Flat Lick, Kentucky Rural Hoods Appalachian Poverty

Eastern Kentucky. Personal opinion disclaimer

[@couchtuber7623]

It might be impoverished but the green nature and rolling hills make this place look 1000 times prettier than any place in Florida.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

Depression is what i see

[@JeffBrown-ov8le]

I grew up in Bell County. I visited Flat Lick countless times over the years and always had fun and enjoyed myself. You should have done the same.

[@TheDirector_]

Lol chill out

[@vanessalewis1023]

​@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGSLMAO , still a lot prettier.

[@brookelounsbury1843]

You’re really rude to the person driving with (I’m assuming this is your SO which is sad) and your approach to the people you’re filming about is rude too.

[@MichelleMelton-pr8ff]

I think it's just the way he talks. She doesn't seem to mind the micro-managing lol. He is a back seat driver for sure. A lot of people down south are blunt when they talk

[@BIFC216]

​@@MichelleMelton-pr8ff bs come up north I'll show you blunt 😂

[@matsuyamarockers]

This channel tries its best to throw shade at a lot of this country, specifically the south. I think someone from the south hurt his feelings.

[@danielleS257]

@@MichelleMelton-pr8ff Blunt? In the South? No mamm. Polite you to death. A smile and a bless your heart is about as passive aggressive as it gets. I think you can travel a bit farther Norrh for blunt. He sounds a little more Midwest to me actually. She’s definitely Southern.

[@s0litud3GT]

you drove through my little holler where i grew up since birth till about 10, ur kinda disrespectful tbh

[@user-lt5bp3ww3n]

Your "yeeA buddy" was so ridiculous and annoying.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

yeaaH buty

[@mpaige7081]

Plz stop with the “yeah buddy” no one is gonna take you seriously

[@miterbenisdurty3862]

I moved there from the suburbs a month ago. Peaceful, quiet, got 6 acres with a spring on property. Cant find that in Florida where i just moved from.

[@JuliaWoods-jh6yu]

You talking about how “Rough” and zombie people look here in “Flat Lick” you didn’t even go to the “Rough” parts of Flat Lick. Don’t judge us by some of the abandoned places! Don’t like what you saw? Don’t come back! You weren’t asked to come!!

[@Justme-ct5qk]

Mam since you live there can you tell me how hard is it to find and buy a acre are 2 of land back in the woods and also about how much ??? Thanks

[@redfoley9608]

Amen. Such a goofy guy all he could say was YEAH BUDDY

[@snoopywoodstock7246]

Well said!

[@survivingthetimes]

lol. If I lived out there, I would have me a posse just waiting on these mo-fos to come through. Yeah buddy. Dude sounded like a scared kid on a roller coaster.

[@sharontuggle843]

how often do you judge?

[@christianhenson9727]

Flat Lick is a very beautiful place

[@markrhodes7446]

I have friends in Eastern ky and they are wonderful folks so stop with the insults!!

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

Fit the shoe fits wear it. I am not mentioning anyone by name

[@giliwizzle]

No, you just generalized everyone here which is even worse. You’re talking about people and stuff you don’t know anything about. You’re spreading ignorance.

[@rebugyayorozu1148]

I live in flat lick, and I've fell on some hard times, theres a lot of good folk around who wont even think of accepting your money for giving you a hand, it is in the middle of no where, but the people are so amazing i dont think were gonna be moving anytime soon

[@redfoley9608]

Son here in east Kentucky we’ve had ups n downs but we’re still standin

[@JoeNathan42420]

Not so beautiful when standing on the side of the road

[@genasmith1547]

​​@@JoeNathan42420it's beautiful no how you look at it. Them nice dirt and gravel roads are just as beautiful. GODS creation. Walked many a gravel, dirt road. Nature can't be beat , it's the best. 📖✝️🙏

[@MargaretMartin-kg8dd]

By the way, I never say "yeah buddy". We are intelligent and very resourceful.

[@redfoley9608]

@@MargaretMartin-kg8dd that narrator is a bastard making fun of us.

[@JenniferLogsdon-if7wq]

Kentucky is a hidden paradise in many way lived here all my life and am well traveled it one of the prettiest states of all 50. There are poverty but there is a lot of wealth in KY as well. All area are a mixing pot of both.

