Bad as it sounds? (Huntington, Weirton: homes, dorms, unemployment)

[Need_affordable_home]

I got nothing against WV and the crime is much lower than FL. Might settle in WV if I find a good, safe town with nice people and nice $50k houses(which do exist)

[GottaHerdOn]

Check Elkins, WV out... or pretty much anywhere in WV aside from the Morgantown and Martinsburg areas. Those areas are growing rather fast and the prices of homes and property has sky rocketed. Anywhere in WV though you will find decent homes for 50k and 100k will buy a really nice home for a family

Check on here, there are plenty of pictures and some information.

www.cityofelkins.com (official site)


www.theintermountain.com (news paper)

[Stonecoldharbours]

WVA is truly a beautiful state and it will keep growing and prosper, as people are fleeing from the slums of DC/VA and moving to WVA and other states and commuting, it will prosper, and I do believe that Morgantown was rated in the top ten most livable safest places to live in the USA!

[wv4life]

Trust me WV isn't that bad...when moving dont look at crime rates or anything....in order for a good place stay in the Charleston/Huntington Metro area...many ammenities and active gay communities.

[susanwilliams07]

I just moved to WV and we are moving out as the signs welcome businesses, but it is impossible to get a business going, and true every other person complains how poverty stricken this place is and noone does anything about it and there are potentual oppertunities for this stat and true either rich or poor. Any way there is alot of love and caring people in the community I am in Parkersburg, Vienna area. Even though I have had a horrible time here from NJ I have a memory full of wonderful, loving kind people.non government

[Georgia]

Originally Posted by susanwilliams07

I just moved to WV and we are moving out as the signs welcome businesses, but it is impossible to get a business going, and true every other person complains how poverty stricken this place is and noone does anything about it and there are potentual oppertunities for this stat and true either rich or poor. Any way there is alot of love and caring people in the community I am in Parkersburg, Vienna area. Even though I have had a horrible time here from NJ I have a memory full of wonderful, loving kind people.non government

WV has not been business friendly since the mid-1970's and the Rockefeller empire. Heck all one needs to do is watch Jay daily on CSPAN and you can see how daily he tries to do to America what he accomplished in WV. A huge central government business unfriendly state of haves and have nots.

Since 1976, WV has seen it's lot of manufacturing and business leave. You will find some locations coming in, Toyota for example, along with Verizon and Foremost in Berkeley County. Most of this was done by granting the business a 10 year tax amnesty, but once the decade is done hello to one of the highest corporate tax liabilities in the country.

As for small business, it is almost impossible to cut any break, between goverment bonding, red tape, and overall company taxation it just about eats up 80% of your revenue stream per annum.

Each statehouse since Jay has always promoted goofy marketing gimmicks without substance. "Open for Business" being the latest with the old shaving cream signs before, and the nutty of all the County Green Sign. Those are the ones that state the county name with "Certified Business Location" underneath. It might be certified but in what I don't know.

WV is anything but business friendly.

Now, with the above said. I have lived in many places due to business transfers. Today, I'm in Georgia, a southern state with the similiar beauty of WV. Now Georgia unlike WV actually meant "Open for Business" and became a "Certified Business Location" in the last 10 years Georgia has went from a calm beautiful Southern state of 4 million to a megaopolis of 10 million. Just about every county in the state with the Atlanta area suffering most is development and overdevelopment. If it's green it's bulldozed. Strip Mall after Strip Mall, cookie cutter housing after housing. A 5 mile trip can take 5 minutes of 90 minutes. Crime is out of control. Illegal aliens are estimated at 500,000 in the Atlanta area alone!

So the questions comes, is WV right or is WV wrong. In most ways I look at WV, less Berkeley and Jefferson county as the Last Frontier of Eastern America. With this, maybe good old West By God should just stay the way it is. If you feel any different come to Georgia and get a taste of it.

I notice you are moving to Savannah or the Chatham County area. Not as bad as Atlanta, but when touring Savannah just remember to walk in groups and don't go out at night. If you want to start a business downtown make sure you get a good alarm system, since unlike WV it won't be the government robbing you blind, it will be the hoods breaking and entering.

Good Luck,

[diane faith]

I'm hoping WV stays a secret utopia so I can move there. But I am worried about the "can't get a small business open here" comment. We are self employed and know what it's like to have to jump through hoops of regulations to start up a business. Heck it's loads of fun to go into serious debt, deal with town inspectors and pay out the nose for a super high deductible disaster type health insurance....but it sure is good to be your own boss.

[Big_Al]

Diane Faith,-Yeah, health insurance deductibles can be high but if they high-monthly premiums are low. I'm self-employed too and my premiums are $220 for 2 people. I chose $5000 deductible and med.saving account which is ok in my situation. I could significantly decrease the deductible and lower the monthly payments too. I expected much worse situation.

"Need Affordable Home"- maybe $50.000 homes exist but will you like it, area, neighbors? It sounds like either fairy tale or a disaster.

[Katie1]

Originally Posted by Need_affordable_home

I got nothing against WV and the crime is much lower than FL. Might settle in WV if I find a good, safe town with nice people and nice $50k houses(which do exist)

If you are looking to retire & buy a house in your price range try Keyser WV.

[diane faith]

Originally Posted by Big_Al

Diane Faith,-Yeah, health insurance deductibles can be high but if they high-monthly premiums are low. I'm self-employed too and my premiums are $220 for 2 people. I chose $5000 deductible and med.saving account which is ok in my situation. I could significantly decrease the deductible and lower the monthly payments too. I expected much worse situation.

"Need Affordable Home"- maybe $50.000 homes exist but will you like it, area, neighbors? It sounds like either fairy tale or a disaster.

Yeah we at about the same place with our costs. It's just harder with 2 young boys because if you have to go get stitches for some crazy tumble they take playing you have a big bill for awhile. But that's life. Work hard and live the American dream. It's all far more pleasant than living in a corrugated hut in a 3rd world country with nothing to eat. I sometimes wish Americans who bash America could be forced to live somewhere else for a few weeks. Bet they'd come back realizing how great this place really is and how fat and happy we all are. I count my many blessings everyday.!!!