You're not being gloomy, you're being realistic. WV is in dire straits ... 0bama has been particularly destructive to us. If Trump gets the EPA off our backs, it will help. Beyond that, we need some source of wealth, some industry, other than digging black rocks out of the ground.
It’s a beautiful place, in close proximity to a great deal of this country’s population. I’m surprised that the summer resorts aren’t more prominent. I know of The Greenbriar, and the ski resorts, Snowshoe and Canaan Valley. But, not much else. An economy completely dependent upon tourism isn’t even close to ideal, but it’s a foundation and a start while the productive economy in WV is reinvented and renewed.