Why So Few Americans Live In Kentucky As Compared To Tennessee

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    Kentucky and Tennessee are two states with a similar history, culture, and geography. But despite these similarities, Tennessee has handily outpaced Kentucky in terms of population over the last few decades. Even today, Tennessee has been growing at a rapid rate while Kentucky's growth is relatively flat. So why is there such a population difference between two states that are otherwise so similar?
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  • @travishensley9155
    @travishensley9155 Před 2 měsíci +767

    As someone that lives in Kentucky I think a lot of the population difference is because of how many people own 100s of acres of land in kentucky that haven’t been able to be developed. Love living in Kentucky!!

    • @iTzKevinFTW
      @iTzKevinFTW Před 2 měsíci +88

      Good. If you are lucky those people won’t sell out because when they do tons of houses pop up, new complaints about age old things from outsiders so you get new laws and more bs and your once peaceful life is just like big city be

    • @CooterELee
      @CooterELee Před 2 měsíci +24

      When I attended university of Kentucky college of agriculture over 20 years ago the average farm size in Kentucky was 50 acres due to our heavy reliance on tobacco. So I don’t think there’s that many large holdings . Where I live it has been serval 10 to 15 acre lots divided all along a road. I now on 100 acres, but that is on nine tracks of land in total.

    • @travishensley9155
      @travishensley9155 Před 2 měsíci +21

      @@iTzKevinFTW i know the people in the county I live in dont tend to sell out. all us got the mind set of "this is my dirt" justin moore

    • @travishensley9155
      @travishensley9155 Před 2 měsíci +18

      @@CooterELee I dont hate the idea of land getting divide into smaller lots, as long as they stay within the family/people that want to raise there families in KY on land like so many previous generations.

    • @titaniumvideos1039
      @titaniumvideos1039 Před 2 měsíci +30

      I love living in Kentucky too!

  • @prh-kentucky1929
    @prh-kentucky1929 Před 2 měsíci +471

    I live in Ky -if our population doesn’t go up, I’m good with that!

    • @user-if4rj3hr1j
      @user-if4rj3hr1j Před 2 měsíci +1

      It is slowly bUT surely

    • @celestineissharkeishano8048
      @celestineissharkeishano8048 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Same!

    • @JamesDaniel217
      @JamesDaniel217 Před 2 měsíci

      Im on the way

    • @chinaberg
      @chinaberg Před 2 měsíci +5

      Yeah, and then the cost of everything will go up since you will have to pay people more to do jobs like nursing assistants, etc. since there will be a shortage people. God, do you not think of the long term?

    • @terrycoontz
      @terrycoontz Před 2 měsíci +1

      Oh it’s going up especially Louisville metro area surrounding counties

  • @jamesk8147
    @jamesk8147 Před 2 měsíci +663

    As someone who lives in KY and works in Nashville, I don’t want KY to grow like TN.
    Nashville has lost all its culture over the last couple of decades and has become an expensive commercial cesspool.

    • @jr642
      @jr642 Před 2 měsíci +53

      Nashville has become pretty gross.

    • @murdock8068
      @murdock8068 Před 2 měsíci +38

      I went a year or two ago to Nashville. I expected honky tonks and great not known good country music. To my disappointment. All I heard was rap everywhere I went. Shame.

    • @AlaninUSA66
      @AlaninUSA66 Před 2 měsíci +26

      Sadly Nashville is a huge refugee hub and "they" do cause changes that most don't like. Bowling Green KY is also a hub and is becoming more and more foreign. Certain walmart there, more foreigners than citizens.

    • @Tennesseemomtho
      @Tennesseemomtho Před 2 měsíci +16

      Y'all are looking in the wrong places. Stay out of the bars and take in some of the museums. I highly recommend the Frist museum in the old post office.

    • @Droidman1231
      @Droidman1231 Před 2 měsíci +21

      Lol can't go anywhere without a NIMBY complaining about change.

  • @tomp6685
    @tomp6685 Před 2 měsíci +491

    Living in Eastern Tennessee, I feel so fortunate. Lots of jobs, and so many outdoor recreational opportunities. Now, when I visit Eastern Kentucky, it's a totally different story. Dont get me wrong. Eastern Kentucky is beautiful, but the economic situation is absolutely depressing.

    • @ericthomas513
      @ericthomas513 Před 2 měsíci +14

      "State of Franklin" !!! ;-)

    • @user-if4rj3hr1j
      @user-if4rj3hr1j Před 2 měsíci +27

      Western and central kentucky is much better than eastern ky

    • @jasonyeager2718
      @jasonyeager2718 Před 2 měsíci +81

      And after living in western KY and Eastern TN my entire life, I'm sitting here contemplating moving to Eastern KY because all these people from out of state are flooding in and ruining my everything I love. I'd much rather move to Eastern KY where things are much simpler and a whole lot quieter.

    • @krisshelley1517
      @krisshelley1517 Před 2 měsíci +45

      I live in EKY and most of the people don’t want change or growth. We are a weird bunch of people lol

    • @minecraftkid50978
      @minecraftkid50978 Před 2 měsíci +20

      I live in eastern Kentucky and the situation makes no sense. Jobs around here are low paying but rent is still sky high for anything other than a 1 bedroom apartment. I’m lucky to have a remote job from Louisville that keeps me afloat but Kentucky in general is screwed on housing unless your in the west end of Louisville that has a ridiculous crime rate

  • @TheGreatDrAsian
    @TheGreatDrAsian Před 2 měsíci +221

    As a Kentuckian - Stay out lol traffic is already bad enough we have enough people here.

    • @C-Culper4874
      @C-Culper4874 Před 2 měsíci +16

      Agree. When Ohio drivers come down 71 and 75 its gets worse. lol

    • @valecrassus7835
      @valecrassus7835 Před 2 měsíci +6

      Louisville (including the traffic) reminds me of Nashville from the 1980s and 90s. Better days, to be sure.
      Nashville has tons more people than it did 20 years ago, but the infrastructure is largely the same. Not a great combo.

    • @thomaspaquette6549
      @thomaspaquette6549 Před 2 měsíci +4

      Our traffic is nothing compared to any other larger metro and surrounding suburbs.

    • @rodneystewart8958
      @rodneystewart8958 Před 2 měsíci +6

      I agree but Nashville has too many here now and Kentucky can have them

    • @C-Culper4874
      @C-Culper4874 Před 2 měsíci +16

      @@rodneystewart8958 We don't want them. Lol

  • @tigerplaystemple1961
    @tigerplaystemple1961 Před 2 měsíci +236

    I think it has more to do with no state tax in Tennessee.

    • @stephenbrowning2710
      @stephenbrowning2710 Před 2 měsíci +15

      Yes! I’ve lived in both states. Tennessee has a much better tax system. No tax on groceries in ky but they make up for it in many other places.

    • @615bandup2
      @615bandup2 Před 2 měsíci +3

      No Kentucky boring & lame

    • @Adam-vs2in
      @Adam-vs2in Před 2 měsíci +5

      @@615bandup2 that’s the way we like it.

    • @Adam-vs2in
      @Adam-vs2in Před 2 měsíci

      @@615bandup2that’s the way we like it so people like you stay away.

    • @615bandup2
      @615bandup2 Před 2 měsíci +2

      @@Adam-vs2in Tennessee also way bigger & longer than Kentucky has nothing to do with taxes & way bigger cities

  • @ChickenGoogleSoup
    @ChickenGoogleSoup Před 2 měsíci +46

    I live in East Tennessee. It's actually quite chaotic now, compared to how it used to be. I kinda want to go back to nobody knowing what state Tennessee even is... Roads are flooded with traffic, traffic that these said roads are unable to handle, there's no way for me to move out of my parents' house, because these apartment complexes that have been under Construction have all been snatched up in under a week, and it seems that only the rich people from cali and NY can survive here anymore. I am a native born Tennesseean and i cannot survive here anymore.
    But i do not want to give up.... This is my home state and it is so beautiful..... I will stay here for as long as i live.

    • @plantmillionsofteees5676
      @plantmillionsofteees5676 Před 2 měsíci

      I agree with you 1000000% … Don’t lose hope. We need to plant lots of trees; pick up litter; push our cities & counties to have better planning; hope that Trump deports 10 millions illegals beginning next year; and hopefully some of these people will eventually return to their home states.

    • @raymondkidwell7135
      @raymondkidwell7135 Před 2 měsíci +5

      Cali and New York people overcrowded Florida too.

    • @Fornacis69
      @Fornacis69 Před 2 měsíci +8

      I feel the same way man I live in middle Tennessee towards the bottom and it’s just becoming awful. I love this area and the rural areas and hope to buy a bunch of land but it is way too expensive now like it’s ridiculous. There is someone selling 13 acres in the middle of nowhere for 400k with no improvements and that’s just the least of it. Everyone moving here is forcing so much development to just creep and creep that one day all of i65 will just be apartment complexes and cookie cutter subdivisions which I hate. I’m going to have to move somewhere more rural and cheaper which I hate honestly, maybe I’ll looks at northwest tn where it’s extremely rural still but for now I’m stuck in my parents house

    • @rjbradlow
      @rjbradlow Před měsícem +4

      Yeah, the Yanks destroyed Florida and are now moving to do the same thing to TN. SMH

    • @angfirefighter
      @angfirefighter Před měsícem +3

      I live in eastern Tennessee, more east than Knoxville, and it’s still nice here. I like my small town. There’s not much reason for anyone to move here so I think I’m safe.

