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What is going on everyone welcome back to the world according to Briggs, my name is Briggs
I travel and I talk about it both on this channel and on my upcoming podcast
We just recorded the first episode and we'll be launching when we have a few more on June first
It's called stories from America and there's a link below that'll take you right to it
There's nothing uploaded yet, but there will be on June 1st 2019. And if you're watching this after June 1st 2019, go ahead
There's something there. Enjoy it
Don't wait for like the next June 1st 2019 that might be billions of years away and you know
The dinosaurs might have to come back and we might have to reset time. I'm not sure
I'm not a historian and I'm not archaeologist
So I'm not sure if the dinosaurs will ever come back but that being said it's a podcast about living in different parts of America
you know like the individual experience some are just
stories that I got from talking to people when I travel and some I'll be actually talking to the person and they'll tell us about
Where they live and where they lived
Possibly and the experience they had growing up there and living there. Whatever
We'll just learn about towns and places in America
But speaking of where people live recently I did a most affordable cities in the United States
I had a good amount of requests for a video about
Affordable small towns small towns are becoming more and more popular these days now
I've talked about it before on this channel about how people are able to work from home and they're moving to
Small towns because it's more affordable. I mean it totally makes sense if it works for your life
Most small towns are very affordable and safer to things people want to live their lives
And before you do stop typing common sense tells us all that not every small town in the u.s. Is safe or affordable
We'll just assume that this is a video about the ones that are safe and affordable
But I thought today we'd look at where we can find some of these affordable small towns
So sit back relax and watch my top 10 most affordable towns in America
Number ten Tupelo, Mississippi, it's not too often. Mississippi makes it onto a positive list. So congratulations to blow
You're a diamond in a really really rough state
Tupelo is famous for being the birthplace of Elvis Presley these days it has a population of about
34,000 people with a median household income of about
$42,000 a year. They have a really low unemployment rate of about 3.8 percent
The cost of living here is about 15% lower than the national average
It makes it very easy to live in this town comfortably. You can get a well-kept three-bedroom home on an acre - for about
$100,000 on top of that. It's relatively safe area vibes calm gives it a b-minus in crime, which is solid especially for
Mississippi way to go to blow
Number 9, Williston, North Dakota
Wellis tin is in the northwestern part of the state right off the Missouri River because of North Dakota's oil. Boom
The town has seen about a 49% population jump since 2010
This has also brought in new secure jobs ultimately leading to an unemployment rate of about 2%
Which is solid the income per capita here is 46 thousand dollars a year making this town
Incredibly easy to live in low crime housing is cheap, but is creeped up because of the population explosion that kind of happens
but it's still a very
Inexpensive place to live once you get past living on the frozen tundra of North Dakota. It's kind of nice
Number 8
McPherson Kansas McPherson is a college town home to about
28,000 residents and McPherson college as well as Central Christian College of Kansas being a college town
Everything is fairly affordable here. Your home prices are pretty low. The average home here goes for about
$160,000 that's about eighty thousand dollars less than the national average
The good news is you won't suffer from the heat and the humidity of the south does happen
But it's rare and it rarely gets frozen like North Dakota. So that's a plus. The only thing that really sucks
Here is the high school and middle schools. They are greater than F
I think the kids are too busy dreaming about places that might have some excitement too busy to study
You know, this place is great if you're not looking for an life
Number seven Vann work Ohio Van Wert is a small town of only about 28,000 residents
But you would never know it by just driving through. It has a lot of stuff
You wouldn't expect to find in such a small town van wert has the Van Wert Civic Theatre as well as the Wasson burg Art
Center the main street is lined with various kinds of shops. This is all very luxurious
well
At least by Ohio standards one disturbing thing about the town is they have a video store these things are becoming rare
like phone booths the median home price is only about ninety five thousand making this town very
Affordable low crime great schools and a low cost of living you could do so much worse in Ohio
Number six st. Joseph Michigan st. Joseph's is right on Lake Michigan with about 8,500 residents with the lake being right there
Two tracks a ton of tourists every single year
The good news is this doesn't make the cost-of-living spike does a lot other places not in st. Joseph
the cost of living here is actually
15% lower than the national average and the median home price is only about a hundred and forty five thousand dollars I was looking at
Houses there that are like two hundred thousand right off the water. It was amazing. I couldn't believe it
Anyway, the only bummer is the weather its Michigan's so it's gonna get cold
Thankfully, it's not like the upper part of Michigan's the lower part, but that still gets cold
But every other stat is what every single person is
looking for housing is great schools are amazing the economy and jobs are decent and it's one of those places where people
Probably have to think back to the 60s or 70s to remember the last murder
They had they have no crime there
I went to other websites that it normally don't go to besides the FBI thing looking for any hint of anything like that. Nothing
Number five, Lexington, Nebraska
Lexington is home to about 25 thousand residents and is about two hours west of Lincoln, Nebraska
Which is the second largest city in Nebraska and really Lincoln's not that big
There's not a lot going on in Nebraska Lexington has an amazing
Unemployment rate of 2.8% the town's major employers Tyson's Foods beef processing plant
Which employs about?
