hey welcome back everyone or welcome to the world according to Briggs of this
your first time on this channel we do lists about locations and types of
locations kind like a Travel Channel after talking so much recently about the
book flue highways in case this is your first time here it's a true story about
a college professor who traveled all around the u.s. using backroads only he
visited a bunch of small towns and he wrote a book about it while talking
about it I kind of noticed going over all my old list that haven't done any
list on small towns they've all been about big cities and the worst cities
and liberal and conservative cities but nothing about small-town America which
is most of our country so I thought I'd make a couple lists about small towns
small towns or towns that have under 70,000 people but of course above a
thousand people now full disclosure about these lists I had to cut
California out of the equation because the bottom 32 is all California some up
in the Oakland area but a majority of them are down in the Los Angeles area
the Compton's wine gardens things like that so I just cut California out of the
equation so being fair of the small-town folks I thought I'd start these lists
after all we live in a world these days where some people go over everything you
do and say searching for something to be offended by I mean I have one guy pissed
off at me because I haven't included possum trot Kentucky on any of these
lists so far so here's my top ten were small towns in America number ten Kokomo
Indiana first of all this place is in the middle of nowhere an hour north of
Indianapolis up the Westfield Boulevard you find Kokomo Indiana if you're
pulling a u-haul keep driving this place has bad jobs bad weather and in bad
history Kokomo has been struck by 18 tornadoes between 1950 and 2015 and one
giant Klan rally attended by over 200,000 Klan members if that's not fun
enough Kokomo's mayor in 1881 was shot dead by a sheriff's posse after he
robbed the local flour mill in the early 1980s Koch bow made national news for
expelling a child who contracted aids from a blood transfusion like I said
keep driving
number nine Ardmore Oklahoma Ardmore is one of those places every young girl
dreams of moving out of the kind of place where people say stupid stuff like
you got a future at the plant boy don't screw it up by growing your hair long in
just three to five years you could be pulling down 25k a year you can't beat
money like that Ardmore only has 25,000 residents and according to the stats
each one of them has a solid chance of being assaulted every single day they
had more than 400 assaults reported in 2016 on top of that it's just a matter
of time before the plant shuts down and 1900 more people are on welfare this
place was an energy town for a long time and of course this led to highly
contaminated water like most energy towns and in 1915 a train containing gas
exploded killing 45 people and destroying much of downtown nobody
seemed to mind because they built the new portion just outside the burn mark
from the explosion and called it good hey here's a fun fact John Hinckley jr.
the guy who shot Ronald Reagan he was raised in Ardmore and what if he drank
that water number eight Niagara Falls New York
Niagara Falls I always thought this was a nice place and to my surprise it's one
of the most dangerous small towns in the state of New York and also the country
while many of the crimes that occur in Niagara Falls may be targeted tourists
residents have a one in 25 chance of being robbed every year themselves is
this the type place you'd consider relocating to not a lot of people do
nobody's moving into Niagara Falls the average home in Niagara Falls cost sixty
eight thousand dollars sixty eight thousand dollars now that's like
Mississippi backwood prices fifth cheapest average home price in the
country and they still can't get people to move in there
way to go Niagara
number seven Anderson Indiana this is the second Indiana City on our list but
if you know Indianapolis in the area around it in Indiana you know that
central Indiana is in bad shape when it comes to crime and jobs Anderson is in
the top 13 percent when it comes to the sheer number of crimes for a town of
this size when General Motors closed its operations in Anderson this city was
dealt a major economic blow as GM was the biggest employer in Anderson folks
who still live here have a daily struggle finding good jobs it sucks when
Walmart is your biggest employer in town side note I know a lot of trivia I do a
lot of reading and I like trivia things and I just know trivia things that'll
never get me ahead in life but I enjoy it and I can tell you it blew me away
when I looked up Anderson they have 40 people listed as notable residents or
people famous people from Anderson I didn't know any of them not one that's
the first time I've ever come across with that many people have no idea who
any of them were
number six Rocky Mount North Carolina every state has a bad town or two North
Carolina has a serious one in Rocky Mountain this city of about 58,000
people was listed as the ninth most dangerous city in terms of assaults in
2016 not many of the more serious crimes of murder or whatever than other places
but assaults are pretty frequent about as frequent as match.com commercial see
them all the time I hate those commercials but I'm sure they play those
commercials a bunch in Rocky Mount Rocky Mount is twenty third on the list of 101
