What is going on everyone? Are you sick of the city? Want to find a nice rural town get a
mortgage and call it good? Who doesn't right today we're looking at great rural towns in california
yes they have some so close your mouth this is the fifth video in this series we did the entire
united states we did new hampshire montana and tennessee was our last one today we're looking
at the golden state a couple things about rural california towns they rarely have jobs like most
rural towns so you have to bring one or not need one like retired or whatever and you'll want to
look into getting solar panels for whatever house you buy in california california gets a lot of sun
and all the utilities in the golden state are extremely high natural gas water and especially
electricity with the towns in these videos we are looking for that sweet spot a decent place to live
that isn't too close to a major city it's easy on the crime rate not five hours away from a hospital
and not so far out in the sticks where you can't get decent internet those things knock a lot of
really nice small towns off these lists when you don't have internet you can't work from home and
if there's not a hospital doctor's office or clinic or something nearby and you're getting
up there in age not a great place for you to live in the last video i explained that not all states
have 10 good rural towns and i don't want to waste your time with some places that are a reach
and shouldn't really be on the list got it get it good let's take a look at seven great rural towns
in california number seven ferndale california we start off in northern california and ferndale
this is a part of the state that's called the lost coast of california it's about a 30-minute
drive south from eureka california the history of this town is in the dairy industry ferndale is
surrounded by a bunch of farmland near the mouth of the eel river with forested foothills to its
south this is a beautiful part of the state and it's a beautiful small town it's got old
victorian homes all over the place the downtown looks like a freaking movie set housing here is
up there houses here are expensive just like all of california but in my opinion it's a little less
than i expected for such a beautiful town so close to the ocean there's currently nothing for sale in
like downtown ferndale but on the outskirts you have a couple places one's going for like 600 000
then there's another one for about 500 000 with a vacant lot for sale right now for 400 000. late
last year and in february of this year they sold a few homes for around 700 000 and that's normally
what you could expect i would say right about now to get something decent livable that's nice you'll
be lucky if you find something that's a little bit run down for under 400 000 in or around ferndale
but it's california so it's to be expected we keep getting comments whenever i say something
is expensive like this and people nobody could afford that and like i said in the last video
yes people can't afford that if people couldn't afford those prices they wouldn't be those prices
some people can so ferndale gets a faded thumbs up when it comes to real estate because they
don't have a lot of options and when they do have options it's pretty expensive like right now they
have a home that's got 1700 acres and you could see the ocean from the property and it's going for
just under six million dollars when it comes to the crime rate it's outstanding in ferndale it's
31 lower than the national average so they get a big thumbs up for that one and their internet is
pretty decent and i'm surprised for being such a small town out in the middle of nowhere they
get 99 of the town is covered by sudden link which they say you can get up to 940 megabits per second
so that's solid when it comes to healthcare you got a few options ferndale has a small community
health center here which isn't terribly big but about 20 minutes to the east of ferndale you have
fortuna right across the eel river and they have a couple places they have the providence redwood
memorial hospital and they also have the fortuna family medical group so you've got some options
then if you need anything past that you can always head up to eureka so they get a thumbs up when it
comes to healthcare number six weaverville california weaverville came to my attention
from an email i'm getting ready to do a series on small towns that need some new blood need
some attention you know do our part to help save a small town a lot of small towns are suffering and
i got an email from a nice woman from weaverville weaverville is one of those small towns that have
everything it has the healthcare we need the internet low crime fresh air good people i will
be visiting there this summer and i'll give you a more detailed explanation on what's going on
weaverville but weaverville is about an hour west of redding california and they have just under 4
000 residents that enjoy a crime rate that's 30 percent lower than the national average so
they get a thumbs up for that when it comes their internet they have a few options you have velocity
cable internet that gives about 150 megabytes per second to almost 90 percent of the town it also
says that they have dsl from frontier that covers about 97 of the town with 50 mbps so i don't know
frontier i thought they were going out of business but apparently they're still here they were here
near my home in oregon but now it's called ziply or something like that i thought they got bought
out but i guess not regardless always check before you move to any small town and don't go off just
what i'm saying about the internet because you can get a house someplace that doesn't you know get
internet from any of these companies so make sure you check first like i said the crime rate here is
solid it's 30 lower than the national average so they get a thumbs up for that one their internet
gets a thumbs up when it comes to healthcare they have the trinity hospital which in my opinion is
pretty good size for a town this small they also have a couple different doctors offices they
also have a dentist in town and an orthodontist anything past that you just gotta head out to
reading not too far away and reading's a good size city and should have everything you need
so they get a big thumbs up for their healthcare the downtown is filled with cute little shops and
like ferndale it looks like a movie set downtown they got a brewing company called trinity county
brewing mama llamas eatery and cafe new york saloon that sounds fun and the red dragon chinese
place so they got everything you need here unlike ferndale it is affordable to buy places here they
