Nick, At the end of the Sioux Falls video you mentioned a great, friendly small town that you really liked. I must have missed that name. What town were you talking about? Thanks and we really enjoy your videos.
Sioux Falls is the hidden gem of the Midwest. I stay very busy helping people & businesses troubleshoot technology issues here. Sioux Falls is rated #1 in the nation to set up a business and trust in. City has massive potential moving forward.
I am not a fan of cold weather, but the more I see places like this, I may reconsider it. It would be a trade off for living in a nice, clean, safe town.
You learn to dress for the weather...for me it's all wool during winter...and I would add Sioux Falls has snow removal from the roads down pat...It's a well oiled machine here
Even though South Dakota has COLD WEATHER, it's a friendly state, every place I stopped on my way to Billings and back especially through South Dakota was full of very polite and friendly people, alot friendlier than the South
@@GhostyYT01 everyone was friendly to me and I was impressed 👌 👏 especially by the place that repaired my car in Hartford last May. They went out of their way to get me on the road again
Just to be clear to those reading this, it RARELY ever hits 100 here and if you're from anywhere in the South then the humidity you get in SF is minimal.
@@oakleysin8766 hmmm, as someone who lived in Sioux Falls for my whole life I vividly remember that the last 10-15 years have been full of at least 3 weeks or more of the summer being over 100F. Sometimes 3 weeks straight, sometimes on and off. No the humidity isn't as bad as the south, but it still gets hot AF!
@@mandainwonderland333 you’re probably thinking about the temperature with the heat index. Lol I’m just hardly south (2 hours) of Sioux Falls across the Nebraska border and we get maybe 5-8 days of 90s that have a heat index of ~100
I left Las Vegas for SF two years ago and I'll never go back to a metro city. The people here are the nicest I've met and by far the most welcoming. 118 degree summers to -30 degree winters... Come visit The Treasury in the Hotel Phillips!!
If I could convince the wife, I would move to Sioux Falls in a heartbeat. I am so sick of Illinois. I'm ready for no state income tax and way less Urban drama. I like cold weather, so I would probably fit in there. Thanks for another great video.
@@NickJohnson I'm lucky to have her. She's pretty, smart, and kind. If that means staying in Illinois, I'm still way ahead in the bargain. The BEST place to live is near those you love.
I agree. I would love to move here and get away from New York State but convincing my wife of this probably wouldn't win her over. If I could find a job there that could pay for my moving expenses and help with some sort of housing for my family, I would probably accept it, regardless of what my wife says.
Growing up in Sioux Falls my whole life.. yes quiet less crime friendly.. but watching the city expand as fast as it is. I got to witness a shoot out with 3 cars at midnight. Never seen that stopping at a gas station. Long story short Sioux Falls is a simple quiet city.
I moved to Sioux Fall Jan 2023...Yes its population is 200,000 but know, it has 4 Walmarts. No Graffiti, and in all the time I have not heard one gun shot...I rent a townhome 2 bedrooms,2 bathrooms, built washer dryer for $800 a month. My electric bill runs about $30 a month and I just gassed up my car at $3.09 a gal...I love it here
lol this is pretty accurate. Mostly older people have the accent though haha. I'm originally from south dakota just moved a couple months ago to the east coast for awhile. honestly after moving I've realized how nice of a place SD can be. it's very clean and organized. if you're younger looking to move to Sioux Falls with stuff to do there are plenty of nice coffee shops downtown where you can meet people and get to know the area! the development over the past couple years has started keeping a younger population! :) thank you for the video Nick!
Shame that nice people, low crime, low drugs, plenty of jobs and a clean community are a rarity. With all our progress, we have certainly shifted to an America hard to be proud of anymore. Thanks for the time you put in to your videos!
America is in the midst of an ongoing collapse that the federal government appears to encouraging. Sad days but, I guess, inevitable. The whole "western world" is collapsing.
There has been a very large decline in our America for 25 yrs. Our government has taken our work our food sources, our health and mostly separated our families and communities 😢
It’s much safer than the bigger cities. I drove through there from Minneapolis and loved it. I used to love the bigger cities but constant violence now.
@@dannyg5446 I agree 100%. I'm in Florida so NO WAY I could handle those winters there. I do like the idea of not having a million people around me at all times though.
Hy-Vee is actually adding bars to their grocery stores. When they built Hy-Vee #2 in Madison, Wisconsin. That was the first time seeing it. So if you go to the right Hy-Vee location, you'll be doing more that getting a helpful smile in every isle.
My favorite line in this video is…”Yes there’s a Ferris wheel inside in the same place that sells high end weapons.😂 You’re killing me, Nick!!! Hopefully since you’re in the Dakotas you’re able to go up to Bismarck and do a video on Bismarck. It may sound crazy but that is where I would move my family in heart beat! I just can’t get my hubs on board, we were there during last years April blizzard.
@@NickJohnson maybe you seem to big city to them?😂 We didn’t find them aloof, quite the opposite for us. We were asking a bunch of questions too. People just walked right over, sat down at our table and started talking. It was odd but fun. Similar things happened the entire week we were there, almost everywhere we went. The kindness and over the top friendliness of the people, made we want to live there. Maybe they were really friendly to us because they were socially hungry. The blizzard had just passed and people were digging out & going into the world again.