  • @robertwomack1411
    @robertwomack1411 Před 2 měsíci +42

    The population boom is destroying Tennessee
    It has taken the wonderful place that I love so much and turned into one giant traffic snarl full of people from somewhere else
    Our culture is gone especially in Nashville
    I miss the great state of Tennessee so much

    • @user-oy1sq9io5x
      @user-oy1sq9io5x Před 2 měsíci +10

      Californians

    • @HotPockets-40k
      @HotPockets-40k Před 2 měsíci +1

      I felt this

    • @thomaslgrice
      @thomaslgrice Před 2 měsíci +5

      Nashville traffic is impossible. The valleys restrict the building of roads to accommodate the residents of the large city it has become. Mass transit would help, but the people don't want to pay. The area has become a culture in a Petri dish which is out of food and begun to feed on itself.

    • @mzgri
      @mzgri Před 2 měsíci +2

      It is sad to see. The eastern side of Tennessee has still kept its rural sense as I have observed traveling south on 75.

    • @615bandup2
      @615bandup2 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Your culture isn’t Nashville you not even from Nashville how that’s your culture

  • @montemasterson9588
    @montemasterson9588 Před 2 měsíci +182

    Kentucky's Golden Triangle (Louisville to Lexington to Northern KY) is where the action is economically, basically the Bluegrass region. You could add Elizabethtown to that as well.
    Automotive is number 1 industry in Kentucky and Tennessee.

    • @C-Culper4874
      @C-Culper4874 Před 2 měsíci +7

      Don't forget UPS and Amazon now.

    • @user-if4rj3hr1j
      @user-if4rj3hr1j Před 2 měsíci +3

      Bull crap

    • @cjhoward409
      @cjhoward409 Před 2 měsíci +6

      Kentucky also has the largest farm and ranch equipment maker. Tarter Gate. Look it up.

    • @denmar355
      @denmar355 Před 2 měsíci

      Tourism plays a massive part in TN. Financially Louisville has become an utter fail. Metro area is very short on law enforcement. Louisville can’t get its children bussed to school. Crime is rising. Liberal policies are destroying Louisville.

    • @montemasterson9588
      @montemasterson9588 Před 2 měsíci

      @@user-if4rj3hr1j 2 Ford plants in Louisville (pick-up truck and SUV), largest Toyota factory in US at Georgetown, Corvette plant in Bowling Green and dozens of other companies that make parts and pre-assembled components for auto plants in other states. Largest electric battery factory in America being built in Elizabethtown. Take away automotive and all you have is bourbon, horses and farming in KY.

  • @graydendough6356
    @graydendough6356 Před 2 měsíci +45

    I'm from Florida but graduated from EKU, both parents are buried in Kentucky and I am leaving Florida and retiring to Kentucky. It is a great place to live

    • @roadking7419
      @roadking7419 Před 2 měsíci +1

      EKU grad also!!

    • @tracycombs1484
      @tracycombs1484 Před 2 měsíci +1

      EKU here also

    • @scrappybadger4369
      @scrappybadger4369 Před měsícem +2

      I've lived 15 minutes away from EKU most of my life, and many of my friends go there now. It truly is a beautiful and prosperous place to live, assuming you're financially stable at least.

    • @tracycombs1484
      @tracycombs1484 Před měsícem +1

      @@scrappybadger4369 I'm from Berea myself

    • @Arginne
      @Arginne Před 21 dnem +2

      I’m in Florida as well. I want land in Kentucky. My moms family is from Appalachia

  • @selecttravelvacations7472
    @selecttravelvacations7472 Před 2 měsíci +113

    I think more people are discovering KY right now due to the high rents, real estate in TN now, especially middle TN. My niece bought a house on the cheap there. Kentucky is really beautiful. I would love to see it continue to be Ag focused.

    • @antcantcook960
      @antcantcook960 Před 2 měsíci +2

      Youre 34th in population growth. So no.

    • @jammier6483
      @jammier6483 Před 2 měsíci

      As someone that moved to KY 20 years ago.... it was a big shock to the system with how racist and backwards many ppl can be in some areas of KY

    • @rosscoursey4979
      @rosscoursey4979 Před 2 měsíci +5

      @@jammier6483 I couldn’t care less

    • @NamesZKP
      @NamesZKP Před 2 měsíci

      @@rosscoursey4979 Of course you couldn't you practice situational ethics.

    • @haworthlowell805
      @haworthlowell805 Před 2 měsíci +1

      I live in southeast TN but am house hunting in West Kentucky because of housing cost. Can't buy a shack here for under 200K.

  • @alabamacoastie6924
    @alabamacoastie6924 Před 2 měsíci +28

    Both are beautiful states. I don't see having a lower population as a bad thing.

    • @Thecrazyraven.
      @Thecrazyraven. Před 2 měsíci +3

      I agree. I see it as a blessing 🙏❤️

  • @kallistapwc
    @kallistapwc Před 2 měsíci +173

    We moved to KY 14 years ago and have never looked back. Cost of living is much less in the south part of the state and in any agricultural area. My taxes on a good sized home and 18 acres is less than $500 a year. We love it here!

    • @robertlee6781
      @robertlee6781 Před 2 měsíci +32

      Sssshhhh!

    • @jazzcatt
      @jazzcatt Před 2 měsíci +11

      My taxes on 14 acres of steep, unusable forest and the 1945 built 400sq ft Brick facade home is over 2 K. and I'm in one of the poorest counties, smack dab in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains. I bought it 3 years ago. 14 years ago property was a LOT cheaper than 3 years ago and thus much cheaper taxes.

    • @CharlieArehart1
      @CharlieArehart1 Před 2 měsíci +19

      Yep, moved to south central KY in 2014, buying 70 acres (beautifully rural, half crop land/half woods ) for the same price as the 1/4 acre lot for my house in suburban Atlanta. Taxes way lower, people way nicer, quality of life better than the ATL...and on top of that the wildcats took down the vols last week, which was sweet. :-)

    • @lqdtrance
      @lqdtrance Před 2 měsíci +9

      Damn. I pay $5000/year on 3 acres and average three bed home. That’s property and school…….

    • @raycecil4643
      @raycecil4643 Před 2 měsíci

      You really should keep your mouth shut, unless you want a bunch of california weirdos moving here and jacking up your taxes!!

  • @yourfriendlygothfox9888
    @yourfriendlygothfox9888 Před 2 měsíci +161

    One of my ancestors traveled with Daniel and Squire Boone from Pennsylvania to Kentucky.
    Bought about 400 acres, had Squire Boone to survey it. What history doesn't tell you is that both of them sucked at land surveying.
    Squire and Daniel both lost a lot of money from lawsuits and ended up leaving Kentucky. My family has been here ever since.

    • @paigeh1670
      @paigeh1670 Před 2 měsíci +15

      I grew up in Kentucky and everything is named Daniel Boone this and Boone that and I never knew he ran out of kentucky because he sucked at his job. Amazing.

    • @jameshepburn4631
      @jameshepburn4631 Před 2 měsíci +6

      My ancestors came West even before Boone. Not Daniel, Pat.

    • @BOGYofOBLIVION
      @BOGYofOBLIVION Před 2 měsíci +5

      George Washington surveyed a lot of Virginia. Now I’m curious if he sucked or not.

    • @dougfowler1368
      @dougfowler1368 Před 2 měsíci +5

      I wonder if that's part of the reason for the tradition of crazy boundary marks. A client had inherited property in Kentucky. One boundary mark just set a stone at the edge of the woods. Certainly different from the normal markings in my state. I heard someone had a boundary mark as the middle of a river in West Virginia. But even that can be identified well! Even if it shifts a bit. But woods expand over time.

    • @wtk6069
      @wtk6069 Před 2 měsíci +6

      Squire Boone was also a lay minister and performed the wedding ceremony for my great-great-great-grandfather and his Native American bride in Eastern Kentucky.

  • @NuclearMango.
    @NuclearMango. Před 2 měsíci +77

    As a Western Kentucky homeowner, let me just say that I love living in a mid-rural area. "Town" is a mere 22 miles away. There's a country GP down the road. And you can't throw a rock without hitting a Bar-B-Que joint, a Baptist church, or a Dollar General store. Not to mention the smaller communities with slowly growing commerce that brings whatever you need closer to home. You might laugh, but there are four Wal-Mart supercenters each within a 30 minute drive. Lexington and Louisville are like another state to Western Kentuckians. Nashville and St. Louis are both just a day-drive away. There is something here for everyone. From fine dining to fishing, from shopping to camping and hiking. It's all "just down the road a bit". There is no reason to live anywhere else.

    • @NicoTheGreat5
      @NicoTheGreat5 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Where in western kentucky do you reside? I live 30 miles outside owensboro, and everything you've described is fairly accurate

    • @SpringIsBACK
      @SpringIsBACK Před 2 měsíci +4

      @@NicoTheGreat5 I dunno where he / she is at, but that almost sounds like Paducah-area (reference to old nuclear processing plant west of town?), but I'm not sure about the 4th Wal-Mart, maybe Paducah (2), Murray, and Benton or Mayfield? LBL a bit to the east, Ohio River, interesting Wildlife Management Areas, and a bit north in S. IL, the Shawnee National Forest and a bunch of medium and small lakes. (S. IL great if you like rural areas & nature, but horrible taxes & IL Gov't...)

