NJ and have a NY accent to boot. LOL My husband and I are not conservative. We are moderates but not liberal at all. We are one of the few Independents that vote person, not party. I know. Strange in this climate but Independents do still exist. We are fiscally conservative is the best way to put it.
We live 4 miles outside of Seattle and we rarely go because it is disgraceful what the liberals have allowed with all the defund police crap. So very sad. I proudly have a sign on my tree in front of my house that reads how we support our police department!!
Sorry for my rant but I just hope the people in Bowling Green area or if we land outside of Nashville accept my husband and I for the good people we are and not assume just because we come from WA we are terrible people who want to change their state.
Btw… I love big earrings so maybe I will fit in after all! 😂
@@centralkentuckyliving 😂👍
I'm planning on moving from NY. I fully understand the message "You're a refugee... not a missionary". I hope I'm given a chance to show I'm not bringing NY with me.
So which city are you in pls? And do you think Lexington is welcoming? Thank you for the details and the nice video
We service anywhere between Hardin/Meade County down I65 to Bowling Green & Franklin. We don't service the Lexington area. But Kentuckians in general are welcoming. There will always be those who aren't, but for the most part, folks are friendly in all of KY.
I live in Australia and my girlfriend lives in Kentucky, im still unsure whether to live there or not 😅
Gotta say as someone thinking of moving to ky from idaho i found this vid fun made me luagh on the parts about idaho
I am so excited y’all are back! 😂 my heart broke when u moved because we haven’t made it out there yet (hoping in a few months) and I completely want to meet you guys 😂 anyway this was a fantastic video!!!!
Best part about Kentucky is that there isn't as much of a mass migration state as it is in other states like Texas, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee Colorado, and The Carolinas.
Wrong !! They welcome there refugees .. The rest of the country calls them illegals . They have even built a welcoming center to provide them with everything they need .. Don't be fooled.
Ive lived in Idaho - Boise - for 23 yrs from New Jersey and I have to say the knocks about outsiders that you emphasis were rare. Acceptance was more common. Perhaps the ulterior motive for the harsh criticism is intended to steer prospective movers away from your prime competitor - ID?
We experienced those things in Eastern Idaho. From what we know of Boise, it’s a totally different area. No ulterior motive at all, just sharing some personal experiences. We loved Idaho! And if our kids were younger, we definitely would’ve stayed longer ☺️
Heres the real truth. Stay out of Kentucky. The TV's, aka the flying critters, nats ect. They will eat you alive. Hell naaa, tonight is my very last night in the state of Kentucky for good. They can put me in prison before i ever go back to Kentucky
It takes 25 years to be accepted in small towns in Kentucky, just the way it is, it’s a rural area, but only 20 percent of the state has a college degree. So there is a lot of backwardness, there are 30 to 40 percent that are less educated, I was born and raised here, for the most part people are ok if you treat them nice. Be aware the whole area is very religious. If you can’t deal with Christians, you may have a tough time. If you are a hypocrite though you will fit in.😂. The state is 65 percent Republican now, we intend to keep it that way. nuff said?
Buddy our Kentucky governor is a democrat and we USUALLY vote a democrat in as governor. Since 1931, only four Republicans have served as governor of Kentucky, and no Republican governor has ever been re-elected; the most recent past governor, Matt Bevin, lost re-election.
I came here looking to move to Kentucky. Im now actually thinking about Idaho. I want to be in a place that believes CA is a disease and anyone who comes from there is contagious. Im happy to be anywhere that has a strong “vaccine” against CA.
Crystal…I hate to tell you this but not all people living in California are liberals. The Conservative people are moving away from there. Your attitude in not being accepting of them simply because they are coming from California is sad. By the way you might want to know that many liberals from California have moved to Idaho too as well as Texas and are trying to change the politics of those states. So perhaps you might want to keep looking then to find something better to fit your criteria.
Lol, nobody wants Californians in AZ either and there are bumper stickers for the h8 😅
We just bought a small farm in Waynesburg. We leave California for good in two weeks! We are NOT taking the politics we are fleeing with us. We spent a lot of time looking for a friendly, conservative state to retire in. Kentucky checks all our boxes!
Heres the real truth. Stay out of Kentucky. The TV's, aka the flying critters, nats ect. They will eat you alive. Hell naaa, tonight is my very last night in the state of Kentucky for good. They can put me in prison before i ever go back to Kentucky
Fool.