Anyone considered East KY?
East KY is nice but comes with its own problems, mainly social and economic. If you go there, take money with you because the economy is more depressed than East TN, from what I can tell. Jobs are few and far between.
Most of the hillbilly stuff on TV and in popular culture is horseshit, the people in East KY are mostly just like anyone else in a rural area. Suspicious of outsiders but friendly enough once you get to know them, as long as you don't act like a douchebag. There is a bad drug problem though, and the social trappings of a welfare-dependant economy are pretty widespread.
