Hey welcome back to the world according to Briggs I'm Briggs and this is my channel.
On this channel I make top 10 lists about travel and and different locations
for the most part. Last week I did the worst small towns in America and I
normally like to do both sides of any theme and bring you the positive side in
my next video. Now after it was uploaded last week I
got a bunch of comments both pro and con about the video.
Small town people are very passionate about their hometowns they like to tell
you how wrong you are about their town whenever you do make a video and that's
fine hometowns are like family members I get, its kind of in your roots you know
that's where your roots are your hometown your small town. I always get a
good laugh though when I get people throw in insults over a travel comedy
video always good stuff but anyway that being said let's get started
here's my top 10 best small towns in America number 10 Jackson Wyoming if you
like the outdoors this is your place Jackson is 60 miles from Yellowstone 5
from Grand Teton National Park's Jackson Wyoming is tourism it is that's what
people are there for they have a couple cool attractions snow king resort they
also have this really cool thing it's not gonna sound too cool the National
Elk Refuge the elk thing is a good time it really is unless your name's Lydia
and you're an older woman and you're crazy you're bitter and you're an expert
on everything this woman talked the whole trip it was bad
it was really bad eventually some guy in the tour turned around looked at Lydia's
at oh there's just one of you and she's like yes what were you expecting and
goes well as much talking as you do I thought there'd be three to nine of you
three to nine not three or four of you not five or six you three to nine of you
the best part is Lydia wanted off the tour right then in the middle of the
field she was that was it she was in serious victim mode and claims she
didn't feel safe with that man on the tour anymore
the guy said two sentences and turned around and he was an older gentleman
about 60 70 years old anyway that was a good time Jackson has
a large shopping center and a restaurant district giving it a bunch of kind of
cool things to do other than hiking camping
and watching Elks mate while Lydia describes it to you it's got a lot of
things to do now when I stayed there I stayed at the cowboy village log cabin
resort which this is really neat place it's like a hotel but they give you your
individual log cabins it was a lot of fun I really enjoyed it I'm going back
probably in 2018 maybe 2019 gonna do some more snowmobiling there that's a
lot of fun too but other than that the schools are amazing apparently they get
high marks and everything and they have very very low crime it's well below the
national average even especially I should say for a tourist location number
nine Port Angeles Washington Port Angeles is settled between the Olympic
mountain range and the Strait of Juan de Fuca in the Puget Sound basically
there's a lot of fun stuff for residents around this town yeah mountains rivers
lakes forest lands you also have a great medical care center the Olympic Medical
Center which is kind of big for a place this small and out of the way it's
really nice a lot of good doctors and nurses there
the schools are nice and it has very low crime only about two hours from Seattle
probably would be closer timewise if you didn't have to take a ferry I hate
ferries sorry if there's any ferry captains out there that are growing red
in the face right now I I'm sorry I just like I'm sure they're safer than driving
I just would rather not take a ferry and when I say ferry
I mean boat or ship type thing nothing else so quit typing home prices are low
jobs are good and very little crime and like a lot of places around the Puget
Sound if you look out in the ocean there's a good chance you might see a
Orca or two number eight or kata California located near Humboldt Bay
Arcada is a college town with Humboldt State University students making up more
than half the city's total population for most of you you just gasped and said
college town college towns are nightmares college kids are nightmares
not Humboldt State kids it's pretty mellow school Arcada has very low home
prices for California especially when you consider how close they are to the
ocean and crime levels be much lower than the state average very low home
our kata had three murders in 2013 prior to that Dan had one since 2002 and that
was just one and before that it'd been quite some time since they'd had a
murder crime is very low in our kata notable residents are Coty's home of UFC
fighter Nate quarry good fighter as day most people known for getting knocked
out so hard he was asleep standing up good night Nate
number seven Spearfish South Dakota okay once you realize there's a giant
difference between North and South Dakota
you can relax and listen North Dakota's kind of a nightmare South Dakota is a
really nice place to live and one of the best places in South Dakota is a small
town called Spearfish South Dakota this is another place for the outdoor types
three mountains surround Spearfish outdoor lovers come here to fish in the
creek hike the canyon and visit the Black
Hills it's not too far from the town of Deadwood and Sturgis and like I said the
Black Hills National Forest is right behind it now if you ever do go to
Deadwood and you're hungry go to the gym this is a steakhouse inspired by the HBO
series Deadwood if you've never seen that it's great it's a series about the
1800s gold mining days in South Dakota good news is they don't use the f-word
as much at the gym as they did in the TV show in Spearfish they have highly
regarded schools within the Spearfish School District and the Black Hills
State University is a really good University the only downside is you have
to tell everyone you live in a place called Spearfish
number six point roberts washington white roberts is a strange little nipple
of land near Vancouver British Columbia it was part of Washington's estate but
it's connected by land only to Canada and it's hard not to have a ocean view
on the point I love this place I had it my way I'd be retired there right now
crime is non-existent there the school that they have there's decent and that's
only the third grade after that you got to travel to blaine washington the kids
fourth grade above have to bus it through canada to blaine washington go
to school that's about the only downside of the place like i said
ocean view people see orca swimming by on a regular basis now they have some
stats and i'm just gonna give them to you as bullet points because it's pretty
