Brits Visit Rural Appalachia | West Virginia

We dive into appalachian culture exploring different hollas with a local resident.

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Mandy
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Joanna
Joanna Bigfeather
CeCe Stover
Ezekiel Johnston
Kat Prince
Vik
Madison Valentine
Jennifer Saucier
Ashley Gaines
Katlin Swadosh
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Destiny Wilbanks
Jennifer
Steph
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Rachel Fallin
Joel Hart
Jessica Kannmore
Meg
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Rita Harper
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Kelliann Parker
Mary Mcminn
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Christine
Gabrielle Rooney
Cole
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Rachel
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Brenda Clemmer
Mel Allen
Briana Burnett
jeff sanders
Autumn Massey
Cindy Bruder
Cj Murphy
Donna McCann
Shera Stoner
Becki T
Tim
Angie Fountain
Crystal Mapp
Lizbeth
Bertha Duong
Megan Johnson
Lora Irle
Elizabeth Udit
Marshall Coy
Amanda Riley
Jeffrey English

[tking]

You guys are showing the real US that most YTubers don't. Thank you. It's not just New York, California and Texas. A different season also may have given you a completely different perspective. Keep the videos coming!

[Influ]

That abandoned trailer y’all went into is actually my Aunts old place. She passed away.. rip Aunt Melinda! My dad’s side of the family is from up that holler. I actually have a lot of memories as a kid playing all thru there. That’s awesome yall boys came and showed the real shit. It’s a lot of poverty, a lot of drug usage, but also a lot of love, morals, and good people.

[nakitabutcher]

Thank you all for being so kind to WV! Please google the Charleston, WV newspaper and your names. There was an article written about y'all and how much we appreciated your visit! 💙💛

[poolhall]

These family's of Scots and Irish immigrants provided the energy that build America and powered prosperity for everyone but themselves.

[Katieflgirl]

This is REAL America. California, New York, and other big cities may get all the hype but small town America is where it’s at.

[thepromisei]

As a born and raised West Virginian, thank you for showing my beautiful state and the wonderful people in it ❤️💙💛

[SLF-fg]

I'm from the UK and I've watched a few videos on Appalachia, and I don't know why they are so surprised because there's so many similarities between places in Appalachia in the US and England's industrial and post industrial northern towns.

In northern towns in England like the one I live in, we have lots of terraced houses (row houses) that are all identical and were built for industrial workers.

We have deindustrialised northern towns here in England where, because the coal mine closed overnight, the unemployment rate went from 0% of men being unemployed to 100% of men being unemployed. We even have some families living in post industrial towns that have seen two or three generations of the same family where the men have had no job because nothing was built to replace that coal mine that they closed.

My own hometown only exists because they found iron ore nearby, which is a key ingredient in making steel, and so they built a steelworks. The steelworks then had to build houses for it's workers so the hired construction contractors to build them so these builders just built identical, long streets of row houses. Some of them are still standing and are inhabited to this day even though they were built in the 1890s but there's many that are sat empty despite there being a national housing shortage and them building new houses in more affluent southern England areas.

I myself am employed in the steel making industry. I'm a third generation steelworker as my father and both my grandfathers were employed by the local steelworks. My hometown is one of the last surviving industrial towns to still have its traditional industry. Without that industry, my hometown would be just like so many of English and Appalachia US former coal towns.

[WVsouthpaw]

Visit West Virginia during each season. The beauty with leave you speechless.
Welcome to "Almost Heaven"

[janetsmart-countryliving]

I grew up in a holler in West Virginia. It was a little different than this holler. The road wasn't wide enough to have a line down the middle, the road a little curvier, and a creek flowed the distance of it. The hills hugged the houses on both sides of the road. But like he said, everyone knew everyone.

[alpinemotel]

Many years ago I lived not far from where this was filmed. The Appalachian Mountains are an area like no other: stunningly beautiful with the kindest and most friendly, humble people you'll ever meet.

[RMack-ey]

I love West Virginia. I'ma from Michigan but my sister married a boy from WV. He invited me down to deer hunt with him and his family in a very rural area about 30 minutes from the nearest store or civilization. I was tracking a deer and managed to bag him about 1/4 mile away from the house. I drug it down the hill and was not looking forward to the 1/4 mile I had to drag that deer. I didn't make it 50 yards down the road when some random guy in an F 150 pulled over and offered to haul the deer and me back home. I was armed and this guy didn't know me from Adam, but nonetheless, he still pulled over and offered to help. You guys are right about the people down there. They are the most down to earth, nicest people you'd ever want to meet. Life is so much less complicated and slower down there, and I think that that plays a part in how nice they are. They're not always stressed out like us city slickers lol.

[austinlovejoy]

The one that looks like a time capsule. Yall said looking like someone just left, she did. She sadly passed away. Thank yall for doing this showing off our small holler. West Virginia pride!

[sierrasierrahomepad]

THE POOR FORGOTTEN PART OF THE US AND THEY ARE VERY PROUD STRONG

[larrym.johnson]

Thank you for doing that about West Virginia, I live in Florida, West Virginia is always home, no matter where I am. You will find that the rural people of America are some of the best. We don't get talked about much, but were the backbone of our nation, Appalachian people are some of the toughest best hearted people in the world, my people.🔥🤟💪🇺🇸🐊🙏

[nativemom]

Thanks for showing people the true people of the US that really are friendly, hardworking working that will give you the shirt off their backs. Love y’all’s longer content

[tammybowen]

So glad you’re saying holler’s. Fancy people call them hollows

[joyeddlemon]

Welcome to small town USA. Most people are very friendly when you get out of the big cities, especially in the southern states. Neighbors look out for neighbors.

[NorthPhoenixActivist]

Thank you. This is part of America that even most Americans don't know about. 😢

[derekwebster]

My mother is from Mcdowell County West Virginia, and the reason those houses aren't rebuilt is because there's no demand. There's no shopping, banks, restaurants, bars, gas stations, hospitals, etc. Most of those coal mining towns started deteriorating when the mines closed down, people left for other cities and towns. Nobody wants to live there anymore.

[Himmiefan]

Try the Appalachians in the spring when things are blooming. Spectacular!