A Town Filled With Hillbillies and a Few Women, Despite the Name: Man, West Virginia:
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Man is located in Logan County, West Virginia. Man is filled with people proud to call themselves a Hillbilly and, despite the name, it allows women into the town.
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I wake up every day and thank God I live in WV. I love her, born here and will die here.
I am so glad that you are proud to be born raised and bred and West Virginia everyone should be that way about their Homeland just as I am about Kentucky the great Commonwealth of Kentucky and my opinion in my humble opinion you cannot find a greater place live raise your children and retire and as Kentucky I am very partial to Southeastern Kentucky that's where I'm at right now this is where I was born and raised I have been and lived in other parts of Kentucky it's my home but they're nothing like being in the hills of Southeastern Kentucky thank you God for planting me in southeast Kentucky
Lucky duck. I live in Calif.
From Philly, but I’ve driven through WV, it’s visually stunning even though I can’t get the movie “wrong turn” out of my mind while there. Anyway the landscape is beautiful.
@@LotsofLisa lol that movie was pretty insane
I get it,,I’m born ,live will die ,in KENTUCKY,, I LOVE THIS PLACE SO MUCH ,❤️
Look at those mountains. Gotta love Appalachia
Yep they are a sight to see everyday
These in the vid are beauty..but unfortunately a lot of the WV mountains look like moon craters. Its sad what the coal companies did to the WV mountains
Its far from the only place that has mountains
After 50 years I still can't help thinking man I am so glad I left WV when I did in the 1980s. Great people. Great outdoors. 25% of the state is owned by out-of-state interests and it showed back then, still shows now.
Bigger mountains than I realized. I live in southwest Colorado. Kinda reminds me of the small mountain towns here
I’m a proud West Virginian. I grew up in Fairmont and left in my 20’s. I miss the simplicity of life and the friendly people. God bless the hard working people of Mann WV.
Great video!
That little girl is cute as ever!
My daughter and I walked around thru a little old WV town on the Gauley River a few yrs ago while on vaca.
Really liked it.
Wow seeing Man brings back memories. I went to man high in my high school years
I’m driving over to Rupert and Rainelle today, somewhat similar towns but yes, still great people live there! Good video, thanks!
Our family lived thru that flood, and my Auntie was manager at tha old 7-ll youall drove by! Nice little town still. Real friendly people too!
Proud to say I was born in the Old Man Hospital 1966....natural born hillbilly. Yes I'm a Man.....
The only time I have ever been to Man was in the fall of 1969. That was for a high school football game. A number of years ago there was a program on the History Channel about the Buffalo Creek disaster.
Nicely done video thanks 😊
This is awesome. A beautiful little town.
Love this video would love to visit . .from the uk
Thank you hope you’re doing well
The reasons the town is "crowded in" is that it's a mountain town with not much usable flat land, and it was built at a time when most people didn't have cars. When you mostly walk to get where you're going, you mostly build things close together.
It's called a 'haller' or more formally, a hallow, a common geologic formation in this region of Appalachia.
Thanks for the explanation. Very interesting.
@@jeanbonnes1680 Didn't know that thanks for the info.
@@jeanbonnes1680 You mean holler.
Whatever.
I would never be offended to be called a hillbilly! We are some of the friendliest people on earth 😉
I totally agree with you! These folks would give you there last sip of water
I lived in the heart of the Missouri Ozarks when I was young. Proud to be hillbilly from hillbilly heaven!
Lots of worse things to be called than a hillbilly. I’d love to be called a hillbilly
@@cariemorgangraff4829 I will take hillbilly over city boy or city slickers any day. A younger man at work last week couldn’t understand what I said and told me “sorry I don’t speak hillbilly.” I told him its about time he learn a second language!
@@Mountainrock70 hillbilly or southern is the best. Go woke go broke
I went to WVU, i so miss WV, its a unique place. I am from Africa, but all my friends live there. Beautiful state, humble people.
That's great, West Virginia is a state with a lot of warm and humble people like you said. I'm very glad to know that was your experience.
Excellent...College memories...Treasures of the Heart
I met a girl who graduated from WVU. Her folks were OSU graduates and really wanted her to go there. She transferred for one semester and then transferred right back to WVU. She said the mountains were calling....
THAT IS SO GREAT!! I KNOW WVU AND WV WAS SO LUCKY TO HAVE YOU. IM FROM WV ABD RECENTLY MOVED TO PA, AND ITS GREAT, THOUGH I MUDT SAY AS SAID IN A COMMENT BELOW-THE MOUNTAINS ⛰ THEY DO CALL!!:: ESP IN THE FALL. MOUNTAINEERS AND BRIDGE DAY! ALSO THE FORREST FESTIVAL!! YOU SHOULD COME BACK AND GO TO ONE IF THESE. WE SHOULD ALL TAILGATE!! LEEEETTTSSS GOOOOO MOUNTAINEERS!!
@@brogandaugherty-kelly1062 I did my doctoral program there. Now , at Brandeis University, Massachusetts/ I like going back there.
My whole family is from Man. And my 5th great grandpa is Valentine Wall Hatfield. I was born in those hills and I will die in those hills. I’ve tried and there’s no other place I can call home
Fancy finding a comment from someone i know on a random video loo
🥺❤️
The hatfields and McCoys were always fighting with each other that is so cool you are related to the hatfields
It is certainly beautiful there!
You can take the boy out of the hills but you can't take the hills out of the boy.
I was stationed at Fort Campbell, KY for years and traveled a lot in WV. I absolutely loved the scenery there. People were always great and helpful. Very religious and down to earth people.
