>>7348282It’s fucking south eastern Kentucky it a shitshow at best
>multiple companies violate Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 such as the local internet and phone company TDS which has several agreements to be the only provider allowed to operate in parts of the state >several areas such as middle fork and canny creek aren’t safe to go to unless your a middle forker or a creeker>older relievers can tell me stories about “holler people” which where families that some how became border line feral and didn’t speak any known language do to isolation out in the mountains and killed anyone who came near >most towns are known for being little more then once being places of rabid crime now just pit stops that you get in and get out of as fast as possible like good ol bloody Harlan https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c9p534Q5hhw>best of all the old “company towns” where miners worked for “money” made by the company that you had to turn in at the company owned stores and company owned “houses” often with rent being higher then pay (even some examples of companies having a fee to work for them) with violence used agains the miners to keep them in line although this died out in the the mid 1900s >example of a description of a West Virginian company town but the basics are the same https://coalheritage.wv.gov/coal_history/Pages/Company-Towns.aspx 