Looking for a suburb to call home? Want to buy some real estate or rent in a metro area? If
so keep watching. Today we're looking at some of the surprisingly best suburbs in the united states
the reason i say surprisingly is because these suburbs are in or near cities that wouldn't be
considered the best the united states has to offer and in a few cases i'm being very kind with that
description these are diamonds in the rough people have been fleeing the cities for the suburbs
since after world war ii in the last few years we've seen a shift away from both living downtown
and the suburbs to small town america that doesn't mean the suburbs have lost their appeal
to everyone some people for whatever reason still need to or just want to live near a metro area if
you're one of those people this video is for you and stay to the end of the video and let me know
if any of these really surprised you today's list isn't in any particular order get it got it good
let's take a look number 10 clayton missouri clayton missouri has a population of just a little
over 16 000 and their crime rate is 34 lower than the national average st louis has some really
rough areas with astronomically high crime rates it's pretty good that clayton's pulling it off
34 percent lower if you want to buy a home here homes start around 500 000 and go well up over
2 million dollars condos and townhomes start off around 250 000 and work their way up into the 800
thousands for the really nice ones when it comes to rental prices in cities it's really hard to
kind of get an average so we're just going to look at the median median is not the average
it kind of means the number in the middle and it's about 17 higher than the national average
if you decide you want to live here keep in mind the median household income here is a little over
ninety one thousand dollars a year number nine grandview heights ohio grand view heights or
simply grand view is a city in the columbus ohio metro area it sits just northwest of downtown
columbus on the scioto river in case you want to grab some smallmouth bass if you want to see some
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the scioto river grand view has a population of just over 7 000 residents and homes here start
off around 700 000. condos they start off around 450 and go up over 650 000 their crime rate is 16
lower than the national average and the median household income here is 99
806 dollars a year almost 100k this is not a bad place to live at all columbus really of all the
metro areas in ohio is the best one so it makes sense this one's a little expensive but don't
worry there is one from cleveland on this list and it is truly a diamond in the rough if you want to
rent a place in grandview their rent tends to be about 15 percent higher than the national average
number eight fairfax virginia fairfax sits about 30 minutes west of washington dc in that whole
alexandria arlington metro area if you make a lot of money and you like golf this is a great place
to live we just talked about this on a recent video that most people that make a good amount
of money that work in washington dc actually live in this area of northern virginia and fairfax is
a great place to live they have a population of just over 24 000 and a crime rate that's 70
percent lower than the national average which is outstanding when you consider they're right across
the potomac from washington dc which has horrible crime now when a place is good it costs a lot of
money homes here start around 675 000 a condo or a town home that might start around 450 000 if
you're lucky and both those go way up the median household income in fairfax virginia is 149 000
number seven whitefish bay wisconsin whitefish bay sits about 15 minutes north of milwaukee wisconsin
really doesn't have much crime so this shouldn't be a surprise that whitefish bay has really low
crime milwaukee is the only place in wisconsin that has any real crime and just 15 minutes up the
shore you have whitefish bathe that really doesn't seem to get any residual crime whitefish bay was
actually mentioned in the gordon lightfoot song the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald the line goes
the searchers all said they'd have made whitefish bay if they'd put 15 more miles behind her great
song and great town they have a population of 14 000 and a crime rate that's 55 percent lower than
the national average it's not terribly expensive compared to the other places on this list when it
comes to housing homes start here around 450 000 and they're decent they're livable and ready to go
if you want a condo or a townhome those start around two hundred thousand work their way up
rent here is only three percent higher than the national average not bad the median household
income in whitefish bay is one hundred and six thousand dollars number six prairie village kansas
prairie village is known as a first tier suburban city it is right next to another really great
suburb that we've talked about before called overland park it's like right next door kansas
city itself has got some crime and it's got some poverty issues but prairie village and
overland park are really nice places to live i'd say two of the nicer places to live in the country
compared to a lot of the other suburbs around here prairie village is a little more densely populated
with houses and people they don't have as big a lot but it's still a really nice place to live
they get ranked a for everything but cost living their employment housing schools are outstanding
they have about 22 000 residents and they have a crime rate that's 52 percent lower than the
national average real estate isn't crazy for such a nice place you can occasionally find a
home for around 220 000 but most homes and most the ones you're going to want to be looking at
are about 400 000 on up they don't really have many condos or apartments or town homes or
anything like that they have two for sale right now and they go for over 500 000 they look nice
the median household income here is about 84 000 i get emails and questions every single day on where
someone should live if they tell me the midwest i usually suggest overland park and prairie village
number 5 buffalo grove illinois technically it's the village of buffalo grove this is a village
in lake and cook county illinois it's a suburb of chicago and it lies about 30 miles northwest
of downtown chicago with no traffic that's about a 41 minute drive vince vaughn was raised in buffalo
grove he was born in minneapolis but he moved here when he was young and went to school here buffalo
grove has a population of about 42 000 residents and a crime rate that is 69 percent lower than the
national average if you want to buy a home in buffalo grove it's not terrible especially for
being in a metro area that's known as an expensive place to live most affordable homes are going to
start off around 300 000 and work their way up you could find some occasionally that are cheaper than
that 275 250 000 but for the most part you're looking at 300 000 on up condos and town homes
you could find those as low as let's say 110 000 to 200 000 and of course you can find some really
nice ones in this area that are a little more than that now all of you that hear about how chicago is
