Place is safe but insular. Helps if you are white.
If WVU has a home football game, those hotels were reserved a year in advance.
Morgantown is not large but its the unofficial capital of a very rural, depressed region. They used to mine coal in WV.
Most people hunt, drive pick up trucks, etc. Polar opposite of Miami.
They have an odd tradition of celebrating/rioting by burning old sofas in an intersection. As close as you'll come to America's version of hooligans, although closer to salt-of-the-earth than bad seeds.
Get yourself some flannel shirts and outdoor clothes made by Carhart.
For fun, watch the film Deliverance. Its a little bit exaggerated but you'll get the gist.
If WVU has a home football game, those hotels were reserved a year in advance.
Morgantown is not large but its the unofficial capital of a very rural, depressed region. They used to mine coal in WV.
Most people hunt, drive pick up trucks, etc. Polar opposite of Miami.
They have an odd tradition of celebrating/rioting by burning old sofas in an intersection. As close as you'll come to America's version of hooligans, although closer to salt-of-the-earth than bad seeds.
Get yourself some flannel shirts and outdoor clothes made by Carhart.
For fun, watch the film Deliverance. Its a little bit exaggerated but you'll get the gist.