Welcome to the most difficult video I've ever done. Great rural towns in mississippi this is
like the 15th video in this series and by far the hardest state to find great rural towns in i had
to lower the bar a little bit just to make sure we got above three we all know mississippi has a list
of serious challenges falling into poverty and dating at family or unions are never challenges
in this state mississippi leads the country in poverty with 19.7 percent of the population
living below the poverty line the national average for reference is 11.2 percent one good thing sort
of overshadows the problems that the magnolia state has the people the rural towns have a
bunch of problems but they still have great people in this series we're looking for that sweet spot
small rural towns that are decent places to live not too close to any major cities they're easy on
the crime rate they're not five hours away from a hospital and not so far out in the sticks you
can't get decent internet we used to list all the internet speeds and what companies provide
in each place but we kind of eliminated that and now we just don't include any towns that get
below 100 mbps besides that star links available throughout the country and in most cases will
get you over 100 mbps so it's not really an issue anymore what knocked a lot of towns off this list
is the crime rate they have some serious crime issues in a lot of rural towns in mississippi get
it got it good let's take a look number six port gibson mississippi port gibson is located between
vicksburg and natchez just east of the mississippi river if you're looking for it on a map it is
about an hour southeast of jackson mississippi the state capitol this is a great rural town it's
beautiful local legend has it that when union forces were in the area they spared port gibson
because it was such a nice looking place legend has it general grant said it was too beautiful
to burn this is a historically significant town when it comes to civil war stuff they have a lot
of the old houses and old buildings here with battlefields and historical sites to go visit
they have a population of about 1600 and they get a thumbs up for their crime rate it's 51 percent
lower than the national average they also get a thumbs up when it comes to healthcare on the south
side of town they have claiborne county medical center with an emergency room and a really cool
water tower on the premises if you need anything like a specialist pass what they could do you
got that 30 minute drive up to vicksburg and that should be able to cover just about anything they
also get a thumbs up for their real estate even though they don't have a lot to offer right now
in recent months they've sold some homes the two they have for sale right now are under two hundred
thousand one's about a hundred fifty thousand the other one is two hundred thousand in recent months
they've sold a couple other ones and they're all around that price 150 to 220 tops i did look
around they have some other properties that aren't for sale that are kind of expensive they usually
come with some acreage but expensive here is like 400 000. it's like really expensive this is not a
bad place for someone on a fixed income that likes to fish they got plenty of water around here throw
a line in you're gonna catch something number five mound bayou mississippi mound bayou is located in
the heart of the mississippi delta about an hour north of greenville this town got its start as
a community of freed african american slaves from the community of davis bend mississippi
these days it's a small rural town of about 1700 residents and this place is surrounded
by farmland they don't have many things to do around here it's a very small town they don't get
the best marks for schools but they get a thumbs up for their crime rate it's 51 percent lower than
the national average they also have a low cost living here it's dirt cheap to live in this town
when it comes to real estate they're going to get a faded thumbs up for one reason they don't have
anything for sale right now and the last year or two they've sold homes they're usually under 200
000 and when you buy a home here it normally comes with a half an acre and that's in town
outside of town you can pick up a bunch of acres if you want them they're going to get a thumbs up
when it comes to healthcare they have a couple doctors in town and a health clinic if you need
to go to a hospital emergency room urgent care something like that you're going to have to go
to cleveland mississippi which is about 15 minutes to the south they got a pretty good size facility
down there but if you like fresh air and a lot of green scenery this is a good place to live
number four philadelphia mississippi yep mississippi's got their own philadelphia
philadelphia mississippi has about 7 000 residents and philadelphia pennsylvania
has about 1.5 million so there's a little bit of a difference here philadelphia sits about 45 minutes
north of meridian mississippi and it is home to one of the greatest nfl running backs who never
really played marcus dupree was born and raised in philadelphia and he set all kinds of records in
high school he was just this number one recruited guy ended up going to oklahoma and it never really
panned out he had a great first season you know he had sparks of greatness but he was just kind
of burnt out on football and he had some injuries espn did one of their documentaries on him called
30 for 30 and his episode was known as the best that never was it was definitely an interesting
episode philadelphia has some interesting stats they got plenty things to do their cost living is
really low their crime rate is great the only thing they don't have are decent schools and
jobs they get a thumbs up for their crime rate which is 10 percent lower than the national
average they get a thumbs up for health care they've got a full-blown hospital on the south
side town it's the county general hospital emergency room everything you're gonna need
and when it comes to real estate they get a big thumbs up they have nice homes decent nothing
spectacular but livable nice brick homes a little bit older they usually come with like a quarter of
an acre to a half acre they start off around 125 000 for something decent and work their way up not
