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QueenDriff

dollar general


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OneMetalMan

Equals Meth General?


MrWestVirginiaSA

That sums it up my friend.


ElectroChuck

Well if you don't mind how it is made, there is also Dollar Meth.


OneMetalMan

I know krokodile, which is dollar heroine.


801x

I’ve never been to WV but that was my first thought.


ohfarmgirl21

Three DG’s in the last 5 years along Rt 47 Staunton Tpke where I never thought we’d see commerce again.


Hellotherebud__

Need a dollar tree instead


K4NNW

I mean, that's true for everywhere I'm WV. Ironically, I've never delivered to the ones in the circled area.


Galapagos_Stoat

Calhoun is in a smidge of a revival. After decades of dormancy the 1982 foundation is redoing the old highschool in the center of grantsville. They're putting in a pool on the old football field after the county closed the old one early 2000's. We got a fancy coffee shop called Grinders. They built a nice stage for performers at the county park. they plan on opening up a bunch of stuff in the old highschool like a restaurant named Varsity, apartments and air BNB, community kitchen. Rebuilt the old bus garage, new stage out of the old announcing tower, they do events like a Christmas market inside and give out toys for kids, taste of _____ events. I do hope our drive in gets rebuilt the digital upgrade was heckin expensive so it had to close.


Anthrodiva

That's awesome


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Thanks for posting for real


Pangs

I also hope the drive in gets rebuilt.


peggysnow

The one screen theater in Spencer


_mountainmomma

Best popcorn ever


Reign_n_blud

Is it still The Roby ?


peggysnow

I think so!


Pctechguy2003

I believe so. Looks like they have done what they could to keep the original character of the theatre experience.


Cheapfender

It is indeed!


zzcheeseballzz

I can remember the drive-in in Mt Zion


paygunholiday

What’s not happening is … light pollution! That area has some of the ‘darkest’/best stargazing places in the eastern usa. There’s even a “dark skies” park in Calhoun. https://calhouncountyparkwv.com/stargazing/


NewYork_NewJersey440

Oh sweet I love dark sky parks


ohfarmgirl21

Woah that’s cool to know our belief it’s some of the best star watching anywhere is true!!!


TNJed717

Gas wells, mt.dew, snuff, and deer hunting


AntwanTheRed

Nasal snuff or oral snuff?


TNJed717

Mostly oral ha, but I am sure there is some memaw somewhere being old school


AntwanTheRed

Is there still no smokeless tax in Pennsylvania? Im Canadian and used to drive down through PA and your wonderful state with my family. My favourite part of the drive from Ontario to South Carolina was by FAR being in the mountains of WV. Beautiful state.


ColinOnReddit

You know I see a ton of Ontario license plates in Charleston and Fayetteville.


AntwanTheRed

We used to go through Fayetteville and Morgantown, which was half way for us.


mugsoh

They’re all over 79. It’s the way to get to Florida. Se a lot of them on 77 too.


daseined

I remember driving down 79 and passing a Canadian plate and wondering what they might have thought. If you saw me smiling, it's because I really wish I could have said "Hello!" glad to know that you enjoyed what you saw, you were welcome to be here.


AVLPedalPunk

And you went to Myrtle Beach? As a South Carolina native it's mind blowing that someone would drive that far for airbrush t-shirts.


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My mom married a Canadian and we are in the Beckley wv area. You Canadians are invading lol 😂


AntwanTheRed

That’s the plan for me…. Go to nursing school, graduate and go to a country that will appreciate me and where I can afford to own a home. But imma assimilate so hard no one will know I wasn’t American born, except my slight accent. Canada is going down hill fast. See you guys in 5 years :)


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Wish you well on your journey and welcome! ❤️😊


Flip_d_Byrd

Anal...


lcw2020

Nothing. Source: grew up in Calhoun and Wirt.


WednesdayBryan

I grew up in Wirt. I concur.


Btb7861

I loved wirt growing up, grandfather had his camp there. We'd fish in his pond and they'd hunt through the fall. It feels stuck in time, I'll always have a place for it.


Pfunk4444

Free de-lousing at the regional jail


Amalaiel

Untrue, the booking fee for that extended stay is $35


mountainman412

Can confirm. Plus they will charge you 1k if your tablet is cracked, regardless if they gave it to you like that.