cities of the highest percentage of single-parent households if they did
play those commercials I'm sure nobody would see them because the unemployment
rate is so high nobody can afford cable
number five Pine Bluff Arkansas the only category keeping Pine Bluff from ranking
first on this list is the fact that the public school system seems to be well
funded this city has problems in most cities with high crime and low property
value have underfunded schools not Pine Bluff they're doing something right
there when you can buy a home for $70,000 in a place with a good school
system you have to wonder why what's violent crimes and pills that's your
answer this town is in the middle of a serious pill and heroin fight and it's
too bad Google this town and look at the street view go up and down the streets
looks like this place was really nice once it's too bad
and number four Litchfield Kentucky gradual ations
Bluegrass State you made the list to be fair kentucky has some really nice towns
Litchfield ain't one of them Litchfield is probably the worst place
you could live in Kentucky and I bet you want to know why number one I was
stabbed by a guy from Litchfield well in the army probably shouldn't have asked a
man sharpening a bayonet if the KY and KY jelly is because they
use so much written the Kentucky backwoods his reply was no you stupid
ass and I replied what brand do you use in the Kentucky backwoods and he stabbed
me the twisted part were still friends on Facebook
number two the unemployment rate is about 13 percent the schools are
underfunded and the property values are well below state average got a serious
meth and pill problem and a home costs about eighty-five thousand which is a
true sign your town blows in Litchfield you have a 1 in 35 chance of being the
victim of some type of property crime every single year
don't move tillage filled number three Elkhart Indiana another Indiana town has
made the list Elkhart is just outside a South Bend
where the University of Notre Dame is in Elkhart one in nine residents are
without jobs and home prices are about as low as you can get 65,000 it's the
average I watched a video of a home foreclosure auction and the highest
bidder was $37,000 the guy filming it said at $37,000 this guy won't be able
to flip it and make a profit are you kidding me if you just have the framing
in California on a burnt-out lot next to a trailer park $37,000 you could flip it
and make a fortune when you can buy a home on a first year Taco Bell crew
member income with no down payment your town sucks they have so many abandoned
homes in Elkhart it's crazy there was a report that a whole block lost power
nobody reported it for three days the few residents that lived on that block
thought they just hadn't paid their bill and weren't able to so nobody called
took him three days realized that there was like a transformer something out on
the block
number two Fort Pierce Florida Fort Pierce is a dangerous place where it's
really hard to get a job city of under 42,000 people shouldn't have eight
murders every year more than one in nine people are without jobs and most of
those jobs they do have are in the neighborhood of minimum wage Fort Pierce
is an old army installation back from the second Seminole Wars Seminole
Indians we used to fight him I guess when you're in Fort Pierce you have a 1
in 68 chance of being the victim of a violent crime every single year
according the FBI website fun times and Fort Pierce this is also another place
where an odd amount of adults go missing adults vanish here like some kind of
twisted magic show this is also the hometown of a bunch of
sports stars and Edwin Binney miney Vinnie I don't know how to
pronounce his name but he's the co-founder of Crayola Crayons so that's
a plus
and number one Gallup New Mexico right now you're saying Gallup New Mexico
where is that well for starters it's in New Mexico this small city is really
isolated along a stretch of the i-40 now it's near a Native American reservation
it's been well documented that living outside of a Native American reservation
is extremely dangerous especially for white folks I won't speculate on white
but I'm sure it has a lot to do with the actions of white folks just a guess but
this town is sixteenth and most violent small towns in the nation where locals
had a 1 in 47 chance of being the victim of a violent crime property crimes are
also sky high and they are 15th in the nation in unauthorized use of another
human beings body I can't say what that is or what it's really called or the new
Google system will actually flag my video for a couple days so they actually
watch it and demon advertiser friendly but I think you know what I'm talking
about one other stat about Gallup New Mexico
they ranked fifth as in five in the nation of residents who've drank an
alcohol within the last 30 days bladder drinking goes on in Gallup New
Mexico well that's my list I hope you enjoyed it kind of a little downer on
this one we're small towns but I thought we'd do it anyway I hope you enjoyed it
I hope you give me a big thumbs up tell me if you think I missed another small
town or there's one near you that's horrible maybe I'll cover it the next
time we do this subject but hey everyone have a great day don't forget to share
this on your social media don't forget give me a like a dislike leave a comment
subscribe if you haven't already subscribe be nice to each other everyone