Appalachia’s Gentrification - Clash of Locals & Outsiders 🇺🇸
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- There's tension in the mountains of Appalachia, a divide between established locals and wealthier people moving in to buy up land and homes. This tension exists in many parts of the country and is increasing as more people want to live outside the cities. Join me as we meet the locals to get an inside look on this situation.
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Appreciate you Peter
Us born and raised West Virginians like to truly live in peace. We don't care what outsiders think about us. We just want to make a living, love our families, and serve The Lord doing it!
Love waking up to a new Video from you Peter! The Appalachian series is among my very favorite!
Living in Small Towns, the Locals are Intentionally Nightmares! And if their Bloodline has enough Local Status they can Attack you and Have you Arrested! And they Just Ruin their Undesirables Out of Town! Directly Tell You To Leave, and Scream at you about being an Out of Stater, and I've always been their Whipping Boy! They Wouldn't Even Educate Me! You can Tell How Mad these Locals are that People not from their Blood are Moving In! And it's Disgusting! They are Horrible People! And if they can Get their Claws into you, they will never Stop, Problem is they Dig Into Kids! And you don't even Understand why they are doing it, but you Get Older, and have to Be Disgusted with Locals!
@PeterSantenello I hope you went to Swain County and learned the story of the Road to Nowhere and the broken promise to the people that were removed
The local born and raised Appalachian people don't have any problems with outside folks coming in and wanting to live here. The major problem is the people who are coming and buying up property do so because they love the atmosphere and beauty of this place, BUT when they do get here they seem to want to change it to the way it was where they came from. If you ask any locals the majority agree on that.
Yup and they ruin the culture
That could be stopped with the type of regulations that Appalachians tend to vote against. It's hard to see things change, I struggle with the gentrification of Florida where it's negatively impacted our economy, but I lived in Appalachia for a time and I wonder if anything is better than the poverty and almost complete lack of opportunity that exists now in much of the region
everywhere could stand some change and improvement
they built a hotel directly on top of the mountain. bunch of idiots if you ask me.
My daughter in law my son and gbaby live in Brea, Kentucky. She was born in hazard county some where in haller. Best wishes
My mother was the head of the Avery County N.C. Building Inspection Department and wrote the proposal which became "The Ridge Law" aka the "Mountain Ridge Protection Act" that was passed in 1983. A tiny 95lb 5'2" tall lady (Aleta Daniels-Field) was the driving force behind the law that prohibits any structure over 40' tall being built on the top of any mountain. I'm very proud of her for fighting for the beauty of the mountains we call HOME!!!
Wow! That is amazing. You are right to be proud of your dear mother❤
Let's hope money and corruption doesn't make certain people look the other way.
Sadly it happens.
You mother was a force to be reckoned with. What a wonderful lady. 🌻
That is so cool, thank you for sharing!
Glad your mom took the "bull by the horns" and shut that down.
That’s an epic win. I remember when that hideous hotel went up on the ridge. Such an eyesore.
Rich people fleeing the problems they caused seems to be a problem all over
It’s called Capitalism…the great societal ill - going back to Colonialism.
Who sold them those farms ?
@@daveshore8671 Listen to the video.
Why I will win the 2024 US Presidential election by a landslide victory as a write in party free candidate.
@@Baffled-f9d I did. If your neighbor sell out then it’s on them. Boomers are greedy in all parts of this country. I bought 50 acres in Appalachia from a boomer who sold off family land bit by bit. I will keep it a farm. But they are all too willing to sell out their communities.
That condo on the top of the mountain is a disgrace
It's truly horrific. What an eye sore but also a great lesson to build with nature not destroy it.
The Sugar Cube 👌
its a ski resort. I live here. its ugly as shit
I live in Huntington WV where are these condos?
@@sonjacollier7910 it's in sugar mountain, NC 🤷♂️ but Huntington , now there's a sheet hole
Being originally from Southern Kentucky I could tell people one thing. Some of the nicest and even some of the smartest people I've ever met have lived in broken down trailers and little broken down cabins. Most of them will give you the shirt off their back if you need it. Never ever judge a book by its cover.
@cocomarineblu993 because they choose
You are correct. I am a mechanic and always impressed by the abilities and attitude of people I met there that could fix anything and get by with very little and also the generosity of people. I have always said don't judge a book by its cover.
@cocomarineblu993There are also very dumb and stupid people who are ultra rich. Think about that.
@cocomarineblu993Just like black folk, they dont have much choice or many opportunities to get out of it; not easy to do.
@@twodigitscout9800the blacks have affirmative action for all manner of jobs. Just having a pulse is enough to get hired.
As a Watauga local, it breaks my heart to be forced out of my hometown due to rising costs (coughAppstatecough) and people buying second and third vacation homes. The entitlement of people moving into their 6,000 sq foot homes and demanding local change is astounding. Thanks for highlighting the issues.
Same thing is happening to Florida. Sure my house is worth 3 times what it was but can’t afford to move up to a better house because so many are moving here from other states.
@@benztech2262 Arguably, it's occurring everywhere. Unfortunately, this is due to a lack of being properly informed about the area(s) and a pure disregard for local establishment. But hats off to Peter for providing significant coverage and initiating change. The best we can do is support him in those efforts and try to do the same ourselves.
This is definitely happening everywhere, including my hometown in AZ. People born and raised here no longer able to afford it after rents raised 50% in the course of two years. People from coastal areas have a big effect on the places they move to, which is basically everywhere.
All I can say is ; look to the 1st Nation peoples. There will always be someone coming for what you have come to call home, the only guarantee is that things will continue to change.
@@ravenkitty1960 Absolutely. Someone always "owned" some land first. Obviously it's awful that people have been slaughtered in the past over land - but someone, or something (if not people, then animals and nature) were there first. At least these days we're mostly just dealing with gentrification, not genocide.
Im born and raised NC! I live on my familys 220 acre farm and people and businesses are sending offers monthly to buy our land at hardly no cost. Us and All the farmers in the community stand together on keeping this the country side. We stand with yall as well💪🏼. Some of us just want to be left alone and stop dealing with business men and government
God bless you all
🙏❤🙏
What's a 200 acre plot go for out there?
I'm from England, and 200 acre of woodland with a bit of arable is multi millions £
That's such a great attitude and I agree, to live on a farm with that kind of beauty and freedom surrounding you, if you and your families are doing well, who cares about money and greed, it doesn't buy joy or peace or health. God Bless you and your land and farms and families!
@@rambo.69 depends on where he is from and how the land lays but 1,500 to 4,000 a acre is typical. Sometimes people from out of state/or cities will pay higher prices.
I sure hope yall don't sell. I was born in Raleigh but grew up in Myrtle Beach. It's more like NYC here now. It's ruined. There is no amount of money I'd take if I could make it like it once was. It's awfully sad.
This is happening everywhere. The rich move into beautiful areas and make it so the locals can no longer afford to live there. The gap between the rich and poor gets bigger every day.
Same in Ireland
@@beatusqui Same in Australia.
Extremely shameful how the locals are being FORCED OUT!!
That is exactly what has/is happening in Maui Hawaii.
Same in France, Belgian, German, British and Parisian people came in the south and transformed it in an unaffordable area for the locals. I honestly don't know if I'll be able to buy a house one day and I'm 30.
"Respect the views, the environment, and the people", WELL SAID!!!
I agree with the statement. The man that said it should practice what he preaches. His place was definitely an environmental blight.
I hope Peter gets an award for this documentary. It is so well done.
Don't stop here... I only discovered Peter a couple of months ago and have binge-watching his videos ever since. He's so good with every place he visits.
Actual journalism. The comments among those not familiar with the US should be evidence alone. He could focus entirely on the Appalachia series and I'd be happy. I've learned more from this series than actually living here.
That’s exactly what happened to my home town in PA once it starts there’s no stopping it. It’s depressing
He should. I am enjoying his videos. Talk about an education!
Deserving
Modesty needs to be praised and placed upon a pedestal, not the rich and greedy
Indeed. Everything is greed driven now. The 0.0001% class of greedy individuals continues to amass wealth and ruin the world while the other 99% of us get poorer and poorer. If I was rich I would be helping THE PEOPLE. Not building mansions on other people's land.
I'll just buy a taller pedestal, I'll make my pedestal out of a redwood. I'll park my bugatti and raptor in the base.
@@rambo.69 no doubt you will
@@rambo.69
Money is like salt water the more you drink the thirstier you get.
In other words you lose.
@@Chris-yo6wx just buy a desalination unit
Thank you for the Appalachia series. I've enjoyed them. I moved to a nearby county to these people during the vid, but it was a house that was on the market. I've been immersing myself in the community and love everyone around here. Even joined the local volunteer fire department to help give back to the community that has been so welcoming.
This Appalachia series is literally the best
Yes! I love the respect you give them
He needs to talk to Tipper Pressley, celebrating Appalachia is her channel. The blind pig and the acorn is her blog. Shes keeping Appalachia anlive and down to earth, just made a top selling cookbook. Music, history , stories, language, truly keeping it ALL alive. She’s in my area over Brasstown NC.
Just came to say the Same thing! 🙌
Quit overusing the word literally. There was no reason for it in your sentence.
Agee! 100 percent
Just an FYI, the big field they stop at around the 5 min mark has been cleared as pasture land for as long as I can remember and I’m in my 40s. My Grandmother’s house is about a half mile up the road from that. Her property also has an entire mountain top that is cleared and has been used as pasture land for over 100 years. It was never cleared for the view.