TransMontani

Gas wells, black walnuts, and deep, dark secrets.


Hot-Back5725

That sounds like the title of a book I’d like to read!


TransMontani

I could write it. It’s daaaaark.


shaunemery

Grew up in Elizabeth, wirt county. Nothing at all goes on. It was fun as a kid, going into the woods and playing baseball. But as an adult, I assume it would be awfully boring.


KobainStain

Mt. Olive, Dollar Generals, and that one dude on TikTok with the homestead and beard products


TheFrigginSpace_Pope

By Mt. Olive, do you mean the prison?


Southern-Advice5293

Nate!!!!


DravinTSK

Legendary collegiate Women's Sports in Gilmer. Glenville State's Wonen's basketball program took home the first national NCAA basketball win in state history just two years ago, and our former head coach was voted national coach of the year.


Kinetic_Kaiju

I grew up in Doddridge. Lots of quiet backroads and beautiful wilderness that got torn apart in the well drilling frenzy of recent years. Whole swathes of old woods cut down and piled up to rot. Coming back to my folks' place for visits and seeing the changed landscape of my old hunts and hikes was heartbreaking. But the revenue it brought to the county let them build a new high school, and coming back recently I saw a new special education complex had replaced the crumbling Cline Stansbury football field. A good bit of the damage done to the roads from the well trucks has been fixed too. Now that the well drilling has died down a bit, I'm even starting to see those massive well roads starting to grow in again. Maybe someday I'll see some big hickories and oaks in the same spots they used to be.


flinderdude

There’s a Starbucks


flinderdude

Oh shoot it’s in Braxton county


Pctechguy2003

The struggle is real. I live in CA right now and its impossible to get away from them or Dutch Bro’s Coffee. Im glad to see there is some place still untouched by their hipster frappe’s.


shark_vs_yeti

Yeah any coffee shop at all is considered hipster in WV. If you're above getting coffee from Sheetz or a mom and pop diner you're high on the hog.


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Mom and pop diner coffee is probably better/cheaper anyway. The sheetz coffee in my area is still $1.90 a cup, so I’ll go there over a starbucks every time.


Southern-Advice5293

Where??


HaroldJJohanson

Life goes on here. I’ve never been happier than I have here in Wirt County.


duensuels

What do you like best about it?


HaroldJJohanson

It’s so quiet and peaceful here. I have some acreage in the country so I can do what I want, but it’s only 15 minutes to Elizabeth or 30 to Parkersburg, so I can get anything I need. Some days the only vehicle I see are the mail carrier or the UPS guy, but I can always ask neighbors for help with anything, and they can ask me. Lots of wildlife. I can walk to my deer blind, and when I make the shot, walk back and get the tractor or side by side to bring it to the house. I can take off out of my driveway on the side by side and ride all day without hitting a lined road. I lived in a neighborhood in Parkersburg with a HOA before moving here. I don’t miss that at all.


Pctechguy2003

Thats what I miss. I lived in Putnam County growing up, but we were in the back woods. We would see 1 or 2 neighbors vehicles a day, the postal service, UPS, and once a week the garbage truck. It was a great place to grow up. 15 minutes from town, 45 minutes from the city. It was a bit far to drive in the mornings to work (about an hour depending on traffic), but it was an amazing place to live. I truly felt alive living there. It was peaceful, calm, and surrounded by nature. If I could move back I would. Enjoy it!! Too many places are becoming over populated. I live in CA now and a “sleepy town” is 150k. Im on the outskirts of Fresno with more people in that small area than there is in the entire state of WV.


