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Over the last year I've seen an increase in requests to make videos on affordable
land and places with a low cost of living, things of that nature. So, I'm
gonna do it. I'm going to make a video about that, this video is about inexpensive
places to live and buy a home this one will be focused on the city
cities that in comparison to the rest of the country are somewhat affordable I
tell you it's about cities so we don't have people saying that I don't know
what I'm talking about because they bought a 1950s fixer-upper eight miles
outside of bag Wyoming for $75,000 or someplace similar to that and if you've
never heard of bag Wyoming nobody has so don't feel bad
so for this video let's just assume that it is in fact cheaper live in the
outback of any state and it's probably also easier to hunt squirrel or possum
for dinner we're looking at places most people would want to live really this is
a video that anyone over the age of 20 should be interested in if you're 18 and
dreaming of a career as a video game player then that normally takes place in
your parents home and you're really not concerned with costs so this video may
not be for you for the rest of us let's take a look at where we might be able to
go in my top 10 most affordable cities
number ten Louisville Kentucky Louisville is a nice quiet city
surrounded by miles of farmland the city has recently been found to be one of the
most affordable places to live it really is an amazingly beautiful city most
people really don't give it a second thought when they're thinking about
traveling or relocating they're missing out the overall cost of living here is
14% lower than the national average and the median home price is about seventy
thousand dollars less than the national average on average residents only have
to spend about twenty percent of their total income on living expenses which is
really low now the average home is about $160,000 and it's forecasted to go up
about two percent over the next year year and a half
Kentucky is one of those states that has a couple of cities that are great and
then it gets really backwoods in a hurry if you stay in the city and don't try
and go a little cheaper by moving 20 miles outside the city you'll be fine
but there's some neck of the woods that you don't want to be in in Kentucky
number nine Little Rock Arkansas Little Rock is home to about 730,000 residents
and also has the oldest standing state capitol building west of the Mississippi
River although that's not the only thing Little Rock is known for they're also
known for its affordability and crime the good news is the affordability is
still there and the crime is slowly trending downwards Little Rock is
extremely affordable with an overall cost of living that's about 13 percent
lower than the national average the median home sells for about one hundred
and forty thousand dollars that's cheap Little Rock does have some challenges
like crime and poverty no getting around that the unemployment rate was one of
the worst in the country ten years ago during the recession now it's it's a
little better than the national average as of March 2019 the national average is
three point nine percent Little Rock is sitting at three point six percent
that's not too shabby for a state that is most often used as a punch line in a
joke told at an Elks Lodge all around the country
number eight Syracuse New York Syracuse is home to about six hundred sixty
thousand residents located in upstate New York and they are cold most of the
year the median income per household here's about $50,000 only about 20% of
the residents income is spent on living expenses that's dirt cheap in Syracuse
you can get a house for as low as $3,000 I actually saw someone Zillow for about
$3,000 they were like ready to be torn down or anything like that either
they needed some work but it's not like you you know had to rebuild the whole
thing and chase a pack of wild dogs out or anything like that
they were almost livable houses the median home price in Syracuse is about
88 thousand dollars that's the median home price and of course they take into
consideration those ones that are like three and five thousand dollars but to
get a decent home to move into you're looking at about one hundred and twenty
thousand dollars one hundred fifty thousand it probably just got renovated
the downside of living in Syracuse is the weather
holy hell this place gets cold very cold
number seven Tulsa Oklahoma Tulsa is home to a lot of open spaces a lot of
boredom and big pickup trucks with things that resemble testicles hanging
from the trailer hitch they also have the blue dome
entertainment district and nearly a half a million residents who can easily
afford their home and some entertainment the median income is about $45,000 a
year and they only spent about 20% of their annual income on living expenses
again very cheap on average a house here will sell for about 120 thousand a year
the forecast for Tulsa is a 1.9 percent home price increase over the next 18
months now part of the reason they have such cheap property is crime they have
some sections of Tulsa that are pretty scary to get a home outside the scary
neighborhood you're still looking at only a you know $160,000 maybe so move
to Tulsa buy a big truck stay out of bad neighborhoods and live
cheap that could be a new campaign slogan for them if anyone from Tulsa
wants to use that one go ahead it's a keeper number six Greenville South
Carolina if you talk to anyone from Greenville its Greenville this is home