I've been there a few times. It's a nice town, it's just in the middle of nowhere. Didn't feel like 200,000 last time I was there - felt like about 70,000.
We were in Sioux Falls July 2024. There are getting to be lots of homeless people sleeping in doorways and on the street. We wanted to get ice cream at McDonald's. We went to both of them and never went in as we did not feel safe. Sioux Falls has changed a lot in recent years.
Great Video Nick! South Dakota is very peaceful state. It is a great state to live in for those who don't like taxes and want safety and affordability.
@@YtRando69 😂 these people are unbelievable, not surprising from State who doesn’t give a damn about education! I guess the police, firefighters, and everyone who works for the state gets paid in fairy dust.
@@christopherlifto3644 because….they pay teachers nothing, they pay state workers nothing, they have horrible social services, barely a blip when it comes to high income STEM jobs, crap universities, and it receives $1.21 for every dollar it sends out to the federal government (and it isn’t because they have many high paying contract federal jobs like Maryland or Virginia), it’s because South Dakota is a downtrodden, backwards wasteland propped up by high income and highly educated blue states.
My grand Caravan broke down in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, NBA, 2022 Toyota forerunner from billion Toyota. I love the area nothing for miles and hours in the west or east direction.
I loved Hartford, S.D. because they are very nice and friendly people. The Napa shop did a great job fixing my car and they were able to repair it free because it was under warranty. They were very friendly people
Washington state native, the first time I visited Sioux Falls I went to a Hy-Vee grocery store. I was impressed. They were more well lit, easier to move around in, and more conveniently laid out than their Safeway, Albertson's, and Fred Meyer cousins out west.
Love your descriptions of the places you go. If I didn't not like the cold I would go anywhere you wanted to send me. Again I say I love the way you see things.. thank you
I was born an raised at sioux city iowa an i moved to sioux falls an lived in sioux falls for about 20 years already my reason for moving to South Dakota was so my kids dont have to go thru what i been thru in sewer city i have lost soooo many friends cuz of gang activity that I couldn’t bare to watch my kids grow up in a bad environment it was tuff at first but everything seem to all fall in place 20 years living in sioux falls has been the best decision of my life for me an my family there are some parts like any other city that has it’s flaws but overall i am happy that i got away from the past
The construction is BRUTAL now. It never used to be such a mess with major construction plugging up every major artery, all summer long. And what kills me is that it's the same streets over and over and over. They really need to find something else to make Minnesota Ave's surface out of.
@@NickJohnson Do they still do the nightly laser show over the falls about the history of the city? I missed my 20-year college reunion last year, so the last time I was in Sioux Falls was in 2016.
as a resident of sioux falls, I love seeing representation of my home, and seeing all the locations throughout the city was cool to see, thanks for the vid!
South Dakota is a great state! I grew up 2 hours north of Sioux Falls. Unfortunately I was young and wanted new experiences and moved to Minneapolis MN. Some day I hope to live or have a 2nd retirement home back home.
A lot of people living in states that border Minnesota are beginning to see people still living in that state as nuts and sometimes even insane with the kind of politicians they keep voting for. It’s gone so far left, I guess it wants to be like California🤪
@@marksauck3399 Minnesota is great outside of minneapolis it's just like South Dakota. Hopefully someday our country can be fixed, and especially "refugees" can be sent back to where they belong instead of burning down nice places.
I live in Council Bluffs, IA, travel for work pretty much everywhere, big and small cities, LA, NYC, etc. When it's vacation time I go to Sioux Falls. SF is truly the best kept secret in the USA, love it there.
I live in Fargo, ND. The midwest is a pretty nice place to live and Sioux Falls is quite nice, its much nicer than Fargo. Florida is tempting though just to get out of the 6 months of winter we get.
They just opened a Hy-Vee in EauClaire, WI last yr. I never even heard of them before. You can eat a nice variety of foods, as they have a food court (sort of)!
Man I wish we only had 7 murders a year here. We now live outside of Columbus Ohio, sometimes it seems like it’s 7 in a week. It’s not, but there’s a lot of shootings. This looks so nice. I miss SD. That bad neighborhood looks awesome!! I have older relatives who live in SD from May until October and then in Texas from mid October or November until May. That’s sounding perfect!!❤️
He missed the really bad neighborhood. It's just on the east side of the river to the North of 10th street. That is where the homeless shelter is and the highest concentration of panhandlers and thieves are. That being said, the houses are not that poorly kept.
@@chris5942 I forgot to add I was born in SD, lived in Sioux Falls from age 7 to 13, moved 300 miles away after that but still in SD, went to college in Huron, moved here when I was 19, I've been back a handful of times but I'm not sure how it's grown. I've heard there's a lot of ConAgra warehouses in SF, whatever that is. I'm assuming something for farming.
@@dakotawolf7336 I have not seen a ConAgra warehouse and have no idea where those would be but the city has exploded in every other way possible. The crime makes me sad. This is not the safe city it used to be and it's imports doing it.
