Today I'm going to tell you what I think are the best places to live in the United States
in 2023. Everyone's got that bucket list of places they'd love to live or travel to things like that
I travel I study this stuff I dream about living in different places it's kind of my thing it's
what I do I also like to tell people my name is Benjamin Dover but then I tell them they
can call me Ben for short today we're looking at places I would live in 2023. we won't be looking
at any specific Stat or category this is just a video about my opinion and I'm also going to
tell you why I would live there it might include a stat or something but I'm not following one stat
these aren't ranking them by the lowest cost living or the highest cost of living anything
like that these are just the places I'd love to live in 2023 got it get it good let's take a look
number 10 Aspen Colorado Aspen Colorado has been on my bucket list since I was like 13 and
I first saw the place Aspen is beautiful Aspen is exciting and it is expensive like crazy expensive
if you don't make at least 250 000 a year forget living here if you make less than that and you
want to live here you're gonna be living in a van down by the river as the old saying goes and yes
they do have a river they've got a river and a small Lake there it's surrounded by mountains
and some of the best skiing in the country Aspen has next to no crime their crime rates like 25
percent below the national average so they're doing great there their schools are excellent
they've got plenty of things to do they just have one of the highest costs of living in the
country along with some of the most ridiculous real estate prices if you find a condo that is
under 1 million dollars it's like a unicorn if it does exist nobody really believes it there's
Town Homes here that are going for three million dollars and they have one bedroom sure you're like
50 feet from the ski slopes but it's expensive there's a home there that's for sale right now
for 45 million dollars being that expensive I'm surprised there's 7 000 people that can actually
call this place home that's their population seven thousand and one of them is named Tori
that's it one name and he's their mayor but yeah if I could afford Aspen I'd definitely move there
number nine Fayetteville Arkansas now I'm sure a lot of you just gasped here's why I
think Fayetteville is a great place to live it's still relatively affordable cost living housing
still pretty low and this part of Arkansas like I've said before is not like the rest
of Arkansas and the reason I would move here it's a good investment it's not going to stay
cheap forever they're starting to build more and more million dollar homes in Fayetteville
now a few years back they might have had a handful but now they're starting to be built
this is just gonna raise the property values of all the other homes in Fayetteville this part
of Arkansas doesn't get horrible weather it's beautiful they have jobs the economy is doing
really good in this area just don't go to Little Rock for any reason whatsoever now is Fayetteville
perfect no it's got some crime it still has some unemployment and some poverty like every
place this is definitely not a playground for the rich like Aspen is but it is a place that
has a lot of potential and in the next handful of years I think if I were to move there or if
anyone was to move there the property values will go up and the place will get nicer but their cost
of living is pretty low their schools are decent and their housing is decent too they also got the
University of Arkansas right there in towns so you can go see some Razorback games Fayetteville
Arkansas is part of a whole metro area that includes Springdale and Rogers there's about 526
000 people living in this area so it's not a small town in Arkansas
number eight St George Utah St George Utah's in the southern section of Utah not too far from
the Nevada border there aren't a lot of desert towns that I would move to but I would move to
St George it's safe it's reasonable when it comes to real estate their cost of living is
also reasonable they have great hiking outdoor activities and they've got a handful of really
nice golf courses in and around St George you're also less than an hour from Mesquite
Nevada and they've got some casinos there so if that's your thing and if you want to go to
Vegas that's less than two hours away also so you could live a very quiet life in St George
and head right over the border for a little excitement in Nevada you also got Zion National
Park which is right there so yeah St George is probably the only desert town I would move to
number seven Monterey California Monterey is a great City it's beautiful tons of things to do
you're far enough away from San Francisco where you don't get any of that stink on
you and you're far enough north of Los Angeles where you don't have to worry about that you're
right on the coast it's beautiful it's foggy I lived there from 1985 to 1990 well just outside
of town but in the area it's a little expensive there but still it's also a great place if you're
a veteran they've got plenty of facilities for you since Fort Ord used to be right there just
outside of Monterey entire Monterey Bay though is just beautiful I'd move back there in a heartbeat
number six La Jolla California yep heading down the coast of La Jolla La Jolla is part of the
San Diego metro area you never heard of it it's uh where a lot of the wealthy people live it's
right there on the coast beautiful place to live I used to do comedy down there at the
La Jolla Comedy Store is how insane it is when you're a stand-up comedian I would drive two
hours down to San Diego get on stage for 15 minutes get off stage grab something to eat
and drive two hours home and I wasn't the only freak doing this there was a lot of comedians
doing the same stuff how it is when you're a struggling comedian but La Jolla is one of
the best places to live in Southern California especially the San Diego metro area their cost
of living's just insane and their housing is even more insane but that's usually the case when it's
a really nice place to live with really low crime which they don't have any crime it's actually
25 percent lower than the national average the Vatican doesn't even have a crime rate that low
number five Bellevue Washington Bellevue Washington is in the Seattle metro area
and right away if you don't know where it is you're going to think that's bad well it is
just east of downtown Seattle but good news for Bellevue there's a lake between Bellevue and all
