what is going on everyone how's your world spinning one of my favorite movies
of all time is raising Arizona you've never seen this movie this was a
strange comedy with Nicolas Cage not the Nicolas Cage most of you know today the
Nic Cage that did great movies not those straight-to-video turds that he's been
putting out probably the last decade or so
movies like raising Arizona and many others paint Arizona and its residents
in a not so favorable light movies like these make them look like they fall into
one of four categories white trash living in a trailer park people that
haven't realized the Old West has been over for some time now sun-baked
retirees and drunk college guns now they do have those people more than their
fair share I would say but the real Arizona also has intelligent people
living in great cities like Phoenix Tucson and Flagstaff that's just a few
but as usual on this channel that's not what people want to hear about they want
to hear the negatives about locations so that's what I'm giving you we're gonna
look at the not-so-great places to live in Arizona so turn up the
air-conditioning and watch my top 10 worst towns in Arizona
number 10 Spring Valley Spring Valley has roughly 21 hundred
residents five miles north of Phoenix a very small community that obviously
doesn't have trouble finding work it's hardly existent unemployment rate of
0.8% is normally something you celebrate not here of those who do work it's still
likely they're living in poverty we can tell this by its poverty rate of 44
percent and the percentage of mobile homes and trash fires kind of tell us
that too the income per capita is only around
$18,000 a year 36% lower than the national average so
this is basically a place that has jobs but of those people that do have the
jobs about 90% of her around minimum wage and stop typing yes we get it they
have jobs at least they have jobs we get it all the time they have jobs they're
just not really great jobs number nine Paulding Paulding is a small community
about 26 miles north of Prescott and is home to about 5,000 residents of these
residents only about 75% have graduated high school there's only one school in
town in the average test score 71 percent lower than the national average
this town looks like at one point they had a really good manufactured home
salesman it also looks like it's very temporary
like everyone plans on moving someday and they want to take their homes and
all their stuff with them number eight ash fork ash fork Arizona is a tiny town
of only about 750 residents along the historic route 66 and stop typing I know
some of you will call it route 66 anyway moving on surprisingly for such a small
town there's plenty of work which helps with their an employment rate which is
at 2% however like other places on this list they have a seriously bad poverty
level of 68 percent sixty-eight percent of these people live below the poverty
line the income per capita is roughly ten thousand dollars making things very
hard on the residents they do however have something really strange in the
middle of town a high school a high school with a decent football field now
when you look at this place on the map you'd think they don't have enough
people to field a chess team much less a football team really weird number seven
Golden Valley Golden Valley Arizona has about eight thousand residents more
usually very bored this small town has nothing to do unless of course you
consider daydreaming about leaving Golden Valley has something to do then
yeah there's plenty of that there's one gas station to church a family owned
restaurant and a medical office anything else you need you might have to make the
trip to Kingman which is about 20 minutes away with slightly more options
now I've been to Kingman it's really not a place many people look forward to
going to number six Lake Montezuma Lake Montezuma is a small town of about 5,000
residents surrounding a little tiny lake called Lake Montezuma this isn't really
a lake it's a pond I'm not sure who decided to call it a lake but they were
exaggerating a bunch calling this place a lake is like calling me an underwear
model because I own underwear makes no sense it seems like education in this
town is the least of their worries there's two schools here three if you
include the school for troubled teens which is always great to have in town
sedona sky Academy the average test score in Lake Montezuma is 73% lower
than the national average number five Cameron Cameron Arizona is about an hour
drive north of Flagstaff with just over eleven hundred residents weather here
can get pretty brutal in the winters temperatures get as low as ten degrees
Fahrenheit while in the summers it easily gets into the triple digits for
what seems like months at a time not only is the weather
but so is the pollution here they have a way to rate pollution it's called the
pollution index Cameron has a pollution index that is 201 percent higher than
the national average what's up with these people their pollution is so bad
it's like they have an oil well that's been on fire for years and they're not
telling anyone about it number four miracle valley miracle
valley arizona is everything a miracle is not the town has a population of only
750 residents with the overall crime rate of eighty-five percent higher than
the national average this town also has some violent history thinks the miracle
Valley shootout in the early 80s where three hundred members of the Christ
miracle healing center moved into town from Mississippi and Chicago the group
had some beliefs resulting in five young children passing away due to the group's
refusal to seek medical attention tensions rose within the community
ultimately leading some church members confronting local authorities who showed
up to serve traffic warrants a shootout occurred leaving two church members dead
and seven officers injured now there was a couple other incidents before that but
this is the final thing that's really what ended this whole thing is the
culmination all of the other stats of this place are graded a big fat F with
the exception of housing costs that gets an A+ because nobody really wants to
live here number-three Fredonia Fredonia arizona is a very small town of only
about a thousand residents it's close to the Utah border the unemployment rate in
this town isn't the absolute worst seven percent still not good ashlee by
2018-2019 standards back in 2010 that was pretty good unemployment rate but
not now so while it's not impossible to find work here it's definitely hard to
get by even if you do have a job this is another place that if they could pay you
less than minimum wage they would the income per capita is only about
seventeen thousand dollars which is thirty percent lower than the national
average here's another great thing about this place the average school test score
in Fredonia is fifty percent lower than the national average for dona is the
type of place that you only end up if you made a wrong turn or need gas on the
way to the Grand Canyon trust me stay away from Fredonia
number two are a vodka junction Arivaca Junction Arizona is about a 30 minute
drive south of Tucson with only about 900 residents who constantly need to
worry about their safety and stop typing we don't want to hear how you're not
afraid because you have a whole bunch of guns and a whole bunch of bullets just
stop typing the town's overall crime rate is 87% higher than the national
average which means if you're in the town you have a 1 in 20 chance of being
involved in a crime the town is only safer than 4% of the other cities in the
United States that sucks this city overflows with bad life decisions and
number one Sanders Sanders Arizona's probably the worst small town you can
retreat to in the state of Arizona the town has just under 600 residents and
it's estimated that 72% of those residents rent their home home valiums a
rock bottom here which reflects how well the town is actually doing and what's
really strange is 72 percent that people are renting property values are dirt
cheap and people still don't have enough money to buy a house the average home
value is 27 percent lower than the national average while rent is 52
percent lower so maybe that's why rents really cheap but still my house this is
the type of place you move to if you've decided beauty entertainment and rain
are overrated and you want no more of that nonsense
Sanders Arizona is probably the worst small town in the entire state
all right so that's my top 10 worst towns in Arizona hope you guys enjoyed
it hope you got some information if you guys think I missed one I'd love to hear
about it put it down there in the comments I always like to read those
things and possibly make other lists later on the viewer version I hope you
guys have a great day be nice to each other