@@chris5942 yeah, it was another chat, this guy said another trucker was talking about seeing all these warehouses and ConAgra warehouses in 2018, whatever those are. Yeah when I was growing up there, I remember going door to door around a huge area selling Girl Scout cookies in 1979, I don't recall my parents going with me. That was different then and we knew a lot of the neighbors or all of us kids did. Yeah that's so sad about the crime. Growing up, the crimes I read about were like someone walking on train tracks, probably some minor things too. It was a shock when I moved to Ohio, I left a town of 4,000 and 14,000 to come to a city that had close to a half million or so. I wanted to go home. We've often thought about moving back but I'm not used to the Winters but my hubby thought it was great because it was a drier cold. My hubby loved it when we got away from Ohio, and closer to Iowa and SD, he said "no one gave me the bird like back home, even the State Trooper waved as I sped past him!!" Something like that. We have panhandlers on every city intersection every day, it's very sad. Even so much of the farm land is being bought and turned into more condos and apartments.
Moved to the Sioux falls area almost 2 years ago from Jersey .. talk about night and day ... love it out here.. will never go back to dirty jersey. Someone who's came from a crowded state I get sad to see how much construction is going on.. I want SD to stay a hidden gem. Next time come during the winter to experience the negative temps... lol
South Dakota is sounding better and better these days. Also Kristi Noem is a top tier governor, for those in Michigan Krisi Noem has endorsed Tudor Dixon y'all
Will be in Sioux Falls at the end of October. Great place. My lady is from there. Pennsylvania guy here! Wouldn't mind living there one day if the housing market doesn't go to hell
There are more people living west of I-29 in Sioux Falls than live in the 3rd largest city in South Dakota, Aberdeen. It's quite different than anywhere else in the state.
Sioux Falls land area keeps expanding and it’s foot print is actually bigger than Minneapolis. It’s current population in the city itself is more than Des Moines Iowa. The growth is steady about 6,000 a year. It’s slow steady growth helps the development of the infrastructure of streets, highways and bridges, so traffic flow is really good with few choke points. Very short and few traffic jams. It has a lot of great dinning if you like eating out with many variety of different cultures. It’s clean here. No one lives on the street. I don’t know where all the people come from who move here but there are many from other countries moving to Sioux Falls, so it has an international feel to it. The metro area is small and we who move here, like I did from Chicago like that a lot. My girl friend is from LA. The traffic is light every where all day long and it doesn’t take long to go anywhere in the city and it’s suburbs. As long as it stays conservative it will stay nice.
Nick, I’m moving from California to Charlotte, North Carolina next month to relocate to my firm’s headquarters, but, plan to vote conservatively once I’m there. As a current North Carolina resident, what’s your general opinion of NC’s governor? Is Charlotte still a decent place to live, in comparison to Los Angeles and California? Thanks for the great, informative videos!
I don't like Charlotte a lot. It's ok. It's segregated and crowded and expensive. Feels southern kinda, but downtown sucks. But it's fairly safe. Of course, anywhere is better than CA. Cooper is okay. He's not blowing anyone away or anything.
Loved the Marilyn Monroe movie “Niagara”. It’s an interesting look at the falls area from the past. Kind of like the movie “North by Northwest” is with Mount Rushmore. Love old travel movies from the 1950s.
I enjoy meeting many friendly faces that come from South Dakota. It just makes me wonder why they left and moved out of state. Hopefully they'll return as we love their state.
Very nice. But you didn't mention the weather which is an important factor when considering a move up north. Annual snowfall? Length of the growing season for us gardeners? Thank you 😊
I got away from Mom's couch in Seattle, got trained as a machinist in Minneapolis, screwed San Jose drunk, ended up in Duluth stuck for 4 years got to Sioux falls and saw a little bit of smog, I was so happy, the recession ended that dream. Sioux City is more old school and a little better
Sioux City has the nick name sewer city. It always stinks there from the packing plant. To anyone familiar with both cities the majority consider Sioux Falls as a better place. The Missouri River goes through Sioux City and offers great recreational, I will give it that. In my opinion Sioux Falls is really slipping though. I won't elaborate except it is not what it once was but definitely no smog!
Truly hate Sioux Falls. The bike trail was the only thing I didn’t hate. A couple cool places downtown and some ok restaurants. But generally, I was incredibly depressed there and could not wait to leave. (Decent location/neighborhood) homes are way overpriced compared to the bulk of jobs available (unless you’re in legal, medical, or tech). I had to recruit people to move there, and believe it or not, I was successful. But even they couldn’t wait to leave after spending a year or two there. Weather is awful. Summers get incredibly hot, hail storms, tornadoes, followed by long, freezing cold, dirty, depressing winters… If they haven’t completely demolished and rebuilt the Empire Mall into something more modern and esthetically pleasing by now, I don’t know what to say. That place was pitiful. I’ll end on a positive note though…the people are generally nice there. Helpful, loyal, decent people. If you want to compare raising a family in Anywhere, California to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, then sure….Sioux Falls would win. But if you’re single, a couple with no kids, or retirement age, this is definitely a depressing (and difficult) place and there are much better options.
Sioux falls looks nice hyvee looks like the hang out spot with a bar in the store. I've been to the black hills and mount Rushmore with my dad and a friend I forget the name of the town we stayed in but it was close to mount Rushmore and we also went to the badlands awesome place.