BottleCapper25

Sounds like Heaven tbh


19Stavros

*Almost* heaven, right?


saint_abyssal

Sounds awesome.


duensuels

Sounds idyllic. Congrats and enjoy 😊👍


Vorzic

I grew up in Putnam, so only Jackson separating us. My dad would occasionally take us up to Wirt and Wood counties for both work and relaxing. It really is a cool area that I wish I could have spent more time in.


tom_from_space

Spencer used to have one of the only McDonald's in the country that served pizza


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And they have the oldest running movie theater in the nation. It’s pretty cool.


sydillant

Just people living their lives


shark_vs_yeti

But with a shorter life expectancy. Sorry, couldn't resist some dark humor.


greencoat2

The Black Walnut Festival


jyrrr

Rt 50


Slimjuggalo2002

Live in Columbus, OH and have relatives in Gilmer County, not even sure if there is a city to reference where they live. Love going down there because it is pure nature everywhere. However the day to day life differences between the two places could fill a library. Unfortunately, my formerly-hard working relatives have gotten injured on the jobs, addicted to drugs or have otherwise devolved. Sad to see.


diensthunds

There is a canine search and rescue unit that is based out of Spencer in Roane County. K9 Search and Rescue Services of West Virginia. [K9 SAR WV](https://www.facebook.com/k9searchandrescueservicesofwestvirginia) (304) 373-4134 All volunteer, non profit organization. On call 24/7. They serve the entire state and areas of the surrounding states well. They assist in searches for missing and lost individuals. They have worked with numerous agencies in cold cases as well as active searches.


MizzInacsent

Come to Wood and search for #GretchenFleming


diensthunds

I did, before joining the team, and the team was there as well during the search.


OnlyHis8392

I don't think anyone is ever going to find her, poor girl. I'm not from here, and the amount of unsolved or blatantly disregarded or mishandled "deaths" is staggering. As for Gretchen, I just want to think she got tired of her life here, and she just walked out and started over somewhere. Granted, that's 99.9% unlikely, but it keeps the words "cover up" from constantly entering my mind🥺


MizzInacsent

Personally, I think she was in the landfill before she was even reported missing. There was a large dumpster by the house he was renting, placed for a house being remodeled. I think she was put in that dumpster. It was picked up before she was even reported missing. Wood County did have a male pop-up in Huntington a few days ago that was missing from Parkersburg. The river would be another place I would guess he put her. Oddly, no trace of her has been found. Peirce would be familiar with the Ritchie mines on Rt 47 also. #BrendaMackey #KimberlyJones is also unsolved.


OnlyHis8392

He's also back in town, unfortunately. Spotted last week or the week before? Killers always come back, they want to see what's going on. But can't they test the dumpster? You can't just wash off blood, and from what I've seen online, painting only does so much. Even if the sample is compromised as far as DNA or chemical involvement, the presence can still be traced. And yes, those women and others. I accidentally found out about Jaleayah Davis from a waitress, and that case has me all dumbfounded. I do wonder, if any others could be tied to ole Preston, considering his background, and possibly whereabouts during those times. If it was his first time, I feel like it would have been a shoddy job, so to speak, and he would have been caught much earlier. But, that could be the cynicism talking, too🤷


MizzInacsent

Yes, I seen the little backpack toting weasel on the internet, pictured at Captian D's!!


ohfarmgirl21

Great ATVing at the Ritchie Mines. Spectacular scenery. Kind people. Not much else. We purchased 76 acres and a modest house in 2019. Absolutely amazing little slice of heaven.


Fast-Mathematician78

Gilmer is circled so I have to shout out Glenville State! Had lots of fun and never went to class 😂


Dragracer59greyhound

Same!


ohfarmgirl21

😂 we are trying to convince my son.


Fast-Mathematician78

I loved it there. Met my husband! That was almost 20 years ago! Had to come back home take some classes at the local community college then finished at Marshall 😂


artsatisfied229

Now a math teacher I presume?


MizzInacsent

Absolutely 💯!! GO PIONEERS!! GOOO TITANS!!


StedeBonnet1

Not much. Country Roads.


