As someone who has spent time in the Tri-City area and completed due diligence related to whether it was advisable to open a business within the area, I can say that the demographics and culture of this area play a relevant role when evaluating interviews, motives, etc. There are educated professionals within the area, however, this area of the country was targeted by big pharma with opioids (this has actually been reported by MSM, so it is not speculation). There is literally an addiction crisis within Western NC, NW GA, and this part of TN that intentionally created an epidemic of a proportion not seen in most other areas of the county. This is also a mountain community. I saw an interview with someone from western NC once describing the following: “One day someone from the government showed up to tell us we were a poverty stricken community. None of us knew that until they showed up. We just thought that is how life was.” I had an employee from this area who grew up using an outhouse. It was not that her family could not afford to do anything different, it was their remote location and the fact that it was all they had ever known that kept the outhouse going. It is a bit of a different cultural mentality. Like I said, there are educated professionals in the area. There are modern day amenities, however there is also a portion of the population with parents who never attended school or dropped out before 8th grade, and saw this as a totally normal and reasonable choice. Poverty begets poverty. While a portion of the population is progressing, there is a portion who has been left behind. Going back to the interview I referenced, there is a general distrust within the population of government and law enforcement because their presence was unfelt and seen as mostly unnecessary for a much longer time than in most other areas of the US.