What is going on everyone? Who wants to take a look at Arizona again? Let's venture on
down to the Tucson Arizona way the Old Pueblo is one of its nicknames and I
don't know if anyone really actually still calls it the Old Pueblo but that's
on the books as its nicknamed the Tucson area was first visited by paleo-indians
about 12,000 years ago they were all incredibly lean and in good shape
because they were on the Paleo diet I imagine a recent archaeological site
near the Santa Cruz River found remains of the village dating back to about 2100
BC that's a long time ago the 2010 census put the population
around five hundred and twenty thousand residents with the estimated population
of the entire Tucson metropolitan area being almost a million people at nine
hundred and eighty thousand people no word how many are currently on the Paleo
diet Tucson is very interesting town it has good people and a lot of things to
do it is located southeast ish of Phoenix
not too far from the Mexican border town of Nogales and Tombstone Arizona isn't
too far down the road either Tucson is where white herb killed Frank Stilwell
who was one of the men who killed his brother Morgan Earp if you ever saw the
great movie tombstone Morgan got shot in one of the bars while playing pool well
apparently that really happened and they weren't sure who it was but someone
ratted out like these four dudes and Wyatt Earp went and you know took
dispatched quite a few of them and one of them we found on the train tracks in
Tucson shot him dead Tucson has so much history I'd like to do a whole video on
just the history of Tucson it's really interesting
Tucson has a lot going for it most of its problems are related to mother
nature and local government the people are great and there's no denying that if
you're looking for a desert town with great people
Tucson may be the place before you do something like jump on the Amtrak and
head to the Old Pueblo you should watch my top-end reasons not to move to Tucson
Arizona
number 10 there kind of light on the freeways interstate 10 goes right
through Tucson sort of north-south and the 19 ends in South Tucson there's no
other real freeway there's no east/west Crosstown freeway nothing like that
that's sort of strange for such a big city with a lot of open space some
Tucson drivers have about a 32 minute daily commute and that means they're
spending an extra 56 hours in traffic year that's more than two days every
single year stuck in gridlock and it's always hot there
so that's never fun number nine pesky wildlife on any given day you can
be confronted by one of the following lizards that seem to get in your house
like mosquitoes get into someone's house any other place freaking tarantulas
scorpions bats or a University of Arizona drunk twenty-year-old all of
them are irritating most people would prefer to live their lives without ever
seeing one I don't know what it is about the University of Arizona college
students but they bring drunken stupidity to new level almost every
single one I've ever run into number eight the electric bill like most desert
cities you're gonna need to run that AC unit most the year this of course leads
to an extra high electrical bill thank God solar power is coming along
nicely and stop typing you need AC if someone says you don't they are
delusional and you should stay away from them
they're not well the national average for electricity is about a hundred and
ten dollars a month in Tucson it's about a hundred and thirty-seven dollars a
month now compared to other places that don't get hot that national average
counts in all the really hot states but if you look at something like I don't
know or again or Wisconsin their average electrical bill is close to $70 a month
number seven the schools if you aren't worried about your child's education
move to Tucson area by Brinks the education system in Tucson with a big
fat F and I apologize if anyone feels like I'm body shaming the letter F there
are a total of 289 public schools 72 private schools in 21 post secondary
schools in Tucson using the national averages the average test scored Tucson
is about 32 percent the average student-teacher ratio is about 18 to 1
and the Tucson Arizona average for students that graduate in eighth grade
is 81 percent and getting out of high school only about 79 percent of them get
out of high school the schools in Tucson are bad don't blame the teachers its
budget issues and in my opinion its budget issues caused by a very poorly
run city number six snowbirds like most cities in
Arizona every winter they get a heavy dose of snowbirds
if you aren't familiar with that term it's what they call older retired folks
that head south for the winter they live in places like Minnesota Wisconsin and
Washington and when it starts to get cold they get going south to get away
from the snow and cold hence snowbirds here's the thing that's
great move where you want live where you want
enjoy your retirement you earned it but quit driving just stop driving
you're banging into people you're knocking mirrors off of cars it sucks
and quick doing things like writing checks for groceries then striking up a
five-minute conversation with the checker well you got eight people in
line behind you we had a life to live cha cha get moving
snowbirds are great for the economy but they
affect things like traffic and a whole myriad of other things going on in the
city Tucson gets hit pretty bad by the
snowbirds number five the Sun Tucson is in the middle of the desert in case
you're unaware the desert is harsh on a lot of things mostly your skin I harp on
this one to no end and I always will I grew up in sunny California and probably
know at least 20 people that have had some form of skin cancer over the years
one old pool man I know had to have part of his ear removed because of cancer
because of cancer not because he gotten like a fight with a biker or he lost it
in the war or a woodchipper or something like that he lost it because he got too
much Sun on his ear protect yourself from the Sun everybody nobody wants skin
that looks like they should be a extra on the walking dead or something like
that you know nobody needs to look like a zombie at 25 years old Tucson has far
too many sunny days for this not to be on your list of things to buy sunscreen
sunblock whatever you want to call it skin regime I don't care take care of
your skin number four car insurance if you moved
to Tucson get good car insurance Tucson had 2,500 cars stolen in 2018 and
another two thousand broken in two with no Crosstown freeway it has more people
on the surface roads where most collisions occur and then you have the
snowbirds again they drive cars that are too big they have poor vision and their
reflexes are going I'm getting up there an age and I can tell you right now my
vision sucks and I'm sure my reflexes have dipped get good car insurance or a
good lawyers number whichever one you prefer but you need these things in
Tucson number three the economy the economy in Tucson isn't the best right
now currently the unemployment rate is about 32% higher than the national
average and people that have jobs on average aren't getting paid that much
the income per capita is 30% lower than the national average the poverty level
in Tucson is about 66% higher than the national average in other words if
you're moving to Tucson for a fresh start and that fresh start includes
looking for a job don't try it in the Old Pueblo any interview you get they
will know you're not a good decision maker just by showing up and telling
them you move from someplace else number two the drought Tucson is in a perpetual
state of drought it's a desert and I get it I know
stop typing but currently it's worse than almost ever before Toussaint's
drinking water supply carries nearly 20 percent less water than it did in the
year 2000 a recent study shown by using tree-ring data as a proxy for drought
conditions the researchers say that the current drought ranks fourth worst among
comparable 19-year periods for mega droughts in the past 1,200 years people
need water Tucson doesn't have much and it's only
going to get worse unless something drastic happens and before we get to
number one don't forget there's a little poll that will pop up in the top right
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poll help out with future videos we just collect the data from it for future
videos thanks for the help in advance and number one crime crime is bad in
Tucson there's a lot of sunburned thirsty criminals roaming the streets of
Tucson looking to steal your car or your Gatorade or both the crime rates in this
city are kind of shocking to someone like myself that knows quite a few
people from Tucson all the people I know from there are good family people that
would not only invite you to barbecue but drive the thirty minutes to get you
and then 30 minutes take you back not like thirty minutes later they took me
back like I was only at the barbecue for thirty minutes ago that's enough we're
tired of Briggs take him back no it was like later on that night they drove
thirty more minutes to take me home good people the overall crime rate in Tucson
is 121 percent higher than the national average that's rough Tucson is only
safer than 4% of the cities in the United States that means the only places
that are above them are like East Saint Louis Detroit Cleveland places like that
that's kind of alarming those type of numbers that make people leave a city
you know it really is a shame the crime rate is so high it makes me feel bad for
the good people of Tucson so really it's really too bad they need
to fix that
all right so that's my top ten reasons not to move to Tucson Arizona I hope you
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