- [Briggs] What is going on, everyone?
Welcome back to World According to Briggs.
Do you wanna know where the next boom town is?
You know, the popular place everyone is moving to.
If you said yes, keep watching.
And by the end of this video
I'm sure you're gonna be surprised and have some questions.
All across the United States,
you've heard cities that blow up in popularity,
some call it a boom town,
some call it the up and coming town, whatever.
There's a lot of different reasons why this happens.
In San Francisco, it was the tech boom on the early 2000s.
gold in the 1800s for San Francisco.
Portland, Austin, Seattle,
it was their music scene and youth movement.
Dallas was cheap housing, good jobs,
and that's been going on the last two decades.
In Los Angeles, it was always the weather,
the beaches and Hollywood since forever.
The big question now is, who's next?
Nobody knows for sure,
but I have an idea of about 10 different cities.
Some of these cities, it's happening right now,
and others I feel it's gonna happen for them really soon.
I'm gonna tell you where and why right now.
Number 10, Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Yes, put your teeth back in your mouth,
I said Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
It's not too often Tennessee shows up on a place like this.
I mean, they had their boom
when Nashville became a really really popular place,
especially for people trying to get into the music industry.
Nashville is still popular with a lot of people,
I just think some of the attention
from people that actually wanna live there
and maybe not get involved in the music industry
are moving outskirts of Nashville.
And I think Murfreesboro is a perfect place for that.
They got the West Fork or the Stone River
flowing right through town.
This place is a great place
if you're a civil war enthusiasts too.
So there's that.
It's relatively inexpensive.
Crime is only like 20% above the national average,
so that's great.
For those of you that don't think that's great,
stop typing.
There's cities in the United States right now
that their crime rate is like 450% higher
than the national average.
So Murfreesboro with their 20% above is doing great.
Housing is not terrible,
and you got Nashville right up the road.
Murfreesboro is starting to be one of those places
where let's say five years ago
you saw a lot of trucks go down the street,
now it's being replaced by really nice SUVs.
They got jobs, educated people
and tech companies are starting to look at Murfreesboro now.
Number nine, Asheville, North Carolina.
Asheville is one of the cities on this list
where it's sort of been a boom town for a few years now.
Some people might say it's played out,
I think it's really just beginning.
It's become very popular with the,
I guess for lack of better words, the modern hippie scene.
A lot of people that wanna kind of live that lifestyle,
they're moving to the Asheville area.
They got a fun nightlife,
plenty of places to get a good beer and a great music scene.
It isn't terribly expensive yet,
few years it probably will be,
so if you're thinking about moving
to that part of North Carolina, now is the time.
Number eight, Greenville, South Carolina.
Greenville is a place that I think is gonna see
a big boost here in the near future.
They're building a lot of houses there.
They're pulling a lot of permits
to build whole housing areas too.
And it's not just Greenville,
in that area, you also have Simpsonville and Malden
that are sort of blown up right along with them.
Greenville has a little crime, but in the last two years
it has dropped a little bit each year
and it looks pretty good for the future.
They have a low cost of living, they got jobs.
Their housing is kind of medium,
it's not crazy, but it's still drawing people in.
Weird thing that I've always noticed about South Carolina,
their cities and their suburbs are pretty decent
in most cases.
When you start to get to some of their little small towns,
they get really backwards, really fast.
So if you decide to move to like Simpsonville,
Malden or Greenville, just keep that in mind.
Stay close to the city.
You don't wanna be trapped in the woods
with some kid playing a banjo
while another guy twists your ear
and tells you to squeal like a pig.
Number seven, Billings, Montana.
Billings got popular about six or seven years ago
when some of the companies that were in San Francisco
and they just couldn't handle the high costs anymore,
they started moving to Billings for some reason.
Back around 2005, 2006 also,
they started opening up call centers around that area,
and people started moving to Billings.
It's dirt cheap compared to the rest of the country.
It's not dirt cheap compared to most of Montana
but compared to the rest of the country,
Billings is a pretty cheap city
and it's still kind of holding that.
But they have jobs, they have good people,
they have great outdoors,
and I think they're on the verge of an even bigger boom
than they've had the last few years.
But if you're head there for a Tinder hookup,
I probably wouldn't do that.
Most of the people moving there are married
and in their thirties.
I bring that up because a lot of the cities on this list
are being filled to the brim with 20 to 25 year olds
that are single.
Number six, Warrenton, Virginia.
Now, Warrenton isn't the only place in this one.
People are moving further and further
outside of Washington, DC.
It's too crowded, too expensive.
Virginia is a great state to live in
but it's getting really expensive,
especially that upper part near Washington DC.
Now people for years have been moving
outside the Washington DC metro area,
which in Virginia includes Arlington, Alexandria,
places like that.
Well, now that people can work from home more
and maybe have to go in occasionally to the office,
they can move further and further away
from more Washington DC.
And you start hitting Manassas and Dale city,
people have been kind of moving there for years,
but they're gonna start coming out further I bet.
And you'll probably start seeing places like Culpeper,
Fredericksburg and Warrenton blow up.
So this one really could be rural Northern Virginia.
Just stay outta Gainesville,
I've had a woman named Glenis, I believe it's pronounced,
she took exception to a video I made like four years ago
and periodically sends me pictures of her
giving the camera the middle finger.
And usually something thing I should do to myself
goes along with that picture.
