Insightful video! Your Top 10 list provides valuable information for anyone considering a move. Thanks for the logical breakdown; it's helpful to weigh pros and cons. Great content!
Mississippi is very strict about food stamps and actively descourages eligible people from obtaining them so for Mississippi policy is a huge factor. What's happening with drugs in Apalachia is just sad. West Virginia has such big drug problems partly because so many people have work related injuries from mining and chronic pain has led to opioids which has also been pushed there.
That and the other metro's besides Memphis (which is the worst or near the worst in a number of categories) while not too great are also not nearly as bad as those in some of the other Southern states. Tennessee also has a lot fewer relitively well populated but remote rural counties and more exurban ones compared to Kentucky or West Virginia so that helps too. Finally, Tennessee is just a better managed state on average too, with less disfunctional, ideologically extreme, or corrupt local government as well on average compared to it's neighbors.
@@asielmilian38 Indeed. We got good food, Whataburger, Tex Mex, Barbecue, etc. Some of my favorite celebrities like Stone Cold Steve Austin, Willie Nelson, George Strait and Nolan Ryan are from Texas.
n a country where one presidential hopeful wants to punish anyone who criticizes said country, you are being honest. I admire you, for telling the truth.
Huntsville has immigrants to thank? Do you have any idea how many defense industries, space contractors , and government contractors Huntsville has? I think most of what you are saying is dead on but when you get personal, or when you start to include your own ethnicity into the equation, you start to skew and cheapen what you are saying. Keep it business and do your thing. That is why we watch. But keep your opinions out of it.
You can literally find these statistics on multiple US agencies who record these things. Hell, you can pass by Mississippi or Louisiana and see how much of a dump they are lmao
Very agreeable list. I've spent time in Appalachia Kentucky and despite the beauty it's super poor and has little else to offer. Arkansas looks super rough. Jot sure if you've done any videos in Pine Bluff, but there is a LOT of articles and videos on TH-cam documenting about how bad that city has gotten.
One bad thing about some states for a large portion of people is lack of affordability. That is, expensive relitive to income, thus far fewer people can buy a home and more live marginally housed or homeless. So California but not Massachusetts, though both are expensive. But for others they are much better!
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGSglobalization and highways don't undo our extreme housing costs relitive in our incomes Jose! In fact they actually contribute to the problem. You are just completely incorrect in your assesment of California's housing market. This is an issue that I am well researched on and can see first hand as well. Lack of housing affordability both to buy or to rent definitely exists in California for people who WORK full time or even who are self employed but don't already own and aren't millionaires! As I said for existing long term owners it's a different story but for those who don't already own are far less likley to be able to buy a home in MOST of California today then in most of the country because homes here curently cost much more *relitive* to income and cash wealth (not just in absolute terms) then in most of the country! Meanwhile, Califfornia renters are paying a much higher percentage if income and are largely financially strained if they can even rent their own place, -but just like many immigrant households do in general, a great many live with relitives as a result. That does have it's upsides as well as negatives! But most people in California at presant cannot buy a home in an area that is workable for them. That will change at some point given our history of boo and bust real estate and the aging of the baby boomers. But for now it's a major headache here for most middle class people. The few sizable somewhat affordable exceptions like Fresno or Bakersfield are largely unusually lousy places to live as well and also have fewer jobs per capita so many commute long distance, much like in most of Oklahoma or West Texas in a lot of ways, but lower in income and atvthe same time still significantly more expensive. That is a big reason for people leaving California, -so they can buy a home in a decent area. Oregon offers that. So do Nevada and Arizona. California not so much at presant. The same is true in many other locations on a smaller scale and yes this is true for immigrants as well as natives. As a Californian myself the indisputable fact of lower affordability here for most people, is reflected in substantially lower homeownership rates and greater houshold size as well as one of the worst unsheltered homeless problems anywhere (by far the worst in absolute terms and near the top per capita). Most homeless people are badly messed up indeviduals, but on the margins less rental vacancy and higher rents also means tighter requirements with fewer exceptions thus homelessness for many who would otherwise rent low quality housing.
