Im a disabled veteran, but I don’t need drugs. I have Jesus. The whole world needs Him.

Nick please visit Beckley, WV and maybe a small town called Arnett, WV not far from Beckley. I think you'd be surprised.

@@stoveboltlvr3798 I tried getting him to do Huntington and be his guide to explain how it was compared to how it is now.

I love watching your videos, Nick, they’re always very interesting. I live in the U.K., it’s a real eye opener. Keep up the good work. 👍

Don’t forget McDowell county is home of the Rocket boys from October Sky.

Yes! Hoping someone would point that out.

Not necessarily I know several people who have never worked and still get a check every month

This isn't true. The people currently receiving social security draw more in than they paid out, paid for by the younger generation who probably won't get it

How bout all those scammers on SSDI... Govt handouts.... lazy shifless people.

Cross the border and get a free phone... who pays for that?

And, certain people of certain political persuasion are poor, prop up politicians who are going against their self interest but because they're too ignorant to realize it. And, one side with its pet projects burning through tax dollars on non sense with no commonsense solutions.

Thank Biden, your president, he is worried about Ukraine, but they don’t give a damn about you, especially banks, debts will be written off, people will be thrown

More than just that certain class. Now that borders are open, we're all ants in a jar, being shook.

Its the rich. The oligarchs. Say out loud. Grow some cojones.

Banks are way more important than people at least it feels that way that 100 billion that went to Ukraine would of made a big difference in the lives of the people here but the government knows best not us

Haha.......drive THROUGH? So not to live, stay, visit or to relax as a holiday town? Haha

I heard VW is pretty good to drive too!

Well, thank you, lol. It is incredibly beautiful here and most of the people (those not in active addiction) are very friendly, warm, welcoming people.

lol

Well Welch is getting better now many new businesses are opening and lots of tourists are coming in because of the trails… can’t loos hop… the people won’t mess with you if you come as a tourist and there’s also a new sports bar opening down town there’s also a boba shop and Mexican restaurant/ bar and ATVs rentas and so many other businesses that are putting in there grain of sand to bring Welch back to life!!

Was it the nickel mines in Sudbury? Oh NM I just read closer and it says goldmines.

@@chrisccc22 City of Timmins further north

Been there many many of a time. I'm in Hamilton.

​​​@@stewslaney1199 45 minutes from were I'm watching this video from the big city of Iroquois Falls population 4500 😂 we lost our paper mill a few years back everyone was nervous about the towns economic impact but thankful the mine industry is still booming up here. With the price of housing down south your bang for buck goes alot further in small towns. I'm in a wheelchair and on a fixed income and Im living like a king up here were if I was in a big city I would be barely getting by.

This is a wild happening! I was born in iroquois falls and had family/friends working the mines in timmins. What a small world.

It's the same as in inner cities.....The cure is education, and relocation. The war is being waged on them, by the same people they vote for.

I don’t mean for this to sound gross or nasty and I really hope you take it the way I am intending it but for someone born when you say you were you look great! Hope you have an amazing long life!

Diana, you are so very correct. Unfortunately our Government is fighting on the wrong side.

God Bless U ridge runner Root hog or die by poverty , ‼️

You nailed it, WV once was thriving and many business but thanks to the corrupt leadership many thriving communities are in decline.

Globalization has destroyed a lot of this country and a lot of other countries besides. They're ramping it up even further has time marches on.

Wow I was born in 89 lol

Everything was taken and not reinvested. Billions of dollars in coal taken by absentee owners. Having graduated from Concord College located in Athens WV I saw Florida county school boards come on campus and recruit upcoming future teachers/graduates that were raised in towns like Welch and the tiny unincorporated communities

Welcome to Latin America.

Can someone tell me how this happens? Trump loving, Republican voters who are so righteous, into God and church are somehow thieves, drug addicts, and on government assistance from the very government that they hate. Is this one of those situations where what they say and believe is the exact opposite of their own reality?

