Pros and Cons of Living in Kentucky - Are You Welcome Here?

Want to know the truth about the pros and cons of living in Kentucky and will you be accepted as a newcomer? As someone who's been through a cross country move to a brand new State, my story may help you decide what Central Kentucky areas may be right for you. Does Kentucky get a lot of snow? Where are the good schools? It is diverse? Will I fit in? There are a ton of questions when moving to a new area. We hope this video is helpful in answering some of those concerns. There's still a lot more to cover that we just can't squeeze into one video, so consider subscribing to see more.

Looking to move to Central KY? Hardesty Team is here to help show you around the I65 strip from Elizabethtown down to Bowling Green! We‘re very familiar with these areas as they have been home to us for over 20 years. If you’d like to see more about these areas, maybe you’re taking a new job at one of the many new plants coming to the Central Kentucky area, or you are getting orders to PCS to Fort Knox, our channel should bring you some very helpful content to help get you acquainted! We are local realtors here, so please feel free to contact us should you need assistance finding a home in these areas.

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[loveshorses]

We are considering moving to Central Kentucky in a couple years and find your videos very helpful. Thank you!

[life_with_wool]

So happy to have found your channel, and thank you for such a great review of Central Kentucky.

[Michael_Popok]

Great video about your state. Thank you for posting

[martina]

I just came across your video, and I found it very informative! I appreciate you being very candid throughout. Thank you so much!

[colinmckenzie]

Good video, we have been here 6 months now. Thanks to your videos we are loving it here in Kentucky. Keep it the videos coming.

[danni]

God moved us out of democratic south Florida to a small conservative town in Central Florida at the start of covid before anyone really knew what was going on. Thankfully my children lived and continue to live free, go to school, never masked, etc. 5 yrs later, I now I have the same feeling like we need to get out of here now. I am seeing the town almost with new eyes so I appreciate this video. Many of us can relate ❤

[The_Remnant]

Happy to have found your channel. My husband and I are thinking of purchasing land in Kentucky. We currently live in a new jersey suburb, so I'm going through the learning process of what all is required (septic etc.). I'm grateful to have found your channel.

[briansouza]

Thanks for the video, my wife and I are researching like crazy

[richkeegan]

What part of Kentucky would you recommend for homesteading fishing outdoor activities

[melissafigg]

Thank you, we are tring to sell our home and move to Kentucky. Im praying it happens. Thank you for your videos.😊

[KindaSorta]

I'm a brown dude in my 30s from a crowded suburb in Los Angeles County. My wife and I bought a 12 acre farm in Clark County, Kentucky, joined a great local baptist church in Montgomery County...we became instant family with those folks. We feel right at home. Not a single person has judged us one bit for being from CA. I always reassure them that I'm here to keep the red states red, although their reaction to that seems to be mixed. Some HUGE high fives of course, but also some were more like "your grandfather's conservatism" where they just don't talk about politics much, even though they are conservative. lol

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I moved here in 2015 and have lived in Hardin County all this time. Neither myself nor my sons have made a single friend the entire time we've lived here. People are rude, clanish, and paranoid. As a matter of fact my neighbor routinely calls the police on me because she thinks I'm laughing at her. I got so fed up with it I made the decision that were moving back to Kansas. The good news is is I'm gonna make over 100% profit when I sell my house.

[ronbown]

I'm looking to relocate to Kentucky and we're looking more like east of i-75 roughly the Clay county area Jackson county area and I was wondering what kind of areas are there that are good. I'm 57 years old and going to be retiring soon. Is that area good for retirees? Right at this moment I have like 35 acres in Colorado but I realized that it's not for me and maybe the climate is just too dry which is kind of nice but in the winter time it can get really cold there at night. Summertime is just the opposite and in the daytime it can get sweltering hot but the knights you can literally hang out outside and it is so comfortable.

[jamesfrancisco]

I really appreciate your videos. So far I've watched 3 or 4 of them, mainly to get a feel for Kentucky as a place to live. We're currently in central MI where COLD is a 4-letter word! However, we have 3 married daughters that all live in either VA or NC. Those two states are way too expensive now to find a house, so we've decided to look in Kentucky. Always love the scenery when we drive through. Your videos help a lot in the decision of "where to live" in KY. And we're looking at middle to southeast KY, but not too much into the mountains. Thanks again, for your great videos and information!

[TheCharleseye]

As someone who is currently living in California (not born or raised but landed here and got stuck), I understand Idahoans' sentiments, completely. For several years I've been listening to the conversations from people who are moving and those who have friends/family who moved. Few of them are talking about how much they love the culture or environment of another State. Nearly all of them are talking about how easy it is to sell their house here, bid over asking price somewhere else, and walk into a new home, with plenty of money to spare.

Yeah, that's great for them but meanwhile, they're gentrifying entire States. People from Idaho - who _love_ Idaho - want to be able to buy houses in Idaho. Now they're having to bid against Californians with lots of money, who don't really care about Idaho. They just want to leave California. I'd be pretty upset, too.

Kentucky is an amazing State that isn't given enough credit. If I ever end up there, it will be because I love it there. I'm just a working class guy with a family, and a modest home, so I have no intention of throwing money around, to get my way. Here's hoping I make it some day and that it will still be Kentucky when I get there. It's weird missing a place so much, where I never lived.

[johndaly]

I moved from Vermont to Cape Girardeau, MO and I literally never heard of biscuits and gravy before I moved. I was so deprived!

[AudiRings]

This is a really good video because I was hesitant coming from Chicago wondering if I could fit in. That's a big part mentally. I absolutely did not like Florida, they hate Yankees and fort worth Texas was just odd. Moving to Louisville here soon. This was reassuring

[Jessoroni]

Everything i hear from Kentucky and Tennessee is the same in Ca only cheaper and better. I get 5feet of snow, brown recluses, snakes, ticks. The humidity is the only thing that scares me. My place in CA gets down to 12degrees and i love it. You almost have me talked into it.

[jamesthornberry]

A successful relocation requires a degree of flexibility. I have lived ocean to ocean and border to border and speak with some degree of experience on the matter. Your statement about choosing friends for children is applicable to adults as well. We tend to find the same folks in a new location we left in the old. They merely have new names and faces. Kentucky is generally viewed most by most people as a southern state which is actually incorrect. Kentucky is a borders state, neither wholy southern, northern, eastern, or midwestern. It stretches almost five hundred miles from east to west, borders all of those regions, and is an average of between one and two hundred miles from north to south. It posesses five separate, geologic regions, a ployglot of cultures, a long, and somtimes dark history, and a variable climate. It offers something to all comers and rarely everything to anyone. No matter my location I have always found four continuous months of weather not to my liking, a segment of population whose temperament and attitude I found disagreeable, and Iritating circumstances sufficinent to extract foul language from a saint. I have never failed to find something to like, someone to call a friend, and something beautiful to look at or experience. Life, you see, is what we make of it.

[britchie]

Ok what you are saying is true about small towns everywhere. If you are in the larger cities that is not the case