What is going on everyone? Welcome back to the world according to Briggs my name
is Briggs I travel I make videos and I have never played with lawn darts
responsibly really that's how my younger brother lost his nipple living without a
nipple is depressing as you can imagine speaking of depression did you know that
there's thousands of reasons a person can be considered depressed one of those
reasons is where you live the environment the people the economy the
crime the weather are just some of the reasons a place can be considered
depressing so you're asking yourself how do you decide which one of these cities
is more depressing than the other well you analyze everything you can find on
the US census data including divorce average income unemployment and you look
at things like I said whether homeless rates and how often people swipe right
on my cousin's ex-wife's tinder profile after that you make an educated guess
and you come up with the most depressing cities and that's what today's video is
all about so why don't you sit back relax take a deep breath and watch my
top ten most depressing cities in America number 10 Tacoma Washington
Washington is one of the rainiest states in the country Tacoma is the third
largest city in the state with just about 200,000 residents Tacoma sucks
from an emotional standpoint the average u.s. city gets about 205 days of
sunshine a year Tacoma gets about 140 days of Sun that's only about four and a
half months worth the sunshine every year I've had longer breakups you know
you break up with someone about a week later you miss them and you can't
remember why you broke up so you get back together and then four days in a
row she spends 30 minutes of your morning explaining a dream she had so
you break up again only to revisit the whole situation a couple more a dozen
times gloomy skies and gloomy moods are always in fashion in Tacoma the only
thing this place has to keep it from going crazy as beer they have really
really good beer up near Tacoma and Seattle anyway the divorce rate in
Washington state is about three point nine per 1000 people that's 15 percent
higher than the national average it ranked 11th amongst the states that
reported data on divorce number nine Springfield Missouri Springfield is the
third largest city in the state of Missouri with about a hundred
sixty-eight thousand residents and it's the birthplace of route 66 it is also a
place where people don't make the best decisions just this week a
young man walked into a Walmart wearing body armor a loaded rifle and a handgun
just days after a couple mass shootings one was at a Walmart this young man was
stopped by an off-duty firefighter and then arrested as a terrorist threat he
claims he was testing the rights to bear arm what he was really testing was the
patience of a very nervous society he's lucky the op duty firefighter didn't
knock his teeth out Springfield has a live ability score of 65 crime sucks
unemployment is high for these days housing sucks and schools aren't great
it is also the divorce capital the state of Missouri good times in Springfield
number eight Mobile Alabama Mobile is a very depressing place to live the
average income here is about $23,000 a year which is far less than the US
average this is why 25 percent of the population lives in poverty that's right
a quarter of the population lives in poverty here education isn't a big
priority of the residents who actually graduate high school less than 30
percent went on to obtain a four-year degree the population that is 15 years
or older and Mobile County in which mobile the city is in is at three
hundred and thirty one thousand people of those people forty two thousand are
divorced or have gone through the divorce process I mean I get it it's
hard to stay married in Alabama with all those great options you got going on
over the border in Mississippi the liveability score in Mobile is 63 that's
depressing that's a really low number a good number for liveability is in the
mid 80s and up there are 63 I've seen some that are in the mid 40s but 63 is
bad number 7 Salem Oregon Salem is the state
capital of Oregon with about 170,000 residents it's easy to see how living in
the state capital can be depressing there's politics occasional protests
your neighbors who want to discuss tough topics and then pick arguments about it
this is probably one of the reasons why most residents would like to move
someplace else like Cuba weather is a big factor here
everybody knows the Oregon gets far too much rain and gloomy skies gray skies
most of the year gives people seasonal affective disorder also known as sad as
Sade sees an effect you get it anyway they didn't have that fancy term when I
was a kid we just called you a crybaby if you couldn't handle the weather
but then again I grew up in Southern California so we really didn't have
weather but anyway you get what I'm saying
Salem is a depressing state capital as a matter of fact the Oregon State Capitol
building is depressing look at that thing
it looks like a soviet-era political prison oddly enough Oregon is the only
city on this list a list like this would have had several Oregon cities about
five years ago but in 2014 they legalized weed and everyone seems to be
okay with everything now I don't know what it is just they just lay back and
relax it's no big deal anymore but Salem Oregon is depressing number six Modesto
California Modesto is located an hour south of the state capital Sacramento
most people in Modesto take melatonin and dream about the frozen tundra every
single night the heat may be one of the reasons people hate living here Modesto
is hot and it's dry during the summer months it's common for the temperatures
to rise into the triple digits and stay there a while
and in winter the temperatures may be dropped to the mid 60s
so it's always pretty warm there if not blazing hot the only way to escape the
heat here is to leave preferably in a refrigeration truck sitting on a box of
fudgesicles and your underwear 13% of the residents in Modesto are divorced