Traveled all over the USA on motorcycle and found Texas and North Carolina friendly
My mind is blown by how much most of these West Virginia towns that you show us resemble most of the West Coast and northern half of the South Island of New Zealand. Man here gave me big Picton and Greymouth vibes. The Tasman sea crashing into the towns (with a fair bit of violence tbh) is the only huge notable difference at first glance.
I'm growing more and more fascinated by this epic stretch of continent watching these videos from the opposite side of the planet!
ShaleNinja... My mom was born in Man and grew up there. I love it. It is like home to me. I lived in Masterton, NZ and I loved it. Going over the Remataka felt like going home to Man. I agree 100%. I have been to Greynouth as well when I lived in ChristChurch. NZ quickly became a 2nd home to me.
Marie and Ninja...that you two have this connection is mind-blowing !! God Bless the small new world of You Tube. PS: : Relatives in Beckley and Blue field. I'm from the hills of SE Tennessee and married to a beauty from Hong Kong 42 years already. Love you, Marie, for stepping out into the bigger world, while staying grounded and proud.
Hillbillies are the most resourceful, down to earth, and kind people you'll ever meet. Born and raised in WV and I love my state.
Yeup I'm Apalachian,, my self.
Yeah I worked at a summer camp in western NC high up in Appalachia and everyone was great. I have many friends I still stay in touch with,and don’t even get me started on bluegrass! I love it! (I’m from England)
Yes sir same here brother
Hillbillies come from PA we in wv gave the world rednecks and that's what we have.
Lovely comment and refreshing to hear
Born and raised in this little town. Best childhood ever. Grandma’s and Sunday School every Sunday fried chicken and gospel music o the back porch while the kiddos played red rover in the yard. Amazing memories!! Wish my kids had those kind of memories and kids were raised that way instead of iPhones and iPads. It is full of beautiful and kind hearted people. Nothing like a small town. They all become family.
Thanks for the memories.
This my my hometown and I love it especially the hunting and trail riding here
Wonder if the Doss (es) father and son mtn. bike competitors and formerly Charleston Distance Run competitors still live or return there ?
@@davidpowell3347 yes they still live here
@Irene Simpson I think he was making a pun on the "South Man"saying as a southerner he feels comfortable. I think I it was a joke. You ok now?
Are they really sexist there or was he just making a bad joke?
I went there to ride my dirt bike and every person I met was really friendly, I was talking to one guy that lived there his whole life and was telling me about coal mining man what a tough life
I am a retired disabled coal miner Eastern Kentucky I left you to Kentucky my home county and 1973 to find my fortune and fame I stayed going approximately 8 years and every year of that 8 years I could hear the mountains of East Kentucky calling me home So eventually I did and you're right we have some of the greatest nicer than friends people that you will ever want to meet in Southeastern Kentucky some of the greatest people but yet don't lie don't belittle us don't act like you're better than we are because you're not we know it only if you knew it but Southeast Kentucky or I would say and many states of this great nation special in the Appalachian Mountains we are happy and friendly people just don't tread on us I am again I am a former coal miner I worked in the factories I worked at other jobs but yet I came back to Southeast Kentucky to work in the coal mines underground coal mines
@@oldjake912 I knew of a man, who got black lung from the mines, his nephew was Mike Whiting, who rode with me in my truck, til he got pneumonia, and died from it. Possibly, he was affected by the coal dust, the few years he worked until he was called up to go to Vietnam!
@@edwardjackson1418 Coal mining was not good to coal country. Mountain top removal; polluted streams and water; polluted air; black lung disease; cave-ins, etc.. On the bright side: at least the few coal barons got filthy rich off the blood and tears of others.
I bet you rode the Hatfield McCoy trail system
Yes I rode the trails and had a blast wish I could go back but no one wants to drive 6 hours to get there , lazy I guess, man if I can I’m going back and stay there a couple weeks
Man, Should have drove another 5-10 more miles up to west Logan and got ya some Chili Dawgs from Morrison's Drive Inn!!
I wish you didnt mention those so close to lunchtime lol. I had some of those about 5 years ago and still remember how good they were. Cant eat just one.
Yes the best hotdogs. My sister , cousin, daughter and I drove from Dayton Ohio to Logan just the have some hot dogs. The best
Morrison's is not in West Logan they're in Stollings
And the cheeseburgers on toast! Morrison's onion rings are the ones that all other onion rings are compared to, and I've never found any better.
You got that right! I used to work ambulance, and sometimes managed to stop there just for a couple of their great chili dawgs. Now I'm going to have to get back to Morrison's again. It's been years.
I find West Virginians some of the most genuine, authentic people in the country. Beautiful country!
Man and Lagan are chocked full of racist, homophobic, transphobic, bigoted trailerprk dwellers. Don’t visit, don’t go, it’s very dangerous.
@@HonorableBeniah-A libtard 😂 I'm black and I've been there
The people were very kind to me
@@HonorableBeniah-A explain please your danger in West Virginia? And why not to visit. I was planning our vacation for this year which included parts of wv.
@@louann4992 Ignore them. Now, there are racists and bigots there, but they exist throughout the entire US. In my honest opinion, Alabama is more dangerous than WV by a long shot. Most people are kind and genuine, and if they are bigoted, they wont tell you to your face. Its worth a vacation.
