Are you looking for a new state in 2023? If you are you're not alone 2023 is predicted to be
one of the most active years for state to state relocation on record today I'm going to tell you
the ones that you should probably avoid as we come out of the pandemic a lot of states have started
to turn things around every state took a hit over the last few years some in my opinion have set
themselves up for Success post coven others not so much some states are dealing with old problems
that have gotten worse since the pandemic while picking up some new ones these are states that
are going to get worse before they get better this video is my opinion based on information that I've
been taking in over the last year are all these states 100 Horrible no will they struggle in
2023 and Beyond I think so if you think a state shouldn't be on this list I would love to hear
about it in the comments section below these are just my opinions and why I have those opinions
yours are just as valid as mine I'm sure got it get it good let's take a look number 10 Kentucky
Kentucky has some issues the first one is lack of confidence in their elected officials there
have been a few voter surveys in recent years that signaled that the residents are about done
with everyone from the governor to the Senators to the congressmen Mayors and all the way down to the
dog catcher Kentucky is always in the top 10 when it comes to highest poverty rate in 2021 they were
ranked the fourth poorest state behind three other states that are on this list compared to
most other states they have more than their fair share of minimum wage jobs and that helps boost
their poverty rate they use the federal minimum wage of 7.25 an hour on top of all that good news
the Bluegrass State is also one of the worst when it comes to the opioid crisis now all throughout
the country it's gotten better since I'd say five or six years ago but their progress on that
one is a little behind some of the other states that were hardest hit the things I just listed
and a bunch of other reasons are why I think things will get worse before they get better in
Kentucky I will say the people are great and it's a beautiful state when it comes to natural beauty
number nine Ohio Ohio's another state where the residents are starting to say they're not digging
what's going on with their politicians I don't want this to get all political or anything like
that so I won't you know Point any fingers but I did notice that on a lot of the surveys where they
asked people to give their opinion one politician in Ohio seems to be the most hated politician in
the country congratulations Ohio Ohio's biggest problem is its cities I mean their rural areas
aren't terrible and they have some really nice small towns but they have more than their fair
share of rundown cities Cleveland Is Not Great Toledo's a nightmare Youngstown ain't great
Cincinnati's nothing to get excited about Dayton Ohio is kind of a nightmare and even Springfield
Ohio has a crime rate that's 150 percent above the national average now obviously any state
you could say well there's cities their stats are bringing them down and that's the problem
I mean California has San Francisco Los Angeles Stockton Fresno but California is a huge State you
could fit almost three Ohio bills in California Community Solutions ran a survey on Ohio voters
and asked them what's the biggest problems this state faces economics addiction problems and
inflation one of the best things going for Ohio is their real estate prices aren't as terrible
as other states in the area they're not Rising as fast as other things now that's Statewide some of
the Cities you could point out that the real estate prices are jumping pretty good that's
how it is in cities overall the state is doing pretty good when it comes to real estate prices
number eight Oregon now the beaver state has got some problems actually it's got one big problem
and it's called Portland Oregon I'm currently in the Portland metro area right now I live in
one of the suburbs Oregon overall is a pretty good State and I think if we could get rid of Portland
it would be considered one of the better States we have amazing Landscapes a great beer scene no
sales tax we just have Portland Oregon which is like one of the homeless capitals of the United
States now in recent months it's been getting a little bit better and they're cleaning up the
streets but it's still a problem they've just moved them to other areas now Salem and Eugene
aren't the greatest cities in the country either but they're not nearly as bad as what's going on
in Portland at least Ohio and California have a bunch of cities bring them down we just got
one really I reached out to the mayor's office a couple weeks ago asking if I could ask him
just one single question for a video I even told them the question it was going to be fun it wasn't
a gotcha question or anything like that I never got an email back nothing now do I think Oregon's
gonna get better next year no def definitely not Portland's going to continue to drag it down I
mean the eastern half of this state has decided they want to move to Idaho not themselves they
want to move the whole state like cut Oregon in half so they could just be part of Idaho this
will never happen it's delusional to think that it would Idaho doesn't even want these people
there's a better chance of being chased down the road by actual flying monkeys than there is for
Oregon to split in half and Idaho taken the set taking the eastern half of Oregon but yeah in
2023 2024 maybe even a couple years after that Portland's gonna continue to drag Oregon down
number seven California now most of you are probably wondering why California is not further
down on the list I mean their cost of living is outrageous home prices are ridiculous the
homeless situation is completely out of control companies are leaving and for the first time
in like the state's history recorded history I should say they're actually losing a little bit
of population in the last two years we just talked about this on another video now the only reason
they're not further down the line they still have a great economy incredible weather beautiful state
U.S news has them ranked fifth in the country for health care and I will tell you they do have
some incredible hospitals not just one or two I mean throughout the state and they're always in
the top 10 when it comes to their economy I just mentioned this someone the other day on a comment
that California's economy if you take Texas out of the equation it would take about four or five
states combined to equal California's economy now here's the thing they're not going to get better
anytime soon 2023 24 25 and I think even further out California is going to continue to travel
down a road nobody wants to be on their population will dwindle their drought will continue and there
might be another Kardashian spin-off you know basically three signs of the Apocalypse number six
Oklahoma Oklahoma really doesn't get good ratings in a couple different things they're important
