Hey welcome back to the channel everyone it's time for a new list when I first
started doing my videos about Atlanta people kept asking me about the rest of
Georgia they wanted to know the best places in the worst places to live and
asked me to do some videos about small-town Georgia so I will let me
start off by saying I love Georgia and I love the people of this great state it
has some of the best small towns in the country they also have some really bad
small towns we reference and to help out the people that want to say things like
I miss Savannah or Macon or others some other major city in Georgia a town with
a population of under 10,000 is considered a small town and that's the
focus of today's list so here's my top 10 or small towns in Georgia number 10
Fort Valley pork Valley is a city in Peach County Georgia imagine that
something named peach in Georgia how unusual this place is not a great place
the unemployment rate in Fort Valley is 119 percent higher than the national
average and over 10 percent of the residents are without jobs this place is
in such bad shape that they f4 payday loan locations and a pawnshop in a town
of under 9,000
number nine Montezuma Montezuma was named after the famous Aztec leader by
soldiers returning from the Mexican war that lasted over 1846 to 1847 aim your
town after a defeated King and something that happens to you when you drink water
from Mexico that gives you an intestinal infection I think you're just asking for
bad luck and they've had plenty of it this town is rated F in every category
but cost of living the unemployment rate in Montezuma is a hundred and twenty
percent higher than the national average they've got no jobs
number eight hilltop the TV show The Walking Dead is filmed all over Georgia
and has a settlement in it called hilltop not sure if this town was the
inspiration for it but the hilltop on the TV show is often attacked by zombies
and assaulted by evil men the real-life hilltop has had no reports of zombies
but plenty of assaults it's 400 residents reported almost a hundred
assaults a couple years back and it hasn't got much better you know your
town is bad when it has a listing in the urban dictionary look it up I'm not
kidding
number seven Woodbury Woodbury is one of the oldest towns in Meriwether County it
is also another location while walking dead the actual scenes of Woodbury were
filmed up north and Senoia but they used the name Woodbury for some reason I
guess cuz in the comic books that was Woodbury but they decided to film up in
Senoia if you look at both the towns I think they would have been better off if
they would have filmed in Woodbury for the simple fact that it already looks
like a zombie apocalypse went down here the median home price in Woodbury is 76%
lower than the national average
number six Quitman equipment is in Brooks County Georgia the community was
named after John a equipment a here on the mexican-american war
I guess Georgia was running a deal on land after that war Georgia has a bunch
of towns that sprung up in the immediate years after that war in the last couple
of years of doing these lists I've learned a few things one of them is when
a town has bad grades in almost every category one category does great and
that's cost a living it's obviously because everything sucks and schools
jobs crime nobody wants to live there so it's
cheaper to live there congratulations equipment you have an A+
in the cost of living category and you also have this really cool courthouse so
that's kind of cool
number five colons good news Collins Georgia has an A+ grade for cost
living and have you been watching this list from the very beginning you know
that's not good Collins has all the things you need to be a crappy small
town it's out in the sticks has a bunch of shuttered businesses and a Dollar
General it also has another store that gets a great rating Janus grocery gets
five stars from a man named Harry wean her that's his name Harry wean w een
last name you are apparently I think it's a fake name I could be wrong he
wanted us to know that they have the technology to keep beer cold and that
women will kick you in the sack if you make nipple comments in the stores
parking lot and hardly wait to move the Collins
number four Hill Tanya Hill Tanya Georgia took its names in hopes of
landing the Hilton corporation headquarters some time ago I'm totally
kidding I don't know why they named the town this I did find some videos online
of Hill Tanya's only rapper I guess he's on a really low budget all his videos
had the software logo across the middle of the screen like he couldn't afford to
buy it so they splashed their watermark across the screen yeah that kind of
sucked but oh well and I know he's on a real low budget because the backdrop
falls music videos was either his home or the local coin-operated car wash him
and all his homies hang out there I looked at map of the place and looked at
some of the pictures apparently that's the only place to hang out there either
that or the woods did employment rate in Hill Tony is 81 percent higher than the
national average and the poverty level is a hundred and forty percent higher
than the national average and it's out in the sticks not a good place to live
number three Swainsboro Swainsboro georgia was named in recognition of
Stepan Swain the state senator who introduced the bill for the counties
creation in 1812 in other words they were heard to come up with the name or
they lacked any creativity he introduced the bill nothing more state senators
don't get whole towns named after him maybe a small park not a whole town then
I saw what this town looks like and how small it is and yeah it's fitting it's
it's out in the woods and really not a lot going on there I get the feeling
they have more empty stores than occupied stores in this place the
poverty level in Swainsboro a hundred and eighty one percent higher than the
national average go Swainsboro
number two gérard gérard Georgia is a very small town not too far from the
South Carolina border the place is so small it only has like 30 buildings and
20 of those are like sheds and garages I get the feeling if you pulled over the
side of the road here in a motorhome and parked nobody would complain if you
stayed for three years you might start getting your mail there eventually and
it actually might just be someone's property it's a lot of open space here
and a lot of run-down buildings on a serious note about Girard they have a
organization that rescues animals the county is almost the size of Rhode
Island and has no animal control service so kind of falls on them they're called
Girard lifesavers and I'll leave a link below if you want to donate go ahead I
did they're doing good work
and number one Sardis Sardis Georgia is one of the worst graded small towns in
Georgia area vibrated at 44 considering I've been looking at area vibe comm
stats on a daily basis for over a year Sardis is the second lowest I've found
the other was 39 and it was in New Jersey to give you perspective on that
most people consider Detroit one of the worst cities in the country
it got a 50 Sardis got a 44 the poverty level in Sardis is a hundred and ninety
four percent higher than the national average and only 67 percent of the
residents have completed the eighth grade on a positive side of Sardis while
researching this video I came across tons of videos of very talented local
gospel singers they got a nice church scene there with great singers
that's not my type of music but even I was impressed they should be proud of
that Sardis is probably one of the worst places in Georgia you could live as far
as small towns go all right so that's my video I hope you guys enjoyed it don't
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