Are you single haha
Hasn't most the land been cleared and then abandoned and trees and brush taken it back over? That area is so lush twenty years a cleared field will be forest again.
I think he was just using that field and its size as an example of the scale of land being cleared in some cases for "the view." He could clearly see the cows right in frame and he isn't an idiot.
@@GM6.7 It takes quite a bit longer than 20 years for the big trees to grow back.
@@fzr1000981my man!
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Sending all of you healthy healing vibes. God Bless.
Best to you. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I recently broke my hip and stayed 3.5 weeks in rehab. I don't watch TV but the facility has fun things to do. Arts and crafts, music, bingo etc. Was fun and the food was really good.
You should watch Tipper Presley at Celebrating Appalachia… her blog is , the blind pig and the acorn. She’s been keeping Appalachia alive for a very long time. Every bit of it…..
She has years of stuff that you can’t ever get through it all. A plethora of videos and information
I live in TN a mile from the NC line. It breaks my heart every time I see a big fancy house on top of the mountain. Also all of the street lights that run 24/7 drives me nuts.
I do agree that the cost of things has at least doubled if not tripled since 2020.
The outsiders moving in hasn't made any thing better or easier for us.
i also live in TN very close to the NC border, and this entire video made me so sad about how near my house, a lot of pasture land got sold after an old farmer died. His children sold off the land, and they took these really beautiful hills of cow pasture and covered them in these hideous, modern style McMansions for rich people to move into. They also cut down a lot of trees in the area to put in power lines, and every time I drive through that area, it just makes me so sad. I wish at the very least when rich people want to move into the area they actually try to build houses that are smaller and match the style of the surrounding houses
Can you see that big condo on sugar top from where you live?
The mountains shouldn’t have any light pollution, ruins the beauty of these places.
@@chaples_well said
And I’m so sorry - I can hear the sorrow in your words 😔
Appalachia is being destroyed by gentrification. In my hometown rent was always $300-$450 a month. Even ten years ago it was. But since 2017, when they started rehabbing houses and moving in yuppies, the rent has gone up from $450 all day to $1,000 for a studio. They bought out all the family corner stores and laundry mats and put in coffee shops and pilates gyms, effectively driving the local poor into starvation and homelessness cause they got no car and can't get out to an actual grocery store and they can no longer afford rent. You say it's cleaning places up and making it better but all it does is wreck the ability for the poor who are from there to survive. This ain't your playground it's my LIFE 🙄💩
What's your city ?
Who sold those places?? boomers. Your friends and families Boomers sold those places. That’s on that older real estate owning generation. Or their kids. If you don’t protect your home nobody will.
I empathize with you. But you can't leave a place to run down to cater to the poor. As much as I often dislike it you can't stop progress. Also, let's be honest, West Virginians made some poor choices & didn't look to the future. I'm from one of the rare Jewish West Virginia families. Why aren't there Jewish poor trapped in poverty in West Virginia? Because the children were brought up in an environment of going to college and becoming a Doctor, Lawyer, Accountant, etc. They didn't want their children to follow them in the mines or steel mills or even take over the small business they owned which made them at best middle class.
West Virginia needs to stop crying Victim & start moving forward on its own terms.
You sound really ignorant to me not everyone can be a doctor or lawyer or accountant…and even if they could there wouldn’t be a job for everyone. There are always going to be poor people no matter if they get an education or not. We need people to be miners too. If we had no miners we’d be in more trouble than if we didn’t have lawyers and maybe even doctors. As long as someone is working even if they don’t make much money they deserve to afford housing.
@@Bulvan123 You realise society would collapse pretty quickly without miners, mill workers, and small business owners? They are literally essential and have a right to life as much as anyone else.
You are hands down one of the best freelance journalists out there Peter! Don’t ever change, you’re the man✌️
As a Australian, I’m fascinated with the cultures of other places, the diversity of people’s lives but unfortunately the world over this story is happening. I love the variety, we don’t want everything the same.
I can so identify with the problems that these sweet people are experiencing! I was born and raised in Hawaii and it seems this problem is global!
Not a globe, 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Klaus Schwab is the Global problem. He and his rich minions. Old saying goes, “Money can’t buy you happiness.” I’d rather be broke and poor. Than cold hearted rich❤😊
Hawaii is this dialed up to 1000 on this. Yall have the worst housing costs in the country, godspeed man.
Even in some of the most rural states like Nebraska, 99% of the land is owned by investors like Bill Gates. You can't build a small ranch in the countryside, don't even think about going off of a paved trail to hike down to a creek, that creek is owned by someone, and they'll shoot you on sight.
Well, if the government didn't create disasters and then gobble up the land from the deceased ...
As a son of a man who grew up in Appalachia (W.Va), this video is amazing and I love her accent! There are some wonderful ppl here. My dad was raised in Bluefield from a small town called Bramwell. It’s always been about community. I know what a holler is lol. I may need to visit. This was emotional for me as my father has passed. What an amazing video
Born and raised in Brushfork here.
As a 6th generation Texan, I feel this so much. This is exactly what has happened here. Kids moved away and didn’t want the grandparents ranch and sold them off. Whole ranches have had all their trees stripped and are nothing but ugly roof tops now. My house value has more than triples in a decade. We joke with people who are thinking of moving, saying well if you do you won’t be able to afford your house if you want to move back. Old Texans cared for the land and green spaces. They’re now ruined. Trash everywhere. Trees gone. No culture - all that is mostly torn down. We are running out of water because there are no laws around putting in a well and watering your whole vineyard or distillery that just moved in. It’s disgusting. I have so much more to say and to warn these people of. Get your laws in order now. Get people in office that are from there, otherwise…. It’s coming.
If you were to develope Texas to the level of Manhatten the whole world could live in just 1/3 of Texas. I'm a truck driver. It takes a whole day to drive across Texas. Most of it is empty.
@@jamesedmonds9946
Not the I-35 corridor from San Antonio to Austin to Georgetown. Prices have tripled in the last decade and taxes gone up. Your talking about West Texas, which is lots of dessert and low population because there are few jobs. Dallas, Houston and even farther south in Corpus Christi are booming.
@@StarreLabell drive 10 miles in any directions from I 35 and then where are all the people. I'm sitting in Laredo right now. Think your living in an urban area and complaining that it's urban... Drive from Laredo to corpus Cristy and you see more roadkill then people.
Happens in the.uk.secind holiday homes drive prices up in coastal holiday resorts
I'm a 6th generation Texan, too. Fancy there being two of us on this thread.
I'm loving this Appalachia series as much as I loved the tribes!
Edit to add- she's not wrong about the bullying. I'm from southern Oklahoma. I have a thick country accent. My mom does too. And my grandmother did. I don't mind it, now. It's something I try to keep to a minimum. If something real hick slips out, my kids will tease me. In a good hearted way. I'm almost 50, I don't care what anyone thinks of me. I ain't got the time for no nonsense.
I'm from California and I love the way you folks talk
I ain’t neither. We don’t even realize we have an accent until we talk to someone from different areas. For the most part people love my southern speak 😅
Ya I moved away from Southern WV 10 times including serving in the active army for 6 years where there is people from every state in the country. I was the only one who was made fun of in regards to the way I spoke. It's like people would say oh I must be married to my sister and I still have an outhouse etc
My mom was from California and my dad was from Texas. We lived in Texas most of my life. If my accent started to slip out she would slap my mouth and say you'll never get a job sounding like that. I worked in HR and during a meeting a woman older than me, I was in my early twenties, said "it's not fixin', it is about to." Luckily, my boss said "this isn't up north and it is very common here." Many teachers and other people have tried to remove the way southerners speak.
I'm European and I would never want to visit places like NY and Cali. I would love to RV to places like on display.
The locals need to ban together and invest in a land trust. Then the land can only be used for agricultural purposes or regular family homes.
Yes, they need to get a move on that pretty quick. All these outsiders start changing everything for the worst.
we did that in the 1000 Islands in New York
Elect county commissioners that support those ideas
Why not move there? I work remotely, I'm sick of modern society and why not enjoy an affordable life in a laid back community?
It’s interesting to see how similar things are between Appalachia and Hawaii. From the natives, to the farm camps, to a depressed economy, to a tourist economy, to people wanting to live there, with all the tension that brings.
People are priced out of home and heritage .Sad that things have to change. Glad that there is no need for money in heaven and o'boy the views will be great.
I noticed that too. It sucks. Coming from a poor man west of Richmond.
@@janetbeam3087 Amen Janet.
There is always the revolutionary option, if it gets bad enough. But they have the poor hoodwinked into fighting each other not their class enemy.
These people are clearly not natives
I can relate to their experience. I live in Asheville, NC, and the rich began their takeover here about 10 years ago. People can't even afford to rent a studio or one bedroom anymore unless they're married or can split rent with someone. Those of us who prefer to live alone and don't make triple digits are screwed.
Landlords have become so greedy and uncompromising, it disgusts me. What's so upsetting is how the rich can just buy a beautiful home/property, create an air BNB or 10--or leave it empty 10 months out of the year--then move back to Malibu or Manhattan and get richer while the average person who works their ass off continues to suffer. I get the principle with the 'money doesn't buy happiness' saying; but it buys security and comfort, and those things make me very happy.
I do understand wanting to spend your money however you want, since all of us do and that is your right. But when people can't survive in their homes anymore, it's not ok. Thanks for highlighting the sad realities of gentrification.
The rich have been in Asheville since the 1800s tho.
@@DNYLNYI said that's when they began to take over. Rich people have always been everywhere...
