What is going on everyone let's talk about a place that sucks
So bad people in Mississippi actually make jokes about it Pine Bluff
Arkansas Pine Bluff Arkansas is a real-life cautionary American tale
If you look at the stats alone Pine Bluff Arkansas is like the Babe Ruth of suck
They've been knocking bad stats out of the park for years. This town is so bad
You'd think they're trying to win some kind of national contest or something
Pine Bluff has been nicknamed the most dangerous town in America more than once and it's a name
They've earned Pine Bluff didn't always suck. It was kind of decent in the 1800s, I guess
I don't know lime Bluff was actually not that bad until let's say the 1960s or 70s
factories that once bustle in the
1940s had been
taken over by gangs and stripped of anything of value and
They took what they stripped and the money they sold it for to buy drugs and you know
You know that type of thing as you can see just another town brought down by drugs and violence actually, really
That's kind of what brings down towns most the time is drugs and violence
Have you ever heard of a town that was brought down by cupcakes and tickle fights?
No, it's always drugs and violence and gangs Pine Bluff has 42 thousand residents currently and it's down from the 2010 numbers
which was about
49,000 Pine Bluff is not a place people are really flocking to these days
But that's not to say nobody does move there if you're thinking about moving to Pine Bluff before you do that
You should probably watch my top ten reasons not to move to Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Number ten, it's in Arkansas. The first nail in the Pine Bluff coffin is the fact that it's actually in the state of Arkansas
Arkansas in case you've been living in a prison on the island of
Madagascar for the last 50 years is not the best state in the Union when it comes to pretty much everything
I did read recently that they do lead the country in hate groups
So they've got that little badge of shame going on for him
The numbers show that there's not a lot of right things
Going on in Arkansas Pine Bluff doesn't help that image. Either Pine Bluff is a nightmare as the rest of this list will show you
Number nine the headlines if you're living in Pine Bluff
the news doesn't paint a very good picture this place the news coming out of this town just
Feeds into the general feeling of depression and despair
You have to see headlines like these real ones from the local news on a daily basis here
They go Pine Bluff Community Center reopens after parking lot homicide seven year old girl survives shooting in Pine Bluff
Her family says it's miracle trailer filled with nearly 3,000 dead chickens abandoned in Pine Bluff Pine Bluff
Arkansas man points a gun at police officers shoot and kill suspect. This is a constant
There is always a handful really depressing headlines that help add to the reputation of Pine Bluff and stop typing. Yes
They do have some good headlines like every other town in America. The thing is no other town
This size has headlines like those on a daily basis
Number eight whether Pine Bluff among its many other issues has a love-hate relationship with mother nature
They get hot summers and bitter cold
Winters the river decides to come into town every once in a while and they get tornadoes
So every single year you have to worry as your trailer going to float away or fly away good times in Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Number seven boarded up houses now
This one's sort of strange funny and sad all at the same time
Pine Bluff has a serious amount of boarded up homes now in a depressed city or town
This isn't unusual when you have an abandoned home or property banks that only abandon home
Well board up the house to try and deter animals and squatters from setting up residence cities board them up
So people don't get in there start doing drugs and turn it into a drug house
but in Pine Bluff
They have homes that are boarded up by the homeowners and the home owners are still living in the home
The town is so dangerous that they have found that this is just a low-budget version of having boarded up windows
It's like they're getting ready for a hurricane, but they aren't they're getting ready for the next wave of tweakers to wander down their street
Number six the STD rate Pine Bluff has a serious STD rate
Sexually transmitted disease in case you don't know they also have a high teen pregnancy rate
I guess nobody in this town has ever heard of a condom Pine Bluff was ranked with the 16th highest
STD rate in the country. They were also the first entry on the list that wasn't a city they're a town
It was like Washington DC Memphis st
Louis the Bronx Baltimore, New Orleans Milwaukee, Jackson, Mississippi
Philly and then a few more and then also BAM Pine Bluff Arkansas with its forty thousand people it's crazy
I don't know what's going on in that town, but they need to knock it off
Number five the unemployment like most towns that excel in sucking Pine Bluff doesn't have many jobs
Or at least many well-paying jobs
They used to have some decent factory jobs, but those dried up years ago for the most part
the unemployment rate in Pine Bluff is 41 percent higher than the national average the income per capita in Pine Bluff is
42 percent lower than the national average
So if you're lucky enough to have a job to go to chances are when you get there. They're not paying you much. That sucks
Number four schools if you want to be depressed and feel a little bit sad for our future
Generations Google Pine Bluff School District and hit the news button look around
It's not pretty they try and get as many good news stories as they can out there about the school district
But yeah, it's bad so bad that in 2018 the state had to take over the schools from the town of Pine Bluff
That's not good
There's total 26 public schools and eight private schools and six post secondary schools in Pine Bluff
The average student a teacher ratio is 16 to 1 that's not terrible in Pine Bluff an average of 81
Percent of the students complete eighth grade and an average of 75% of the students complete high school. Like I said, not good
Number three housing and cost of living now
If you've been watching this channel long enough, you know
If the cost of living is really really low and the home prices are really really low
It's a sign that this place is really really bad
You can buy a move-in-ready home for under fifty thousand dollars in Pine Bluff, Arkansas
And the cost of living in Pine Bluff is 18% lower than the national average 18 percent doesn't sound bad
But it is now before you do it stop typing a cheap house isn't bad on the surface
The low price isn't the issue the reason why it's such a low price is the issue and in this situation in Pine Bluff
Arkansas the why is easy to explain the chances of you getting your stuff taken along with your life are very high
Unless of course you I don't know board up your windows at night or something
Number two poverty
It doesn't take a degree in urban studies to know that poverty is one of Pine bluffs hurdles
As a matter of fact, I think common sense would kind of tell you that it's the cause of all their other problems
I mean besides the fact there in
Arkansas the median household income in Pine Bluff is four 6% lower than the national average
They're almost making half of what the rest of the country is
The poverty level in Pine Bluff is a hundred and fifteen percent higher than the national average. That's horrible
All right, and before we get to number one, don't forget. There's a poll towards the end of the video
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And number one crime crime is obviously the number one reason Pine Bluff is considered the most dangerous town in America
You don't get that title by having the country's largest ball of twine
If it was Cawker City Kansas would be the most dangerous town in America
Currently there have the largest ball twine
And they use the most hand lotion in America crime and dangerous are always the worst stats and titles for any town
I'm sure Pine Bluff would swap out that
Title with any other title like the town with the most student loan debt the town with the most uninsured motorist
Hell, I'm sure they'd even take the town with the most lawyers. Not many towns would take that
But I think they would the overall crime rate in Pine Bluff is a hundred and sixty nine percent higher than the national average
In Pine Bluff every single year. You have a one in thirteen chance of being the victim of a crime
Those aren't good numbers. This is a town of less than 50,000 people. Why can't they get it together?
This one has always confused me
It's not like Pine Bluff just had this big crime spike over the last couple of years. This has been going on for decades
It's ridiculous
All right, so that's my ten reasons why you shouldn't move to Pine Bluff, Arkansas
It's dangerous and everything else sucks about the place. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed the video
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