What is going on everyone? Welcome back to the world according to Briggs, it is
time to head back to the Lone Star State Texas Texas in the last decade has been
consistently one of the most moved two states in the country for good reason
they do a lot of things right taxes aren't crazy
they have enticed a lot of big corporations to move to the state decent
schools in most places and low crime rates on average but as people make the
move to Texas prices are going up from housing to lap dances and everything in
between all the major cities are seeing a steady climb in the cost living and
housing not anywhere near what la San Francisco New York City but their head
in that direction the good news is there's plenty of places in Texas that
are still really cheap in both housing and cost of living some are a good
distance from a big city so if you could work remotely or you're retired and
really don't need a job you could save a lot of money living in one of the towns
on this list let's take a look number 10 Plainview Texas Plainview is a town in
Texas with a population of about 20,000 residents it's in what they call the
panhandle of Texas between Amarillo and Lubbock living in Plainview offers the
residents kind of a suburb but it's also really sparse it's weird it's kind of
spread out I mean there's not houses right on top of each other which is a
good thing most the residents own their own home
and many families live in Plainview low-crime and the public schools in
Plainview are above average so it's a good place to live it can get a little
hot here in the summers and as one subscriber explained it can get really
boring like with a capital B their words not mine now I don't believe that one
for a minute I mean come on they have the Jimmy Dean sausage museum in town
for all you sausage enthusiasts it's really just called the Jimmy Dean Museum
but he's the sausage guy so it's the Jimmy Dean sausage Museum as far as this
youtuber is concerned the cost of living in Plainview is 19% lower than the
national average and the housing is actually 50% lower than the national
average a decent home can be found for under 110,000 and nicer ones start off
around 160 170 they go up a bit but yeah you can get a nice home here for about
160 $175,000 number 9 elsa texas elsa is a suburb of McAllen Texas with a
population of just a little over 7,000 living in Elsa you get that suburb
and rural feeling again it's kind of nice the houses aren't right on top of
each other and you know just outside of town there's open space sure it's desert
but it's still open now these stats also go for the nearby
suburbs of IDI couch and la Via la Villa if you're from Connecticut or something
they all have close to the same stats and figures but let's focus on Elsa I've
been to all three of the cities here and one thing I will tell you they all have
really good tacos I don't know what that's all about it's you know close the
border these are largely Hispanic communities but man the Mexican food
here is amazing so that's a plus the cost of living in El says 32% lower than
the national average and the housing costs is 69 percent lower than the
national average you can buy a home that needs some work for under $150,000 and a
nice one we'll start around 230,000 now keep in mind everyone has their own
opinion on what's a nice house and what's not so take a look at Zillow and
you decide but in my opinion they've got some nice houses here for 230 to
$260,000 and great tacos number eight Presidio Texas Presidio is a very small
town of about a thousand people it is a border town on the Rio Grande near Big
Bend National Park that's Big Bend as in bending something not Big Bend like in
England it is small but there are some positives the first one is you know
everyone if you've ever lived in a small town of about a thousand people or less
you tend to know everyone in town or at least you know every family in town
things like that there's no traffic here and there's no crime very little crime I
should say I know I mentioned this before but if you watch too much
political theater these days you think that any town near the Mexico border is
overrun and you need bulletproof windows bars on the doors and a guard dog just
to be able to watch the masked singer in peace it's just not true there's very
little crime in most border towns the cost of living is 26% lower than the
national average and the housing is 70% lower to be honest it is hard to find a
house for over two hundred thousand here all the houses you might be able to get
anywhere from seventy five thousand not even kidding
to one hundred and seventy five thousand they're gonna need a little work not
much but they'll probably need a little work it's a nice place to buy a house if
you don't mind a desert town number seven Del Rio Texas del rio's a
small quiet safe town near the Laughlin Air Force Base with a population of 36
thousand residents but really this place doesn't seem like it has that many
people haven't been there near so I'll give you that so it might have changed a
lot I liked it back then great Mexican food and great culture the guy I know
that lives there said that it has changed les tacos and more wing stops
and water burgers these days but it's still nice and it's still very saved he
actually lives on the reservoir just outside of town when I knew him he lived
in town yes he's moved on up the cost of living is 20 percent lower than the
national average and housing is 54 percent lower than the national average
houses here seem to have this magic number 139,000 I saw a bunch of places
for that price the good houses start around 250 but most the houses for sale
here are below 200 thousand and they're not terrible they do have an amtrak
station in town so you can go to san antonio just a quick three-hour trip the
bummer is that train leaves the station in Del Rio at 1:30 a.m. so I don't know
how often people take it to San Antonio number 6
Ozona Texas - most Ozona Texas is just a place you pee when you're driving west
from San Antonio to the people that know about hosana they know it's much better
