Are you one of the many Americans looking to move to texas?
If you said yes chances are you're coming from california you have a little money to spend
and you'll be looking for a great place to live what is going on everyone welcome back to world
according to briggs in the past we've talked about cheap places to live safe places to live
places you don't want to live in the lone star state but we've never really looked at the best
places in this video we're going to take a look at the best cities statistically to live in texas
now i emphasize statistically because locals have opinions and will disagree with some of the cities
on this list think other ones should have been in there it's gonna go back and forth in the comment
section thing is this everyone's opinion is different example i grew up in a place called west
torrance it's an upper middle class neighborhood in southern california there's a town not too far
away from there called gardena coming from where i grew up in my opinion gardena isn't the best place
to live and i probably wouldn't move there if you were living in let's say south central la or
compton your opinion is garden is a great place to live see opinions vary numbers don't we get that
all the time statistics don't tell the whole story yet stop typing either do opinions these cities
wouldn't fall under any category that includes the words cheap affordable or inexpensive so let's
just assume these places are expensive places to live and we won't have to go over the cost
of living in this video we're going to look at all the other good things these are really nice places
and if they were really nice and affordable there would be a line down the street looking to get
in on it sort of like ben and jerry's on free ice cream day never understood that everyone lines up
for like 45 minutes to get a dollars worth the ice cream how much is your time worth never understood
that at all these are the best cities to live in statistically in texas let's take a look
number 10 new braunfels texas new braunfels is a city of almost 70 000 residents just north of
san antonio and it's a great place to raise a family it has good schools nice parks and one
of the best water parks in the country called schlitterbahn yes schlitterbahn they got this
whole german thing going on here now when i say german thing i mean like they've named things
with german names and some of the buildings have that architecture they're not like starting wars
with other cities in the neighborhood things like that the crime rate here is 11 percent
lower than the national average their high school graduation rate is 86 percent which is
3 percent higher than the national average the median home price here they say is 177 000 but
realistically you're looking at about 300 000 to get something nice now they go way up from there
but you can get a house for about 600 000 that in nicer parts of la would go for 2 million easy the
poverty level new braunfels is 37 lower than the national average this is a great place to live
number nine north richland hills texas or nrh as they call it here is a city in the dallas fort
worth metro area northeast of downtown fort worth they have a little over 70 000 residents here
living the good life this is one of those places that it's hard to find an overgrown lawn or broken
down car in front of the house it's a nice place to live and it it shows the crime rate here is 20
lower than the national average and as far as high school graduation it's 88 which is six
percent higher than the national average the median home price is about 160 000 as we've
discussed in other videos that's just a number real estate agents look at median home price
doesn't really mean anything to the average joe so i'm here to tell you that realistically if you
want a decent house here you're looking at 380 000 on up now if you're in jackson mississippi that is
an astronomical amount of money and why would anyone pay that much for a house but if you're
from los angeles or san francisco or new york city you're thinking that's damn right reasonable right
there 380 for a nice house the poverty level in nrh is 49 lower than the national average
number eight flugerville texas it's spelt with a p so just in case you're looking for it it's
p-f-l-u-g-e-r-v-i-l-l-e flugerville like so many other texas cities is a great place for
families they have great schools a lake a water park go-kart tracks a target in case
your wife is like my wife and sees roaming the aisles of target as some form of therapy
yeah they got one too and a costco in case you need it pflugerville is just north of austin
far enough away not to have some of their weirdness rubbing off on the city the crime
here is 46 percent lower than national average the high school graduation rate is 89 which
is 7 percent better than the national average currently flugerville has a little over 65 000
residents and that's probably gonna grow pretty quick because they got a lot of new construction
going on here if you're looking to buy a new home they've got some that are as low as 260 000
but realistically if you want something nice you're gonna be looking at over 320 on up the
really nice ones start off around 450. now they say the median home value here is about 180 000
that's not realistic as we've all learned realistically you're looking at 280 on
up the poverty rate in Pflugerville is 54 percent lower than the national average
number seven Mckinney texas is the northernmost city I guess you could say in the Dallas metro
area right after that there's a couple small towns and a lot of farmland and wooded areas
broken down tractors trucks and dudes named Jed. McKinney texas has been around since the
mid-1800s and has a great historic downtown area with a lot of older buildings that have been going
through a rebirth thing over the last decade or so McKinney is growing in 2010 they had about 130 000
residents right now they're sitting on about 200 000. the crime rate is 54 lower than the national
average the graduation rate is 90 and the median home price is 200 000 but realistically you're
not gonna find much under four hundred thousand and it goes way up there's one that's like four
million dollars and it was a mansion with it was just beautiful the poverty level in mckinney texas
is 54 lower than the national average this is a great place to live and we're only at number seven
number six rockwall texas rock wall is another city in the dallas fort worth metro area it is
on the eastern shore of lake ray hubbard which is on the east side of dallas this is another one of
those places where it's hard to find an unkept lawn the reason i always bring up maintained
lawns and stuff like that is it's a good sign that a neighborhood city or town is a good place
to live because if they have well-maintained yards you have people that can either a afford
a gardener or b they take care of it themselves they have enough pride in their home in their
neighborhood that they're going to make sure their lawns and gardening are taken care of it's