OK Nick. You and I have a similar sense of humor. Love your videos because of the narration. We also have the HyVee grocery store which seems to have everything food wise, albeit pretty expensive. I saw my first Kum and Go in Bethany Missouri about twenty years ago and thought WTF? I think they can only put those gas stations in places where people don't have perverted minds. Lol. Thanks for your videos.
Im glad people enjoy small towns and are happy with that. Im just not the type of person who does. I live in Denver, CO which is a pretty good sized city with a lot of stuff to do. Thats how I like it. I mean....its no New York or Chicago, but its big enough to have all the big city ammentities
Noooooo we don’t want more people in Oregon! All these damn transplants are driving up prices and changing our values! It’s sad seeing all our old open land being ruined to build McMansions. 😢
I was lucky enough to grow up in a small town in NE Iowa. I love Minnesota and Iowa! Notice as Nick drives around, little towns don't have fences throughout the neighborhoods. As kids, we loved playing hide and seek and we got to hide anywhere on our neighborhood block! No fences to separate families and it was normal to see kids running through your yard. No damage was done, just kids playing outside and having fun! At dinner time, our parents either whistled, rang a bell, or yelled out names! 😂 Everybody knew when my family was ready to eat! The Midwest is such a wonderful place! ❤️ Thanks for covering these small towns!
Moved here 4 years ago and it's changed a lot... hope we don't have to move in another 5 years Bought a home outside of SF. Schools are great. Love our neighbors and community. Everything is very pleasant, long as you aren't a Lib. Liberal folks are not welcomed, so beware.
7:00min in. I’m from Shreveport, LA, and currently live in a 3k size town in South Dakota. These people here say Sioux Falls has crime and is dangerous. I’m like…you have no idea what dangerous is. Sioux Falls is a thousand times cleaner and safer than my hometown. They are spoiled up here, let me tell ya.
I LOVE hearing you learn, react to, and teach city folks about my everyday life! Hilarious! And YES! F150 before BMW. I’d be embarrassed to drive a beemer. Can’t wait to see Iowa pop up! -signed, small-town Midwest gal 😊
Hecc naw 😂 I call it "east Omaha" myself. Can't remember what the town name is there 😂😂 Kidding, Iowa is nice, I lived in Omaha, unfortunately I didn't venture into Iowa much. Wish I had though.
Definitely enjoyed you narrating this video. I’m Asian and counted for like 1% of the population there in the late 80’s. Last time I visited was in 99 and I must say. It sure looks different. Thank u for the entertainment
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What a neat place to pass through.
Assuming your coming to North Dakota next let me know if you need anybody to interview!
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Nick, At the end of the Sioux Falls video you mentioned a great, friendly small town that you really liked. I must have missed that name. What town were you talking about? Thanks and we really enjoy your videos.
Sioux Falls is the hidden gem of the Midwest. I stay very busy helping people & businesses troubleshoot technology issues here.
Sioux Falls is rated #1 in the nation to set up a business and trust in. City has massive potential moving forward.
I am not a fan of cold weather, but the more I see places like this, I may reconsider it. It would be a trade off for living in a nice, clean, safe town.
Depends on how much time you spend outside. Don't notice the cold going from house to car/ car to building.
The cold keeps the riff raff out.
You learn to dress for the weather...for me it's all wool during winter...and I would add Sioux Falls has snow removal from the roads down pat...It's a well oiled machine here
@@matthewjacobs141 Sounds nice
Even though South Dakota has COLD WEATHER, it's a friendly state, every place I stopped on my way to Billings and back especially through South Dakota was full of very polite and friendly people, alot friendlier than the South
LoL, no way in heck. SD is a nicer state but the southern states are simply kinder.
You gotta live here since you think it’s friendly it use to be not anymore
@@GhostyYT01 everyone was friendly to me and I was impressed 👌 👏 especially by the place that repaired my car in Hartford last May. They went out of their way to get me on the road again
@@snjspring That's not true, there are kind people everywhere you go
@@SoftOceanBreeze sure, but generally kinder customs/courtesies come from the south.
I grew up in Sioux Falls. If you can tolerate -20F for at least a few weeks every winter and hot(over a 100F)/humid summers it's great.
Just to be clear to those reading this, it RARELY ever hits 100 here and if you're from anywhere in the South then the humidity you get in SF is minimal.
@@oakleysin8766 hmmm, as someone who lived in Sioux Falls for my whole life I vividly remember that the last 10-15 years have been full of at least 3 weeks or more of the summer being over 100F. Sometimes 3 weeks straight, sometimes on and off. No the humidity isn't as bad as the south, but it still gets hot AF!
@@oakleysin8766you say extreme heat is rare but what about the extreme cold? Guess that's typical?
@@mandainwonderland333 you’re probably thinking about the temperature with the heat index. Lol I’m just hardly south (2 hours) of Sioux Falls across the Nebraska border and we get maybe 5-8 days of 90s that have a heat index of ~100
So, where do you live now?
I left Las Vegas for SF two years ago and I'll never go back to a metro city. The people here are the nicest I've met and by far the most welcoming. 118 degree summers to -30 degree winters... Come visit The Treasury in the Hotel Phillips!!
