Comment on What is the worst US state to live in generally?
Samanthastanky@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Listening to the Mothman episodes of Last Podcast on the Left made me pretty scared of West Virginia.
Comment on What is the worst US state to live in generally?
Samanthastanky@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Listening to the Mothman episodes of Last Podcast on the Left made me pretty scared of West Virginia.
AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Idk why people are downvoting you, Aplalachia is one of the poorest regions in the United States, where there is little opportunity and a real lack of quality education. On top of that, drugs have ravaged the area, and the people are clinging desperately to a coal industry that is vanishing at a steady rate. Instead of looking for an alternative industry to boost their economy, the people there have doubled down, making some of the villages there literal ghost towns.
Its a shame too, because they have a beautiful country and a growing tourism industry that wants to take advantage of that. They need to lean real hard into the hospitality side so they can jumpstart their economy.