and the overall crime rate Modesto is 80 percent higher than the national average
and the schools blow there's so many things about Modesto that could bring a
person down but knowing that your kids and your stuff aren't safe have to be to
the highest ones on that list number five Las Vegas Nevada Las Vegas is an
amazing place to visit however living there is a little depressing every day
you see things that most people consider part of the decline of society that have
become the norm in Vegas addiction is the main reason people are depressed in
Las Vegas not just gambling they have the full spectrum of addiction here Las
Vegas is a great city with good people it just doesn't work out for a whole
bunch of other people every time I walk down the strip in Vegas I've seen
someone crying not just some girl that broke up with a boyfriend I'm talking
grown men sometimes Vegas is also the divorce capital of the world and about
17% of the marriages there and in divorce that is why there's so many
lawyers in Las Vegas representing people in desperate need of a divorce
and sunblock apparently number four San Bernardino San Bernardino California is
located east of Los Angeles right outside the Angeles National Forest
the writer Hunter S Thompson called it San Berdoo all the time I grew up
calling it San Berdoo myself this is very miserable place to live drive
through the place and you'll know exactly what I'm talking about if you
ask Siri to find you a good place to stay in San Berdoo it'll suggest driving
an hour out of your way to Big Bear Lake if you tell Siri to find a good place to
stay in San Bernardino it'll suggest getting in a time machine and going back
to the 1950s because that was really about the last time this place was a
really nice place to live the whole town is just a big bowl of depression about
15% of all married couples here end up divorcing crime schools unemployment and
housing all contribute to the general suck and depression that is San
Bernardino if you've ever thought about living here make sure you go alone just
be miserable by yourself misery really doesn't need company so
don't bring a wife don't bring a girlfriend just go by yourself and enjoy
the depression if that's what you're into number 3 Rockford Illinois Rockford
is not a nice place you'd want to move to with your family this city in
northern Illinois has a violent crime rate of about 16 hundred and 60 crimes
reported per every hundred thousand residents every single year it's
continuously ranked one of the top cities with the most violent crimes
crime runs so rampant here that home values are actually about a hundred
thousand dollars less than what they would be if there wasn't so much crime
Rockford is one of the leaders in the country when it comes to single-parent
households Rockford can also be found on worst city's list all over the Internet
normally towards the top this is the type of place you moved to when you miss
the sounds of gunfire heard in the military you know you can't sleep at
night and letting your little gunfire move to Rockford it is said that half
the city suffers from either PTSD or depression the percentage of people that
are actually divorced here is almost 15 percent it is estimated that the
population of Rockford has decreased by 20,000 people since the 2010 census
people are leaving this place in droves and for good reason
it's a depressing City number to make in Georgia
making us a place you go to when you want to be miserable there's this thing
called the misery score in the misery score for Macon is 87 and that's out of
a hundred the higher the score the bigger the suck the city is if you enjoy
heat and humid that's one thing you may love here but
most people don't and makin is a horrible place for these people during
the hottest times of the summer temperatures during the day will rise up
into the mid 90s and fall to the high 70s at night however the temperature
change is hardly noticeable since the humidity is about 95 percent
so you sweat a whole lot here crime housing and unemployment are really
depressing stats in Macon according to the 2010 census median household income
in the city was about $28,000 and that's compared to the state average of about
50,000 it is estimated that that number of 28,000 only climbed 2,000 in the last
nine years we'll find out next year in the census and the state average jumped
up around 5,000 is the estimate so make it's not keeping up there are a lot of
really depressed people here that can't afford air-conditioning their livability
score is 65 don't move to Macon Georgia and number one Detroit Michigan now who
didn't see this one coming according to best live.com Detroit is the most
depressing city in America the city scores out ninety nine point six on the
misery scale it's no surprise why'd the poverty rate here is about thirty five
percent while the unemployment rate is right around nine percent right now life
is rough in Detroit unless you have a security job but considering there isn't
a lot of things in the city worth securing so that's not really high in
demand one way you can literally see the depression of a city is by looking at
the population decline and the amount of vacant housing in 1990 there were over 1
million people living in the city of Detroit that's just the city not the
metro area so stop typing census nerds since 1990 the population has dropped to
just over 600,000 from over a million six hundred thousand a good percentage
of the housing parcels in the city are vacant with abandoned Lots making up
more than half of the total residential lots in the city with at least 70,000
abandoned buildings 31,000 empty houses and 90,000 vacant lots
Detroit has a livability score of 56 it is sad that Detroit has gotten to this I
mean they've done some great things in the downtown area and hopefully that'll
spread I've talked about this before that they're trying to make some
progress but they just have such a long way to go it's just sad to live there
all right so let's my top 10 most depressing cities in the United States I
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