one of the first signs that you've got poverty and unemployment problems in a neighborhood or a town
everyone's lawn starts going bad rock wall has nice lawns they also have a crime rate that's
31 percent lower than the national average and a graduation rate of 90 percent 90 of their students
graduate with a high school diploma there are places in this country where it's like 62 percent
the median home price in rock wall is 200 000 but realistically you're looking at four to
five hundred thousand and up way up if you want to get a good place they got a lake right there
it's gonna be expensive the poverty rate in rock wall is 54 percent lower than the national average
number five purlin texas pearlin is a city on the south side of the houston metro area i've been to
parliament it's been years but it was nice then and from a statistical standpoint looks like it
got better it's a great place to live you're only about an hour or so from galveston in the
gulf of mexico so that's great for something to do this one's a little bit cheaper than the rest
of the list the median home price here is 194 000 but realistically you can get a decent home
for as low as 230 240 but most are going for 350 to 450 000 somewhere in that area of course they
go up the crime rate here is 30 percent lower than the national average and the graduation rate is 91
percent that's solid the poverty level in peerlin is 70 percent lower than the national average this
is a great place to live the humidity can get up there but it's still a great place to live
number four league city texas right down the road from pearland you have league city now this is a
perfect example of what i was saying that everyone has their own opinions statistically league city
is great i know two people from league city that's actually the reason i was in pearland and they
both think it's great and then i know another person that said league city is just horrible
crime infested which isn't true but that's his opinion i don't know if he ever got his car broke
into or something like that but he thinks league city is horrible it's not and he's a local he's
from there born and raised the other two moved there in the 90s so yeah might as well be born
and raised they've been there long enough league city has a population of just over a hundred
thousand residents and this is a great place to live it's a little bit closer to the gulf
and galveston and all that stuff remember how i said that one guy thinks it's crime infested
hellhole the crime rate here is actually 41 lower than the national average which is a solid number
their violent crime rate will go a little deeper since that one clown said it was this horrible
place their violent crime rate is 71 percent lower than the national average and their property crime
is actually 36 percent lower so all around it's just a safer place the graduation rate here is
92 percent so they're getting them out of school and the median home value here is 202 000
but to buy something decent you're going to want to start off looking around 300 000 on up and they
do have a lot of good looking places for about 329 000 the poverty rate in league city is 65
lower than the national average number three frisco texas back up to the dallas metro area
we have the city of frisco texas which is often confused with san francisco california just
kidding nobody would ever confuse these two cities maybe helen keller frisco is just west of mckinney
texas from earlier in the video frisco has just over 200 000 residents and four golf courses oh
and mckinney right next door has three more they have like seven golf courses in this little area
frisco is a great place for families and golfers apparently the crime rate here is 50 percent lower
than the national average the graduation rate is 95 so bravo to them so buckle up for the
home prices the median home value here is 300 000. that's the harshest on the list so far the reality
is you're gonna have a hard time finding anything decent under 420 000 and they go up they've got
some really nice homes which are going for like 750 850 000 the poverty level in frisco is 75
lower than the national average number two keller texas now it's getting good these are really nice
the last two are great staying in the dallas fort worth metro area we have keller which is
north of downtown fort worth there's a place here called roscoe smokehouse if you ever get a chance
it's totally worth it it's also worth it to move here you're far enough away from the city so the
traffic's not going to be crazy and it's not too crowded but you're still close enough to where
if you want to head into dallas or fort worth or arlington it's all right there the only one thing
i will say about this is this is one of the only place i've been to on this list where actually
found a couple houses that had overrun lawns and stuff like that and i think these are just houses
that you know they were handed down in the family so whoever lived there didn't have the money to
take care of it but everything else was great in the neighborhoods the crime rate in keller texas
is 70 lower than the national average and the graduation rate is 94 that is solid now here's
where it gets good the median home value here is 311 000 but realistically you're looking at
at least 520 000 on up and way up it goes the poverty level in keller is 75 lower than the
national average all right before we get to number one don't forget we got another channel called on
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and number one allen texas allen texas is a city of just about 100 000 residents and it completes
the texas triad of places to live mckinney frisco and allen all border each other and not to be
outdone allen has four golf courses of its own and stop typing not all are public golf courses
i get it some are private and some you have to belong to a country club or something like that
that doesn't mean these golf courses don't exist they are there allen is number one
because it has great stats and it's probably the best place for families on this list this is one
of those cities in texas that has a high school football stadium that's bigger than some college
stadiums not even kidding look at it from the map along with great parks and sports centers
tons of stuff for kids to do and they really push the sports if you look at who's from allen texas
on wikipedia it is just filled with nfl stars major league baseball stars all kinds of people
like that the crime rate in allen texas is 55 lower than national average the graduation rate is
95 and the median home value is 234 000 but realistically you're looking at about 320 000
for something decent on up and it goes way up they got a lot of things that are going for like
six hundred thousand seven hundred t.housand eight hundred twenty four thousand it gets up
there the poverty rate in allen texas is sixty six percent lower than the national average
all right that's today's list hope you guys enjoyed it hope you got
some information out of it everybody has a great day be nice to each other