I’m here in Monroe, LA. It’s a criminals dream. Spineless DA & coward politicians make this the cesspool city to avoid. However, there are a large group of us busting our asses to hold these people accountable. Regular every day people are trying to make it better. But…..your assessment was pretty damn spot on. Love your content. Come to Monroe for a long weekend & I will show you enough stuff for it’s own episode. God Bless. Be safe
I went to tech school at Delta West Ouachita and lived close by some 20 years ago. Monroe was pretty bad back then, I can't imagine what time has done to that place. My thoughts are with you.
That what happens when people vote for Democrats. They don't care about their citizens but they do care about the Criminals. Use your 2nd amendment rights and protect yourself. Im a Vet and God Bless 🇺🇸
The politicians aren't even cowards. They're corrupt property developers taking advantage of the laws that make this gold mine of opportunity for them. They don't care enough to even be cowards.
Visited Alaska last year; yeah, Fairbanks seemed pretty sketchy and depressing, which wasn't helped by some of the worst wildfire smoke I've ever seen. I think that smoke gave me either a cold or allergy attack (those can be hard to tell apart).
I could be wrong, but I suspect that the majority of the violent crimes in Fairbanks Alaska are committed by people who know one another, as opposed to the more random "stranger on stranger" crimes you see in most big cities to the south in the contiguous states. I think that depression and cabin fever have a lot to do with it, along with the drugs.
@@UrbanPanic Yeah. You can also go to an online calculator and do a binomial distribution probability calculation for X>=1 occurrence of a violent crime using the violent crime rate and see how often you have one or more instances of a violent crime in N years. For some slum I once calculated it was 50% probability in about at least one every 12 years as I recall. So every decade or so you'll have an even chance to get mugged, assaulted or worse. But anywhere in the USA is likely not as bad as the worse places in Honduras or South Africa.
Fairbanks gets a lot of people that come in from the dry villages to party. Also the military has a huge presence there. I knew a guy whose son was beat real bad by some GIs crashing a local party. 3 GIs got kicked out of the military so they could do their jail time.
Places with a wider sex ratio are more dangerous, either due to single motherhood or alcohol. Fairbanks is the latter, being a lot more male than female.
Yeah, you're reaching. Robberies are usually committed by strangers by strangers but in every other category of violent crime the victim usually knows the perpetrator.
I was thinking about Benton Harbor, Michigan. It's a place you roll up the windows and lock the doors when you must drive through town to get to St. Joseph, which is a very cool town on Lake Michigan.
I always look forward to the videos here. Reliable, fair, solid foundation, educational, and informative. Always a great source of actionable data for weighing options. 👍
The bright spot in this video was when you showed the picture of Allsup's in the Gallup segment. I grew up in New Mexico, and Allsup's chimichangas are one of the few things I look forward to when I visit.
Hope all is well. I would like to suggest a video that covers the best states / cities for veterans or military retirees (like me) to retire to. I currently live in Military city USA (San Antonio) but would consider looking to be somewhere cooler and with more green areas and water. I know you frequently mention your time in the Army so this might be a good topic to share with your fellow veterans. And.... Veterans day is just a few moths away. Cheers
I've skimmed statistics for various places in Mississippi. A lot of the bad towns fall in that level of bad where there's nothing remarkable or stand-out about it.
Born and raised in Danville. Was a nice area to grow up in. Mid 70-80's brought in the prison and the downside started. Then the state using it as a dumping ground for the Cabrini Greens trash some years back and that was the final nail in the headstone. Unfortunately they have a very useless mayor who doesn't want to change it. So Danville is doomed to only get worse...sad to say about where I grew up...But it's the Truth
Was waiting for some town in New Mexico to pop up, and there it was at #4. Good ole Gallup. Lived there in the late 70s to mid 80s, and I think it's actually better now..well, maybe cleaner. Actually Gallup holds a special place in my heart. Met a lot of good folks there, but when I talk to inner city yutes from LA or Chicago who talk about how rough their neighborhood was, I kind of take it all with a grain of salt.
Several items you didn't mention about East St. Louis: 1. In the 1980's the city could not pay a workers comp claim and the judge awarded the injured worker city hall as payment. 2. The police force at one time did not have any operating police cars. There was a murder of someone driving through town at night. Shot while stopped at a stop light. So the city removed the requirement to stop at a stop light. 3. During the 1970's as the town was in steep decline, a group of downtown businesses tried to get the state to buy their downtown property and build a new airport for the area.
and ... The abandoned Spivey building was built in 1927. The last tenant moved out in 1980. It also happens to be the tallest building in East St. Louis. Much of the post-apocalyptic film Escape from New York was filmed in the abandoned parts of East St Louis.
Many many years ago I was able to go up inside the St Louis Arch! Now days I steer clear of cities because of democrat infestation. They destroy all that is good in America.
@@personofnointerest or better yet! Add ALL OF OREGON. I’ve been to Illinois. And what I experienced there! They certainly can’t be even close to being half as bad as Oregon. In fact! I could almost bet if Oregon were there own Country instead of being a US State! They’d crack the Top 5 of most hated nations once people start to realize how bad they are.
@@personofnointerest Then Get a life BOZO! I’ve dealt with all that disgraceful stuff the State of Oregon has done ALL MY LIFE. You can have your STUPID OREGON! But don’t come crying to me when you start to learn the truth I’ve known forever.
I've grown up and lived in Saginaw for my entire life, I live in the township now but still have been in the area for 33 years. Saginaw is violent, but it's slowly getting better. People do honestly care and want to make this city great again. We are trying to change the perspective of outsiders and it's slowly getting there. A ton of investment is happening downtown due to us getting the OHL Memorial Cup this year and change is honestly good for this city. You just need to know where not to go at night, which is easy since I work and drive through most of those areas.
