Anonymous
Post 07/21/2022 12:08     Subject: So many people are moving to West Virginia - Colleagues, childhood friends, neighbors
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We bought a vacation place and we love it for the beauty and for our actual house.

We are careful about where we go, and what we say, even in our community. The political divide is real. We recently invited friends of ours, who are Black, for a weekend, and they admitted to us that they were really apprehensive (we are white). I made sure we were careful about where we ventured to, because the reality is that WV only has pockets of places where non-white presenting people would feel comfortable.

Shepherdstown is welcoming to diversity, but other towns, not so much.


What about Cannan valley? We plan to visit that area in Oct, and we are not white.


Canaan Valley/Davis/and Thomas are all friendly and welcoming.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2022 11:51     Subject: So many people are moving to West Virginia - Colleagues, childhood friends, neighbors
Anonymous wrote:We bought a vacation place and we love it for the beauty and for our actual house.

We are careful about where we go, and what we say, even in our community. The political divide is real. We recently invited friends of ours, who are Black, for a weekend, and they admitted to us that they were really apprehensive (we are white). I made sure we were careful about where we ventured to, because the reality is that WV only has pockets of places where non-white presenting people would feel comfortable.

Shepherdstown is welcoming to diversity, but other towns, not so much.


What about Cannan valley? We plan to visit that area in Oct, and we are not white.
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2022 17:07     Subject: Re:So many people are moving to West Virginia - Colleagues, childhood friends, neighbors
One downside to moving to a rural state like WV is that your children will probably move far away in search of better job opportunities when they finish college.
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2022 17:04     Subject: So many people are moving to West Virginia - Colleagues, childhood friends, neighbors
We bought a vacation place and we love it for the beauty and for our actual house.

We are careful about where we go, and what we say, even in our community. The political divide is real. We recently invited friends of ours, who are Black, for a weekend, and they admitted to us that they were really apprehensive (we are white). I made sure we were careful about where we ventured to, because the reality is that WV only has pockets of places where non-white presenting people would feel comfortable.

Shepherdstown is welcoming to diversity, but other towns, not so much.
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2022 16:54     Subject: So many people are moving to West Virginia - Colleagues, childhood friends, neighbors
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Virginia has Youngkin, who by almost every measure is even worse than Jim Justice. Virginians have no room to talk.

Nope, WV has Joe Manchin, that double talking ah*le. Calls himself a Democrat! Just a joke. I’ll stay in nova, thank you.


Manchin is 1000 times better than Youngkin. Flaws and all. You cannot be serious.


Exactly! Without Manchin, Jackson wouldn’t have been confirmed to the SC.
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2022 16:18     Subject: So many people are moving to West Virginia - Colleagues, childhood friends, neighbors
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We just looked at property in WV this weekend. Going to pass. We're not white and felt uncomfortable. When we got there the realtors logo had an Indian boy with a bow and arrow. DH is native and it wasn't a good start.

We looked on the eastern panhandle area. Paw paw, Capacon, Wardensville. The prices are still 5-10k an acre, which is decent. And like $250 for property tax. But the nice houses are in gated communities. It had a real haves and have-nots vibe, which felt so uncomfortable as we drove by trailer parks situated next to 775k homes in gated developments


There’s a huge native population in WV, learn some history instead of being offended by a picture of an Indian.

Exactly.
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2022 16:17     Subject: So many people are moving to West Virginia - Colleagues, childhood friends, neighbors
Anonymous wrote:We just looked at property in WV this weekend. Going to pass. We're not white and felt uncomfortable. When we got there the realtors logo had an Indian boy with a bow and arrow. DH is native and it wasn't a good start.

We looked on the eastern panhandle area. Paw paw, Capacon, Wardensville. The prices are still 5-10k an acre, which is decent. And like $250 for property tax. But the nice houses are in gated communities. It had a real haves and have-nots vibe, which felt so uncomfortable as we drove by trailer parks situated next to 775k homes in gated developments


There’s a huge native population in WV, learn some history instead of being offended by a picture of an Indian.
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2022 16:13     Subject: So many people are moving to West Virginia - Colleagues, childhood friends, neighbors
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Th panhandle is gorgeous— hiking, kayaking, horseback riding and skiing easily accessed. Housing is cheap, and you don’t have to deal with traffic congestion to run to town or the store. Shepherdstown is one of the most progressive towns in the region - very blue - and a lot of quaint, mom and pop shops.