@@DNYLNY the rich were all over this country in the 1800s I was born in Asheville long time ago
I was born in Asheville in 1958 and the Metropolitan population was 66,000 people, now it’s 370,000 people, I want to go home because Florida is now going to trash but I really miss my mountains, my father had retired in Brevard and what I remember of it was a little town probably unaffordable by now and you know I almost moved back 45 years ago when it was affordable with my dad, I should’ve took the offer and I cannot imagine Asheville with it growing to 400,000 people! where are they going to put them all?
Get your guns boys, we got a class war to win
Being a native of western North Carolina and having traveled extensively in the state, I believe our woes regarding development can be condensed to one word…. GREED. Those who have much want more and they do not care who or what is hurt in the process. The only hope is for locals to remain strong and say, No More! People cannot gentrify the area unless locals give permission. We welcome you to visit us as we are.
Welcome to the world economy...
Damn thing sucks
7:12 just did a week bike trip through WV, had to see it before its all gone. We were approached to buy land/property with the promise of huge return in the tourism industry. How sad. Regulation and decisions made about fuel use are killing the entire area.
does greed apply to the people selling their land to these "big bad evil rich people" then?
@@Rootiga if their backs are up against a wall and the poverty and disparity of need vs income prospects is a survival situation what are the choices 🤔 rock meet hard place.
The locals need incomes, which they might not get (according to the video), if the wealthy didn't enter and offer jobs. Plus, land owners sell to the rich, because… Double-edged sword.
Ivy is a beautiful woman with a lovely accent. Peter, thank you for showing these films to help bring down stereotypes, and witness parts of America we rarely see.
I love the people who want to protect their land not just because they own it, but by respecting it.
Right on!
No! They want to Protect Land they don't Own and have No Right to from Americans owning it, because they are not From Small Rural Areas! You People are Insane! You think you have the Right to All you Survey because you were Born There! You think you have a Hereditary Right over other Americans, when in Reality the only thing you have is a Trailer Home and a Pick Up Truck!
People work there Whole Lives started at Childhood and Education to be able to Own a Home with a Few Acres, than some Lazy Country Folk who won't get Educated and won't Work Hard, gets to give them a Hard Time, and Try to Say No and Stop Them! It's Awful!
Land … ALL LAND … needs to be respected and NOT OWNED.
@@sharongillespIn lalaland, sure. In reality, the vast majority of humanity has accepted the concept of land ownership. If no one owned land then why would someone ever bother to BUILD anything if the land it’s on can be trespassed on by anyone? The idea that land shouldn’t be owned doesn’t fit with reality, and you can’t change reality. Stop whining about things you literally can’t change- you have plenty of things in your own life that are 10000000x more important than the strange and impossible battle of making everything and everywhere free to everyone.
As a millennial who spent their entire preteen and early teen years destroying anything within me that made me Appalachian and running away as soon as I turned 18. I'm 30 now and I moved back recently and I literally mourn for Appalachia and how much of us abandoned it
then revitalize it... and sell crafts to the outsiders at bazaars in spring and fall. sell art to them. be sure to mark it up ridiculously.
I liked it all up until the last part smh@@christigoth
Can relate, but just coming from the country side in Finland 🇫🇮
@@christigothadd a zero, you gotta make sure they don't think they're getting a deal
I’m in the same spot.
This series has been so eye opening about the little known people of Appalachia. This video is another home run of historical information and up to date happenings in that region. I will never see Appalachia the same way again after watching this incredible series. Well done Peter!
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All my kin in Hayesville don't take to jaspers. They think God chose them to come and "fix us". We don't need fixin', y'un's do. If life is so grand for y'all then WTH y'uns keep movin' down here! More than a few x's I've taking these bossy butholes to my 2 post grad degrees making me more educated than nary a 1 of these catty wampus hostiles. Yup, I'en made a choice long ago to speak my family's Appalachian English but careful! you say the wrong thing we gonna get madder than a wet hen.
The poets wrote of our ethereal, verdant and pristine scenery. However, we find most visitors show complete ignoration to be a grand demonstration of their nescient minds' failure to differentiate intentionally living traditional ways from their own obtuse shallow ignorance. 🔥 Now! Did I prevaricate my accomplishments? A hillbilly with a PhD who has been hunting and trapping her own dinner since age 5 yo causes them to suddenly become reticent with their egos.
So I'm pert near privileged to keep up the oldin' ways. Bet most wouldn't know a poke of beans from a jar of kerosene!
As a man from the suburbs of Chicago, seeing this even breaks my heart. I’ve always had a dream of moving to a place like this, but living simple and growing my own food. Why go there and destroy the environment and not become apart of the community. It’s understandable that the locals feel this way.
It doesn't seem like the locals would ever be accepting of you no matter what.
@@wership The problem is rich folk moving in, rising costs, building ugly mcmansions, and bringing problems that caused them to move in the first place.
@wership if he's a good dude, that wasn't trying to change their culture, sure he would be accepted, without a doubt. Funny how these people have been the bud of jokes and forced to survive with no interests/support from businesses or opportunists for centuries. The last place in the US to get on the power grid, 1970s. They survived and kept these places beautiful, to the point now those same third parties want to come and destroy it. Their supposed to be OK wi that? Foh 🤡
@@wership how? the guy in the video is an outsider and is accepted just fine lmao
Same here! I would just want a very small simple cabin and a garden and meet the people, and become friends with the locals. I hate entitlement.
I bought the house next door to my parents. We are both almost 1/4 mile off the road. I would love to build a couple houses on the property for my kids.
I think the idea of hollars, family compounds, multigenerational households, whatever you want to call them is coming back. Or growing
I think that is the natural way. Grandma is supposed to be with the little kids every day, she teaches them and looks after their booboos and they thread her needle and trim her toenails. The whole of society suffers when families are fractured and everybody has lost their place and responsibility.
But what kind of work will your kids do to live on the same land ? What if they don’t want to farm? There’s a whole world of places and professions , what’s wrong with that? This kind of thinking is called prairie living with blinders on, cant see the forest for the trees , the world must be flat because I can see clear to the edge of the property 😂
@Moms1958
Who said I was a farmer?
The tractors lol
I'm in real estate. I own, manage, sell, flip and maintain real estate.
My kids can do whatever they want. They wouldn't want to be city dwellers.
@@dand33911I agree my family owns the whole block .My great grandfather bought it . I am in Florida . We don't farm we all have different Jobs .
A smart way to live with the way things are going.
It’s happening here in Henderson County, NC too. Driving home prices to insane levels. Just saw new condos starting at 400,000 to over 1 million. No local person could ever afford that here.
That same "lokal" person will sell it for most overpriced value in that area. You can't make a clap without both hands. Locals are as guilty as people buying homes. Stop crying and out up with it. It's how world has always been. European settlers literally genocide whole Indians and stole this land and now complaining about rich people . The irony
That's the same in SoCal. Lol Most people that own nice homes or even rent aren't local...Though older people do still own homes that are worth a lot by proxy. Our parents often could afford homes in cheaper areas, but the ripple affect of the 90s and early 2000s carried through to now.
I don't know anyone of my generation working less than 40 hrs per week- most work 50+ and no matter the industry are struggling to afford rent. Too many taxes and the rent goes up and up. We are lucky we weren't scared of the COVId and got good prices during the first shutdowns; so we pay a little less than other people moving into these apartments. Nicer area but still old and plenty of break ins etc.
For a 1000 ft² 2 bedroom it's $3000/month if you're new. Lol
I still can't believe how many small homes I have seen in ghetto areas going for $850k+ and new track homes have ignorant young ppl from other areas, many times sother countries buying them and they fall apart in a few years. For $1-2 million a piece that's unfortunate.
I know this because my husband works in plumbing. He has been to amazing residences in nearby cities that have homes worth tens of millions and a few over 100M. They tend to be owned by foreigners, and the ones that are closer to 9-12 mill range are often vacation homes.
We have "affordable housing" built with tax aide that we don't approve. It's always expensive and usually for elderly only. The idea is apparently that the people with money (usually criminals if not from elsewhere) will move into the nice new places and the people just out of poverty will struggle to move into those places, leaving the older places and poor people will move into their old places which will be barely affordable. Lol
Also I get sick of ppl saying we voted for this. A lot of people here are not for blue govt. But our votes aren't counting....we've almost removed Newsome twice and he gets votes last min each time....and our policy votes don't seem to count either.
It's a part of the bigger problems in this country.
But we know who wins in the end. John 3:16❤
Keep your armor maintained.
Ephesians 6:10 ❤
Seems to be the same on almost every corner of the US and world for that matter. Idk how anyone anywhere affords housing right now.
@@TheSterlingArcher16How do people afford a new car either?
I live in southern Ontario Canada - our entire province is struggling with this issue. There's literally nowhere a person not already owning property, someone looking for a rental, etc can find affordable housing. I live in a rural town and local families can't afford to stay and new condos etc going up for wealthier people moving in. Sad.
Hitler had a resort in the mountains called the “Eagle’s Nest” what a bad idea to name it that.
I was thinking that myself
@@bp6942 same. terrible name
You know what's funny
90% of the community.
All liberals but they aren't fighting for that name change
I think we shouldn't care about that. If we did the Nazis would still have a grip on our language. Why should they? Of course, you can't use words like "Endlösung der Judenfrage" (= Final Solution to the Jewish Question), or other Nazi euphemisms. But "Eagle's Nest" should stay a word without any negative connotation.
OMG... What a stupid comment! Who cares?! That is such an irrelevant point as far as what is being discussed, that it's ridiculous to even mention.
