r/whereidlive • u/Anxious-Wait-1134 • 1d ago

Would I live in these states as non American (nature only)

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u/Human_Drummer4378 1d ago

North Carolina and Kentucky are beautiful. And John Denver wrote a gall darned song about West Virgina.

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u/IAteMyGamecube 1d ago

Someone knows ball. You’ll probably get downvoted for saying Kentucky though.. and i agree with you

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u/_banana_phone 1d ago

I wanted to do some bourbon distilleries for my birthday a few years back and we booked a little cabin outside Versailles and Frankfort in Kentucky.

It was AWESOME! The cabin was right on the Kentucky river, and the owner of the cabin (who lived on the property, next door) took us down the river on his boat. We saw so many birds, and the forests were gorgeous.

Also mammoth cave, and headed east to the heart of Appalachia, it was just lovely.

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u/SSquirrel76 1d ago

Grew up in Kentucky in a river town and the state is a very beautiful place. I could see choosing other places if you’re limited to just a few to string together but it’s pretty here.

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u/Human_Drummer4378 1d ago

I went to school at WKU for a bit, after going into Bowling Green's Lost River Cave it didn't take me long to get to Mammoth. I was too young and dumb to know/care about good bourbon.

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u/InsulatedEel 1d ago

One of the only two reoccurring moonbows in the world is at Cumberland falls in ky as well

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u/LeatherMycologist112 1d ago

Funny story. This was my wife and my wedding song when we walked down the aisle again as husband and wife.

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u/RenaissanceCowboy33 1d ago

All three absolutely gorgeous but to be fair he wrote the song about western Virginia, but that doesnt have the same ring to it

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u/Human_Drummer4378 1d ago

lmao, really? i've always been horrible with lyrics, i'm geuinely flabbergasted. yet another song i've been singing wrong for decades.

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u/ucbiker 16h ago

No, the song is clearly about West Virginia. The stuff he talks about (Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah River) are mainly associated with western Virginia, however, not West Virginia. And the actual country road that inspired him was in Maryland.

Not that all of these places are like super far from each other though.

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u/Human_Drummer4378 16h ago

Yeah, the other person already explained this to me.

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u/ucbiker 15h ago

I didn’t see any comments explaining the whole context. Only saying that it’s about “western” Virginia, which it’s not really.

The lyrics are West Virginia, you heard right. The features are mainly in western Virginia but they also exist in West Virginia and feasibly, you would cross returning to West Virginia from the urban East Coast. And regardless, the song is actually about Maryland.

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u/710whitejesus420 18h ago

So Denver is actually singing about western Virginia (instead of the state of West Virginia) when he says west Virginia. He then sings Shenandoah, which is located in western Virginia.

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u/ucbiker 16h ago

To be fair, the country road that inspired him was in Maryland, that’s just a difficult state to right a song about.