What is going on everyone? Who wants to wagon train our way out to Utah I know I
do Utah's known for Mormons a Salt Lake
skiing and jokes about dudes with an extra wife or - it's really not a thing
but there's a bunch of lame jokes that have been out there floating around the
universe for years about polygamy it's just it doesn't happen really it's not
supposed to at least let it go Utah was admitted into the Union on January 4th
1896 making it the 45th state it is right here in case you don't know it is
home to over 3 million people and a handful of really nice cities where 90%
of the state resides today we won't be talking about those cities we'll be
talking about the towns of Utah and not the good ones to be honest it's sort of
hard to find really crappy places to live in Utah luckily I have time to find
those crappy places this list is what I found
so tighten that Prairie bonnet and watch my top 10 worst towns in Utah number 10
Wendover Utah Wendover may not be the best place to send your kids to school
not only is the graduation rate about 80 percent this is a smaller district with
few schools and fewer students so it's likely that your kids will be going to
school with the same kids for years some even all the way from kindergarten to
their senior year high school this doesn't let the kids that graduate and
eventually go on to college become aware of diversity and things like that maybe
a little bit of a culture shock when they finally leave went over Wendover
doesn't have a bunch of crime like most of Utah Utah is a really safe state
where there suck comes from is the low paying jobs the unemployment rate is
actually a little bit lower than the national average so that's good but the
income per capita in Wendover is 58 percent lower than the national average
and their poverty rate is 104 percent higher than the national average so you
have work but it's really not good work good news is they're right on the Nevada
border and the casinos are just steps away so you know you could drowned all
your worries there number 9 paradise Utah living in Paradise is anything but
that okay that was a lame joke it was too easy
let's try paradise more like parasite yeah it's still weak
how about paradise sure compared to a daily colonoscopy then yes paradise it
is that one was better but moving on a decent job here or in the area can be
pretty hard to find while the unemployment rate is pretty
low at 2.7 the income per capita is also really low just under twenty two
thousand a year which is over twenty five percent lower than the country's
average this can lead to many people living in poverty especially with Utah's
overall high cost living it can get rough a lot like Wendover without having
Nevada right over the border paradise is a bit out in the sticks but not terribly
far from Logan that's the closest big city it's still kind of out there I've
been here visiting a friend it's very boring place to live everyone has big
yards the type of yards that need a riding mower or a slow nephew like my
friend has I guess his nephew can't keep a job so he mows family members yards
the gift the guy likes to impress people by wearing one of those dogs shock
collars for when your dog barks teach them how to not bark so he puts it on
and then has you bark so he can show you that he take the electrical shock it is
hysterical and it the weirdest Thanksgiving dinner I've ever been to I
have to admit number eight Hildale Utah Hilldale was located on the border of
Utah and Arizona the united effort plan financial trust owns most of the
property in the town hill dales formerly known as the short creek community which
was founded in 1913 by members of the council of friends a breakaway group
from the Salt Lake City based the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day saints
the Mormon high command basically Hill Dale is home to about 3,000 residents
who often find it hard to get by about 46% of the population here lives in
poverty many of those are children median household income is only about
$40,000 a year which is basically $15,000 less than the national average
this place is short on paved roads and women that don't dress from chin to toe
there's a lot of that going on here Hilldale is it's out in the sticks
really really good I mean you look at the map and you look at the street view
and there's a whole lot of propane tanks and satellite dishes that's usually an
indication they're kind of cut off from the rest of society
number seven Green River Green River is filled with about a thousand people and
that's about it the only thing this town really has going for them is actually
the Green River and the Green River State Park other than that there's
hardly anything here and by the way the river is green it doesn't even look
refreshing it's like it looks like split pea soup
could imagine swimming in something that looks like split pea soup and that
sounds refreshing to you you should consult a doctor anyway they
do have the basics like a grocery store gas station high school all of that but
anything more you need to make an hour-and-a-half Drive to either price
Utah or Grand Junction Colorado area vibes gives them an F in things to do
and an F for schools apparently when you're out in the sticks
and no one around your schools kind of suck I guess I didn't compile all the
data on it but that's what they give them the poverty level in Green River is
a hundred and twelve percent higher than the national average that's not good and
by the way that doesn't mean that everyone is poor there that's higher
than the average I had explained this to someone in an email about a week ago cuz
I said that something was a hundred percent above the national average
doesn't mean that's you know everyone I don't know it's math moving on number
six eivin's Utah eivin's is about ten miles outside of
st. George with about 9,000 residents well this area is a bit outside of town
it's more of a rural area the cost of living here is pretty high actually the
cost of living in eivin's is about 10 percent higher than the national average
with some of the higher points being housing at 41 percent higher than
average health care which is 11% higher than average and of course taxes in Utah
are 125 percent higher than the national average schools housing amenities and
cost living all get bad grades in eivin's according to area vibes calm not
terrible but not good so why are they on this list it's like I said the cost it's
too expensive for what you get so great it's tucked away by Red Mountain and
after that's just dirt red mountains nice great to look at nice hiking but
really it's just a dirt area you know it's weird they are a growing community
probably growing a little too fast in 1970 they had 137 residents by 1990 they
had 1630 residents 2010 they had almost 7,000 residents and in 2018 they had
9,000 residents now they're expecting in the next census to be well over 10,000
residents so now the locals don't want anyone else moving there I asked my
friend the one from paradise lives in eivin's him and his I don't know this
slow nephew go up there I don't know but he said dudes wear leggings at Starbucks
here which isn't cool that's the first thing out of his mouth about eivin's
he's also the one that said that about the
that they don't appreciate anyone else moving there number five Apple Valley
Utah Apple Valley is located not too far from the Arizona border unless you're a
retiree who's a homebody this isn't the place for you this place is like a place
time for God it's the type of place you move to when you're trying to get a
stalker off your trail I've never had a stalker I've always been such a horrible
person to date most girls were happy to see me go Apple Valley has a volunteer
fire station a gas station and anything else you're gonna need to go to Colorado
City Arizona or take a 40-minute drive up to st. George to get cuz they've got
nothing else around here unless you're into collecting rocks and sand then they
have plenty of it maybe spotting a coyote here there
that's all they do here finally we have a place in Utah that it has some crime
the overall crime rate in Apple Valley is 21% higher than the national average
which is shocking for Utah really it's hard to find a place with some crime now
this is usually the time of a video where someone that's from like st.
