Talk to some of the people and and find out why these towns are declining it may be that a lot of the younger people are moving out because of better opportunities and get so tired of living the small country Town life and as a youth leaves to better opportunities the towns just aren't able to grow and prosper but that's just my opinion I really don't know anything
I live here, 40 years ago you drive 10 minutes and be at a mine. All the mines shut down, there’s nothing sustainable besides the oil and gas industry. Without oil and gas the whole state would be in a severe financial crisis. A lot of videos talk about drugs and homelessness. While it does exist it isn’t what this guy is claiming. Lots of highly successful people around every where you look. Don’t listen to everything this gentleman is saying. A lot of it is total BS.
@@soiboimechanic3080 yes I know, there’s still some mines left. I referring to all the mines that all the small town were built on. Farmington mine, Barrackville, Mannington, Grafton, Fairmont, Monongah, etc.
With the technology nowadays one person can do as much farm work as 10 or more people could do in the past that has a lot to do with the job availability in these Traditionally farming community's and a lot of the other job markets are going digital so they're not needing as many shopping centers or other places to employ the majority of the younger generations that doesn't leave a lot of opportunities for anyone
@@PaulMcelveenjr.These aren't farming communities. This state is full of hollowed-out coal towns that will never recover if we don't break our blind dependence on coal. He's wrong that it isn't true. Non-natives should not speak to issues they do not understand.
@@titoman2k my mother side of the family are from North Carolina West Virginia. I have been up there many many times when I started school I lived in Pennsylvania and the mountains and then we moved to West Virginia and then to Florida when I was in the third grade I used to love it up there when I was a little kid. I still have a lot of good memories.
Dude, see a doctor about that cough 😷 I grew up there with four brothers and we all loved it as kids but left, all of us, because there just wasn’t much opportunity to get a damn decent job. Coal mines, glass factories, chemical plants, bra factories ( yes, women’s bras) and even the Hostess cakes bakery all closed or just stop hiring. I haven’t lived there in over 50 years but so many great people from there. I just simply did not see a future there and after college I was off to area with much more job opportunities and quite frankly much more diversity and progression minded people. The state is very poor, can’t maintain things like many other places.
You’re close to my territory in Pennsylvania. I stayed in Fairmont for a week when I moved back from Florida
Pittsburgh was awesome
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Looks like a nice quaint town
Talk to some of the people and and find out why these towns are declining
it may be that a lot of the younger people are moving out because of better opportunities and get so tired of living the small country Town life and as a youth leaves to better opportunities the towns just aren't able to grow and prosper
but that's just my opinion I really don't know anything
I live here, 40 years ago you drive 10 minutes and be at a mine.
All the mines shut down, there’s nothing sustainable besides the oil and gas industry.
Without oil and gas the whole state would be in a severe financial crisis.
A lot of videos talk about drugs and homelessness.
While it does exist it isn’t what this guy is claiming.
Lots of highly successful people around every where you look.
Don’t listen to everything this gentleman is saying. A lot of it is total BS.
Wrong. Mines in grafton, Harrison, mannington, plenty of active mines to this day. Ask me how Ik
@@soiboimechanic3080 yes I know, there’s still some mines left. I referring to all the mines that all the small town were built on. Farmington mine, Barrackville, Mannington, Grafton, Fairmont, Monongah, etc.
I haven't been on Route 19 since I-79 was built over 50 years ago,it's like time has stood still.
Beautiful country up there
With the technology nowadays one person can do as much farm work as 10 or more people could do in the past that has a lot to do with the job availability in these Traditionally farming community's and a lot of the other job markets are going digital so they're not needing as many shopping centers or other places to employ the majority of the younger generations that doesn't leave a lot of opportunities for anyone
@@PaulMcelveenjr.These aren't farming communities. This state is full of hollowed-out coal towns that will never recover if we don't break our blind dependence on coal. He's wrong that it isn't true. Non-natives should not speak to issues they do not understand.
@@titoman2k my mother side of the family are from North Carolina West Virginia. I have been up there many many times when I started school I lived in Pennsylvania and the mountains and then we moved to West Virginia and then to Florida when I was in the third grade I used to love it up there when I was a little kid. I still have a lot of good memories.
@@titoman2k in your video you were passing by me some areas that you were saying was farmland when I made this statement
It's sad to see Fairmount like that it's almost unrecognizable from the 90s
Rivesville
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I lived 17 years in West Virginia
Dude, see a doctor about that cough 😷 I grew up there with four brothers and we all loved it as kids but left, all of us, because there just wasn’t much opportunity to get a damn decent job. Coal mines, glass factories, chemical plants, bra factories ( yes, women’s bras) and even the Hostess cakes bakery all closed or just stop hiring.
I haven’t lived there in over 50 years but so many great people from there. I just simply did not see a future there and after college I was off to area with much more job opportunities and quite frankly much more diversity and progression minded people.
The state is very poor, can’t maintain things like many other places.
Homelessness isnt widespread in the area. Like wtf?? It may be dozens, but not in the hundreds.
Only 18,000 people in that town… so yeah.. thats bad for a town that size…