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- [Briggs] Hate is a strong word,
but is there a major city in the United States
that you actually hate?
A lot of people say
that they have a city or two that they do.
They hate it.
What is going on, everyone?
Welcome back the "World According to Briggs"
in a video about cities people hate.
Over the years,
there've been a lot of surveys and research
on how people feel about different cities and states
in the United States
and actually the world.
Today, we're just looking at the US.
Gallup and Pew Research have done different studies
on this subject.
US census has looked at different aspects
of how people feel about cities.
Some travel websites have done polls.
And one company actually asked truckers
what cities they hate.
Last week, I asked the question on this channel
and I got some good information from that.
We took all the different studies
and looked for the cities
that showed up most frequently.
My favorite survey asked people
to name three cities they hate
and came up with what percentage
of the respondents had each city in their top three,
and the reason most often given
for why they hate that city.
Keep in mind, we're looking at the negative side
of the subject.
So when you wanna leave your comment,
understand that all cities on this list
are not 100% bad.
Like any location,
whether it's a city, state,
town or country,
it has some good as well.
We're just looking at
the negative side of it on this video.
We'll do a second video
where we look at cities people love.
Even the ones that people love,
I could tell you this,
the greatest city and everyone seems to love it,
but there's got to be things in there
that some people don't like.
Maybe it's the greatest city in the world low taxes,
low houses,
great jobs,
but they got horrible traffic.
There's always a negative.
There's always a positive.
Today's list is ranked on the percentage of people
that listed these 10 cities
in their most hated three.
All right, let's see who sucks.
Number 10, Louisville, Kentucky.
This one caught me a little off guard.
I've been to Louisville a few times over the years
and I really liked it.
The only problem I had
is I just didn't fit in.
It wasn't my crowd.
I did comedy there once for three nights
and they just didn't like me,
or maybe they were jealous I had all my teeth.
Who knows?
But Louisville, in my opinion,
is a beautiful city.
As I did the research for this,
I found out that's not everyone's opinion.
Louisville is the 16,973rd ranked city in the USA.
It's kind of far down on the food chain,
if you ask me.
Crime is 88% above the national average.
And 38% of the people surveyed
had Louisville in their top three most hated.
The biggest reasons they give,
crime, schools and politics.
Number nine, Miami, Florida.
This isn't the first time
that I've seen reports or surveys,
where people say that they hate Miami.
Miami has a lot of good food,
a diverse population,
and warm weather.
It also has high crime,
bad schools, brutal traffic,
high cost of living,
and housing prices that are 35% higher
than the national average.
Miami is 21,552nd ranked city in the United States.
41% of the people had Miami
in their three most hated.
The reasons they give,
most often, crime,
housing and poverty.
Number eight, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
We don't talk about Philadelphia
that much on this channel,
unless we're talking about historic stuff.
That's one of the best things about Philly.
Their history is just outstanding.
You could spend a week there
and still not see everything.
You can't beat it for its history, tourism,
and it's no slouch when it comes to sports either.
A butt load of people don't care about that stuff
because they show the city of brotherly love
no love.
Philadelphia is the 24,702nd ranked city
in the United States.
24,000, that's weird.
It's one of our best cities too, in my opinion.
44% of the people surveyed had Philadelphia
in their three most hated cities.
The reasons they gave,
it's too crowded,
crime, unemployment,
and schools.
Number seven, Riverside, California.
Now, I was on the fence with this one.
Riverside has never seemed like a major city to me,
but I guess some people do see it that way.
It fits the over 300,000 threshold, barely.
So technically I guess it is a major city.
It's not a mega city like Chicago,
New York or Los Angeles,
but it's a major city.
If you ever visit Riverside,
you'll agree that this place does blow.
You'll probably reflect back on this list
and wonder why more people didn't say they hated it.
It's the 21,748th ranked city in the United States.
Kind of low on the totem pole.
Not as low as Philadelphia,
but still, they have high crime,
bad schools,
poverty.
And 47% of the people had Riverside
on their three most hated list.
The reasons they gave,
crime, traffic,
air quality,
pollution,
and schools.
Number six, New York city, New York.
This isn't a surprise,
probably not to anyone.
New York city is an acquired taste.
Most people that do visit,
realize that that's really all they wanna do is visit.
And if you look at the cost of living and housing,
most realize that
a visit is all they can afford to do.
People started flooding out in New York city
a few years back
and it's not slowing down
probably anytime soon.
New York city is ranked
as the 18,097th city in the United States.
52% of the people surveyed
had them in their top three.
And the things they listed,
cost of living,
cost of housing,
traffic,
and crime.
Number five, St. Louis, Missouri.
St. Louis is a nightmare,
even more so if you add east St. Louis into that mix,
which is in Illinois, not Missouri.
I read a tweet once
that described east St. Louis Saturday night
like the D-Day invasion with better music.
Yeah, they got some serious violent crime
going on over there.
But St. Louis doesn't have the best stats either.
They're the 26,126th ranked city in the United States
and the 900th best place to live in Missouri.
They are knocking it out of the park in suckage.
53% of the people had St. Louis in their top three.