Hi, I’m from northern Vermont. My uncles and I canoe The south branch of the Potomac River almost every spring. It is a 12 hour drive. WV is one of the most beautiful states. The people are real, honest, cool people. Lots of small mountain towns. Rural. We have in over 20 years, explored lots of the state. I’m from the country, so maybe I’m bias, I would rather break down in the middle of bum hole WV, then NY, LA,Chicago…. I almost bet someone would stop and give me help. Not I’m a city. Not only do I visit whenever I’m can, when my kids graduate, I’m moving to West Virginia. So I would suggest definitely visit West Virginia, ignore the haters, they have obviously never been. Hope that helps.
I was born in Man just two months before the Buffalo Creek flood. My father was at the dam just before it broke and ran up the mountains to escape the waters. My grandfather served as a liaison between rescuers and the radio station, calling in when residents were found alive. I don’t remember the flood but I have scores of fond Man memories. Thank you for the walk down Memory Lane.
Wow, what an experience to have had to live through. Im sorry you had to deal with that.
My husband’s father is from Logan County, and one of my husband’s uncles was on the dam half an hour before it failed. Little is known about surviving family members in the Buffalo Creek area, except for an aunt who had been living in Laredo. So many people died that day and many more live with the memories.
I would like to see this one day. It is mountainous and built like the countryside in St Kitts.
I like mountains and winding roads. I was born in a very hilly place and I also lived in a hilly place in the countryside.
I remember when that happened, don't remember what month but it was in 1972 when I was in eighth grade, I lived in Southeast Ohio and we got our news from Channels 3,8, and 13 still remember the news reports from there, also in November of 1970 a plane carrying the Marshall University football team along with local supporters and coaching staff crashed while trying to land at Tri State Airport,as I recall one of the players was from Man W Va.
I was born and raised in WV, will be raising my children here also. As far as I know, without the assistance of an ancestry searching service, my ancestry has been here for generations on both sides. I don't know any relatives of either my father or mother that came from anywhere but West Virginia. My grandfather was well known in these parts for his fiddle playing back in the day.
Growing up in this small little place was something that as a younger person I thought a trouble and was mesmerized by the thought of big cities and fast internet, but after I had kids and even the small town scared me for them, I am so thankful to be in WV and not to have been accustomed to big city living. Now I do not think I could endure a big city life.
My husband's family are from California and Maryland, but he has fierce West Virginia pride. Hopefully our kids will too.
I love our state!
Single 57 and looking badly
@@terenceboyd8695 Same
I used to play drums at Blue Hole and downtown main street. People tipped me all kind of things, money, beer, weed, jimmy jones, pizza, hot dogs and condoms too. All in downtown Morgantown. People loved the drumming. I MIS IT.
@@makhetefall8003 🤣🤣🤣 condoms
🤣🤣🤣 I'm still laughing.
My roommate from Huntington always called it "West By God."
West by God Virginia!
Unless you’ve been on your great grandfathers farm, a real working farm? When you were young and could run free there? Hiked the mountains with your dad and uncles and cousins, ate REAL home grown and homemade food in the farmhouse kitchen, sang with the family on the huge porch after supper? You haven’t a clue how beautiful WVa is… honestly you don’t…❣️♥️☮️😁
Joe Biden is this town's Director of Tourism. Come on, Man!
Always have to bring politics into it. Sad.
@@katesleuth1156 It's sadder that you can't take a joke.
@@stlouisgirlseven6974 Oh, that was a joke.Ha ha ha.
@@stlouisgirlseven6974 I think it's the saddest when you expect everyone to know someone's intentions of what they're saying like they should be some kind of mind reader.
Libtards crying when anyone pokes at sippy cup.
I’ve been through many towns similar to Man, this is real USA, the heart and backbone of our country. WV is a very beautiful state - forget all the jokes about it
West "By God" Virginia is no joke.
It's a great state to see
I don't think I'd want to live there.
All of the USA is the REAL USA.
The "backbone" of the country? HOW?? what do y'all contribute to the countries economy? You people make fun of states like California meanwhile all the businesses and innovations that help y'all comes from here.
Which backbone? 🤣🤣
I love West Virginia lived in a few other states.Georgia North Carolina but still would rather be here some love it some hate it but here most everyone will help u out if u are broke down or need something.
@jaime amonzo that doesn't mean that it's just saying that everyone can use a hand sometime
Almost heaven West Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains Shenandoah River. Life is old there.
@jaime amonzo And I could call it take me home country roads.
@jaime amonzo John Denver was the best died way to soon.
I’ve been there. I was driving through the state on back roads, and went there purposely because of the name! It’s like everywhere else in WV, a lot of struggles, people have left, but good people stay on. Scenery is beautiful. I stopped and mailed my rent check to NY. In Mingo County, I got pulled over by the police for “looking like I was lost.” Every year I go this happens in rural areas in the south. It’s because NY tags make me suspect. They think I’m there for drugs, firearms, or sometimes fireworks. I’ve never once been ticketed or charged with anything.
Hail to the Empire State..
I hate that, being pulled over just because your tags are out of state. It’s harassment. I am a woman who travels alone. Cop or not, I don’t want to give you my what all. You are a man I don’t know in a place I am unfamiliar with, and I don’t warrant your attention.
@@user-ii3vn8tn3q Definitely harassment and un-Constitutional.
I forget each state has their own plates. In the UK its such a small country that the identifying letters that show what region it was registered don’t even get noticed as cars move about all over the country from traders.
@@nasdaqua WHY? It’s reduced to 💩, especially in the city!
Nothing wrong with"Hillbillies". Beautiful country. Wonderful Step dancing and fiddle playing~true indigenous culture!
A decent society would help these families with what they need instead of abandoning them.
I'm thinking of dentists, doctors, health clinics, schools. etc being dotted over every little Appalachian community and all within walking distance!
Thank you Bob. I agree .
