what is going on everyone welcome back the world according to briggs let's talk about decent
and affordable places you could buy a home in washington state washington is one of our states
that overflows with natural beauty from the puget sound to the cascade mountains to the grasslands
of eastern washington the evergreen state has something for everyone to look at i promise
you and that includes affordable houses and nice areas because of this washington has always been
one of the most moved to states at least the last i'd say two decades and that's not just
the bigfoot hunters and loners that have a bone to pick with the government and go live in the woods
they have a bunch of that too but i'm talking about us normal folks that just want to buy
a house and live in peace without bigfoot or anger issues towards the government in
the past we've done lists about states where you can get a decent house for under 250 000
and under 200 000. washington is a little more expensive than past states so it's hard to find
a really decent home for 200 000 or less in a decent area i should say you can find them
i just don't know if you'd really want to live there that being said today we're looking at nice
places with decent homes for around 300 000 in washington state all right let's see what we found
number 10 pacific yes they have a city called pacific that's it it's not that big but it's there
pacific is a town of just over 7 000 residents east of tacoma and just south of auburn washington
it's not a bad place to live if you don't mind rain they get a bunch of it as a matter of fact
they had a record-breaking rains in november of 2006 that pushed the white river over its
riverbanks along the pacific city park creating a temporary 25-acre lake within hours developers
tried to advertise lakefront property they had for sale just kidding but i wouldn't doubt
they'd thought about it can we just keep the lake and put some houses here people buy them
that's how they are the livability score in pacific is 79 which is solid anything above
75 is good anything below 70 you might want to avoid the population here like i said is 7042
residents that's the 2020 numbers now they say the median home value is 211 000 median rent price
here is about a thousand seventy five that's just the median but you can get a fixer-upper
in pacific for around two hundred and eighty thousand a nice ready to move in house is gonna be
about 380 000 i looked around you can find them between 320 and 380 that are ready to move in but
like i said they get some rain issues and they always seem to have problems around the white
river so keep that in mind the mud mountain dam on the white river in 2009 that has a reservoir
behind it they had to release a bunch of water so the dam didn't collapse and it caused massive
flooding so keep that in mind maybe buy a house that's a little above ground you know
number nine orton washington orton is a nice town that sits along the puelop river with great views
of mount rainier this city of 7 254 residents is sort of weird i say weird because i've been here
and i thought the place would have a high cost of living and expensive housing it just looks
like it should and it's really not they do well i think they got rid of it but back around 2015
2014 they had this really cool old bridge and i remember they're doing construction getting rid
of it soon it's too bad it was really neat anyway i did the research for this video some months back
and they had some very affordable nice homes for sale currently they don't have a lot for sale
but that could change you know next week or next month something like that that's just how it is
orting has a livability score of 73. now the median home value they say is two hundred seven
thousand and the median rent is fourteen hundred and forty six but on normal times you can get a
fixer up here for around two hundred and eighty thousand dollars but a nicer home is gonna be 310
on up a lot of them seem to hover around 400 000 for the really nice homes here that's not terribly
expensive for how nice this town is number eight battleground washington besides having a really
cool name it's kind of a really cool place to live battleground is a town of about 18 000 residents
near the portland oregon metro area it's just north of vancouver washington i know a couple
that lives there this is one of the places you move to when you don't feel like getting price
gouged by portland housing prices or oregon taxes it's definitely not a bad place to live the median
home value here is 223 000 now realistically you're looking around 320 to get something
livable and decent but majority of the houses are in the 400 000 area the median rent here for a one
bedroom is 963 dollars a month and the livability score is 80. definitely good place to live
number seven kennewick washington kennewick is a nice place to live a lot of people enjoy living
here it's right on the shores of the columbia river and it's got pretty much middle of the
road stats across the board crime's not terrible it's kind of middle of the road cost of living is
kind of middle of the road employment's kind of okay housing it's kind of cheap and the schools
are kind of middle of the road also but what they do have a pluses in the residents really love the
place and they got a lot of things to do it's kind of hard not to find something to do in kennewick
when you got the columbia river flowing right through town it's a great place a lot of things
to do fishing boating whatever you want to do or you could just stay on the shore to look
for bones yeah kennewick is where they found the kennewick man this is probably the most complete
paleo-american man ever found they found him on the banks of the river they figure
he's at least 9 000 years old he didn't look a day over 8 000 years old that's how well preserved
he was kennewick has about 77 000 residents so it's pretty much a city median home value here
they say is 174 500 realistically you could find decent places to live here for 275 000 but you
probably want to start looking in the 320 area to get something really decent and it goes up rent
hovers around 831. for a one bedroom in kennewick one thing i did notice they have a lot of like
fixer-uppers that probably aren't in the best part of town you can get them for like less than
a hundred thousand dollars and they have more than a few they also have a lot of open lands you could
buy and in case you ever take the amtrak let's say you're going east from portland just like one of
the first stops you get to get off and relax and actually stretch your legs a little bit number six
spokane valley washington spokane valley is like the last good-sized town you hit before you get
into idaho my wife has some family that lives in this i've been married 27 years so i guess
technically they're almost like my family at this point but they've lived here for years and they
love it the livability score in the spokane valley is 79 the population is 93 322 so they almost fall
into that category of a actual city now i say by all measurements because some people consider it a
city when it's over 20 000 some people don't consider it a city till it's over 100 000.
