“OK, I will say what the rest of us are thinking but are too afraid to say:”
NOT flaming you at all, just truing to be informative.
I live in Montana, however for three years (1997-2000) I had a management position with my company which put me in seat 1-A @ 6:10 AM every other Monday. I had employees in Rhode Island & Delaware and over saw the training/skill sets of our company owned subsidiaries staff in Mississippi & Nevada and trained staff (via licensed contractors of our proprietary hardware/software) in Connecticut, Arizona, New Mexico and California. Lots of other travel dealing with state government regulation and I had work in Europe as well.
That stated the single nicest folks I met with and interacted with were from West Virginia. Wonderful folk. It did not matter if they were floor staff, supervisors, management or State required Government regulators/State Police. Really fine folks.
There was a town in far western WV that had the steel mill shut down many years Prior. Pat Buchanan actually announced his run for president in (sorry I cannot remember it’s name). I would pass through this town on my way to Wheeling, WV. It was somewhat odd, the main state road actually went THROUGH the steel mill.
There were lots on nice homes, I recall a nice looking brick home with slate roof, nice yard that was for sale literally all three years...I guess no-one could come up with the $15,000 asking price.
WV has had some tough times with coal mines being closed and the like.
Chuck Yeager came from WV, tough good ol’ boy.
Again, I was KIDDING.
I have lived in the countryside of New Hampshire for 35 years. I grew up in western New York, south of Buffalo.
You could not pay me to live in California or New York state again.
Of any place I would consider moving would be to the mountains of NC, up around Boone of Blowing Rock.
The countryside of NH has lots of mobile homes. It also has lots of dumpy little houses. There are a few old mill towns in northern NH, away from the ski resorts and lakes that are very poor. Towns like Berlin, where the paper mills shut down years ago and they have yet to recover.
The problem with West Virginia is that are a lot of people that seem to have a drug problem. Hillbilly Heroine(METH) and real heroine and fentanyl. The per capita use of Oxycontin was highest in West Virginia. More than any other state. There was more Oxy shipped into one county in WV than any other county in the USA. When the Oxy ran out, they switched to real heroin.
WV has a much higher than average unemployment rate. Coal is gone. Nobody, except the Chinese want to use it anymore to make electricity. It is not going to change. Learn something else to do. The jobs down in the mine are not coming back.