I’m thinking they should move to where the jobs are, if they need those services. Not our job to support their lives when they can forge new ones elsewhere. You know, like all of humanity has always had to.
Man and Logan are chocked full of racist, homophobic, transphobic, bigoted trailerprk dwellers. Don’t visit, don’t go!
@@HonorableBeniah-A Spoken like a true Leftist.
@@HonorableBeniah-A Like in Saudi Arabia you mean?
Beautiful country.. makes me miss the mountains. I've been in FL way too long. This is the type of place I'd like to retire at.
I have lived in Harrison/Marion County WV my entire 56 years. I am proud to be a hillbilly. College educated and still barefoot in the hills.
I am 65 and grew up in Charleston left there in 75 did 4 years in the NAVY. I moved to Morgantown in 80 and stayed 42 years.
Michelle - Are those your legs in that pic of yours? And you're 56 - ? Must be running around barefoot that's so good for you.
@@travelguy1564 yes they are mine and thank you.
@@mikedineen7857 I wonder if the legendary Don Knotts has any family left in Morgantown? Certainly a plaque or a monument or something.
Now I have been gone from WV for over 5 years. I am babysitting 2 little boys age 5&8. I started in Seattle WA and now find my self In New Mexico. The little ones keep me on my toes
Grew up in Kenova. Lived in Fairmont and Bluefield. Rt 52 is a step back in time.
I live in Marietta Ohio and I think West V has beautiful country side. We drive over that way alot to see the countryside....
I lived in Veto for 2 years when I was a kid and I really missed leaving there.
I love WVa and the Marietta, Parkersburg, Belpre area.
I really miss it still.
I retired from the Army after 30+ yrs and moved to SE Ohio (Morgan County) afterwards. I had my choice of moving anywhere I wanted to and I decided on this area. The geography is beautiful, people are really good, and with the weather I have 4 seasons but no extremes.
I've been all over the world and Appalachia (Ohio, WV, Pa, eastern Ky & Ten, and western Md) has some of the most beautiful park like scenery. Little to no work but a great place to retire to!
Chillicothe Ohio here!
Who wants to get the meat hole poked?
@@ulquiorra2520 What does she look like?
West Virginia has beautiful scenery. Thank you..Hello to the beautiful little girl.
Thank you so much
The old health center was the Miner's Hospital which was originally built and maintained with funding by local citizens and the UMWA. It ultimately closed in 2001 and the majority of the main hospital structure was demolished in 2012 with the medical office annex remaining standing as you saw it.
I was born in Man hospital 1958.
So sad 😢
I saw a video the other day about Alabama. Everything in that video was false! Twisted stats about crime. As a lot of others on here have posted about WV, I posted a lot of the same. Good, humble, hard working people. And beautiful! I also noticed how clean the town of Man is! (Except for the obvious pot hole or three). Someone on here said “jewel” referring to WV. I agree!
I need some hillbilly kindness in my life. Living in Boston sucks people here are awful 😞
Oh no! Maybe you can pick a better spot to live from our videos! - Melody
I worked as a music teacher in Man Jr High School during the 1985 school year. It was snowy and the schools closed for days on end due to the poor road conditions. I have never been so sad and depressed; it was a lonely time except for the nice people like Glen the band director and his family. Mr Reedy was my landlord -- aka mr greedy. Phyllis was the music supervisor who had perfect hair!!
Nice you shared your experience honestly
Yes, it is a matter of what I call "poetic" way some people look and dream of these places, completely turning the blind eye to the fact that there is a reason why people leave these places. I like these places, but only to an explorer level, yes they are beautiful. Will I settle in a place like this? Maybe.
I even came up with my own joke, "One of these days I am gonna leave the city, take a couple thousand $$$ with me and buy a house (for a couple thousand bucks) in an abandoned coal mine somewhere in WV and stay there till my last day"
"I have never been so sad and depressed"
---Winter does that when it's 20f, dark at 5pm and you have no where to go but home after work (if you have a job) to waste the hours until tomorrow when you do it again.
My mom's ancestors are from WV, and my mom was born in there. I've always wanted to visit the state. I heard that my great, great, great grandfather was a union organizer of the WV coal miners.
Mine are too Valerie R.! Both sides of my family are from WV. My great great grandfather was Albert Mullins. Mullens WV is named after him. I absolutely love the state! Almost Heaven West Virginia ❤
@@littlema5763 👍
Come on over. We'd love to have you.
Love WV and the people, Ride the Hatfield/McCoy trails every year, thinking of moving there as soon as I retire, Pa is going in the crapper.
We will welcome you with open arms
If you ride the trails, then you probably have been to Trail Fest in my hometown Gilbert. I don't live there now but still close to the many trailheads.
I'm a proud Hillbilly who now lives in Tampa Bay. Hillbillies Class of 82, with lots of family still back there. I make it home to visit every couple years. And yes, it was originally Buffalo City before becoming Man. You can find the original plat of Buffalo City at the Logan County Courthouse. I did a couple thousand abstracts of real estate titles back when I had an office in Logan. It's sad to see the old towns in Southern West Virginia slowly die as the coal is being mined out.
Hey there! I'm up in Inverness, been here since 2014. I moved down from Southwest Virginia. Clinchco (Clinchfield coal camp) is about a 2 and a half hour drive south of Man. So that's would be what...15 minutes as the crow flies 🤣
Glad to see another coalfield hillbilly (what a great mascot) down here.
Lived just north of Chiefland for 22 years in the boonies. Hated to move but we got old.
Cruise nites in Inverness were always fun.
Wish I could remember the guy in zoning in Tampa. He was a hotrod car guy and lived near the nudist resort east of Tampa.
