- [Briggs] What is going on, everyone?
Welcome back to World According to Briggs and
a look at cities nobody wants to move to.
It's no secret that major cities are
starting to lose their appeal.
The lure of big city life has dropped significantly
over the last decade or so.
People are moving to small towns, suburbs,
and even smaller cities.
I ran a survey and asked people to pick three
of the 50 largest cities in the U.S.
that they would never move to.
I also ran a few polls on the community tab on this channel
and I kind of showed you guys the top 20 from the survey
and then you guys picked which ones you would never move to.
I'm starting to learn whatever I get from the Google surveys
is pretty similar to what you guys pick.
A couple heads up on this video, though.
A few cities I thought for sure would've made this list
didn't make the top 10.
Places like Philly, Baltimore, Detroit, Cleveland.
I'll give you those stats briefly
after number two on this list.
The second thing I want to tell you is
about the comment section.
If you read enough comments on YouTube
you know that political zealots need to leave comments and
they always bring it back to politics.
They will point out that most of the cities on this list
are run by Democrats.
And here's the thing, 90% of all medium or large cities
in the U.S. are Democrat controlled.
So, of course, most will be Democrat controlled.
Not saying anything bad about either party,
in my point of view, they're both in bad shape.
All right, let's see where nobody wants to join
the rat race.
Number 10, Phoenix.
This one surprised me.
Phoenix is a decent city once you get past heat.
They got a little bit of a homeless problem
but nothing compared to other major cities in the U.S.
Their crime isn't as bad as other major cities either.
In my opinion, I think it's losing its appeal
because it getting too crowded.
It's kind of like Dallas and like Los Angeles was,
San Francisco was, Portland was at some point,
where they got really popular, too many people moved in and
then they became unpopular cause
too many people lived there.
I think Phoenix is starting to feel that right now.
28% of the respondents said
they would never move to Phoenix.
Number nine, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Staying in the desert, we end up in Las Vegas.
Vegas was another one that was extremely,
extremely popular around 2000 on to about I'd say 2015
when it started to slow down.
This was a hot spot for a lot of Californians
for a lot of years.
And also young people from Utah.
In the late nineties, I have a lot of friends that
worked construction in the Los Angeles area
and they all moved to sin city and started working there.
But Las Vegas is not for everyone.
It's got some crime issues.
It's got some heat issues.
Some people, like myself,
just don't like living in the desert.
31% of the respondents said
they would never move to Las Vegas.
Number eight, Memphis, Tennessee.
It's really hard to find many bad things about Tennessee
until you start talking about Memphis.
A few years back, I got a email from someone
that works for the city of Memphis,
I'd done a negative video about Memphis,
they sent me this list of good things going on in Memphis.
Now you got crime, you got poverty,
you got rundown areas of town.
But this person sends me a list of
how many new shaded bus stops they have.
They gave me a list of little festivals they had going on.
And then they pointed out that this place can't be that bad,
they got Graceland and Bass Pro Pyramid.
As great as those things sound,
they're not enough to win over everyone.
35% of the respondents said
they would never move to Memphis.
Number seven St. Louis, Missouri, or Missouri,
depends on where you come from in the state.
I really like Missouri,
especially the area around the Lake of the Ozarks,
which is in the Southern section of Missouri.
I'll go there anytime.
Especially if I want to eat at Big Dick's Halfway Inn.
I'm really hoping that temporarily closed thing
is just for the season
because that place is on my bucket list.
So that's some of the good about Missouri.
What's not too good is St. Louis.
St. Louis has some nice things.
They got great beer.
They got the arch.
They do have some nice neighborhoods.
They got a lot of really crappy neighborhoods, too.
And I think that makes a lot of people not wanna move there.
37% of the respondents said
they would never move to St. Louis.
Number six, Portland, Oregon.
How did they get on the list?
How does a place that's called the City of Roses
get on a list like this?
Maybe it has something to do with their other nickname,
which is Stumptown.
Portland, Oregon is a great city.
They've got amazing nature, strip clubs,
and more beer than any city should have.
We also have rain, homeless, civil unrest, and a donut shop
that people will stand in line for an hour to get a donut
that has Captain Crunch on it.
I just talked about this on our last video
which was top 10 states nobody wants to move to,
Oregon was one of 'em.
And I mentioned how I love Oregon and I love Portland.
It's just more and more every single year,
I'm becoming part of the minority
of people that feel that way.