[@ralphcantrell3214]

It looks like the good life to me. I'm sick of crowds, rude people, rules, traffic jams, speeding and distracted drivers, beggars, homeless camps, red lights, too much concrete, etc etc.

[@chasityturnerboggs6056]

Bless your heart Katie. You just cant do anything right for this person 😢 you didnt go slow enough to catch the trailers and trash of your people, your kind, your folks. Shame on you for no comment during the degrading.

[@johnlundy50]

Savages are the people that drive in south florida, savages are the gangs in belle glade, savages are the super wealthy in Miami that let people starve and sleep under bridges. Savages are the people in Orlando that can't help a stranger broke down on the side of the road. People are leaving California, New York, Florida and other savage states to have a better life in Kentucky. If you do move to this area, please bring your manners. "Please", "Thank you" and "may I help you?" are common phrases Used here. Yeah buddy

[@patriot4amer]

Calling poor people savages and zombies is a reflection of a malicious heart...

[@patriot4amer]

People looking Zoombied out....what a unloving statement

[@debbiekjohnson2568]

I'd really like to know how old you are cuz you don't sound very mature.

[@man4290]

Beautiful trees and forests

[@oaxaca1948]

why would you call people's lives savages, not very smart. tell statistics of the area and not diss them. people are poor everywhere.

[@rachelgambrell6926]

Little racist I’d say considering lot of us are native Americans

[@jergray9999]

I was born and raised in Flat Lick Ky, its actually came a long way over the years. What goes on there goes on everywhere you go lol.

[@gypsyintheforest]

Kentucky is Beautiful and Affordable. Every area has its "HARD SPOTS" if you go looking for them :)

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

Where KY WV OH met has the most drug consumption of anywhere in the americas. Its a bad area. Inbreeding and birth defects due to drinking and using while pregnant even the people are not fully humans they are sadly born into this world in a horrible state. Babies born here are born as addicts thru their mothers blood. Its no need to sugarcoat we know what it is. I lived in KY first place i lived in USA.

[@TurnOffYourTV]

@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS 😂

[@fuosdi64]

Kentucky is one of the most impoverished states in the USA.

[@jlhuff12]

​@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGSyou attribute what goes on with a very small percentage of the people here & make assumptions about everyone. If you actually spent time here, people from the mountains are some of the kindest & most generous people in this country and they certainly are human.

[@tammymodjewski199]

​@@jlhuff12I agree 100,moved to Flat Lick from Wisconsin and the people here are the kindest people ever!!! I move from Eagle River Wi and there are more drugs in that tourist trap than Flat Lick! Beautiful area here and beautiful people 💗

[@sparkleevenmore9638]

Those are the places you don’t pull into a driveway to turn around

[@user-vr3mr5eu7y]

If there's no sign u can turn around don't just sit there tho

[@rachelgambrell6926]

That’s not true. Some of the best people in flat lick

[@kentucky_alaska4025]

We don’t mind as long as you’re not an outsider or the government. WE LIKE TO BE LEFT ALONE OUT HERE AND WE DO T TRUST THE GOVERNMENT OR ITS Employees. The government has done nothing but try to destroy our home in eastern Kentucky: GOD BLESS KENTUCKY

[@jackiebrown7859]

If you don't like places, don't go. If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. I thought we all learned that in kindergarten.

[@r.nowaczyk8873]

Your voice cadence and comments sound very demeaning about the local community. If you are blessed to have more, you shouldn't look down on those who don't.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

I dont look down on what they have. I look down on who they are. Lazy addicts. They ain’t giving society their best.. someone needs to tell them to be better.

[@scarlettm8702]

Absolutely beautiful area. Nothing wrong with choosing that. Not everyone is so materialistic that they need a mansion nor does everyone want to live in heavy traffic and filthy air.

[@scarlettm8702]

Gods creation and it’s beautiful

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

Filthy air is in the mountains usually… just so you know. Down flat air moves. Its not the place that sucks its the people just so you know

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

Nothing wrong with that… something wrong with the times were in those

[@scarlettm8702]

@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGSnot according to Google maps

[@OutlawChevy2]

You are friggin crazy for wandering around the backroads of Eastern Kentucky..."the hills have eyes"!

