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the end of this video What is going on everyone? Have you been
looking at craigslist or apartments.com for cheaper rent in your city and can't
find it? there are about 45 million Americans who
rent their living space and it is estimated that over half
believe they're being charged too much this of course leads to most renters
always on the hunt for cheaper accommodations
i used to do it all the time i had a lot of relationships that ended poorly and i
figured it was better to move than have someone
show up at my door with a crowbar or something like that and i always look
for cheaper rent today we're going to list
10 of the cheapest cities for renters these cities
will be decent cities i'm sure you could find cheaper rent in detroit or east st
louis but that's unhealthy the list will be on the
most popular rental unit which is a one-bedroom apartment and that'll kind
of give you an idea what all the other options are like in
whatever city we're talking about alright let's see what we found number
10 huntsville texas that's right i said texas not alabama
get to that in a second just about an hour north of houston you
have a nice small city called huntsville with a population of about 40 000
residents this place has decent stats across the board cost of living is 22
percent lower than the national average and housing is 11
lower the city started off in 1836 as a trading post the owners of the trading
post named it after their hometown huntsville alabama it's kind of how
portland became portland oregon the guy that started the trading post here
was from portland maine huntsville became the home of
sam houston legendary politician and everything else
he served as the president of the republic of texas governor of the state
of texas governor of tennessee and u.s senator and tennessee
congressman he died here in 1863 at the age of 70. now as far as rent
goes in the first quarter of 2020 a one bedroom averaged
779 dollars a month not bad especially for a place that's
got decent stats number nine shawnee kansas shawnee is a
suburb of kansas city with around 65 000 residents
kansas city has some not so great areas just like all cities
but statistically and from the looks of it shawnee isn't one of those bad
neighborhoods this is a nice city crime is around 27
percent lower than the national average and the schools are solid with a high
school graduation rate that's 11 percent higher than the national
average money magazine has an annual best places to live survey in 2010
shawnee was 17th in the nation that's pretty good
shawnee was ranked so high because of its affordable housing air quality index
and average commute time it's really a great place to live there's also a man
in shawnee named howard he wrote me a lengthy
handwritten letter protesting my video about kansas i did a couple years ago
this was a five page letter where he spent two
paragraphs telling me how wrong i was saying kansas is boring i kid you not
the next four and a half pages were insults and ideas of how i should f
myself normally when someone says that to you
that's the end of the conversation howard didn't follow that rule
howard went into great detail i mean really detailed
on what i should do to myself my response was
howard you just proved my point you spent god knows how long writing this
letter and visualizing me with a dozen or so fruits and vegetables
kansas is boring howard i sent that letter back to him actually it was a
postcard from portland oregon said wish you were
here it was fabulous anyway shawnee is a nice place to stay live
rent whatever you're gonna do the rent's only 760 a month here for one bedroom
apartment number eight midland michigan midland is
about an hour away from flint michigan and about two hours away from detroit so
you have like a buffer of all the michigan suckage right there
that is a ton of suckage also if they gave out awards for cities
being in bad shape detroit and flint would both be in the top five and
they're so close to each other that's just
how does that happen i know how it happens but yeah it's weird anyway
it's hard to believe that a city so close to either those two gems could be
nice but midland pulls it off midland's crime
rate is 62 percent lower than the national average
and their cost of living is 10 lower at 62 percent
lower crime rate that's amazing because detroit is like 340 percent higher
than the national average two hours away incredible if you don't mind harsh
winters and falls can get a little chilly too
this is a great place to live one thing i will add to that their summers are
amazing a michigan summer outside of detroit and flint is a great
summer the average rent in midland is 710 a month
for a one-bedroom apartment number seven derby kansas derby kansas is a small
city south of wichita it's got about 25 000 residents in 1903
the city was incorporated but at the time they used the name
el paso for some reason city kind of remained a farming community for a long
time after world war ii it started to pick up
some steam sometime around then they changed the name to derby kansas
this is a great place to live the crime is 12 percent lower than the
national average and schools have a graduation rate that's about 12 percent
higher than the national average cost living is about seven percent lower
than the national average i like the wichita area and it's like a
suburb of it sort of it's a nice place the average rent here is 687 dollars a
month for a one bedroom apartment number six wisconsin rapids wisconsin
in the center of wisconsin on the wisconsin river you have 20 000 people
that make up the city of wisconsin rapids now this wasn't always the name
in 1900 there were two cities there and they decided to merge they were split by
the wisconsin river on the west side it was incorporated as
centralia and on the east side it was grand rapids the two cities merged in
1900 and the entire community taking the name of grand rapids
well the name was changed in 1920 because they were afraid
