What is going on everyone? How are you doing? As we come to the close of 2019, I
think we should take a look at cities you shouldn't move to in 2020 we have a
lot of cities in this country that are doing well and their futures look
promising we also have a bunch that need to be steamrolled and started over we
also have some that people are still considering moving to but they really
shouldn't that's what we're focusing on today we probably have enough cities
like that to do ten videos just like this one but we're probably gonna stick
to two or three and we do have a lot to choose from the United States has 14
cities with more than a million people living in at 335 cities with anywhere
between 100,000 and a million and 4115 cities with between 10,000 and a hundred
thousand people that is a total of 4464 cities in the United States and honestly
only about 10% of them are appealing enough for most people to want to move
to them this list is in no particular order I'm just gonna name them all for
you that being said if you're looking for a new city to call home you should
probably stay away from number 10 Douglas Arizona Douglas is a small city
in southern Arizona along the Mexican border it is often considered to be the
worst city in Arizona the reason it's the worst one sucks that's the reason it
is a relatively poor city half the households earn less than $31,000 a year
and nearly 33% of the city's population lives below the poverty line it isn't
terribly dangerous but the chances of someone stealing anything from your
hubcaps to your home air conditioning unit are very high
I guess if you have hubcap insurance you're good to go so don't worry about
it anyway if you have a diploma from a major university like Harvard or
Stanford congratulations you have something really cool to hang on your
wall they don't have many jobs that need that kind of education at Douglas but if
you're a sandwich artist they have two subways that could really use a person
with your talents population of Douglas is sixteen thousand five hundred and
seventy six like I said the poverty rate is about 33 percent the violent crimes
in 2018 were 249 for every 100,000 residents the median home value here is
only 88 thousand dollars dirt-cheap number nine Anniston Alabama Anniston
Alabama is losing residents when I say losing I'm not talking like
using them in the woods more like they wake up one morning realize all their
friends family and jobs have left town so they might as well - in the last five
years Aniston's population has declined by 4.2 percent over the same period the
number of people working in the city has fallen 11% the city's population decline
may be attributed to low income and a high violent crime rate typical
household in Anniston earns $32,000 a year staggeringly bad there were three
thousand three hundred and fourteen violent crimes for every hundred
thousand residents in Anniston in 2018 that's not good their population is
22,000 the poverty rate here is just under 30% and the median home price is
about 95 thousand dollars a year again not good numbers number 8 Albany Georgia
Albany Georgia residents are more likely than most Americans to have less than
$100 in their checking account and from the poverty rate it would appear I'm
being extremely generous nearly a third of the city's population lives below the
poverty line one of the highest poverty rates in the country the city's medium
household income is thirty one thousand eight hundred and forty three dollars a
year that's a good clip below the US average which is 58,000 across the
United States employment increased by 6.1 percent from 2012 to 2017 in that
same time period employment in Albany fell four percent even if you have a job
chances are you aren't getting paid much with just population of 77,000 like I
said have about thirty four percent living in poverty in 2018 the overall
crime rate in Albany was one hundred and forty five percent higher than the
national average and the average home here goes for about a hundred thousand
things aren't good in this part of Georgia number seven California City
California California City residents are most likely to be unemployed are on some
sort of retirement this place was once a place with the dream some people really
thought it would be something big it just never materialized it's in the
middle of the desert where land is really cheap there's a big Air Force
Base close by it just never happened they laid out the streets and put Lots
up for sale nobody was buying when I was a kid we would go camping here so we
could ride motorcycles and ATVs we used to cruise around the streets that had no
homes it was neat the pavement was there but there was just no home so and it was
in the middle of nowhere if you google the map
you can see right here just a small portion has homes it's a wasteland that
time forgot kind of the unemployment rate in California City is one hundred
forty five percent higher than the national average
this lack of job contributes to thirty percent poverty rate California City has
which is more than double the US average home values in California are some of
the highest in the nation they average around four hundred and
forty three thousand that's statewide in California City it's just under a
hundred thousand these do have a population of about thirteen thousand
but still I mean even got a one in 33 chance beat a victim of a crime here so
you're living out in the desert that sucks
people ride motorcycles out in the desert and have a good time and you're
getting robbed and making no money great number six Rob's town Texas Rob's town
is a small city in southern Texas just west of Corpus Christi the city has had
no jobs for years Rob's town has had an unemployment rate
average of eight point one percent over the last five years that's well above
the four point one percent national unemployment rate we got right now
actually that's the average unemployment rate for 2018 that's the last completed
year so don't waste your time correcting me it fluctuates all year long at the
end of the year they give you an average we haven't completed 2019 Robstown has
been losing residents for as long as they've been losing jobs those two
things seem to go together all the time it's funny how people are if you can't
survive someplace you move on it's nothing new it's been going on since
humans started walking upright and saying hey where did all the Buffalo go
this place sucks looks like the Buffalo figured that out long before us maybe we
should follow him maybe we should quit using all that hemp stuff too it's
making us slow even though Texas ranks as one of the fastest growing states in
the nation Rob sounds populations front by two percent over the last five years
currently they have a population of about eleven thousand and a poverty rate
of thirty five point one percent the overall crime rate in Rob's town is 72%
