Small forrest towns in the mountains are my "jam" - as the kiddos used to say back in the day. Shaded by tree canopies, surrounded by nature, running rivers and creeks, but still within a short drive of a large town or small city.
As a Canadian, I’m impressed by the variety of locales available to Americans. Whatever climate you want (desert, forest, beach, plains, urban), it’s available. Some snow, lots of snow, absolutely no snow, it’s available. But many Americans don’t seem to appreciate it. As per Joni Mitchell, you don’t know what you’ve got…
How do you figure we don't appreciate it? That's the most bone-headed thing I've read in a long time. Everyone I know talks about the variety and beauty of this huge country. Many of us use our vacations to experience the amazing land.
As an American living in Canada for the last 30 years, I get tired of being told how Americans think. I get tired of being told how superior Canadians think they are in comparison to others.That whole attitude actually makes Canadian's inferior.
Last year my mom and I went road tripping through South Dakota and decided to stop at Wall Drug after seeing literally countless billboards advertising it. The place is more like a mall than an actual drugstore. Tons of stores and a huge food area. It was pretty cool.
@@The2ndFirst My grandparents lived (and are buried) in Star Valley for years and I used to spend entire summers with them as well as shorter visits in the winters. Some of my most precious memories. Love that area.
No, no, no...let's just leave it as it is because there are no more good small towns in America. This is it. This is the definitive list. Just go with it. Trust me. You wouldn't like it here anyway.
I lived in Winchester, Va for over 30 years. Strasburg was just down the road. We would go there to walk through their antique shops. They absolutely had the best shops. We retired to Tennessee and now you have made me homesick 😢
I live there now and it’s changed a lot since COVID due to DC Metro folks teleworking, so they’re moving here in droves and jacking up the prices. Plus way more traffic, ugh!
Been to Quincy California born raised in norcal. Quincy is amazingly beautiful town and area and this town with like one or two main traffic stop lights is within hour of Reno and has fiber internet... I know this as I wanted to buy home there. I still would live there in a heartbeat.
When I was a kid, my Dad built a vacation cabin in Black Mountain, NC. I have so many happy memories of the place that I looked into moving there a couple of years ago. I was shocked at the real estate prices!
I’m biased towards New England (shout outs to Camden, ME, Niantic, CT, Stowe, VT, Great Barrington, MA, Litchfield, CT) but my favorite small town is Lewisburg, WV. Charming, rich with history, easily walkable, plenty to do, friendly people. Great spot
Holy moly… maybe 25 years ago…? Nine years ago I was looking to relocate and went there to look. It was unbelievable how much it had changed, and how clogged up with traffic…. Ended up outside of Kerrville. Growth is getting to us here too though. Soon, the Barbies will have all the beautiful hills covered with gross huge houses lit up like Vegas and the riversides paved…. I miss the small, quiet town vibe.
I live in Davenport, right outside champions gate. It absolutely sucks. Lots of people rent the homes for vacations, and the traffic is insane. Cant go out and do anything if you dont want to sit in 45 minutes traffic each way. You get disney and Orlando traffic. On top of that, the jobs are located about 40-50 miles away in Lake Mary, FL.
I 2nd this statement. I also live in Davenport, S27&I4 area. The traffic SUCKS. Road rage is now a big thing here. What used to be 15-20 is now 45/60 minutes. From 2021 to 2024, 1,000's of new homes all around and no road improvements or developmental infrastructure to support the growth. People are starting to move away.
Just so that there isn't any confusion, the second picture of Wall, SD is actually Deadwood. The historic Franklin Hotel can be seen at the top of the hill on the right with the white pillars.
Gotta take a look at Havre de Grace MD. Its a great little small town right on the mouth of the susquehanna river where it meets the chesapeake bay. Its got tons of history from the War of 1812, and it was where Francis Scott Key got picked up before witnessing the Battle of Baltimore and writing the Star Spangled Banner. Great little town take a look
“Death is not really the end of life….its a part of life”. I wish more people could accept this! In answer to your question: I would love to live in a small Forrest town….like Idyllwild, California!