    • @dwinkleman
      @dwinkleman Před 2 měsíci +10

      Shhhhhh..... No it's not. It's awful. Don't come here. Go to Tennesee!

    • @PatrickBaptist-vv2bg
      @PatrickBaptist-vv2bg Před 2 měsíci

      Most what claims to be "Baptist" is just a Hebrews chapter 12 "bastard". The east side of KY offers the crasmaniac pentecoastals.....

    • @PardieDiem
      @PardieDiem Před 2 měsíci +2

      Stop it! Keep it a secret!

  • @C-Culper4874
    @C-Culper4874 Před 2 měsíci +50

    Kentucky and Tenn. has a lot of small farms. They both have a large cattle population per acre. Good water resources. If it hits the fan either state is a good option. Both fall into the category of "The patron state of shootin stuff".

    • @zackbaker8730
      @zackbaker8730 Před 2 měsíci +3

      Yesir 😂 TN baby

    • @DonariaRegia
      @DonariaRegia Před 2 měsíci +1

      Why does Tennessee look like a shredded piece of toilet paper holding a pile of Kentucky 😭

    • @C-Culper4874
      @C-Culper4874 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@DonariaRegia We hope more people notice and choose to stay out. Spread the word.

    • @DonariaRegia
      @DonariaRegia Před 2 měsíci

      @@C-Culper4874 Too bad because we're coming, not to stay but to drop off the worst people we can find after telling them you invited them and trespassing is legal.

    • @tammycenter8757
      @tammycenter8757 Před měsícem

      If it hits the fan we will not be allowing just anyone into the state regardless of what the government says.

  • @sapinva
    @sapinva Před 2 měsíci +156

    Had to take Tennessee history in grade school. Biggest factor by far is the TVA project. As a result, Kentucky completely missed the baby boomer generation growth and fell behind. In 1945, their populations were almost identical. Then from the 70's on they have had similar population growth curves.

    • @carver3147
      @carver3147 Před 2 měsíci +11

      The TVA is also what made my hometown of Huntsville, AL relevant. What was once a rural town/very small city is now the fastest growing city in Alabama and one of the biggest tech hubs in the world.

    • @darylb5564
      @darylb5564 Před 2 měsíci +5

      Kentucky has the TVA but all of their lakes are in dry counties. That didn’t help a bit

    • @jessew5152
      @jessew5152 Před 2 měsíci +2

      @@darylb5564 Historically dry counties, but it hasn't been that way in many years. Calloway has been wet for a decade, for example.

    • @mmmd3429
      @mmmd3429 Před 2 měsíci +2

      Without the government energy prices would be higher in TN and surrounding areas.
      The other government agencies help keep the prices down as well. WAPA, SWPA, BPA, and SEPA (this agency is unique).

    • @dickymiller7196
      @dickymiller7196 Před 2 měsíci

      @@darylb5564I think that has changed big time!

  • @thedangerson
    @thedangerson Před 2 měsíci +5

    I moved my family to KY from So Cal 20 years ago. Thankfully got far enough away from CA that other CA escapees haven't ruined the state yet. Can't say that about AZ, NV, OR, or WA. Seeing the same thing happen to TX, and TN (Nashville especially) is not that far behind. Whenever anyone asks about KY, I just tell 'em we are all barefoot and toothless so they don't want to move here.

  • @alchapo5372
    @alchapo5372 Před měsícem +6

    I am a proud Kentuckian. But I have lots of love for my southward neighbor. Tennessee is great.
    Together we make up some of the best America has to offer.

  • @bradgreen987
    @bradgreen987 Před 2 měsíci +11

    Fascinating video. I live in Lexington Kentucky. Outside of here and Louisville, it gets rural quickly outside city limits. Much of Kentucky unpopulated. Bluegrass region is beautiful on horse farms

  • @daniellowe2280
    @daniellowe2280 Před 2 měsíci +95

    everybody should watch "Harlan County, USA", a 1976 documentary about a Kentucky coal workers strike

    • @mairhart
      @mairhart Před 2 měsíci +7

      It's sad that Kentucky and West Virginia voters turned against both unions (for safety and wages) and modern industry.

    • @deirdre108
      @deirdre108 Před 2 měsíci +4

      That's one of the greatest documentaries ever made. It can be seen on YT, and I agree, everyone should watch it.

    • @Keonny77
      @Keonny77 Před 2 měsíci +8

      @@mairhart That's the issue... low-educated voters... They hated Hillary but she told them the truth...coal is dying. But they loved the lie that Trump told them that they could continue with coal jobs into the 21st century. They need to diversify and that is via education. The union is great but can only protect you with an industry that's growing. Do you remember that coal company that polluted the drinking water in West Virginia? They couldn't use the faucets for over a month...but they were only concerned with their coal mining jobs. My friend visited a school in Morgantown WVa and talked to the students about education and finishing high school and going to college. They said, they didn't care, they just wanted to get their red cap. Go to mining school and go into the mines like their parents...

    • @greenwave819
      @greenwave819 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Cast Iron Filter is a great band from Harland County

    • @wtk6069
      @wtk6069 Před 2 měsíci +5

      You'll never leave Harlan alive...

  • @taotaoliu2229
    @taotaoliu2229 Před 2 měsíci +168

    Ironically, Tennessee has a ski resort, but not Kentucky.

    • @sapinva
      @sapinva Před 2 měsíci +19

      Totally different topography. Kentucky is mostly plateau in the east, with deep gorges.

    • @skydiver1013
      @skydiver1013 Před 2 měsíci +18

      No, Tennessee doesn't have a State Income Tax.

    • @DJstarrfish
      @DJstarrfish Před 2 měsíci +21

      Arizona has three ski resorts. It's about altitude as much as it is about latitude - Tennessee has mountains in the east that are about 2500 ft higher than anywhere in Kentucky.

    • @richarddecredico6098
      @richarddecredico6098 Před 2 měsíci +9

      There is nothing ironic about that.

    • @cathiwim
      @cathiwim Před 2 měsíci +16

      Ober Gatlinburg hardly qualifies as a ski resort! Lol

  • @shaggy69001
    @shaggy69001 Před 2 měsíci +50

    Louisville's true identity. Crime, drugs, bourbon, and horse racing. I live here

    • @g.williams2047
      @g.williams2047 Před 2 měsíci +2

      West sides a mess, middle is for degenerate gamblers. Fun city lol

    • @douglasturner3851
      @douglasturner3851 Před 2 měsíci +2

      me too, and i love it!

    • @kaohsiung99
      @kaohsiung99 Před 2 měsíci +1

      The crime and drugs are due to being so close to Indiana!!!!

    • @gslimm40
      @gslimm40 Před 2 měsíci +3

      I luv it 502 South Louisville!!!

    • @tylerolsen4417
      @tylerolsen4417 Před 2 měsíci +2

      @kaohsiung99 please elaborate cuz I would highly disagree

  • @appalachiangunman9589
    @appalachiangunman9589 Před 2 měsíci +46

    In Kentucky we have to pay taxes on our vehicles every year. In Tennessee they only have to pay a flat rate for registration every year for tags, Kentuckians have to pay a usage tax every year that based on the value of your vehicle could be hundreds of dollars per year for several years.

    • @DanielJohnson-ec8rk
      @DanielJohnson-ec8rk Před 2 měsíci +7

      When I left Arizona in 1996, we were paying $835 a month for rent plus 9% tax. The house was 1100 square feet. Today in Kentucky my house is 1600 ft appraised at $175,000 and my house payment (not rent) is $600 a month.
      Kentucky is cheaper in so many ways but wages are quite low to match

    • @AlaninUSA66
      @AlaninUSA66 Před 2 měsíci +14

      It's way past time we Kentuckians start protesting car tag taxes and the huge fee. Half of my car and house taxes go to Warren county schools which is ridiculous . They don't need new schools constantly other counties and cities don't get new facilities they remodel and use what they have. Principals don't need to make 6 figures. Jefferson County schools has hundreds (I think, looked up data before but forgot) of employees making over 100000 a year.

    • @francestaylor9156
      @francestaylor9156 Před 2 měsíci +1

      That is wild! Sounds like CA! The flat fee in TN is so cheap lol. We were blown away with how cheap the registration and tags were. Got ourselves some fancy license plates bc it was so cheap lol.

    • @appalachiangunman9589
      @appalachiangunman9589 Před 2 měsíci +2

      @@francestaylor9156 a lot of people around where I live have property they own or lease around one of the lakes in Tennessee and since they have an address there they’re able to tag there vehicles there and do it much cheaper.

    • @PhoenixAngel429
      @PhoenixAngel429 Před 2 měsíci +7

      @@AlaninUSA66 KY taxes the people to death and thing is people here don't have a lot of money. Getting blood from a stone

  • @Nikes62
    @Nikes62 Před 2 měsíci +140

    Kentucky is such a beautiful state...very woodsy, alot of mountains.

    • @abrahammorrison6374
      @abrahammorrison6374 Před 2 měsíci +4

      Don't forget the Louisville Slugger. The baseball bat.

