What is going on everyone? Welcome back to the world according to Briggs
do you know south dakota has become more and more of a relocation destination
it has it's a beautiful state and still has a relatively low cost
living if you're a long-time resident of the mount rushmore state you're in the
middle of typing out a comment about how it
isn't cheap anymore it is though i just want to let you know something
prices are up everywhere in all state but compared to other states south
dakota isn't doing that bad south dakota has
almost 900 000 residents and they have grown by
almost 10 percent in each of the last three decades
and that low-cost living is only part of the reason if good people great outdoors
and often overlooked a solid amount of
history with so many people moving to south dakota i thought we'd take a look
at some of the places with the lowest cost of living that are just waiting for
you and your realtor to show up south dakota leads the nation in a few
different things giant statues of presidential heads
short-term fiscal stability and the percentage of college girls with seeking
arrangement type accounts this list is just focusing on the cost
of living in different places crime is always a factor wherever you move but in
a lot of states crime isn't as bad compared to
say other states like california florida new york
those places have real crime south dakota has some crime
but nothing near what they have these places are great for people that maybe
are retired or work remotely because they're out in the sticks and
sometimes a decent job is hard to come by so if you want to save some money
living in south dakota here's what we found
number 10 sturgis south dakota sturgis was found in 1878 and it was originally
named scooptown because many of the residents
scooped up their pay from nearby fort meade its name later changed to sturgis
in honor of civil war union general samuel d sturgis in 1889 sturgis was
designated as the county seat of the newly formed meade county
that's a bunch of stuff nobody really knows about anymore because the only
time you hear about sturgess is when someone brings up the sturgis motorcycle
rallying in case you don't know what that is
it is a motorcycle rally that gets around 500
000 people yeah this is a town that normally has
less than 7 000 people yeah so it gets a little packed
sadly like so many other things though the sturgis rally was canceled this year
after the rally life is kind of normal and inexpensive
and it's a small town the cost of living in sturgis is nine percent lower than
the national average and the housing in sturgis is 23 percent
lower than the national average number nine brooking south dakota
brookings has about the same stats as sturgis but they have 23 000 people
and it doesn't get crazy with the rally so that's kind of good if you like nice
quiet life brookings was named after one of south dakota's early pioneers
wilmette brookings brookings was from maine and set out for
the dakota territory in june of 1857. he arrived in sioux falls on august 27
1857 so he spent the whole summer traveling he became one of the first
settlers in sioux falls a year later he got stuck in a blizzard and had to have
both his legs amputated because of frostbite
i guess the people felt sorry for him you know being a double pirate at this
point and named a town after him brookings is
a nice town with good stats across the board
including a cost living that's nine percent lower than the national average
and housing is 20 percent lower than the national average
and everything else is great there stat wise
number eight watertown south dakota watertown was founded in 1879 as a rail
town with almost 800 people the population was around 21 000 at the 2010
census and it looks like they gained about an
extra thousand in the 10 years since watertown is the fifth largest city in
south dakota so i read a bunch of reviews on watertown
and most people gave the town really nice reviews they said it's a great
place for families and all kinds of stuff
one person though did say something kind of weird and
i quote this town should be avoided at all costs
it is overpopulated with brain dead country bumpkins that think sioux falls
is a big city like chicago end quote so i think that person had a problem but
everyone else seems to like it the town does have a nice little zoo called the
bramble park zoo it just celebrated its 100 years in
2012 so it's been there a bit the cost of living in watertown is 10
lower than the national average and the housing is 21
lower than the national average so it's not a really small town it's
you know not terribly close to any big cities but it's a nice place
number seven aberdeen south dakota before the aberdeen area was inhabited
by european settlers it was inhabited by the sioux indians from approximately
1700 to about 1879. europeans showed up and started setting up camp and fur
trading posts and all that stuff in the 1820s
these trading posts operated until about the mid-1830s
aberdeen is a nice town with about 21 000 residents
and even though it's out in the middle of the prairie they still have jobs
their unemployment rate is 60 percent lower than the national average now
obviously those are 2019 numbers please stop typing we know all about the
pandemic and i'm sure things have changed we'll have
those numbers out next year that's how stats work they wait till the year is
completed then they publish them now if you think this is a boring town
think again even though it's out in the middle of nowhere
aberdeen has an all-women's roller hockey team the a-town roller girls
they were established in 2011. the cost living in aberdeen is 10
lower than the national average and the housing is 27 percent lower than the
national average number six vermilion south dakota
vermillion sounds like something someone says when they're trying to say millions
of vermin and they trip over their words vermilion is located in the southeastern
corner of south dakota and is the 11th largest city in the state according to
the 2010 census the population's a little over ten thousand
the city lies on top of a bluff near the missouri river kind of a nice-looking
place lewis and clark actually camped at the
mouth of the vermillion river near where the present-day town is in
august of 1804 the previous day they had killed
their first buffalo or bison and then the following day they climbed a place
called spirit mound so the place has a little