She's a hoot.
And I swear to God, she's gotta be like 75.
I wanna know who's teaching her
how to send pictures on that fancy phone she's got.
I honestly think it's probably a flip phone
or maybe a Blackberry
'cause the picture quality is not that good.
Number five, Charleston, West Virginia.
And before you leave a comment,
no I've not been day drinking
and I haven't had a concussion lately.
I did say Charleston, West Virginia.
I'm about to blow your mind with a quick fact.
For the first time in, I don't know, forever,
West Virginia is one of the most moved to states.
Yes.
In 2021 West Virginia was the fourth most moved to state,
according to the United Vanliners mover study
that they do every single year.
Why would anyone move to West Virginia
or Charleston for that matter?
It is dirt cheap.
It is dirt cheap and it's nice.
The problems they have in West Virginia
aren't really anything to do with their cities.
It's things that have happened in the industries
and their opioid situation they had forever.
Now, like South Carolina,
stay out of the little small towns and the hollers.
If you don't know what that is,
you probably know it as a hollow,
but West Virginia the they're called hollers,
and they're little valleys or draws between two hilltops
where people decided to start living.
Now as working from home becomes more and more of a thing,
West Virginia will become more and more popular,
and especially Charleston.
Charleston has a great music scene,
they've got great pubs and bars,
they've got a decent nightlife
and they've got a lot of decent people.
And as I always do on this channel,
I will plug my favorite radio station
in the country right now,
WTSQ is in Charleston, West Virginia.
Good people there like my friend, Josh
and my future ex-wife Maya Ross.
Number four, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Who saw that one coming?
Tennessee is on a list twice for something positive.
Even though they've got two popular cities right now
doesn't mean they're getting a million Californians
every single year like that one guy said.
He said that over a million Californians
moved to Tennessee like last year.
The entire state only gained like 500,000 people
in the last decade, but apparently this dude
is working off some new kind of math
where a million Californians invaded Tennessee.
The entire state has under 7 million residents.
But if you are one of those people heading to Tennessee
and you work in the tech industry,
you've probably got Chattanooga in your sites.
They're growing, and a lot of it
has to do with their tech sector,
that is growing by leaps and bounds.
Chattanooga is right on the Georgia, Tennessee border.
And in my opinion, I think why they're getting so popular
and why are about to boom,
is as Atlanta gets too crowded and too expensive,
a lot of companies and a lot of people
will start moving north towards Chattanooga.
I think Chattanooga has one of the brightest futures
on this list.
They're one of the ones that have started to pick up steam,
and I think they've got another five years
of serious growth.
They're still relatively inexpensive,
their crime isn't horrible and they got decent schools.
Number three, Baltimore, Maryland.
Now bear with me on this one,
'cause I know a lot of you just gas.
Baltimore has horrible crime, but it's getting better.
Three years in a row their crime rate has dropped.
Houses for a major city are relatively cheap
and tech companies are moving in to Baltimore.
The city has done a really good job of luring companies in
which has brought higher paying jobs,
more people are working.
If this continues, I honestly think Baltimore will be
how Seattle was in the early 2010s.
In case you don't know,
Baltimore isn't too far from Washington DC,
so people working in Washington DC
that don't move to Virginia
might start heading out towards Baltimore.
Number two, Brownsville, Texas.
Brownsville is in the Southern tip of Texas
right down there by Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico,
not too far from South Padre Island,
which is always a great place to go,
and it's the new home for a bunch of stuff with Tesla
and a bunch of other Elon Musk stuff.
Jobs are coming to this area,
they're building a lot of homes,
this will be Texas new boom town
I'm sure within the next five years.
It's already started to pick up steam.
People are moving to Brownsville.
Now, as long as everything goes as planned
with Elon Musk and all that stuff,
it will be a great place to live
with a lot of really high paying jobs
here in the near future.
A lot of the SpaceX stuff is already built
and people are working there.
So it's bringing money in already,
and yeah, like I said it's gonna keep growing that way.
Right before we get to number one,
don't forget we had another channel called On This Day,
there is a link down below.
And as a bonus, Columbus, Ohio.
Intel just announced they're moving a giant chip plant
right outside of Columbus, Ohio.
And I think in probably the next four or five years,
Columbus, which is probably the best city in Ohio already
will become a boom town.
All right, onto number one.
And number one, Tampa, Florida.
So a lot of you might not think
Tampa is that great of a place, but it is.
And I'm not really just talking about the city of Tampa,
I'm talking about the entire metro area.
This place is a great place to live,
it is a great place to work,
and more and more people are catching on to Tampa.
Tech and hospitality industries are big in the Tampa area.
Like I've said in a recent video, I think Tampa,
it doesn't get the love that it should.
Everyone knows about Orlando, Miami,
Daytona Beach, Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale,
even Key West gets more press than Tampa does.
For being right on the water, the entire Tampa bay area,
except for like the really exclusive neighborhoods,
they have affordable real estate.
Is it West Virginia cheap?
No, but it is definitely Florida on the water cheap.
Mark my words, in the next five years, Tampa will be huge.
All right, that's today's video.
Hope you guys enjoyed it.
Hope you guys didn't mind it being like an opinion video
instead of a stat driven video.
Most of the time we like to rely on stats,
but this is kind of my opinion on the stats
that I've been looking at over the last few years.
Anyway, everybody have a great day, be nice to each other.