I live in Belleville IL.( 25 minutes from East St. Louis) and have friends in Saginaw and have been there many times. I question a list that puts Saginaw (an actual town) so much further up the list than East St. Louis ( a wasteland). Saginaw or E. St.? Saginaw in a heartbeat.
@robins.2749 That's the thing, there's just so much bad press that it's hard to get over that. I love this town, it's not that bad of a drive to Grand Rapids, let alone Detroit. It's still that mindset of Detroit or Michigan vs everybody
Agreed, but they'd talking about small towns here. Knew someone from where I grew up from central Pa, went to Kensington and unfortunately passed away . Drugs are bad news everywhere
@@rabidgoon yeah I know that, it starts at a park, and channels out, it's several streets to be honest, a huge triangle of streets. The street is in Philadelphia, and it has its own way of being. To bad Philadelphia is so drug rattled that the cops don't do anything about it. Drug dealers sell the products right out in the open. In the morning some dealers will offer what they call samples so they keep addicts coming. Philly has so much good going for it the history, the cheese steak. It's sad!!
one of my favorite parts of Wikipedia is the song and musical artists entries, very comprehensive and often full of interesting notes. I just read both Merle Haggard and Okie From Muskogee' entries, highly recommended. I'll let them tell the stories but the song is about more than Muskogee...
I just made a comment about this not to long ago, my dad literally showed me the video the other day and was telling me about Chris Farley and the 90s and all that 😂 funny thing is, it was the first time I saw it and only days later I find this video and it makes a small reference, I would’ve never got this joke had my dad not told me a few days before, the timing is crazy and sure is mind boggling.
Not surprised to see a town in Oklahoma on here, but I’m suprised it’s not McAlester. Used to go to Muskogee for some fairs (renaissance fair in particular) when I lived in Oklahoma.
I can safely say that both Saginaw and Flint are depressing areas to live in because the workforce in both of those cities were reliant only on one industry. I'm surprised though that Warren and Youngstown Ohio weren't included on the list.
I just heard that in Las Vegas a family of a coworker of mine locks themselves into their bedrooms at night, fearful of someone breaking into their house in a nice area of town. I wonder if Vegas will be in the video on larger towns. Another coworker mentioned bars on the windows of a family member's house in Tucson. Sounded like some NYC apartments.
Nope it's not quite there's at least 4 people on the news every night that have shot, assaulted, or robbed someone but it's usually confined to a few bad neighborhoods
No, Monroe is still MUCH better than Shreveport. There are a few neighborhoods in Monroe where the vast majority of the crime occurs but most of the city is just fine.
I live a stones throw from Monroe LA and I have to agree, it's a cesspool especially the south side. My daughter goes to college at ULM and all my Doctors are located there.
They're actually getting better, albeit slowly. They still have a long way to go, but each state has models for what towns and cities should be like in Huntsville and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
I’ve been through Gallup, New Mexico multiple times and Monroe, Louisiana once. For Monroe, I made sure not to get off the Bus. Gallup, I’ve been been through by Bus and by Car. Didn’t get off the Bus in Gallup. The only time I ever exited a Vehicle was when I had to get Gas in Gallup. I sure as hell didn’t stick around. They both give off that vibe of “Nope, I ain’t sticking around”.
As a Route 66 fan that is good to know if I ever visit there; in this case the historic El Rancho Hotel would probably be the only thing to see and then get out of there. I'd probably feel much safer in Flagstaff, AZ 200 miles away along with quadruple the population.
@@mikeshumakerI just drove through Gallup for the first time last weekend. Definitely drive the old route 66 through town but, if you need gas or stop to eat, I recommend crossing over to the north side of I-40 where the "new" chain-businesses are located.
The only city on the list I have been to is Muskogee Oklahoma. I've driven through there (not to there) many times. I've only stopped there at gas stations to use the generally filthy rest rooms, and maybe buy a soft drink. I don't like to leave my car parked at these establishments very long.
Sorry to hear about Fairbanks, Alaska. I visited there once, and it was actually sunny and a warm 80 degrees that day. Kinda nice for Alaska. The Chena River is alright. Has a nice looking University.Our hotel downtown seemed okay. I didn't realize little Fairbanks was so ghetto. I would still visit Alaska and Fairbanks again. Nearby Denali National Park is so awesome.
I remember driving through East Saint Louis when I was a teenager and my uncle and I did a cross country road trip. We didn’t stop there. It looked like a battlefield. The same thing could be said about Baltimore. We were there during a garbage strike- I’m sure that didn’t help things I’m sure! Duluth wasn’t much different. I’m sure every place has nice neighborhoods- that’s just what I saw while driving through on vacation and I had limited time at each place. FYI- the most dangerous places in America are in rural areas. You can check the statistics on the internet.
the difference between East St. Louis and Baltimore is that in Baltimore, the downtown is fine and there are lots of good areas. In East St. Louis, the downtown is incredibly deserted.
@@michaellewyn4099 I live in Belleville IL (25 min from East St. Louis). It's a wasteland that NOBODY goes through if they can help it. At least Baltimore is an actual city. So is Detroit for that matter. East St Louis is just closed factories, and mile after mile of vacant lots.
Oakland, CA, AVOID this plague of a town with every fiber of your soul!! Military train medics here for the amount of high impact weapon injuries that Occur on Pulic streets!!!
When I moved to flagstaff, Arizona we had to drove from indiana to Arizona. We stopped in Gallup,NM actually. The surrounding area is actually very pretty but yeah there's a lot of crime.
