Pay particular attention to #3

[BurninDownTheCouch]

And the city they emphasize. It would be unfair to visitors to this board to believe the envy filled hate speech Marshall fans spew about Morgantown.... It's the most complete, cosmopolitan, fun, exciting, lively, and eclectic, city in WV..... A far cry from drug central in Huntington..

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/best-states-retirement-2015-175709167.html

 

[MikeRafone]

Don't forget "The Great Charleston Plot" to keep Huntington down, Couch. That's an oldie but a goodie. The WVU obsession became intertwined with "The Plot" in the early '70's. No one east of Barboursville can figure out what the Hell they're going on about?

Inferiority complexes run deep in the Huntington psyche.

 

[BurninDownTheCouch]

Don't forget "The Great Charleston Plot" to keep Huntington down, Couch. That's an oldie but a goodie. The WVU obsession became intertwined with "The Plot" in the early '70's. No one east of Barboursville can figure out what the Hell they're going on about?

Inferiority complexes run deep in the Huntington psyche.

I sense a boycott of Yahoo looming........

 

[WiiWii]

I sense a boycott of Yahoo looming........

^^^^^ brutal!

 

[TIREPUNK]

Was Huntigton always a shithole? I drove thru there a couple of years ago and was agast at the slum feel of the dump........ there must have been a day when it was decent.....right?

 

[BurninDownTheCouch]

Was probably a nice place before they built the college down there. Morgantown keeps getting better and better, and is consistently ranked as one of the better small cities in the country. The more soda pop Huntington drinks, the more prestigious our Med School becomes.

 

[MikeRafone]

Huntington's economy went in the crapper in roughly 1980. It's never recovered. What small chance it did have was stillborn when the city of Huntington decided it didn't need a mall in city limits. The mall went to Ona, and it, and Barboursville have thrived since.

Ashland Oil relocating it's corporate HQ from nearby Ashland, KY. to Northern Kentucky was the shot in the head to the crippled horse that was Huntington.

It's too bad, however the city fathers, (and a certain governor who didn't want I-64 going through his favorite golf course back in the early 60's.), brought the current situation upon themselves due to decades of mismanagement.