Louisiana gets worst storms too. Id say in ar, more then immigrants its just people moving there whorver they are. Thats how sytem works needs growth. Eveyones been moving there for 20 years so now its nice. Also south of nw is fairly nice, not shiny leke nw but deacent.
Thank you for a very good information. To think that all these homeless are human beings is very sad. And we cannot do much for so many. The drug promoters need to be stop. May God help us all.
WOW...Just finished your Canada road trip to Quebec City videos...Makes me realize how lucky we are here to live here in Ontario. What happened to AMERICA??? Count me out ..not even interested to visit USA
you need to add Hawkins county Tennessee a really really horrible place to live over crowded hardly any good jobs high taxes bad roads and bad really bad drivers I diffantly would not move here!
My aunt stays in Gulfport Mississippi beautiful place she is my oldest aunt 89 years young and still living, also Minnesota and Wisconsin is the most racist state's i stay in Minnesota and from Wisconsin.
We don't live at the state level. We live in communities within states and the variation across communities in these factors is great within states. Therefore, this ranking of state level data is of limited use. It's the same issue as using city level data when there is so much variation across neighborhoods within cities. I do agree that immigrants would really help many of these places. For example, in Buffalo near where I live, if we were to get some of these large immigrant groups to settle there, the city could really turn around.
Upstate New York has its problems and is fairly stagnant but it's still fairly prosperous too overall, when you factor in the lower cost of living. Outside of certain urban neighborhoods it tends to be safe as well, very unlike most of the South, West, or even Lower Midwest where small towns are often very crime ridden.
But not all places with high immigrant populations are prospering. California's inland central valley is poor and has problems much like most of the South. It is full of both low income and poorly educated non immigrant Anglo, Hispanic and other Americans, and low income and poorly educated immigrants from Mexico & Southeast Asia. Public assistance is pervasive and employment rates are low and part time employment is usually high. While the nation's top farming region growing a large percentage of all US brown fresh produce and the majority of US tree nut production, California's Central Valley isn't just an agricultural economy but also Oil, manufacturing (especially food processing, farm equipment, chemicals, sports equipment, and fertilizer), and Lulu's or locally undersirable land uses serving coastal as well as inland California, such as Prisons, power plants, landfills, and various types of toxic waist facilities. There are also some militery installations, lots of logistics, a few important universities, oh, and the state Capital of Sacramento, Sacramento! The valley is also a bedroom community for lot's of long distance often supercommuters to the SF bay area, Sacramento and even Los Angeles in the southern end of the Valley, and they spend much money locally creating many service and other jobs as well. Still, while the Sacramento metro is fairly prosperous (though nothing like as wealthy or highly educated as the SF Bay Area) both the San Joaquin and the rest of the Sacramento Valley are on the whole really lousy places with high poverty rates, some of the nation's most unhealthy air and water, fairly high crime and very serious drug problems, and very limmited emenities relitively speaking, all with a mostly 20% or more foreign born population in a state that treats immigrants especially those lacking legal status much better then most do. The foreign born percentage in most of the valley is still lower then in most Coastal California however despite the sizable farmworker population. Although all industries in California's Central Valley have sizable immigrant workforces, other blue collar jobs in the valley besides agriculture are much more likley to be held by non immigrant workers including many Anglo's, when compared to coastal California.
Very much this. As someone who has lived in Greenville and Charleston in SC, compared to the small towns and the corridor of shame area the different between those areas and the cities I lived in is night and day. Also I think the bad driving stats in SC is largely contributed by the party beach city of Myrtle Beach.
Even if there is a lot of lazy people most people of working age still work in every state! The capital of Arkansas Little Rock also has a lot of prosperity even though it also has a lot of poverty and crime. Registered sex offenders are also a very small percentage of the population in every state.
