How did ya end up in West Va..

[confusedTee]

hubby says once it's in your blood u can't get it out.........many are leaving areas where i have been to come here........MOTHER still calls this VA..she has no clue or care too..She lives in """MINT HILL""" NC...............and she CAN HAVE IT!! I don't care how much they make there...YUK and traffic galore just to get there once u start getting around JR'S..........and her area is real uppity and snobby..

[Leachfamily08]

My wife used to manage a coffee shop and the owner's mother was from West Virginia. She would always come home telling me about how her and this woman would compare and contrast panama city to west virginia. We are fed up with Florida and the more we saw of WV the more we liked.

[GottaHerdOn]

My fathers family came here from Pennsylvania in the early 1900's, and my mothers family came to America from Italy in the teens, and moved to WV around the mid 1920's to work in the mines, etc.

[Bobilee]

When I was 16 my family took the hillbilly highway to Michigan. In high school they thought my accent was cute, but in a few years I had lost it. I stayed in Michigan and left to go to art school in Philadelphia, where I am now. My mom died in Michigan, though my dad still lived in Huntington. He died just this past July. He had an accent you could bounce a tennis ball off of, and I was going to move back to the Cabell/Wayne area and buy a farm because he loved to grow things, tomatoes, corn, peppers. On a positive note, my granny is still around at 96, we have been in West Virginia since the beginning, and I still plan to move back.

[David Kennedy]

A grandfather saw the Morgantown area in 1781...He was part of the Army of George Rogers Clark. When the Revolutionary War was over, he came from Winchester and took his payment in land. With a brother, he operated a tavern/hotel on one of the new local turnpikes.
He took a local widow to wife. She brought 4 children to that marriage. They gave land for the local churches and log school houses. That great lady birthed 7 additional children who survived. Succeeding generations suffered the Civil War and other wars, depressions and health plagues, epidemics and economic downturns...
The out migrations began with the Depression of the 1930's to California and Florida.
To Ohio in the 1950's and the 1970's.
Myself, as a wander, lived and worked in Honolulu, Portland, San Francisco, Orlando, Savannah, Charlotte, Colorado Springs and West Virginia. Also, along the way came visits to many foreign countries. There are places of incredible beauty on this Earth.
Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Colorado and Wyoming, Oregon just to name a few. None has the attachment that West Virginia has...It feels safe...like home should. I think that its borne with the suffering of the past to survive. That's a common bond that everyone here understands..from the top to the bottom...and its a part of being free. We can do/be that here. We are not the plastic Walmart world yet...not yet.

[WVMom]

Born and raised here. Hope I am blessed enough to be able to stay the rest of my days here.

I have been to many other parts of the US..and frankly, alot are very nice places to visit...but none have compared to my home.

I just wish it could be kept a secret. It is sadly, becoming more and more like everywhere else.

[snorpus]

My maternal grandfather came across the Blue Ridge from Virginia, settled in Pocahontas County (Marlinton), worked in the mines and the tannery. Still have lots of relatives in Spotsylvania Co., VA.

My father's family came from Scotland, via Massachusetts and Pennsylvania; he was born in Clarksburg but, it being the Depression, they moved a lot; he graduated from high school in California.

My parents met when my father was in the CCC, stationed at Camp Watoga, in the early 1940s. After the war, they moved to Wetzel County to run the small telephone company started by my great-grandfather.

Snorpus