That is a solid fact for sure

Only in THIS COUNTRY. Tell the truth.

@@kimblack1636 same in the UK

When you have Senators like Manchin and his Crime Family You're Hooped! 😢

They're Trump supporters what do i care

Would they care if they knew? These folks need jobs and rebuilding.

More of them are popping up all over in many countries. Our city is quickly falling apart and stores closing up all the time also. So many living on the streets. So sad. Is nothing like it used to be 25 years ago.

You need to go into any big Democrat city and drive around in the ghetto

That's why I don't travel south of the Mason Dixon line! Lol

Most Americans have a very low sense of awareness anyway. More than half the people do not own a passport

and yet they allow the Sackler family safety from prosecution for this crime.

Same here, matter of fact the last project I worked on in Seattle was 5th and pine, somewhere wrote “fentanyl is a human right” on the side walk. Sadly the opioid crisis is all over the US.

Facts!

It’s disgusting 🤢 I live in LA and people became pigs from using drugs. Unimaginable

The entire city of Pittsburg and the surrounding region look like this as well..

Yeah I do the same Im in college myself in PA I always pass through Wheeling the place looks depressing although obviously not McDowell County level bad.

Ex nurse B&B owner

I 👍

Stay safe - that phrase is such a bs phrase. Government brought it in during the minor cough-19 pandemic. More people died from that than got shot in the year in nyc., and government lies & still lying about it. Stay safe 😂😂

She said they were "20 years behind culturally than the rest of the country." It's more like 120 years behind.

@@douglasdea637 And they'll never catch up.

Yep. Everything you said. I spent my childhood in Flint and we used to drive "down South' once or twice a year, passing through W Va. It's a shame to see what's become of each place. Both so beautiful (as I recall) in their own way. Something similar happened to Virginia and parts of North Carolina in the early 2000's when the textile mills left the US.

My uncles and cousins were coal miners, one became an inspector. Unfortunately, the companies didn’t invest in good health and safety equipment for its workers, nothing like what the firefighters have in breathing apparatus, say in Fairfax, VA. Black lung from the coal mines. Really is sad. Big pharma should be sued, or the doctors, for handing out the meds. After all they sued tobacco companies for people getting sick. Want to sue gun companies for criminals shooting people. Sue big pharma. They got billions from us tax payers during COVID, and we had to sign a document that said we accepted whatever negative consequences and held the pharma co. harmless. Sickening.

she is a good woman I think. I personally do not know her but I have seen her around and she runs a foodbank locally.

Please stick it out. Our country needs you.

Stay and fight. Help your disabled and elderly neighbors clean up their yards. Make flowerbeds from old, discarded tires, trash cans, bins, whatever is lying around. (just make sure you have drainage holes in the bottom) Plant wildflowers in them, or veggie plants. You can make drip hoses from old hoses. You really don't have to buy much, just use whatever is available, and your imagination. If you transform one person's' yard into something whimsical, believe me, others will want to hire you. Accept whatever they can afford to pay (or trade) and work your way up. I saw a LOT of yards there that need some serious help. --Discarded tires are an excellent way to make raised flower/veggie beds for those who have trouble bending over or kneeling! We do this in Ohio! ---You can make your own compost with grass clippings, leaves, newspaper, kitchen scraps, twigs. There's plenty of videos on YT about it. STAY and Do something Positive for your community! Make a Positive Name for Yourself! You'll be in business in no time, and heck, you might even make the news....

I know of someone who started out with a single push mower, mowing people's yards for practically Free, and now he owns his own business, employs 100 people, and is a multi-millionaire and lives in the country! He started on the poor side of town....

Thank the government for taking away they're livihood. There were ways of making the burning of coal cleaner, but government said "too bad for you "

The Joe Biden administration is just killing small towns and large cities. We need coal and Don't need his green deal dream. It's not going to happen.

Great memory! Thanks for sharing!

So they needed alot of hardware supplies in those small towns like Welch where you made deliveries???