[@baqashahmath1566]

Yes im remember visiting Kentucky back in the 90s from Florida and i wanted to stay the people were so friendly its a beautiful state they called Kentucky the bluegrass state

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

The 90s was a long time ago..

[@baqashahmath1566]

@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS Yeah about 91-92 yes it was

[@haileyhelton_idk]

@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS I live here outside of the trailer parks and it’s a good place other than all of the crime and drugs

[@haileyhelton_idk]

@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGSI’ve had the time of my life growing up here tbh it’s peaceful and everyone is so kind

[@caseye6677]

This is a good example of what my friend from the region calls Rubberneck Anthropology.

[@royallred9346]

Enough of his yeah buddy..putting down poor people., who is he.???

[@Unclebambam]

I lived in Eastern KY for almost 4 years and met some of the most genuine people I’ve ever met in my life compared to a large suburb of STL where I grew up. Just because the infrastructure isn’t multimillion dollar mansions doesn’t mean they’re all moonshiners strung out on meth. I can assure you a majority of these folks would give a stranger the shirt off their back if they felt it was right

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

A white stranger…

[@TurnOffYourTV]

Kentucky is Wonderful.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

Who know overdosing was prestigious. I lived here in KY and nothing really stood out to me about the place.

[@TurnOffYourTV]

@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS 😏

[@jaygold4467]

Pretty ignorant comments above.

[@deborahchesser7375]

We used to have to go to Flat Lick to the bootlegger when Barbourville was dry, what memories. Y’all should drive up on Stinking Creek I used to stay down there with my cousins too, talk about wild stories when we got back to school every fall.

[@rachelgambrell6926]

Don’t tell these Florida people to go down stinkin creek 🤣 might not make it out with the way they’re talkin. I wonder how they even ended up in flat lick.

[@deborahchesser7375]

@@rachelgambrell6926 it’s hard telling, yeh there’s some places strangers ought not go. You know how it is, you pull up in there and the first house at the mouth of the holler done called ahead on ya. That’s why I love it, pretty country down that way too.

[@rachelgambrell6926]

@@deborahchesser7375 they’d be best off to not go past escoes. That may even be too far

[@deborahchesser7375]

@@rachelgambrell6926 I’d say your right. Hey you kin to the Gambrells that had the car dealership in Corbin for ever ?

[@rachelgambrell6926]

@@deborahchesser7375 Nope. Not my Gambrell’s. my mommy’s daddy is Everett gambrel, and my daddy’s Matthew Blankenship. There’s 8 Blankenship brothers so you’ve prolly ran into at least one of em.

[@jcincybearclaw2784]

That actually looks beautiful.

[@rubinglen]

gorgeous!

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

What? Mexico and china have a higher family income than this place

[@rachelgambrell6926]

@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGSand that’s the residents of Kentucky’s fault?

[@Sue-zz3lj]

Dont come to West Virginia, We love kentuckians. Go home .

[@joycecaudill8968]

Why not the pretty part? Wont be watching any mor. It’s a pretty state.

[@aprilgarland4269]

If y'all wanna see the real beauty of Flat Lick, hit me up the next time you come through...we live right by the tunnel you drove through (up a road you passed) ...we'll make you a country meal and introduce you to the family. ❤

[@rpooh1109]

Naauuurrr i wouldn't waste a lick of corn bread or green beans on this disrespectful mess.

[@user-ko8dy1lh8z]

Yeah I'm from flat lick over 50 yrs be bad day for guy like that he pit stop around any my places !! Yeah id say just a moment in right driveway your attitude get adjusted fast quick an in hurry take turned up nose away from God's country ❤❤

[@zeekwolfe6251]

You show places of poverty but skip over nice houses with well kept-up yards showing pride of ownership. Being poor does not mean living like a slob. Kentucky topography is very beautiful and even a well-maintained mobile home can be a pleasant place to live. If poor people want to live in Lower Slobovia that is their choice, their preferences for living amongst garbage and litter...obvious to any passerby.