Nice 👍 video, very interesting. I have been to Fairbanks once and it seemed OK, but that was a while ago. Commerce isn’t great but having lived in Los Angeles area, I’d live in Commerce before some of the other towns that are worse in the LA area and would definitely live in Commerce before I’d live in East St Louis or Flint which were further down the list. I hope New Mexico gets better, I really like the state and would consider retiring there but the problem is the places you would want to live Santa Fe and Taos are expensive and everywhere else just has crime rates higher than what I am comfortable with.
He stop listening his sources when he realized he was training people to copy his style of video. Now he says all crime stats come from the FBI website.
BOUGHT A HUD home in Cahokia Illinois (might just as well be E St Louis)on line in the early 2000s bought it for less than $1500 soldit for $3500- $4000 (can't remember) paid the agent $1000 did nothing to it .Bought some homes in Belleville Illinois (because there was a drum corps from there in the 70s that my group competed with very nice group),nearby Belleville has an ordinance when you sell a home all its systems must be up to current code .keeps the prices up but I was told by a city inspector IT KEEPS East St Louis and Cahokia from moving over to Belleville
Ever lived in New England? Tell me the pros and cons, I’ve been looking at places in Vermont, Maine, Rhode Island & Massachusetts. But I’m a Southern Boy…. I don’t mind going out of town, I actually hate living in the South even though it’s where I was raised so honestly when people try to scare me into not going up north by talking about how cold it is and how the south never gets that cold. Honestly don’t give a Sh!t…. Just need to get away from the South, Midwest, southwest, northwest, northeast etc. all sounds good to me
Did anybody catch that “Van down By the River “ Reference at 5:50😂 it’s so funny because my Dad was telling me about it and showed the video just the other day, he said it was something he used to watch when he was younger, and the fact that this video makes a reference to something I barely found a few days ago is mind boggling, gives me a sense of deja vu if that makes sense.
Have to laugh. I had a BIL who lived in Gallup for 2 years and yeah, that was no garden spot. The poverty there is really unfortunate. Also had a sister who lived between Flint and Saginaw and also...just headed south with the demise of GM and so few jobs. Also, the governor and his govt aides screwed over Flint in handling the lead pollution issue...unconscionable and gov seal the fate of his defeat largely due to mismanagement like this.
Briggs I worked for USPHS/IHS as a Nurse Midwife at Chinle AZ on the Navajo Reservation & Gallup was where we had to drive to use an ATM or find a second rate movie! Ne ER was shot but shooting guns for recreational target practice was a new hobby I found living there! Weird? Yes!! Regards Geti
Casper, Wyoming gets my vote. I've been all over the country and Casper is the worst place I've been. I spent a month there for work in 2017. The population at the time was 55,000. If you ever find out you only have six months to live, you should move to Casper because it will be the longest six months of your life. There's nothing there except a mostly empty, run-down mall. There aren't any good restaurants or shopping or recreation. There's no culture. There's a movie theater but I never saw any cars in front of it. The people seem depressed or at least complacent. I didn't meet anybody there who had any kind of interests or motivation or enthusiasm for anything. I don't know about the violent crime rate. I never saw any crime and there were very few homeless people, but I know the town has a huge meth problem. Most people there acknowledge it. I went to Cheyenne a few times just to get away from Casper for a while, but it isn't much better. It's basically just like Casper, only bigger. I'm normally a cheerful, optimistic person but it was hard not to let it bring me down. I was never so happy to leave a place. When I drove out of Casper the last time, it felt like Christmas. I was so happy and excited to be going anywhere else. Arriving in Denver felt like a dream. Cost of living is difficult everywhere now, including Denver, but I would rather be homeless on the street in Denver than in a big fancy house in Casper. Any time I get stressed or discouraged, I just remember that I'm not in Casper anymore and it makes me feel better.
I took a promotion at Sears and moved to Casper for about a year (64 -65. Crime wasn’t too bad but it was really depressing even then. My happiest day was the day I quit and drove back to Denver
Surprised Barstow California didn't make it on the list. Something like 300% violent crime rate, 30% live below the poverty line, and like 1 in 250 people are homeless.
I've been to a lot of destitute places, but Kalamazoo MI really flies under the radar. It really is probably the worst I've seen outside of St Louis areas. Kalamazoo is worse than Gary IN, Cairo IL, or Indiana.
Another one to add to the list... East Cleveland Ohio. It's so bad... Two cops just got arrested for stealing from people they pulled over and arrested. This was were I was raised. This is why I left the Cleveland area all together! 😂
Very true about Gallup NM I used to live there in ABQ NM and so it is how I know that it's bad out in Gallup NM. That was way back in the aughts too so I can only imagine how it is today given the new governor was just on the national news about gun laws and gun crimes. There's an upheaval over it now.
My idea of "cold" is any temperature under 20F. For that alone, I could not DO "Fairbanks". I've been to eight out of ten of the towns you mentioned, and I can vouch for their awfulness. I'm surprised Cairo, Illinois wasn't mentioned on your list. Cairo is even more appalling than East St. Louis. Danville, IL is a paradise next to Cairo. I don't know if you've done a video on Cairo, but it's well worth the visit if just to document what blatant racism and incredibly poor public planning can do to a town. I have a passionate interest in geography, and I really enjoy your videos.
As someone born and raised in Saginaw Michigan i agree that it sucks 😂 ive been in the Denver metro area for a decade almost and cant imagine what itd be like to move back home 😂
My parents took me on a road trip to Las Vegas, NV back in 1992. On the way we passed through Gallup, NM. We had some of the best barbecue at a restaurant there. You could eat the bone because they smoke the ribs for so long. I don't remember the name of the restaurant unfortunately. It was very Native American oriented with all the different shops selling crafts.
