I have lived all over Kentucky--Webster County, Lawrenceburg, Louisville, Northern Kentucky--and find it to be just sucky. The weather is unpredictable, the people are terrible drivers, and the people are also some of the rudest, most impolite anywhere. There, it's not what you know or how good of a person you are, it's who you know; if you're connected to the elite in your town or related to a prominent family, people will literally ignore you. When I lived there and worked among the public in retail, I found that the nicest people I dealt with came from places outside of Kentucky. I've received better service in restaurants in Ohio, New Jersey and New York than in a typical small Kentucky town.
Sure, there are nice and mean people everywhere, but Kentucky boasts about its friendliness and warm hospitality. HA!!! I'm impartial to Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas--I LOVE those places b/c of the warm weather, friendly people, and cheaper cost of living.
2006-06-11 15:13:41 · 11 answers · asked by chandlerthemandler 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
By the way, Louisville, in particular, is so bad it makes New York City look friendly.
2006-06-11 15:15:44 · update #1
Yeah, I didn't like the short trip I had in Kentucky, for as much crap as they talk about Yankee Hospitality, and Massachusetts driving, I thought people were nicer, and smarter, here in Western MA, than in Kentucky. And, working in customer service for an nation wide company, I have found that my Kentucky customers are really rude, and vague. For example,
Me: Good Morning ***** Farm, How can I help you?
Mrs. Kentucky: Hi, Is this ***** Farm?
Me: Yes, this is ***** Farm, how may I help you?
Ms. Kentucky: Uh, you got plants?
Me: Yes m'am, certainly, what were you looking for?
Mrs. Kentucky: Plants.
Me: Yes m'am, I understand you would like plants, we sell plants, what kind of plants were you interested in.
Mrs. Kentucky: What kind of plants do you sell? ..... Then I'm sitting there, thinking, LADY, YOU CALLED ME.... grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr it's like pulling teeth to get any information out of any of these people!!
2006-06-11 15:22:16 · answer #1 · answered by Tessa ♥ 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋
I'm sorry to hear that, my dear, but you really can't judge an entire state by a few idiots. Iowa also should have a "friendly" Midwestern attitude but a few people I know who say they've escaped from there call the state "Idiots Out Walking Around". What I'm trying to get at is that doofuses (doophi ?) are everywhere. Come up to Wisconsin. We're good.
2006-06-11 22:19:17 · answer #2 · answered by Mama Otter 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think that Kentucky is pretty with the horses but I only went through it twice, I didn't really have to deal with the people except at the Crackerbarrel Reetaurant.
2006-06-11 22:16:33 · answer #3 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i love KY, im from carrollton, i was born and raised here, yea i will admit not everyone knows how to drive, i hate driving in louisville or any big city for that matter, but not everyone in KY is hateful, Yea sometimes its who you know well, but alot of the time its who you are kin to here, especially in carrollton, most of kentucky is made up of small very small farming communities like carrollton, and there are some of the nicest ppl here, but i believe with the way times are changing and every one is in fast mode just to keep up with the times it gets very fustrating and ppl can get in bad moods, so i just kill em with kindness and it usually works. also a nice smile can go along ways, ppl feed off of others emotions, if you are around some one in a bad mood it generally rubs off and it gets passed around.
2006-06-11 22:24:17 · answer #4 · answered by ladyrebel 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
hey i live in kentucky myself although i was not born here i actually like it. i dont like our governor. he's kind of a fruit cake if u ask me but the state is beutiful near the caves and the land it great. however the people dont seem to get the rebel flag is not their herritage as well as marrying your cousin or ur brother. and the herritage is not having a baby at 16 and being on welfare the rest of ur life. so i guess im saying the people can be stupid but the landscape is great.
2006-06-11 22:19:43 · answer #5 · answered by ERICA J 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I would rather live in KY than hell hole OH, the people in KY are nice, I think its a great state. If you go there as a Northerner with a stuck up disposition, you will be treated like crap, this is probably your experience.
2006-06-15 14:49:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Bluegrass area: Mighty fine.
Rest of the state: About like southern Ohio, too much white trash for my taste.
2006-06-11 22:26:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Never been, but it makes me think of fried chicken for some reason.
2006-06-11 22:15:58 · answer #8 · answered by illusionDweller 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey, my extended family lives there and they're nice.
2006-06-11 22:17:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Thanks for the warning!...I've been avoiding it because the movie Deliverance scared me as a child...Appalachia in general after that movie...Maybe the Kentuckians are mad at the stereotypical generalizations this movie caused the area? Hmm...can a movie affect an entire societies outlook? - I ponder -
2006-06-11 22:25:19 · answer #10 · answered by ndngrlz 4 · 1⤊ 4⤋