Birthplace of: Dwight Yoakam - singer-songwriter, musician, Judi Patton - Kentucky's First Lady and women's rights activist, Mark Reynolds (baseball) - Baseball player, Jerry Layne - Baseball umpire, Joe Jordan (fighter) - Martial artist, Jonny Venters - Baseball player, Woody Blackburn - College golfer, Robert Damron - PGA Tour Golf player (born: 10/27/72), Ferrel Harris - Former NASCAR driver, Griffin Myers - Actor. www.city-data.com/city/Pikeville-Kentucky.html
That looks very similar to a couple of towns I've been to, here in Australia. The architecture of the old brick buildings looks just the same. I haven't seen any ornate houses like that big white one, though.
Interesting video, DEMCAD. Pikeville only has 6,900+ people in it. Add in the distant suburbs, and it might reach 9,000. It's a nice looking town. A college-town will always have a lot more going on in it, than just a regular small town. DEMCAD is doing the right thing in paying off his car, as quickly as possible. It's always good to stay out of debt, whenever possible.
The first thing is you don't buy a car on credit.. You buy a car you can afford.. That means how much you saved up, NOT how much debt they will allow you to bury yourself in..!!!!
17seventySIX I'm paying off debt as quickly as I can...triple payments....We are facing global disasters that we cannot begin to imagine..Must do everything I can to prepare..and I know anything we do...will probably not be enough.But we do the best we can.
Tyra Sullivan Sounds like you know Pikeville well. Looks like a pretty little "city" carved right out of the mountains? I spent my formative yrs in rural So. Maine, but have spent many yrs in and around the big city (Boston), so I was bitten by the country bug, but have gotten used to having SOME culture/restaurants/shopping, etc. I came to this video b/c the company I work for will be building a coal-to-liquids plant in the area, and I'm gonna be spending a lot of time down there, so am hopeful that Pikeville agrees w/ me.
+Mike S Pikeville really is a little "city" carved into the mountains. I think you'll like Pikeville. Granted; there isn't much to do, but it's a nice little place. Well, downtown and such is, but I wouldn't go any father out of Pikeville than I had to.
DEMCAD You seemed like you really liked Pikeville, but I know the economy is tough w/ the coal industry depressed there, so guessing not a lot of jobs in such a small city. I'm moving there (temporarily) for biz reasons, so thanks for the tour. Looks like a beautiful little city.
John Boy well there has been quite a few businesses coming into the area but it is still going a bit slow and as for the people I think we are generally nice but of course their are shitty people everywhere. there are those who may not like you at first glance than their are those that once they like you they'd risk their life for you.
Reg, you mentioned before that you have no credit. Start building it. Go to the bank and borrow as much as you can for the car. Even if it's $500. Pay $50 a month and start building that credit. Paying it off earlier won't do any good for building credit. Get any credit card you can and use it. Don't abuse it and pay it off every month. How else will you ever get a home someday? Forgot about it.
That looks like a nice town. How are the people? I live in an expensive large city and I dream about retiring to a couple hundred acres near a small town.
ArcanusLibero I think we're pretty nice in pikeville kentucky though you'll find shitty people here like any other place. if you do want to move to a rural area I advise you find a way to visit one a month or two because a lot of people move to get away from the big cities only to find that it's too quite and time almost stands still here.
Demcad, out of all those people how many you think are prepping/prepared once SHTF? Whether is a grid power failure, gun confiscation, marshal law, weather diaster. Also what are you prepping for>
Lu Hoffma it is a very small town, since it doesn't waste gas much most people drive place to place but of course you find more walkers around lunch time or off work hours.
I took a visit to UPIKE because I planned to attend. The area was so torn down and there were confederate flags everywhere. Not everyone was rude and not every place looked bad. I decided not to go because I wouldn't feel safe there.
Because people have confederate flags means crap dude, you assume to much, I have a confederate flag and two black blood cousins, who also like confederate flags, and a gay pride town aswell.
Im from Pikeville i had to move away because the coal mines shut down under obamas EPA overreach We need coal mines to create flat land to build on and jobs.
Went to college right next to the park nice little place be wiped off the map soon because of coal plant closing more coal jobs will be lost and it will hurt everyone.
Josh Slone yeah I always tell people here in ky that I don't support coal I support the coal miner, if we could bring in jobs with equal pay and entry levels I believe ky wouldn't fight as much for coal but we are proud people who knows what the coal industry has created for our state. another reason we aren't creating a safety net to protect us from the coal issue is because we can't seem to get Mitch out of office.
Meanwhile, they're talking about the uploader on the Pikeville forums, and not in a very flattering way. I'm guessing the uploader is a bit mentally imbalanced. The place is an incredible shithole, there's little to nothing there, and his videos are repeating because there's nothing there. And this lunatic is armed, which is the insane part about it.