    • @Liberty4Ever
      @Liberty4Ever Před 2 měsíci +9

      I was born in eastern Kentucky, moved to Lexington (central Kentucky) for college and stayed here. I have lived in Kentucky for 63 years. I always enjoyed hiking, camping, rock climbing, mountain biking and white water kayaking. I've noticed many cars from Ohio and Indiana in our national forests and state parks. I was never interested in going for a Sunday drive but I bought a small adventure motorcycle for my 60th birthday and was pleasantly surprised to realize that I could let the GPS avoid interstates and all of the rides were good. If I also avoided larger secondary roads and forced it to route me on back roads trough forests and farms, the rides were all very good to excellent. Kentucky is a beautiful state. We also have some gorgeous skies - clouds and sunsets. Most people don't think of that when they think of Kentucky. Relatives visit from Texas and I drive them through horse farms and they're gawking at the verdant beauty of Kentucky.

    • @cjhoward409
      @cjhoward409 Před 2 měsíci +6

      We moved from Chicago to Kentucky 10 years ago. Love it !

    • @HistoryNerd8765
      @HistoryNerd8765 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Sounds like a beautiful state. Might move there.

    • @matthewwelsh294
      @matthewwelsh294 Před 2 měsíci +4

      But very poor and far from having the best healthcare system

  • @enigmawyoming5201
    @enigmawyoming5201 Před 2 měsíci +27

    As a PLS (Professional Land Surveyor), I very much enjoyed and appreciated your simplified explanation of the border “jog” between Kentucky and Tennessee. There are a few more details that could be stated, but those are best to be reserved for a more detailed explanation which few would care about, other than hard core historians.
    You accurately hit the nail on the head though!
    I love your channel and thankful for your presentations.

  • @devinstewart7892
    @devinstewart7892 Před 2 měsíci +29

    As a Kentuckian who’s lived in western and central Kentucky. The sweet spot of the state is between Louisville and Lexington. Western Kentucky is hardly thought of in central kentucky and eastern Kentucky is just too rural. Lots of people I work with come from hazard, pikeville or Harlan. Truthfully Nashville has such a big reach that most of western Kentucky follows their local newscasts. Just a geography thing. Nashville has done more for western Kentucky then Louisville, Lexington or Frankfort

    • @1point8te
      @1point8te Před 2 měsíci +4

      I live in western KY and Louisville is 2 hours 45 minutes away whereas Nashville is only 2 hours. End up going to Nashville twice as often as Louisville.

    • @615bandup2
      @615bandup2 Před 2 měsíci

      No y’all just like Tennessee more has nothing to do with Nashville , Nashville does nothing for Kentucky not even Kentucky why yall cities dont go hard for yall that’s weird it’s crazy yall have to drive to another state just for better job & everything else that’s crazy im from Nashville that’s crazy if I had to drive to Huntsville for better job , I don’t get why our news cover southern Kentucky when it not even Tennessee yall cities should be helping yall it not Tennessee or Nashville job to help yall

    • @rw9495
      @rw9495 Před 2 měsíci +1

      I live in West KY, and Nashville is usually the quickest place to see a doctor without waiting years. All the specialists and dentists in our area get tied up for an unreasonably long time between your appointments, it's often easier to just go out of state and pay cash. I've also moved there several times for work when there were simply no jobs in my hometown.

    • @ad6417
      @ad6417 Před 2 měsíci +2

      This is true. I live in Jackson Purchase and Nashville is only an hour and a half away.

    • @615bandup2
      @615bandup2 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@rw9495 that’s crazy how Kentucky don’t help yall you shouldn’t have to go to another state & city for medical dental health care that’s crazy , everybody use Tennessee for everything just like Mississippi people have to go to Memphis for a job or health care that’s crazy how Tennessee gotta help everybody

  • @matthewbrown8679
    @matthewbrown8679 Před 2 měsíci +56

    I was in basic training in Fort Knox in early 1996. There was a soldier in my platoon from Kentucky who specifically joined the army to see the world.
    His first permanent duty station after basic?
    Yup.
    Fort Knox.

    • @shammes95
      @shammes95 Před 2 měsíci +4

      Hoosier here. I did almost the same thing. I joined the Army in 2003 and I got stationed at Ft. Campbell, KY, about seven hours from where I was born. I got to see Iraq a couple of times, but I don't count that as seeing the world.

    • @matthewbrown8679
      @matthewbrown8679 Před 2 měsíci +3

      @@shammes95 I was fortunate to be in the army between complexities.

    • @fullness123
      @fullness123 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Lol. 🙂

    • @Geckogold
      @Geckogold Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@shammes95 Another fun fact I found out when I was stationed in Ft. Campbell a while back. The vast majority of the base is in Tennessee. But because the Post Office for the base is located on the smaller Kentucky side, it's considered in "Kentucky" rather than Tennessee.

    • @rolandthethompsongunner64
      @rolandthethompsongunner64 Před 2 měsíci +3

      He should have joined the Navy. I got to see a good portion of the world. And I’ll never forget it.

  • @patrickmulvey6139
    @patrickmulvey6139 Před 2 měsíci +86

    Lower taxes in Tenn. I have lived in both states.

    • @DTRA1N
      @DTRA1N Před 2 měsíci +4

      Agree. Lived in both as well.

    • @mairhart
      @mairhart Před 2 měsíci +6

      Kentucky taxes are not much higher, compared to the rest of the nation.

    • @brianarbenz1329
      @brianarbenz1329 Před 2 měsíci +9

      The "low taxes create growth" myth doesn't hold up. Minnesota raised taxes on corporations in recent years and has far higher economic growth than any other midwestern state, and the highest economic confidence of all 50 states, according to one study. Illinois and Wisconsin cut taxes in the '90s and 2000s and their economies have been disasters.

    • @mairhart
      @mairhart Před 2 měsíci +7

      @@brianarbenz1329 Absolutely. Low taxes DESTROYED Kansas.

    • @silasbishop3055
      @silasbishop3055 Před 2 měsíci +4

      @@mairhart Kentucky has State and County income taxes. Kentucky taxes your vehicle as property. Kentucky has way too many counties for its size.

  • @willster8759
    @willster8759 Před 2 měsíci +11

    As someone who lives in Kentucky you were close, we have 6 regions not 5. What we were taught in school is there isn't a Cumberland Plateau region but rather the Eastern Coal Fields and the Knobs (which incircle part of the Bluegrass Region). I am originally from the Western Coal Fields, but currently live In the Jackson Purchase where the border with Tennessee drops down in a little town called Murray, home of the Murray State Racers. Go Racers! Great video!

    • @HobDobson
      @HobDobson Před 2 měsíci

      The last time I was in the state, the Knobs were still there. One of them's even named for relatives!

    • @nycketajo149
      @nycketajo149 Před 2 měsíci

      Had hoped my daughter would go there for college. Covid shutdown had other plans though. We loved watching the murray marching band. Beautiful town.

  • @stevenkaskus6173
    @stevenkaskus6173 Před 2 měsíci +3

    Great video and more in depth history lesson, loved it and reading some of your followers comments.

  • @keelayk1225
    @keelayk1225 Před 2 měsíci +4

    Kentucky is a hidden gem. I’ve lived in several states but always end up coming home to Kentucky. I’m about 15 minutes from the Tennessee border in south east ky.

  • @jasonroberts5746
    @jasonroberts5746 Před 2 měsíci +4

    Nashville traffic is a nightmare. It makes Atlanta look easy.

    • @nycketajo149
      @nycketajo149 Před 2 měsíci

      Its got bad. The potholes are killer too.

    • @paulalane8638
      @paulalane8638 Před 2 měsíci +1

      My husband's from Atlanta..he says that's pretty scary!

    • @bluegrassman3040
      @bluegrassman3040 Před 22 hodinami

      I have to disagree, unless it’s changed in the last few years.

  • @Cyrus992
    @Cyrus992 Před 2 měsíci +42

    It’s important to know that Eastern Tennessee is and has done way better than Western part

    • @harryballsak1123
      @harryballsak1123 Před 2 měsíci +6

      The east and middle. I know I live in west TN. Population basically the same as it was in 2000.

    • @Cyrus992
      @Cyrus992 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@harryballsak1123 lower humidity and demographics

    • @jr642
      @jr642 Před 2 měsíci +5

      I don't know that I'd say way better. There still some petty primitive pockets in middle and east Tennessee.
      West Tennessee is fine.

    • @harryballsak1123
      @harryballsak1123 Před 2 měsíci +4

      @@jr642 Please as someone who has lived here since 1993 I beg to differ

    • @jr642
      @jr642 Před 2 měsíci +4

      @@harryballsak1123 if we’re judging based on who has lived where the longest then I win.
      I’ve lived in Nashville, Memphis and rural west Tennessee. West Tennessee is fine. I don’t know exactly what you think it’s missing….mountains ?

  • @finkster7178
    @finkster7178 Před 2 měsíci +6

    Most people I know in TN wish the population would stop growing. Crime rate has gone up in my surrounding area, and many parts of the state are not as affordable to live in as they once were.

  • @chuckconners6520
    @chuckconners6520 Před 2 měsíci +50

    Hey Geoff, I just watched this Tennessee/Kentucky video. It was great! You missed one really interesting fact though. In Lake County TN, the most northwesterly county, there is a piece of Kentucky that is only accessible from Tennessee.

    • @Thedaleb1
      @Thedaleb1 Před 2 měsíci +3

      There is a part of North Carolina that is only accessible by land from Virginia.

    • @ChristopherX30
      @ChristopherX30 Před 2 měsíci +5

      Are you referring to the infamous "Kentucky Bend"?
      If so, I plan to drive through it when I visit Illinois next month, which will be when the next solar eclipse happens!