AbruptAbsurdity

Take me home


boredandreddicted

To the place I belong


allotheria

WEST VIRGINIA


Busy-Feed5684

Ritchie is where I buy hay


Impressive-Sympathy4

Tudors Biscuit Worlds


pond641

I was born in Braxton, Gassaway, but brought up in Ohio, Mentor, 30 miles east of Cleveland. Lake Erie was a mile from my house. My parents from Widen and Strange Creek (😁) in Braxton City as well. Dad was in the service and mom always went "home" to have her kids. I still go to WV at least once a year to see tons of family in Braxton, Grafton, Clay, Charleston, Suck, Servia... On and on. I love WV. My husband is from Glenville, he went to school in Normantown. He was drafted during Vietnam and afterwards went to the Cleveland area to work in the car industry as many did, including my dad. My husband never moved back to WV. He didn't have his first pizza until he was in the military. He lived in the sticks. He doesn't like WV except short visits with his family. 😁 We met thru a dating service, Great Expectations in Independence, Ohio. Who would ever have thought you'd meet your husband in the Cleveland area and find out that our WV families lived only 20 or so miles apart? Visiting was and is so enjoyable because we get to visit both sides. There is more to do now than 40 years ago in WV for sure. But it's certainly beautiful country and I will always love it and its people. Seven years ago we left Ohio and now live around Myrtle Beach. SNOW SUCKS!!! So we left. We Love it here and we are in a little bit of country.... But it's getting too crowded. We may have to move again!! 🤣


TheKrustyWeener

Grew up in Ritchie. Not shit goes on her. Oil/Gas, hunting, Dollar General. We do have a McDonalds and a DQ lmfao


Spridlewv

Lots and lots of fracking.


gorgeousgeorge83

Hunting and farming


Dragracer59greyhound

NCRJ


ProblematicSalsa

Black walnuts


Mister_Cookiepants

Rippling Waters Campground is there... it's a beautiful place with great memories.


Oooolalaura

not much. My family is from Calhoun county. Cousins are doing a lot of meth, so there is SOMETHING to do there...


Amalaiel

Doddridge has lots of trees and reasons to not go outside at night


Marquar234

Silicosis.


daseined

If you aren't passing through on 50, you have to be really intentional to be here. There is no reason to go here if you don't have a cabin and/or family to be here. I think at one point they had the last Rax.


DoubleSuperBuzz

There's still a Rax in Ironton, Ohio.


ghunt81

Doddridge and Ritchie are just gas pipelines and woods at this point


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“I don’t know why I don’t have cell coverage. I can see three towers from my front porch.”


Rogueblue311

I don't know, but there are very few stoplights to slow you down from doing it.


19Stavros

Spent summers volunteering with a Habitat-type mission group in the 70s and 80s, Doddridge county. Some of the most beautiful scenery and most awful poverty I'd ever seen. No running water or bathrooms, children not in school and most with developmental disabilities. I often wonder what it's like now.


barneythecarni

Grew up in Ritchie. Not much happening


denali42

Banjos and the evaluation of the aesthetics of your mouth.


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PaleoNimbus

Jail


gunsandsilver

There be dragons


Dramatic-Ad1423

North central regional jail. Zero stars. Do not recommend.


Fark_ID

Thats a LOT of counties to provide no services to their people! Maybe combine 2/3rd of them and you might even achieve a "tax base".


TheRhupt

Nothing.


Booticus11

Drilled some wells in Doddridge, we had a welder get robbed when he took a wrong turn. I always wore my WVU stuff as camouflage. Ate some sketchy meals at the “sunny side grill” which I always assumed was a completely unlicensed establishment, I wonder if it still exists.


1939728991762839297

A lot of football, and wrestling. Roane Raiders I believe. Wirt was always tough as hell.


jebberific

Buggy rides. Source: Normantown


enlitend-1

A lot of bitchin about the government


RocketXsockzXisJoneZ

High school football


mtnbro

Some of the best old time music in the world.


ed-tyson1328

The oldest continues running theatre in USA is in Spencer, WV


xinterstate8x

My Grandfather was from Burnt House (Ritchie). He told us as kids they used to hunt skunk for food. I didn’t believe him because he had a wicked sense of humor but now I’m not sure. I grew up in Arizona and have never visited WV but I plan to someday.


vinnycas

If you can't keep it in your pants, keep it in the family......


Careful_Bird_4610

Coal, bibles, SSI checks


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HockeyShark91

Incest


Siltresca45

Do not live in WV so not sure why this showed up on my feed but I was legitimately scared to click and see the answers.


PlanetKillerAstroid

For the best in meth go to Booger Hole West Virginia. Yes it's a real place.


ScummyCashier

Poverty and meth


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El-Lamberto

Entrepreneurs on welfare. Moonshine.meth. ginseng poachers.


johnnymack2165

Not dentistry


killerqueen1984

My husbands ancestors were some of the first settlers in Calhoun, iirc.