too far up i mean some of the nicest homes they have here go for like 250 maybe 300 000 and they
usually come with a couple acres but this is a typical mississippi rural town you're not going to
find the i guess cuteness or uniqueness that you'd find like in a new england town or something like
that the main street it's just a town decent stats great place to live if you want to save some money
number three collinsville mississippi collinsville is in between meridian mississippi and
philadelphia mississippi what we just talked about on the ocatibi lake oak tibi okatibi
i've heard pronounced couple different things if you're from the area and you know this one let me
know i tried to look it up on youtube to see if someone would pronounce it properly there's like
four different pronunciations for this lake anyway this is an unincorporated community that has some
good fishing this town like most rural places in mississippi is great for being outdoors and on the
water creeks rivers lakes and ponds always seem to be a short walk away like when i used to go down
to mississippi a lot with my family everyone's got fishing poles in the trunk of their car
like all times collinsville gets a thumbs up for their crime rate at 67 percent below the national
average they have a population of about 1800 which pretty big for an incorporated area they get a big
thumbs up for their real estate they've got a lot of different options here they have one that's on
the lake that's going for like four million dollars okay so that's like that one's insane
it looks like somebody's freaking castle but you can get homes here for as low as 199 000 that are
decent ready to live in good homes and they go up from there they got a lot of lots for sale in this
area also when it comes to healthcare they're a little light on things they got like a hearing
aid place they got a dentist they got a pharmacy but anything you need done you're gonna have to go
down to meridian and that's like about 20 minutes away this one again like most mississippi small
towns doesn't have like a really cute main street or anything like that it's just kind of there my
experience whenever i've gone to mississippi and i've come across one of these small towns i always
got the feeling that they're like temporary like they don't plan on staying there even though some
of these towns have been there since the mid-1800s you're like why is everything look like it's just
temporary here number two union mississippi yep not too far from collinsville and philadelphia
you got union mississippi i find this to be a very strange name for a town in the magnolia state
you know how these people feel about the civil war you're like how is this thing still called
union mississippi union sits about 20 minutes south of philadelphia mississippi on the chunky
creek yes it's called the chunky creek not too far from the chunky river i've been to union
a few times it's been years but i was there god a couple summers in a row we ended up in
union for some reason the piggly wiggly anyway i have relatives that live down south of their near
decatur and other relatives that live in hickory and then some in chunky which is actually a town
union and it's 2 000 residents get a thumbs up for their crime rate it's 28 lower than the national
average their cost of living is considered dirt cheap and their real estate is even cheaper
they get a big thumbs up for their real estate they have a couple to choose from but you can
get a really nice home here decent livable ready to go probably comes on at least a half an acre
under 130 000 they got two for sale right now they got another one that's a giant chunk of land like
10 acres that's going for 340 000 but two houses are under 150 000 and they look decent healthcare
they get a thumbs up too because in town they have layered hospital which is pretty good
size for such a small town this is an extremely affordable town to live in and it's not terrible
normally a place that's this cheap i mean low-cost living and housing usually sucks union's okay
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to this channel all right on to number one and number one ecru mississippi ecro mississippi is
about 30 minutes west of tupelo mississippi near the little tallahatchie river and no this is the
little tallahatchie river not the tallahatchie bridge you know the one that billy joe mcallister
jumped off of that bridge is over by greenwood mississippi up near choctaw ridge this is a
unique one it is definitely a rural town but it has a giant manufacturing plant that is almost
as big as the town itself ashley furniture has a manufacturing and distribution center here in town
that factory is so big that it employs most the people around this area ecru
only has about a thousand residents and they get a thumbs up for their crime rate it's 68
lower than the national average see that's one thing you want to bring your crime rate down
give everyone jobs when it comes to real estate they get a thumbs up also because this area
has a lot of homes for sale maybe not as much in town but the area around the town has plenty of
homes for sale and they range from 99 000 which is something that's probably gonna need some work
all the way up to six hundred thousand everything in between they have a lot to choose from here
when it comes to their health care we're going to give them a faded thumbs up they have a small
clinic in town and a pharmacy just south they have a small hospital with an emergency room so that's
good but anything major you're going to have to go into tupelo which is about 15 minutes south they
have a bigger medical facility that has emergency room and a couple things like that but anything
big you're gonna need to go to tupelo now this might be a good one if you're looking
to live in an affordable town and you want a job i was watching some videos and i looked at their
website and ashley furniture seems to be still hiring so that's a plus i could be wrong about
that don't quote me on it definitely check before you make any decisions you might be watching this
a year down the line and they may have picked up moved operations to china for all i know
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