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I will take the nice laid back friendly, everybody knows your name small town and rural living any day..I have been there and done that with big cities, suburbs, big city traffic and people too busy to be a neighbor
But I've always told my best half that if I had the money I would love to move to the place of my forefathers, other than Scotland. Its a little hole in the wall on the fart east-end of Kentucky just about at the border of Boyd and Lawrence county. Its called "Boltsfork", and it was settled sometime around "1757". I still have some kin that live in the area but its been a longtime since I was back down there. That part of Kentucky is as close to God as one can ever get.
I know exactly where you're talking about! I live a few miles north of Boltsfork in Boyd County. My wife and I enjoy driving down Rt. 3 from I-64 to Fallsburg.
I know exactly where you're talking about! I live a few miles north of Boltsfork in Boyd County. My wife and I enjoy driving down Rt. 3 from I-64 to Fallsburg.
Thats great, most people just look at me and say , yah right . The story is that my forefathers got there before Daniel Boone came to Kentucky.
The old Bolt Cemetery up on Garner has most of the Bolt family planted there. Except my Father who is buried up here in Ohio. Although we did have a little problem with some of the locals trying to bury thier family in our cemetery. We have a major "no can do" rule, unless you are a member of the family. So I was told that they were made to remove them with the exception of one they found that they were shirt-tail cousins to us, they got to stay.
I have lived in small town Kentucky all my life (so far! lol). I prefer small towns, say 15,000 or less, over bigger cities anytime. Everybody knows everybody (that can be bad at times though!), If you need help, there's always someone ready to lend a helping hand.
My grandfather had a nationally syndicated column in the 30's, when, if you went anywhere, you travelled by train. He wrote once that if you're going to take a train somewhere, especially on weekends, you better shine your shoes and wear your best clothes, because everybody will be at the station to see who's going where!
I will take the nice laid back friendly, everybody knows your name small town and rural living any day..I have been there and done that with big cities, suburbs, big city traffic and people too busy to be a neighbor
Well, since I'm so used to living in a small town with unfriendly neighbors (these are not busy or rushed people, just flat-out unfriendly,) I might as well live in a more urban area. At least I would be used to my neighbor not speaking to me as often, and I wouldn't have the lack of modern amenities and stores that "living in the sticks" provides. (I've done the urban and suburban thing before.)
Spent part of my life living in Chicago, then I lived in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Mexico City ... Mexico City, 28 million people as soon as I got a chance to come of the road and move back to a small town I was on it. And now I'm happily living in a town that has less people than a typical apartment building in a big one and I love it! Sure there are times I miss being able to get nearly anything I want, but with the internet I can order it.
Sorry, but I would never live in a Subdivision. If I can hit my neighbours house with a rock the his is way to close. I like the country life, if I want to fire off my shotgun then I'll do so without some nosey person calling the cops. Or trying to tell me how to mow my lawn. But, thats just me.
I agree...I never understood the whole idea of paying a neighborhood association $500/Year to tell me what I can and can not do with MY property. I understand that it's for the good of the neighborhood, but it's just not for me. Not that I want to paint my house bright pink, but I CAN if I want.
If you are looking for a nice, very small little burg in KY, then Frenchburg would be a consideration. There is nothing going on there. It's a lot like it was 50 years ago. People are nice, pace is slow. There is no industry. People work at Mt. Sterling or Lexington, or even further away. Personally, I love it there.
Moving to the outskirts of Paris to get away from the "hit your neighbor's house with a rock" existance. Rural enough for me, yet close enough to "city life" to experience those benefits also!
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