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Originally Posted by fintstone

Rural Appalachian mountains...like what you saw on Walton's Mountain on TV...just much, much poorer than on that show (as poor folks don't own sawmills, a big house, or an entire mountain). Sorta what you would see in the movie Deliverance except poorer and minus the Hollywood version/fantasy of perversion and criminality. Hard working people who went to church on Sunday and worked daylight to dark to eke out an existence growing their own food, cutting their own wood for heat and cooking, etc...as there were no real local jobs.

I am quite familiar with the military lifestyle...it was a way out for me and others. I though I was rich when I got my first military paycheck as a teen...as I made more than both my parents combined.

Got it. I've not seen it, but I've read/heard about it. These days it's most often associated with West VA, but I'm sure it is more geographic than that.