than just a place where you relieve your bladder the town was organized in 1891
under an oak tree which still stands to this day at the base of the tree is a
historical marker describing the events of the day the town has a large statue
of Davy Crockett and a museum dedicated to the politician and frontiersman from
Tennessee hosana is actually in Crockett County Texas in case you're wondering
about all the Davy love here he died at the Alamo in San Antonio that's about it
for this town nothing else exciting goes on here other than the cost living is 13
percent lower than the national average and housing is 54 percent lower than the
national average you can get a house here and it is desert and so it might
not be for everyone but every single house that's for sale here is under a
hundred ninety thousand dollars the ones that need a little work are under a
hundred thousand you can also get a hundred acres of land for a hundred
thousand dollars you could do pretty good here with not a bunch of money
number five Olney Texas only is a cute town with a family orientated vibe the
community has several parks include one near the public pool downtown is
great sort of that country-style old-school Main Street thing going on
the downside is it's a little light in the entertainment department that
probably has something to do with only being a dry town high school football
and that whole Friday Night Lights thing is about it pretty much that's it in a
lot of small towns in Texas that they go off on Friday Night Football at the
local high school the cost of living in Olney is 26% lower than the national
average and housing is 65 percent lower you could buy a house for under fifty
thousand here they're going to need some work don't get me wrong coat of paint
grass seeds maybe a new roof but you get a two to three bedroom house front yard
back yard for under fifty thousand dollars and it's livable number four
hebbronville in the late 1800s this place was nothing but scrub brush by the
1920s hebbronville was born and it was the largest cattle shipping point in the
United States it still has cattle but nothing like it
once was this is a great town with great tamales at Hillcrest tortillas they have
a company that makes tortillas and tamales and it's great especially when a
business stays in a small town like this it's really good
hebbronville has about five thousand residents and it isn't far from the
middle of the frickin desert this place is an hour to from everywhere
it's like a geographical oddity but that's sort of the appeal for
hebbronville the cost living here is thirty percent lower than the national
average and housing is 58 percent lower a ready to move in house that will need
a little cleanup will be under a hundred thousand past two hundred thousand you
can get some really nice homes in hebbronville number three Haskell Texas
Haskell is a place you end up if you leave Abilene looking for excitement and
you go north by mistake instead of East Haskell has great stats and everything
but employment and things to do so if you work remotely and you're not looking
for a good time and you make over fifty thousand dollars a year you could live
like a king here if you drive to the town square area of Haskell nothing has
changed in the last 70 years except for the cars parked on the street and the
fancy electric sign out in front the courthouse cost living in Haskell is
twenty four percent lower than the national average and housing is sixty
five percent lower houses are livable right now for as low as twenty five
thousand and they go up to about a hundred fifty thousand and when they get
into 150 you might give an acre with the land
there's one house for sale here for two hundred ninety four thousand dollars
that would be seven hundred and fifty thousand here in the Portland area and
in La it would be over two million dollars I'm sure they're selling one
hundred and seventy-five acres for less than I bought my house here in Portland
number two bracket Ville Texas okay buckle up you're gonna think I'm jerking
around on this one but there are no houses for sale and may never have been
for sale for over 150 thousand in bracket ville that is normally a
real-estate fact reserved for places like the Arctic Circle in the middle of
the African savanna that's right you can get African savannah prices in Texas and
you don't have to worry about being trampled to death by a wildebeest while
drinking your sweet tea the cost living in bracket Ville is twenty six percent
lower than the national average and the housing costs are seventy one percent
lower that's crazy cheap and number one Pampa
Texas Pampa is the type of American town that has a homecoming parade downtown
and everyone in town shows up that's America this is a great place to raise a
family it has parks all over the place
including a local water park which is surprisingly nice for the size of the
town I was kind of shocked by that one the cost of living in Pampa is 25
percent lower than the national average and housing is about 52 percent lower
than the national average other than the heat this is a great place to live you
know it's well documented in all my videos I'm not a big fan of the heat I
like rain I like cold you're not gonna get much rain and cold there but you are
gonna get some heat obviously during the summer now here's the good thing a
livable home here starts at under 30,000 and the nicer ones you're talking low
two hundred thousands this is a great place to live and that's why it's number
one it may not be the cheapest on this list but in my opinion it's one of the
better ones especially if you're looking to relocate with a family they actually
even have some jobs here some of the other ones were like no jobs anywhere
and that's part of the reason they're so dirt cheap this one actually has jobs it
has things to do the schools are decent cost living is low you can do so much
worse than Pampa Texas all right so that's today's list I hope
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