have a bunch of places that look decent livable and ready to move in in between 250 and 350 000
dollars which isn't terrible now they do have some places that are little outside of town with a
little bit of property that go for upwards of like 800 000 on up you can also grab lots of land that
go for as low as 30 000 up to i think one was like 140 000 just for a plot of land so they get a big
thumbs up for real estate because you got a lot of options here this is a nice town you got a lake
which is drying up right now because all lakes in california are drying up but you have trinity lake
right down the road which is nice weaverville has a little less than 4 thousand residents
number five cambria california cambria is a seaside town in california between monterey and
santa barbara along highway one this is one of the greatest road trips you can ever take up highway 1
the ocean's right there on the left 90 of the time cambria is one of the small towns you go through
cambria is an extremely expensive city to live in it's beautiful and it's situated right amongst all
these monterey pines it's one of the cutest little towns you'll come across taking that route cambria
sits about 40 minutes west of paso robles which is probably the closest big city there morro bay
isn't that big san luis obispo is kind of close too but paso robles is a little bit bigger when it
comes to health care it's a little weird they got like five separate doctor's offices and judging by
the price of the property here i'm sure there's a whole bunch of other doctors just wandering
around the town they have a small clinic called the cambria community health district and that's
got a couple doctors there and ambulances and all that anything past what they can give you you're
gonna have to go into paso robles which like i said is only 40 minutes away so for healthcare
they get a thumbs up when it comes to internet you got no worries there spectrum covers about 98 of
the town and you can get one gig so they get a big thumbs up for their internet now when it comes to
real estate this place is a little bit weird i mean it's expensive but it's a little bit weird
on the south side of town you have normal sized homes where it's a normal community the houses are
almost the same size as the lot typical suburban american homes and if you find one for under seven
hundred thousand dollars it's a freaking unicorn these are normal homes that in most any state
let's say missouri would probably go for about two hundred and twenty five thousand dollars oregon
they probably go for about five hundred thousand dollars in california they go for over seven
seven hundred fifty thousand dollars no pool no wine cellar just a normal home then dotted around
the rest of the town you have million dollar homes but they don't just stop at one million some of
them are two and almost three million dollars so they get a faded thumbs up for that because
it's just too expensive for the average joe but they are beautiful homes so i'll give them that
cambria has a population of just under 6 000 residents and they enjoy a crime rate that is 40
lower than the national average so they get a thumbs up for that one all in all
if you can afford it cambria is beautiful and it might be worth it if like i said you can afford it
number four mariposa california back to the inland part of california we go near yosemite and more
reasonable real estate the town of mayor of posa was first settled in 1849 and they had this chain
of gold rush towns is what they called them this was the southernmost of those gold rush towns a
year after it was founded they actually laid down the streets and the man that did it was john c
fremont he's a big deal in california technically mariposa isn't a town it's a census designated
area in mariposa county but most people's called mariposa this is not a bad place to live good
clean air beautiful scenery and plenty of things to do and like i said reasonable real estate just
poking around zillow you can get decent homes here for around three hundred thousand anything below
that you're gonna need to probably do a little extra work but right around 400 to 450 000 you're
gonna get something nice and it's probably gonna come with a couple acres and just like any place
in california you have homes that are over 700 000 and get up way over a million if you need to go in
to a bigger city for healthcare or whatever you got modesto or you got fresno that's like
not the best choices it's almost like choosing between heat stroke and hypothermia mariposa sits
about 45 minutes east of merced california which merced is right between fresno and modesto and
that would be where you'd have to go if you had some kind of medical thing you needed taken care
of that they couldn't cover mariposa now mariposa does have a pretty decent medical facility
called the john c fremont health district but you know they're not terribly big so you probably go
to merced and get anything taken care of that they can't handle there so they get a thumbs up for
health care as far as real estate goes mariposa gets a thumbs up mariposa has a little over 2 000
residents and they have a crime rate that is 41 lower than the national average that's outstanding
especially for this part of california i mean it's far enough away from fresno and modesto
but still it's kind of in that area when it comes to internet in mariposa you have sierra tel
which i guess stands for telephone but they cover about 99 of mariposa they have dsl and
fiber where you can get up to 800 megabytes per second so they get a thumbs up there too not bad
number three quincy california quincy california is a nice little mountain town that uh they got
kind of close to getting burned down a couple years ago with one of the forest fires they
had up there the town of quincy is actually considered another census designated area but
people really don't refer to as that they call it the town of quincy but quincy is in palomas
county sitting about an hour and a half west of reno nevada that's probably where you'd have to
go if you wanted any form of entertainment pass i don't know fending off wildfires from your house
quincy has a good-sized hospital on the west side of town it's called the plumas district hospital
which it's a pretty good sized place for such a small town now i understand that normally when
you have a hospital this size in a small town it's dealing with the county and that's what's going on
here my friend stacy from high school she lives in quincy i think she's a school teacher there one of
the sweetest girls i know women lady now i guess now that we're closing in on 50 here but i guess
when you've known someone since they were like 14 they're kind of still a girl in your head i don't
