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this channel we look at locations around the country and for the most part give
you some things to think about before you visit or actually relocate to that
place if that's what you're doing we like to give you facts stats and some
humor I mean why not nobody wants to hear someone else just recite numbers
all day in stats if that is your thing I'm not judging you I suggest taking a
statistics class at the local community college
cuz I'm sure that would be just a hoot for you that being said let's find out
about towns in the Volunteer State Tennessee Tennessee is ranked 16th and
size and 36 in population it's right here in case you don't know it's the
16th state joining the Union on June 1st 1796 Tennessee is a strange state a
recent study by CNBC ranked them as the fourth worst state in the country for
2018 that same study ranked them as number 6 in the 2017 study so they're
moving in the wrong direction but what do you expect from a state that still
isn't keen on teaching evolution in schools back in the 1960s teachers were
actually fired for talking about evolution they want you to believe the
whole creationism and God think was the only possible way we could have got here
now it has gotten better but they still aren't there in some communities in some
school districts they're still not on board with the whole evolution thing to
say they're little backwards outside the major cities would be an understatement
hell they're even backwards in the big cities now to be fair Tennessee has some
amazing small towns and people but trust me they're few and far between as an
example one of the first things you learn to do with your smart phone in
Tennessee if you're getting bad service is move away from the still moonshine
seems to affect smart phones the Volunteer State isn't really a hot spot
for people to move to these days especially the small towns people aren't
moving to the small towns they're actually if they're fleeing the small
towns for the most part if you're thinking about moving to a town in
Tennessee I'm going to list 10 things you should probably consider before you
do so why not step away from the still and watch my top 10 or small towns in
Tennessee number 10 Van Leer Tennessee Van Leer is
very unsafe small-town of just about 300 residents the most common reply when
asking for directions Van Leer is why the overall crime rate
is 78 percent higher than the national average and it's only safer than five
percent of the cities in the whole country that's not good for such a small
town while you're in the town you have one in 21 chance of being involved in a
crime now I don't want to make it sound like these people are broke here but
they are and then there's no getting around it they're just broke the poverty
level here in Van Leer is 97 percent higher than the national average and
they even have a bank I don't know it for now like these people have a lot of
money number 9 Luttrell Tennessee katrell is located
about 30 minutes outside of Knoxville Tennessee with just under 900 residents
they did have a thousand residents a couple years back but either some people
laughs died were abducted by aliens or someone can't count I'm not sure which
either way the income per capita here is about $19,000 which is about 35% lower
than the national average the poverty level here is 93 percent higher than the
national average and only about 65 percent of the residents made it out of
eighth grade with a piece of paper proving they did this is not the best
place to drive either if you look at the news from this place that seems like
people are always running into each other or things it's just always some
form of auto accident yet another place you need some serious Geico country
singer Chet Atkins and Kenny Chesney her from here Chesney was actually born in
Knoxville but raised in luttrell I think he left at some point early on but he
was pretty much raised there it says I don't know him personally but that's
what I read number eight Lonoke tennessee Lonoke is located just north
of Chattanooga Tennessee with just under 900 residents the most common thing said
when driving to Lone Oak is holy shit I think we passed it a hundred yards after
he left the town being so close to a major city
you'd think housing prices would be dirt-cheap nope not this town they're
breaking from the norms the average home goes for 200 thousand which is 12
percent higher than the national average and the average rent is 25 percent
higher than the national average and stop typing two hundred thousand isn't
much if you're from a coastal state or something like that
I get it this is Tennessee not supposed to be that expensive only 17 percent of
the residents have graduated with any form of degree this place also gets a
big fat F for amenities meaning there's nothing to this town there's nothing to
do here except like Whittle number-7 Medan Tennessee men is not some place
you want to be for very long or at all there's a lot of
formation on this town the information that they do have is not good I couldn't
even find the proper pronunciation for this town the name was used for a
character in Homer's The Odyssey but I'm not even sure that's how the locals
pronounce it I'm going with Medan M II D o n Medan let's stick with it this small
town of only 200 residents has an overall crime rate that's 73% higher
than the national average while you're in the town you have a 1 in 22 chance of
being involved in a crime towns the small have always left me wondering why
you can't get a handle on the crime you only have 200 residents how hard is it
to find out who's the idiot there are criminals in a small town they aren't
that smart they shouldn't be that hard to find there's only like 30 buildings
in the whole town find out who's committing the crime in Medan number 6
Staunton Ville Tennessee Staunton Ville has about 250 residents who don't feel
safe in their own homes the overall crime rate in this town is 83 percent
