what is going on everyone how about we talk about the state that probably has
some of the most amazing desert landscapes in the country Utah I first
went to Utah to hike back in the late 1980s and had no idea that desert could
be so beautiful until that week this was before everyone
had a high-quality camera on their cell phones and actually to be honest with
you the only cell phones at the time didn't even text you actually had to
call people to communicate really I'm not kidding you had to dial a phone
number and wait for someone to say hello mind blowing right anyway the weekend
after that trip I bought my first quality camera I think it was like eight
hundred dollars at the time I was in the army so that was like a month's pay
almost that trip to Zion National Park I think may have been the beginning of my
obsession I have with learning and exploring the United States
Utah's a great state there's no doubt about it Salt Lake City is one of the
nicest major cities in the country people are decent it's clean and the
traffic isn't terrible and stop typing we all think where we live the traffic
is the worst Salt Lake City isn't even in the worst 50 in the United States
really their traffic's not even thing after Salt Lake City you have a handful
of other great cities in the state but once you get past that there's a serious
drop in quality places to live and that's what today's list is all about
the worst places to live in Utah so why don't you grab a virgin margarita or an
uncapped nated soda and watch my top 10 worst towns in Utah number 10 Carbon
Villa Utah Carbon Ville only has 1500 residents with 25% of them living in
poverty the income per capita is about $20,000 which is 23% lower than the Utah
average and 33% lower than the national average
the unemployment rate here's sky high at 106 entire the national average don't
come to Carbon Ville without a job but you won't have an easy time finding one
and typical of Utah it follows no statistical norms anyplace else in the
country when you have poverty you have crime not in Carbon Ville their crime
rate is 52% lower than the national average that's pretty much no crime
unless of course you count having four radio stations in the immediate area and
three of them only play country as a crime then yes you have crime number
nine Mazer Utah Mazur has about 4,000 residents who are probably cold right
now actually they're very cold right now as I look at the weather maser
is 20 degrees and it's noon now there's something weird about desert cold you
know it's one thing to be cold in the mountains in the snow and that's cold
but there's something really strange about being and desert cold it just gets
to the bone it's weird the average temperature stays under
freezing usually from November to February warming up to about 72 degrees
in the summer that's it this is definitely not the type of place
to move to if you're looking for desert heat now I'm thinking the local schools
might not be heating the buildings during the winter the average school
test score in Mazur is almost 45 percent lower than the national average
according to area vibes calm you know it's hard to do those little bubble
tests when you're shivering and the teeth of the whole class are chattering
to the point where it sounds like something's humming on top of all that
the home prices are that of a much nicer place the average home price in Mazur is
30% higher than the national average number 8 Central Valley Utah homes at
Central Valley are a bit of a ripoff most of them are manufactured homes
which will typically be a little bit colder than normal homes however despite
the homes being a less desirable kind of home the prices are actually higher in
Central Valley homes sell for about 25 percent higher than the national average
and rent is about 13 percent higher than the national average and there is
nothing here you don't pay extra when there isn't something you're paying
extra for like the ocean or lake there's nothing here like that this place
doesn't even have a fast-food restaurant you got to drive all the way out to
Richfield for that kind of action this is the type of place you moved to when
your kids get mixed up with the wrong crowd you know get them away from
everything I think my kids would have to get mixed up with al Qaeda before I'd
move them here number seven Enoch Utah Enoch is a very average town
I mean other than the fact that it shares the name with Enoch that weird
loner Sleestak from Land of the Lost the town is just under 7,000 residents with
the per income being around 16,000 per year which is 45% lower than the
national average Enoch is the type of place you moved to when you want the
freedom to park 12 or 13 broken-down cars on your property all the measurable
stats in Enoch are below average except for cost of living and that's
probably because there's nothing to spend your money on in inah
have a pizza place in like 8 churches that's it
number six tropic Utah they named this place tropic and it's anything
tropic it's like false advertising maybe they're trying to reverse psychology to
get people to move here I don't know the town and its 700 residents should be
expecting nothing more than freezing temperatures from November to May with
