Thanksgiving is over, but we don’t need a special day of the year to be thankful for living here. We are thankful for that all the time! Here are just a few reasons to be thankful for living in the Mountain State.

  1. The forests make the best playgrounds.

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  1. There’s so much beauty here.

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  1. We’ve got big cities…. well, big-enough cities.

  2. But they’re not so big that we have to sit in traffic like this.

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  1. And we’ve got interesting and fun small towns.

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  1. West Virginia towns have so much culture.

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  1. We learned family values from a young age.

Russell Lee

  1. Small town life is perfect for growing up and for raising a family.

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  1. We’ve got a great history; we were the only state formed by seceding from a confederate state during the Civil War.

Harper’s Weekly

  1. There’s so much to do here, like fish the state’s lakes and rivers.

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  1. West Virginians are the best people in the world.

Carol Norquist, NGC

What are your reasons for being thankful to live here?

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Barbara Friedman/Flickr

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Jon Dawson/Flickr

Angela S./Yelp

Russell Lee

wirwuenscheneinbierinternationalereisegesellschaft/flickr

Harper’s Weekly

Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing/Flickr

Carol Norquist, NGC

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