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGSLittle Rock isn't like Montgomery as the west side of Little Rock has much more stable prosperity and is much more vibrant in it's core (even gentrifying significantly) very unlike the east side of Montgomery which has little gentrification and significant decline in many areas. Both cities have plenty of poverty and crime but Little Rock has much more prosperity and vibrancy then does Montgomery within it's urban core. Little Rock also has some much nicer suburbs then Montgomery does, located to the south and northwest of the city.
Drugs are differnt different places. Its more of a regional then anything else. The downers are catching on arkansas n west its mainly meth still tho. So u dont overdose but still just big problem in alot of ways. Countrys been split downer/meth, changing tho to downer everywhere moreso slowly.
I am surprised California and New York not on this list. They may be well educated but it seems they have high crime rates and have affordability issues. It is not how much you make it is how much you keep.
It's a shame that most of the people of their states on this list don't have their crap together. I see Colorado is going a very crappy direction when it comes to how people are running the state, and I would kind of hate to see things go that way, but you have to wonder why people have not even thought about taking care of their communities SMH
Came across your channel in my feed. Heard you allude to (several times) that the reason states flourish or can not flourish is due to influx of immigrants. Also, repeatedly stated percentage of smokers. Statistics perpuate what they deem evil. There were a lot of personal perceptions/biases which i am sure were not included in analytics. For instance how can being lazy? Is it on a question on a job application! While my state was not on the list, i am appalled that you would call someone "ugly" in any state! Not sure where you learned "analysis", but i am sure the data you were reading from did not include "lazy, ugly or the necessity of the influx of immigrants. With that being stated, there was some interesting information. But there was personal biases. Dont live in Indiana either, but one of the previous comments was, "who hurt you in INDIANA 😊?
Thanks!
Thanks 😊
Insightful video! Your Top 10 list provides valuable information for anyone considering a move. Thanks for the logical breakdown; it's helpful to weigh pros and cons. Great content!
12:44 OMG Jose, that delivery was brutal!!! No punches pulled (lol).
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Dude you literally just explained why Alabama is a great place to live for people with initiative 😂
Mississippi is very strict about food stamps and actively descourages eligible people from obtaining them so for Mississippi policy is a huge factor. What's happening with drugs in Apalachia is just sad. West Virginia has such big drug problems partly because so many people have work related injuries from mining and chronic pain has led to opioids which has also been pushed there.
Welcome back jose your one of my best travel bloggers on youtube !!!
New Mexico has legal abortions. Thats why the pregnancies are low.
Based
As a Tennessean, I'm really surprised we didn't make the top 10. Nashville area must be pulling up the state averages.
For a fact. Without middle 10 its not looking good
That and the other metro's besides Memphis (which is the worst or near the worst in a number of categories) while not too great are also not nearly as bad as those in some of the other Southern states. Tennessee also has a lot fewer relitively well populated but remote rural counties and more exurban ones compared to Kentucky or West Virginia so that helps too. Finally, Tennessee is just a better managed state on average too, with less disfunctional, ideologically extreme, or corrupt local government as well on average compared to it's neighbors.
As always your work is outstanding. For a great Cuban Sandwich consider another trip to the mitten.
Wow! Great video.
Ive been to NOLA. I loved the history and beautiful buildings, but I definitely would not want to live there!
I agree
I'm glad Texas didn't make this list lol.
Texas would be on my best list 😊
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGSTexas is a good state.
Arkansas probably will
@@asielmilian38 Indeed. We got good food, Whataburger, Tex Mex, Barbecue, etc. Some of my favorite celebrities like Stone Cold Steve Austin, Willie Nelson, George Strait and Nolan Ryan are from Texas.
It’s crazy bro went to my home town In Bama you jus gotta kno how to live here
Oh wow mostly red states like mine lol
Naturally
Right,im waiting to see the sarcasm in the comments 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Looks like it is 50/50.