George or Salt Lake City tries to tell me that their town is dangerous because
they're trying to gain some street cred in a youtube comment section I have news
for you Utah is not a crime infested hellhole like you want to make us
believe so stop typing yeah Apple Valley it's in the middle of nowhere
number 4 Benson Utah Benson has a population of fewer than a thousand
residents for its size this tiny town they have an incredibly high crime rate
the total number of crimes year over year has increased by 202 percent not
only that the crime rate is 27 percent higher than the national average suck on
that Apple Valley yes soft most of these are property
crime but they could still be as devastating and dangerous as a violent
crime I saw news report about place in Texas where the reporter said property
crimes can be just as dangerous as a violent crime i I don't get it I mean
are people stealing brake pads off cars and that'd be dangerous have people
stolen seat belts and replaced them with piano wire or something like that what's
going on that property crimes are dangerous has someone removed a front
porch while the owner was sleeping and the owners in a hurry in the morning and
steps off and breaks his neck what's going on here now I'm sure they're
talking about how if you get caught and the owner has a firearm and decides to
administer a little justice himself maybe that's it
but I don't know anyway Benson gets bad grades in everything but schools oddly
enough they got good schools in Benson weird number three vineyard utah
vineyard is a place that just sounds like it would be expensive doesn't it
situated just outside of Orem with about three thousand residents it's a very
expensive small town everything sucks here statistically but crime and
employment they have jobs and they've got no criminals so it can't be that bad
but it's just really really expensive what really kills this place is the cost
of living the overall cost living here is fifty percent higher than the rest of
the country and some of the highest points are the housing that tends to be
about a hundred and seventy six percent higher than average health care about
four percent higher than average and again taxes about 125 percent higher
than the national average now can it really be that bad they have a bookers
ice cream I guess they make random people wear colonial hats when you sit
down to eat your cone oh look at this poor maintenance dude got roped into the
same shenanigans that sucks but vineyard is a terrible place to go but it is
extremely expensive especially for what you gettin number two
Corinne Utah Corinne is not a place for entertainment or anything for that
matter the town is located along the Bear River just north east of the Great
Salt Lake it is nicknamed the Gateway to the golden Speight in case you don't
know the Golden Spike is the point where they joined the rails for the First
Transcontinental Railroad across the United States connecting the Central
Pacific Railroad that all happened on May 10th 1869
here's a fun fact about that the person that drove the spike was Leland Stanford
the founder of Stanford University anywho Corinne takes great pride in this
probably because that's all they got while the town does have its basics like
a post office fire department a church and a gas station they don't have much
else I mean they do have a Walmart distribution center right outside of
town but that's you know probably where everyone works and that's about it
anything else you got to make the 45-minute drive to Logan for the overall
crime rate in Corinne is 34% higher than the national average
you know Corinne has less than 700 people and when you got a high crime
rate the police the first thing they do is find out where Jerry was last night
or you know it's like usually tracked down to one person causing all the
mayhem in the town seems like if you just get rid of the guy
causing it and you know hey Jerry you need to leave town all your problems are
solved anyway the poverty level in Corinne is 28 percent lower than the
national average that's because the Walmart centers right there one's got
jobs not the best paying jobs but they got jobs no real cost living problems
here either so that's good and number one health seat the Utah Hal Sita or Hal
cheetah whatever it is made it on this list two years in a row the 2018 version
had them at number two congratulations you're number one you got worse Hal
cheetah House eat up whatever else he does not a place to go for jobs the
unemployment rate here is six point five percent that's more than three percent
higher than the average for the US the median income here is only about twenty
two thousand dollars a year which is thirty three thousand dollars less than
the average household life is rough here the unemployment rate is so high and the
median income is so low it's no surprise that more than half the town's
population lives in poverty they have 270 residents and almost three times as
many broken down cars honestly look at this satellite image it looks like
someone built a town in a junkyard they have no real jobs here maybe a bail
bondsman or lemon law lawyer stores all his clients
old cars here but that's about it there's nothing really you got to drive
out of town for god knows how long just a go to work might have to go to Mexican
hat and like I said last time I guess when they named this town that nobody
knew how to say sombrero or something like that so it's called Mexican hat
that's the next town over but yeah I'll seek to help cheat to Hall
& Oates whatever it is its number one this year on Utah's worst towns all
right everyone I hope you enjoyed the video hope you got some information I
hope you know where not to go in Utah now some of them like I said it's hard
to find really bad places in Utah they're really nice it's either really
dirt poor or it's unnaturally expensive to live in some of these places it's
weird Utah's a weird state anyway don't forget
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