No one even knew about that... Until YOU said something about it! Lol
It's also the name for all kinds of stuff. Hell, I lived in apartments in NYC named that back in the early 2000's. Literally no one cared or even considered it.
Leave it to the people who are perpetually obsessed with that one man who lived like 80 years ago. As if he's the ONLY bad person to ever have lived, btw?! Smh
Guess what. There's tons of them. Many who are alive now. And they have things associated with them that just so happen to line up with other things, as well. I mean, how far are you gonna go with that?? 🤔
He likely drank water too! You gonna stop drinking water? Or call it something else?? Lol
What a childish, obsessive way of thinking, throughout your life.
Let it go already! Good God.
The amount of people who feel they just have to say something is astounding.
I'm one of those people that moved into Appalachia. From Metropolitan DC to SW Virginia. The gatekeeping of the area by locals is real. It's odd because the boundary line of the USA 🇺🇸 is on the East Coast, not inland 😅 What gives them the right to call others "outsiders" in their own country? Fortunately I get along with my neighbors who know I'm not native to the area. I've always treated them with respect. Respect goes a long way. But there are those in the community at large who do side eye me because of my accent. I tell them to be grateful they live around such beautiful mountains. Not all of us grew up like that. We do have a right to move where we want in our own country though.
You are free to move wherever you want not only in your country but this entire planet
You mentioned north eastern Tennessee. That area has also grown in population with people moving in from Florida, California and many northern states as well. The growth has pushed housing prices to an all time high in East Tennessee. The area is becoming unrecognizable to people that have lived in the area their entire lives
in the county in east Tennessee where my friend lives, airbnbs outnumber normal houses now
I really felt it when Nick said he was concerned about the rapid rate of change while overlooking that spectacular valley. He's knows what a precarious point Appalachia is at. Everyone should take Ivy's final piece of advice to heart when going anywhere, whether it's visiting or moving there: learn the culture, be kind and respectful, and protect the land. Watching this series from the other side of the world in New Zealand, I've really appreciated the insights this series has provided. What strikes me, is that while the extent of the concerns may vary, the issues are the same the world over: affordable housing, drugs, gentrification, social media are affecting the average joe.
Those city slickers don't deserve to live there!
@@thewalkingjed4893 They should explicitly have one subject in school (worldwide) which only repeats a few sentences for the whole year : You simply cannot eat money. You need the environment to be healthy. You need sunshine and greenery to not be depressed. Without water you cannot last a week.
In fact the situation today is actually so dire that we need to put those 4 sentences in every country's national anthem and song.
But does that mean you have to live in a dump like the guy next door?
I really think you make great points. I would just add, I live in Portland, OR in the USA which is also at a precarious point-just a totally different version of precarious, I suppose. And there are so many other variations in so many other places now that I think on it.
Kiora from the mighty otipoti! Jeez humans are a strange breed lol. Live and let live I say. Either that or the alternative... Nut up or shut up lol.
I'm an Aussie and I love you're accent! It's got this unmistakable feeling of home, of family.
Be proud of it!
It's beautiful
Well said
You're probably aware but the Scots-Irish had been embittered by life in England and Scotland and so came to America for a free life. Many of them settled in Appalachia.
I'm a descendant of them and proud to be.
It's amazing to think that some of my family may be in Australia!
Yessir. My Scottish great grandgather said har, not hair. Same. Southern Ky.
Love the accent too. I think it’s cool that you can kind of tell where she’s from.
Yup. All my kin in Hayesville don't take to jaspers. They think God chose them to come and "fix us". We don't need fixin', y'un's do. If life is so grand for y'all then WTH y'uns keep movin' down here! More than a few x's I've taking these bossy butholes to my 2 post grad degrees making me more educated than nary a 1 of these catty wampus hostiles. Yup, I'en made a choice long ago to speak my family's Appalachian English but careful! you say the wrong thing we gonna get madder than a wet hen.
The poets wrote of our ethereal, verdant and pristine scenery. However, we find most visitors show complete ignoration to be a grand demonstration of their nescient minds' failure to differentiate intentionally living traditional ways from their own obtuse shallow ignorance. 🔥 Now! Did I prevaricate my accomplishments? A hillbilly with a PhD who has been hunting and trapping her own dinner since age 5 yo causes them to suddenly become reticent with their egos.
So I'm pert near privileged to keep up the oldin' ways. Bet most wouldn't know a poke of beans from a jar of kerosene!
I'm well aware of NZ vs Aussie. Yet! Kia Ora, whanau. tuturu whakamaua kia tena, houmi e, hui e taiki e. Nau mai haere mai. (indeed, fear the hillbillies! Do you want to tango with a lady who has both a PhD and a loaded rifle?
We've got similar stuff happening in parts of Georgia and Tennessee. Pretty much impossible to find rent under $2k - 3k a month, even in apartments. New and indistinguishable overpriced breweries and restaurants on every corner but no one to work in them, "help needed" signs decorate all their windows. Locals who used to fill those positions can no longer afford to live here, and the rich snowbirds obviously won't be mopping floors or cleaning toilets. There's a limit to how far this can go - a tourism industry can only last so long as there are people to wait their tables, fill the drinks and clean their precious cabins. The bubble will burst, it's all just a matter of when. Our homeless population is getting bigger every year.
Same thing is beginning to happen in the midwest in boring places even, not just beautiful scenic areas. The rich are eating the country alive.
>>>a tourism industry can only last so long as there are people to wait their tables, fill the drinks and clean their precious cabins
Ah, but that's what the immigrants are for.
You summed it up nicely. I know when I go back home to Hiawassee, Ga., I rarely recognize anyone. Tourists have taken over my beautiful, little mountain home and, unfortunately, driven many of my family out of the area. I look back and now take pride in not wearing shoes for 5 months out of the year.
My grandmother's home and land, thankfully, are still mine. I'm fortunate enough that I can still afford the taxes. I pray that it remains that way.
I wish you much love and blessings. ❤
It’s really disgusting that they’ve doubled the taxes on these locals that have established generational lives there. Really gross that someone bought that hilltop and built a huge condo. People can be so selfish and gross. 🙄
It’s absolutely infuriating how one way or another, they will get their hands on that land.
There’s so much history and culture imbedded in the lands that go back many generations and the thought of them losing that connection because they can’t afford to pay their property taxes should outrage all of us.
If they can’t buy the land outright because those people don’t want to sell and rightfully so, they’ll make it so uncomfortable that they cannot afford to stay there through any means necessary and the easiest route is to financially ruin them. It’s maddening.
They do that everywhere. I've been to Austin, Texas several times over the past few years and they're chasing the locals out.
Well the state came through and rezoned their properties and if you own two separate tax ID'd properties (based on land size pretty sure) you gunna play 2x the tax for it.
Question is where is the money going?
The real issue is long time residents are suffering due to the fact people were moving into the area and driving up property values. And the fact is those that have property already will never see a return on that increase unless they sell. Therefore the tax burden should fall on the next purchaser not the current one.
This reassessment boondoggle touches people all over the United States. Causing many to lose their homes. Since I've lived in my house, my taxes have doubled three times. And I paid for an outbuilding that used to be on my property that hadn't been there since the day I moved in. I happened to catch it during the last reassessment when I was fighting the revaluation. Which everybody should do. No refunds for that though.
This gentrification is even going on where I live, in the mountains of East Tennessee. I can't believe, every time I drive down the road, how many people from California and Texas are building these huge, multi-million dollar homes on our mountain. It blows my mind. These are mostly second and third homes for these million/billionaires. So sad. We are losing our culture.
Are you by Johnson City?
I live in elizabethton, I renovated a house here wit my friend n his wife. We’re all from jersey.. none of us have big houses tho. I do see what your saying when I’ve done deliveries.
@@bhaveshpatel9626 No, I'm north of Chattanooga, but not as far north as Johnson City. The area that I was specifically referencing is a tiny little mountain town called Hendon or "Flat Top" in Bledsoe County.
@@johndsouza842 haha oh ok, well cool! I hope you're enjoying our beautiful area 😊 (even though I don't live in that particular part of the state lol.) I'm practically in Chattanooga.. about 30 mins. away from Chatt. actually. I've grown up in these mountains for 31 years, and in the last 5 we have seen an ENORMOUS influx of people from states like California, New York, Texas etc. who are coming to what was once our tiny little mtn village, and building gigantic homes on huge plots of land. Renovation is great 👍 at least y'all revived something 😂 These people that I am referring to just come (or hire someone) to build these homes, then rarely ever visit them, and don even rent them out! Therefore, they aren't really contributing to our local economy... Just taking up our farm land. I appreciate your input though.
I know Flat Top! I went to high school in Chattanooga (Hixson) and college in Johnson City (ETSU). I miss the mountains!!!!!
