what is going on everyone hey have you ever thought about moving to small-town
Idaho a lot of people in recent years have small town life is spreading across
the country a pretty good pace people have gotten so Pern out on cities and
suburbs they're just trying to escape basically like I said my last small town
video because of the internet and jobs that you could do from home small town
life has become an option for more and more people every single year one of the
most popular states to find that little piece of small-town heaven is Idaho you
can find some of the best small towns in the country in the Gem State
yeah that's their nickname the Gem State you can also find some not so great
small towns in that state today's video is about the not so great small towns
and why they may or may not be for you so if you're thinking about making that
move to the small towns and the potato state you should watch my top 10 worst
small towns in Idaho number 10 Hidden Springs Hidden Springs as a planned
community 20 minutes north of Boise with about 2,000 residents the city was
carefully designed in 1999 since so much planning went into the town it's no
surprise that homes can get way out of budget fast the average home sells for
about 400 thousand which is about 111 percent higher than the national average
the reason this place is on the list is not because the normal things like
violent crime or its run down it's actually a really nice aesthetically
pleasing place to look at it's nice it has other problems like cost of living
is crazy it's about 40% higher than the state average and I find that one
strange cuz there's nothing to spend your money on out there as far as
amenities go it has nothing has a little mall but it
looks like most the shops are vacant I don't know it's kind of strange and
before you say anything stop typing we know that's just the way you like it
there in Hidden Springs
number nine Pierce Idaho this place is truly out in the sticks less than two
percent of the homes in Pierce have internet and I don't think that's
my choice that right there should be the first indicator that this tiny town in
the Idaho outback isn't for you Pierce only has about five hundred eight
residents and that was as of the 2010 residents and that's down about a
hundred and twenty five from the 2000 census they're losing people and Pierce
can't imagine why Pierce actually has or had a motel at one point I called the
number listed to see if they were still in business all I got was a sobbing
woman that asked me if it was true that they canceled Seinfeld number eight
Middleton Idaho Middleton is right outside of Caldwell Idaho and houses
about sixty five hundred residents Middleton has no private schools it only
has five public schools all of which I don't recommend sending your kids do the
average student test score is about thirty eight percent of what it should
be while the national average is at least fifty three only about seventy
eight percent of the residents have graduated high school and that's
according to area Vybz calm now I've been to Middleton and it's not a bad
looking a little town they have a nice burger place called the burger den what
they also have is a bunch of teachers that aren't good decision makers a group
of teachers at a middle school decided to dress up in stereotypical Mexican
costumes and stand behind a cardboard border wall the photos were made public
when someone secretly snapped them and posted them to social media before you
say it I'm not making a political point here it is a joke that wasn't well
thought out and was offensive at least that's what you say when a group of
eighth-grade boys do this these were their teachers number seven star Idaho
star is right next to Middleton Idaho and it's just as bad I mean they don't
have a bunch teachers dressed up in racist costumes but it's still bad about
everything else the income per capita is about twenty-six thousand dollars that's
twelve percent lower than the national average the only thing that isn't subpar
in this town is crime they have a very low crime rate they're doing solid there
everything else I mean all the stats they're not terrible they're graded C or
D c-minus really the only thing I did notice is about the jobs is they don't
have many well-paying jobs they have jobs for the most part just not ones
that pay they also tried and failed to recall their mayor last year
number six Greenleaf Idaho Greenleaf is a small
town of only about 1,500 residents just west of Caldwell the town doesn't offer
very much just about enough to be considered natural town the town offers
the Greenleaf store which is a four pump gas station in them anymore a coffee
shop and one private school which teaches preschool to 12th grade it also
is one of those towns that probably has more broken-down cars than actual
residents the cost of living and housing and Greenleaf are really low this is
really good news because they don't have any jobs to speak of number five Bonners
Ferry Idaho Bonners Ferry is a very small town of about 2,500 residents if
you're not comfortable in the snow this may not be the place for you the
town experiences on average 62 inches of snow a year on top of the likelihood of
getting snowed in every year you may get snowed in with someone who can't read
the schools in Bonner Ferry get a big fat F from area vibes calm now I know
statistics don't tell the whole education story of Bonners Ferry oh I'm
sorry how insensitive of me I used the word
story number four home Dale Idaho home Dale is about five miles east of the
Oregon border and has about 2600 residents while the town does offer
basic amenities to its residents like schools grocery stores they got an Ace
Hardware it doesn't offer much else most residents commute if they have a job
that pays more than minimum wage pretty much all you're gonna get in home Dale's
minimum wage jobs this is another one that really doesn't seem to be promoting
the whole learnin thing school test scores in home Dale are 25 percent lower
than the national average number three mallet City Idaho mallet City is in
southern Idaho with about 200 residents and it's not a city it's a town it's
really small moving to mallet won't be easy or spontaneous you won't be able to
pack up and just go there and find someplace to stay you'll be homeless for
a while living in your car homes aren't readily available here like they are in
a lot of other places in Idaho they mainly offer plots of land and really
worn down homes that aren't so cheap I mean it's like they have some cheap
homes but they're so rundown they should be cheaper I don't know if there's some
kind of strange sales tactic by real estate agents there but
it's almost like they're thinking if we charge a bunch maybe they won't notice
they just bought a meth trailer you know it's weird on top of that like a lot of
places in rural Idaho their education just gets a big fat F from area vibes
number-2 marzi and idaho maher zain at least i think that's how you pronounce
it I had a really hard time finding anyone that pronounced it clearly
Marzian is home to about 1,500 residents who really don't care too much about the
town and it shows they have a lot of vacant buildings and warehouses right on
the main strip if you want to call it a strip that is Marzian really isn't that
big and doesn't have many residents which is why it's so shocking that it's
pollution index is 85 percent worse than the national average doing all the
pollutant education employment and housing all get FS don't move here and
number one old town Idaho old town Idaho's on the border of Washington
there's a street called State Street on the west side of town that separates
Newport Washington with Old Town Idaho not many signs indicate when you've
entered or when you leave each state but if you look at the buildings you can
tell at the intersection of walnut and State Street you can see a serious
difference on one side you have a nice Safeway and a newer McDonald's and on
the old town side you have some buildings that are in a serious need of
a paint job and a parking lot sweeper now here's some scary stats only 64
percent of the residents have completed eighth grade in Old Town the
unemployment rate in Old Town is 68 percent higher than the national average
the poverty level in Old Town is a hundred and thirty-eight percent higher
than the national average there's less than 300 people in this town you would
think they can pull it together with a little bit of effort but no they've got
their own agenda all right so that's my top 10 worst small towns in Idaho
hope you guys enjoyed it hope you know where not to live in Idaho now right O's
actually a really nice state but like every place it's got some not so good
places and this is these are ten of them everybody have a great day don't forget
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