I live 70 miles from Fairbanks. We have to make weekly (if we're lucky) trips to shop or see doctors. Fairbanks is a kinda ugly town. Alaska has advantages, though. Cheapest houses in the area are less than 70,000bucks (dry cabins, haul yer own water.) No income tax, no sales tax (mostly,) no or low property tax. Plus, with the PFD (google it) a poor family with 5 kids gets $10,000 to 20,000 a year. Subsistence hunting and fishing is common (get several hundred lbs of meat a year, 50 lbs of fish.) Poor folk can do OK here. Alas, booze and crack are way too common. (nuthin else to do in the winter they think.)
I lived in LA and Orange County for more than 35 years, and Commerce wouldn't even make my top 20 for worst towns in that metro. Just look at a few of the towns that border Commerce that are worse. Bell Gardens, Maywood, Bell, Pico Rivera, and there are plenty of other towns like Lynwood, Compton, Huntington Park, Hawthorne, Lomita, Santa Ana, Basset, El Monte, and way too many more to mention. All of those places-Trash!
Thank you for providing such a depressing start to the weekend. On the other hand, one can rejoice at not living in one of these places.
Bless your heart…you are not required to watch any videos.
Not if you live in Monroe.😂
We used to work in Danville & lived nearby. We moved to Mississippi and it’s such a vast improvement from there. Let that sink in.
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Ouch...
Damn.
Bro thought moving to Mississippi was gonna be an upgrade that's just as bad 😂
@@naptime0143the joke is that Mississippi was an IMPROVEMENT.
I’m here in Monroe, LA. It’s a criminals dream. Spineless DA & coward politicians make this the cesspool city to avoid. However, there are a large group of us busting our asses to hold these people accountable. Regular every day people are trying to make it better. But…..your assessment was pretty damn spot on. Love your content. Come to Monroe for a long weekend & I will show you enough stuff for it’s own episode. God Bless. Be safe
I went to tech school at Delta West Ouachita and lived close by some 20 years ago. Monroe was pretty bad back then, I can't imagine what time has done to that place. My thoughts are with you.
But you got the Duck Dynasty boys so it cant be all that bad. LMAO
That what happens when people vote for Democrats. They don't care about their citizens but they do care about the Criminals. Use your 2nd amendment rights and protect yourself. Im a Vet and God Bless 🇺🇸
The politicians aren't even cowards. They're corrupt property developers taking advantage of the laws that make this gold mine of opportunity for them. They don't care enough to even be cowards.
Weird! I have relatives in all these towns. I wonder if that's the cause?
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I used to dispatch ambulances in E.St.Louis.
There were no lay-offs.
Visited Alaska last year; yeah, Fairbanks seemed pretty sketchy and depressing, which wasn't helped by some of the worst wildfire smoke I've ever seen. I think that smoke gave me either a cold or allergy attack (those can be hard to tell apart).
Smoke is a regular occurrence in Fairbanks during the summer. I used to go the office for my work for a week every few months for many years.
I could be wrong, but I suspect that the majority of the violent crimes in Fairbanks Alaska are committed by people who know one another, as opposed to the more random "stranger on stranger" crimes you see in most big cities to the south in the contiguous states. I think that depression and cabin fever have a lot to do with it, along with the drugs.
Another possibility is statistics of small populations. One or two crime sprees can really push the average up.
@@UrbanPanic Yeah. You can also go to an online calculator and do a binomial distribution probability calculation for X>=1 occurrence of a violent crime using the violent crime rate and see how often you have one or more instances of a violent crime in N years. For some slum I once calculated it was 50% probability in about at least one every 12 years as I recall. So every decade or so you'll have an even chance to get mugged, assaulted or worse. But anywhere in the USA is likely not as bad as the worse places in Honduras or South Africa.
Fairbanks gets a lot of people that come in from the dry villages to party. Also the military has a huge presence there. I knew a guy whose son was beat real bad by some GIs crashing a local party. 3 GIs got kicked out of the military so they could do their jail time.
Places with a wider sex ratio are more dangerous, either due to single motherhood or alcohol. Fairbanks is the latter, being a lot more male than female.
Yeah, you're reaching. Robberies are usually committed by strangers by strangers but in every other category of violent crime the victim usually knows the perpetrator.
"If you don't get killed by lead in the drinking water you could get killed by lead another way" 😂😂😂😂
In the dining room by Miss Scarlett
Yeah, that was a good one!
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We bought our water even though we had a well.😉
It's really sad how the water looked during the Flint, Michigan segment. Really gross. Great video!👍🏾
It's coming to new orleans too! Dif reason though
In all fairness to Flint, I would bet that was stock footage, no telling where it was at. But a safe bet it's not actually Flint's water.
@@bradleymcwilliams6348 Not a safe bet at all.
I was thinking about Benton Harbor, Michigan. It's a place you roll up the windows and lock the doors when you must drive through town to get to St. Joseph, which is a very cool town on Lake Michigan.
I always look forward to the videos here. Reliable, fair, solid foundation, educational, and informative. Always a great source of actionable data for weighing options. 👍
The bright spot in this video was when you showed the picture of Allsup's in the Gallup segment.
I grew up in New Mexico, and Allsup's chimichangas are one of the few things I look forward to when I visit.
Great videos! Do some on Canada too, please!
Hope all is well. I would like to suggest a video that covers the best states / cities for veterans or military retirees (like me) to retire to. I currently live in Military city USA (San Antonio) but would consider looking to be somewhere cooler and with more green areas and water. I know you frequently mention your time in the Army so this might be a good topic to share with your fellow veterans. And.... Veterans day is just a few moths away. Cheers
Great video! Thanks Briggs.
Glad you liked it!
Briggs: People that are living in their vans...
Me: Down by the ...
Briggs: Theres no river...
Me: Damnit!
