What is going on everyone? How's the world treating you? I hope good let's
take a look at the Empire State New York last year I drove from Syracuse to
Watertown New York case you don't know where that is it's in the northern
section of the state near Lake Ontario whenever I have time on a road trip like
this I like to stop at some of the towns along the route you know just take a
look at the town the few stops that I made on this trip seemed really nice the
towns were nice they were quaint there were nice little towns and I started to
wonder why people think upstate and pretty much all of New York State kind
of sucks I ended up talking to a UPS driver in a diner called Grahams in
Adams New York he explained that they have some tragically bad towns in New
York you just need to know where to look he listed about 25 that he'd been to or
heard about and advised never to visit I took his list and I did some research
and he was pretty accurate New York is a great state but like all states it has
some towns that I'm sure most people want to avoid like a proctologist with
cold hands no place is perfect that's just a fact I get that
stop typing these videos are about giving you information about places that
you really won't find unlike a travel brochure or a towns website stuff they
don't want you to know about they're like an anti travel brochure so why
don't we find out what towns made the list in my top 10 worst towns in New
York number 10 Mexico New York Mexico not to be confused with our neighbors to
the south is a smaller town of just 5,000 residents near Lake Ontario the
town isn't the best place to move especially when you're in need of a job
or something from a store warm weather or a good time none of that goes on here
the average income per capita is about $27,000 leaving about 20% of the town
living in poverty and about 5% of them are unemployed currently they don't have
much to do here and the weather gets a big fat F and I'm sure more than once a
joke has been floated about building a wall around this Mexico instead of the
other one the good news is they have almost no crime unlike the other Mexico
to the south I mean totally unlike the other one
number nine NASA in New York NASA is a small town on the eastern side
of the Hudson River near Albany New York and it has about a thousand residents
the cost of living here is not the worst in the state however it could be far
better for what you're getting on average the price of groceries here
tends to be 8% higher than the national average while goods and services as well
as transportation are around five percent higher than the national average
and health care is creeping up in price this town is a sad little place that
progress for God they have a hardware store in desperate need of repair it's a
hardware store here's an idea next time it's a little slow from what I can see
is probably most the time send a worker outside with a paintbrush and some paint
good news is the weather sucks he won't need any sunscreen number eight Theresa
New York do you have kids do you hate cold weather do you like
living indoors and not getting robbed or assaulted if any of those are yes don't
move to three CIN New York the unemployment rate in three says 121
percent higher than the national average the poverty level is 47 percent lower
than the national average Theresa is safer than only 20 percent of the cities
in the United States now I know that's not a terrible number but keep in mind
Chicago is only safer than five percent in Los Angeles twelve percent safer than
the rest of the cities this is a little town of nothingness that is ranked
d-minus in crime F in jobs housing schools and weather I'm not getting why
anyone would want to move here but theory says a place you kind of might
want to avoid number seven Morrisville New York
Morrisville is 33 miles south of the Canadian border and is right next to the
Vermont state border this means the weather here is horrible the temperature
here is usually below freezing from November to March no kidding
November to March the most precipitation throughout the years in June and during
that month the town sees on average about 5.2 inches this town has more
mobile homes than people with all their teeth they also have a bar called fuzzy
ducks this little gem in upstate New York has probably the least enticing
sign I have ever seen in front of a business that would like to make money
number six Lewiston New York Lewiston is a great place to live if you're an
Eskimo or a polar bear warm-blooded humans not so much the town
borders Canada just north of Niagara Falls during the hottest months
temperatures only rise up to about 72 degrees while an average the city is
frozen from December to about April the highest recorded temperature here is
only a hundred degrees and that was like once the lowest was minus 13 degrees
this is the type of cold that makes you wish you were fatter number five
Endicott New York Endicott is best known for being the first place of the IBM the
International Business Machines Corporation most people don't know
that's what it's actually called it once employed most of the town the
headquarters is now outside of White Plains New York kind of moved on there's
still a branch in town but it doesn't seem to be helping the residents too
much since the income per capita here is like $21,000 thirty eight percent lower
than the state average and this leaves about 20 percent of the town living in
poverty this should be no shock to the good people of Endicott I mean they all
worked for a company that made machines that kind of made jobs easier for one
person to do that of many you know that's how IBM's thing the only thing
this place doesn't get an effort D in is cost of living and if you've been
following along on this channel you've learned when everything else sucks it
really doesn't cost much to live in the suck number for Mount Morris New York
Mount Morris can be found right outside of Letchworth State Park Mount Morris
acts more like a pit stop town for those traveling to the State Park the biggest
employers here are the public schools there's quite a few service jobs such as
to quick fuel gas stations and Dunkin Donuts and a McDonald's nothing real in
this town to build a career on the median household income is just under
32,000 which leaves about 30% of this town living in poverty this place has a
great little downtown Main Street it's adorable
the downside is no jobs the schools blow weather sucks and the houses are out of
balance with what's going on with the rest of the town economically they are
too expensive and stop typing I don't need someone explaining to me how the
housing market works and it's not too expensive you get what you
here it what I'm saying is typically housing costs are in line with
everything else going on economically in a city this one's out of whack
number three Cattaraugus Cattaraugus is a small village of around a thousand
residents about 30 miles east of lake erie there are three public schools in
the town that are all in one building happens in small towns they have an
elementary school middle school high school all in one building all of which
do exceptionally horrible judging by their scores I would think they may need
a little more funding maybe they can use all that money they have left over from
all those downtown revitalization efforts they've had they should have all
that money available because it doesn't look like they've done anything there
downtown in 50 years and that's too bad because it's a cute little brick Main
Street thing it looks like it has potential
they just haven't done anything to it the schools have horrible test scores
the average is fifteen percent lower than the national average Cattaraugus
has crime low-paying jobs and nothing to do but wait for the next round of bad
weather number two Ellenville New York
Ellenville has about 4,000 residents this is not a place you want to move to
if you're still looking for a job definitely place you want to have
something lockdown before you head out to this little village the median income
per household here is just under forty three thousand dollars that's 26% lower
than the state average the main employers in town are the public school
system and Evansville Regional Hospital which is a decent Hospital these are
great employers however it's not keeping the residents out of poverty currently
about 20% of the residents are living in poverty with an unemployment rate that's
just over seven percent now if this was 2008 2010 that would be average
unemployment numbers not today not 2019 the school test scores suck bad weather
cost of living and housing are all grated d this town is just too far away
from anything real to make it a reasonable place to live for anyone
that's let's say not independently wealthy or retired it's a nice-looking
town too that has potential will it ever be realized is the real question they
also got knocked down their crime they need to do something about the vacant
lots and the empty storefronts and this place might be nice right now it sucks
and before we get to number one don't forget there's a pole towards the end of
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and number one Brownville New York Brownville is a small town of just under
a thousand residents on the Black River right outside of Watertown New York the
town contains a village also named Brownsville within its borders
besides lacking any creativity the town and village lack most everything else
living here is not terribly exciting they have all the basic things you need
to run a city a fire department post office a school a few churches and a
pizza place if you need anything else you're gonna have to go to Watertown
which is far worse than Brownsville but Watertown does have a Walmart in the
eyes of rural America that makes it better
the schools are greater than F just like weather and amenities and I'm sure the
most popular place in town would be a u-haul if they had one they don't the
town gets a derating for crime and employment housing and cost of living or
sees it's not incredibly exciting or wise decision to move to Brownsville New
York all right so that's my top ten more small towns in New York I'd love to hear
what you think about it if there's something that I miss I'd love to hear
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