@@modeladenny1218 I had a laugh when you mentioned the "nudists resort". When we came upon that, my husband said, "We have definitely left the coalfields." 😆 Nobody mentioned the rainy season or that sand was impossible to keep out of the house before we moved down here. I'm still trying to decide if moving was a pro or a con. 🤣
@@gidget8717 We loved NW Florida. Near a game preserve and the Suwannee river. Found out shag carpet in the motorhome and double wide wasn't a good idea.
From what I remember there are/were two adult resorts near Tampa and a large one at Kissimmee.
Illinois had coal mines and strip coal mines where we are. Most lakes were old gravel or coal pits.
@@modeladenny1218 I have found over the years coal people are coal people no matter what state the mines are in. Strange isn't it? You meet a coal family from Utah and somehow they feel like friends. I miss the mountains but my old body does like the warm winters in Inverness. 👵
Love being a hillbilly. We have a beautiful state. Definitely WV proud!
I left WV after college, come to Massachusetts to buy one can of beer for $7 , and you tip the 3 $./ total 10$////// I MISS WV and my college town. I could do a lot with 10 in Mogtwn.
I LOVE HUNTINGTON WV, IT'S MY HOME TOWN
I’m from Vermont and with all the weirdo city asshats that move up here I feel more at home in West Virginia. I want to move but don’t want to have people think I’m one of the city assholes coming to ruin your state, because WV is perhaps the nicest place on earth, IMO
I love west Virginia, especially southern west Virginia.
Why?
Man... I sure enjoyed that video
Thank you, I knew someone could work in another pun lol
I live in SW Ohio and I have to admit that SE Ohio/WVa area is so beautiful. Like God bent down and kissed the Earth beautiful ❤️
I like the way you put that
"Almost Heaven - West Virginia."----- "Gods Country-Potter County, PA."
God kissed the earth when he created them beautiful smokey mountains and cherokee national forest areas in eastern tennessee and western nc.
@@harolddenton6031 I agree, Another kiss from God because I've been there and it's beautiful
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Need a woman who no one
Something that fascinates me is turn up any side road and you'll find homesteads on hard Scrabble red clay where a miner/farmer raised 8-15 kids! I love speculating where they all scattered to and what they become. I love Appalachia. You've said often on these vids, there'd be no big urban centers were it not for a miner! ❤️
WEST BY GOD VIRGINIA! ... I'm from Bluefield Mercer but my family moved to Tennessee when I was 2
I wanna go to TN
Love bluefield
I wasn't there long enough, would love to go home
I grew up in hawkins county,tn about 8 miles west of kingsport,tn and maybe 10 miles from gate city,va.
Where did your family settle in tennessee?
I’m living in the state of Marxistchusettes, I hate it here, I would love to relocate to a town like that. Wonder if they would accept me?
you have my sympathy lol. You would be surprised at how friendly and accepting most of these towns are when someone is truly respectful of the area and people. They get a bad rap for being distant (it is an earned mistrust of people with questionable motives) but once you're deemed good then you have no issues and are accepted.
@ Harry Nutsack As long as you're not a liberal Nutsack and don't tease too much about our accent, you would be accepted. Great hunting, fishing, trail riding ( ATVs and horse), hiking, camping and the list goes on. As long as you don't piss people off, they are very giving here. Sure some of the towns are rundown pretty bad but there is some nice property to be had at a very reasonable price. If you're looking to retire or are an entrepreneur, you would love it here. Southern West Virginia is very rugged country. I live in McDowell county. One of the poorest in the state but used to be called Little New York because of the coal boom in the first half of the 20th century. The Town of Keystone boasted one of the most popular brothels in the southeast. Lol
Go to either Kanawa county or Monogalia county. Morgantown in Monogalia is a college town with nice scenery. The capital city Charleston in Kanawa has more to do but not much W.V. feel to it. More like a tourist city.
@@terryrose6208 Oregon. I married a Rose from Pineville Kentucky in Feb 1968, Her Dad was named Pearl,He was a real mountain man as were her family,Her mom was a Hubbard,I loved all those people,I had an accent from Dad when I got back from Pine-vull😊,I REALLY had one miss it there,Pearl died 2000,Jr Hubbard my best friend passed,I had lost contact,I wailing up writing,I sure miss that time take care brother,The libtards want to take us down and about done it bro,Later😊🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
If you like Jesus, freedom, and 2A.... and don’t put on airs....
That town is beautiful I would love to live there walk out my front door and see all those mountains I don't know how I can get any better
It is a beautiful town, I hope to visit again soon
Really you wouldn’t want to live there. I’m from West Virginia and worked as an inspector for Department of Agriculture for 10 years back in the 80s and 90s. It was dead then and REALLY out in the middle of nowhere. The drug problems in Logan and Mingo counties are terrible, there are no longer any jobs, and the flooding is an ongoing issue. West Virginia is a beautiful state, but it’s definitely NOT managed properly and with the fake president and the Communists taking over I’m certain it will only get worse.