    • @jeremiahallyn4603
      @jeremiahallyn4603 Před 2 měsíci +2

      Yes! The Kentucky Bend. I'm from Kentucky and have never been to that part of the state. I would like to visit that area one day 👍

    • @mentalchild360
      @mentalchild360 Před 2 měsíci

      There are also SEVERAL pieces of Tennessee only accessible by Arkansas

    • @Tennesseemomtho
      @Tennesseemomtho Před 2 měsíci

      @Thedaleb1 Down near Bracey VA and Warren NC, there is also a place in VA that is only accessible through NC. It was caused when Lake Gaston was built. There used to be a marina there called Nocarva because the property was in 2 states. There are also several homes on the VA side. In Halifax County VA, there is a farm that is only accessible via NC. The state line cuts the property in half.

  • @emdenny10
    @emdenny10 Před měsícem +4

    Love it here in Kentucky. I love that I can count my neighbors on one hand as we are in a rural farming community.

  • @billlowe9417
    @billlowe9417 Před 2 měsíci +2

    Really excellent informative video. Thanks!

  • @jeanlanz2344
    @jeanlanz2344 Před 11 dny

    Great analysis. Thank you, Geoff!

  • @GhostRider-sc9vu
    @GhostRider-sc9vu Před 2 měsíci +8

    Missed one factor that helped the state in general and Nashville in particular that being I-40 which is the major east west highway for the US.
    Add in I-65 and I-24 they make the city a major transportation hub.

  • @sp4604
    @sp4604 Před 2 měsíci +25

    lived in Owensboro, Ky for a year. it was dirt cheap to live and i do miss living near the river

    • @ChristopherX30
      @ChristopherX30 Před 2 měsíci +1

      I rode through Owensboro for the first time, last August, since 2010 or so. It has grown a bit.
      The development on the riverfront was very nice to see.

    • @mr1nyc
      @mr1nyc Před 2 měsíci

      I grew up there. It was a great place to grow up in the 70s to 90s.

    • @sp4604
      @sp4604 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@mr1nyc its really grown business wise its still mostly a place to raise a family. i do miss it though

    • @Droidman1231
      @Droidman1231 Před 2 měsíci +2

      Dirt cheap for a reason 🤣

    • @hunkajunkracing134
      @hunkajunkracing134 Před 2 měsíci +3

      Everytime I here Owensboro...I hear Moonlight Barbecue...

  • @AprilLaRae
    @AprilLaRae Před 2 měsíci +3

    Tennessee has a 9% sales tax, Kentucky has 6%, we get a lot of people from TN doing their shopping in KY for the cheaper tax

  • @showtimes1000
    @showtimes1000 Před 2 měsíci +3

    I live in KY Bowling Green to be exact m, which is the 3rd largest city. It has gotten so crazy here with how rapid our town has developed and grown in the last 5-10 years. We’re in a great location though, where you can drive about 30 minutes and be in an area of nothing but fields as far as you can see, or go the opposite route 30-45 minutes and be in downtown Nashville.

  • @Travis12861
    @Travis12861 Před 2 měsíci +59

    I’ll take either one over NY.

    • @annjames1837
      @annjames1837 Před 2 měsíci

      The yanks ruin every state they flee too

    • @commonsenseoverall7627
      @commonsenseoverall7627 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Same, ny sucks

    • @davidpalmeri3237
      @davidpalmeri3237 Před 2 měsíci

      I left NY for TN in 1995. NY political figures and elitists force their notion of superiority on the South and rest of nation but they are the ones who are arrogant bigots with poor economic policy.

    • @johnnybear111
      @johnnybear111 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Same

  • @jasonmckinney77
    @jasonmckinney77 Před 2 měsíci +6

    As a person that works in a DMV setting in KY, I see floods of TN citizens jumping ship for KY on a daily basis. The biggest reason, cost of living increases. Everything cost more in TN. Other popular transplants include CA, OH, and VA, with an honorable mention going to AZ.

    • @nycketajo149
      @nycketajo149 Před 2 měsíci

      We have had 7 families from ny and 2 from California move to our little neighborhood here in Western ky. They are adjusting. Lol.

  • @immapizzapasta
    @immapizzapasta Před 2 měsíci +47

    As a Tennesseean, I can say the real answer.
    The Californians.

    • @sonicdoomofficial9200
      @sonicdoomofficial9200 Před 2 měsíci +7

      If you live in Southern Ky or Middle TN you know that this is correct answer hahaha

    • @Maibuwolf
      @Maibuwolf Před 2 měsíci

      Also as someone who lives in TN they seriously need to fuck off. They voted for the BS policies that destroyed CA we do not need them voting for the same BS here. Find a different state to destroy.

    • @Lynn-kh5rs
      @Lynn-kh5rs Před 2 měsíci

      Don't envy you that one. 😂

    • @sewingseeds1timothy2.9
      @sewingseeds1timothy2.9 Před 2 měsíci

      What’s wrong with the people from California?

    • @immapizzapasta
      @immapizzapasta Před 2 měsíci

      @aliciarebecca Nothing personally, its just a joke around here that all the Californians moving to TN are "overcrowding" and "ruining" the state.
      (Especially the housing prices)

  • @robertbelt5515
    @robertbelt5515 Před 2 měsíci +3

    As a proud Kentucky resident, we have been lucky to have a lower population, we are the Blue Grass and Bourbon State, and our rural communities have strong ties to the land, which is one reason so much land is not being sold to developers who want to put housing and commercial development on the land, Kentucky was once called The Dark and Bloody Ground by the Native American Indian Tribes that have their roots in Kentucky, many people in Kentucky can trace their roots back to at least one of the many tribes that once roamed the land for its abundant wildlife that they hunted to feed the tribes throughout the winter, tribes from other states would also come into Kain tuckee in order to hunt and fish in the many rivers that all flowed into the mighty Ohio River.

  • @billmckinney7398
    @billmckinney7398 Před 2 měsíci +3

    I live in the Lexington area, born in northern Kentucky. I’ve lived in Florida, New Jersey and Connecticut, plus I’ve worked all over the U.S. and Europe. I’ve seen lots of nice places, but Kentucky’s home and where I want to be.

  • @KentuckyLiz
    @KentuckyLiz Před 2 měsíci +7

    I liked this video. I have lived in Kentucky for 30 years now, and traveled a lot in Tennessee too. It is interesting to see the differences. Our flood control projects were 3-4 decades after TN's TVA flood control projects. That had never occurred to me before.

  • @insideoutsideupsidedown2218
    @insideoutsideupsidedown2218 Před 2 měsíci +3

    My grandma lived in KY, near Greensburg, right outside of a little town called Summersville. It has the blinking yellow light at the 4 corner main intersection. Got to love the back country roads that were paved over old cow paths.

    • @ad6417
      @ad6417 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Summersville is also known for its drive in theater which is only open in the summer time.

  • @Morristown337
    @Morristown337 Před 2 měsíci +12

    Usually Tennessee keeps its roads better paved and we put high speed internet all over the state to include all the rural area to have high speed cable access. Kentucky struggles having internet outside cell phone or sat unless in a city (Or a metro area like Bowling Green/ Hopkinsville, etc) I often drive from East of Knoxville to Paducah, Kentucky Both states have cruddy roads right now and Nashville is growing too fast to maintain the infrastructure growth to adequate speeds, imo.

    • @wtk6069
      @wtk6069 Před 2 měsíci +3

      Depends on where you are. My rural phone cooperative in KY has had high-speed internet with fiber to every home in four counties since the early 2010s.

    • @nycketajo149
      @nycketajo149 Před 2 měsíci

      We are an hour outside bg and hoptown and we have had fiber internet for years.

  • @scpatl4now
    @scpatl4now Před 2 měsíci +6

    Chattanooga also was an early investor in Municipal Gigabit Broadband which was provided by EPB (Electric Power Board). This provided low cost internet to the Chattanooga Metro area. It also attracted lots of tech startups. Chattanooga was a blueprint from municipal broadband after they got up and running. My parents live there and get their broadband and TV from EPB and it costs a fraction of what I pay in Atlanta, plus all the support jobs are filled locally.

    • @WandaJacksonTN
      @WandaJacksonTN Před 2 měsíci

      I lived in CA 4 yrs ago and paid $88 for high speed internet & phone service. Moved to KY and internet alone was $116

  • @donl9571
    @donl9571 Před 2 měsíci +56

    At one time Louisville considered a large airport, but local politicians and landowners could not agree on a location. So Atlanta enlarged its airport first. And reaped the benefits.

    • @andycockrum1212
      @andycockrum1212 Před 2 měsíci +11

      Although Atlanta is obviously a larger airport, we do have the largest UPS hub on earth in Louisville. Still a great industry which many Kentuckians benefit from. They’ll even pay for your college!

    • @Keonny77
      @Keonny77 Před 2 měsíci

      @@andycockrum1212 Yes...but we could've and should've gotten BOTH. I'm from Louisville and I live in Atlanta now. I knew an executive at UPS and I asked, when UPS moved their HQ to Atlanta from Connecticut why didn't Louisville get the HQ. Their answer was, "Brainpower." Louisville didn't and still doesn't have enough college graduates. Major corporations look at college matriculation rates when they decide where they want to locate. Nashville and Atlanta have large college-educated populations. Louisville is growing but still behind. Weak politicians should have forced Standiford Field to expand back in the 70s and when they saw the end of industrialization coming they should have started pushing education. They were too reliant on all those factories and when they started closing one by one in conjunction with the decline of coal and the death of big tobacco...they were left holding the bag. Manufacturing is coming back...but not at the same salaries they had in the 60's and 70's they are inching there...but the state has to diversify its economy with more knowledge-based jobs.