@@FossillarsonSouthern Illinois has helicopter service like that. Newcomers/visitors think it's weird, until someone tells them an ambulance can easily be over an hour away.
I spent many summers as a kid in Afton as my grandparents lived and are buried there. I have so many awesome memories of Afton and the larger Star Valley. I also spent winters there and they're equally as awesome. I look forward to bringing my kids and grandkids back so they can appreciate it as much as I do.
I love the list and have to say that Mineral Point, WI is one of the cutest and best small town gems I've ever been and definitely belongs on your next list!
Currently living in Hilham Tennessee. Love it here but as I am getting older retired military I am looking to move closer to Johnson city tennessee because of the excellent VA there
I need a library, post office, and hospital within 45 minutes of me. I also need good transportation and food options, quiet atmosphere, and good schools.
I actually just looked at a plot of land in Black Mountain a couple days ago. This really makes me wanna buy it and keep it for a camp site or a place to sell later down the road.
Check out Yellow Springs, Ohio. Sorta of cool town stuck in the 60s too. Near very nice clifton mills area. As for your question I love small west Virginia mountain towns.
Add Spirit Lake IA. I liked the comment 30000 or less and within an hour of big town shopping . But most midwest towns are great. Bentonville AR is nice too.
Have you looked up Clayton GA? Its a small town up in the blue ridge mountains. My mom lives there and she loves it. Last I checked it had about almost 3,000 residents!
It would be the ideal small town of it wasn't so severely liberal. I stopped in fall of 2021 to check it out and it was gorgeous it was everything I wanted except they very strongly were pushing mandatory mask laws everywhere. Sorry that's a deal breaker to have that mentality in local government. It's really unfortunate too because I am in NY state and the local black mountain government was more aggressive about it than the town in NY I live in, so no thanks. I'll pass. Brevard or Hendersonville seems pretty nice too. I actually really liked black mountain too but I will never invest in the town if that is their mentality.
Westport/Weston CT. Best of all worlds. Beautiful, charming the home to many (famous) writers, actors, artists, CEOs of large companies,etc. More excitement? Forty-five minutes out of Manhattan and all that it embodies.Your number one choice is a head-scratcher.
I like a small town where everybody speaks to you even if they don't know you, a town with a busy small downtown, a town with good medical care, a town where people feel safe sitting outside having an ice cream cone but the town is big enough for people not to live on top of each other and can have a garden and hang their clothes outside in the back on a clothes line if they want to.
Grew up in a town in WY. Now in a large city where it’s warm year around and my husband teases me about my “textiles” when he saw my pics from High School. It’s cold in WY and conservative in dress. Cowboy boots, wrangler jeans as a lot of farms surrounding the town. Have not been through Afton. I love your videos and would love to see more of these small towns in ID, NV, AZ. Thx
I learned about Wall in a series of books by Richard Paul Evans. Having grown up in a small town in Vermont, I'm partial to New England small towns, especially those on the coast
Im partial to Cherokee. Iowa. Alliance. NE. and Beaver Dam . WI. Only because youve mentioned Cherokee and Beaver Dam favorably in past videos . Ha. I do like farming towns and lake towns. I loved visiting my grandmother in Alliance as a kid way back when abd it was a fun town then but is a little worn out now.
Wow another Quincy!!! This is the City of Presidents in Massachusetts. I love how you can tell if you're from the area by the pronunciation of towns and cities. Here Quincy is Kwin-Zee !!!!!!
Favorite type of small town, water, river lake or ocean. Town or at least 30,000 within an hour for shopping and services, medical and retail. Four seasons. No religious or political nuts. Classic cute downtown main street.
@@Weather_Nerd who said that? I live in a town of 6,000 now and it is the largest town for over 70 miles in any direction. "A town of 30k for shopping and services it eays". However now that you mention it, that is pretty small to me as well having lived in Denver, Seattle, Phoenix and LA 🤠
My cousin has an amazing home in Black Mountain. (She pretty much owns an entire mountain!) Wonderful town and I think an excellent choice for the top spot here. Nice job.
Have you heard of Minoqua Wisconsin? That is a great small town. I have grown up camping there. There are lots of things to do. It is also known as the Island City.