As a 46 yo native Tennessean, I love your work on anything Appalachia, Peter. We live on the border of middle and eastern TN, about an hour north of Chattanooga, on the Cumberland Plateau. Our little town suffered a similar "fate" in the early 2000s. A couple of developers from FL and started buying up acreage that, when we were kids, wasn't worth 700$ an acre. You couldn't even get city utilities. It was sink a well and hope for the best. In any event, these lots were sold for $50,000-$100,000 a piece. Then most people put up "kit" log homes. Granted, these are beautiful red cedar homes, 2-3 stories, and 3000 sq ft. Those folks could sell out in FL (at the time) for a cool 1.5 million and roll up here and get the lot and brand new log home for under $500,000. That's a good return on your money...if you have that much. Short story long, the Great Recession of 2008 hit, and tons of homes were foreclosed on. The locals couldn't afford to buy anything back, for sure. The county commissioners, in a panic of being left holding the bag with substandard roads, literally enacted, word for word, the building codes from Brentwood, TN...for a town with under 2,000 people. Our taxes have increased, access to "community land" (meaning anyone in the community could use it, so long as you respected it) is decimated, and I can't put so much as a pre-built Amish storage "barn" on my own property without the approval of the "building commission". My wife and I were lucky enough to end up as fourth generation owners of what was my great paternal grandparents' 70 acre cattle farm. Yet despite owning it free and clear, it took us 2 years and $3,000 to simply sub divide off a .7 acre plot...all because we wanted to have the ability to offer one or both of our daughters a lot on which to build. They can't even build anything on our existing 70 acres. Every new structure requires a sub division with soil studies, surveying, drainage survey and an corresponding doubling of property taxes for the exact same piece of dirt, only now it has a separate deed. The developers that ended up kicking off this original snowball...? They were long gone, money in hand, before the real estate crash even really hit deep. I'm in no way opposed to new people, new ideas, and new economies. But when a handful of people end up tilting the balance in their favor, and the locals have little to no recourse for generations to come...I get upset, and I'll be the first to own up to that fact. There's gotta be a better way. As Capt. Kirk said in Star Trek - The Undiscovered Country, "reality is probably somewhere in the middle." Love your work, brother, keep it up! And Ivy, you keep that accent going! I'm as country as cornbread and proud of it.
Spencer?
@@seaxofbeleg8082 Ding!
@@user-zk5rt3gb3e I’m happy to share! I will be the first to admit that all my problems are still very much first world problems but they are still real and still irritating. The local, common man here doesn’t have the financial resources to waste on such silliness…yet here we are.
Great comment, Ryan! Boonie native here~
I feel you! Native Rhea Countian here. My folks live up on the mountain. My husband and I came back home after his military service to retire, but we can't afford to buy anything! My folks just sold their house for 415k. We've been priced out of our home just like a lot of folks. We've had to resort to living in our rv, and its not just us. Wealthy retirees moving in and driving up prices-can't even rent a trailer for under $1k, but you can't make more than $20 p/h in this town. Families I grew up with are being forced out. Its horrible how our communities are being destroyed.
Even if someone offered me half a million for my property, I would turn it down. These times we live in, it’s a blessing to have land to build and grown on. Invaluable.
Many cultures recognize the value of land. Once you sell it, you have money which you spend until it’s gone, and then you have money. When Union Carbide (I think it was) came into Bhopal, India, to build a chemical plant, it needed land, and the families there had owned their little pieces of land for generations. The big company offered them money for their land, and a job at the factory so they could pay rent somewhere else. Of course, there was the huge “incident” (release of toxic airborne chemicals) in 1986, I think, and the closure of the plant. Dead people, blind people, no plant, no job - and no land to fall back on.
I grew up in Bat Cave, NC once considered deep Appalachia. As kids we were free to wonder and explore the mountains and the hollers, hunt the woods, fish the streams and swim in the lakes…it was a nature lovers wonderland. Everyone knew everyone, we all helped each other in times of need, it was a strong community…Now thats all gone….Now its all subdivided up for second or third homes. I cant even access my old swimming hole anymore, Blackrock owns it now.
What’s up neighbor. Same here. Now I’m priced out of my home county, and starting to be priced out of the big city I live in now. Not sure where I’m supposed to go
Loved bat cave area many years ago when I was a kid!
Black rock is bad news. Just look at Maui.
May God damn Blackrock…
I'm from the city unfortunately. Denver. Bat Cave NC sounds like the coolest place ever. I'm sorry to hear about Blackrock. That's sucks. At least you had a great childhood in what sounds like a great place!! I'm jealous. Denver is a great place because the Rocky Mountains are close, but it is a BIG LIBERAL CITY.
The super-rich ruin most things🤷
To any of y'all that bullied Ivy back in the day, shame on y'all!
She's a jewel & we LOVE her! ❤️
Thank you Peter for shinin' light on the Appalachian culture & addressing ignorant stereotypes.
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She is far from a jewel. She is bitter. That clearly shows with how she reacts to being in the wealthier areas. It is clear that she hates those with money.
@@MrSiestaFiesta Ignorant reply. Live here, then maybe you'd understand. Have a blessed day Sir.
@@MrSiestaFiestaShe has a right to be bitter towards greedy ones who over use the power of capitalism, who gate up the land that all people has right to enjoy.
Especially them who grew up there.
You seem to know a lot about her from a quick video. I think she’s awesome and I don’t live there but but people like Ivy make communities thrive.
@@MrSiestaFiestamost of us do hate y’all richys. Count your days because we won’t take the divide much longer
The guy from New York complaining about people moving in 🤣
I am from Appalachia, I love the series Peter! I am also glad they mentioned the wildlife, it is critical we protect trees for animals and the environment
Appalachia has a lot of old growth trees doesn’t it? The trees where I live are all really old oaks. Some could easily be older than this country. They won’t come back in 50 years like pine forests.
The sad thing is, everybody’s going to learn the hard way. We have this issues happening here in Oregon too but we’re much more protected. Luckily because it’s such a blue state and environment is so important. But this is tragic.😢
national forest typically do, but alot of land was farmed so the trees are not that 300+ year old ones. Where I moved the land was farmed for a good 60+ years and we figure most the trees are about 80-100 years old from when they fully stopped in the 30's. There are a few red oaks that are property markers that are definitely old growth though. @@13_cmi
This Appalachia series has been absolutely incredible Peter. You inspire so much creativity and positivity in the world. Lots of love!
I live in Avery county NC and it's absolutely ridiculous- this video really is shedding light on a serious issue we have. Can't find anywhere to live. Every bit of land is being bought up by corps. I see that damn condo on the mountain ridge AND Eaglesnest everyday. Amazing people live here, but they're being forced out of the area for more Floridian 2nd homes. You either work for them or cater to them.
Amen brother
dont think they are all floridians some are half backs
I'm down the road a bit (upstate SC) and prices are being insanely inflated by people who are willing to live among us "ignorant rednecks", buying up the lake and mountain properties we've saved all our lives to hope to afford.
@@zchris87v80that is the part that infuriates me. From Charlotte. I lived in Spartanburg. Moved to Holden Beach. I can’t get away from the snobs who hate us and are making it impossible for us to live in our home area
@@terrijohnson6347what are half backs?
I feel this in my soul! I live in the mountains of South Carolina. My 3rd great grandmother was the oldest woman in my county. I can’t even afford a house where my family is from because of the Cliffs, The Reserve, and Keowee Key. My family used to own some of what is now lake Jocassee and Gorges state park. No one is leaving here and moving to the north, but they all want to move down here and price us out of our homes and our roots. It breaks my heart.
I’m really enjoying learning about Appalachia. This is a great series.
Ha ha. You should live here.
@@VitalityMassageexactly and the two young people that are being interviewed are making things up as they go. Someone a little older that has really lived in Avery should've been interviewed.
@@S.O.S64 they seemed a little off.
@@VitalityMassage what a shame if they’re misrepresenting the area.
I grew up in the South. I now live in the Midwest for work. There are 3-4-5-6 generations of families here too. I don’t recognize the south they describe in this series. Thank you all that live there and posted this is a blinder-on micro view these individuals are presenting.
EDIT: half way through now and it seems there is a-lot of jealously I’m hearing. They don’t own the property, don’t work jobs that would allow them to buy the property, but all say they would like to live on the property. Entitlement, like drugs, knows no class, race, education, or geographical lines.
Many rural areas are being destroyed like this around the United States. You also have foreign investors that are building homes and taking over land. It's a shame. And of course with doing that it's going to affect other houses that have been there unfortunately. I very much enjoy this video!
There is a problem with our gov't opening up our country to the world to buy. Most every other country on the planet does not allow it because of what it does to the local economy. It's the same effect of an invasive species. The same goes for corps buying up single family homes.
I live in the Spruce Pine area, grew up in Avery County and in my opinion there are two different types of people who come here. There are those who love and appreciate the way Appalachian people live and want to be a part of that. They don’t want to change things, they assimilate, become our friends and neighbors and understand the reason this place is so special is because of the way Appalachian people live and how much we love this land and mountains. Then there are those who come here who want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to own a piece of the beauty here just for them to enjoy and have sole access to when they want but then want everything and everyone surrounding to be modern and convenient for them. They buy up and gate off as much land as they can get their hands on, not to enjoy it or do anything with it, more like they just want to own these mountains for themselves . And because it is land that locals have had access to and been able to enjoy , hunt , wild craft and have taken good care of for hundreds of years, to have an outsider come in with no understanding of that and take that away so nobody can enjoy it, not even them because they never set foot on most of it, people coming in and doing that will ruin this magical place for everyone. Now we have developers trying to buy up everything to sell off in lots only the rich can afford to buy and build on. What happens then? When all the mountains and valleys are covered in housing developments and thousands more people here with no understanding of what makes this place special who wants to change everything? We do not want that and there is a lot of resentment building among the locals and developers who only see $ signs when they look at these mountains
@@robcooke2854There is a happy medium to be had. Far as your very narrow minded assumption as to what Patriot means or that being a capitalist is all it means, you are so far off! One can love and appreciate this beautiful country and it’s freedom loving citizens and the family , community values we have while at the same time despising what our government has turned into. Educate yourself before you speak
Can we mention the people there before those depicted in these videos. I think that would be only fair. js
That is what the settlers did to the Native Americans. Colonization has a trickle effect. Like the game of Pac-Man, those at the top gobble up everything in their way.