[@Chrrinfj]

No need to call anyone a bum

[@manofthehour5580]

Except for bums😂😂😂😂

[@user-hy7mg7ez8r]

Worst years of my life were in Florida ! Love my old Kentucky home.. yeah buddy ! 😊

[@nathandalke9318]

Wow nice scenery and sad at the same time even though this from five months ago

[@skandalmkdaniel3029]

As if Florida is any better. Some of the weirdest trash come out of that state. 😂

[@user-lt5bp3ww3n]

Truth!

[@josephhoover4542]

People in Florida have better job opportunities, less drug overdoses, and better health

[@rachelgambrell6926]

@@josephhoover4542good for them.

[@mandysimmons2769]

False advertising! It's neither flat nor licked.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

Dang southern people 😅

[@abdullahijma2073]

It's a green place, people should develop agriculture for subsistence.

[@MargaretMartin-kg8dd]

Most of it is too mountainous, as opposed to western KY.

[@nancyling8976]

You are so talented. I have been watching your videos since you will had a few thousand followers. Your ability to talk to homeless people is amazing. You maybe the best on KZbin. I think you are the best!

[@joycecaudill8968]

Ladies he’s making fun of u?

[@maryatchison9056]

Stop putting Alabama down play nice

[@braveheartz263]

“Yeah buddy” stop and meet the people. Someone might tell you about an old buddy.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

I was raised right by hard working immigrants. You see me working not lazy n on drugs

[@braveheartz263]

@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS Are you a social scientist or have a degree in Statistics? You make a lot of assumptions about Flat Lick, Kentucky, using very general statistics. You portray these people as drug addicts, and other things. Some are poor, but the assumptions about their culture are incorrect. Flat Lick is the first trading settlement in Kentucky west of the Cumberland Gap.

[@matsuyamarockers]

@@braveheartz263in most of his videos, he seems willfully ignorant of places he films. His tone is constantly anti American. I think America has hurt his feelings somehow.

[@Unclebambam]

@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGSmaking a generalized assumption that people living in rural areas are zombies and on drugs, based on data that may or may not be skewed, is just as wrong and misleading as saying South American immigrants are drug traffickers and cartel members. All I’m saying is before you call out an entire community maybe have a conversation and be a decent human and see what you get in return. There’s your answer!

[@RussYonkie-fw3se]

Yeah, ha buddy, tell you this guy, isn't. Very smart when it comes to country, living the country folks

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

You can’t e spake anglish

[@jadawngriffis3745]

It looks a little hood but man its beautiful at the same time those mountains and all the greenery.

[@jameslovitt994]

Flatlick a "hood" 😂

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

Hey boy, you in my holler dawg 😅

[@GCBR-Dog-Training]

Wow the visual broadcast is just as educated as the area they are rolling through

[@EricCarroll-ys5jw]

I think of more of dogs than I do people I think dogs are really too good for humans so yeah most likely the dogs are just like people's kids or wife

[@user-lt5bp3ww3n]

What the hell kind of pipe system was coming outta the upstairs window of that house?!?!? A wood stove in use and vented out an open window?!?!? LOL I know they are all straight piping raw sewage directly into the river and in some cases,their very own yards (which is NOT their fault and should be funded and fixed by the federal government) but what in the world is this rigged up exhaust vent system? It kind of makes me laugh but I am genuinely curious.

[@modesty6919]

This places in U.S.A makes it looks like the third world countries.

[@idkkdi8620]

Usa is a third world country compared to europe

[@natureboyricflair8555]

If I had to talk through driving that much to somebody they’d never drive.

[@kylereynoldsFightStroke]

Clickbait.

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

Crackpipe is more accurate to describe those towns

[@ericnortan9012]

Any town with Lick in the name you know is going to be in the sticks.

[@chadriley3618]

Lick means lake

[@curt25tn]

Your lucky my guy. Don’t go into these areas.

[@bobbywilliams3595]

How about knott.

[@user-hy7mg7ez8r]

Ignorance on display here ! Yeah buddy !

[@user-zu2pg9vm9d]

U want some company

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

Not yours

[@Travisbethbanks]

You should stop assuming and ask someone buddy

[@FLORIDAHOODVLOGS]

No need to ask, American overdose epicenter

[@cardinalsfan8182]

Maga and trump capital of the world!!!