I'm impressed that you mentioned Davenport, FL. The whole area of towns that are off of US 27 -- Frostproof, Avon Park, Sebring -- worth looking in to. Don't forget Lake Placid, town of murals.
I see the no 'AI Voice Ever' sticker. It's getting deviously bizarre out there. I land on a recommended video, I start listening and then I notice a few weird pronunciations of common words, and a kind of level emotionless tone to the voice with the occasional odd rhythmic pattern... and I say Not again! Thanks for being there Briggs.
Alpena, MI is nice. Escanaba, MI is nice too. Great Harbor and medical facilities. If you like snowmobiling, ice fishing, sailing or fishing, hunting, and small town feel with large box commercial stores. I have had to drive the 2+ hours to get tools and materials I couldn't get other places. Manistique, Kalkaska, and Cheboygan, MI is where I tell my low life friends to move to. Mainly because cheap.
You should make another video. There are so many wonderful small towns. We'd like to shout out for Madison, Indiana. Located on the Ohio River, it's a lovely small town with one of the best preserved Main Streets in the USA, and a haven for 19th century domestic architecture. We love historic charm, and that town is a gold mine. And the people are friendly, the crime is low, as is the cost of living.
Detroit Lakes, MN. Cold, yes. But great summer activites. Fargo, ND is 45 m8les. The shopping slash medical specialist city. Downside. It's a summer tourist area.
the small towns discussed are: Strasburg, Virginia Roslyn, New York Wall, South Dakota Thompson Station, Tennessee Sewickley, Pennsylvania Davenport, Florida Afton, Wyoming Corbin, Kentucky Quincy, California Black Mountain, North Carolina
Small forrest towns in the mountains are my "jam" - as the kiddos used to say back in the day. Shaded by tree canopies, surrounded by nature, running rivers and creeks, but still within a short drive of a large town or small city.
As a Canadian, I’m impressed by the variety of locales available to Americans. Whatever climate you want (desert, forest, beach, plains, urban), it’s available. Some snow, lots of snow, absolutely no snow, it’s available. But many Americans don’t seem to appreciate it. As per Joni Mitchell, you don’t know what you’ve got…
How do you figure we don't appreciate it? That's the most bone-headed thing I've read in a long time. Everyone I know talks about the variety and beauty of this huge country. Many of us use our vacations to experience the amazing land.
I’m a proud American 🇺🇸 and I appreciate all America has to offer ❤
As an American living in Canada for the last 30 years, I get tired of being told how Americans think. I get tired of being told how superior Canadians think they are in comparison to others.That whole attitude actually makes Canadian's inferior.
Why do you think we dont travel outside of the US? We appreciate the diversity.
The OP is correct. Too many Americans don’t appreciate their country and wish they could leave. They bad mouth it a lot.
Last year my mom and I went road tripping through South Dakota and decided to stop at Wall Drug after seeing literally countless billboards advertising it. The place is more like a mall than an actual drugstore. Tons of stores and a huge food area. It was pretty cool.
Afton, Wyoming is brutally cold in the winter. Sits at over 6000 foot elevation. A beautiful area no doubt. Love Wyoming.
One just has to be able to handle things on their own in Wyoming. I lived there for four years.
You got that right!
@@WorldAccordingToBriggsAs much as I hate to say you're right, Briggs.....You're right.. And It's only because I admitted it.
Exactly 🤠@@The2ndFirst
@@The2ndFirst My grandparents lived (and are buried) in Star Valley for years and I used to spend entire summers with them as well as shorter visits in the winters. Some of my most precious memories. Love that area.
Probably should do a part 2 and 3 with this, I’m sure there’s more awesome small towns
And a part 935, 936, ... There are many. I get to see lots of them on the job as a trucker, e.g., Clatskanie Oregon, between Portland and Astoria.
If you don't mind a long flight, I'd add Prochuap Khirir Khan, Thailand.
No, no, no...let's just leave it as it is because there are no more good small towns in America. This is it. This is the definitive list. Just go with it. Trust me. You wouldn't like it here anyway.