@@ripleymt
I live in Appalachian Southeastern Kentucky retired from the coal mines at this time this place in southeast Kentucky is dead as a doornail we have no jobs and the two counties that I was raised up in if you're not a school teacher or State Highway worker your own welfare and as right now our fake president has got people not even looking for jobs or taking them when they are available because of this unemployment federal unemployment and funds that they are getting they feel like they don't need to work I love Southeastern Kentucky I was bred born and raised here and I want to die here but a young person nowadays have no hope I'm ever making good and the two counties Leslie and Clay County that I was raised up here and I Live Now in Clay County Kentucky it is a beautiful place and we have beautiful people like everywhere real though we have the drug cartel problem and as you said but this fake president that we have in the White House and his cackling VP the children of Southeastern Kentucky has very little hope I pray that our legitimate president has another chance to get back in and take finish some of the jobs that he started I love Southeastern Kentucky I was bred born and raised here tried the big city life there's nothing better than the country life of Southeastern Kentucky
@@oldjake912 Couldn’t agree with you more! I love my state and I’m proud of our history and KY is the same; we have been raised to work hard for what we get and help our family and neighbors when they need help, but the fakes that are taking over bringing Socialism/Communism and even illegals to this great Republic will destroy what we and our ancestors all worked so hard to build. Our states deserve better... our country deserves better too! God bless you, God bless the USA and YES, I’m praying daily for the legitimate President to be back ASAP 🙏🏻🇺🇸🙏🏻
@@oldjake912 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
An absolutely fantastic ride through a stunning landscape. Many thanks from England.
Glad you enjoyed it, hope things are well in the UK
Married (second time) in Beckley, WV. Beautiful state, wonderful memories; underestimated in it’s natural beauty; much like Cinderella (actually only appreciated by those who visit & not get caught up in it’s stigma).
W.v is my state the most beautiful in the country.
Social justice warriors would cancel this whole town.
My wife and I are soon moving back to East Tennessee to retire. After our last scouting trip, we came up empty handed and discouraged. West Virginia is beginning to look like a great alternative.
I too will look at west VA this summer .
@@olivertaylor8788 Hope you have a great time! 👌
@Duke_of_Prunes we just retired ourselves,and looking to find a place that's quiet and big fish nearby.west va seems to be the cheapest
@@olivertaylor8788 I agree. We're running out of places where you can retire comfortably on a modest income!
Thanks Shane!
I'm a (northern) California boy myself but this looks like home. I grew up with a lot of folks from Georgia ,Louisiana and Mississippi who's families had come west to work in the timber. We have much the same cultural challenges with downturns in timber hollowing out and erasing beautiful communities. After seeing this video I really want to park my Harley at The Fire Pit and enjoy feeling at home in a new/old place.
What part of nor cal?? I’m from not cal mysef
I've driven through parts of Gold Country that look like what I've seen in WV videos: Sonora, Jackson, Angels Camp, Moke Hill, Placerville.
Enjoyed the video. Makes me want to come visit. My mother graduated from man high in 1949. I lived in Holden and verdunville as a little girl.
I can see why John Denver loves WV so much
He actually never visited wv he didn't even write the song
@@laurajane3345 That’s not true
@@BridgKay how do you know
@@laurajane3345 how do you know that he never had v isited? Hearsay or assumptions?
@@dixienormous7049 a member of my family wrote the song and have it go him that's how I know
Thank you so much for this full-frontal shot of Man! I never expected such a good view. It's awesome that you took the time to look the town over, up and down. Even from the back way.
West Virginian’s are awesome! Start of Civil War. W.V was unhappy being tax and neglected by Virginia. President Lincoln told them you go with the Union I will make you your own state. W.V. With no money no side said OK! Virginia matched 10,000 troops in new confederate uniforms to make West Virginia submit. W.V. Gov. Sent out a call for volunteer’s to fight. No money no food no arms no uniforms. 2800 mountain men all tough as nails in educated showed up. With their Cherokee friends. They were all sharp shooters. They butchered the Confederate army from Virginia. Killed 2000 of 10,000 first battle. They broke and ran with the West Virginia Mountain Men chasing them. They killed 1000 more and Virginia never came into W.V. Again. West Virginia became a state because of the freedom loving undesirable mountain men. Now today we must fight the Democrats taking away our freedoms.🤗🇺🇸
We just moved here in WV 2 months ago from LA.. And I loved WV❤️ weather was soooo cool and love the nature too❤️
My mom is from New Orleans, dad was from Belle, WV
@@andrelopez7589 lol its already turning into one.
When ppl move to WV! You know shits gettinv real out there
Hopefully none of the political aspects of it followed you here lol
Keep ur lefty bull crap back in Cali don't ruin WV like you did cali
Thank you for the tour. I live in Vermont & we have plenty of towns that look quite a lot like that. Beautiful scenery.
Glad you enjoyed it
I grew up in NH. Love that area. I live in Kentucky now, and think WV and Kentucky are also stunning.
@@b1k2q34 I understand! When I see videos from those areas they look & feel just like home. On one video the road the person was driving on looked so familiar I was convinced it was an area here in Vermont that I'd driven on myself until he said where he was! Beautiful country!
I would love to see antifa show up in this town and start their shenanigans. Lol
Been to Man many times for work. Also, my father worked in Buffalo Creek after the flood. He was a Transmission Lineman for Appalachian Power Company. He said that the destruction was almost as bad as what he'd seen as a combat veteran in the south Pacific during WWII.
Wow, that must have been a devastating sight to behold
@@realappalachia indeed!!
Where do they shop?
@@bonnieleelee9936 Man is a small town with shops. Logan is just a few minutes a way and many more shops. Then Charleston is just over an hour North.
Please will you tell your dad Thank you for his Service
This town is so beautiful. I could live there. I love such small and peaceful towns.
Me too!! ..I just might retire in WV..
Red brick buildings give me the creeps. Atlanta the worst.
I was raised in man but moved to Nc after high school. I miss the mountains and small town. There is no work unfortunately unless you go into the coal mines.
Man is a nice little town , but like all little towns there isn't much of anything to do . I live in Fairmont , WV in Marion county and I do like it but there isn't much of anything to do here .
