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05-25-2009, 06:26 AM
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What is/are the friendliest region(s) of Kentucky, in your opinion?
I know this an unusual and pointless thread and poll, but I just thought of it and am curious to see your answers.
I will not, as well as anyone else here should not, use this to trash another area of Kentucky. Perhaps we've had various positive and negative experiences in certain areas of the state (like I have), but let's keep this thread positive.
Please select up to three options in the poll. Thanks!
Last edited by EclecticEars; 05-25-2009 at 06:33 AM..
Reason: Grammatical error
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05-25-2009, 09:03 AM
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I voted for the Purchase and the western coal field because I have lived in those two. Was born and raised in the purchase and I know folks are friendly around there. Then spent almost 30 years in Union County, right in the coal fields. Always friendly people there too. I am now in Cadiz, which isn't exactly in the Purchase area, which ends at the Tennessee River and have also found very friendly people there too! That's why, for my third choice, I picked "I love all of Kentucky".
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05-25-2009, 09:53 AM
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No, the other London
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You forgot Eastern KY, you know the area where Pikeville, Prestonsburg, Paintsville, Whitesburg, Hindman, Inez, Jackson, etc are located......
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05-25-2009, 10:04 AM
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East Ky was not on the poll where I live..We are very friendly here and would easily invite you to come sit a spell on our porches and pass the time in friendly conversation. 
I have been all over Ky, and have found most of the people to be very friendly and helpful..I have found that if I smile and say something pleasant it is almost always returned..
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05-25-2009, 10:11 AM
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Where are Hardin, Meade, and LaRue counties on this poll?
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05-25-2009, 10:56 AM
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I voted for the South-Central Kentucky. Though Eastern Kentuckians are very friendly, they can be a little thick headed, this is just an opinion being from Irvine so, it not a knock, because I am from there. This was a fun poll though, and I think its funny Northern Kenttucky has no votes lol.
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05-25-2009, 11:55 AM
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Chillaxin' with a great city view
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Great questions, ya'll!
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Originally Posted by InLondon
You forgot Eastern KY, you know the area where Pikeville, Prestonsburg, Paintsville, Whitesburg, Hindman, Inez, Jackson, etc are located......
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I'd place Pikeville and Whitesburg in Southeast KY b/c they're along US 119, the major Pine Mountain area artery. Very Southeast KY if you ask me. Hindman and Jackson go S.E. b/c, well, they're just so daggone close to Hazard.
Prestonsburg and Inez I would classify as Northeast KY. They've always felt more "N.E. Kentuckyish" to me, although I can't quite put my fingers on it.
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Originally Posted by Alanboy395
Where are Hardin, Meade, and LaRue counties on this poll?
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That's a grey area that I should've perhaps better defined, and I apologize. Larue County, in my mind, is very Southcentral Kentucky with more cultural influences from Tennessee than even Elizabethtown.
Hardin County is Metropolitan Louisville; 100,000 residents in that area and growing b/c of the military base and exurban encroachment from Louisville.
Meade County is Western Kentucky b/c it just feels more Western Coal Field in many ways to me than "Louisville Metro" Area. Nothing "big city" about Meade County at all.
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05-25-2009, 12:10 PM
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I voted for the friendliest region, in my experience: Northern Kentucky.
No, I'm not kidding, I really did vote for Northern Kentucky. After traveling to 97/120 counties, attending UofL, doing summer programs, and interacting with retail customers, I have met some very wonderful, polite and friendly people from NKY. Furthermore, I was up there just apartment hunting yesterday and was impressed by just how polite and helpful nearly everybody we interacted with was--sidewalk walkers, convenience store clerks, restaurant waiters, landlords, etc. And I've usually found it easy to strike conversations with native N. Ky'ans...not always, of course, there are always some sour heads and uppity princesses, but still...
Louisville natives have, by and large, either been really polite (but not genuinely friendly) or had a huge attitude problem. The worst case of road rage I've ever seen was in Lexington. I found 2/3 of the people I interacted with on my last trip to Owensboro to be rather surly and impolite. Southeastern Kentucky has been rather standoffish to me. HOWEVER, I have met some incredibly friendly and warm people from each of these regions too, as well as the others.
Anyplace you live you can find good and bad people. Just the way it is. However, I'm looking forward to N. Ky. and honestly think that I will like it! Time will tell...
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05-25-2009, 12:27 PM
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I've known some incredibly warm welcomes from Eastern Kentuckians. So I'm writing it in as well.
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05-25-2009, 02:26 PM
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No, the other London
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Quote:
Originally Posted by EclecticEars
Great questions, ya'll!
I'd place Pikeville and Whitesburg in Southeast KY b/c they're along US 119, the major Pine Mountain area artery. Very Southeast KY if you ask me. Hindman and Jackson go S.E. b/c, well, they're just so daggone close to Hazard.
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Pikeville is certainly not SE KY. By looking at a map you can see that Pikeville can be found in far Eastern KY. There is a difference. |
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