What is going on everyone? Welcome back to the world according to Briggs if
you're like most Americans living on the shore of a lake river or an ocean see
whatever Gulf is a dream something about living near water treks most of us the
downside is we all can't there are problems with living near water most
places are far too expensive and other places like let's say Gary Indiana are
so rundown three is too expensive today's list is about Lake towns that
you don't have to be rich to live in what makes a great lake town well I
guess for starters it has to have a lake after that you start looking at cost of
living and home prices there are some really nice Lake towns in this country
that are so expensive it sort of makes them not so nice today's video is about
Lake towns that most of us can afford I should say all of us can afford because
nobody with five million dollars in the bank watches YouTube they're just too
busy counting money or staring at their bank account online like an adoring
father looks at a newborn this list is about the best affordable lake towns
that we found in the United States there might be some that you feel are a better
choice and we'd love to hear about it in the comments section below all right
let's see what we found number ten Bull Shoals Arkansas if
you're looking for a place to discover your inner peace maybe get some balanced
Bull Shoals Arkansas may be the place you're looking for now I know what
you're thinking how can they achieve inner peace in Arkansas they have NASCAR
and moonshine well I'm here to tell you it is possible
because those are stereotypes not everyone in Arkansas likes NASCAR and
moonshine that would be Alabama Arkansas is
actually one of the most beautiful natural States we have yes they do have
Pine Bluff at Little Rock but ninety percent of this state is amazing this
little town on bull shoals lake in the Ozarks near the Missouri border offers
more than enough peace and harmony at a low price they say the average home is
listed for around $175,000 but you can get a plot of land short walk from the
bull shoals lake first low is thirty thousand and build whatever you want on
it or you can get a smaller older home the water for less than 300 thousand
that's lakefront property for less than 300 thousand this whole area is that way
all the way out to Mountain Home Arkansas it's sort of you know the same
just give or take a couple thousand number nine Beaver Dam Wisconsin Beaver
Dam is in Wisconsin and it's not in a bad part of Milwaukee so right off the
bat you know it's a great place for families you look around this town you
start to see what the Leave It to Beaver town would have looked like if it was
real this is a cute town with well-maintained yards side note that a
quick way to tell how nice a town or city is look at the lawns if more than
one or two on a block aren't being kept up they have some poverty issues anyway
in Beaver Dam you can get half acre lots of land for 35 to 55 thousand and most
of the homes are under two hundred thousand the on the water type homes you
know with the lake in your backyard they only run around 350 to 400 thousand
winters can get rough so buy a good jacket number eight would Ally Alabama
about an hour and a half from Atlanta you have the small town of Wedowee and
it has a bunch of land that's priced to move yes I said price to move like a
sleazy car salesman when I say with Dahle I mean the area around it there's
only a small river that actually flows through town where actually it's just
outside of town but not too far away you have Lakewood alley or RL Harris
reservoir which I believe is its actual name I've seen it called both anyway the
land around this part of Alabama is breathtaking so any place you buy
property here is gonna look good thick woods with creeks rivers and lakes are
everywhere around here they have all the price ranges from a hundred thousand to
nine hundred thousand for a house on or near the water but you can also get
acres of land with nothing on at first lowest fourteen thousand but most the
plots of land go for around forty to sixty thousand and that's right on the
water the cost of living here is also very low
for Lake Town this place is beautiful I've been to this part of Alabama before
never been to this actual town but I've been in this part of Alabama before and
it is nice definitely liked it here as there during the summer and gets a
little hot and a little humid but it's still nice number seven Richville
Minnesota between Fargo North Dakota and st. Cloud
Minnesota you have Richville Minnesota the area contains at least a dozen lakes
including the 35 square mile dead lake I don't know if I like the
sound of that dead lake do you go fishing for like zombie trout there or
undead bass if the locals aren't working you could find them on one of the many
lakes in the area doing some fishing or they might be found in the town's only
restaurant the rocket horse cafe which on their website their slogan is the
best home cook in this side of town the town's the size of a mini mall come on
the cost of living in this area is very low and they have next to no crime a
crime in Richville is lying about the size of a muskie you cotton you can get
an on the water home for as low as 200 thousand and lots of land for around 40
thousand dollars the nicer waterfront homes run about four to five hundred
thousand range on dead Lake while other parts of dead Lake are a bit more
affordable the nicer area so you're looking for two
five hundred thousand you could actually get a cabin with some of the best
fishing in the area for as low as two hundred and thirty thousand dollars on
an acre of land that's on the water number six Spirit Lake Iowa if you like
nice safe towns that are surrounded by water with the low cost of living give
you a holla call and start packing spirit Lake Iowa is that place now a lot
of the homes here can get a little pricey for this list but they've made
quarter-acre lots that you can buy for under $20,000 and that's according to
Zillow older decent homes that are within walking distance to one of the
lakes are under two hundred thousand then there's condos that go for around
80 thousand yes some of the really nice homes on the water with private docks
that whole thing can get up over five hundred thousand and if you could afford
it it's well worth it even though Spirit Lake is a good distance from any real
city it has everything you need including a Walmart in a golf course
everyone needs a Walmart especially if you live in Iowa that's where you meet
all your friends I guess anyway this is a tourist town so expect the summers to