"there were beaches in the Normandy invasion that had lower rates of violence... " priceless... thank you for making me laugh, Briggs
Yeah, that was brutal.
yeah.... pretty much all of Louisiana is like that tbh
I visited Fairbanks about 20 years ago and it reminded me of a bigger version of Tahoe City... I can't imagine it having gone downhill so bad...
It hasn't, it's not that bad.
My grandma is from Danville. They knew the Van Dykes. She used to talk about Dick VanDyke as if he was her friend from down the street.
He probably was...back in those days Danville was a great area. Very friendly people.and just a very nice place to live...BACK THEN
I'm SHOCKED not one town from Mississippi made the list.
Take away Jackson with it's surrounding area along with the counties in the Delta and it turns into not such a bad place to live.
I've skimmed statistics for various places in Mississippi. A lot of the bad towns fall in that level of bad where there's nothing remarkable or stand-out about it.
Born and raised in Danville. Was a nice area to grow up in. Mid 70-80's brought in the prison and the downside started. Then the state using it as a dumping ground for the Cabrini Greens trash some years back and that was the final nail in the headstone. Unfortunately they have a very useless mayor who doesn't want to change it. So Danville is doomed to only get worse...sad to say about where I grew up...But it's the Truth
Thanks Briggs great video
Glad you enjoyed it
Was waiting for some town in New Mexico to pop up, and there it was at #4. Good ole Gallup. Lived there in the late 70s to mid 80s, and I think it's actually better now..well, maybe cleaner. Actually Gallup holds a special place in my heart. Met a lot of good folks there, but when I talk to inner city yutes from LA or Chicago who talk about how rough their neighborhood was, I kind of take it all with a grain of salt.
Several items you didn't mention about East St. Louis:
1. In the 1980's the city could not pay a workers comp claim and the judge awarded the injured worker city hall as payment.
2. The police force at one time did not have any operating police cars. There was a murder of someone driving through town at night. Shot while stopped at a stop light. So the city removed the requirement to stop at a stop light.
3. During the 1970's as the town was in steep decline, a group of downtown businesses tried to get the state to buy their downtown property and build a new airport for the area.
This sounds like East Cleveland. Look it up.
We could see how bad this was looking out the train windows on the way to St. Louis.
and ...
The abandoned Spivey building was built in 1927. The last tenant moved out in 1980. It also happens to be the tallest building in East St. Louis.
Much of the post-apocalyptic film Escape from New York was filmed in the abandoned parts of East St Louis.
Many many years ago I was able to go up inside the St Louis Arch! Now days I steer clear of cities because of democrat infestation. They destroy all that is good in America.
Cant believe Cairo, Illinois wasn’t a part of this list.
Going to be worse since they are closing the bridge to Missouri for a year.
@@personofnointerest or better yet! Add ALL OF OREGON. I’ve been to Illinois. And what I experienced there! They certainly can’t be even close to being half as bad as Oregon. In fact! I could almost bet if Oregon were there own Country instead of being a US State! They’d crack the Top 5 of most hated nations once people start to realize how bad they are.
@@personofnointerest Then Get a life BOZO! I’ve dealt with all that disgraceful stuff the State of Oregon has done ALL MY LIFE. You can have your STUPID OREGON! But don’t come crying to me when you start to learn the truth I’ve known forever.
I've grown up and lived in Saginaw for my entire life, I live in the township now but still have been in the area for 33 years. Saginaw is violent, but it's slowly getting better. People do honestly care and want to make this city great again. We are trying to change the perspective of outsiders and it's slowly getting there. A ton of investment is happening downtown due to us getting the OHL Memorial Cup this year and change is honestly good for this city. You just need to know where not to go at night, which is easy since I work and drive through most of those areas.
I live in Belleville IL.( 25 minutes from East St. Louis) and have friends in Saginaw and have been there many times. I question a list that puts Saginaw (an actual town) so much further up the list than East St. Louis ( a wasteland). Saginaw or E. St.? Saginaw in a heartbeat.
@robins.2749 That's the thing, there's just so much bad press that it's hard to get over that. I love this town, it's not that bad of a drive to Grand Rapids, let alone Detroit. It's still that mindset of Detroit or Michigan vs everybody
"I don't have the time or the crayons" 😂 gonna use that one...
You need to visit Kinsington in Philadelphia.
Biggest open air drug use area.
It's the worst of the worst..
I think you mean Kensington.
Agreed, but they'd talking about small towns here. Knew someone from where I grew up from central Pa, went to Kensington and unfortunately passed away . Drugs are bad news everywhere
kensington is crazy but it's not actually a town, just a street/neighborhood of philly. i'm sure briggs is aware of it.
Many liberals turn a blind eye to Kingston PA.......
"Nothing to see here."
@@rabidgoon yeah I know that, it starts at a park, and channels out, it's several streets to be honest, a huge triangle of streets.
The street is in Philadelphia, and it has its own way of being.
To bad Philadelphia is so drug rattled that the cops don't do anything about it.
Drug dealers sell the products right out in the open.
In the morning some dealers will offer what they call samples so they keep addicts coming.
Philly has so much good going for it the history, the cheese steak.
It's sad!!
Wow!! Muskogee, Ok. That's the town from that great Merle Haggard song : "Okie from Muskogee" ..."where even squares have a ball"
Its meth haven. Think thats the reason for so much crime.
one of my favorite parts of Wikipedia is the song and musical artists entries, very comprehensive and often full of interesting notes. I just read both Merle Haggard and Okie From Muskogee' entries, highly recommended. I'll let them tell the stories but the song is about more than Muskogee...
Really appreciated the “living in a van down by the river” joke when talking about Commerce 😂
Rest in peace Chris Farley
I just made a comment about this not to long ago, my dad literally showed me the video the other day and was telling me about Chris Farley and the 90s and all that 😂 funny thing is, it was the first time I saw it and only days later I find this video and it makes a small reference, I would’ve never got this joke had my dad not told me a few days before, the timing is crazy and sure is mind boggling.