And the reasons they gave,
crime,
employment,
housing and schools.
Number four, Los Angeles, California.
LA is where I was born and raised.
I grew up in a nicer area called the South Bay,
and it still sort of sucked.
It wasn't that bad until I would say
the early '90s,
that's when it made a turn.
It was like crime was going up
and so were the home prices,
which never makes sense.
Crime goes up.
Home prices are supposed to go down.
That's the natural order.
Not here.
It's too close to the beach for that to happen.
Anyway, most of LA has sucked since,
I don't know,
before humans got there,
really.
They actually have an area called
the The La Brea Tar Pits
that used to trap all kinds of creatures back
way before people got here.
Every so often some old bones would rise to the top.
It's always seems to be like
a wooly mammoth or (indistinct),
I don't know the difference between the two of them.
But it's always those furry elephants.
It's their bones that are always floating up to the top.
I had to go like three field trips there
when I was a kid.
Everybody knows LA sucks
so I don't need to explain that to you.
What I will explain to you is that
it is the 27,342nd best place to live
in the United States.
That's not a good number.
56% of the people surveyed
had Los Angeles on their three most hated cities.
Reasons given, more than anything,
it was traffic.
Cost of living,
it's outrageously expensive there
so you'd think it would be the cost of living.
No, traffic's number one there.
It goes traffic,
cost of living,
cost of housing,
crime.
Number three, Baltimore, Maryland.
Baltimore has crime, poverty,
despair, bad schools,
and a sliver of hope.
Really, they might be turning the corner.
I keep reading more and more tech companies
are moving to Baltimore
or have plans to move to Baltimore.
So maybe there's a future.
Maybe it'll be better in years to come.
But I wouldn't hold your breath.
I think it's about two decades away.
They got a giant hurdle to get over
with their crime and poverty.
Baltimore is the 25th thousand best place to live
in the United States.
Yeah, 25,062 to be exact.
Maryland's a pretty small state,
and Baltimore is only the 400th
best place to live in the entire state.
400th.
56% of the people had Baltimore
in their three most hated list.
The reason they give,
crime, poverty.
Number two, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Yeah, I was kind of shocked at this one.
Most people love Las Vegas.
And I think a lot of the people
that put it down as their most hated places,
probably had something to do with
them not having a good time there.
A lot of people go there
and lose a lot of money.
And that'll kind of stick in someone's croft
for quite some time.
I've dropped some serious coin there over the years
and I don't feel good about it to this day.
The last time I probably lost a good amount of money
was over a decade ago,
and it still burns like it was yesterday.
So yeah, I got an axe to grind against Las Vegas too
as proof that it just may be gambling losers
that hate Las Vegas.
They're ranked the 44th best city to live in
in Nevada.
Now, Nevada doesn't have a ton of cities,
but still, that's one of the lowest numbers
of anything on this list,
by a good stretch too.
And Las Vegas is the 10,852nd
best place to live in the United States.
Now keep in mind,
some of these are like bordering on the 30,000th area
and 20,000.
That is absolute the lowest
we've had on this list.
But that didn't stop.
58% of the people surveyed
to put down Las Vegas as one of the three cities
they hate the most.
The reasons they listed were crime and heat.
That's it.
They didn't have traffic or anything else.
It was just crime and heat.
All right, before we get to number one,
let me give you a little update
on the survey we did on my channel.
I asked everyone, what city do you hate the most?
The three winners were Dallas at number three,
Portland, Oregon at number two,
and San Francisco at number one.
Oddly enough, I went back
and looked at all the other research,
and none of those were in the top 20.
One other thing to tell you,
we also have another channel called "On This Day"
There's a link below.
We'd love it if you check it out.
Maybe subscribe.
All right, onto number one.
And number one, Detroit, Michigan.
Detroit has been in bad shape forever.
We've talked about this many, many times
on this channel.
And I've also told you,
there is a glimmer of hope.
Some jobs have filtered back in
over the last five, six years.
The downtown area has kind of turned itself around.
It's just outside of downtown blows.
And I just recently said,
if you look at downtown,
it looks nice.
Looking at it from the satellite view,
they've had to tear down
so many abandoned homes around the outside of downtown.
It almost looks like there's farmland
around Detroit in some areas.
But no, it's just homes that were abandoned.
Homeless people were squatting in them,
setting them on fire sometimes.
So just to cut out some of the problems,
they just decided to start mowing them over.
That's how bad Detroit has been,
where they have homes that are a complete loss.
People have abandoned them,
and the city's got to just mow them down
because no one's taking care of them.
Think about any other city in the United States.
Most of us would just love to have a home
that we could move into for a good price.
Detroit at one point
was offering to sell homes for $1
and they still couldn't unload them.
I'm not even joking.
A dollar.
Detroit is the 655th ranked city in Michigan.
And in the United States,
it's ranked 26,879th.
Yeah, that blows.
62% of the people surveyed had Detroit down on their list
as one of the three they hated the most.
Reasons given,
crime, poverty and unemployment.
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All right, that's today's video.
Hope you guys enjoyed it.
Hope you got some information out of it.
Everybody, have a great day.
Be nice to each other.