the drama and all the nonsense that goes on in Seattle nothing keeps the criminal element out
of your town better than a lake with only two Bridges right in the middle of that lake is
Mercer Island and that's where you live if you have a title that includes letters like
CEO the late Paul Allen who's a co-founder of Microsoft he lived there Steve Miller
from the Steve Miller Band lived there one of the CEOs of Ford and a bunch of professional
athletes but yeah Bellevue is a really really nice town to live in and I've looked at it
several times I like it up here in the Pacific Northwest and I've actually given some thought
to Bellevue even though it's out of my budget Mercer Island is definitely out of my budget
number four Rockport Maine Rockport is a beautiful coastal town in Maine now it's
one of many beautiful coastal towns in Maine the place is just silly with them I'm sure you
could find some especially if you live there and you know where they are but if you're just
showing up as a tourist or just checking out Maine it's hard to find any bad towns in Maine
especially on the coast Rockport is about an hour and a half up the coast from Portland the
harbor is what's really great about this place it looks like someone painted it most the time
Rockport doesn't have as many things as let's say Bar Harbor or obviously Portland but it is
a great place to live it is beautiful here if you want to live in a town that looks like it
could be the backdrop of like a romantic comedy this is the place to live you only have about 3
300 residents too and it's spread out they're not like right up on top of each other like
all good places though it's a little expensive their cost living is like 50 percent above the
national average and their housing is pretty decent I mean they they have homes there that
are going for five hundred thousand now to some of you that seems like a lot of money but this
is a really nice New England town so it's gonna be expensive so compared to other really nice
New England towns this one's affordable compared to Strawberry Patch Arkansas yeah it's expensive
number three Honesdale Pennsylvania I've talked about Honesdale many times in my opinion I think
overall an all-around Honesdale is probably the best town to move to in the United States it's
rural the land is Affordable the people are decent the cost of living is low they have
great health care in town water everywhere Hunting Fishing hiking camping drinking they
got quite a few breweries in the area plenty of things to check out if you're into history
including Hotel Wayne which if you ever get a chance stay there it's supposed to be haunted
I've stayed there three times I haven't seen any scary stuff yet but it's pretty cool if
you get a chance if you want to check out Honesdale go during the roots and Rhythm
Festival they have every summer it's usually in the middle of June it's definitely a good time
also while you're there definitely hike Irving Cliff this is a cliff that's outside of town
over looks Town actually well it's named after Washington Irving apparently he used to like
to take his lunch up there and Overlook the town don't have a little lunch if you don't
know who Washington Irving is sorry but he's the guy that wrote like Rip Van Winkle and
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow among other things and he used to spend a lot of time in Honesdale
number two Bluffton South Carolina Bluffton South Carolina is in what they call the Low Country it
is just Inland from Hilton Head South Carolina just north of Savannah Georgia it's right over
the Border this is another town that looks like it could be the backdrop of a romantic
movie you know like the movies we used to get back in the day was Sandra Bullock or Julia
Roberts you know there's some woman escaping a bad relationship and they could never love
again but they moved to a small southern town and some dude works on their car and he looks
like an underwear model and they fall in love that type of movie that could happen in Bluffton it's
honestly like this small town but it's really not a small town it's got a population of almost 30
000 residents and it's surrounded by some pretty good sized places like Savannah and Hilton heads
got a lot of people there too so it's almost like part of a metro area but it's really
not bluffton's like one of the only Southern towns I would want to move to you know I like
Savannah great Charleston's another great one there's some places in West Virginia I wouldn't
mind moving to but on my top 10 list bluffton's definitely the only southern town I would move to
all right before we get to number one don't forget we have another Channel called on this day there's
a link down below there's also a link for home and money which is a website you can go to and
if you're thinking about moving anywhere in the United States they could help you find a local
real estate agent for wherever you're moving to they've got a whole bunch of other things
to help you buy a home also on their website so check them out all right on to number one
and number one Cannon Beach Oregon yep right down the road for me is Cannon Beach and I would love
to move there I'd really love to move there so my wife would quit hassle on me about wanting to
move there but really I'm in love with the entire Oregon coast it's beautiful sure it's not like the
coast I grew up on I was born and raised a couple blocks or a couple miles depending on what year
it was from the Pacific Ocean in Redondo Beach California sure Oregon touches the Pacific Ocean
but this is two different worlds when it comes to beaches one you need suntan lotion and the
other one you need a good thick jacket but the beauty of the Oregon coast is immeasurable it's
hard to compare to any other coast maybe Maine but I still think the Oregon coast is better
if you look at the small towns along the coast Maine probably beats out Oregon yeah I'm pretty
sure they do but just the land touching the ocean here in Oregon is one of the best things you'll
ever see if I ever win the lottery and you're looking for me just about any day you could
find me walking up and down the coast around can Cannon Beach I promise you how strange is
that I mean I grew up dreaming about moving to Las Vegas and hanging out in the casinos
and partying all night now I dream about just walking up and down the coast of the Pacific Ocean
all right that's today's video hope you guys enjoyed it hope you got some information out
of it this is a little bit different than what we normally do it's just my opinion
I do hope you guys enjoyed it everybody have a great day be nice to each other