everything below 100 000 to a lot of people is considered a town so that's why i say it that way
spokane valley is right next to spokane right now you're looking at video of spokane because i like
spokane better it's got my favorite waterfall right here and if you ever take that train east
from portland or seattle when you get to spokane don't plan on taking any pictures because it's
like one in the morning when you get there you're probably gonna be asleep but if you ever get a
chance visit spokane and the spokane valley the median home value here they say is 169 900 but
realistically it's not that bad here you could actually find fixer-uppers that'll probably need
more work than you want to get involved in for about 130 000 but around two hundred thousand you
can get something that's not gonna need a bunch of work the nicer homes start at about 300 000 and go
on up now the only downside of this place it has a little more crime than i'd like to have in a city
i'm suggesting to people but it's getting better when spokane valley was actually incorporated it
was the third largest newly incorporated city in u.s history normally towns are incorporated
when they've only got like 10 000 people or less they had over 80 000 residents when they decided
to incorporate some of those residents are actually from their minor league baseball team
i read an article about them they're called the spokane indians and when all these teams were
getting pressure about changing their names from native american names i remember seeing a thing
and i don't know what the guy's function was with the team he goes yeah we understand all that and
we understand the sensitivity it is towards the subject but yeah we're not gonna change it that's
exactly how he said it i was like oh okay he's not changing it guy could have been the owner
for all i know number five pasco washington pascoe is right across the columbia river from kennewick
and is another city in what they call the tri-city area and it also has the snake river
to its southeast you know it's been over 40 years but whenever i see hear read or think about the
snake river i also think about evil knievel it's weird i know the livability score in pasco is
72 and they've got a population of 68 567 people it's not too expensive to buy a house here either
the median home value is one hundred and sixty six thousand four hundred dollars realistically
you're looking at a fixer-upper might run you a little over a hundred thousand hundred twenty
something like that the nicer homes start off at about three hundred thousand and go on up the only
real knock about pasco statistically speaking is their schools they kind of get a big fat f
number four town and country washington is a census designated place north of spokane with
about 5 000 residents on maps and things like that it's called town and country but the locals call
it linwood for some reason my granddaughter does that she meets little girls or little boys at the
park and they'll say their name hi my name's jacob she just gives them another name and keeps using
it she had one little girl not too long ago kept calling her lulu little girl kept going my name's
christine it was hysterical well anyway the locals around town and country have the same affliction
as my granddaughter the livability score in town and country or linwood is 81. like i said
they got a population of just over 5 000 with 5048 median home value here 163 400 which isn't
terribly high the median rent price here is about 910 a fixer-upper realistically is going to be
somewhere around 230 000 and the nicer homes start off around 300 000 on up according the u.s census
bureau the whole place is only 1.4 square miles of land that's it and part of it is a cemetery
number 3 clarkston washington clarkson is a town of 7 314 people on the snake river and idaho
border it is directly across from lewiston idaho get it clarkston lewiston as in lewis and clark
yeah they named these two towns after the famous explorers who floated on by here around 1805. the
livability score here is 72 and the median home value is 127 500 you can get a fixer-upper here
for about 130 000 and that's pretty much all they have are fixer-uppers they don't have a lot of
new homes being built in clarkston and it normally wouldn't be a place i'd recommend but they have a
lot of land for sale between twenty two thousand and ninety thousand you can get anywhere from
half an acre to a full acre but if you do find a new home it's gonna be over four hundred thousand
number two grand view washington grand view is a great place for someone that doesn't need a
job like retirees or remote workers grandview is nice quiet safe and affordable all their stats are
good except for schools and jobs so i mean if you don't have kids going to school don't worry about
it and if you're a remote worker again don't worry about it there's a great place to live
especially when you see how cheap it is first of all they have a livability score of 72. their
population is 11 098 people median home value here is about 124 400 now you can get a fixer-upper for
around ninety thousand to a hundred thousand depending on what you find it's gonna need a
little work but they have a lot of land for sale just like clarkston anywhere from seventy thousand
to a hundred and thirty thousand so if you wanna buy tiny home you wanna build your own home this
is great but the nice homes that are for sale here start off around 300 000 and go on up they
got some decent ones one thing i noticed is ninety percent of places here have like a quarter an acre
it seems like all the houses with big lots grand view is basically a farming community
apples cherries concord wine grapes hops asparagus corn wheat and they even got some dairy farms so
choose your home cautiously if you've ever lived downwind from a dairy farm you know
what i'm talking about this is a neat piece of trivia they gave it the name grandview
because of its views of mount rainier and mount adams so that's kind of cool
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up all right on to number one and number one oak harbor washington oak harbor's whidbey island's
largest incorporated city it's named for the oak trees which are all around the island
and the city's growth coincides with two major events the building of the deception pass bridge
on july 31st 1935 and the completion of the naval air station whidbey island on september 21 1942.
that's still there actually they're both still there this is probably one of my favorites on the
whole list i've been here a few times not long enough to really get a good feel for living in
oak harbor but it's a great place whidbey island in general is just a nice place oak harbor has 23
565 residents that's of 2020 they gain about a thousand or two every single census so it's
growing just not terribly fast the fact that it's out of the way plays into that obviously i'm sure
if this place was a little bit closer or easier to get to it would be overrun by now oak harbor
has a nice little downtown their street their pioneer way it's filled with shops as you can
see from this google maps view pretty nice place definitely a good place to spend the weekend
or move to eventually oak harbor has a livability score of 77 which is solid the median home value
here is 226 000 but you can get a fixer-upper for around 150 000. they don't have many but
they do pop up occasionally you can get a decent home for about 300 000 but the
nicer ones start around 400 000 and go up but this is a great quiet little community
all right that's today's video hope you guys enjoyed it hope you got
some information out of it and go out have a great day be nice to each other