Lisa HamiltonAs astonishing as it is that this tiny hick town in #Appalachia would even know what pi is, but our grocery store is selling their bakery pies for $3.14 on March 14th! #food #pie #pi #math #SmallMiracles
Yes I will be buying one :-)
Michael Kinder@3x10to8mps Where is this hick town? (Coming from a fellow hillbilly math nerd, of course...)
@michael This is in the northeast dog ear of West Virginia, close to the rural part of Maryland that wants to defect to be part of WV 😂
Poor semi-dying ex-coal mine and ex-paper mill town with a high of 5000 people because we have a junior college. Very insular.
Nearest Chick-fil-A or Pizza Hut or movie theater is 30 miles up the valley. Nearest Costco or Starbucks or Red Lobster or Target is 2.75 hrs over mountains to either east or west. Nearest really educated population is 1-2 hrs farther in Baltimore/DC
What's your town like?
@3x10to8mps No way! My town is pretty similar here. I'm in Southwest Virginia (near that little pointy bit on the left of the state) right next to KY, WV and TN. Town used to have a booming coal mining industry. Now we have a handful of restaurants, a 3 story Walmart (because we didn't have room for a big parking lot), a law school and an optometry school. Only about 1200 people living in the town itself, most people live outside the town limits.
@michael Hahaha I know where that is. How does a little town merit a law school? I thought those were all attached to big universities?
Having professional schools must give you a better class of amenities- is there a coffee house where they study? And a book store? Colleges bring lovely interesting services :-)
@3x10to8mps The law school attracts many people from across the country due to it's lower tuition rates, so you'll see people from all walks of life out and about here.
As for amenities, unfortunately we don't have very many. We have a pretty nice public library. There's the typical fast food, but we've got a Chinese restaurant and a Mexican restaurant. People like to go to the local interstate park during their spare time. Scenery is beautiful. It's one of the reasons I choose to stay. 😁
@michael That's so beautiful. Is it visible from where you live or do you have to drive to that vista?
A public library is a gift! Your local people probably don't realize the benefits that having students from all over is bringing them.
We have a one room library but she only lets Christian books in it, so not useful at all.
I hope to find somewhere else to live sooner than later. But the low cost of living here makes it hard to leave :-)
@3x10to8mps I'm about a 5 minute drive away from the park. I love going hiking there, so many great trails!
Our county is trying to pivot to tourism, so they've added a lot of things like ziplines, rock climbing, biking trails and a mini water park.
There's also another venue on top of a nearby mountain where they host events. A couple years ago one of the largest ATV events in the country decided to use that spot for their event and it was super packed! People came from all over to visit.