Reply #105: WV has some beautiful hills/mountains [View All]

[lebkuchen]

(at least those not leveled by the coal industry), and the main HWY through the state is in great shape, especially compared to anything I saw in MA, but no matter where one is in WV, you're still 3 hours away from Some Place, no matter in which cardinal direction driven.

The need to drive long distances and the dependency on the auto to get you there must be very expensive for WV drivers, in their domestic "bigrigs."

Jessica Lynch is from WV. I can understand how WV would provide quite a few military recruits. PA, too. There was a WV town south of me with a banner welcoming back SGT so and so from Iraq. The town itself looked poor, not a lot to come back to, but then, Baghdad is the worst city in the world, making a bordered up Main Street, USA look like Oz in comparison.

Pittsburgh was the emptiest city I'd ever been to. Even the airport, as beautiful as it is, is devoid of people. Where is everybody? In the "burbs," I suppose, driving to the malls?