    • @ceasetheday87
      @ceasetheday87 Před 2 měsíci +2

      Don’t see how an airport in Atlanta, Georgia would drastically affect Louisville, Kentucky, especially since Atlanta is on the other side of the Appalachian Mountains. If anything, Memphis, Tennessee would have a larger impact being on the same side of the Appalachian Mountains, along the Mississippi River, and centrally located in the United States.

    • @scpatl4now
      @scpatl4now Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@ceasetheday87They also have the busiest cargo hub in the world with Fed Ex

    • @tabo01
      @tabo01 Před 2 měsíci

      atlanta is a 9 hour drive. No overlap.

  • @samdoss
    @samdoss Před 2 měsíci

    Good show. Nicely done. Hope you can make several videos in Ireland. Please talk about golf there.

  • @Darealtwcism
    @Darealtwcism Před 12 dny +1

    I lived in Kentucky for six years while I went to EKU. I met some of the nicest people in the world. I truly miss my old Kentucky home and I hope to return there one day for good.

  • @joewoodchuck3824
    @joewoodchuck3824 Před 2 měsíci +4

    Coming from New England we initially considered Kentucky, but after lots of research ultimately decided on NE Tennessee. Very happy here.

    • @michaelratliff9449
      @michaelratliff9449 Před 2 měsíci +3

      Being your from New England 🤮 this Kentuckian is happy about that too!..Thank Y'all so much! 😊

  • @practac
    @practac Před 2 měsíci +3

    I live in kentucky, and I love it here. I travel all over the country for work, and I haven't found a single place I'd rather be.

  • @stacyyoung8496
    @stacyyoung8496 Před 2 měsíci +7

    Born and raised in East Tennessee and couldnt be more proud of it. That being said, if I was forced to move out of state, Eastern KY would be first place I would look for a home cause the people and geography are so much like me and like home. My ancestral lines trace back thru E.TN, E. KY, W.NC, N. Ga. SW VA. and N. Al. We've got our issues as a region, but I wouldn't live anywhere else but the Appalachia region of America. I know I got off main topic lol 🤷🏻

  • @Shiyounin
    @Shiyounin Před 2 měsíci

    Excellent video. Thanks, Geoff! Liked, subscribed, commented :)

  • @posteroonie
    @posteroonie Před 2 měsíci +11

    1:10 The whole north border of Tennessee is 425 miles I guess, but only about 325 of it is shared with Kentucky and 100 miles with Virginia.

  • @Lucas6l5
    @Lucas6l5 Před 2 měsíci +8

    “A little bit northern” lmao NEVER has ANY part of Tennessee been “northern” 😂

    • @-JYR-
      @-JYR- Před 2 měsíci +4

      Same with Kentucky as well.

  • @birdman5223
    @birdman5223 Před 2 měsíci

    Gr8 info MrGeoff

  • @scottmorrison3929
    @scottmorrison3929 Před 2 měsíci +1

    I am one of those born and raised Kentuckians who recognizes my home region as Cincinnati, OH. Everything inside the Cincinnati Overpass loop is so socially linked to Cinci that we don't even feel like the rest of the state.

  • @TheToxicCoffee
    @TheToxicCoffee Před 2 měsíci +3

    Being an East Tennessean, our population explosion is causing problems with over crowded roads, overloaded doctors and dentists, and home prices to skyrocket. Between that and the economy, we are having a rough time with sticker shock!

    • @keilana6
      @keilana6 Před 2 měsíci

      Sounds like Asheville. It's an unplanned mess of interstate construction, unaffordable apartments for locals, no updated infrastructure & loss of natural habitat.

  • @scottlarsh3119
    @scottlarsh3119 Před 2 měsíci +4

    Last spring I visited Ky and the Mammoth Cave national park. Nice people and great place to vacation

    • @mzgri
      @mzgri Před 2 měsíci +2

      That is a great location in Kentucky.

  • @randonkbay
    @randonkbay Před 2 měsíci +2

    Great job on pronunciation, pennyroyal and Louisville often identify outsiders but you nailed them both.

  • @tapanddestroy
    @tapanddestroy Před 2 měsíci +11

    Being a life long TN native. The growth and influx in transplants has made me want to leave my home state more and more. Its beginning to be unrecognizable from what it was even 20years ago and it breaks my heart

    • @ValerieDee123
      @ValerieDee123 Před 2 měsíci +2

      That's true! Where I grew up people waved at each other. Not anymore. I've always lived in small towns. Right now I'm waiting for the economy to improve so I can find a new home. Hopefully still in Tennessee. I've lived in mostly in middle Tennessee. I'm living in a tiny house now. I was living in Silver Point. Californians are moving there. Same thing happened. No more waving, not knowing your neighbors. Sad!

    • @billscott6602
      @billscott6602 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Agree, transplants move here supposedly because they like the area and then first thing they do is try to make things like where they moved from.Less waving n knowing neighbors n more rules controlling others lives and stress!

    • @jomr4249
      @jomr4249 Před 2 měsíci

      Plus gentrification. I want TN to get an income tax now becasue that’s what making all these people come here like sharks to take advantage of lower average income states.

    • @keilana6
      @keilana6 Před 2 měsíci

      Same with Asheville

    • @dyer2cycle
      @dyer2cycle Před 2 měsíci +1

      I'm a native here in North Georgia, and I feel exactly the same...go in a store, you don't know hardly anybody anymore, hear everyone speaking with accents that are distinctly NOT southern, or Appalachian, insane amounts of traffic, infrastructure won't keep up with it, all the billboards plastered with the faces of smiling real estate agents, and land/house prices so high locals have no hope of buying anymore, and those who already owned can't afford the property taxes anymore...

  • @turnerfaughn338
    @turnerfaughn338 Před 2 měsíci +11

    I live in KY and Kentucky's biggest problem with growth is that the higher ups only focus on the bluegrass region. Tennessee has at least one "big" city in each part of the state, (ie Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga). The leaders of KY only really focus on the bluegrass region because it has Louisville, Frankfort, and Lexington and not really anything more. If the government would put some effort into bringing more jobs in eastern KY like eastern TN has done, it would be just as beneficial. As for western KY, there are a lot of mid sized cities that have a lot of potential, such as Bowling Green, Paducah, and Owensboro, but the government doesn't seem to be too interested in them :/

    • @albertataulbee5077
      @albertataulbee5077 Před 2 měsíci +5

      In kentucky everything is all about corrupt politics

    • @hereticalgames3695
      @hereticalgames3695 Před 2 měsíci

      Unless you repeal the Jones act Paducah has no potential. Look at their population trend. It will be Cairo, Ill in 100 years.

    • @nightbasser73
      @nightbasser73 Před 2 měsíci

      Most Kentuckians do not want growth!! Caliyankees have destroyed Tennessee we do not want here!!!

    • @reenakemp9132
      @reenakemp9132 Před 2 měsíci

      Is it possible that you aren't considering how resistant to change Kentuckians are? All those things you said have been tried, and shut down by the citizens. They don't want or like change and don't want to better themselves?

    • @bluegrassman3040
      @bluegrassman3040 Před 21 hodinou

      Western Kentucky does have decent jobs in Henderson and Owensboro. Although ,I drive to Princeton, IN to work for Toyota. There are still coal mining jobs left here in western Kentucky, but Alliance pretty much bought out all the mines here.

  • @phantom0456
    @phantom0456 Před 2 měsíci +12

    Because Tennessee is the superior state. Admittedly, I’m biased because I’m from there, but KY does have a special place in my heart because my grandparents had a farm in the western part of the state, and I have great memories of their farm, the vast cornfields and the “No Passing Zone” signs that I would see everywhere as a young kid on the endless stretches of two-lane roads out in the vast, endless farm country of Western Kentucky.

    • @-JYR-
      @-JYR- Před 2 měsíci +3

      Kentucky is superior because it invented bourbon and bluegrass music, Tennessee tried to copy both but failed and made vastly inferior versions.

    • @615bandup2
      @615bandup2 Před 2 měsíci +2

      @@-JYR-Tennessee never copied anything from Kentucky watch ya mouth

  • @johnharris6655
    @johnharris6655 Před 2 měsíci +4

    The TVA created electricity. Electricity helped create two major industries that helped to win WW2. Oak Ridge National Lab which made the plutonium for the first Atomic bonds, and The Aluminum factors in Alcoa, just south of Knoxville. Yes, the city is named after Alcoa Aluminum which was one of the largest employers in the region for years.

  • @cuzndupre2822
    @cuzndupre2822 Před 2 měsíci +3

    As a life-long Kentuckian who has many friends in Tennessee, I can say without reservation that I am glad most Tenesseans don't live in our beloved Commonwealth.

  • @johnnybear111
    @johnnybear111 Před 2 měsíci +1

    Both lovely states and a lot of insightful comments from TN and KY residents

  • @HolySpiritwithin
    @HolySpiritwithin Před 2 měsíci +19

    It's hard to build on the side of a hill.

    • @jeremiahallyn4603
      @jeremiahallyn4603 Před 2 měsíci +4

      In which state? Tennessee has more mountains and just as many hills as Kentucky. The only areas of both states that don't have as many hills is the western areas.

    • @huemann7637
      @huemann7637 Před 2 měsíci +7

      @@jeremiahallyn4603 he says in the video that Tennessee has wider valleys than Kentucky.

