What is going on everyone? Welcome back to the world according to
briggs and today let's talk about escaping the big city life there's a lot
to be said for small town living less traffic less people
a sense of community and a more calm life in general then of course there's
housing is cheaper and the cost of living is typically more affordable in
small towns than big cities not in all cases i'll give you that but
i would just guess about 90 percent of the time life is
less expensive in a small town one of the biggest
problems with living in a small town is employment there aren't normally any
high paying jobs in small towns that's starting to change more and more
people are able to work from home and they can move to a small town and
bring their job with them now this has been a growing trend for
the last few years and it's obviously picked up steam with the whole kobit 19
pandemic some people haven't been to the office
for five months and it's been working out fine for a lot of those people
my wife's one of them she used to spend like 30 to 45 minutes a day getting
ready to go to work half hour to work half hour back if
you're one of the lucky ones that can work from home
it might be time to look for an affordable small town to live in
when i say small town i mean towns in general anything
in the neighborhood of 20 000 residents this list is about some affordable towns
that might be worth a look if you can work from home
all right in no particular order let's see what we found
number 10 pittsburgh kansas pittsburgh kansas has about 20
000 people and they don't have the steelers steel city beer
or the university of pittsburgh but out in the eastern section of kansas where
they actually have a good amount of trees you find this nice little town
called pittsburgh pittsburgh is about a two-hour drive south from kansas city on
route 69 and about 45 minutes from joplin
missouri in case you want a little excitement
not sure how much you can get in joplin but it's got to be better than
pittsburgh anyway nice older homes go for around a
hundred thousand here and i'm serious nice ones like well-maintained
homes a hundred thousand and they usually have like a half an
acre of land it's not bad really nice houses with maybe a pool go
for about 275 but a hundred thousand will get you
something nice here they have decent internet both cox and a t
which are you know definitely usable if you're working from home they also have
some satellite internets if you live like on the outskirts of
town or out in the rural area those might not be good enough if you are
working from home via the internet so keep that in mind the cost of living
in pittsburgh is 23 lower than the national average
and 46 percent lower in housing yeah 46 percent lower than
the national average as the housing costs
the only real knock they have is they got a bit of crime but this is like
small town kansas crime not detroit scary crime you know
number nine martinsville virginia martinsville is a quiet rural-ish town
that explodes with noise and people when nascar's in town just outside of town
you have the martinsville speedway if you don't know about nascar or
american racing in general you'd probably be surprised how small
this track actually is and how big of a deal it is at the same time it's really
not much bigger than maybe a football field or two it's
it's pretty small the town of martinsville was founded by american
revolutionary war general and explorer joseph martin martin get it
ville easy the housing here is 46 lower than the national
average and the cost of living is about twenty percent lower you can get a
livable home for around a hundred thousand i actually saw this gem
that needs a whole lot of work it's on a quarter acre and it's twenty thousand
dollars it still has grandpa's recliner on the
porch it's a steal unless they take the recliner with them then that's maybe not
as good a deal anyway when i say livable that's an
opinion i think it's livable if you're living in
like i've said before beverly hills or something right now that's not livable
but for most of us and especially people that may be like one paycheck away from
living in their car this is a deal and it is livable the
internet choices you have here are the evil empire of comcast and
centurylink and of course they got those satellite internet ones that you know
probably won't work if you need a good bandwidth
number eight ashland ohio located halfway between cleveland and columbus
you have 20 000 people that call ashland ohio home and this place reminds
me of an old co-worker that's from cleveland he told me once that
in between cleveland and cincinnati you have normal people
you just have to look for them sometimes i love this town from a statistical
point of view every category is graded in
a except employment it got a d but you'll probably be bringing your own job
so it may not matter keeping a roof over your head in ashland
is about forty percent cheaper than the national average you can get a nice home
here for around a hundred thousand dollars seventy five to a hundred
thousand dollars will get you a nice livable home
now they have some really nice ones that start off around 500k
so this is one of these places that just have you know 100 200 000 maybe 300 000.
this place has some really nice homes too but there are plenty of nice ones
for cheap the cost of living here is 19 lower than the national average and in
case you're glutton for punishment cleveland's right up the road you can go
see a browns game
number seven tupelo mississippi okay i know
it's mississippi i get it it already doesn't sound very appealing but it is
really cheap so that's a plus tupelo's biggest claim to fame is being
the birthplace of elvis presley most people think he's from memphis a
hundred miles away because of graceland and everything else like that and kind
of where his career kind of got started mississippi isn't the greatest state but
the average residents tend to be very good people
and that's part of the reason why it's worth moving here but the real reason is
like i said it's cheap electric and gas bills are
about 13 lower than the national average housing
is almost 30 percent less than the national average and the overall cost of
living is 17 lower than the national average
now the houses at this one can get around 100 000 and
they're they're okay houses most houses come with at least a quarter
acre of land i saw a bunch that are half an acre and they
might set you back 120 thousand dollars but they have
really really good houses here for maybe 240.
