Review of Ashland, Kentucky


A town in ruins
Star Rating - 12/3/2008
I went to junior high and high school here and I can tell you if, you were not born here you will never fit in. The town used to be something but when the oil company left and the steel mill went down so did the population. Crime has gone up and poverty is out of control.
Claudius | Phoenix, AZ
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Armco is gone and Ashland Oil is of the past. KDMC is the only thing holding the town as most of my friends work there. The population is down to 19000 when I first moved there it was 28000. The unemployment rate is down to 9%, you just cannot find a good job unless you want to work at the hospital. The public school system is below standards and the communty college which was once a branch of UK has gone backwards. The upside it's a place you can stil raise kids despite the rise in drugs.
Claudius | Marietta, GA | Report Abuse

claudius's statements are untrue and cannot be about the same ashland that i live in. no plants have left or closed down. the population has decreased slightly inside the city limits but there are another 20,000 people living in a 3 mile radius of the city that has experienced no population decline. the statements regarding ashland are untrue. the unemployement rate is 5%. We have a mall with 98% occupancy rate. We have a medical center that is ranked the third in the state. it sounds like the poster did not fit in here and has decided to post lies on here to make himself feel better and justify his inability to adapt to different ways of life such as the one here in ashland. If you compare his two posts with the statistics found on the us census bureau web site he cannot be talking about the same ashland. according to those facts, all of the statements made have been untrue so far. hey claudius get a life and stop lying to make yourself feel better. just because you were a little strange and didnt fit in here, doesnt mean you can make false statements that cannot be validated and trash our hometown. please grow up and i am not surprised you didnt fit in here, we dont take kindly to negative people who make lies up to make themselves feel better. seriously though, people look at this to find relocation information and when posters like you put total 100 percent lies up it presents a false image. It is disrespectful to the web site to put false information on a website intended to help people. plus i know who this is and you were correct about only one thing, true you sure didnt fit in here.
richard | Catlettsburg, KY | Report Abuse
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