Yes, klwthe3rd we Appalachian natives live in homes that often need repair. Thus, we need a hardware store. If you have any more erudite, insightful questions please feel free to ask them.

Haha sometimes the guests are this good!

Unbelievable very sad it's getting bad in Canada as well.. God bless 🙏😘

open borders for israel.

@@radfan7020 indeed 😎 and border sovereignty for America

Back road America is the best...I love looking at the junk..

@@davehughesfarm7983 Her accent is pretty hot too

@@radfan7020 what do u mean "open borders for israel"? u want it to b another islamic hell hole?

Where would trash and graffiti come from. They don't have money for food, drinks, and spray cans.

There were literally mounds of trash in the first two minutes!

You racially overlooked the mounds of trash these good ol'boys keep in their yards, just to slander inner cities.

People have pride everywhere. Exactly where are they gonna spray graffiti? Trash? Lol…they LIVE in trash.

@@darrellmitchell5400 they don’t have money in Detroit slums either. but still got all that trash and graffiti. It’s called gobermnt handouts

Good take.

Until he flips and acts like this > 😱🤡

More than half of all ancestral Hawaiians live in Stateside US.

Sounds like wv.sorry.

@@stephenbarabas6286 I don’t. I own my house. I worked hard for it.

@@stephenbarabas6286 even then families saved to buy their own home. Now, housing is so expensive it’s pushing that dream further away. I grew up living with my grandparents, aunt and her three kids. My aunt eventually was able to move to her own apartment and then buy a home.

Isn't there a way to convert that place into a holiday resort? It's Hawaii after all...

Portland. Oregon officially died the day Walmart said they were closing all of their stores in Portland. It’s only a matter of time until Oregon sees a population loss as bad as California’s. The west coast really is dead forever. But now the Republican south is their voters’ next destination. The south will get messed up soon.

Walmarts are usually closed due to theft. We have a city in California called long beach; nearly a million residents with around 3 walmarts. The one downtown closed due to theft

WalMart is what caused many stores in town to close. Barber, hardware, bakery, toy store - gone. All the dum dums decided to buy Chinese crap at Walmart.

That's true ,,,,

Same with Portland, Oregon, while the Walmarts in its' suburbs are staying open, in the city proper they are also closing next month thanks to increasing shoplifting there too.

I am not from this area but I lived here for years. A lot of businesses closed down in Fort Lauderdale. I will never go back there to live. There area is full of drugs, homeless people loitering, and people robbing each other. My life changed when I left there. I heard that there is a rich section but the poorer sections have gotten worse.

​@@heatherfulmore3412 dirt Lauderdale is an orange vs West Virginia. I lived there and My family is in West Virginia. I take WV over ft Lauderdale anyway . but The common denominator is the Drugs are distributed by design . think about it.

@@MichelleJohnson-tg5lx I still think that West Virginia has more food. Fort Lauderdale is more like a beach. I lived here from the 80s during the crack epidemic. My furniture, my money, clothes and favorite bath suit got stolen by my room mates relative. We had no idea that the woman had a serious crack addiction. I was young and always on a mission to better my life . I had no time for fun.I still notice people who are strung out on drugs . They fell for the baits

Thanks to my father in Logan, I also escaped after college. I am in Murfreesboro TN now and very happy, but visit family in WV often...nice people still there.

@@mtmc823 I live about an hour from you in McMinnville. I'm glad you are doing well. West Virginia is such a beautiful place I wish thay could get some industry or something there for people to earn decent livelihoods. Just so they could stand on their own 2' feet and be proud.

Sounds like Denver Colorado...it's so bad here it's disgusting

@@brandybatesglenn8600 , What happened to D town Brandy, I lived there most of my life, finally got out and live in western Colorado now. I know parts of Denver were total crap, and when I left the entire thing was one big urban sprawl from Loveland clear to Pueblo . I always lived out west in Lakewood, never cared for Northglenn or anywhere around Ahora.