higher than the national average the good news is you can get a house for
under sixty grand number five East st. Louis Illinois the
only place more dangerous than st. Louis Missouri is East st. Louis Illinois East
st. Louis is the most dangerous city in the most dangerous metro area in the
United States across the border in the st. Louis metro area there was two
thousand eighty two violent crimes for every 100,000 residents in 2018 that's
five times more than the Nash average crime rate of 383 incidents per
every hundred thousand residents in East st. Louis they're acting like it's a
competition between the two like a rivalry of suck they had two thousand
seven hundred and fifty two violent crimes for every one hundred thousand
residents more than seven times the national rate statistically if a city
has a lot of people living in poverty they have a lot of crime the stats are
spot on in this case East st. Louis has a forty three point one percent poverty
rate and that is among the highest in the United States unsafe streets and
widespread poverty may be driving people out of the city not maybe it is
absolutely this no getting around that in the last five years East st. Louis
population declined by 1.6 percent even though the US population grew by three
point eight percent weird thing is they had people moving in they had far more
moving out but they still had people moving in the only reason anyone should
ever move to East st. Louis is under court order by life insurance the
population of East st. Louis is twenty six thousand six hundred seventy eight
that's 2018 poverty rate like I said forty three point one percent and you
could buy a home for under fifty five thousand dollars in East st. Louis
number four Yasu City Mississippi besides having one of the most
ridiculous names of any city in the United States Yazoo City Mississippi is
one of the poorest cities in the United States at least half the households in
Yazoo City earn less than twenty-one thousand dollars annually and forty nine
percent of the population lives below the poverty line more than triple the
national average what are these people doing this city is so out of whack I
think the elected officials need to go back to school so they can learn how to
run a city hell at this point if they sat down at a computer and played Sim
City for a couple hours they'd be moving in the right direction financial
instability has everything to do with the area's weak job market unlike a
majority of the US Yazoo City has been shedding jobs like a person sheds fur
coats on a street corner in Yuma Arizona in July the overall number of people
employed in Yazoo City declined 15% between 2012 and 2008 teen they only
have a population of about 11,000 and it's getting lower every year but people
are still moving there which is really strange I don't get it in Yazoo City you
have a one in 25 chance of being a victim of a crime every single year
number three Bridgeton New Jersey Bridgeton is a small city in southern
New Jersey it is the worst cities to live in in the state
of New Jersey the typical household earns about $34,000 a year lower-income
residents have it worse than some other places on this list because Bridgeton
has the nerve to have a high cost living what really sucks about this place is
that it's got so much potential they have far too many beautiful homes and
buildings that are just rundown I'm talking about amazing architecture from
as far back as the Revolutionary War they have a bar here that was around
during the Revolutionary War it's still there it's still running like many
cities on this list Bridgeton is losing resident over the last five years the
city's population is declined by almost 2% even as the u.s. population has grown
by 3.8 percent I really hope this one has a revitalization effort someday the
population right now is just under 25,000 poverty rate here is about thirty
two point three percent in Bridgeton you have a 1 in 20 chance of being a victim
of a crime every single year the good news is you can get a home for about
$100,000 here number 2 Orange Cove California congratulations everyone
Earth has a purgatory it's called Orange Cove California if you're not sure what
purgatory is ask a friend that went to Catholic school from what I gathered my
time at Catholic school it's a place you go when you have impure thoughts about
female classmates if they didn't want us to have impure thoughts maybe you don't
dress up girls in plaid skirts and put them in the same building with a bunch
of boys going through puberty problem solved Orange Cove is one of the poorest
cities in the country nearly 48 percent of the population in Orange Cove which
is about 10,000 people lived below the poverty line and about half the
households earn less than $26,000 a year low incomes and financial hardships are
a direct result of nobody having jobs as you can imagine funny how that works you
know it's bad when a 35 year old man has to save up for 3 weeks to go to 7-eleven
to buy a Slurpee that type of stuff is going on in Orange Cove California right
now the good news is you can get a house for about 114 thousand dollars that's
not bad and if you know anything about California real estate that's shockingly
low even in the crappy neighborhoods that you're looking at $250,000
and number one Bridgeport Connecticut Bridgeport is the only city in
Connecticut and New England to be ranked among the worst places to live in the
United States really most places in New England are nice places to live I mean
sure you'll find little places here there they kind of suck but most places
are nice so congratulations Bridgeport you're bringing down the rest of New
England a relatively poor City the typical household in Bridgeport earns
about forty four thousand dollars a year and more than one in every five
residents lived below the poverty line those on the low end of the income
spectrum in Bridgeport are strained even further by the city's high cost of
living this is another one of those places that has the sure it sucks to
live here but we're gonna charge you like it doesn't mentality goods and
services in Bridgeport are 30% more expensive than the national average the
Labor Department estimates that about 10% of the workers have been unemployed
over the last five years now the good news is the median home value is only
about $170,000 compared to the rest of the New England is especially the cities
that's pretty cheap alright so that is my top ten worst cities to move to in
the United States hope you got some information I hope you were entertained
yeah a lot of these places suck I didn't do them in any particular order so
number ones not really worse than number ten or anything like that I'm just gonna
list a bunch probably do one or two more lists just like this one anyway like I
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