Hey now, I grew up in Hardin County and graduated from Murray State. There’s nothing wrong with the western end apart from it being the skinny part of the state and its proximity to the New Madrid fault.
Other than that, what everyone else said.
Thanks for the replies, everyone! Sorry for not checkin’ in sooner, but with the packing and moving and everything…
So, the cost of living is pretty good…
The fishing is close and good…
And watch out on Thursday nights.
Oh: and drink Ale-8 with peanuts added.
I’m really looking forward to it!
Mmm…Ale-8. How I miss it. Also, living in Richmond puts you close to Columbia’s Steak House, one of the best reasons to be in Kentucky. There’s one in Berea(or there used to be. Cliff Hagen’s old restaurant), and a couple in Lexington. Richmond is a fun area, not much there, but you can still have fun. It’s a wet city in a dry county, which helped with it’s reputation as a party school. When I lived in Lexington, I used to go to Richmond all the time with my dad to deliver potato chips.
Of course, now I’m in Tennessee, so all I have is memories. And you must go to Keeneland.
We drove through Kentucky a couple of weeks ago, and buy most of my wine and cheese there. So we’ll wave when we’re passing back through. Oh, and let me know if you need to head up I-64/I-75 for a semi-professional football game in our neck of the woods. Should be better with M. Lewis there. Welcome to the semi-neighborhood!
I just popped in to say that everytime I read the title of this thread, I think of the Presidents of the USA song “Peaches.” That’s all.
I was born in Pikeville, KY and lived there for a total of about 5 years. I went to Morehead State University for 1 year, then moved to Cincinatti to work at Kings Island, and then came to New York. I’m a city kid, but I love the rolling mountains of KY. Natural beauty is something Kentucky has in spades. Lexington is a really fun town. We used to trek to Ashland for some drinking as well.
One thing I’ve learned is that there are cool people everywhere. There are dicks everywhere too. I enjoyed my time in KY, but I will never live any place but NYC for the rest of my days (most likely). I made alot of really cool friends and had a real good time. I go back once a year at least for as long as I have been alive.
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Good luck with your move Pantellerite. You’re going to be exceptionally fluent in a number of geological climates, given your disparate locales. I’ll pass along to Greg your intentions.
Have fun in Kentucky. It sounds like a wonderful state.
It is, lieu! Come visit us sometime! 
I’m a pure-D Texan, but you wanna know what my favorite part of the USA is? All of it. I’ve never been or lived anywhere that I didn’t love, and I expect that Kentucky will be no different!
In fact, I’m so excited about it RIGHT NOW, I can’t even express it.
lieu, I’ve been meaning to drop you a line, but my days have gotten pretty busy! You’ll hear from me soon.
Everybody, thanks; I’m cleaning and packing and actually totally stoked the entire time–that’s gotta be a good sign.
NOOOOOOOOOOO ! Say it ain’t so! You were s’posed to start coming to MAD events! Whadda ripoff!
You absolutely must go to Cumberland Falls sometime after the leaves have turned for the fall. Absolutely amazing!
Native of near-Paducah here, only been to Richmond once. I can tell you that western Kentucky* (as in actual western Kentucky, NOT Owensboro or Bowling Green which are south central at best) and eastern Kentucky may as well be two different states.
- = you are not in western Kentucky until you are at LBL
I went to Murray State for a while.
You’re right. Pretty area (if you’re into flatland, anyway) but so miserably hot and humid in the summers it’s not worth the effort.
MSU’s campus is very very dark spiritually. Lots of really messed up stuff going on there. I was miserable the whole 2 years I was there.
Well, I grew up in Eastern Kentucky, graduated from UK, and now live in Owensboro, so I have experience with all three parts of the state (except that far western part that SnoopyFan mentioned (which is where Murray is). Growing up in Eastern Kentucky I used to always long to move back to Ohio where I was born, and I certainly have no desire to move back there. But I have really enjoyed living in the other parts of the state. I pretty much have to agree with all the positive things said above.
Aaack! An IFO!* Kill it, kill it! 
Please, please tell me that when you lived in Eastern Kentucky you never drove around at 40 miles an hour looking at all the foliage or had to be rescued from Natural Bridge. The Ohio folks who apparently have no trees in their own state are the bane of our autumn visits to Dr.J’s parents. (“Y’all are so late, we thought you had car trouble or something.” “No, it was bumper-to-bumper IFO’s from the Mountain Parkway on into town.” “Yeah, that’ll do it, all right.”)
*idiot from Ohio
Tell me about it, Anita V.… when we relocated to here from the Middle Of Nowhere, I thought I’d be able to start making events in Norfolk, Raleigh, and the occassional DC/NoVA–but, except for one near miss in DC, haven’t had the chance in the past year. And now my MAD status is going to have to be revoked before I could fully embrace MADness!
This thread is making me homesick. 
An Eastern KY (good ol’ Pike County) gal checking in. I now live in Texas, but I would move back to KY if I could. Too bad there are no jobs for me there. I love that state. I still haven’t seen anything more beautiful than our mountains in the fall. Man it was nice to live in an area with “real” seasons, too.
Good luck with your move Pantellerite. Definitely check out Cave Run Lake while you are there. It’s a really nice area.
LOL @ CrazyCatLady I can remember driving home from college to visit my parents and yelling at all the slow out-of-staters on the Mountain Parkway! Oh the memories…