higher than the national average again 250 people in the frickin town and
they can't flex the long arm of the law enough to bring the crime rate down
maybe it's time they hired more than 3 cops I was looking for something
positive about this town and I came across their local newspapers website I
saw they had an events calendar not sure if they really needed it it only had one
event on it in the last three years I reached out and asked if they were going
to have any other events and the person actually yelled at me on the phone they
said Damon Weatherly quit callin asking stupid questions boy this town ain't got
no money for Vince the unemployment rate in stanton Ville is 110% higher than the
national average number 5 liquid park Tennessee Lakewood Park is home to just
over 600 residents income per capita here is at $14,000 with poverty and
almost 30 percent that's 89 percent higher than the national average
don't come here needing a job the unemployment rate is at 12% where the
rest of the country is around 3 right now they're hovering at 12 if you're
thinking about open up a business that might employ a couple people it's a
different story entirely come on in they'll invite you in they'll be happy
to see you they might even give you a key to the city
liquid park is safer than 3% of the cities in the United States only 3% no
jobs wrecked with crime only move here if your only other option is war-torn
Syria number 4 ava tennessee ava has about 230
residents and is located right off the Kentucky Lake impoundment on the
Tennessee River now I would have just said the Tennessee River but you know
it's the internet and we know people have to point out things that make the
smallest little mistake stop typing now given its access to the lake you
would think that this town would be much larger like people would be really
wanting to live there it's not people really don't want to live there it's
actually kind of small considering I think it has something to do with the
fact that it has a crime rate of a run down inner city an unemployment rate
from the recession in 2008 and housing prices that are so high that neighboring
towns won't see those prices for ten years this is another one those places
that treat you really bad but charges you like they're not housing prices can
get up around three hundred thousand dollars for some pieces of property the
unemployment rate in ava is sixty five percent higher than the national average
go ava number-3 galloway tennessee galloway has
just under a thousand less fortunate residents the income per capita is about
thirteen thousand dollars a year that's fifty four percent lower than the
national average not a lot of people work in this town
the unemployment rate is about 11 percent leaving almost half the
population in the town living below the poverty line they don't have many 6:00
a.m. alarm clocks going off in this town I mean if you're rolling out of bed
around noon do you really need an alarm clock for that the unemployment rate in
Galloway is a hundred and thirty six percent higher than the national average
and the poverty level is two hundred and twenty-two percent higher than the
national average this is not a place you want to put down roots you might want to
dig some roots up if you got them in place there right now number two-finger
Tennessee besides having a poorly thought-out name finger Tennessee comes
in number two on this list fingers located about ten miles south of
Henderson Tennessee with just under three hundred and seventy five residents
usually small towns like this have very low crime not here they're trying to
break some records or something the town has an overall prime rate that's ninety
seven percent higher than the national average while you're in the town you
have one in eighteen chance of being involved in the crime is this town
trying to get some like kind of federal disaster funding you know is there some
kind of program we don't know about they're trying to get on now they say
that finger had 350 residents in the 2000 census and they believe they've
gained somewhere around 25 since then if you look at the satellite photo of this
town the first thing you see is why it's called finger I guess it's shaped kind
of like a finger and then you start to notice that there's not
enough houses to have 375 people in this town unless they all own bunk beds and
they're living like 10 - a house weird and number one Slade in Tennessee Slaton
is a very small town of only about a hundred and forty five residents located
about 20 miles outside of Dickson Tennessee there's not a whole lot of
anything in Sladen just a handful homes a church a post office it's only open
two hours a day during the week and then four hours on Saturdays anything else
you want you'd have to go to Dixon where they actually have a Walmart in the time
that I've been doing these lists I've often gone off of a stat used by
researchers called livability where they take all the different stats crime
housing cost of living all that stuff schools and they put it together and
come up with the livability score now if you have a great livability score it's
in the 80s or 90s average is the mid-70s and when you get into the 60s things are
going wrong like when you wait all year to take a girl to prom and about the
halfway mark of the drive to the prom she explains she's really not into dudes
when a town gets into the 50s it's really bad like you find out she
actually hates men and has a knife now when you get into the 40s it's scary
scary like finding out all that time you thought she was just humming and singing
the lyrics with her headphones on she was actually praying that she doesn't
have to live in that hospital again Slayton has a 46 don't live there she's
like a crazy prom date all right so that's my top 10 worst towns in
Tennessee I hope you guys enjoyed it hope you got some information out of it
hope you learn to stay away from crazy prom dates and Slade in Tennessee don't
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