Normal-Ad-4368

I’m a Wirt County girl, born and raised and proud of it. I moved when I got married, but still go back weekly for church and family. To be honest, there isn’t anything to do so you make your own fun. You won’t find nicer people though.


LovelyTreesEatLeaves

That’s where sex predators, domestic abusers, and the cops and judges who cover them up live. Personal experience.


Bigfootsdiaper

Drugs, drinking sex and lots of prison sex.


MPFields1979

As little progress as possible.


diesel_chevette

Meth


angelicaschuyler27

coming from someone who used to live in Calhoun (grantsville) six years ago, dollar store and foodland 👍🏻


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Wendigos


gwhh

Nothing good.


Hot-Back5725

Lol I literally just made the same exact comment.


Hot-Back5725

Nothin good.


RunEd51

Nothing. It’s a third-world country


jdthejerk

Interstate to Pittsburgh?


xxcryptoidxx

check fraud


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FuhrerGirthWorm

Goat fucking


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Most-Artichoke5028

Uncle daddy?


Direct_Ranger_4298

Nothing happens in West Virginia with the exception of people naming streets,roads, highways, bridges after the Byrd family.


Dangerous_Elk_6627

Inbreeding and meth.


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Large-Condition-501

I helped build the Markwest Sherwood plant in Doddridge. It's the largest cryogenic gas processing plant in the country and one of the largest of its kind in the western hemisphere.


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Choptank62

Very little . . .


pipedreamSEA

Pepperoni Rolls? No wait, that's [Harrison County](https://csnews.com/sheetz-makes-final-decision-pepperoni-roll-controversy)


peacoffee

Marion County has entered the chat. https://www.wgpfoundation.org/historic-markers/pepperoni-roll/#:~:text=The pepperoni roll is considered,bread loaves one step further.


Creative_End2772

Fracking, moonshine and pepperoni rolls? (stolen from the judgemental map of WV by Aaron-Michael Fox)


Heavy_Expression_323

Moon shine?


DesaadofApokolips

Nothing. Absolutely nothing


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🎶 Just some good ol boys....🎶


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Mountain folk shit


No-Currency-624

That’s where they are fracking on my 1/2 acre I inherited


billyjk93

I know there are basically no gas stations


basscat474

Meth.


OnlyHis8392

Should add Wood. It's all a wild dungeon of dung anyways, ijs. Eta...car washes, Laundromats, recovery centers... it seems to be a good area to launder, if you get the drift 👀


P47r1ck-

My family is originally from Calhoun. The answer is not a whole lot goes on lol. Very rural place. My dads hometown doesn’t even have fast food places


asleepinthetreestand

I deer hunt in Doddrige where my parents grew up


Educational-Watch829

Nothing good!


Kittenfabstodes

nothing good.


ThePuzzleGuy77

The Wild and Wonderful Whites?


allforodin

Has Clay County like grown or developed at all? That’s where I grew up (I’m out in VA now) and I’ve been really curious. It’s kind of far to just drive and check on but every time I walk through the Watoga woods it makes me get hit with memories of the completely empty Clay County mountainsides 😭😭 Edit: IS TUDORS BISCUIT WORLD STILL A THING?!


hilljack26301

Frackin’


redheadMInerd2

I drove through there last summer on the way from Fairmont to Fayetteville. I didn’t see much civilization. Not one rest area that I can remember. I think we stopped at a gas station. We stopped at Tygart Valley Falls and there was hardly a parking spot there. We really enjoyed Fayetteville. Best thing done for West Virginia is to make the New River Gorge area a National Park.


AlternativeAnimator7

Meth


Upstairs_Accident867

no moonshine ?


smackchumps

That’s where the banjos DON’T play


TimeTraveler0770

Poverty, ginseng/blood root foraging, and meth.


muffinalllday

Mountain Dew


Friendly_Magazine_84

Meth


PineappleNaan

Slightly wealthier West Virginians and where DuPont dumped all their Teflon by products


AnotherTakenUser

Depression and escape planning


AlliumWinchester

Logging and fracking


Pangs

Nothing Pleasants.


jussanuddername

trees


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