the weather letting never summer with temperatures of about 65 degrees and
never any higher than like 82 while they don't get very wet it is cold
it's that desert cold like I talked about before this is like the place you
stop before you go to Bryce Canyon it's like that last stop before you you know
get to the park and start hiking the first time I went to tropic was in 1989
there seemed to be about 20 buildings 20 years ago 20 years later in 2009 I went
again and I think there was 22 buildings I'm sure there's some houses out there
too but that's pretty much what I saw things really don't happen fast in
tropic the income per capita in tropic is 38% lower than the national average
and the rest of their stats they all blow
number five virgin Utah don't move to virgin expecting anything other than a
small desert town the name is very misleading don't move to virgin
expecting a good deal on a home either homes here go for about the Utah average
of the mid to hundreds or even more there is one home however currently on
the market and virgin for a hundred thirty thousand it's got freshly boarded
up windows and graffiti I mean boarded up windows and graffiti
and you're paying one hundred and thirty K come on it's not like this is virgin
land the median home price in virgin is about ten percent higher than the
national average this place is a glorified rest stop with the church and
a place called the Virgin workshop and I'm dying to learn more about they don't
have a website number four white Mesa Utah white Mesa
is a very small town of only a hundred residents most people drive along the
u.s. 191 assume that this is a gas station in the middle of the desert and
then they pull over into the mobile station to fill up and while the gas is
flowing into their car they take a second to look out into the desert and
then they see houses and say holy crap people actually live here most customers
at the gas station are overtaken by the urge to go knock on a locals front door
and ask them why why do you live here what happened in your life that got you
to this point there isn't much to this town almost anything a resident needs
other than gas microwave burrito and a 44 ounce soda
they'd have to travel to Blanding for number four Kashiram Utah kosher moly
has around 250 residents and if you watch this next month it can be around
240 the home prices are in the mid 200s which is average for Utah however when
you take into consideration that the income per capita is only about
seventeen thousand per year it's not a good number this used to be a big
farming community now it's just kind of a farming community they've lost a lot
of farm this is a nice little town that's losing population at a good pace
the biggest export in Kashiram is young people they turn 18 and they flee this
town like it's on fire and it's too bad it's a nice small town it just has no
jobs no opportunities he but got a live and really can't live and cou share
until they get something else in there cuz the farming is kind of dying out
number two I'll see to Utah I'll see to help cheat to holla notes I'm not sure
how you say it but what I can say is it's bad statistically speaking this
place is not the type of place you want to stop
gasps much less live area boobs comm has given the whole town F's on everything
but cost of living I guess it doesn't cost that much to live on a place that
looks like the surface of Mars in 2009 I went to Bryce Canyon and arches and
during that trip we drove through hollow notes or Hal Sita and I thought to
myself wow you really must like heat dust and broken-down cars to live here I
distinctly remember this place because we were still laughing at the next town
over his name when we came across this jewel of the desert Alcee Enda is right
next to Mexican Hat Utah I guess they couldn't recall the name for Mexican hat
which is sombrero when they named the town all the notes has about 550
residents and a horrible crime rate policy and AH Hal Cheetahs crime rate is
78 percent higher than the national average I wish someone would get online
and pronounce this place properly so I could just copy it and number one
marries Vail Utah marries Vail is home to about 500 residents of those
residents 93% of them owned their homes with your average home sells for around
120 K it's kind of easy to do like hollow notes or Hacienda and the last
one I did this place gets torched by area vibes on everything but cost of
living there isn't much to this town like a lot of small towns at Utah it
exists because of hikers and farmers they do a little farming around
Marysville and they have a couple of motels and ends that the outdoor types
like to stay at before after they go on one of the hiking trails and like most
every place in Utah they have more than their fair share of churches Marysville
is remote and has horrible stats don't move here you will cry yourself to sleep
most nights I promise you
all right so that's my top 10 worst towns in Utah I hope you guys enjoyed I
hope you got some information out of it you does a really nice state and hands
down it is one of the better States we have and they like every place they got
some bad places my channel I just point those places out sorry if I offended
anyone that's just what I do that's life everybody have a great day
be nice to each other