3,000 of the residents. I know a guy who worked at a meat processing plant when he was in his 20s
He always said after working there one week he went vegan and he's like 50 now and he's still a vegan
Damaged him I guess anyway
the cost of living in Lexington is 19% lower than the national average and the cost of housing in Lexington is
47% lower than the national average crime is lower than average and the schools are decent
Number for McRae Helena, Georgia. Okay. So technically these are two towns, but if you're not from here you'd never know
They're like out in the middle of nowhere together. These two towns are so affordable
They had a Dollar Tree and Dollar General directly across the street from each other
locked in an epic struggle for the residents dollars that was until Dollar General lost the struggle in like
2017-2018 to close the store down everything here gets great at an A but schools and jobs jobs got a C
Schools get a math so that kind of sucks the cost of living in McRae
Helena, is 25 percent lower than the national average and houses are dirt cheap
Number three Burlington Iowa Burlington is on the Mississippi River about 165 miles east of Des Moines
the town has about 25 thousand residents and the unemployment rate is about 2.9 percent with a median home value of
$90,000 that's a hundred and twenty thousand dollars less than the national average
You heard me right a hundred and twenty thousand dollars less than the national average. They're almost giving homes away here
This is a prime place to move and live
They've been losing
residents faster than they can bring them in and it's been going on this way for about a decade or so now it's probably the
Boredom, it's real easy to get bored in Iowa
the cost of living 10:00 in Burlington is 21 percent lower than the national average and the cost of housing in Burlington is
47 percent lower than the national average
Number two Muskogee, Oklahoma Muskogee is a small college town of about 40,000 residents two hours away from Oklahoma City
It was made famous in 1970 when country singer Merle Haggard released an anti hippyish type song called okie from Muskogee
The song was actually released on December 29th 1969. So stop typing
I promise you promise you a few people thought they had their gotcha moment for the day
anyway
That was when the song was released and that was about the last time anything really ever had
and here the good news is it's very affordable with medium household income of about
$38,000 now that doesn't sound like a lot to a lot of people and I understand that but the cost living here is
Painfully low. It's actually 21% lower than the national average. That's low
the cost of housing here is 49 percent lower than the national average you could survive here and live pretty good on a
McDonalds income and before we get to number one. Don't forget. There's a poll at the end of the video
Usually it'll pop up and well it always pops up in the right corner
About 15 to 20 seconds before the end of the video helps out with data for upcoming videos
And number one
Logansport, Indiana
Logansport is a small town just east of Lafayette and 23 minutes north of a little town with the greatest name Young, America, Indiana
Logansport has about
37,000 residents that all love the outdoors the kind of half to the Wabash River is running right through town the median home price here
Is really low. It's only about sixty two thousand dollars
The unemployment rate is about three point four, which is lower than the national average
But not the best one on this list
The cost of living in Logansport is twenty percent lower than the national
Average and the cost of housing is about 55 percent lower than the national average
This makes Logansport. One of the most affordable towns. You could find that isn't like wrecked with crime or anything like that
Strangely enough the guy I talked about in Lexington, Nebraska that went vegan after working at a meat processing plant
This is where he lives and where he worked at the plant. There's a Tyson plant there
I reached out to him on Facebook about this video and he said it's strange without knowing the stats and everything
I can't he thinks over the last 10 years. It's been getting cheaper to live in Logansport. That's really strange if that is true
I doubt it is completely true
But I'm sure there's some merit to him saying that that's that's a glowing review for a town Logansport
Indiana is one of the most affordable towns to live in that doesn't have a myriad of horrible things going on there
All right, so that's the top ten most affordable towns in the United States
You know, I could probably do ten lists on this. There's a lot of really good ones
So if this really is at the top this is just ten really good ones
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