know anyway quincy gets a thumbs up when it comes to healthcare as far as real estate it's kind of
a mixed bag here it ranges it goes anywhere from two hundred thousand all the way up to six hundred
thousand i would say anything over three hundred thousand is going to be pretty decent you wanna
build your own cabin they have plenty of lots going from anywhere from twelve thousand up to
like 175 000. so they get a thumbs up because they are fairly reasonable for california and they have
a lot to choose from when it comes to internet they have dsl from att that covers about 96 of
the town with 25 megabytes but luckily they have another one called pluma sierra telecommunications
which has cable and fiber where you can get a gig the downside is they only cover about 70
percent of the town so they get a thumbs up still quincy has almost 2 000 residents and they enjoy
a crime rate that is 49 lower than the national average so they get a big thumbs up for that one
number two kernville california gardenville's a nice little town and i guess it's still southern
california but i like to call it central california it sits in the sequoia national
forest sort of and it is about an hour east of bakersfield this is a great little town
my wife's uh father has property there we used to go up there in the summers all the time and
go rafting down the kern river lake isabella's right there so there's a lot of things to do here
as far as healthcare goes you got the kern valley hospital on the other side of lake isabella about
20 minutes away from kernville it's a pretty good size place and you should get most things taken
care of there if you can't and you need something more you got to go into bakersfield about an hour
away so they get a big thumbs up for healthcare because they're not doing bad when it comes to
internet you got mediacom out there and 95 of the homes can get mediacom and they have one gig
internet there after that you got like kern valley wireless gives you a fixed wireless for 50 megs
and they cover like 96 percent of the town now i like i've said in other videos you always got
hughes net and via sat but those aren't the best you know you get cloudy days and you don't get
internet weird stuff like that with satellite i've had to deal with hugh's internet for a couple days
at a time on vacations and stuff every single time it was a freaking nightmare so they get
a big thumbs up for internet because minicom is pretty good and when it comes to real estate this
is california so things are gonna be a little expensive you can get trailers there they have
like trailer parks for under a hundred thousand probably under sixty thousand in most cases but
they also have homes for around three hundred thousand three hundred thousand is your starting
point in between three and four hundred thousand you should be able to find something decent to
live and of course they've got really really nice ones that start off around seven hundred thousand
and work their way up if you want you can go extra cheap and uh live in a van down by the river
so real estate they get a thumbs up too because they've got a lot of options for you there
and they're fairly reasonable for california the town of kernville has less than a thousand people
but during the summer when people start coming up there for the lake and the river it swells to
about 3 000 people or thereabouts but they're still able to maintain a crime rate that's 55
lower than the national average outstanding kernville they get a big thumbs up for that one
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one and number one truckee california truckee california is one of the most beautiful small
towns i've ever been through or visited i visited when i was a little bit young probably 1617
and i've been through there a couple other times had lunch or whatever it's just a beautiful nice
little place to hang out and be it's expensive and it's in the sierra nevada so you know it's
going to be beautiful but it's expensive truckee is about 30 minutes southwest of reno nevada and
it's not too far from donner lake and lake tahoe it has the truckee river going right through town
and it's really close to the donner party memorial site you don't know about the donner party they're
a bunch of pioneers that got stuck in the sierra nevadas in the winter and may or may not have
resorted to cannibalism at one point i saw some movie about it or some tv show when i was a kid
probably about 11 or 12. and anytime we ever went camping or anything up there i was just totally
afraid you know the worst was going to happen up there when it comes to real estate truckee you
know it's beautiful it's in the sierra nevada's it's near skiing and everything you want to do
it's expensive like i had said you could find homes anywhere from 600 000 on up to 3.5 million
okay so they're all over the map here they do have some like uh condos and town homes that'll
go for about 250 000 but that's about as low as you'll ever see they get a faded thumbs up
not because it's bad it's just so expensive the average person can't really afford to ever buy
a house here truckee has several options when it comes to internet one of them's gotta fit what you
need you got the pluma sierra telecommunications which has one gig and they say they
supply it to 99 the homes in truckee you also have sudden link which covers about 99 of the
town they give you almost a gig you have another place called oasis broadband they have 100
mbps and about 75 of truckee can get that so they get a big thumbs up for their internet
they got all kinds of options truckee also has a solid hospitals tahoe forest hospital and they
got all kinds of mountain medical centers and outpatient things they've got everything you
need here in truckee so you're good to go and i imagine if there is anything else you need reno is
right there 30 minutes away so they get a big thumbs up for healthcare one thing i will mention
they have a you know 24-hour emergency room here which a lot of these places that i mentioned
these small towns don't have truckee has around 16 000 uh residents which is a little high for
this list they're almost at that 20 000 mark where they fall out of the small town area but
they're really spread out so it really does feel like a small town those residents enjoy a crime
rate that is 70 percent below the national average bravo truckee you get a big thumbs up for that one
all right that's today's video hope you guys enjoyed it hope you got some information out
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what state you want to see us do next all right everyone have a great day be nice to each other