If I could convince the wife, I would move to Sioux Falls in a heartbeat. I am so sick of Illinois. I'm ready for no state income tax and way less Urban drama. I like cold weather, so I would probably fit in there. Thanks for another great video.
Just go without her John 😂
@@NickJohnson I'm lucky to have her. She's pretty, smart, and kind. If that means staying in Illinois, I'm still way ahead in the bargain. The BEST place to live is near those you love.
Come on over! We'll keep the light on for ya.
I moved there from Fairview Heights, IL. Do it!!
I agree. I would love to move here and get away from New York State but convincing my wife of this probably wouldn't win her over. If I could find a job there that could pay for my moving expenses and help with some sort of housing for my family, I would probably accept it, regardless of what my wife says.
As a South Dakotan, it’s nice to see us finally getting recognition from the rest of the country 😂
You deserve it
Trust me, you don't want the recognition. They're going to ruin it.
@@snowcrash4286 word
Just returned from a 2 week trip in my RV. I loved SD! The people were very nice, clean beautiful landscapes.
Growing up in Sioux Falls my whole life.. yes quiet less crime friendly.. but watching the city expand as fast as it is.
I got to witness a shoot out with 3 cars at midnight. Never seen that stopping at a gas station.
Long story short Sioux Falls is a simple quiet city.
I moved to Sioux Fall Jan 2023...Yes its population is 200,000 but know, it has 4 Walmarts. No Graffiti, and in all the time I have not heard one gun shot...I rent a townhome 2 bedrooms,2 bathrooms, built washer dryer for $800 a month. My electric bill runs about $30 a month and I just gassed up my car at $3.09 a gal...I love it here
One of favorite places. My first visit was by train in WWII. My Mother lived there and I always enjoyed visiting Sioux Falls.
lol this is pretty accurate. Mostly older people have the accent though haha. I'm originally from south dakota just moved a couple months ago to the east coast for awhile. honestly after moving I've realized how nice of a place SD can be. it's very clean and organized. if you're younger looking to move to Sioux Falls with stuff to do there are plenty of nice coffee shops downtown where you can meet people and get to know the area! the development over the past couple years has started keeping a younger population! :) thank you for the video Nick!
Ok Nichole :)
As a former California turned South Dakota in over the last 16 years I can honestly say I love it here I would never go back to the Sunshine State
Sunshine state is florida
Just leave all the bs in California and keep South Dakota Red
*Golden State
Too much drama..
Just don't vote democratic and it will stay GREAT!
Shame that nice people, low crime, low drugs, plenty of jobs and a clean community are a rarity. With all our progress, we have certainly shifted to an America hard to be proud of anymore. Thanks for the time you put in to your videos!
America is in the midst of an ongoing collapse that the federal government appears to encouraging. Sad days but, I guess, inevitable. The whole "western world" is collapsing.
There has been a very large decline in our America for 25 yrs. Our government has taken our work our food sources, our health and mostly separated our families and communities 😢
@@rebeccaburkett4974 looks boring
@@ericrivera8410 it is! Although I hear it's getting better.
It''s a great city for young people just starting out.
It’s much safer than the bigger cities. I drove through there from Minneapolis and loved it. I used to love the bigger cities but constant violence now.
South Dakota, Nebraska & North Dakota are looking better all the time!!
To cold
Nice and white!!!
Windy windy windy
Kansas too! Just dig an extra hole in the yard for a storm shelter and stay insured!
@@dannyg5446 I agree 100%. I'm in Florida so NO WAY I could handle those winters there. I do like the idea of not having a million people around me at all times though.
Hy-Vee is actually adding bars to their grocery stores. When they built Hy-Vee #2 in Madison, Wisconsin. That was the first time seeing it. So if you go to the right Hy-Vee location, you'll be doing more that getting a helpful smile in every isle.
Pretty cool that you are here in SD. We used your videos to help us decide where to go. Have a great trip!
Wow cool! I love SD!
This video was hilarious 😂. Parts in the Midwest including Sioux Falls have really exceeded my expectations lately. Thanks for the great video. 👍 👍
That's why I went there! To show you guys how great it is there!
Great video and pretty spot on. Moved back to Sioux Falls 5 years ago and should have done it sooner.
That meat counter at HyVee. Awesome!
Hyvee is a regional chain based in Iowa; I'm surprised you never saw Hyvee in Nebraska, Kansas or Missouri.
Fareway meat counter>>hyvee meat counter
It's all Midwestern-raised corn-fed beef too. Not any of that grass-fed beef you get elsewhere.
I have taken 2 road trips through South Dakota in the past year or so. Spearfish is my favorite place,love it there.
My son lives in Rapid City.
Visited black hills many years ago with my wife and we really liked it. The beautiful pines, lakes and summer sun was stunning.
¡ Nice ! I like that little jingle you did for South Dakota. Excellent ! !
Oh man, when you do the Character with the mustache, I gets me every time! LOL! Good stuff! haha
How funny! We just left Sioux City Iowa just to the South. We LOVE this whole area! Loving your latest series Nick!
Great! I'll be in Sioux City in a few videos.
@@NickJohnson we'll check it out. Hope you made it to Palmer's Candy!
Best little song yet! Thanks.
My favorite line in this video is…”Yes there’s a Ferris wheel inside in the same place that sells high end weapons.😂 You’re killing me, Nick!!!
