Rural KY photo "sticky" (Frankfort, Corbin: high school, manufactured, backyard)
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Thank you all for posting the beautiful pictures. I'm thinking of moving soon with my family to the Berea/McKee area from Florida. My family has all pretty much relocated over the last 14 years so where come June, I'll be the only one left in FL. I was curious if there's a good job market there for myself (middle management in financial services firm) or a mechanic? My hubby and I are willing to look into alternative employment because I'm good with the computer and he's good at fixing stuff. Just curious if there's already a high unemployment rate there? Any feedback would be fantastic. Thanks.
Thank you all for posting the beautiful pictures. I'm thinking of moving soon with my family to the Berea/McKee area from Florida. My family has all pretty much relocated over the last 14 years so where come June, I'll be the only one left in FL. I was curious if there's a good job market there for myself (middle management in financial services firm) or a mechanic? My hubby and I are willing to look into alternative employment because I'm good with the computer and he's good at fixing stuff. Just curious if there's already a high unemployment rate there? Any feedback would be fantastic. Thanks.
youd be best off posting this under the kentucky forum as a new post
Thank you all for posting the beautiful pictures. I'm thinking of moving soon with my family to the Berea/McKee area from Florida. My family has all pretty much relocated over the last 14 years so where come June, I'll be the only one left in FL. I was curious if there's a good job market there for myself (middle management in financial services firm) or a mechanic? My hubby and I are willing to look into alternative employment because I'm good with the computer and he's good at fixing stuff. Just curious if there's already a high unemployment rate there? Any feedback would be fantastic. Thanks.
I no longer live in Kentucky (maybe someday if my STBX decides to move back there for the sake of our son), but I think you'd be better of looking for employment in Lexington (maybe Richmond?) for work as a manager or something in financial services, and your husband should just apply at every garage he can find. THEN think about doing the "alternative" employment on the side as a hobby. I could see you doing something like creating web pages for artists there in Berea, etc. Kentucky's a beautiful, historical, BEAUTIFUL (said it again, LOL!) state, but it's just as miserable a state to live in as any other state if you can't support yourself.
I'm in the middle of writing a book about the mining industry in my home county of Muhlenberg County in Western Kentucky. Muhlenberg used to lead the world in coal production and was home to many of the largest machines in the world many times. My book, a photo book, is covering these machines in Muhlenberg County as well as neighboring Hopkins and Ohio Counties.
While on assignment in Ohio County, I was able to get onsite and snag a few photos at Armstrong Coal Company's new Midway Surface Mine outside of Centertown, KY.
Muhlenberg County, and Western Kentucky in general, really put Kentucky on the map with coal mining. Kentucky's first commercial coal mine was in Muhlenberg County and this was where the giant machines of coal mining was born and roamed. It was truly a sight to see through the 1960's up until the 1990's! Very exciting times, but the good thing is they are slowly coming back!! Western Kentucky Coal is in very high demand again!!
Rural -any open space - cropland, rangeland, forested area, any nameless countryside
Urban - built up, densely populated, areas of concentrated industrial and or commercial activity - clustered cities towns and villages - areas with a much, much higher density of permanent human activity than all the surrounding vicinity
By those definitions, every county in Kentucky has it's urban areas, and to some degree, each has something that, by some stretch of the imagination, could be considered "urban." In Louisville/Jefferson County, There are, for now, large areas which have remained "rural" (countryside.) In Lexington/Fayette, the proportion rises to perhaps half or more of the county's area.
Here are some examples of "rural" sites in Louisville/Jefferson County:
Farnsley Mormen Landing
"Scenic view of Muldraugh Hill from Jefferson Memorial Forest"
Miles Park near Eastwood
There are many other, albiet quickly disapearing (even with current economic conditions) examples around the county. The current location of (and area around) Southeast Christian Church was (up until that compex was built, and all which came with it,) beautiful bucolic countryside with a canopy of trees shading the roadways lined with split rail fences, and truck farms. Even JCC Southwest was mostly surrounded by countryside through most of the 1990s.
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