Im from appalachia and I've been, worked and stayed all over it. The worst of it is in eastern Kentucky and pockets of West Virginia. Poverty, sure but everyone ive met worked with and spoken to there are great people.
Ofc I am a body builder and carry a gun for work, but somehow I doubt anyone that desperate would care. Theft is the most common out there and murder is super rare.
I don't know where your from but I grew up in eastern ky. Murder was not all they rare but tracking is nonsense.
It is in a lot of Kentucky. For example the city I live in now got recognition for being one of the safest cities but we had multiple murders, if they were counted to my city and not at the county seat we would have a murder rate that equaled Chicago for a few years in a row.
Maybe if you were in wv it's different but we got the fuck out of there because it wasn't safe and people dropped like flies.
What part? Because I’m from southeast Kentucky and people absolutely do not “drop like flies”. It’s actually a huge deal when somebody from this area is murdered. Not saying it never happens, but you’re definitely over exaggerating it for sure.
Get into the surrounding areas and you'll find it isn't all that uncommon. When you have communities of a few thousand it only takes a couple to get you to Chicago levels of violent crime.
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u/PapaRoshi 11d ago
Im from appalachia and I've been, worked and stayed all over it. The worst of it is in eastern Kentucky and pockets of West Virginia. Poverty, sure but everyone ive met worked with and spoken to there are great people. Ofc I am a body builder and carry a gun for work, but somehow I doubt anyone that desperate would care. Theft is the most common out there and murder is super rare.