Hopefully since you’re in the Dakotas you’re able to go up to Bismarck and do a video on Bismarck. It may sound crazy but that is where I would move my family in heart beat! I just can’t get my hubs on board, we were there during last years April blizzard.
I like Bismarck. The people are oddly aloof there. And everyone drinks.
@@NickJohnson maybe you seem to big city to them?😂
We didn’t find them aloof, quite the opposite for us. We were asking a bunch of questions too. People just walked right over, sat down at our table and started talking. It was odd but fun. Similar things happened the entire week we were there, almost everywhere we went. The kindness and over the top friendliness of the people, made we want to live there.
Maybe they were really friendly to us because they were socially hungry. The blizzard had just passed and people were digging out & going into the world again.
@@NickJohnson It sounds very Scandinavian minus Denmark, which is not so aloof.
Just wonderful , really enjoyed your video , thanks for sharing !!!
oh, i love your little songs, they are getting better ! 😀
and i also love your videos, but 1st the songs and then the videos, lol
I've been there a few times. It's a nice town, it's just in the middle of nowhere. Didn't feel like 200,000 last time I was there - felt like about 70,000.
We were in Sioux Falls July 2024. There are getting to be lots of homeless people sleeping in doorways and on the street. We wanted to get ice cream at McDonald's. We went to both of them and never went in as we did not feel safe. Sioux Falls has changed a lot in recent years.
Ya the migrants are coming from Minnesota and ruining it. A 17 yr old got stabbed by one downtown.
Great Video Nick! South Dakota is very peaceful state. It is a great state to live in for those who don't like taxes and want safety and affordability.
Don't like taxes? Do you not own a property? 😂😂😂
@@YtRando69 😂 these people are unbelievable, not surprising from
State who doesn’t give a damn about education! I guess the police, firefighters, and everyone who works for the state gets paid in fairy dust.
@hossman201 SD had a budget surplus. Do your homework before talking nonsense
@@christopherlifto3644 because….they pay teachers nothing, they pay state workers nothing, they have horrible social services, barely a blip when it comes to high income STEM jobs, crap universities, and it receives $1.21 for every dollar it sends out to the federal government (and it isn’t because they have many high paying contract federal jobs like Maryland or Virginia), it’s because South Dakota is a downtrodden, backwards wasteland propped up by high income and highly educated blue states.
My grand Caravan broke down in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, NBA, 2022 Toyota forerunner from billion Toyota. I love the area nothing for miles and hours in the west or east direction.
I loved Hartford, S.D. because they are very nice and friendly people. The Napa shop did a great job fixing my car and they were able to repair it free because it was under warranty. They were very friendly people
It's Mr. BENDO
As South Dakotan i really loved this! I lived in Sioux Falls majority of my life!
Washington state native, the first time I visited Sioux Falls I went to a Hy-Vee grocery store. I was impressed. They were more well lit, easier to move around in, and more conveniently laid out than their Safeway, Albertson's, and Fred Meyer cousins out west.
I love your narrating , it's soothing , love from Kenya,🇰🇪🇰🇪🇺🇸🇺🇸
Love your descriptions of the places you go. If I didn't not like the cold I would go anywhere you wanted to send me. Again I say I love the way you see things.. thank you
Go to Greenville SC
I was born an raised at sioux city iowa an i moved to sioux falls an lived in sioux falls for about 20 years already my reason for moving to South Dakota was so my kids dont have to go thru what i been thru in sewer city i have lost soooo many friends cuz of gang activity that I couldn’t bare to watch my kids grow up in a bad environment it was tuff at first but everything seem to all fall in place 20 years living in sioux falls has been the best decision of my life for me an my family there are some parts like any other city that has it’s flaws but overall i am happy that i got away from the past
It’d be cool to see a video of people you helped move to different places and their experiences 😊
Sioux Falls resident of over ten years here. We started having traffic jams all around town this year! (especially near construction zones)
The construction is BRUTAL now. It never used to be such a mess with major construction plugging up every major artery, all summer long. And what kills me is that it's the same streets over and over and over. They really need to find something else to make Minnesota Ave's surface out of.
Try driving to Philadelphia leaving at 1pm getting there at 545 when its only 120 miles away from where you left
There are 2 seasons in Sioux Falls: Winter and Road Construction.
As a Floridian I've always been enamored with the idea of going to this place.
The park in downtown Sioux Falls is pretty cool! Sioux Falls is super cute! Love this road trip Nick!
It is! We saw it together ❤️❤️
@@NickJohnson Do they still do the nightly laser show over the falls about the history of the city? I missed my 20-year college reunion last year, so the last time I was in Sioux Falls was in 2016.
Sioux Falls is nearly 3 times the size of Scranton its far from cute its a very spread out area
Nick you videos are so relaxing😄😄
So are your comments :)
Moved here since 2013, no regret whatsoever. Brookings is a great town.
as a resident of sioux falls, I love seeing representation of my home, and seeing all the locations throughout the city was cool to see, thanks for the vid!
Like listening to you, the way you talk and your sense of irony and sarcasm...