THIS gov’t IS FAILING it’s citizens…(WVA is only ONE example…). 🤔😬🤔‼️

@@brandybatesglenn8600 : I live in the North Hollywood area of Los Angeles, CA. Nick has profiled the homeless here. Unfortunately, a lot of industry has left the area as well. But this is also a state that refuses to account for everyone and hold anyone accountable. So what happened, is it's attracted the law breakers (whether immigrants or citizens, people without prospects, who are mentally ill and addicted to this state (whether citizens or immigrants). With NONE of the infrastructure to account for the largest population on the West Coast. Where I live, people are dying on the sidewalks in front of once prosperous businesses from OD's or what have you. It's been a terrible magnet, and businesses close or can't function like they used to for fear of the bad element just showing up and stealing or assaulting those who would patronize the business. The crime rates have soared. It's extremely difficult to get low income housing, even for seniors, because of the horrible competition for it. I mean a six to ten year WAITING LIST?! I'm NOT exaggerating. It's BAD, and the politicians that let it happen, refuse to own it's their fault. They just double down on the worst policies ever!

The miners could have left the coal industry for jobs installing solar panels, like the ones on the roof of the building in the beginning of the video. Theres tons of construction type jobs in the energy production industry to this day, you just have to switch from swinging a pick to swinging a hammer

Thank you for providing an important history and a lesson all these Blue states & cities are experiencing now. I am in California and I am seeing the same thing happening here. Democrats are destroying this once beautiful state into a wasteland while the middle class & the poor are fighting among each other with all these Woke agendas pushed by the left, and still does not aware what is happening. sad!

I'm sorry you had no better choice than the Army.

@@LMB222 Are you kidding me?? I got to travel and live all over the world, made really good money (once you get up there in rank), made life long friendships forged through shared hardship, combat, etc., that still lasts after 35 years. I have a retirement check for life that's bigger than most peoples salaries, medical and other life long benefits. The Army paid for two college degrees (Aeronautical physics & Law), when I retired I had more doors open than most which provided the opportunity to transition to a senior level position in a civilian organization for my second career post Army retirement. I feel sorry or those who lacked the qualifications and or courage to join and instead saddled themselves with 30 years of student loan debt.

​@@LMB222I'm sorry that you decided to continue existing

Yeah the army is chocked full of opportunities especially if you don't have much money and the army is the only way youre gonna get those chances@@aaronmatheny695

Thank you!

I have been in Detroit midtown for 5 years after 08 and I witness how Detroit turned from a ghost city into young professional's home. Even east Detroit is slowly changing. I am positive about Detroit, man

Motown is my hometown! 😊👍👍👍

I was born and grew up there. My dad was born in Mullens real close to the video location. I watched both die. No matter what they say about Detroit coming back, I won't be back. Too much death.

Walmart ripped out Main Street USA. Now it's Amazon breaking down Walmart. Listen to the lady in this video. They rely on Amazon.

The government should start a small business incentive scheme..Help locals start up local stores..The kind of stores you found pre Walmart days..Butchers, Bakers, Fresh food markets, Corner general stores..If people own the land they live on why not develop market gardens or Organic chicken farming/eggs? Fund school leavers into trades like Plumbing, Electricians and Builders..Give people their pride back by enabling them to help themselves..

Sorry your government thinks new stealth bombers are more important.

That's 90% of the problem. There were the local corner stores those Mom & Pop places that sold Bakery. Meats dry goods clothes etc. They were the backbone of the community. Walmart and Amazon have destroyed the cornerstone of our communities. And the conagra big farm industry has killed off the local farmers and dairy companies. So if we are looking for who to blame, well, we'd better start with ourselves. Who checks the products they buy to see if they were made here in the USA? We let these big companies kill our communities. There's a few billionaire's getting richer daily while towns like this and tens of thousands more are decaying. If we don't turn this around on our own nobody will. But if we all support each other then that "middle class" American family can be realized again. Or would you like fries with that?