Not surprised to see a town in Oklahoma on here, but I’m suprised it’s not McAlester. Used to go to Muskogee for some fairs (renaissance fair in particular) when I lived in Oklahoma.
As a Hosier I was disappointed that Gary didn't at least get honorable mention!
HMD, IND! My kids live in Gary. Its q beautiful city honestly!
I can safely say that both Saginaw and Flint are depressing areas to live in because the workforce in both of those cities were reliant only on one industry. I'm surprised though that Warren and Youngstown Ohio weren't included on the list.
I was almost sent to Fairbanks AK to work! Luckily I avoided it for now. Monroe I have been through many times and it's just depressing.
I just heard that in Las Vegas a family of a coworker of mine locks themselves into their bedrooms at night, fearful of someone breaking into their house in a nice area of town. I wonder if Vegas will be in the video on larger towns. Another coworker mentioned bars on the windows of a family member's house in Tucson. Sounded like some NYC apartments.
As a born and raised Shreveporter I thought Monroe was a quiet place the few times I visited. Seems that has REALLY changed.
"quite place" might be telling you something.
Nope it's not quite there's at least 4 people on the news every night that have shot, assaulted, or robbed someone but it's usually confined to a few bad neighborhoods
No, Monroe is still MUCH better than Shreveport. There are a few neighborhoods in Monroe where the vast majority of the crime occurs but most of the city is just fine.
I had an Air Force friend from Pine Bluff. I went and visited her home and I thought it was great!. But again that was 30 years ago. How sad.
I live a stones throw from Monroe LA and I have to agree, it's a cesspool especially the south side. My daughter goes to college at ULM and all my Doctors are located there.
How did Mississippi & Alabama towns escape being on this list?
That’s my thinking 🤷♂️ .
Successfully spreading out the trouble makers maybe?
They're actually getting better, albeit slowly. They still have a long way to go, but each state has models for what towns and cities should be like in Huntsville and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
That would considered a racist thing to say.
No it's not racist, it's true.@@edmclendon9399
definitely agree with Flint. My family grew up in the area and we always avoided Flint.
I'm surprized that Newburgh NY did not make the list.
Lived there 2000-2002.
Very unusual place.
Beautiful architecture and parks, and riverfront.
But something is definitely off.
I’ve been through Gallup, New Mexico multiple times and Monroe, Louisiana once. For Monroe, I made sure not to get off the Bus. Gallup, I’ve been been through by Bus and by Car. Didn’t get off the Bus in Gallup. The only time I ever exited a Vehicle was when I had to get Gas in Gallup. I sure as hell didn’t stick around. They both give off that vibe of “Nope, I ain’t sticking around”.
Yes Gallup is truly horrible.
As a Route 66 fan that is good to know if I ever visit there; in this case the historic El Rancho Hotel would probably be the only thing to see and then get out of there. I'd probably feel much safer in Flagstaff, AZ 200 miles away along with quadruple the population.
@@mikeshumakerI just drove through Gallup for the first time last weekend. Definitely drive the old route 66 through town but, if you need gas or stop to eat, I recommend crossing over to the north side of I-40 where the "new" chain-businesses are located.
No Camden, NJ?
Thanks for the warnings.
The only city on the list I have been to is Muskogee Oklahoma. I've driven through there (not to there) many times. I've only stopped there at gas stations to use the generally filthy rest rooms, and maybe buy a soft drink. I don't like to leave my car parked at these establishments very long.
I was surprised to see Danville Illinois on the list. Had relatives that lived there. Sorry to see that the city went downhill.😢
Hey. I see a glaring problem here. Flint has well over 50k. I thought that was one of the prerequisites of being on this list
9Pso is Terre Haute.
Sorry to hear about Fairbanks, Alaska. I visited there once, and it was actually sunny and a warm 80 degrees that day. Kinda nice for Alaska. The Chena River is alright. Has a nice looking University.Our hotel downtown seemed okay. I didn't realize little Fairbanks was so ghetto. I would still visit Alaska and Fairbanks again. Nearby Denali National Park is so awesome.
Fairbanks is off my list but Juneau on a cruise ship and Skagway passage now we’re up to something!
I remember driving through East Saint Louis when I was a teenager and my uncle and I did a cross country road trip. We didn’t stop there. It looked like a battlefield. The same thing could be said about Baltimore. We were there during a garbage strike- I’m sure that didn’t help things I’m sure! Duluth wasn’t much different. I’m sure every place has nice neighborhoods- that’s just what I saw while driving through on vacation and I had limited time at each place. FYI- the most dangerous places in America are in rural areas. You can check the statistics on the internet.
the difference between East St. Louis and Baltimore is that in Baltimore, the downtown is fine and there are lots of good areas. In East St. Louis, the downtown is incredibly deserted.
@@michaellewyn4099 I live in Belleville IL (25 min from East St. Louis). It's a wasteland that NOBODY goes through if they can help it. At least Baltimore is an actual city. So is Detroit for that matter. East St Louis is just closed factories, and mile after mile of vacant lots.
I totally agree on monroe. and the comments on my video were NASTY man!
Oakland, CA, AVOID this plague of a town with every fiber of your soul!! Military train medics here for the amount of high impact weapon injuries that Occur on Pulic streets!!!
Even sunny Florida has some really dreadful smaller towns ... and I mean dreadful: Belle Glade, Clewiston, Florida City, Opa Locka.
West cocoa
North side of Jacksonville
When I moved to flagstaff, Arizona we had to drove from indiana to Arizona. We stopped in Gallup,NM actually. The surrounding area is actually very pretty but yeah there's a lot of crime.