South Dakota is a great state! I grew up 2 hours north of Sioux Falls. Unfortunately I was young and wanted new experiences and moved to Minneapolis MN. Some day I hope to live or have a 2nd retirement home back home.
I grew up in Minneapolis and moved to rapid city in 2021. Lol, best decision ever.
A lot of people living in states that border Minnesota are beginning to see people still living in that state as nuts and sometimes even insane with the kind of politicians they keep voting for. It’s gone so far left, I guess it wants to be like California🤪
@@marksauck3399 Minnesota is great outside of minneapolis it's just like South Dakota. Hopefully someday our country can be fixed, and especially "refugees" can be sent back to where they belong instead of burning down nice places.
dang! The song was a full production! GRAMMY time!!
Minerva’s Steak House was my go to. Just a short walk from the Holiday Inn.
They have a great salad bar there.
I live in Council Bluffs, IA, travel for work pretty much everywhere, big and small cities, LA, NYC, etc. When it's vacation time I go to Sioux Falls. SF is truly the best kept secret in the USA, love it there.
I live in Fargo, ND. The midwest is a pretty nice place to live and Sioux Falls is quite nice, its much nicer than Fargo. Florida is tempting though just to get out of the 6 months of winter we get.
Sioux Falls also has much milder winters than Fargo, even though its still cold.
Thanks for sharing Nick , nice video ☺️❤️
They just opened a Hy-Vee in EauClaire, WI last yr. I never even heard of them before. You can eat a nice variety of foods, as they have a food court (sort of)!
Those porterhouse steaks cost $30 a lb. where I live, I’d move there just for the food.😊
Man I wish we only had 7 murders a year here. We now live outside of Columbus Ohio, sometimes it seems like it’s 7 in a week. It’s not, but there’s a lot of shootings. This looks so nice. I miss SD. That bad neighborhood looks awesome!! I have older relatives who live in SD from May until October and then in Texas from mid October or November until May. That’s sounding perfect!!❤️
He missed the really bad neighborhood. It's just on the east side of the river to the North of 10th street. That is where the homeless shelter is and the highest concentration of panhandlers and thieves are. That being said, the houses are not that poorly kept.
@@chris5942 I forgot to add I was born in SD, lived in Sioux Falls from age 7 to 13, moved 300 miles away after that but still in SD, went to college in Huron, moved here when I was 19, I've been back a handful of times but I'm not sure how it's grown. I've heard there's a lot of ConAgra warehouses in SF, whatever that is. I'm assuming something for farming.
@@dakotawolf7336 I have not seen a ConAgra warehouse and have no idea where those would be but the city has exploded in every other way possible. The crime makes me sad. This is not the safe city it used to be and it's imports doing it.
@@chris5942 yeah, it was another chat, this guy said another trucker was talking about seeing all these warehouses and ConAgra warehouses in 2018, whatever those are. Yeah when I was growing up there, I remember going door to door around a huge area selling Girl Scout cookies in 1979, I don't recall my parents going with me. That was different then and we knew a lot of the neighbors or all of us kids did. Yeah that's so sad about the crime. Growing up, the crimes I read about were like someone walking on train tracks, probably some minor things too. It was a shock when I moved to Ohio, I left a town of 4,000 and 14,000 to come to a city that had close to a half million or so. I wanted to go home. We've often thought about moving back but I'm not used to the Winters but my hubby thought it was great because it was a drier cold.
My hubby loved it when we got away from Ohio, and closer to Iowa and SD, he said "no one gave me the bird like back home, even the State Trooper waved as I sped past him!!" Something like that. We have panhandlers on every city intersection every day, it's very sad. Even so much of the farm land is being bought and turned into more condos and apartments.
What was the name of the welcoming small town you visited?
This is definitely on my list of places to visit. 💝
What about Lynn’s Dakotamart?
Hope you’re going to hit up some of the smaller towns in SD too.
You are hilarious! I want to live in SD. My family and I went to Rapid City in 2021 and we loved it. We want to go back
Moved to the Sioux falls area almost 2 years ago from Jersey .. talk about night and day ... love it out here.. will never go back to dirty jersey. Someone who's came from a crowded state I get sad to see how much construction is going on.. I want SD to stay a hidden gem. Next time come during the winter to experience the negative temps... lol
I'm here from new jersey swell northern nj been here 15 yrs 9 mos..
@Nick Johnson 7:02 Video lottery was a problem even in 1997 when I moved there. I NEVER got used to it in the 4 years I lived there!
South Dakota is sounding better and better these days. Also Kristi Noem is a top tier governor, for those in Michigan Krisi Noem has endorsed Tudor Dixon y'all
And Kristi Noem is gorgeous😍😘
Kristy is soo gorgeous 😍
Love your songs Nick, love your videos, white moustache suit's you ..👍🌲🙂🐝🌞
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Will be in Sioux Falls at the end of October. Great place. My lady is from there. Pennsylvania guy here! Wouldn't mind living there one day if the housing market doesn't go to hell
As a Mitchell person it is crazy just how different Souix Falls is from everywhere else. It's the Hotspot of the state.
It's so funny how people around Mitchell shit on Sioux falls lol. That the traffic makes them nervous 🤣. Funny.
Mitchell is the hotspot of the state......