@@funk-n-groovin6779 What government and some of those who migrated here did to Native Americans and how the lands they lived on and respected and loved were taken was absolutely wrong and cruel. Centuries later , there is no way to undo it only learn from it. The vast majority of Appalachian people have many of the same values Native Americans lived by. We love and respect the land and nature, try to take great care of it , preserve it, very community and family minded. Native Americans and the ways of living they taught our ancestors are revered and respected by Appalachians. Their culture and values are still alive here.
@patriotblonde5327 well stated and thank you
Ivy's accent is fabulous! - there are so many links & commonalities between us Scots & the Appalachian people that I'd probably fit in no problem. The friendliness & sense of community is so familiar to me.
We also have similar issues with incomers, tourism & house prices so I can fully sympathise with the quandry of balancing jobs & income vs. the way of life being altered.
The area they are in actually has an annual “Highland Games” festival yearly to honor Scottish roots in the area!!!!!!
Only time I've ever heard anyone make fun of an Appalachian accent was one time on SNL, other than that I've never heard of such a thing. By the way, my nephew is married to someone with that accent, I think of her as a southern bell b/c of her lovely accent.
@@doloresreichhardt1485 Sadly it happens quite often. It is not necessarily making fun of but more of treating someone like they are uneducated simply due to their accent. I have personally been hit with the comment "oh wow you are actually way smarter than you sound".... I guess having a southern accent means your IQ is lower than room temp.
I pray for the locals that their land doesn't get burnt to a crisp by whomever 🤔
I suggest you listen to County Boys can Survive by Hank Jr.
A little fire won't hurt us
Amém. Parabéns por preocupares com o próximo. Deus ti abençoe.
Agreed. They have everything to lose if they don't get involved and pay close attention to whomever is in charge. Vet every official, follow the money and make sure your elections are fair and honest. Btw our national forests have been turned over to the united nations.
Secure our first and second amendment.
Exactly. This is truly disgusting what is going on and everyone has to much flouride on the brain to see it.
@@adenilzasilvadesouza5816 Go away
It happened to Florida also. The developers and politicians ruined it. I had ancestors from the 1930s (mother's side) & 19th century (father's side) living in Florida but it is one big asphalt jungle now.
They call it progress and being civilised. This was a big part of the premise for the white man to take the lands of the red man. He said we need civilising, and we see now, after 400 yrs, what this means. Draw your own conclusions, but I say we were right; white man speak with fork-tongue.
Conservation of natural resources is so important. Self indulgent clearing of land speaks to a "me" mindset. It's prevalent in every booming community. Love your videos, Peter!
4:42 clearing out that land creates major, watershed issues major flooding, downstream, and chemical pollution that reaches extremely far. At the very least, these folks should be held accountable for such things or pay impact fees like you’re supposed to with developments over certain sizes anywhere.
Agree
This issue isn’t just specific to Appalachia - it’s everywhere. I live in NH and experience the displaced wild life and tax increases big time
100%, I’m only 26 but growing up in NH I saw a huge change and had to leave after college due to cost of living.
This makes me realize what is happening to our world, it happening to everyone at the same time.
And that’s what is so scary to me. It’s not organic population growth it’s turbocharged inflation, too.
As a European living in a remote montaineous area, I can relate to these people.
Since COVID prices went up like crazy and locals can’t afford home in the villages they were born. High unemployment rate among the locals VS big city people with more money buying real estate.
Half of my village houses are second house. These people spend at most 2 or 3 weeks a year there…
I’m assuming fire does the same amount of damage in Europe, maybe they’d get tired of it.
This is interesting to know.
The Cotswolds in the UK is the same.
You do realize that the plandemic was done purposely to F with people, to vax everyone, to make people as prisoners!
Where do you live?
Thank you again for speaking on such a painful, complicated topic. Born and raised NC and it hurts those of us that have seen all the changes. The culture and media paints rural southern folks badly and yet the rich/companies keep moving in - benefiting from exploiting our resources, spoiling our land, changing our culture and pushing locals out. Generations and generations back and it's all gone. We love people, we're so welcoming and don't mind sharing our communities and space. We're just wanting it done the right way, in a respectful way and that's just not happening. So many talk trash about the south but they are so quick to move down here and take over.
How about us folks that are from the South that badmouth it?
Look - these rural places are beautiful and poor, but they're not beautiful BECAUSE they're poor, and they're not poor BECAUSE they live somewhere beautiful.
They're JUST generationally poor. There's a persistent culture around here that celebrates a certain kind of poverty, which is why they haven't grown out of it. Nobody is stealing anything from these folks because they're too poor to own it. They never owned it.
They're only out there because a rich man built a mill or a mine in the first place.
It's a terrible cycle of pride and ignorance, and it's nearly identical to inner-cities. I've lived in both while in deep poverty and the only real difference is that there are no trees to cut down for firewood or to hunt in, so city folks sell drugs to the suburbs instead.
As a WV native, I think tourism could bring in so much money. But it’s scary to think of what could come along with that
It’s seriously, seriously, and I mean seriously not worth it.
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This was really interesting. As someone who lives in Western NC and has family roots here from the pre-Revolutionary war era, I completely understood their perspective on the gentrification of the area. There is so much natural beauty and such a rich culture in Appalachia and we just don’t want to see that lifestyle disappear.
Fellow rural person here, and one thing we should get over is only remembering far enough back to the "good" parts of our family. Every time we feel the need to complain we should think about what it took for our families to establish themselves. (hint: we stole stuff that wasn't ours)
I’ve only lived in this area for 9 years, but I love the culture.
It’s about gone.
@aaaaallllld7576 OH jeez my ancestors conquered this land 200 years guess I gotta let my family and heritage be destroyed.
Watching videos like these really makes you realize so many stretches of America, urban and rural, are really the same. Of course the nuances are very different, but the conversations are so similar. I swear I’ve heard my older neighbor in Chicago voice 90% of these same concerns
Exactly my thought
it almost seems like the real enemies were the rich assholes who destroyed our planet, ruined our cities, and now eating up our towns
The point when you stopped to look at the beautiful scenery with the farm and cows, looks exactly like my village in Rukungiri, Western Uganda. All the way down to the narrow, but tarmacked 2-lane road.
My medical doctor is from Uganda. Dr Umana. She is AWESOME! And welcome from a hillbilly in Western North Carolina. I don't take to jaspers (outsiders) but you sir can bring your family to stay with my kin anytime at all. 🌏
My neighbors are from the Congo.
There are a lot of videos which attempt to make us look like backwoods ignorant racists. Just plz know, those tend to be rednecks, not hillbillies. All the mountain folk I know around here have had multi-racial families since about 1950's including mine which has African Americans, Asian Americans, Latino and white. I've never met a racist hillbilly.
So anyone from Western or Sub-Saharan Africa just come on over. It's safe for you but not safe for the condescending Californians.
I loved watching a tattooed guy from the Bronx teaching me about flowers outside a church :)
Peter, it’s amazing how much your channel has grown. Bravo! You’ve done more to introduce Americans to Americans than anyone else. So, so needed. 🤗
Thanks so much! So much more in the US to discover.
well said
I just finished your Border series & worked my way through this series. I’ve determined that you’re the only journalist we have left in the country! You have no bias/narrative to push. You let the people and places speak for themselves. Refreshing!
I agree 💯
So true. It is beautiful to have the unbiased truth. Also, Mark from the soft white underbelly is also great. Peter did a video with him not too long aho.
Agreed
please don't take this out of stater and fake accent guide as an accurate portrait of our area, they ain't
My mother's family is from Watauga area (Valle Crucius, Sugar Grove area) and I only first visited October 2019 and fell in love with it. I had virtually nothing in common with family there, but I felt so connected. The landscape is of course beautiful, but it's the people (total strangers too) that did it for me. The real tragedy here is that these people are being forced out. Also that hilltop condo is awful, how in the world was that ever allowed. The people of Appalachia deserve better!
Most of the counties above the escarpment do not have countywide zoning. Regulation is put in place on an ordinance basis which has resulted in less land use regulation than the majority of NC. The existence of mountaintop condos was such a threat that the counties acted swiftly to prevent them from ever being built again.
Even where zoning exists in rural counties, like Madison county, the restrictions are fairly loose and try to allow for people to live off the land. This is the opposite of what happened to the Shenandoah region, where zoning ordinances can exceed 90,000 words (bigger than most novels), and county officials have been known to act like tiny tyrants. Where I live in PA, it’s closer to WNC, mainly because the township doesn’t enforce a lot of the zoning laws and just does it’s own thing.
From my afar PoV, the county governments in WNC don’t act like tiny tyrannies. And the same can be said for the southern blue ridge as a whole. I wonder if it’s that libertarian culture of being left alone that’s keeping these places free. I think if it can be kept that way, it will allow people to come in and build new rural economies outside of tourism. When zoning restricts the heck out of rural land it’s hard for people to live off the land, hence, rural depopulation and movement to cities.
Just went to Vale Crusis and the original Mast Store over Labor Day weekend. So beautiful
@@IslandGirl7215 I'm descended from the Masts (Mary Etta Mast)! That whole area is incredibly beautiful.
My daughter lives in Maggie Valley. Works at a high end resort in the summer, that caters to the outsiders, and works at the ski lodge in the winter. Her and her boyfriend make decent money yet still have to live in a camper on one of the campgrounds bc rent in these places is unattainable even with two incomes.
Brilliant report! I can’t help thinking that what’s happening here has already happened in places like Hawaii and Puerto Rico where land developers and outsiders have ruined the local area and disrespected local culture. Bottom line respect the land and the culture and they will respect you.