    • @howtubeable
      @howtubeable Před 2 měsíci

      There's a Country music song in there somewhere.
      "It's hard to build a thrill/ On the side of this Kentucky hill."

    • @Liberty4Ever
      @Liberty4Ever Před 2 měsíci +4

      In many small Kentucky towns, the valley is barely wide enough for a road. The buildings back up against the base of the mountains, and many of the buildings (and yes, trailers) have tall stilts on the side facing the road. Many of these one road towns in eastern Kentucky are always dirty with the grime of coal trucks and lumber trucks driving through town nonstop. There is usually a convenience store that will make you a Hunt Brothers pizza.

    • @kristincox4041
      @kristincox4041 Před 2 měsíci

      I grew up in southeast Kentucky and my mom still lives there. The mountains there are called the Cumberland mountains, basically the foothills of the Appalachians. Every few hundred feet of those mountains you come to a flat and those flats are where people build their homes. My mom’s house is at about 1600 feet in elevation. She’s at the last flat however that’s suitable for a house and yard.

  • @UnderHisWing7
    @UnderHisWing7 Před 2 měsíci +17

    Best Geography channel

  • @zackphy
    @zackphy Před 2 měsíci +1

    Lived in Tennessee my entire life. And over those 37 years it's insane how much my town/city has grown, especially since the year 2000 and then again after COVID. It's went from like 40k ppl in my town and the surrounding areas it's the hub for, to 150k as of the 2020 census, and I know it's more now. Nashville which is about 80ish miles from me has also grown a crazy amount in the same time and so has it's surrounding cities like Murfreesboro.

  • @unbreakable7633
    @unbreakable7633 Před 2 měsíci +21

    Tennessee: we're full. Scram.

    • @harryballsak1123
      @harryballsak1123 Před 2 měsíci +2

      Not west TN, if anything the population has fallen. Not that it's worth living there

    • @unbreakable7633
      @unbreakable7633 Před 2 měsíci +7

      @@harryballsak1123 We have enough migrants. And Nashville has become a miserable place to go.

    • @jr642
      @jr642 Před 2 měsíci

      @@harryballsak1123 Memphis area has exploded. Jackson area is exploding.

    • @harryballsak1123
      @harryballsak1123 Před 2 měsíci +2

      @@jr642 define "exploding" I live an hour from Jackson. Madison County TN pop 2010 - 98,294; 2020 - 98,823. Shelby County TN oop 2010 - 927,644; 2020 - 929,744. That's "exploding?"

    • @unbreakable7633
      @unbreakable7633 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@jr642 My joke reply "If Memphis did explode, it would be no loss as it is the largest city in Mississippi" was censored. The algorithm has no sense of humor.

  • @juderamnarine5617
    @juderamnarine5617 Před 2 měsíci +7

    ‘Tennesse ain’t Kentucky cause you ain’t here to love me’. 🎶 Damn I gotta go listen to that song now. Thanks bro.

  • @manifesteddestiny.
    @manifesteddestiny. Před 2 měsíci +17

    Kentucky's problem is corruption in its largest city as well as a lack of transportation infrastructure in that same city. Bc of the corruption...

    • @rv10flyer84
      @rv10flyer84 Před 2 měsíci +1

      Yeah, I mentioned all of that. Nobody wants to talk about that though.

    • @hell_march6652
      @hell_march6652 Před 2 měsíci +4

      Big cities are always cess pits. Doesn't matter what state.

    • @OutWestRedDirt
      @OutWestRedDirt Před 2 měsíci

      Yeah cause only corruption is in Kentucky.

    • @ValerieDee123
      @ValerieDee123 Před 2 měsíci +1

      It's also known as blue state. Not friendly to businesses. It's beautiful land.

    • @wenharas1
      @wenharas1 Před 2 měsíci

      KY is a red state. Our legislature has a Republican supermajority.

  • @TheKyPerson
    @TheKyPerson Před 2 měsíci +2

    I live in southern Kentucky. Believe me - we are growing!!! I sometimes joke that we are turning into Nashville North.

    • @bluegrassman3040
      @bluegrassman3040 Před 21 hodinou

      What county are you in?

    • @615bandup2
      @615bandup2 Před 20 hodinami

      Never will be Nashville TN , you are from Kentucky never will be from Tennessee

  • @user-mr5nd6ed8e
    @user-mr5nd6ed8e Před 2 měsíci +3

    Myself Im currently living Kentucky… my dad was originally from Alaska, my momma was from West Virginia. Definitely enjoying the country side where I’m located in Adair county.

  • @vsznry
    @vsznry Před 2 měsíci +35

    For some reason I've always found it hard to believe that Johnny Depp is from Kentucky.

    • @SJPace1776
      @SJPace1776 Před 2 měsíci +13

      He should make a film with George Clooney and Jennifer Lawrence.

    • @Liberty4Ever
      @Liberty4Ever Před 2 měsíci +4

      @@SJPace1776 - Sadly, too late to include Harry Dean Stanton.
      If you're traveling through Cynthiana Kentucky, stop by the Walking Dead mural. The creator Robert Kirkman is from Cynthiana.

    • @harryballsak1123
      @harryballsak1123 Před 2 měsíci +3

      @@Liberty4Ever and Jim Varney. RIP

    • @Liberty4Ever
      @Liberty4Ever Před 2 měsíci +4

      @@harryballsak1123 - And crazy Ashley Judd.

    • @DashRiprock513
      @DashRiprock513 Před 2 měsíci +4

      That's the thing about Kentucky....people leave.
      Anyone with brains looks talent Et cetera Doesn't hang around ky..
      no 1 wins the lottery and moves to Kentucky. The people that enjoy the most are the old money rich people that run everything.

  • @amberswafford9305
    @amberswafford9305 Před 2 měsíci +3

    As a born, bred & still resident East Tennessean, I can answer this w 2 reasons pretty much. The first being that Tennessee has no state income tax. The second reason is a bit more complicated w plenty of smaller nuanced reasons behind its being one of the 2 main reasons & it’s Nashville. The home of the country music industry that has turned its back on the actual authentic country that made it Music City in the first place.
    Edit: How dare you say Tennessee is “a little bit North”! I don’t believe I’ve ever felt more personally offended by something said in a CZcams video. I’ve been all over this country & much more than I’ve done that, I’ve been all over this state & while there are some noticeable differences between the 3 regions, none of them are so vast that anywhere within them could anyone, within reason, say it felt northern there. 🤦🏻‍♀️

  • @truthbknown4957
    @truthbknown4957 Před 2 měsíci

    I really enjoyed this presentation. I grew up in Kentucky and visited most of Tennessee. Both great states to visit. It's a different pace of life in Western Kentucky.

    • @jessew5152
      @jessew5152 Před 2 měsíci +1

      I also grew up in West KY and have never found another place quite like it. If it weren't for work I would move my family to the lakes.

  • @bluecollarbuilds
    @bluecollarbuilds Před 2 měsíci +3

    Been a lifelong Memphian but have family in Kentucky so i go visit often I really love both states

  • @floydwhatchacallit6823
    @floydwhatchacallit6823 Před 2 měsíci +10

    Weirdly enough, there's technically only one mountain in Kentucky, Black/Pine Mountain. The ruggedness is from dense ridge lines packed in tight.
    What I was told is, that back in the 60s and 70s, before they cut roads through the hills and ridges, it would take all day to drive a 70 miles, in eastern Kentucky. It's still isolated when you get away from the major roads.

    • @vitalsigns2679
      @vitalsigns2679 Před 2 měsíci

      Yes. As a kid , my family drove thru those mountain places to visit family. Early 60s. It was a long slow trip ,sometimes on the edge of mountains on almost single lane roads.

    • @wtk6069
      @wtk6069 Před 2 měsíci +1

      And that's how most people there like it.

  • @Mattius08
    @Mattius08 Před 2 měsíci +3

    True. I own 355 acres in these beautiful rolling hills of Kentucky. Love it here. Love Tennessee too. Both states are great. Nashville is getting crowded tho

  • @Susieq26754
    @Susieq26754 Před 2 měsíci +15

    Me and my husband went for a weekend getaway to Louisville KY. We were shocked by all the drug dealers downtown. They all were on every corner. Sometimes riding bikes, or hover boards. All of them were white and had backpacks on. Lots of homeless people going back and forth, conversing with the people with backpacks. Then junkies rolling around on the ground holding their stomachs. You know what else was strange. City leaders or council members walking right by it all. Smiling and welcoming people, literally walking over fetanayl addicted people on the street. Not one cop showed up to arrest all those drug dealers with backpacks on. Me and my hubby were so sad that this was allowed to happen. I mean the city representatives pretended it didn't exist. That to me, isn't caring for others or promoting a friendly, safe city environment. We won't be back.

    • @willfranck5000
      @willfranck5000 Před 2 měsíci +6

      If you go to Kentucky, don’t go to Louisville. It is the worst place in the state by far. I live 50 miles away from it and it’s perfect here.

    • @user-jz7ny1qc6j
      @user-jz7ny1qc6j Před 2 měsíci +13

      Almost every major city in the country is like that unfortunately

    • @Keonny77
      @Keonny77 Před 2 měsíci +5

      Where were you at? I am from Louisville, but I live in Atlanta and I have not seen that when I go home to visit in Louisville or in Atlanta. If you want to see homelessness, come to Atlanta. I can't recall seeing open-air drug deals in Louisville, but I have in Atlanta.