interesting the overall crime rate on point roberts is 58 percent lower than
the national average 58 percent lower point roberts is safer than 85% of these
cities in the United States on point Roberts you only have a 1 in 88 chance
of becoming the victim of any crime any crime not just assaults or murders or
anything like any crime whatsoever only a 1 in 88 now the housing prices they
can get a little steep there especially if you do have one of the oceanview ones
or one right on the ocean it's like a little village of the United States
now you could travel by ferry to see how or whatever but most people will go up
through Vancouver and back down now you also get to go through Vancouver and to
Vancouver so there's a lot of really cool things you can get from Canada and
stuff but you're right there especially if you're an older person that has to
pay for you know your prescriptions and stuff you have candid or right there and
a lot of people nowadays go to Canada to get their prescriptions for like 10
percent of what they are here I don't know the actual number but I know it's a
hell of a lot cheaper Point Roberts is probably where I'll retire and it's
number six on our list
number five Hood River Oregon this is another place for the outdoor types snow
ski snowboard wind surf mountain bike hike whatever you want to do all in the
same day Mount Hood is less than an hour away depending on what part of the
mountain you're going to from Hood River if you don't feel like driving up a
mountain for fun the town of Hood River is located where the Hood River and the
Columbia River meet this town is very little crime and as of
2016 they haven't had a murder in over 20
years that's a good that's a good number just a couple of assaults every year and
a handful of robberies typical touristy type town if that all sounds good to you
start packing up soon because home values are starting to creep up I've
driven through and stayed two nights in the Hood River and I really liked it we
kind of looked at that place when we move to Oregon originally now we decide
to stay closer to Portland obviously if you follow along here but Hood River is
a really really nice small town in Oregon right across the river from
Washington to
number four Bar Harbor Maine now I haven't done much time in Maine over the
course of my life I do have a buddy from the Army that grew up in Bar Harbor and
he always spoke very highly of the place his parents owned a restaurant there Bar
Harbor is a town on Mount Desert Island Maine that's a little tiny a little not
really tiny but it's an island right off the coast of Maine one thing that stands
out about Bar Harbor is it has some of the best air quality in the country
consistently if that's something you're concerned with you should probably run a
u-haul today crime is very very low I tried to find the last murder they had
in Bar Harbor and I had nothing for 30 years couldn't find anything if I'm
wrong let me know but I I did some searching all I ran into was a bunch of
stories about grisly murders that led to hauntings from the 1800s just stuff like
that the only knock on this place is the cost of living its high the web site
area vibes calm gives it a a plus on the crime category and an F on cost of
living but the place is amazing and it still might be worth it especially if
you got some coin in your pocket number three st. Augustine Florida considered
the nation's oldest city st. Augustine celebrated its 450th anniversary back in
2015 so now it's 452 years old residents get to live with what millions of
tourists come to see every single year historic Spanish architecture amazing
beaches and a great downtown filled with restaurants shops and museum as a matter
of fact they are ranked 10th in the amount of museums for any city the main
industry here is obviously tourism and they always have jobs they have a great
school system and a low cost of living compared to other coastal towns it's
also the hometown of the late great Tom Petty who passed away early this month
number two Lebanon New Hampshire Lebanon offers residents the type of life that
you just won't find in any big city Lebanon is a beautiful place with a
strong economy and a good educational system affordable housing and very low
crime this is a town that always seems to be on all lists about good places the
live Lebanon and West Lebanon are tucked in a valley along the Connecticut River
Lebanon is home of the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center which is a
great great place a couple high tech companies including TomTom the ones that
do the GPS thing under notable residence on Wikipedia they listed Charlie Park
Hearst if you don't know who that is you're not alone Charlie was a
cross-dressing stagecoach driver from the 1800s not sure why someone felt the
need to add him to this list the only thing Charlie ever did was convince
everyone that she was a man it's not a big deal I imagine maybe for the time
but I suspect my cousin Willie's been doing the same thing and he doesn't have
a Wikipedia page
you
and number one Traverse City Michigan finally something about Michigan and
isn't Detroit or poison water and Flint this town of about 15,000 people
consistently ranked high on lists about the best small towns all over the
internet it's easy to see why great beaches great vineyards
great views of Lake Michigan visitors newcomers anyone just stop and by
tourists they fall in love with this Michigan town do you like wine
boating hate stuck-up a-holes if so go to Traverse City and not Martha's
Vineyard that's a quote from a subscriber who's lived in both the city
has no real notable residence I mean this dudes from the city but he's really
not notable home prices are kind of low compared to other towns and even lower
if you do live next door to this dude if you don't mind snow cold weather in
general I think we found your new hometown well everyone that's my list I
hope you enjoyed it I hope you got some good information out of it maybe you
found a new hometown whatever either way don't forget to leave me a comment leave
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button also I did find another book well I known about it and I read it years ago
and I picked it I've read it again it's by John Steinbeck it's travels with
Charlie in search of America it's he went on a travel around America and just
drove around and checked out America it was it's a really cool book pick it up
the links down below along with blue highways in case you haven't got that
everybody have a great day be nice to each other
and nothing need up not the thread the last degree say nothing that's enough
for me I don't want sorry