Robert Radcliff. I lived in Fairmont all my life. You are right there is nothing here.
Robert Radcliff i know lived here all my life. But there is nothing here a ghost town
My husband was born and raise there.
that new Huge bridge was built and I remember when they done it Before it was very scary driving around the mountain side before the bridge got built. Should have went to Bruno and cross the one bridge it’s only in and out incredible to see this!! There’s a place not too far from there called Slabtown if you don’t live there don’t go there 👀. I remember when the first Walmart came in there !! Over the mountain
Cheers💫
That place look like a sundown town. It look like a death sentence if you get caught black walking around
Another beautiful small town in West Virginia.
I'v never been there but now I feel a real connection to the place 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸
Beautiful mountains❤️ I grew up in a very small town in Southwestern Ontario, Canada.
It is called Tilbury. Due to the many farming families/blue collar workers who live there, people there were called, ‘Till-billies’! Lol
Great nickname 🤣
In the North there are Northern versions of the Southern Rednecks.
I think they are called Podunkers.
There is a nation of Native Americans called Podunks I head not sure.
Man, West Virginia, for those who may not know, is a town in far southern West Virginia near the border of Virginia. It is scenic country. The notion that all West Virginians are "hillbillies" is false, one of those myths they feed the tourists. Of course, some rural Appalachian counties are poor in comparison with the rest of the urbanized nation, and the rugged mountains and remote locations make it a hard place to earn a living. The promising young people tend to move out of the mountains to find opportunities for their talents, but the love of the mountains always remains with them.
If you grow up in the mountains anywhere, you learn to be tough, resilient, adaptable, and hard-working early in life, and that's true of West Virginians. I grew up in Western Pennsylvania, worked for a few years in Huntington, Morgantown, and Beckley, and drove up and down Rt. 219 from Lewisburg through Grafton and Davis to the Maryland line. I know the state fairly well. I dated several West Virginia girls back in the day and can attest they were all lovely, genuine and intelligent. I am very fond of the State and its people. If you want to see "the real America," this is the place to go.
If I visited the USA alone I would go for such a place rather than the typical tourist traps in Florida.
Ripley wv here. Work around Man a few times
Looks like my kind of place, I hate big city life...
I’ve just stumbled on to your videos over the last 24 hours and I’m really enjoying them. I really believe these are some of the most beautiful areas of the country. Watching your videos is a nice escape from my daily Chicago scenery. Keep up the great work.
thank you so much, I went to Chicago for the first time a couple of years ago. It was super cool but so different to experience as I am sure you can see.
Town reminds me of towns in the Ozarks. The hills look more rugged in WV.
Gender neutral West Virginia, now that's funny...also disturbing to think you may be right...😖
ain't that the truth lol
Thank you so much for this, lovely scenery and everyone looks really friendly. Hope to visit one day!
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I live in Verdunville near Logan and have been to Man many times. It truly is a nice little town.
I lived in Logan for a few years as a child and will be moving back their in a few weeks.
My mom was from mudfork up rockhouse and dad was from Dinges
I'm Australian but I am proud to know a distant relo is an early settler of Hancock, West Virginia. Seems a beautiful State.
I’m a native West Virginian and that town is sad.Not much of a pulse left.I’m not putting it down.The economic lifeblood has been sucked away.Across America there are a lot of little towns like Man.It happens mostly for economic reason.
I pray the town of Man and all the little WV towns survive what Pres. Bumbles and his Demonrats are about to do to the coal country. Let's Go Brandon!
I live in Martinsburg WV and I am proud of where I'm from ✌️❤️
Martinsburg is like a whole different state compared to the rest of WV.
Watch out, it will turn into a Swamp suburb.
What’s so great about martinsburg may I ask
@@brickbreaker9581 the people!
My daughter lives in Harpers Ferry. She works in DC. She’s from Rockford, IL. I’ve been out to visit a few times and yes WVA is absolutely beautiful. Those roads are too winding though. I’m used to straight gridded roads here. A lot of haunted history there due to being a Civil War battle ground.
Some of these WV places could be in rural western Washington state, where I'm from.
The town in this video reminds me of Winlock.
I wonder why people call it poor and even mock the place. It is way beautiful than a huge town here in philippines where I live. The entire place looks organized ang beatiful. Just wonder why no one seems to be there. It looks both lovely and lonely.
WV is a coal mining state. Most people here relied on those jobs in the mines in order to feed their families. Now, guess how poor they were. WV poor people built the wealth of many by the sweat and blood of many by just trying to survive. Now guess who made fun of them. Rich, ignorant, snobby people who carried tall tales to their rich friends, who in turn spread them wherever they went. This worked for them in 2 ways, 1- it helped inflate their self-importance and 2- it kept others out of their way. Because who would want to be around dirty, uneducated poor people when rhey had the choice of bigger cities and so-forth?! As a life-long hillbilly whose ancestors were coal miners and farmers, road builders and war veterans, I can tell u that we are proud of who we are! No matter what they say about us!!
Exactly!
I would not want the big city types here in any case. They'd never be able to adapt. They'd bring their big city ideas and problems to a place that would never tolerate that nonsense. We have our share of problems and idiots, just like anywhere else certainly has. But we're small towns and neighborhoods. We're spread out, plenty of mountains, peacefully quiet mostly, and easy privacy when you want it. Friends and neighbors when you want or have a need. We take care of our own when needed. Welcoming to friendly visitors. Belligerent outsiders stand out and end up finding reasons to not stay for long. State motto: Montani Semper Liberi (Mountaineers Always Free)...