I live in Puerto Rico, born and raised here. You are 100% correct rent of a 3 bed house years ago was like 500$ now its 1200 plus. While median income its 20,000 a year. Also local areas are being changed a lot because of outsiders
Exactly...I'm Native Hawaiian. Also Paradise, CA where the service oriented people lived, farmed, serviced tourists, but wouldn't sell their old homes...then the 🔥
@@pabloacevedo52the people of PR need to fight for their home so it doesn’t become another Hawaii... Yo soy boricua, pa que tu lo sepas!
It is literally all about controlling you while stealing your land, and charging you lots of money for "taxes". They do nothing for the community, they pocket the tax funds or send it off to Ukraine and China it's pure corruption.
This happens EVERYWHERE! It’s happening in jersey, nyc, Hawaii, Puerto Rico,the south, Florida, WV,Tennessee,NC, Virginia, Texas etc….. This is nothing new
49:00 he echos this sentiment that the mountains were cared for better in the past... what past? Most of the history of appalachia (post cherokees) was mining, deforestation, ecological destruction, burning trash and dumping sewers directly into the creek.
Also, it's Newland NC not "newald"
That lady was a tad pessimistic… I live in rural ga and there are tons of random mansions and they sound just the same. Don’t play into the stereotypes, you can do anything and people will love you for it regardless of how you talk and if they don’t maybe that’s just an indication they’re not the most fun person in the room and you don’t have to hang out with them 😂
I am not a native North Carolinian, but I have lived in popular country for vacations and tourists in western NC for 18 years. When we first came, the locals were stand offish. At least we were not building a new home up on the mountain, but instead bought an older home in town. We became involved in the community by volunteering and helping our neighbors. Both of those things helped to get us accepted. What has been happening in my town for some time is that any home that is reasonably affordable is snapped up by investors before they ever hit the market and turned into an Air BnB. This has caused home prices to sky rocket to the point where our town have become unaffordable to buy a home unless you are very wealthy.
Yes and we will stand up and take our community's back one way or another!!
Brevard NC is a great example of a small quaint town being turned into a metropolis
I played baseball for Brevard College in 1999. Haven't been back. Did it explode with growth? Maybe I should go to the next reunion.@@unitedstatesdale
@fuzzwalker610 you should go.. I have houses right next to the college..You wont believe how it's grown even in the past 10 years..
Tornados !
@@unitedstatesdale Sorry to hear that. I loved living in Brevard. I moved there with my young son from Flint, MI. I'm so grateful he was able to grow up in such a (at least at that time) safe, beautiful, welcoming community. When he was grown and off to college I went back to school and found a good job that required me to move away from Brevard. I've since lived in many areas around the country, but none as wonderful as Brevard was back then. I miss the waterfall hikes in the forest!
I'm from south of Ireland near a town called dungarvan, beautiful place. Same craic here, rich people/ English people buying up property, out bidding the locals, too much development, community being lost. Land of the wealthy, Ireland being taken over by the English again
Ugh, I hate to hear that
Erin go bragh.
This perfectly encapsulates the "Missing Middle" I feel that a lot of Americans are experiencing.
It'll only get worse as inequality skyrockets. Most of the billionaire class eventually wants to turn this country into an Ayn Rand inspired hellscape. No regulations to stop them from doing (and buying) whatever they want. In their ideal America there will be only two classes. Owner class (them) and worker class/serfs (everyone else).
They're leveraging their capital to pull this off with think tanks ran by the Koch brothers, Peter Thiel, etc, etc.
As someone who lived in KY at one time, I ache to possibly retire in a place such as this. I totally get what these locals are saying, I would integrate. I respect these people, their traditions, and the need to preserve the beauty.
I just retired to TN and out in the country around me I can see houses with junk covering the front yard. A neighbor down the road from us even had to get the county government involved to initiate an ordinance to get another neighbor to remove what looked like 100 garbage bags from their front yard. The humane society removed 30 cats too. Not all country people seem to preserve the beauty of the land. Sometimes they use their rural setting as a garbage dump because it's convenient. That's a change that needs to be made for everyone's health.
I live in Boone, NC. It's home to Appalachian State University. For a small mountain town, the college receives above 20,000 students every year. The traffic is insane. People coming to Boone to work have a hard time finding a place to rent because everything is catered to the students. Every time something new is being built, you can expect it to become an expensive apartment complex. The locals have had to move out because they can no longer afford living in Boone. Tourism also adds to the congestion of traffic and expensive real estate. My wife and I are thinking about leaving once we build up some capital to move. It's a beautiful area, but whatever the college demands, the town provides. Leaving average people without a voice.
That's rough. Where would you move to?
Same in Keene, NH. Surrounding area is quiet, country, normal New England towns. Now drugs n crime there.
I wouldnt move if i didnt have to. Rent rooms in your house to make ends meet. Like minded people who would die before selling out to the rich n well off. Locals should never be put out because of developers n money!! Sounds like they dont even get a vote on these issues!
I live near Boone myself, Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, and the Yukon look friendlier and friendlier every time I drive in Boone
SAME! North Georgia College. Dahlonega is basically Athens now. So so so Incredibly expensive and sad bc the litter has gotten awful
I moved to Southeastern Kentucky 20 miles south of Somerset 2 years ago from Florida. I came here not because I had money but because I didn't. I've never met a more accepting and kind people. I live off grid on 17 acres using rainwater and solar energy. I also happen to frequent the gas station that you were in in the last video. I will say this, if you do move here embrace the culture. I left Florida because New Yorkers ruined it. I will not leave here. Thank you for doing this series. I appreciate how you tried to look at it from every angle. I believe this is the most beautiful part of the country and some of the most beautiful people in the country. I hope it can be preserved.
Well done. The right way to live.
How did New Yorkers ruin it? Florida is a transient state. Which you sort of proved that it is…
I did something similar. I grew up in the woods, then developments came and removed all the woods and built stuff. If I had the money( I was young), I would have bought the land to keep the woods… That being said, I did finally find and buy 19 acres of woods in Appalachian area, with 1600 foot of stream, eventually want hydro power, 4 springs, one tapped with a well, and two mountain tops. I’ve made miles of trails throughout the property and enjoy simply going into the woods with my dog and enjoying nature and the solitude and peace that comes with it.
Unfortunately, people like you that move in are few, more often than not they come in and destroy our forest and farm land to build excessively large homes & drive up cost of living for everyone else. They destroying Appalachia and our way of life after destroying the hell holes they are escaping from. Big corps just see $ and care not to preserve our natural treasures.
How does a man from Somerset, England move there and do the same?
I know you got a million comments on here but I wanted to throw in my little two cents worth period I'm from North Carolina and went to college in Appalachian State University. I went there because I wanted to live in the mountains and that was the easiest and quickest way for me to get there at 17 years old. I hiked a lot of the hills you filmed in this video and slept in a lot of those woods. It was back in 1988 and 1989 and it was so beautiful!! And so free..... As in tons of open space that was accessible to anyone willing to hike up into it. Now most of that land has been sold off and it's not accessible anymore and that's so sad to me. I was definitely an outsider when I got there but when I made my home there I became a local and that's the way I was treated. I also loved it enough to want to see it taken care of. I think with so many of these big money people coming in buying up all the land, it's a money thing for them and they don't care about preserving the beauty of the place. They'll deface the whole mountainside if they can make a dollar off of it and that's just sad. Some of the best people I've ever met in my life were locals in the mountains all around Boone and Todd and Blowing Rock. They were also some of the smartest people I've ever met through this day even though most of them had very little education. They knew how to live off the land and could survive in anything. I learned a lot while I was there and still carry so many of those lessons and values with me today at the age of 53. It feels home for me in so many ways. Maybe it's just the Nostalgia of it all but I have a deep love for that place. Thank you for taking the time to get to know it and for sharing it with all of us on here. I've always wanted to travel the world and it's beginning to look like that will never happen for me so I'm living a little bit vicariously through your videos at the moment and I am enjoying every single one of them. I just met Titus in your last video that I watched and of course that warms my heart. I guess I'm just trying to say thank you. God bless you as you continue your travels
I agree Amy, from NC as well and used to do festivals all over the area back in the day. Smile Fest and others, so I loved going to Boone, and all the surrounding towns. Had a lot of friends that went to APP State and Western Carolina. Beautiful times.
@@PLUSCHILL Yes they were beautiful times!! That's the perfect way to describe it!! So glad you said hello :) I live in central NC now in the Piedmont area. I haven't been to Boone in about 10 years. Even then I was shocked at how much App State and Boone had changed , yet it still felt the same in many ways as well. Hope to get back up there some day before too much longer. I'm really glad you commented to me :) You brightened my day
I live in Texas, and there was a ballot measure for increased property taxes for a soccer stadium worth $40,000,000. This town is only 26,000 people. $40,000,000 for a place that does not even have a professional soccer team. THAT is where my TRIPLED property taxes are going, and it really pisses me off because most people don't even play or watch soccer.
That same stadium will need another 20 mil in maintenance and upgrades in 10 years
Money grab
There are building up Soccer so big money can be made moving forward; Beckham been busy for 20 years and it’s finally paying off for him
@@katadam2186 So rich people can get more rich at taxpayer's expense. Criminal.
So they can host Soccer World Cup can be hosted
I want to say thank you for the subtitles. I know that it is some work.