Not because they're red and whoever made this probably based it on how the quality of things are FOR RICH PEOPLE
Red states, but it's the blue cities that destroy them.
n a country where one presidential hopeful wants to punish anyone who criticizes said country, you are being honest. I admire you, for telling the truth.
Huntsville has immigrants to thank? Do you have any idea how many defense industries, space contractors , and government contractors Huntsville has? I think most of what you are saying is dead on but when you get personal, or when you start to include your own ethnicity into the equation, you start to skew and cheapen what you are saying. Keep it business and do your thing. That is why we watch. But keep your opinions out of it.
Awesome shows brother 👍😃👏
What analytics are you using? Where can I confirm your facts?
What are you talking about? These are the easiest stats on earth to look up if you can find them you sure as crap wont be able to understand it 😅😅😅
You can literally find these statistics on multiple US agencies who record these things. Hell, you can pass by Mississippi or Louisiana and see how much of a dump they are lmao
Very agreeable list. I've spent time in Appalachia Kentucky and despite the beauty it's super poor and has little else to offer. Arkansas looks super rough. Jot sure if you've done any videos in Pine Bluff, but there is a LOT of articles and videos on TH-cam documenting about how bad that city has gotten.
Good one!
9:56 is Fairfield Al / Birmingham Al why u using that for Mississippi
Same garage look whats the difference
I live in East Tennessee, it's a great place to live.
West Tennessee, precisely Memphis is what brings the great State of Tennessee down !!!!!
Being from California damn these Democrats have messed this place up weird ass laws
Great video please do a top 10 best states to live in for 2024.
New Mexico is a Mountain State not a West Coast State. It was still a fun time watching this presentation.
Bro don't forget anazom big box big pharnas role in the abandoned areas loss of community opiods loss of local banks have destroyed many areas.
😝 EXCELLENT 👌.. stop confusing me with Facts
I’ve lived all over the world. Alabama and New Mexico are the best places I’ve lived! Don’t know if they made your list, haven’t watched yet!
One bad thing about some states for a large portion of people is lack of affordability. That is, expensive relitive to income, thus far fewer people can buy a home and more live marginally housed or homeless. So California but not Massachusetts, though both are expensive. But for others they are much better!
With globalization and highways that does not exist today except in remote out west. You can drive to a job or start a service
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGSglobalization and highways don't undo our extreme housing costs relitive in our incomes Jose! In fact they actually contribute to the problem. You are just completely incorrect in your assesment of California's housing market. This is an issue that I am well researched on and can see first hand as well. Lack of housing affordability both to buy or to rent definitely exists in California for people who WORK full time or even who are self employed but don't already own and aren't millionaires!
As I said for existing long term owners it's a different story but for those who don't already own are far less likley to be able to buy a home in MOST of California today then in most of the country because homes here curently cost much more *relitive* to income and cash wealth (not just in absolute terms) then in most of the country!
Meanwhile, Califfornia renters are paying a much higher percentage if income and are largely financially strained if they can even rent their own place, -but just like many immigrant households do in general, a great many live with relitives as a result. That does have it's upsides as well as negatives!
But most people in California at presant cannot buy a home in an area that is workable for them. That will change at some point given our history of boo and bust real estate and the aging of the baby boomers. But for now it's a major headache here for most middle class people.
The few sizable somewhat affordable exceptions like Fresno or Bakersfield are largely unusually lousy places to live as well and also have fewer jobs per capita so many commute long distance, much like in most of Oklahoma or West Texas in a lot of ways, but lower in income and atvthe same time still significantly more expensive. That is a big reason for people leaving California, -so they can buy a home in a decent area. Oregon offers that. So do Nevada and Arizona. California not so much at presant. The same is true in many other locations on a smaller scale and yes this is true for immigrants as well as natives.