It's very pretty but when I looked for land there, I didn't want to be the wealthier person among pervasive poverty. Most WV even if surrounded by natural resources, can't access it for lack of time and money. They're not kayaking, riding, hiking. It was really sad


I want to nominate this entire thread for the DCUM Hall of Fame, and this post needs to be on the plaque.

Because there’s nothing else you can do in the countryside other than “kayak, ride and hike.” LOL.

(Hint: people in WV spend a lot of time “hiking.” Except they do it with guns and they call it “hunting.” There’s also this thing called “fishing.”)


I love this response.
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2022 16:10     Subject: So many people are moving to West Virginia - Colleagues, childhood friends, neighbors
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This thread seems to be entirely populated by white people.


Straight white people no less. Good luck having a good experience while being LGBTQ or a person of color in WV. I literally saw, with my own eyes, a black family refused service at a Dairy Queen in West Virginia. Their SUV had NY plates. I've also interacted with white hillbilly's that use the N word like it's just normal.


Again, you’re generalizing. Shepherdstown has pride flags and BLM flags on virtually every downtown shop and home, zero Trump flags, and population that would never in a million years tolerate any of that.

It’s so interesting how folks think nothing of generalizing about an entire state’s population, then call themselves liberal and open-minded and put their noses up like they’re better. Such hypocrites.


Actually they would tolerate Trump flags just like the Trumpers tolerate pride and BLM flags. Shepherdstown during election season had trump signs all over. Majority of Trump people don’t advertise outside of election time like BLM or others do. It’s just a given that at least half your neighbors will be Republican. Politics don’t dominate the region though, that’s a big difference between WV and DC. Nobody is going to touch anyone’s flag in a Constitutional Carry state, if you do you’re just stupid.
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2022 16:01     Subject: So many people are moving to West Virginia - Colleagues, childhood friends, neighbors
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This thread seems to be entirely populated by white people.


That is the most concise summary of a dcum thread ever.

I won’t even visit WV. I am not white.


The church I attend in WV is multi generational and multi cultural. There’s people of all colors, ages, races, mixed race couples, black and white preachers, etc.- nobody cares about race like you think they do. People that don’t know WV have just told you that you wouldn’t be welcome and you listened to them. That’s unfortunate.
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2022 15:55     Subject: So many people are moving to West Virginia - Colleagues, childhood friends, neighbors
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Th panhandle is gorgeous— hiking, kayaking, horseback riding and skiing easily accessed. Housing is cheap, and you don’t have to deal with traffic congestion to run to town or the store. Shepherdstown is one of the most progressive towns in the region - very blue - and a lot of quaint, mom and pop shops.


It's very pretty but when I looked for land there, I didn't want to be the wealthier person among pervasive poverty. Most WV even if surrounded by natural resources, can't access it for lack of time and money. They're not kayaking, riding, hiking. It was really sad


You’re funny. Most people in WV have more money than you think they do. They just don’t show it by wearing flashy clothes, having big new poorly built houses, and eating at fancy restaurants. In WV the guy you mistake for a bum could be a millionaire. Looks can be deceiving.
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2022 15:47     Subject: So many people are moving to West Virginia - Colleagues, childhood friends, neighbors
Not buying it. No one's moving to WVA.
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2022 15:39     Subject: So many people are moving to West Virginia - Colleagues, childhood friends, neighbors
Maybe we can turn West VA blue; it's beautiful and would be a great place to live if people would put more work into it.
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2022 15:37     Subject: So many people are moving to West Virginia - Colleagues, childhood friends, neighbors
No reason to move there if you aren’t poor and can afford it here. People get pushed further and further west as even the exurbs become less affordable.
Anonymous
Post 07/20/2022 15:34     Subject: So many people are moving to West Virginia - Colleagues, childhood friends, neighbors
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The strangest thing about WV having a racist population, if it is indeed racist, is that WV started as the western part of Virginia which wanted nothing to do with slavery, and left as a result.


I didn't know that about West Virginia


I'm a PP living in West Virginia and am amazed at how few people know that the "West" in West Virginia came from them seceding from the South.

Yet they call West Virginians ignorant...