@@freeheeler00 😀 And to anyone looking outside the US, look no further than Portugal (from what I've heard).
I lived in Winchester, Va for over 30 years. Strasburg was just down the road. We would go there to walk through their antique shops. They absolutely had the best shops. We retired to Tennessee and now you have made me homesick 😢
I live there now and it’s changed a lot since COVID due to DC Metro folks teleworking, so they’re moving here in droves and jacking up the prices. Plus way more traffic, ugh!
I want mountain towns, lots of mountain towns, mountains here and there,mountain towns everywhere!
Same.
Love small New England towns. Stowe VT is a perfect example.
Yes it is. Rented a farm house near Stowe when I went up to VT for my son's graduation at Norwich University. Those towns nearby are so beautiful.
The most beautiful small town I've ever been to is Petoskey, Michigan. In Northern Michigan on the shores of Lake Michigan it is the perfect town.
“I’m not going to shame anyone for their kink”
Bless your loving heart.
How awesome Sewickley made the list, that’s a very nice town beautiful houses and well kept town
Been to Quincy California born raised in norcal. Quincy is amazingly beautiful town and area and this town with like one or two main traffic stop lights is within hour of Reno and has fiber internet... I know this as I wanted to buy home there. I still would live there in a heartbeat.
I agree - absolutely beautiful and such nice people.
There isn’t anything out there
Definitely, New England small towns ❤
Too cold for many…but yeah, when warm new england is lovely.
@@ladesigner8764 Even in winter it's beautiful ❤️
When I was a kid, my Dad built a vacation cabin in Black Mountain, NC. I have so many happy memories of the place that I looked into moving there a couple of years ago. I was shocked at the real estate prices!
Asheville really drove the prices up. Popular destination.
We’re all shocked by the real estate priced @here! The taxes on said real estate is not to be believed.
I was dying laughing when you said the police were breaking up the Black market Jello shot ring in Roslyn, NY. Best line I've heard in a long time.
I’m biased towards New England (shout outs to Camden, ME, Niantic, CT, Stowe, VT, Great Barrington, MA, Litchfield, CT) but my favorite small town is Lewisburg, WV. Charming, rich with history, easily walkable, plenty to do, friendly people. Great spot
I like the New England small towns.
Especially in the fall.
We moved to Boerne Texas. Wonderful small town
Holy moly… maybe 25 years ago…? Nine years ago I was looking to relocate and went there to look. It was unbelievable how much it had changed, and how clogged up with traffic…. Ended up outside of Kerrville. Growth is getting to us here too though. Soon, the Barbies will have all the beautiful hills covered with gross huge houses lit up like Vegas and the riversides paved…. I miss the small, quiet town vibe.
I live in Davenport, right outside champions gate. It absolutely sucks. Lots of people rent the homes for vacations, and the traffic is insane. Cant go out and do anything if you dont want to sit in 45 minutes traffic each way. You get disney and Orlando traffic. On top of that, the jobs are located about 40-50 miles away in Lake Mary, FL.
I 2nd this statement. I also live in Davenport, S27&I4 area. The traffic SUCKS. Road rage is now a big thing here. What used to be 15-20 is now 45/60 minutes. From 2021 to 2024, 1,000's of new homes all around and no road improvements or developmental infrastructure to support the growth. People are starting to move away.
Davenport seems like an anomaly for this list. There doesn’t appear to be anything small and charming about it but maybe Briggs didn’t do it justice.
Agree. And on the other side of Disney and Orlando is the once cute town of Mount Dora, now noted for its small-town traffic jams all year long.
My favorite small towns are coastal. I love all the small coastal towns in Oregon and would love to live around Rockaway Beach!
It is a bit cool and wet. Summer is the best.
I like the New England type small towns. Thanks for another great video!
Thanks for watching!
I tend to lean toward those small towns in the upper Midwest, Wyoming, Montana, etc.
You and millions more! Especially Montana and Wyoming.
Haha, there aren't millions (plural) in all of Montana plus Wyoming combined, let alone in the small towns of those states. @@b-genspinster7895
I love the beautiful small towns in southwest Virginia, like Bedford Va, Rocky Mount Va, and Smithmountain lake Va!
