Not every town wants a shitty Starbucks. Small towns like it that way, small, and then people like you come in and want to change it and wonder why the locals don’t accept your city thinking.
There is nothing wrong with a bait shop or a cigar store. If you want a coffee shop,try L.A. they have a lot of them.Also, we prefer to use gas in our cars also.
I don't know Martinsburg, but, by looking at a map, I could see that he missed downtown Martinsburg. Never overestimate the intelligence of people posting on RUclips.
Totally misleading. You have to know a town to know where to find things. The fast-food type coffee shops are to the South West on FoxCroft Avenue (at least 3 coffee shops, including Starbucks). The old town area has a classic diner on the left by the intersection, called the "Blue and White" where you said something like "memorial". That's actually a fountain where they put a huge Christmas tree in December. Tourists come from all over the DC area to visit that diner. It's like a time capsule and surely you can get some classic coffee there, to go. Yes there are drugs and crimes like every town in the world, but it's mostly extremely nice people of all types living in cool old houses, going to school, working, walking dogs, shopping. It's not a college town, with hot and cold running 20 year olds. You can go to the next town over for that .... Shepherdstown, WV.
I moved to this area 3 years ago, and I already want to move. Lots of drug overdoses, shootings, B&E's, suicides. It's a pretty sad town. Locals and long time residents will tell me to leave if I don't like it. Trust me, I hear you. I will.
I am glad you said that because I live in Ashburn VA and thought a round-trip to Martinsburg might be a great one-day excursion to enjoy the mountains and such. But as somebody from out-of-town, I don't want to risk riding my bicycle where I might get jumped or mugged just because I entered the wrong side of town without knowing it.
@@russellcheng8992 You sound knowledgeable. I like to try new bike routes. But after narrowly escaping an ambush by thugs, once, I worry about bike riding through unfamiliar communities. Always a risk of being at the wrong side of town.
@@george5120 you really should try Berkeley springs look it up it's gorgeous the roads are scenic not hectic and everyone is friendly I travel down your way three times a week too there is no way I'd ever bike with everyone always in such a hurry
@@russellcheng8992 My new bicycle GPS is to be delivered tomorrow. That will help me find my way around Berkley Springs. I am eager. I will let you know how my visit turns out.
Also u passed Sweet Hut Cafe,Blue White Grill and Patterson's Drug Store where you could get coffee from. Oh yeah dat big building at the intersection it says Martinsburg Library on it!😂 And also there is a restaurant if you kept going straight called Towers Restaurant you could have coffee there also, it's been there for years🙄🤭clearly you do not know anything!!!😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
The thing is, I lived there 22 years ago, and that's NOTHING like it was, in the sense it looks like you're driving through an OK kept ghost town. We had coffee shops, and all sorts.. It was considered to be a suburb of D.C, I'm glad I got out when I did... lol! Because it looks completely dead compared to when I was a kid, teen, and young adult.. We had a massive shopping mall, as well. There were always people on the street, etc. 2:22 to your right, the library holds a lot of great memories.. They had the coolest children's library downstairs... I wonder if it's still the same. If you had gone left, you would have headed into some really historical buildings from the Civil War, there's always these little side streets that people don't explore. I didn't even know half of the things that were in my town were there until I was 16/17 years old, because there wasn't really much to do there as a teen, so we all walked around and explored. 2020 Martinsburg looks nothing like 1990s Martinsburg, it almost feels foreign to see. Though, because was so distracted by my thoughts, that I wasn't looking at the video fully, but once I did... The traumatic reasoning behind me leaving, yeah, I thought I was 100% over it, but clearly not... I started to feel just a little bit of anxiety as you passed familiar buildings, but that's helpful to me, because it just tells me I still have some things to work through. 🙂 Also, at the left @1:25, the brown and tan shopfront that has the glass covered in brown paper... My ex SIL owned a pagan shop there...lol! All those closed up shops had stores in them, it's so weird to see how dead it is now.. Cost of living though, cheeeeeeeeeeep, and it may, and I say may be worth living there if you don't mind commuting, as that's the only way you're really going to find a good job and live really well... I know rentals on family houses are in the 500 a month range... Which hasn't changed much since I lived Martinsburg in 1999. But, I hear a some areas that were nice have become high crime areas, so definitely do your research... I wonder if Fairfax Circle and Fairfax Street are still nice. Lots of memories of night-time bike riding and tin can ally, and catching fireflies and digging up salamanders from around the river bed of a river in the same area that's easy to find if you know where it is. 😁
I grew up in Martinsburg. Moved to Florida in 2000. It was a dump the entire time I lived there. Have family still there and the times I have visited it was still a dump.
I was looking at housing prices here because where I currently live in Anne Arundel county, the prices are getting ridiculous. After seeing this video, I'm just going to stay here lol.