get a little busy if you move to Spirit Lake number five Branson Missouri if you
haven't heard of Branson Missouri it's just like Vegas without all the gambling
young people fun and teeth but they do have more people in walkers and in
possession of an AARP card Branson does have some fun things to do don't get me
wrong they also have really cheap real estate and a very low cost of living the
average home in Branson costs around two hundred thousand
and that's not bad for a city like Branson you could also find quarter acre
lots for less than $50,000 thats it a short walk from Table Rock Lake
Branson's a nice quiet place for a tourist town
it's really weird that's how this place is they're able to maintain this like
small-town feel for a tourist town Branson Missouri isn't that big but they
see 7.2 million visitors a year that's a lot of people coming through this town
every single year obviously not in 2020 but most other years they see about 7.2
million people number for Albany Georgia Albany Georgia probably isn't the best
place to live it's actually really one the worst place
to live kinda the crime rate is 114 percent higher than the Georgia average
and almost 200 percent higher than the national average here's the good news
the cost of living in the Albany is 14% lower than the national average and the
real estate prices are 59% lower so that's good for you if you're looking
for a cheap place to live on the water so you're thinking right now why would I
call a real Tork it sounds like it sucks well it does but not so much on the
north side where Lake chihaya's you can get a lot of land on the water on Lake
chi-ha for under $75,000 that's nothing there it's just a lot billed what you
need - or you can get a nice older home in the 200,000 range that's either on
the water or really close to the water Albany Georgia outside of town isn't
that bad what you definitely don't want to do is
look at commercial real estate here they got a lot of boarded up shops and I get
the feeling there's a reason for that number 3 Warsaw Missouri Warsaw Missouri
sits near the harry s truman reservoir and there's a lot of land in this area
to choose from for under a hundred thousand dollars that is on or very near
the reservoir the real estate in Warsaw is 49% lower than the national average
and there are homes actually in town that are livable but may need a little
work for under $150,000 they're not rundown they're not falling apart
they're nice homes they just might need to be cleaned up a little bit you can
get a half acre to 3/4 acre lot around the red
war for about fifty thousand dollars and that gives you a short walk to the water
for seventy-five to a hundred thousand you're right on the water
that's a vacant lot they do have some really nice homes around this area for
about three hundred thousand you should check it out on Zillow I'm sort of
digging this place they have some crime but it's not nearly as bad as a place
like Albany it's nothing like something like Detroit or anything weird like this
it's about fifty percent higher than the national average right now it was a lot
worse I was looking at the crime stats and it's been dropping year-over-year
for the last five years five years ago it was like seventy five percent higher
than national average so they're doing good in that department
Warsaw Missouri there's another place coming up next
that's really close to this that's worth looking at if you won Lake House or in
this case a reservoir house number two Lake of the Ozarks Missouri east of
Warsaw Missouri down the Osage River is Lake of the Ozarks and Osage Beach these
two places Warsaw an Osage Beach are connected by the river but they're
different so all along the Osage River and Lake of the Ozarks is lakefront
property just waiting for someone to slap around fifty thousand dollars down
for an acre too and do something with it these Lots in most cases are out of the
way of any cities or towns or people for that matter and would probably be a
great place for a tiny home until you build your log cabin or whatever you
have in mind this whole area has a very low cost living and really good fishing
if you're looking for something already built close to let's say Osage Beach the
starting price is around two hundred fifty and it goes up it goes way up from
there what I like about this place I mean besides being so close to big dicks
halfway in is the amount of lakefront property it's amazing all these little
bays and inlets it's you get lost in this thing it's it's amazing place and
number one Jamestown New York Jamestown is in upstate New York about an hour and
a half south west buffalo near Lake Erie this is a great place for people who
like lakes they have a lot of them in this area this is also the hometown of
the national comedy center it's an interactive humor museum that throws an
annual Lucille Ball comedy festival every August probably not this will
because of Cove in nineteen Jamestown sits on Lake Chautauqua
and besides having a bunch of smaller lakes in the area like I said it's not
too far from Lake Erie it's not unusual to see a two-bedroom two-bath house in
this town that is kind of boring on the outside but it comes with a private
shoreline and a boat dock for about two hundred and ninety thousand dollars yeah
your own dock shoreline you get off the shore a little bit and you find an older
nice home for around a hundred thousand a quarter to a half acre Lots can go for
as low as ten thousand dollars in this area but the decent ones are in the
neighborhood of 50,000 that's a vacant lot you could build whatever you want on
it tiny home live in a van who knows whatever you want to do Jamestown New
York if you can get past the cold cuz it gets cold upstate this is a great place
to live sure they got some crime and other things like that but it's not
terrible and it's really cheap their cost of living is dirt cheap actually
area vibes gives them an A+ in cost of living all right so that's today's list
I hope you guys enjoyed it hope you got some information out of it you know this
one we just grabbed some that we thought were interesting
there are thousands and thousands of lakes in this country that probably have
cheaper land you know some of them do I'm sure I'd love to hear about them in
the comment section maybe we'll make another video about this in the future
but this is a video people have been asking for they wanna you know where's
the best place to get a lake house where's the best beaches to buy homes at
you know things like that and we're gonna work our way through some of those
suggestions but this is the first one anyway don't forget to hit the like
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