New England small towns, hands down.
Just so that there isn't any confusion, the second picture of Wall, SD is actually Deadwood. The historic Franklin Hotel can be seen at the top of the hill on the right with the white pillars.
Gotta take a look at Havre de Grace MD. Its a great little small town right on the mouth of the susquehanna river where it meets the chesapeake bay. Its got tons of history from the War of 1812, and it was where Francis Scott Key got picked up before witnessing the Battle of Baltimore and writing the Star Spangled Banner. Great little town take a look
Yes! Was just talking about Havre de Grace. My uncle and I sailed the Chesapeake and began our journey there. Nice homes and excellent waterfront.
@@steveletro4252 nah
@@markoakes8620 I work in havre de grace and I plan to move in soon. It’s a great place
“Death is not really the end of life….its a part of life”. I wish more people could accept this! In answer to your question: I would love to live in a small Forrest town….like Idyllwild, California!
Without quality medical facilities within 30 to 45 minutes away, it is a no way.
We have helicopter med services. Yearly fee / membership = you have helicopter help on the far out property 😊
And an airport for me.
@@kellitrevino650 I agree, if there isn't an international airport within 30 minutes I'm not interested
@@FossillarsonSouthern Illinois has helicopter service like that. Newcomers/visitors think it's weird, until someone tells them an ambulance can easily be over an hour away.
How often do you need to attend a quality medical facility?
Farmingdale is a nice small town, right in the center of New Jersey.
Easy access to a lot of good places, but definitely a small town. ❤️
High property tax.
Mendocino and Ft. Bragg California.
I spent many summers as a kid in Afton as my grandparents lived and are buried there. I have so many awesome memories of Afton and the larger Star Valley. I also spent winters there and they're equally as awesome. I look forward to bringing my kids and grandkids back so they can appreciate it as much as I do.
I love the list and have to say that Mineral Point, WI is one of the cutest and best small town gems I've ever been and definitely belongs on your next list!
Great video as always Briggs. Prescott,Arizona is one of nicest small towns that I've ever visited. 🥰
It really is a nice town.
Yes sir.
Bisbee AZ too.
Wall Drug was mentioned as a place where people who are camper/van nomads work for a season on a circuit of temp jobs in the movie Nomad Life.
I thought I had heard of it!
They all look lovely. I could happily live in those places. Thank you for the video!
How about a video on small river towns?
That would make a great series, doing several bigger rivers separately.
I think that could be interesting. And so could a video or series focusing on small Appalachian towns.
I'm a fan of western small towns
Currently living in Hilham Tennessee. Love it here but as I am getting older retired military I am looking to move closer to Johnson city tennessee because of the excellent VA there
I need a library, post office, and hospital within 45 minutes of me. I also need good transportation and food options, quiet atmosphere, and good schools.
Yes your majesty
Do good school's still exist?
First 3 made sense. The transportation and food part can only be found in 2 places, other than that you must go outside of USA.
@@tritchie6272Massachusetts has them
Do you need a throne as well?
I’ve lived in Green Bay my entire life pretty much. I love Wisconsin but sure would love to own a cabin or cottage up north. 🤷♀️
I actually just looked at a plot of land in Black Mountain a couple days ago. This really makes me wanna buy it and keep it for a camp site or a place to sell later down the road.
My favorite type of small town is A good old Midwestern, town.
Honesdale PA.
cumberland falls is one of two places in the world to see a moon bow. Victoria falls in Ethiopia is the orher.
I’ve never heard of a moon bow - had to look it up. How cool and now it’s on my bucket list!
Quincy CA is a cute town.
Been there
Good stuff, I enjoy your videos. To answer your question: affordable and progressive mountain towns 😁
Check out Yellow Springs, Ohio. Sorta of cool town stuck in the 60s too. Near very nice clifton mills area. As for your question I love small west Virginia mountain towns.
Add Spirit Lake IA. I liked the comment 30000 or less and within an hour of big town shopping . But most midwest towns are great. Bentonville AR is nice too.
Sewickley is everything you said and also very close to a major city and airport unlike most of the others on the list. Great schools too.