When you think about it, there are dozens of towns and areas in America that really,really suck.
Nice 👍 video, very interesting. I have been to Fairbanks once and it seemed OK, but that was a while ago. Commerce isn’t great but having lived in Los Angeles area, I’d live in Commerce before some of the other towns that are worse in the LA area and would definitely live in Commerce before I’d live in East St Louis or Flint which were further down the list. I hope New Mexico gets better, I really like the state and would consider retiring there but the problem is the places you would want to live Santa Fe and Taos are expensive and everywhere else just has crime rates higher than what I am comfortable with.
That's the problem nationwide; the places everyone wants to live are expensive and getting more so.
I find it weird that commerce is on this list, I rather live there than live in Compton or watts any day.
So was Stockton, California too populous for this list?
Probably. We suck but we suck on a grand scale. Briggs has plenty of other videos which sum it up on Stockton though.
Isn't Lodi, CA worse though? If fact every town named Lodi in the US could be on this list.
@@deirdre108Oh lord, stuck in Lodi againnnn.
Just curious, what is your source(s) for this data? I didn't see it listed in the description.
He stop listening his sources when he realized he was training people to copy his style of video. Now he says all crime stats come from the FBI website.
What about San Bernaghetto, Kalifornia?
Too big for this list.
I think it's Briggs' hometown.
How did Stockton CA not make this list?
Stockton is not a town.
How tf is gary Indiana not on this list
It's too large for his criteria.
Please, one about the States with the most car accidents. 😊
BOUGHT A HUD home in Cahokia Illinois (might just as well be E St
Louis)on line in the early 2000s bought it for less than $1500 soldit for $3500- $4000 (can't remember) paid the agent $1000 did nothing to it .Bought some homes in Belleville Illinois (because there was a drum corps from there in the 70s that my group competed with very nice group),nearby Belleville has an ordinance when you sell a home all its systems must be up to current code .keeps the prices up but I was told by a city inspector IT KEEPS East St Louis and Cahokia from moving over to Belleville
Hey Briggs great video like always. Could you do a video on affordable places to live in New England?
Ever lived in New England? Tell me the pros and cons, I’ve been looking at places in Vermont, Maine, Rhode Island & Massachusetts.
But I’m a Southern Boy…. I don’t mind going out of town, I actually hate living in the South even though it’s where I was raised so honestly when people try to scare me into not going up north by talking about how cold it is and how the south never gets that cold. Honestly don’t give a Sh!t…. Just need to get away from the South, Midwest, southwest, northwest, northeast etc. all sounds good to me
@@Cassius-m5vsince you're a Southern boy, you might like the Adirondack region in upstate New York
Though Flint is indeed a dump, with a population of 81,252, it seems a bit high to be called a town.
Did anybody catch that “Van down By the River “ Reference at 5:50😂 it’s so funny because my Dad was telling me about it and showed the video just the other day, he said it was something he used to watch when he was younger, and the fact that this video makes a reference to something I barely found a few days ago is mind boggling, gives me a sense of deja vu if that makes sense.
Have to laugh. I had a BIL who lived in Gallup for 2 years and yeah, that was no garden spot. The poverty there is really unfortunate. Also had a sister who lived between Flint and Saginaw and also...just headed south with the demise of GM and so few jobs. Also, the governor and his govt aides screwed over Flint in handling the lead pollution issue...unconscionable and gov seal the fate of his defeat largely due to mismanagement like this.
I’m surprised Benton Harbor, Michigan is not on this list
Always nice when my hometown does not make a list like this.
Briggs
I worked for USPHS/IHS as a Nurse Midwife at Chinle AZ on the Navajo Reservation & Gallup was where we had to drive to use an ATM or find a second rate movie! Ne ER was shot but shooting guns for recreational target practice was a new hobby I found living there! Weird? Yes!!
Regards
Geti
Used to live in Winslow, AZ and considered ourselves lucky we didn't live in Gallup. Recreational target practice is a thing in both states XD
Casper, Wyoming gets my vote. I've been all over the country and Casper is the worst place I've been. I spent a month there for work in 2017. The population at the time was 55,000. If you ever find out you only have six months to live, you should move to Casper because it will be the longest six months of your life.
There's nothing there except a mostly empty, run-down mall. There aren't any good restaurants or shopping or recreation. There's no culture. There's a movie theater but I never saw any cars in front of it. The people seem depressed or at least complacent. I didn't meet anybody there who had any kind of interests or motivation or enthusiasm for anything.
I don't know about the violent crime rate. I never saw any crime and there were very few homeless people, but I know the town has a huge meth problem. Most people there acknowledge it.
I went to Cheyenne a few times just to get away from Casper for a while, but it isn't much better. It's basically just like Casper, only bigger.
I'm normally a cheerful, optimistic person but it was hard not to let it bring me down. I was never so happy to leave a place. When I drove out of Casper the last time, it felt like Christmas. I was so happy and excited to be going anywhere else. Arriving in Denver felt like a dream.
Cost of living is difficult everywhere now, including Denver, but I would rather be homeless on the street in Denver than in a big fancy house in Casper.
Any time I get stressed or discouraged, I just remember that I'm not in Casper anymore and it makes me feel better.
I’m guessing you don’t work for the Caspar Chamber of Commerce…😂
@@Kell4088 No and whoever does is not doing their job.
And Rapid City, South Dakota should be on this list.
I took a promotion at Sears and moved to Casper for about a year (64 -65. Crime wasn’t too bad but it was really depressing even then. My happiest day was the day I quit and drove back to Denver
Surprised Barstow California didn't make it on the list. Something like 300% violent crime rate, 30% live below the poverty line, and like 1 in 250 people are homeless.
I was worried that Youngstown, OH would be on the list. Glad to see it isn't. I've got a lot of family there.