    • @Liberty4Ever
      @Liberty4Ever Před 2 měsíci +4

      As a lifelong Kentuckian, I am embarrassed by Louisville. It has had its share of problems but it has developed big city problems to a much greater extent in the last several years. I was born in eastern Kentucky and moved to Lexington to attend college in 1978 and have been here since that time. Lexington is starting to get its share of big city problems now as well, but not nearly to the extent of Louisville, Cincinnati, Atlanta, etc. I avoid Louisville. I recommend you do too.

    • @ericbivins8014
      @ericbivins8014 Před 2 měsíci +5

      Louisville just keeps getting worse. I've watched it decline my whole life.

  • @amandachriswhite7551
    @amandachriswhite7551 Před 2 měsíci

    Living my whole life in these two states, I found this video very interesting and well done. Historically, one aspect not touched on though was the “great migratjon” from eastern KY to the north (in my grandmother’s generation) for out of work miners looking for jobs in the factories, lots ended up in Chicago, Cincinnati, etc. Then subsequent hits to the mining industry caused the eastern KY population to dwindle. As mentioned in the video, there is not as much diversification of industry in most areas of KY. That coupled with less interstate access and poor internet/communication capabilities in some areas, it’s hard to fairly compare eastern KY to eastern TN.

  • @CrystalClearWith8BE
    @CrystalClearWith8BE Před 2 měsíci +12

    The Volunteer State have a lot of major metro areas to stay in such as Nashville, Chattanooga, Memphis, and Knoxville, just to name a few and many major cities in Tennessee are very connected. Kentucky have a few major metro areas with high population like Louisville, Lexington, and the suburbs in NKY near Cincy.

    • @jazzcatt
      @jazzcatt Před 2 měsíci

      Gee, you are repeting what he said in the video. ka-DOINK!

    • @CrystalClearWith8BE
      @CrystalClearWith8BE Před 2 měsíci +3

      @@jazzcatt, tell you what. It's interesting to know why Tennessee is growing that fast unlike Kentucky. Tennessee is safer than Kentucky. The only best places to live in Kentucky is NKY and Lexington. Avoid Louisville. In Tennessee, avoid Memphis a lot and also avoid Chattanooga. Stay in the suburbs of Nashville.

    • @ChristopherX30
      @ChristopherX30 Před 2 měsíci

      ​@@CrystalClearWith8BEIs Chattanooga that bad?

    • @valecrassus7835
      @valecrassus7835 Před 2 měsíci +1

      @@ChristopherX30 Not nearly as bad as Memphis, but it's not great.

    • @615bandup2
      @615bandup2 Před 2 měsíci

      @@CrystalClearWith8BETennessee is way more dangerous than Kentucky huh? Tennessee rank 3rd in murder rate & crime

  • @douglaslaw3752
    @douglaslaw3752 Před 2 měsíci +7

    I live in Virginia. I'm a IBEW Electrician. Property is cheaper and they have a good living of standard in Kentucky. I know so many Indianapolis elections that are members of IBEW local 369. Yes, I know because I've lived in Elizabethtown Kentucky for 10 months.

    • @JCpNK
      @JCpNK Před 2 měsíci

      How’s the cost of Gas, food, commodities in Kentucky vs Virginia? We live in Virginia btw

  • @user-oq6ub8hs8p
    @user-oq6ub8hs8p Před 2 měsíci +1

    I live in Oak Ridge. TN 20 minutes from Knox Ville. I retired down here and its been great,

  • @asintonic
    @asintonic Před 2 měsíci

    Hello awesome videos.
    Can you please think about making a video of Singapore? My second home to Chicago. Thank you.

  • @Dozenfury88
    @Dozenfury88 Před 2 měsíci +3

    Nashville (and Austin, TX) have been going through the massive growth period of being an "in" place to move to for a while now. Both unrecognizable from the towns they were 20 years ago. Atlanta, Denver, and Phoenix went through kind of the same surge of growth in recent decades. But these things go through cycles, eventually home prices push people further out until another metro area starts to look good. And as commuters in Denver know, being the popular place to relocate to is not always a positive.

    • @jomr4249
      @jomr4249 Před 2 měsíci

      It's DEFINITELY not a positive.

    • @EMan-cu5zo
      @EMan-cu5zo Před 2 měsíci

      It’s ruined south Florida.

  • @Da__goat
    @Da__goat Před 2 měsíci +8

    A complete lack of income tax and a 6.5% corporate tax rate, the Worldport on one side and Atlanta on the other, geography plays a big role, and Tennessee has lot of culture as well and is known for being the source of much local southern culture compared to Kentucky. In this case, geography is working in TNs favor massively, being just further south on the Mississippi River means that shipping down the river is cheaper, in addition, Atlanta is a massive rail hub and the connection to Chicago, another massive rail hub, must first run through TN. Most importantly, TN is actually closer to the major population centers located in the Atlantic states than Kentucky is. Virginia's population is clustered around the Chesapeake and the flat plains of Ohio are not only better for farmlands but also for the construction of railroads, which is how Chicago grew to be so important and continues to be to this day. Coal, fertile land, and close proximity to both the Mississippi and large cargo and population centers, meant that TN was just going to be a better candidate than KY.
    If it were in a videogame, both would have the debuff to building anything due to the mountains, but the cost in TN offsets this. It's just cheaper and when this is extended over time then it becomes obvious that TN would pull away. Not to mention the fact that it has also recently been very trendy to move to Nashville in the past 6 years.

    • @Liberty4Ever
      @Liberty4Ever Před 2 měsíci +2

      You could have stopped at "complete lack of income tax and a 6.5% corporate tax rate". THAT is why Tennessee is growing much faster than Kentucky. Taxing income is taxing productivity. Tax anything and you'll have less of it. Every other factor is far less significant.

  • @KD8RAP
    @KD8RAP Před 2 měsíci

    I'm in urban Northern Kentucky and not many do move here overall, but I have noticed a decent amount of Nashville natives moving here the last couple years while that area has been growing so much.

  • @ReasonablySane
    @ReasonablySane Před 2 měsíci +1

    I moved from Seattle, my home of 46 years, to central, rural Kentucky 13 years ago. We simply love it here. I like that it is less "urban" than Tennessee. I bicycle commuted in Seattle for about 15 years and loved it until smart phones made it too dangerous. I now avoid all urban areas, though I do enjoy visiting places like Third Man Records in Nashville.
    All states get their taxes in one way or another. What I like about Kentucky is that, at least where I live, real estate taxes on 32 acres with a home, new shop building and old, large barn, are about the price of a medium pizza every month. And the tabs on my four cars may be high compared to Tennessee, but they are practically free compared to my old home town. Around $400 for all four of them. The people are also super nice here, which is one of the things that attracted us to it.
    BTW, we loved visiting Knoxville and we also enjoy visiting Nashville somewhat. Memphis is a pit and we will never go there again.
    And just to be clear, one of the main reasons we moved was for a more friendly political environment relative to my cultural sensibilities. That is, I moved from a state where my vote didn't count to a state where my vote still doesn't count, but for opposite reasons.
    BTW, Kentucky's bourbon industry is exploding. I live near seven or eight major distilleries and they have grown substantially since I moved here. One of the ways they've grown is in their visitor centers. What used to be free tours (13 years ago) went from $7 to $30 and there is often a waiting list.
    However, Louisville's major employers, since 2020, have drastically shrunk their downtown footprints. That is, LG&E, Humana and 5/3 bank.

  • @quintonlloyd2393
    @quintonlloyd2393 Před 2 měsíci +6

    My family has owned a fairly large track of land on Lake Cumberland In Kentucky since the 1800's. In which people from out of state are trying to buy constantly. Do yourself a favor You'll hate it here stay away. Huge fresh water reservoirs everywhere, low property taxes, friendly people, fairly mild winters, mountains, rivers, lower than most of the country in the cost of living, The home of bourbon and the thoroughbred, awesome college basketball.... Like I said ,You'll hate it here please stay away..LOL!

  • @e815usa
    @e815usa Před 2 měsíci +9

    You should have added a blurb about the Madrid Bend. It looks like it's supposed to be part of TN but is part of KY for some reason.

    • @blisterbrain
      @blisterbrain Před 2 měsíci +1

      It's because the river changed course after an earthquake, cutting off a chunk of land from the rest of the state.

    • @GhostRider-sc9vu
      @GhostRider-sc9vu Před 2 měsíci +1

      To add to @blisterbrain the Ohio River also has changed course with parts of Kentucky on accessible through Ohio or Indiana. As parts of Tennessee are in Arkansas.
      The New Madid Quake was one of the biggest to hit the US it is said the Mississippi even flowed backwards because of it.

    • @blisterbrain
      @blisterbrain Před 2 měsíci

      @@GhostRider-sc9vu Yes. Accounts of it are truly terrifying, it seemed like Armageddon, and the tremors and aftershocks were brutal and continued for a long time. So many people wound up fleeing that the area was basically depopulated. They just couldn't take it.
      It will happen again someday, too. We can only hope not soon, because there's a lot more people there now, and nothing is really built to withstand quakes unlike in California or Japan.

  • @frankpoole2010
    @frankpoole2010 Před 2 měsíci

    Love your channel. I am a geography nerd 10:59 . Ill keep watching.

  • @mattanderson6672
    @mattanderson6672 Před 2 měsíci

    Interesting, thank you