I’m a fan of the small western mountain towns and charming New England towns
Have you looked up Clayton GA? Its a small town up in the blue ridge mountains. My mom lives there and she loves it. Last I checked it had about almost 3,000 residents!
That whole area from Clayton west to Blue Ridge, GA is worth checking out along Rt. 76
Yes that whole area along the top north of Georgia has cute small towns.
Black mountain is beautiful
It would be the ideal small town of it wasn't so severely liberal. I stopped in fall of 2021 to check it out and it was gorgeous it was everything I wanted except they very strongly were pushing mandatory mask laws everywhere.
Sorry that's a deal breaker to have that mentality in local government. It's really unfortunate too because I am in NY state and the local black mountain government was more aggressive about it than the town in NY I live in, so no thanks. I'll pass. Brevard or Hendersonville seems pretty nice too.
I actually really liked black mountain too but I will never invest in the town if that is their mentality.
@regularguyprepper2993 - Your loss our gain.
Westport/Weston CT. Best of all worlds. Beautiful, charming the home to many (famous) writers, actors, artists, CEOs of large companies,etc. More excitement? Forty-five minutes out of Manhattan and all that it embodies.Your number one choice is a head-scratcher.
Cooperstown NY is a gem...❤
Better have that money ready. Ain’t cheap.
Wrong move a couple towns over and it's one of the cheapest areas of New York State Utica area dirt cheap@@thejmc4074
State College Pa is a wonderful town with great healthcare and atmosphere.
Black Mountain is beautiful, grew up 45 mins east of there!
I'm with you and Sewickly is my favorite type of small town.
New England small towns are my favorite.
I like a small town where everybody speaks to you even if they don't know you, a town with a busy small downtown, a town with good medical care, a town where people feel safe sitting outside having an ice cream cone but the town is big enough for people not to live on top of each other and can have a garden and hang their clothes outside in the back on a clothes line if they want to.
Winterset Iowa beautiful small town with things to do
My dad was born in Winter Iowa in 1918! Yeah Iowa! Hang tight folks yeah to all my friends & family in Red oak & rest of the State!
I really enjoy your vids and the work you put into them. Thanks, have you ever done any on affordable lakeside towns?
A list of top small coastal towns would be amazing!
Grew up in a town in WY. Now in a large city where it’s warm year around and my husband teases me about my “textiles” when he saw my pics from High School. It’s cold in WY and conservative in dress. Cowboy boots, wrangler jeans as a lot of farms surrounding the town. Have not been through Afton. I love your videos and would love to see more of these small towns in ID, NV, AZ. Thx
I learned about Wall in a series of books by Richard Paul Evans. Having grown up in a small town in Vermont, I'm partial to New England small towns, especially those on the coast
Im partial to Cherokee. Iowa. Alliance. NE. and Beaver Dam . WI. Only because youve mentioned Cherokee and Beaver Dam favorably in past videos . Ha. I do like farming towns and lake towns. I loved visiting my grandmother in Alliance as a kid way back when abd it was a fun town then but is a little worn out now.
I like the southern, off the beaten bath type of places.
The Pie at Walls .. perfect on a road trip .
Nominating Silver City - a little arts / college town in SW New Mexico. Way off the beaten path, but well worth the journey.
That’s where Joe dirt is from
loved this, so appealing and refreshing
I like the small towns in Iowa. I recently moved to a town called West Union, IA. I once forgot to lock my car door for 3 days and no one touched it.
I grew up in Roslyn, NY in the 1960s and 70’s. Beautiful place back then.
Wow another Quincy!!! This is the City of Presidents in Massachusetts. I love how you can tell if you're from the area by the pronunciation of towns and cities. Here Quincy is Kwin-Zee !!!!!!
Favorite type of small town, water, river lake or ocean. Town or at least 30,000 within an hour for shopping and services, medical and retail. Four seasons. No religious or political nuts. Classic cute downtown main street.