As a Californian myself the indisputable fact of lower affordability here for most people, is reflected in substantially lower homeownership rates and greater houshold size as well as one of the worst unsheltered homeless problems anywhere (by far the worst in absolute terms and near the top per capita). Most homeless people are badly messed up indeviduals, but on the margins less rental vacancy and higher rents also means tighter requirements with fewer exceptions thus homelessness for many who would otherwise rent low quality housing.
Louisiana gets worst storms too. Id say in ar, more then immigrants its just people moving there whorver they are. Thats how sytem works needs growth. Eveyones been moving there for 20 years so now its nice. Also south of nw is fairly nice, not shiny leke nw but deacent.
Thank you for a very good information. To think that all these homeless are human beings is very sad. And we cannot do much for so many. The drug promoters need to be stop. May God help us all.
10:07 is Alabama Jamaican Resturant why u using that
I like how jose always says homo-cide rates. Gets me every time.
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WOW...Just finished your Canada road trip to Quebec City videos...Makes me realize how lucky we are here to live here in Ontario. What happened to AMERICA??? Count me out ..not even interested to visit USA
Some places are a great place to visit but sometimes not a great place to live.
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Canada has been an awesome trip want to see more.
glad to see illinios didnt make this list we aint great at anything but we definetly aint the worst place either.
you need to add Hawkins county Tennessee a really really horrible place to live over crowded hardly any good jobs high taxes bad roads and bad really bad drivers I diffantly would not move here!
My aunt stays in Gulfport Mississippi beautiful place she is my oldest aunt 89 years young and still living, also Minnesota and Wisconsin is the most racist state's i stay in Minnesota and from Wisconsin.
Nd, Probably, really. Moneys good n safe but It's just so cold, n the scenery 😢
Jose pronounced louisville, kentucky the correct way 😊
well yeah i lived there LOL
We don't live at the state level. We live in communities within states and the variation across communities in these factors is great within states. Therefore, this ranking of state level data is of limited use. It's the same issue as using city level data when there is so much variation across neighborhoods within cities.
I do agree that immigrants would really help many of these places. For example, in Buffalo near where I live, if we were to get some of these large immigrant groups to settle there, the city could really turn around.
The climate (harsh winters) will put off some people from settling there.
Upstate New York has its problems and is fairly stagnant but it's still fairly prosperous too overall, when you factor in the lower cost of living. Outside of certain urban neighborhoods it tends to be safe as well, very unlike most of the South, West, or even Lower Midwest where small towns are often very crime ridden.
But not all places with high immigrant populations are prospering. California's inland central valley is poor and has problems much like most of the South. It is full of both low income and poorly educated non immigrant Anglo, Hispanic and other Americans, and low income and poorly educated immigrants from Mexico & Southeast Asia. Public assistance is pervasive and employment rates are low and part time employment is usually high.
While the nation's top farming region growing a large percentage of all US brown fresh produce and the majority of US tree nut production, California's Central Valley isn't just an agricultural economy but also Oil, manufacturing (especially food processing, farm equipment, chemicals, sports equipment, and fertilizer), and Lulu's or locally undersirable land uses serving coastal as well as inland California, such as Prisons, power plants, landfills, and various types of toxic waist facilities. There are also some militery installations, lots of logistics, a few important universities, oh, and the state Capital of Sacramento, Sacramento! The valley is also a bedroom community for lot's of long distance often supercommuters to the SF bay area, Sacramento and even Los Angeles in the southern end of the Valley, and they spend much money locally creating many service and other jobs as well.
Still, while the Sacramento metro is fairly prosperous (though nothing like as wealthy or highly educated as the SF Bay Area) both the San Joaquin and the rest of the Sacramento Valley are on the whole really lousy places with high poverty rates, some of the nation's most unhealthy air and water, fairly high crime and very serious drug problems, and very limmited emenities relitively speaking, all with a mostly 20% or more foreign born population in a state that treats immigrants especially those lacking legal status much better then most do. The foreign born percentage in most of the valley is still lower then in most Coastal California however despite the sizable farmworker population.