Portland is a great city with a lot to offer.
I just think in a lot of ways right now
you should probably avoid it unless you have to come here.
I always hope they'll return to their old glory,
but they have some work to do.
Now, if you watch certain news channels,
you probably think that Portland was burned to the ground
a couple summers ago during the riots.
It really wasn't that big of a deal.
It was bad, it wasn't that big of a deal like I said.
And when I say big deal, it was a major event,
but it was condensed into like a four to five block area.
But 38% of the respondents said
they would never move to Portland, Oregon.
Number five, New York City.
New York City used to be a punching bag for lists like this.
I mean, it was way too crowded, way too expensive.
There was a lot of problems going on in New York City and
now people in a way of kind of gotten about it a little bit
when it comes to things like this.
Things are getting better,
New York City people are still leaving there,
but it's getting better.
And I think that's why they slid down to number five
on a list like this.
38% of the respondents said
they would never move to New York City.
The reality is about 75% of us
can't afford to live in New York City.
Number four, San Francisco, California.
Again, I'm kind of surprised this one wasn't
higher on the list.
Four? Nah, I would've picked it number two.
Cause they've got a lot of serious issues.
It's overpriced.
I mean housing and cost living.
They have a homeless crisis that is so scary
it keeps Freddy Kruger up at night,
but they still got more people moving in than moving out.
Why you ask?
Well, they got a lot of high paying jobs.
Sure, it's so expensive you could be making $90,000 a year
and still need to get a two bedroom apartment
with three roommates just to get by.
And depending on where you live in San Francisco,
you're gonna have to hose down your porch every single week
or twice a week.
40% of the respondents said
they would never move to San Francisco, California.
Number three, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Are you as shocked as I am?
I never would've picked this one out.
I know Oklahoma City's got its issue and
it's a little boring, but it's not a terrible place to live.
Now I just said, it's a little boring
and I promise you they'll be comments
in the comment section talking about
how I've never experienced a really good monster truck show
or something like that.
And if that's what you were gonna comment, stop typing.
I've never enjoyed a monster truck show.
41% of the respondents said
they would never move to Oklahoma City.
Number two, Chicago, Illinois.
Yes, no negative city would be complete
without an appearance by Chicago.
Everyone's favorite dumping ground for bad stats.
Like I've said before,
Chicago has a lot of really nice neighborhoods.
It's just too bad that a few neighborhoods
are really bringing down the stats for the entire city.
Well that was until the last year or so.
It used to be like, I'd say five or six neighborhoods
you should probably avoid at all costs.
Now that's getting closer to seven or eight.
It's just gotten a little bit worse.
Now, another strange thing, some of the nicer neighborhoods
and suburbs on the north side of Chicago
they're actually getting even better
while the south side's getting even worse.
I don't know, I still love Chicago.
It's one of my favorite cities to visit.
The pizza, the people, just the city in general just has,
it's a great city.
It's too bad nobody wants to move there.
45% of all respondents said
they would never move to Chicago.
All right, before we get to number one,
don't forget We have another channel called On this day.
There's a link down below.
Now here's the cities that most people probably think
should have made the list but didn't.
22% of the respondents said
Philadelphia is not a city for them.
Cleveland was also 22%.
Baltimore 24%.
And Detroit almost made the list.
They were number 11 at 27% said they would never move there.
This kinda shows you that it's not just crime and poverty
that make people not wanna move to a city.
Sometimes it's situations like Oklahoma
where it's just boring to most people
or the fact that it's in the state of Oklahoma.
And Phoenix, that's another one.
I think the main reason people don't wanna move
to Phoenix is the heat.
Cause it's not a bad place to live.
Strange. I know.
All right onto number one.
And number one, Los Angeles, California.
Yeah, I'm a little shocked at this one.
California's been dodging some stat bullets in recent years.
I mean they always showed up, but they were never
at number one when it comes to bad stats.
Their crime is bad,
but there's worse cities in the United States
when it comes to crime stats.
Same thing with cost of living and housing.
There are much more expensive cities than Los Angeles.
But I think when you take everything into consideration,
cost of living, cost of housing, air quality,
homeless situation, traffic and throw it all into that
big blender in people's brains,
Los Angeles rises to the top of places
you don't wanna move to.
47% of the respondents said
they would never move to Los Angeles, California.
All right, that's today's video.
Hope you guys enjoyed it.
Hope you got some inform out of it.
Now go out, have a great day
and please be nice to each other.