that mail and other goods were being misdirected to the more popular
grand rapids michigan and they didn't want anyone confused you know they end
up in grand rapids wisconsin they thought they were going to michigan
you know just in case they don't own a map or a globe
or a compass or anything like that so they changed the name to wisconsin
rapids and they lived happily ever after but
not so much this is a great community the crime isn't the best
it's actually 27 higher than the national average like i said before
detroit's like 340 higher so this is really not that bad
housing is 54 percent lower and the cost of living is six percent lower than the
national average the schools ain't too shabby either
their graduation rate is about 12 percent higher than the national average
and here's where they shine the average rent for a one-bedroom
apartment in wisconsin rapids is only 630 dollars
not bad number five sierra vista arizona sierra vista is a small city in the
middle of the arizona desert it sits right outside the main gate of
the us army's fort huachuca this is an army post you end up going to
if you join military intelligence and please
stop typing nobody wants to hear the old worn out joke about
military intelligence being an oxymoron like jumbo shrimp
i think gallagher or george carlin said that in the 70s let it go
sierra vista is a nice place to live if you don't mind the heat and they get a
lot of it crime is 10 higher here but everything
else is solid including the rent which is only 602 dollars
a month on average for a one-bedroom apartment not bad
at all now if you do move here make sure you don't take fry boulevard
too far west because you're gonna run into guys in a little hut and they're
gonna make you turn around and they're gonna look at you sternly
but really they're not that bad they just tell you turn around it's not a big
deal if it's still the same it's paying the
butt to turn around there anyway moving on
number four niles ohio sandwiched between warren and youngstown ohio you
have the city of niles ohio and it's 19 000 residents one of those residents was
president william mckinley yeah this is his birthplace
niles is a great town and sadly it's losing people good news about that is
though prices are dropping rent housing
everything cost of living it's all going down
i've never been to niles but looking at it through street view
i found something amazing sidewalks are kind of tore up like the city's not
putting in new sidewalks or anything like that so that looks bad but if you
look at the homes the homes look like they're well
maintained like the people still care about this city
it's it's kind of an interesting thing i've been doing a little extra reading
about this one all the stats are really good here
except for jobs that's where they're kind of suffering
they don't have the best you know employment numbers they're actually 14
higher than the national average but they're still maintaining low crime
you know i mean six percent higher than the national average cost of living
is 16 percent lower than the national average so
nothing terrible the schools are great they have a 14
higher than average graduation rate nozzle ohio is a nice place to live
and it's just cheap it's really neat and here's where nile stands out
rent is only 579 dollars a month for a one-bedroom apartment
that's great number three conway arkansas north of
little rock near bend in the arkansas river you have the city of conway
arkansas if you watch this channel enough you
know i spent a lot of time roasting arkansas you might be wondering why
the answer is because the place sucks not all of it though like i've said
before the northwest corner with rogers
springdale and fayetteville that's the best part of the
state they've got jobs there they've got good people education
things are going good in the northwest corner most of the rest of the state
kind of blows conway is decent their crime is up there
but most everything else including schools their graduation rates 10
higher their cost of living is 20 lower than the national
average their housing is 15 percent lower
it's not a bad place other than the crime the thing that gets them on this
list though is rent is 570 a month for one bedroom
not bad conway number two greenville texas about an hour northwest of dallas
you have greenville texas and it's 30 000
residents this city has been growing since the
1890 census they've never had a reduction in population
so their rent isn't low because people are flooding out of this place which is
you know normally what happens the only knock against greenville is the
unemployment it's 30 higher than the national average that's
2019 numbers it was 6.2 percent which is pretty high
probably much worse right now with all the chaos of 2020 but that's the only
knock if you're moving there and you got a job you work remotely
this place is ideal especially when you figure in the cost of living is 25
lower than the national average and rent for one bedroom apartment
is 530 dollars and number one fort smith arkansas just
south of that nice part of arkansas i've been talking about
is fort smith this town has some history and some really cheap rent
most of the stats well they're not the best actually they suck they're really
bad not crazy bad but they suck this is a
good place to move if you're looking to save a lot of money
and you're bringing a job with you and no kids
don't bring kids here their schools are horrible but the cost of living here is
25 percent lower than the national average
and rent for a one-bedroom apartment is 460 dollars a month if you're living
there and you think that's expensive never go
to los angeles san francisco new york miami because you'll see rent there and
you will cry yourself to sleep at night fort smith is the cheapest place in the
country to pay rent that isn't you know downtown detroit
where you're living in a van or something like that
all right that is today's list i hope you guys enjoyed it hope you got some
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