This doesnt do justice, Martinsburg has many many restaurants, stores, shops, food trucks, banks, supercenters, bars, hospitals, & all of the areas outside of it, ranson, inwood, hedgesville, spring mills have been growing tremendously the last 2 years. And downtown Martinsburg has Amtrak and Marc trains to DC daily only 1.5 hours, basically same as driving.
Most of the downtown strip this guy drove by is all historic and most those buildings need rehab, but theres plenty on new constructions near foxcroft ave and the commons
I'm considering moving here, can you tell me what Martinsburg is really like? There are some pretty negative comments here about shootings, B&Es, drugs and suicides, etc. Every town or cities has some bad areas, but it would be nice to hear from someone that actually lives there. I live in the Denver burbs and its pretty crazy, I can't see it being as bad as it is here.
@@hudson5573 It’s not , it’s calmed down alot from what it used to be.. plenty of jobs and is in a good area where there’s things to do all around you. I have lived here all my life and I love it.
Not every town wants a shitty Starbucks. Small towns like it that way, small, and then people like you come in and want to change it and wonder why the locals don’t accept your city thinking.
There is nothing wrong with a bait shop or a cigar store. If you want a coffee shop,try L.A. they have a lot of them.Also, we prefer to use gas in our cars also.
I grew up in Martinsburg. The old brick building on the left at 3:07 is/was my old school St Joseph Catholic School.
I lived in this area for 23 years and drove these streets all the time, thanks for this!
Do people usually commute to Washington DC for work?
You passed the coffee shop! There is one called Sweet Hut!
Omg sweet hut is soo good especially the rolled ice cream there
I don't know Martinsburg, but, by looking at a map, I could see that he missed downtown Martinsburg. Never overestimate the intelligence of people posting on RUclips.
but he has a Tesla though 😅
Totally misleading. You have to know a town to know where to find things. The fast-food type coffee shops are to the South West on FoxCroft Avenue (at least 3 coffee shops, including Starbucks). The old town area has a classic diner on the left by the intersection, called the "Blue and White" where you said something like "memorial". That's actually a fountain where they put a huge Christmas tree in December. Tourists come from all over the DC area to visit that diner. It's like a time capsule and surely you can get some classic coffee there, to go. Yes there are drugs and crimes like every town in the world, but it's mostly extremely nice people of all types living in cool old houses, going to school, working, walking dogs, shopping. It's not a college town, with hot and cold running 20 year olds. You can go to the next town over for that .... Shepherdstown, WV.
I moved to this area 3 years ago, and I already want to move. Lots of drug overdoses, shootings, B&E's, suicides. It's a pretty sad town. Locals and long time residents will tell me to leave if I don't like it. Trust me, I hear you. I will.
I am glad you said that because I live in Ashburn VA and thought a round-trip to Martinsburg might be a great one-day excursion to enjoy the mountains and such. But as somebody from out-of-town, I don't want to risk riding my bicycle where I might get jumped or mugged just because I entered the wrong side of town without knowing it.
Good ridden martinsburg is a sewer try hedgesville,or Berkeley springs, maybe even cacapon
@@russellcheng8992 You sound knowledgeable. I like to try new bike routes. But after narrowly escaping an ambush by thugs, once, I worry about bike riding through unfamiliar communities. Always a risk of being at the wrong side of town.
@@george5120 you really should try Berkeley springs look it up it's gorgeous the roads are scenic not hectic and everyone is friendly I travel down your way three times a week too there is no way I'd ever bike with everyone always in such a hurry
@@russellcheng8992 My new bicycle GPS is to be delivered tomorrow. That will help me find my way around Berkley Springs. I am eager. I will let you know how my visit turns out.
Gas stations have great coffee, c'mon man.