health care they're like ranked 48th in the nation their education they're at 42nd and then
if you look at their crime they're ranked 44th of the nation which isn't great on top of that
they're in the top 10 for states with residents on public assistance that being said Oklahoma City is
getting better than what it was in the past it's turning into a true International City I mean they
are adding a lot of tech companies there a lot of tech workers are moving to Oklahoma City and Tulsa
on top of that I just did a video not too long ago from makemymove.com and Stillwater Oklahoma
which is a you know good sized town about 45 000 residents they're one of those cities that's
trying to entice remote workers to come live and buy a home in Stillwater Stillwater is not a bad
place now where Oklahoma isn't doing good is a lot of their small towns small towns are dying
in Oklahoma on a pretty good scale I've been doing that series about small towns in the United States
and Oklahoma has a lot of small towns that are struggling and still losing population so I think
Oklahoma City is going to continue to do good in the future Still Water also and Tulsa is you know
like I said doing okay the rest of the state not so much they're going to suffer for quite a while
number five Arkansas if you watch this channel long enough I've said over and over that the
northwest corner of Arkansas is not like the rest of the state they have good jobs they don't have
crazy bad crime their education's okay when they see a relative on Tinder they swipe left the rest
of the state not so much they got crazy crime in places like Little Rock and Pine Bluff Pine
Bluff is one of the worst cities in the country it has been for a few years now the question is
will Arkansas improve they really haven't in the last 25 years so I'm not sure why they'd
start now they always seem to be a few steps behind whatever progress other states are making
number four Alaska Alaska is known as the Last Frontier and for many decades people
have been drawn to this state for its natural beauty different type of Lifestyle open Land
The Great Outdoors and fishing and oil jobs but living in Alaska comes with a price and
that price is in the form of cost of living throughout the years people have sort of put
up with the High Cost of Living because there was other benefits to living in Alaska and a
lot of the jobs they had there paid really well so it was worth it they also have the Permanent
Fund which is a check everyone that's a permanent resident in Alaska gets every single year it has
to do with oil profits and things like that it can be as low as a thousand dollars a year and
their best year was 2008 when everyone got a check for 3269 dollars well in the last few years a lot
of these industries have started to slow down whether it's just they don't have the work or
they have more automation so they're needing fewer and fewer people meaning fewer and fewer jobs and
if you don't have jobs people don't stick around now there's a a lot of good in Alaska obviously
the outdoors being the main bonus to living here sadly more and more these days fewer people are
finding that as enough to keep them in the state of Alaska Alaska has gained double digits in their
population every single census since the 1930 census in 2020 they only gained three percent
and it's estimated by the 2030 census they will have lost up to 13 percent of their population
number three New Mexico New Mexico has a whole bunch of problems and some of them are pretty
bad their crime rates pretty high their schools aren't good their poverty rate is through the
roof they're actually number three in the nation for the highest poverty rate at 18.2 percent
now that's the 2021 numbers my understanding is they've climbed since then I've seen reports where
it's now 19 and I've seen other ones where it's like 18.8 so it's somewhere in there of course
they have budget problems on just about everything so that means different services are being cut if
you look at where they rank for their different things crime they rank 47th their economy their
45th their education their 50th there aren't really a lot of good stats going on in New
Mexico the people are nice it's got great sunsets that's about it is it going to get better I don't
see that happening for at least another five years to maybe a decade or two I mean they almost always
get better in some aspects but overall all these states are just going to be going downhill for at
least the next few years number two Mississippi yes our old favorite Mississippi is towards the
bottom of the barrel again they did have severe flooding in their capital city of Jackson like
last week and the week before I think they're still trying to recover from that Mississippi
leads the country in poverty the 2021 numbers were 19.6 percent of their population living
below the poverty line again my understanding is it's gone up a little bit maybe a half a percent
other than some really decent people I would love to hear in the comment section what is good about
Mississippi well I should walk that back a little bit to be honest they do have some really good
universities they're rank 50 in the nation and Healthcare their economy is 49th infrastructure
they're number 48th in the nation out of the 12 different categories that they normally rank
a state by eight of those categories are in the 40s meaning top 10 worst and then two of them are
in the 30s natural environment is ranked 22 and that's the best thing that states got going for it
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one and number one Louisiana Louisiana has been backwards in a lot of different ways for a lot
of years most of their problems can be traced back to their politicians Louisiana is often
considered one of the most corrupt political States we have and this goes back decades to
I'm talking before prohibition type stuff it's always Louisiana and Illinois you know which
one had the most politicians go to jail in the history of the United States 12 Governors have
gone to jail there's two states on that list where it's happened more than once that's Illinois with
three in Louisiana with two if you look down at like the state senators and things like that and
state representatives Illinois and Louisiana show up quite often there too so when you get
bad politicians they make bad decisions they're not making decisions for the people they're are
usually making decisions to line their own pockets and this usually means a state gets kind of run
down a little bit when it's gone on for decades and decades you end up with a very historic and
beautiful state like Louisiana that kind of sucks will Louisiana pull out of this tailspin no time
soon it'll continue to get bad they have crime and poverty issues that will take a generation
to fix and if they keep having politicians that go to jail it's gonna take longer than that
all right everyone that's today's video hope you guys enjoyed it hope you got
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