Youngstown is doing some things to improve the area. Having a better business climate would really help.
Youngstown has more than 50,000 residents! This is town's that have 50,000 or less people.
O wow! My husband and I said the same thing! We were shocked it didn’t make the list. My husband has family there as well.
@@marissa5074 There are a Lott of towns in the country that are worse than Youngstown.
@@cumulus1234yeeeeah, but I'm sure it could have made the list if the population cap allowed for it.
Know what briggs you should be given credit for replying to your comments. Most youtubers don't even bother. Kudos to you 💯
Camden, NJ?
I lived in fairbanks for several years and I think it was a great town.
Having spent some time in both, but never lived in either, I would pick Monroe over Pine Bluff any day. Monroe just doesn't seem as hopeless as PB...
I don't even like stopping for gas in Gallup. That place has a bad vibe you can't miss.
Where do you get these stats?
I've been to a lot of destitute places, but Kalamazoo MI really flies under the radar. It really is probably the worst I've seen outside of St Louis areas. Kalamazoo is worse than Gary IN, Cairo IL, or Indiana.
Another one to add to the list...
East Cleveland Ohio.
It's so bad...
Two cops just got arrested for stealing from people they pulled over and arrested.
This was were I was raised. This is why I left the Cleveland area all together! 😂
As I remember from the fun times in cleveland video…
“Don’t slow down in East Cleveland, or you’ll die.”
Every state has it's bad towns but I'm surprised Louisiana didn't take more spots cause the criminals down here work overtime to keep the stats up.
Very true about Gallup NM I used to live there in ABQ NM and so it is how I know that it's bad out in Gallup NM. That was way back in the aughts too so I can only imagine how it is today given the new governor was just on the national news about gun laws and gun crimes. There's an upheaval over it now.
My list, Gary Indiana, South Chicago, Oakland CA, Portland OR, Baltimore, Detroit, East Saint Louis, Downtown & East LA, SF, and Memphis.
1. Every town with an Army post!
My idea of "cold" is any temperature under 20F. For that alone, I could not DO "Fairbanks".
I've been to eight out of ten of the towns you mentioned, and I can vouch for their awfulness.
I'm surprised Cairo, Illinois wasn't mentioned on your list. Cairo is even more appalling than East St. Louis. Danville, IL is a paradise next to Cairo. I don't know if you've done a video on Cairo, but it's well worth the visit if just to document what blatant racism and incredibly poor public planning can do to a town.
I have a passionate interest in geography, and I really enjoy your videos.
A few videos back you mentioned a town in Indiana where the crime rate was so high, they stopped delivering mail. It didn't make the list??
They don’t actually research every list. They just grab from different, inaccurate, sites
Bridgeport, New Haven, Hartford?????
Although all of them are officially “towns”, they all have over 50,000 people and wouldn’t make this list.
@@outbackigloo6489 Actually, they're all official "cities".
@@andyjay729- They are all cities, but are each among Connecticut’s 169 towns.
@@outbackigloo6489 What I meant is that they all have the official designation of "city" as opposed to "town".
As someone born and raised in Saginaw Michigan i agree that it sucks 😂 ive been in the Denver metro area for a decade almost and cant imagine what itd be like to move back home 😂
0:30 - you said you would be looking at places under 50,000 in population. Later, you brought up Flint, which has about 80,000.
Yeah but only half of them pay taxes and technically live there. 😂so the math works.
@@JoeMaxFpv - The math is in the US Census Bureau statistics. Your “math” pretty much sounds like stuff you made up.
No surprise to me that Crime Bluff was in the top 5.
briggs is halarious. i gotta make my own list of towns that suck 😊 i need to travel more and see more crappy places
🤣🤣🤣
My parents took me on a road trip to Las Vegas, NV back in 1992. On the way we passed through Gallup, NM. We had some of the best barbecue at a restaurant there. You could eat the bone because they smoke the ribs for so long. I don't remember the name of the restaurant unfortunately. It was very Native American oriented with all the different shops selling crafts.
I love that song Saginaw, Michigan.
Gone south... like Antarctica south.
I love that one Briggs!!!
I live 70 miles from Fairbanks. We have to make weekly (if we're lucky) trips to shop or see doctors. Fairbanks is a kinda ugly town. Alaska has advantages, though. Cheapest houses in the area are less than 70,000bucks (dry cabins, haul yer own water.) No income tax, no sales tax (mostly,) no or low property tax. Plus, with the PFD (google it) a poor family with 5 kids gets $10,000 to 20,000 a year. Subsistence hunting and fishing is common (get several hundred lbs of meat a year, 50 lbs of fish.) Poor folk can do OK here. Alas, booze and crack are way too common. (nuthin else to do in the winter they think.)
@@rayb.6537 North Pole does, Fairbanks doesn't.
@5:10. That was a funny one Briggs HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! It's that old soldier sense of humor in you kicking in.
I lived in LA and Orange County for more than 35 years, and Commerce wouldn't even make my top 20 for worst towns in that metro. Just look at a few of the towns that border Commerce that are worse. Bell Gardens, Maywood, Bell, Pico Rivera, and there are plenty of other towns like Lynwood, Compton, Huntington Park, Hawthorne, Lomita, Santa Ana, Basset, El Monte, and way too many more to mention. All of those places-Trash!
I worked in Hawthorne for a while in the 1970's. One of the worst places I'd ever been.
GREETINGS FROM THE PPRC GREAT VIDEO.DON’T THINK ANY OF THESE ARE GOING TO WORK FOR ME. 🇺🇸🍺🍺
Was thru a lot of these... e st Louis. Hands down hell on earth
I wonder if Albuquerque is on the list. * I remember hearing about E. St. Louis when I was knee high to a grasshopper. No Abq.!