Although all industries in California's Central Valley have sizable immigrant workforces, other blue collar jobs in the valley besides agriculture are much more likley to be held by non immigrant workers including many Anglo's, when compared to coastal California.
Very much this. As someone who has lived in Greenville and Charleston in SC, compared to the small towns and the corridor of shame area the different between those areas and the cities I lived in is night and day. Also I think the bad driving stats in SC is largely contributed by the party beach city of Myrtle Beach.
Even if there is a lot of lazy people most people of working age still work in every state! The capital of Arkansas Little Rock also has a lot of prosperity even though it also has a lot of poverty and crime. Registered sex offenders are also a very small percentage of the population in every state.
Little rock is like Montgomery where i lived in Alabama. Identical cities
@@FLORIDAHOODVLOGSLittle Rock isn't like Montgomery as the west side of Little Rock has much more stable prosperity and is much more vibrant in it's core (even gentrifying significantly) very unlike the east side of Montgomery which has little gentrification and significant decline in many areas. Both cities have plenty of poverty and crime but Little Rock has much more prosperity and vibrancy then does Montgomery within it's urban core. Little Rock also has some much nicer suburbs then Montgomery does, located to the south and northwest of the city.
Drugs are differnt different places. Its more of a regional then anything else. The downers are catching on arkansas n west its mainly meth still tho. So u dont overdose but still just big problem in alot of ways. Countrys been split downer/meth, changing tho to downer everywhere moreso slowly.
I am surprised California and New York not on this list. They may be well educated but it seems they have high crime rates and have affordability issues. It is not how much you make it is how much you keep.
Really? Do me a favor.. go look up their homicide and overdose rates real quick
While your videos are informative. You take to too long to get to the point .
I agree.
For the algorithm to catch it you need average view duration
You forgot Kansas
Kansas isn’t a fun state to love but its not charting towards the worst
It's a shame that most of the people of their states on this list don't have their crap together. I see Colorado is going a very crappy direction when it comes to how people are running the state, and I would kind of hate to see things go that way, but you have to wonder why people have not even thought about taking care of their communities SMH
All the states are falling apart now some are going faster than others
Jose...Jose...last I heard you was the man on these streets. 👌
Pennsylvania should be on there
Came across your channel in my feed. Heard you allude to (several times) that the reason states flourish or can not flourish is due to influx of immigrants. Also, repeatedly stated percentage of smokers. Statistics perpuate what they deem evil. There were a lot of personal perceptions/biases which i am sure were not included in analytics. For instance how can being lazy? Is it on a question on a job application! While my state was not on the list, i am appalled that you would call someone "ugly" in any state! Not sure where you learned "analysis", but i am sure the data you were reading from did not include "lazy, ugly or the necessity of the influx of immigrants.
With that being stated, there was some interesting information. But there was personal biases. Dont live in Indiana either, but one of the previous comments was, "who hurt you in INDIANA 😊?
Southern life you should go to Hendricks county indiana
Although Jose', not everyone on disability and food stamps are lazy. Overall, you make cogent points; as well as doing solid research.
See you have visited my hometown of Sumter SC 🥴🤦🏿
Lou, KY here 😅 I can back up your Indiana women claim 😂
Good video, TFS
Wow Half of the US is in Poverty 😭👍✌️👌🤞🙏🙌💜✝️🌟🌅🌻🌞🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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New Mexico is *not* on the West Coast.
Stop pronouncing the “th” in words as an f.
Wow, Jose! Admired your viewpoints on the first 9 states, but when you did Indiana, all I could think was, "Who hurt you in Indiana, Jose??"
Indiana analytically isn’t outside the top 10 worst states. Its numbers
What are the best states to live in? The south isn’t one of them.
Jose', love your unabashed, and unbiased report. To the point; hard hitting. This if from a white guy. You should run for the Presidency.
You talk like a true racist