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[GTThor]

Explains Gunner Stockton!

 

[stinger78]

If these are references to "Deliverance", that movie was set in north Georgia.

Deliverance was fiction. WVA isn’t. Fact is stranger than fiction, it often seems.

How about that?

 

[forensicbuzz]

Deliverance was fiction. WVA isn’t. Fact is stranger than fiction, it often seems.

How about that?

Have you ever been to that part of Georgia/Tennessee? Not sure how much fiction it is.

 

[techfan#14]

Have you ever been to that part of Georgia/Tennessee? Not sure how much fiction it is.

Well I live up here and yes Hillbillies are still alive and well. However, it must not be that awful with the absolute flood of people that pile in here on the weekends from Atlanta. Secondarily, I guarantee that you and your rear end are safer here than down in the city or West Virginia for that matter.

 

[LongforDodd]

If these are references to "Deliverance", that movie was set in north Georgia.

A GT connection to Deliverance. The very last scene (except for the arm floating out of the water) was shot at the Dillard House and the lady who was serving the food to the remaining rafters was a Dillard and had a daughter who graduated from GT in about '73.

 

[tmhunter52]

A GT connection to Deliverance. The very last scene (except for the arm floating out of the water) was shot at the Dillard House and the lady who was serving the food to the remaining rafters was a Dillard and had a daughter who graduated from GT in about '73.

The Chatooga is a real challenge when the water is high!

 

[forensicbuzz]

Well I live up here and yes Hillbillies are still alive and well. However, it must not be that awful with the absolute flood of people that pile in here on the weekends from Atlanta. Secondarily, I guarantee that you and your rear end are safer here than down in the city or West Virginia for that matter.

I have a farm in one of the most rural counties in Alabama. Not in the hills, but still out in the middle of nowhere. Great people, but it is strangely reminiscent of some of the scenes in Deliverance. That's my mamma's family's country, so my comments were not disparaging.

 

[AugustaSwarm]

You got a purdy mouth, boy

 

[AppJacket]

Well I live up here and yes Hillbillies are still alive and well. However, it must not be that awful with the absolute flood of people that pile in here on the weekends from Atlanta. Secondarily, I guarantee that you and your rear end are safer here than down in the city or West Virginia for that matter.

I spent the first 18 years of my life in southwest Georgia and the majority of the last 18 in West Virginia. Morgantown is definitely more like a Blacksburg than an Atlanta, but it’s not like it’s in the middle of absolute nowhere, it’s an easy hour drive to Pittsburgh.

And there might be lingering drug issues in the more depressed areas of WV, but crime where I’m at is below national averages in all rankings…not so in south Georgia . Cost of living is pretty nice too!

 

[orientalnc]

I spent the first 18 years of my life in southwest Georgia and the majority of the last 18 in West Virginia. Morgantown is definitely more like a Blacksburg than an Atlanta, but it’s not like it’s in the middle of absolute nowhere, it’s an easy hour drive to Pittsburgh.

And there might be lingering drug issues in the more depressed areas of WV, but crime where I’m at is below national averages in all rankings…not so in south Georgia . Cost of living is pretty nice too!

I was surprised at how much I liked Huntington. The historic district is a gem with that huge park.

 

[Oldgoldandwhite]

I have a farm in one of the most rural counties in Alabama. Not in the hills, but still out in the middle of nowhere. Great people, but it is strangely reminiscent of some of the scenes in Deliverance. That's my mamma's family's country, so my comments were not disparaging.

Sounds like God’s Country.

 

[LongforDodd]

The Chatooga is a real challenge when the water is high!

Have you been on it? I’ve only had a picnic next to it.

 

[stinger 1957]

If I had a degree from somewhere like a Princeton and was a FB player in the Ivy league, had the chance to possibly be a starter at a power 4 school and maybe out of that even a chance at the pros taking the best power 4 available even if it were a WVA just to see, only one year, maybe two in my early 20s, go for it.

 

[tmhunter52]

Have you been on it? I’ve only had a picnic next to it.

Yes, in the late ‘80s. (Bull sluice was raging!)

 

[Techster]

Rabun County. Undergoing a real estate boom.

One of the most beautiful parts of GA. Use to be a bit of a secret, but it's gotten more popular over the years. Lots of great hiking trails and waterfalls in that area. Also, not too far from Highlands and Asheville, NC.