Reviews & Comments
Corbin, KY
re: Corbin Ky - 7/9/2007 -
1/20/2010This review is incoherent and ill-informed.
First of all, if you have RECC, you're well outside the city limits (or, KU, for that matter). Corbin's city utilities are actually some in the best in the area, and are quick to respond for repairs.
Many of the other problems come from the town being effectively in 3 counties (see North Corbin), and it appears that a state law was passed (to not allow a town to be in more than two counties) specifically from keeping Corbin from annexing North Corbin.
Knox County (the SE of the three) lies in a completely different district for most social services than Laurel and Whitley, so there are several things that they can't help, despite there being an office right on the Whitley/Knox line (you got to go to Barbourville if on the Knox side). And, many of the agencies spend all their money on the areas outside town, which need their help more than city residents (which is why Bell-Whitley headstart doesn't have funding for Corbin kids - Look up Williamsburg and Pineville).
Corbin's schools are some of the best in the state, and the people that the poster complains about are mostly older teachers that were closing in on retirement when I went there 25 years ago (having been the victim of one of the retirees, I can sympathize, but they over-exaggerate).
The Hospital is one of the Best in the region. Corbin also has one of the few professional (non-volunteer) fire departments in the region, and a large police force, so insurance rates are cheap if you live in town.
Most of the really bad problems are the types living just outside the city limits, or in the Knox county part of town, which has slowly been decaying for the last 30 years, as more affluent population shifted to the Whitley county side, and to the areas just outside town in Whitley & Laurel. The Knox county side has most of the low-income housing, as well as Moore Hill - which has been literally "the wrong side of the tracks" for most of the history of Corbin. If the state would butt out of local politics, I can see Corbin & London (or, at least Laurel & Whitley counties) merging within 50 years, as they are steadily growing towards each other.
Corbin, KY
re: Behind the Times - 5/12/2006 -
1/20/2010This person's reviews should be totally disregarded, as it is obvious they haven't actually lived there in years. In fact, the town started having restaurant alcohol sales TWO YEARS before this complaint about the town not having them.