No religious or political nuts? Not sure that place exists. I agree with your list though. If you find it let me know 🤣
@@00mazone probably true 😔
I will never understand the folks saying 30k is a small town 😂
@@Weather_Nerd who said that? I live in a town of 6,000 now and it is the largest town for over 70 miles in any direction. "A town of 30k for shopping and services it eays". However now that you mention it, that is pretty small to me as well having lived in Denver, Seattle, Phoenix and LA 🤠
I love lake towns, walking friendly and with a bit of historical buildings
@@steveletro4252 nice place
Strausburg is a great town. Lots of similar towns here in northern VA
My cousin has an amazing home in Black Mountain. (She pretty much owns an entire mountain!) Wonderful town and I think an excellent choice for the top spot here. Nice job.
New England small towns ❤
Wallace, Idaho
Oh yeah. I lived there in 1979.
I liked all the hot rod side-by-sides parked in front of the bars there.
Have you heard of Minoqua Wisconsin? That is a great small town. I have grown up camping there. There are lots of things to do. It is also known as the Island City.
I'm impressed that you mentioned Davenport, FL. The whole area of towns that are off of US 27 -- Frostproof, Avon Park, Sebring -- worth looking in to. Don't forget Lake Placid, town of murals.
Walker MN is an amazing small town. It’s on a lake and had amazing personality 😊
New England small towns and mountain towns.
I see the no 'AI Voice Ever' sticker. It's getting deviously bizarre out there. I land on a recommended video, I start listening and then I notice a few weird pronunciations of common words, and a kind of level emotionless tone to the voice with the occasional odd rhythmic pattern... and I say Not again! Thanks for being there Briggs.
I love Quincy. From my first time there in 1967 I like the town
Alpena, MI is nice. Escanaba, MI is nice too. Great Harbor and medical facilities. If you like snowmobiling, ice fishing, sailing or fishing, hunting, and small town feel with large box commercial stores. I have had to drive the 2+ hours to get tools and materials I couldn't get other places. Manistique, Kalkaska, and Cheboygan, MI is where I tell my low life friends to move to. Mainly because cheap.
Alepena? Ugh
In the 60s and 70s my family had a Department store in Black Mountain, N.C..
IMHO you don’t deduct enough for bad winter weather. SD & WY are big no-nos. For a great small town, drive up the coast and check out Edmonds, WA.
Alot of ppl enjoy cold weather , Including me.
We love your voice!
You should make another video. There are so many wonderful small towns. We'd like to shout out for Madison, Indiana. Located on the Ohio River, it's a lovely small town with one of the best preserved Main Streets in the USA, and a haven for 19th century domestic architecture. We love historic charm, and that town is a gold mine. And the people are friendly, the crime is low, as is the cost of living.
I like very small Appalachian towns with under 600 people. I have been to a few of them and love the towns and people.
What towns do you like as small Appalachian towns?
Small towns I have lived in and would recommend: Scituate, MA; Old Saybrook, CT; Brunswick, ME; Alameda, CA; Fallon, NV.
Black mountain is the location setting of the One Second After book series.
Detroit Lakes, MN. Cold, yes. But great summer activites. Fargo, ND is 45 m8les. The shopping slash medical specialist city. Downside. It's a summer tourist area.
Detroit Lakes is a cute town and close to many nice lakes. I used to stop by Zorba’s for a bite to eat years ago when I lived in ND and MN
Small mountain town and wife’s favorite is small farming towns.
Sad that you have to put the AI disclaimer on there. But I do appreciate the non-AI vocals! Great vids, as always.
Thank you
Wife and I stopped at Wall, had nice time. It's a nice break after spending hours driving across I 90.
I love a mountain small town.
Look up Clayton GA
I love Mountain Towns, like those in New York, New England, Appalachia, and the Mountain West region.
Couple suggestions- Hobart NY is a tiny town with nothing but book stores. Hamburg PA is a ridiculously nice town. Huge Cabela’s there.
the small towns discussed are:
Strasburg, Virginia
Roslyn, New York
Wall, South Dakota
Thompson Station, Tennessee
Sewickley, Pennsylvania
Davenport, Florida
Afton, Wyoming
Corbin, Kentucky
Quincy, California
Black Mountain, North Carolina
You the real MVP!