just this nightmare and people are getting killed left and right that's what they tell you on the
news and it's bad it's not as bad as they make it sound but one thing you have to keep in mind
most of that bad stuff is going on on the south side of chicago chicago has its north and it's
south side you got the loop which is kind of the center and then you got the south side nightmare
stay away from there the north side is pleasant and nice sure you could find little pockets around
the loop and on the north side that are kind of bad but nothing compared to the south side of
chicago if you want to rent here rent's a little out of proportion it's actually 45 higher than the
national average the homes are affordable renting not so much number four troy michigan that's right
i said troy michigan close your mouth troy is a suburb on the north side of the detroit metro area
it's located about 16 miles north of downtown detroit and unlike most of detroit suburbs this
one doesn't have a whole bunch of vacant lots where the city actually had to tear down homes
the earliest recorded purchases of land in what was known as troy township occurred in 1819 so
this one's been around a while it was named troy after troy new york a lot of michigan's
early settlers were from new york one of my earliest videos was about detroit and it's you
know like five years old and we talked about how bad detroit is detroit's done a major turnaround
they've got a long way to go but they're doing a lot better they still have a lot of neighborhoods
with a ton of boarded up homes and missing homes yeah like i was saying the city actually got to
a point where they were just going through and mowing down abandoned homes which they had a lot
of because homeless people were living in there people were just setting them on fire for fun all
kinds of stupid stuff so if you drive down some of these neighborhoods you'll just see house house
vacant lot vacant lot vacant lot house vacant lot vegan that's how the blocks look troy has never
been like that troy michigan has a population of almost 90 000 it's like 87 000 right now
and they have a crime rate that's 59 percent lower than the national average which is outstanding
if you want to buy a home here the real estate market's all over the place in this town i mean
it's got something for almost everyone's budget starting off around 189 thousand dollars for
something that is decent and livable all the way up to two million dollars most really nice homes
that aren't going to need any work are going to be around 300 to 400 000 on up renting kind
of blows here it's 35 higher than the national average they don't have a lot of rentals either
the median household income in troy michigan is ninety three thousand seventeen dollars
number three exton lyonville pennsylvania these are two different places but they're kind of the
same they're both census designated places in the philadelphia metro area about 30 minutes west of
center city philadelphia philadelphia has a lot to offer people it's got some dangerous areas
but it is a beautiful and very historic city and in my opinion it's a great place to live
just outside of combined extend lyonville has a population of about 12 000 residents and they
have a crime rate that's about 75 percent lower than the national average which is outstanding
if you want to buy a home here a nice one's gonna start off somewhere around 325 thousand dollars
realistically though you want to be ready to spend about four or 450 to get a really nice place
i like this part of pennsylvania i really like the rural areas of pennsylvania and the lyonville
extend area is right on the edge of the rural parts if you're looking to rent here rent is about
38 percent above the national average the median household income in lyonville extend is 107 000
number two happy valley oregon happy valley is a suburb of portland oregon and it sits about 25
minutes southeast of downtown portland i know this place really well i love it it is a great place
to live and i know a lot of your ears perked up because it's portland oregon like chicago
and detroit all you hear is the negative stuff and when they present it to you on the news or
whatever they make it sound like the entire city is just in flames and there's a war going on there
it's not really a thing portland oddly enough i've been down there last couple weeks they're cleaning
up a lot of the homeless downtown i don't know where they're going but they're definitely not
as many tents on the street as there was a year year and a half ago i'd say it's down over half
they don't have any of that in happy valley happy valley is a nice place to live happy valley like i
said is on the southeast side of portland right about where it starts getting rural again you
got to go through damascus and then it gets really beautiful rural a lot of farmland it's really nice
out there almost 7 000 people call happy valley home the median household income in happy valley
is 106 000 and if you want to get a home in happy valley buckle up it's a little pricey these days
portland's seen a serious jump in their home prices in the last three years and happy valley
really seems like it's taken in the pants pretty hard if you're lucky you can find a nice home here
for around four hundred thousand realistically you're looking at 600 000 on up with the majority
of the homes being between 750 and 850 thousand dollars they do have some condos not a whole bunch
but there are some there they run about 270 to hundred thousand dollars happy valley's crime rate
is about 47 percent below the national average and it's trending in the right direction three years
ago their crime rate was only 35 percent lower than the national average all right before we get
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ohio yes i said shaker heights ohio if you know the area you know it's really nice when i tell
you where it is you might be skeptical it's in the cleveland metro area but shaker heights is a city
in cuyahoga county ohio as of the 2020 census the city's population is just about 30 000 residents
and if you live here you got some money and if you don't know you gotta have money to live here
even without looking at the numbers you just gotta look at the map if you see more than one
golf course in an area you know it's gonna be expensive they have five in the immediate area
but in a bizarre twist they do have affordable homes in some parts of shaker heights it's not
all just you know living on the golf course type property on the southwest side of shaker heights
they have some more affordable places you can get condos and things like that for about 150
000 homes in that area will start off a little over 220 000 but if you want to get something
decent around here you're gonna be looking over four hundred thousand dollars and they have some
homes that are two and three million dollars so they have a variety and probably something for
just about any budget rent is only about five percent higher than the national average now
all that and they're still doing really good with their crime rate it's 60 percent lower
than the national average the median household income in shaker heights is about 83 000 dollars
all right that's today's video hope you guys enjoyed it hope you got some
information out of it now go out have a great day and be nice to each other