bit of history and i love any lewis and clark history that's an
amazing story i heard they were doing a movie on it i don't know what happened
to that anyway moving on the cost living in
vermilion is 12 percent lower than the national average and the vermillion
housing is 28 percent lower than the national average all their other stats
are pretty decent and it's not a bad looking place to live
number five belfuche south dakota belfuche which is french
for beautiful fork was named by french explorers and it was
in reference to the confluence of what is
now known as belfuge redwater rivers and the hay creek
beaver trappers worked these rivers until the mid 19th century
and belfuche became a well-known fur trading rendezvous point
that's how a lot of these places in the dakotas got their start it was all fur
trading and explorers they have a reservoir that seems
really popular i saw a video by a channel called rapidtronics he was
talking to some 20ish people at the reservoir and one girl seemed
crazy enough to have her own youtube channel she said her name was kendra
and kendra if you ever see this you should start your own youtube channel
the girl was a little wild i got a good chuckle out of her anyway besides a
great place to be outdoors and kendra belfuche has great stats including a
cost of living that's 14 percent lower than the national average
and their housing is 36 percent lower than the national average
not a bad place to be and sorry if i'm not pronouncing it properly
i struggled with this one can't seem to get those french words
number four mitchell south dakota the first settlement
at mitchell was made in 1879 mitchell was incorporated in 1883 and it was
named for milwaukee banker alexander mitchell
you gotta love this town it's in a great state and it's got a
corn palace i'm not even kidding it has a place called the corn palace
the corn palace or it's commonly advertised as the world's
only corn palace even though there's others i can't believe there's
others but yeah there are anyway this one is the mitchell corn palace
it's a multi-purpose arena facility located in mitchell south dakota these
people are very proud of their corn palace too
in 2004 national media attention was drawn to the corn palace when it
received homeland security funding this drew
criticism of the department of homeland security
and its grant program i guess they're trying to i don't know
protect the big fiberglass corn out front or something who knows
mitchell is one of the few places on this list that has some crime
not terrible but it's 60 percent higher than the national average
i say not terrible because there are cities in this country that are 350
percent higher so 60 percent higher isn't good but it's
not terrible here's the good news the cost of living
in mitchell is 16 lower than the national average and
housing is 31 percent lower than the national average
so that's good number three yankton south dakota
yankton sits on the missouri river right across from nebraska
that's good because if life in yankton ever gets too crazy you can go right
across the river and die of boredom in nebraska
yankton has grown every census but the 1910 census since they started doing
them in 1880. they have about 15 000 residents
currently and other than crime which is only 20 percent higher
than the national average they have really good stats
yankton has some history too with two days left in his term
president james buchanan signed a law on march 2nd
1861 creating the dakota territory yangton was designated as the
territorial capital and then newly inaugurated
president abraham lincoln appointed his personal physician
william a jane of springfield illinois as the first territorial governor so
that's a little interesting tidbit all of a sudden your doctor becomes a
politician i guess that works back then yankton is
another one of those cities in south dakota that
isn't really close to any big cities to some people that's a real negative to
others it's positive so just be aware of that the cost of living in
yankton is 14 lower than the national average and housing is 33
lower than the national average it wouldn't be a bad move if you
you know relocated to yankton number two madison south dakota there
isn't much to madison it's in the middle of miles and
miles of farmland and in between a few lakes it's also the
birthplace of mary hart who's the longtime
entertainment tonight correspondent they also have a giant fiberglass buffalo in
front of a car dealership that's about it i do wonder if they'd
let me climb on top of that buffalo and take a selfie if anyone works at the
dealership let me know i may make my way out there yeah like i said there's not
much to madison it's a quiet little town not a lot of history here it's just a
nice town the cost living in madison is 18
lower than the national average and housing is 42 percent lower than the
national average this is a great place to live if you
bring your job with you you know like i've been saying if you're
retired which isn't bringing a job with you you're just retired or
if you work remotely this might be a great option
and number one huron south dakota huron is located in the east central part of
south dakota and it's a result of railroad and land booms from the 1880s
the early history of this town is closely linked with the comings and
goings of trains they also have a giant fiberglass pheasant i have no desire to
climb it not a lot goes on here normally on march
22nd 2020 south dakota state rep bob glanzier tested positive for cobit 19
and was initially treated at the huron regional medical center
and was later moved to a hospital in sioux falls during the pandemic he died
on april 3rd it's really sad that was their rep
besides that the only really negative thing you can say about euron is
the schools aren't graded the best all the other stats are excellent they just
don't grade really well with the schools compared to other places i'm sure their
schools are just fine but that's the only one that's kind of down there a
little bit they also have a nice little community water park
which is always nice to have for kids and immature people like myself the cost
of living in huron is 21 percent lower than the national average
and housing is 45 percent lower than national average
this is probably one of the best places to live in my opinion if you want a
small town in south dakota and live cheap all right so that's
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