​@@MickeyGee73 that is antithetical to our governments main goal

It's worse now. Omg it's sooo bad in NYC

@@krystingrant6292 No lie

is bronx still like that today or did things get better?

@@chriswhynder8311 still like that

And borrowed money to destroy the savings of the neighborhood and demanded higher housing prices thus higher tax on those neighbors..? And held off and out even simple food productions...yahoo..!

If you are white!

@@sleeptimechannel109 idk, I lived in KY for 9 months. I met white, black and mixed race people out there. Noone seemed to care about race. I grew up in Chicago. I've seen black people not allowed entry into businesses. We have neighborhoods where white people are endanger in they go. Black and Hispanic violence toward each other. Mind you Chicago is supposed to be a progressive liberal city and the Appalachians are supposed to be the backwards dinosaurs.

@@sleeptimechannel109 I'm mixed race, and I agree with the idea the people in Appalachia are the kindest, friendliest people I've met. Some of my family members still live in Appalachia and are valued members of the community. My mom met with a lot more discrimination in an urban inner city than she did living in Appalachia.

​@@sleeptimechannel109it's a you problem, work on your issues.

I feel like I'm always the odd person out but no personal responsibility? I don't buy that myself, a person knows when they're starting to desire and crave the feeling of the pain pill rather than the fact that it's reducing their actual pain to a livable limit. You should never expect your pain to be completely gone when you have chronic pain.

I hope she sees it!

Someone who works in a Christian charitable organization in Haiti with his wife and has dedicated their life to helping the poor, particularly children, says that a few elite are behind this chaos. He says that they are the ones behind the gangs, G9 and so forth, and use the current situation in Haiti to benefit economically. This gentleman says it is VERY difficult to do things such transport food and get fuel because of the gangs. As a result, he is trying to set up solar panels to rely less on fuel, for the buildings he runs to help the poor such as a safe place for Hatian women to give birth. He said the previous president was killed because he did not want to follow the agenda of the elite. He has a lot of credibility as he has been there for decades. Many other Christian charitable groups have left because the country has devolved into GREATER chaos.

​@@john1gold503 one word Clinton.😡

Money is always the factor over poor people lives.

Ok Kim

if they don't vote d, then the government doesn't care

it seems like the politicians they support aren’t really into supporting them.. 🤷🏻‍♂️

They like it.

@@user-pl3lo8cc8y who controls the house sentate and presidency the last few years and what have they done for rural west virgiinia? The Ds did and only made life harder.

@@user-pl3lo8cc8y politicians are what got it to this point. Think about it……. They created lifelong system riders🤷🏻‍♀️ I know. I live here. Born and raised. It kills the work ethic.

the death of the coal industry really hurt WV, my mom is from there and she left a long time ago

Good Melinda I'm glad

the further north you go the more beautiful it is, like around Seneca Rocks and further north

Maybe that's because there is a lot of people that believe in God?

Some of the nicest and most humble people I've ever met in this country have been in West Virginia. At the end of the day, many of the folks in Appalachia who've been left behind might be the only ones that are left to thrive if things keep going the way they are in the world. I'd live in the mountains of West Virginia before I'd ever live in Washington DC, NYC, San Francisco, or Chicago.

​@@mattylamb9194Yesn't That's because they don't have broken communities in the fullest extent

That's just not true

@@mattylamb9194it’s a constitutional carry state, most people there are ARMED & POLITE

I agree, being 78 now and have paid into Social Security all my working life, it is a benefit we get from having money deducted from our wages, not a freebee. Now the government Dems and GOP are going to reduce that income most of us elderly depend on. It is a promise, another promise the government is breaking. Me while giving millions in aid to the hoards of people walking across our borders that will never contribute a penny.

I'm an Independent & the Dems aren't ever going to touch SS or Medicare. The reps on the other had has suggested it.

Social security is indeed government assistance and one of the largest government safety net programs. Dems have always tried to strengthen social security l, while the GOP has always tried to gut it. Social Security is Socialism lol

Agreed

There's a difference between SSI SSDI and Social security that people get that are disabled and had no work income or very low from Social services compared to the Social security that is paid into. Just saying.