Also u passed Sweet Hut Cafe,Blue White Grill and Patterson's Drug Store where you could get coffee from. Oh yeah dat big building at the intersection it says Martinsburg Library on it!😂 And also there is a restaurant if you kept going straight called Towers Restaurant you could have coffee there also, it's been there for years🙄🤭clearly you do not know anything!!!😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lived here for 5 months in 1977 might be better now than then🤔
The thing is, I lived there 22 years ago, and that's NOTHING like it was, in the sense it looks like you're driving through an OK kept ghost town. We had coffee shops, and all sorts.. It was considered to be a suburb of D.C, I'm glad I got out when I did... lol! Because it looks completely dead compared to when I was a kid, teen, and young adult.. We had a massive shopping mall, as well. There were always people on the street, etc. 2:22 to your right, the library holds a lot of great memories.. They had the coolest children's library downstairs... I wonder if it's still the same. If you had gone left, you would have headed into some really historical buildings from the Civil War, there's always these little side streets that people don't explore. I didn't even know half of the things that were in my town were there until I was 16/17 years old, because there wasn't really much to do there as a teen, so we all walked around and explored. 2020 Martinsburg looks nothing like 1990s Martinsburg, it almost feels foreign to see. Though, because was so distracted by my thoughts, that I wasn't looking at the video fully, but once I did... The traumatic reasoning behind me leaving, yeah, I thought I was 100% over it, but clearly not... I started to feel just a little bit of anxiety as you passed familiar buildings, but that's helpful to me, because it just tells me I still have some things to work through. 🙂 Also, at the left @1:25, the brown and tan shopfront that has the glass covered in brown paper... My ex SIL owned a pagan shop there...lol! All those closed up shops had stores in them, it's so weird to see how dead it is now.. Cost of living though, cheeeeeeeeeeep, and it may, and I say may be worth living there if you don't mind commuting, as that's the only way you're really going to find a good job and live really well... I know rentals on family houses are in the 500 a month range... Which hasn't changed much since I lived Martinsburg in 1999. But, I hear a some areas that were nice have become high crime areas, so definitely do your research... I wonder if Fairfax Circle and Fairfax Street are still nice. Lots of memories of night-time bike riding and tin can ally, and catching fireflies and digging up salamanders from around the river bed of a river in the same area that's easy to find if you know where it is. 😁
You’re Japanese in WVA?
At the end that was the town’s square next to the library
If that's Tesla autopilot, that's terrifying. Grab the wheel and use the gas.
I grew up in Martinsburg. Moved to Florida in 2000. It was a dump the entire time I lived there. Have family still there and the times I have visited it was still a dump.
I saw a vision of Nuclear bombs raining down on Martinsburg West Virginia when I lived there 12 Year's ago.
i just moved to charles town wv only now one month but im going back to va and never never coming back here it's sad place wv .
Good go back to VA. Virginia is for lovers.(Mostly Gay one ) 👍
There’s a coffee shop bud it’s called Coffee Cafe
I have a love-hate relationship with this town
we make our own coffee here lol we dont need a coffee shop
:)
Is there some for me???
You should not be commenting unless you know what you are doing. Why the negativity. Less than 50 views. Do research first.
I go to that vape shop all the time 😂😂
At 1:06 that building on the right looks like a zombie apocalypse happened 😢
There's nothing wrong with a vape shop I'd rather deal with vaping then 🚬 anytime
There two more coffee shops coming up soon!! I posted a video about downtown hope you watch like the video 😊😊😊😊
There’s a coffee shop now 😊
Where’s the country part outside of town ? Anyone know any small towns without drugs ,just nice people ?
I drove down there yesterday
I missed a lot a little past the cbd store was a cafe
I was looking at housing prices here because where I currently live in Anne Arundel county, the prices are getting ridiculous. After seeing this video, I'm just going to stay here lol.
This doesnt do justice, Martinsburg has many many restaurants, stores, shops, food trucks, banks, supercenters, bars, hospitals, & all of the areas outside of it, ranson, inwood, hedgesville, spring mills have been growing tremendously the last 2 years. And downtown Martinsburg has Amtrak and Marc trains to DC daily only 1.5 hours, basically same as driving.
Most of the downtown strip this guy drove by is all historic and most those buildings need rehab, but theres plenty on new constructions near foxcroft ave and the commons
But crime is pretty high, especially property crime.
The good ol burg lls
There literally is nothing to do here but stay in a hotel and leave 🤷♂️
Why would you not want to go to a cigar shop?
There is nothing in Martinsburg
You are not wrong.
Theres alot in Martins burg its just that you don’t martins burg
This is the way I thought before, but I was wrong.
True honestly
I’m currently visiting this shithole, I’m out of here!
Umm u were literally at a sheetz🙄🤭🤯
OH MY GOD! No COFFEE Shop!!
That’s my town
Do you like it ? Any druggies or just move folks ,good internet , jobs ?
Maybe they close on sundays
He in the hood after he go under the bridge he in queens street by the vape shop
The hood LOL
Plenty of places for coffee .. you just don’t know the area buddy .
I don't need a tour I live there
Does it smell
I'm considering moving here, can you tell me what Martinsburg is really like? There are some pretty negative comments here about shootings, B&Es, drugs and suicides, etc. Every town or cities has some bad areas, but it would be nice to hear from someone that actually lives there. I live in the Denver burbs and its pretty crazy, I can't see it being as bad as it is here.
@@hudson5573 It’s not , it’s calmed down alot from what it used to be.. plenty of jobs and is in a good area where there’s things to do all around you. I have lived here all my life and I love it.
@@randybowers1669 Thanks Randy!
Make coffee at home lol
Too many generalities
Where's smelly Mellie ?
Sheetz......