to the Green Monster at floor field and home to eight hundred and seventy two
thousand residents the Green Monster is a replica of a major league baseball
outfield wall found at Fenway Park in Boston this is the home field of the
Greenville Drive a minor league baseball team that's the affiliate for the Boston
Red Sox that's why they want to make it look like the field they're in Fenway
Park it's kind of cool it's a really an iconic field so yeah it's kind of cool
anyway the city has an amazing unemployment rate of about two percent
and the residents spend only about 21% of their yearly income on housing and
living expenses this is another place that has a little bit of a crime thing
going on but the cost of living is so low it might be worth the risk
number five Youngstown Ohio Youngstown broke the top 100 for the US
News's best place to live in 2019 list ranking 97th sure that doesn't sound
great but Youngstown is sucked forever and I'm sure if you were to dig up a
list from say ten years prior they probably wouldn't have cracked Mexico's
top 100 list Youngstown is about an hour east of Cleveland and has about five
hundred and fifty thousand residents these residents live a pretty easy life
considering how affordable the sidious residents in Youngstown make an average
of fifty thousand dollars a year and only use about 21% on living expenses
now this place is scary cheap but it also has some crime and poverty it's to
be expected at this point you can move into a decent home here for $70,000 and
I mean decent like ready to go and you don't have to do a whole bunch of
repairs a fixer-upper may set you back twenty five thousand dollars that is
nuts speaking of nuts it gets cold here and yours could actually freeze off
during the winter number four Buffalo New York Buffalo is a border
town right next to Niagara Falls Canada the city has a population of 1.1 million
and an average household income of about $48,000 residents here spent about 19
percent of their annual income on housing and living expenses the cost of
living is extremely low at 47 percent lower than the national average this is
another city you can buy a house for under a hundred thousand to get into one
of the better neighborhood you're looking at about a hundred and twenty
thousand that's dirt cheap again it gets cold here and your tears will freeze to
your face while watching the Buffalo Bills have another crappy season so be
prepared for that it snows a bunch all through the football season and beyond
number three Baton Rouge Louisiana Baton Rouge is the second most populous city
in Louisiana with about 230,000 residents the city is also one of the
most affordable in the country the overall cost living here is about twelve
percent lower than the national average with utilities being the lowest at about
thirteen percent lower than the national average with a median household income
of about forty eight thousand the average resident in Baton Rouge spends
about eighteen percent of their income on their housing and basic necessities
this place is extremely affordable don't move here you will probably die in
a hail of bullets other than that it's a great place to live
number two Grand Rapids Michigan Grand Rapids is a great place to live in the
summer you can enjoy the Grand River in the winter you can enjoy ice skating and
Rosa Parks Circle and year round you can enjoy affordability of this city Grand
Rapids is one of the most affordable cities in the state with just a little
over 20% of the income being spent on living expenses
although the median household income is lower than the national average at
51,000 Grand Rapids isn't the cheapest on this list but it's low and it you
don't have that fear of death factor like other places on this list their
crime isn't terrible compared to other places and stop typing I am sure that
someone from Grand Rapids is feverishly typing their rebuttal about crime the
stats aren't great I get it it's just not a step up from the last battle scene
of Avengers end game like Baton Rouge Asst and it has jobs so that's a plus
hey and before we get to number one don't forget there's a pull towards the
end of the video it'll pop up in the upper right of the video click on that
it's just one question helps out with data for the upcoming videos appreciate
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and number one Huntsville Alabama Huntsville is located in northern
Alabama near the Tennessee border the city is home to nearly half a million
residents making this one of the top 5 most populous cities in the state of
Alabama Huntsville is an incredibly affordable place to live the overall
cost living is 8 percent lower than the national average and less than 17
percent of the average household income goes towards housing costs making
Huntsville an ideal place to live and save your money
the thing about Huntsville is they have jobs they have things to do the schools
are decent and a 3-bedroom 2bath home is under a hundred thousand dollars right
around a hundred thousand dollars but normally below it that's a backyard
front yard you know maybe even woods and a creek behind your house for a hundred
thousand dollars that is nothing to sneeze at the forecast is property will
only increase by 0.2% so you have some time to pull the trigger on this one if
you want huntsville alabama is the most affordable city to move to for 2019 2020
all right so that's my top 10 most affordable cities in the United States I
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