I am proud to be called a hillbilly I was born and raised in a small town called clendenin WV keep up the good work I love your stories.
I lived in a place called mannington west Virginia. I stayed with a family there for about 3 months from end of Sept to almost Xmas 2010. I had been living in Florida for 13 years and Im originally from UK.
First time I'd seen snow and got caught in a blizzard driving up through the mountains. Awesome scenery but wrong time of year it was cold and wet.
They lived in a house in a hollow . Literally had a steep hill behind them with horses grazing . It was an experience I'll never forget. The neighbors name was Gump! Seriously I could not make this up. Xxx
Great story lol
Did you attend the fair? I love Mannington
If I ever had a chance to live in the USA, this is the kind of place I would chose. A small community in a stunningly beautiful part of the country.
Me as well, 🇨🇦
I’m from Buckhannon WV… I worked for a mobile home dealer here in Buckhannon back at the time of the big flood in Man… The federal government sent many mobile homes for people who lost their homes in the flood to live in temporarily for 3 years, I think it was until they got their homes rebuilt…
At that time we went to Man several times to transport some of the mobile homes out of Man… The State of WV Department of Natural Resources bought the ones we moved to different locations around the Central and Northern part of the state for WVDNR Field Offices… There was still a lot of evidence of the flood disaster back at that time and I have never been back since it was rebuilt...
There was a lady who had written a song about that flood that we met at a restaurant one time while we were there… I think her name was Jean Crowdy and I don’t know how I remember that but I hope someone corrects me if I’m wrong.
We all got a record from her… I can’t remember if she gave it to us of if we bought it…
thanks for sharing your story
I wish I lived near mountains. Houston sucks.
Be careful calling someone "hillbilly." I moved from So Cal to the south a few years ago, and made fun of a person's accent. As i got to know her, i realized she was an amazing person with more kindness and integrity than i'd ever known in a person before. I learned my lesson about using the word "hillbilly" or making fun of an accent, etc.
You should also learn that the local high school mascot is a hillbilly. The local school is the Man High Hillbillies and they're quite proud of it and rightfully so.
People can call themselves hillbilly. It can be a description without being an insult.
@Blake Hudson Her husband told me i was like the "Beverly Hillbillies" in reverse--i came from the city and was clueless about country life. And i was. He could open his window and shoot a turkey or squirrel, whatever, right in his own "back yard" (acres of it). They cooked squirrel once and had me try it without telling me what it was. When they said it was squirrel, i could not believe i had eaten some of it, and even liked it a little. They were awesome people, very friendly and nice.
Why would you even make fun of someone's accent it's mean as hell jesus
Vickie did you not look at the intro?They are Proud to be called Hillbillies.
I' m from the Netherlands and was lucky to visit Parkersburg for a week as a DuPonter. I loved every minute of it and agree that the people here are friendly and the state is beautiful. I did see a lot of poverty and that made me wonder why. The US is such a rich country. As I recall DuPont was one of the biggest employers around.
Until they gave thousands of workers health related illnesses
@@UnitedbyStoke you are right, that's my biggest dissapontment in the company.I was responsible for safety health and environmental at our site and always it was safety first and 0 incidents as most important with a zero footprint as goal. Just can't believe what they have done to the world for a bunch of dollars.
@@johngeen5633 - they are one of the 13 families are they not?
@@williamstonesmith7971 Sorry but I don't understand your response.🤔
@@johngeen5633 I’m from Parkersburg and I’m sure you did your part to make things better with DuPont but that plant has been operating since the 50’s so in a lot of ways the damage is already done. I’m glad you enjoyed your time there and I hope you will come back and visit again.
I live in Kanawha County. I have friends from Logan County, but have never been there. Its pretty through there.
Shhhhh, don't advertise this cool little place you got there. If it becomes popular you'll get a bunch of new people moving in and then you'll see your home values rise (sounds good right?) and then you'll see crime rates rise and then you'll have the new people tell you how you've been living wrong all your life and that even though they left their old area because it became a craphole, they know how to make your place better..... much better. Oh yeah, it will take higher taxes though and you'll have to change some names of buildings, schools, etc. because it is offensive to the new people that are moving to your town. Then you'll be told that you're going to have to make some changes because the way you have been doing things your entire life isn't the way that the new folks like it. Hey, they're the ones that made your house worth more and made your taxes go up and your crime rate go up, etc., etc., but they've got the money and they're gonna make things better. They just need to start over with their old ideas and this time they will make it work.
Yeah....... don't advertise this beautiful place you have to yourselves, the people fleeing their manmade crapholes know they can get it right this time...........................................
WV's population has been heavily decreasing the past decade.
This state already has some of the highest taxes in the US ontop of some of the worst crime rates
Red conservative sheep have done nothing but ruin this state with their idiotic values praising a corporate overlord because of promises that are said but never fulfilled
This state is nothing but retired assholes and citizens that break their backs for slave wages and many are tired of it. They're tired of working day after day risking their health and overall wellbeing just to live paycheck to paycheck drinking contaminated water and eating highly processed foods.
Giving all they can just to survive and helping keep brainwashing corporate assholes like Jim Justice in office
Most of the population has been brain washed into thinking this is the best way to live and that they are getting the best out of their lives when in reality WV is barely better than some 3rd world countries nowadays, the Healthcare is abysmal, working is abysmal, real good paying jobs that don't require you to hand over 30 years of your life expectancy are completely non-existent yet all this bullshit just keeps getting praised.
The reality of it is the current and next generation of young people are royally fucked this state has nothing to offer them
I believe that I have been there. I love WV, most beautiful State we have.