I am from Germany and we try to get a green card since 6 years. We look many of your videos, we only can visit the USA once every 36 month for less than 3 month, so we learn much from your videos. Me and my wife learned oxford-english (20 years ago) at school, for foreigners like us it is important specially when it goes to informal language or dialect to have it written down, so we can use a tool for translation. For example, no german pupil ever learned what a "holler" is and it took me some time to understand what you are talking about. The right meaning is the 6. translation google gives you, so a written transcription for translation is really important for foreigners like us. Thank you about that.
I’m a citizen born & raised in Chicago 58 years and never heard of a holler until this video series!
@@flygirl2ba west Kentuckian here, and that cracks me up. Good way to illustrate the geographical divide among us. Hills and hollars are what makes flooding in those parts so dangerous. ✌️
I've lived in the Southeastern United States for my entire life, and I didn't know what a "holler" was until I watched these videos.
Come on to USA and visit southern Texas, then declare yourself a refugee from Guatemala or Honduras; Biden will pay you $2200/mo income.
@@betsy7105 Not only did I not know what a holler was, but I'd been pronouncing Appalachia wrong my entire life - I always thought it was Apple - [long] A - sha., so the A pronounced like "hay" and a soft sha instead of cha. I'd never heard the correct pronunciation! And I'm ashamed to admit I have a masters degree!
Hey Peter, watching this from a small town named Jalpaiguri in the state of West Bengal, India. Same things are happening in my district too. Politicians are colluding with the big time real estate developers to build apartment buildings in literally middle of the forest & almost all the apertments are being bought over by outsiders having money. It really pisses me off that how they are ruining our landscape & nature!! Great video by the way & more power to the people of Appalachia.
Please tell your fellow countrymen that I'm not interested in the extended warranty on my 1987 F250.
It's wrong! The developers in cahoots with the very rich should not be able to stomp over everyone else's way of life!
That's interesting to hear.
As a native East Tennessean living in the Knoxville area, I feel this soooo much. I cannot tell how many times I've cried over the sheer and utterly devastation of this area both financially, culturally, and physically.
I'm also in Tennessee, ever since I was little I've watched all these beautiful farms and woodlands I used to love as a kid. Breaks my heart to see a old farmer die or sell out and then 25 cheesebox houses pop up and then its streetlights and minivans. They creep closer to me every day. If I ever get the chance I'll buy 100 acres of woods with a little house in the middle so I can at least protect one small part of forest.
@jonnyfortino yessssss!!!! Not sure if you know where Wears Valley is or what part of atN you're in...but I've watched it too. It is heartbreaking indeed! Will you share that 100 acres?? LOL!
As a native Texan (6th generation Houstonian) now living in Knoxville. I am sorry that I am part of the problem. I love Knoxville and East Tennessee so very much. My husband is from Kingston and we are here to be close to his parents and more opportunity. We were able to come in a buy a house in an area with so much more to offer than what we could buy in Houston. We are in the city but have a beautiful community and hope be here for many generations. I clean cabins in Sevier County and I am grateful for the income but I just always think about what the landscape and culture was like before. Our goal is to eventually buy land and my in-laws can live there too and eventually offer our children and grandchildren part of it. It’s just going to take more than cleaning cabins to get there. My husband is a 3rd generation welder… his grandfather came to Tennessee from Alabama to weld at Y-12 in the 50’s and taught many people in the area to weld… lifting generations from poverty. My son is named after him. I hope to honor his legacy by getting back to the generational living he was trying to achieve for his family before his early passing.
@oliveyew77, your mindset moving here is refreshing and welcome. Thank you! 💓 You've not come in here throwing money around like it is confetti at Time Square NYE. Again, thank you 😊
@@laurelanderson8720 did you know Harvey Sellers or Lilly Mae?
So many people have moved into my small hometown. It’s depressing. Never see a familiar face anymore. The grocery stores get wiped out on holidays. No one ever says excuse me, pardon me. They just block the aisles. Traffic is unbelievable. Taxes are outrageous. I hate it. I live in my great grandparents home that they built in 1905. My great grandfather built many of the homes in our small town in SouthWest Tennessee.
Don’t forget they don’t know how to drive
Im from europe and even i thought if i ever moved to USA it would be Tennessee
Part of me wonders if people are just more unfriendly now than they used to be. I lived in the same small town for almost 30 years and not many people knew me or would speak to me when I was out in town. I think most people are too concerned with whatever they have going on in their own lives to care about others anymore.
I admire the young man who moved to the area to be able to raise his children in a better place than the big city. That's an exceptional parent.
I love these videos that you do. They help us all to understand each other better. I was born and raised in Pennsylvania. I come from a long line of farmers, coalminers, and bootleggers in Pennsylvania's Appalachian Mountains. I moved to Tennessee about 8 years ago. I LOVE the people of Appalachia. I love the southern history, the family ties, the mindset, the people,....everything about them and their culture. I may be an "outsider" but they are my adoptive family and I would do everything to protect them. I thank God every day that He sent me here to live in the "hollars" of Tennessee. And I am one of those that bought an old southern farmhouse. It was rundown, and we are slowiy fixing it up. We honor the folks that lived here before us! And I'm going to add that I bought my old rundown farm of 80 acres for $100,000 back in 2014. I get offers daily to sell it. I wouldn't sell it for any price in the world. it is priceless to me, and I want to preserve it for the next generation.
Sweetheart there ain’t nothing wrong with the way you talk. I am from North Carolina and proud of my Southern English. Oh, those that are buying in Eagles Nest are probably predominately Yankees trying to take over
I moved to NC Appalachia from SoCal 3 years ago, don’t worry, I didn’t vote for Biden and I’m no liberal. I don’t have money to buy land and develop giant condos, I don’t have a lot of money. I just work, keep to myself and wave at every car that passes and no one bothers me
You voted for trump? Wow you ARE an idiot
This is happening in my town. Canton, NC. They closed our paper mill and now they are putting in expensive houses! My son is having a child and can’t find a home! It’s horrible!
Hi chickapeas I'm from Waynesville but I live in SC now , Yes The rich people and government are trying to destroy all the beautiful places ❤🙏
It's a national problem, you see beautiful forests being torn down for million dollar houses that sit on a mile long lot of grass with 1 or 2 token shade trees everywhere. You see beautiful small communities get bought up and torn down to build luxury apartment rentals. The community culture in this country is dying rapidly as the rich get richer, and are aiming towards the goal of having everyone work for them, and in exchange you can rent an apartment that the rich also own.
@@coherentpanda7115 and yet the natives sold their land to contribute to the problem
I'm afraid it's happening in every scenic area in the developed world.
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As someone who lives in southwest Virginia Appalachians I've seen so many outsiders moving here recently, mainly from up north and from out west. I have no issue with people moving here AS LONG AS you understand that we live a different way of life here and you're willing to adapt to it instead of bringing your big city philosophy and trying to push it on the ones that have lived here for generations. If your house is full of garbage and you want to move so you can start over and start fresh again but you bring the garbage with you when you move, you're essentially in the same situation you were before you moved, just a different house. You have to be willing to be open minded and adapt to different ways of life if you want the locals to accept you bc I can assure you if you bring that woke attitude you're not going to make many friends, atleast not around here. It's already bad enough that prices are going through the roof nation wide but then when we get all these wealthy folks retiring down here & buying up all the real estate it makes buying a house that much harder for the locals. Pretty soon all the beautiful views and open fields will be replaced with apartments and skyscrapers once more and more people move here and then no one will get to enjoy it anymore. It was nice while it lasted I suppose.
You can forget it. People with money come in and do whatever they want to do because they have the money to influence politicians. In my town in NC, Yankees have taken over. Locals have been pushed out of town into smaller towns, the locals who manage to stay are mostly poor. In my town, they spend big bucks on anything touristy, alcohol consumption, and nothing at all for the town. They're moving thecild historic courthouse away from downtown do they can out up a designated area to walk main street while drinking. Its impossible for young people to stay here. If they want a career and home they HAVE to move away. Nobody likes the rich, know it all money grubbing yankees. Still carpetbaggers.
What is "woke"?
Unless you’re native, aren’t you an outsider too?
Yup. You come here to change us when we never wanted that change…they run away from something they hate only to try to replicate it
@@reybuccatjr.2693 my Scots Irish ancestors have been here in Southwest Virginia since the Revolution, my Cherokee ancestors were here several hundred years before that, but they too came from somewhere else. No not outsiders roots grow deep here.
With all I said in my last comment , some people need the help to upgrade and clean up their property . Humanity should be the force behind it vs forcing the poor or not well out of the areas ,
Great series. We are being priced out all over the country. The builders have no respect for the land🌻👣
Keep crying
@@homes892 pathetic
@@homes892you’re a jerk
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I’m from Southern West Virginia and it’s surreal seeing this. I’ve been playing the banjo on the porch for years and everyone loves it around here. We don’t have as much money but we have a lot more land in our families even with all our problems. It’s like post Appalachia where they’re at.
It really sucks here in southern Appalachia, calling yourself an Appalachian person here in southern Appalachia is starting to not mean anything because people who’ve been here 10 minutes start calling themselves local and outsiders can’t tell who actually from here because everyone who moves here now say they are from here
Nothing tangible is more precious than the land.
Same I live in Wise County Grew up in Scott County though and went to Gate City HS howdy neighbor.
I'm from Lee county
I’ve lived in WV almost all my life, and I lived in Logan county for 5 years. When I first moved there people were initially very hesitant about me, but once I stuck around long enough they became some of the closest and best people I have the pleasure to call my friends. I’m not a Logan countian, and would never tell someone I am. But the people there treated me with such love that I felt like one while I was there
Not having to lock your doors is a beautiful thing ❤ Not waving back isn’t cool at all.