number six eli nevada not too far from death by dehydration you have eli nevada
and it's 4 000 residents eli is a bit out of the way so if you
don't like crowds or people in general this might be an ideal place for you if
you also like the heat and not paying much for things
start packing they do have gambling here so try not to spend all those savings
you get on housing and stuff on slot machines and you'll be
fine houses can be as low as 50 or 60 000 but you really don't want those too
much work around 200 000 will get you a really really nice place in eli
but they do have a lot of houses for the hundred thousand range
and that's why their median home price is 30 percent lower than the national
average they have a whole bunch of cheap houses
the cost of living here is also 16 lower than the national average and you're not
too far from utah so in case you need to cross the
border to get a whole bunch of religion number five benton harbor michigan
benton harbor sits on the shores of lake michigan
and it's got a dwindling population they've been losing at least 10 percent
of their population every single census since the 1970s in
the 1960s they had just about 20 000 residents this year they're estimating
to have a little above 9 000. this is good news for you if you
like the cold living cheaply and fishing keep in mind
it gets very cold here i'm talking teeth chattering and your cheeks freezing shut
while you wait for your car to warm up but
if you're okay with all that check out the zillow on this town there are some
amazing homes here for under a hundred thousand dollars
housing is 63 percent lower than the national average and the cost of living
is about 21 lower than the national average this
is not a bad place like detroit they do have some
crime and some other issues going on but it's not terrible
number four burlington iowa i like iowa always have
the people there are great i was just actually in fort madison which isn't too
far from burlington it's like right down the mississippi river from it
just last month burlington in case you don't know is about 165 miles
east of des moines and it's a great town of about 24
000 residents but burlington like so many other towns in this part of the
country has been losing population for many years people have been leaving
towns like this because of employment and boredom really but like i
said with more people working from home this trend may be
reversing burlington is one of those places i
believe in the next decade will grow in population it's too cheap not to
they also have good internet with mediacom and centurylink so
yeah i mean it's got the mississippi river right there there's a lot of
potential in this town they just need people moving in that are
working from home or bringing jobs to the area the mississippi runs right
along the east side of town and the real estate down there can be
expensive but if you get about a half a mile in or even less quarter mile in
from the river the prices drop drastically older well
maintained and remodeled homes go for around seventy five thousand dollars
not even kidding that's a nice house for seventy five thousand dollars
housing is about forty 45 lower than the national average in burlington the cost
of living is 18 percent lower yeah you could do so much worse than
burlington iowa number three claxton georgia claxton is
about an hour east of savannah georgia this is a
quiet community with the little crime and not a lot of things to do
but it is cheap so you can't go wrong there right the housing here goes from
one end of the price spectrum to the other
you have houses you don't want for about 25 000
in this town all the way up to ones we all want for eight hundred thousands
but a hundred thousand should get you something livable the cost of living
here is 22 percent lower than the national average and
housing is 45 lower the one thing i will mention 18t
is the internet provider and their speeds aren't great they max
out at 18 megabits per second and that's according to in my area.com
number two fork gibson oklahoma fort gibson is a town of over 4 000 people
right across the arkansas river from muskogee oklahoma
it is about an hour southeast of tulsa and if you like fishing or just enjoy
staring at the water like an idiot you could do both in this town
the locals probably won't say anything the cost of living in fort gibson is 23
lower than the national average and the housing is 35 percent lower
what i like about this place is the stats okay we'll get to that in a second
it does have some cheap homes for around 100 000
but you really don't want to get those ones you really want to have about two
hundred thousand to get a really nice house here and it goes up in price but
that's what you're looking at now about the stats they're great crime is 50
lower than the national average they have great schools they have things to
do their cost of living is low and their
housing is low it's got all the great stats and it's even got weather that's
graded as a b the other thing is they got internet and
sudden link here both get decent speeds so you could definitely work from home
here and if you get a job in like tulsa you're just a small commune away for
that monthly meeting you might have to go to if you're working from home
and number one richmond indiana ah yes richmond indiana my only experience with
this town is not taking advice from someone that
grew up here if you've watched my channel for a while
i've talked about a road trip from hell that i took from madison wisconsin to
nevada to los angeles with an ex-girlfriend as
we were packing the car in madison her roommate who's from richmond indiana
grabbed my arm and whispered she's effing crazy you should run away
i thought well that's weird like i thought this chick was crazy i was like
what the so anyway i get in the car and we leave
12 hours later i realized she was a very wise young woman to get a decent home
here it starts at around 90 000 and they're good homes they go up to
about two hundred thousand anything above that like three hundred
thousand you're rich for this town and everybody hates you
the housing is fifty percent below the national average here and the cost of
living is twenty seven percent lower than the national average
richmond indiana gets the number one spot on this one even though we weren't
doing it in you know any special order it's a really
good place to live their downtown area is really nice
all right so that is our video today i hope you guys liked it hope you got some
information out of it you know if you're one of these people that's starting to
work from home you want to save some money some of
these towns might be a good place i could probably do six of these lists
because there's so many small towns like this throughout the country you
know of one let me know put it in the comment section below i'd love to do
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