She's a smart lady Rosie

a developer was building an entire housing section and was to put in the 4 wheel paths and the state promised him a big tax break for bringing business and after he built some they reniged on the break so he walked off and left it. Another car manufacturer was coming in west of Charleston and the then governor refused saying it was unfair rivalry to the Toyota Plant. Those in power are the problem.

​@@wvhillgaldon't talk bad about big Jim he's one of the best things that has happened to McDowell in a long time he is keeping coal jobs and even gave a emotional support pet to Welch elementary

@@herbalcaribou5082 I don't know who was in at that time, but it sure messed up that end of the valley.

needed: grocers, laundromats, ride and/or delivery service, farm co-ops, social venues like a bar, mini golf, splash pad, public pool, movie theater, axe throwing, etc etc.

@@kelleytillapaugh8609 I can’t tell if you’re serious or not. If you are those things will come if the tourist industry is built .

Sandy and her husband are great people! A small group of men from my church in Florida worked with them for a week recently.

This guy doesn’t do much research. He missed out on lots of good content when he was here.

Theres one in long beach, ca like that...m just not as dilapidated

Walmart is leaving Portland area because of theft at the end of March, so you'll be able to enjoy some more.

Should turn them into roller skating rinks or bowling alleys. People need social hubs, isolation is unhealthy.

Having a prison in such a low populated area is even more creepy, but it kinda shows the industrialization of the legal system

1. I moved away from Oregon last summer, the Walmarts in Portland's suburbs are staying open; it's only the two that are still in the city proper that are closing, I mean for good reason, the shoplifting in that Dem-run city has gotten nuts, and 2. I recently watched video of another abandoned Walmart in Brinkley, Arkansas as well.

Well they lost there jobs I'm sure Walmart figured some of the stock would be missing ha ha

They should be stealing vitamin E, cause they don't get enough of it from the lack of sunlight!

Visited cousins in Iaeger in the 60's. Had lunch in Welch. Is there still Iaeger? Met some nice people there. They didn't believe there were no mountains in Florida.

the so-called war on drugs is a bad joke and they lost on purpose---too much money went into politicians and law enforcement pockets??

It's America now

Not so much oxy as Fentanyl. Oxy is safe compared to the drugs people are using these days.

​@@TheReaper42069 still very dangerous and it makes you addicted very fast. You just need a little bit more of it than fentanyl to overdose.

The government let the pill mills run wide open and prescribe opioids and get the people legally addicted. Then they put a stop to that and now you have people addicted to opioids and they aren’t as easy to get, so now people are doing meth, heroine and they are lacing everything with fentanyl. It’s sad.

Thank you. I was born there, but we left when I was quite young. I worked there until 2010, and found the people to be the finest I have ever known. This country ran on the coal and reaped the rewards of the back breaking work of the men. Then they just ignored and forgot it and the good people there. They have tried to get a better road into the area, but this was put on hold many years ago. Left and forgotten after helping build this nation. Shame on America for wasting so much money while our own people are so neglected. Thank you again, as many agree that West Virginia has many things going for it to include it’s great natural beauty.

@@shirleydenton4747 Exactly, all those billions (unaccounted for), sent by our government to support a proxy war in Ukraine, could greatly benefit places like West Va.

I left Connecticut moved to TN had to move back To CT because of COVID….happy to be back for good pizza and seafood.

grandfathers were miners and step dad and we didn't know a soul who took the drugs. The gangs started coming in from Detroit via grayhound bus in the 70s and that's when it started getting bad in the city. Both grandfathers lived into their 80s

Trump promised to bring back coal mining for them. 😂😂😂😂

That's the way he brain wash this people Until today pretty sad.

@@o.amoakohene8147 Most West Virginians didn't vote.

Unless you mocked thier accent to thier face, that might change things

it is but the younger people are the problem now, won't work, drugs, drinking