@@chucknorrispka hahahaha said no one ever
There are more people living west of I-29 in Sioux Falls than live in the 3rd largest city in South Dakota, Aberdeen.
It's quite different than anywhere else in the state.
Sioux Falls land area keeps expanding and it’s foot print is actually bigger than Minneapolis. It’s current population in the city itself is more than Des Moines Iowa. The growth is steady about 6,000 a year. It’s slow steady growth helps the development of the infrastructure of streets, highways and bridges, so traffic flow is really good with few choke points. Very short and few traffic jams. It has a lot of great dinning if you like eating out with many variety of different cultures. It’s clean here. No one lives on the street. I don’t know where all the people come from who move here but there are many from other countries moving to Sioux Falls, so it has an international feel to it. The metro area is small and we who move here, like I did from Chicago like that a lot. My girl friend is from LA. The traffic is light every where all day long and it doesn’t take long to go anywhere in the city and it’s suburbs. As long as it stays conservative it will stay nice.
"...a dive bar, or a church..." LOL
Nick! I died at 1:42. You gotta start doing more songs.
I sing all the time.
I loved trucking up I-29 from Missouri to N. Dakota...
Nick, I’m moving from California to Charlotte, North Carolina next month to relocate to my firm’s headquarters, but, plan to vote conservatively once I’m there.
As a current North Carolina resident, what’s your general opinion of NC’s governor?
Is Charlotte still a decent place to live, in comparison to Los Angeles and California?
Thanks for the great, informative videos!
I don't like Charlotte a lot. It's ok. It's segregated and crowded and expensive. Feels southern kinda, but downtown sucks. But it's fairly safe. Of course, anywhere is better than CA.
Cooper is okay. He's not blowing anyone away or anything.
Does Amazon deliver there? Cell coverage? 3-phase power? Class 3 weapons?
Hey Nick, awhile back you did a video on Toronto, Canada. 🇨🇦 You should do a video on another Canadian City like Niagara Falls, Montreal, or Vancouver
Loved the Marilyn Monroe movie “Niagara”. It’s an interesting look at the falls area from the past. Kind of like the movie “North by Northwest” is with Mount Rushmore. Love old travel movies from the 1950s.
I enjoy meeting many friendly faces that come from South Dakota. It just makes me wonder why they left and moved out of state. Hopefully they'll return as we love their state.
Because it can be pretty boring. MN is the same way.
Very nice. But you didn't mention the weather which is an important factor when considering a move up north. Annual snowfall? Length of the growing season for us gardeners?
Thank you 😊
I got away from Mom's couch in Seattle, got trained as a machinist in Minneapolis, screwed San Jose drunk, ended up in Duluth stuck for 4 years got to Sioux falls and saw a little bit of smog, I was so happy, the recession ended that dream. Sioux City is more old school and a little better
Sioux City video coming up soon!
Sioux City has the nick name sewer city. It always stinks there from the packing plant. To anyone familiar with both cities the majority consider Sioux Falls as a better place. The Missouri River goes through Sioux City and offers great recreational, I will give it that.
In my opinion Sioux Falls is really slipping though. I won't elaborate except it is not what it once was but definitely no smog!
Excellent ! Thumbs up
Been to SD but not here
Truly hate Sioux Falls. The bike trail was the only thing I didn’t hate. A couple cool places downtown and some ok restaurants. But generally, I was incredibly depressed there and could not wait to leave. (Decent location/neighborhood) homes are way overpriced compared to the bulk of jobs available (unless you’re in legal, medical, or tech). I had to recruit people to move there, and believe it or not, I was successful. But even they couldn’t wait to leave after spending a year or two there.
Weather is awful. Summers get incredibly hot, hail storms, tornadoes, followed by long, freezing cold, dirty, depressing winters…
If they haven’t completely demolished and rebuilt the Empire Mall into something more modern and esthetically pleasing by now, I don’t know what to say. That place was pitiful. I’ll end on a positive note though…the people are generally nice there. Helpful, loyal, decent people. If you want to compare raising a family in Anywhere, California to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, then sure….Sioux Falls would win. But if you’re single, a couple with no kids, or retirement age, this is definitely a depressing (and difficult) place and there are much better options.
Glad u didn't like it lol.
I live here currently, it’s in between big city and small town, perfect for me
Wondering how many for sale signs go up after they experience their first Dakota winter......................
Nice Nick we want a Job like yours thank you so much for your journey so amazing 👍😀
My pleasure Patricia!
Sioux Falls the best city ever ! I lived there 3.5 years on the central/ east side. I’d go back in a heart beat!!!
I live in Sioux Falls South Dakota awesome video love it!
Sioux falls looks nice hyvee looks like the hang out spot with a bar in the store. I've been to the black hills and mount Rushmore with my dad and a friend I forget the name of the town we stayed in but it was close to mount Rushmore and we also went to the badlands awesome place.
Fun!! ❤️❤️
OK Nick. You and I have a similar sense of humor. Love your videos because of the narration. We also have the HyVee grocery store which seems to have everything food wise, albeit pretty expensive. I saw my first Kum and Go in Bethany Missouri about twenty years ago and thought WTF? I think they can only put those gas stations in places where people don't have perverted minds. Lol. Thanks for your videos.
Hey Jeff!
Im glad people enjoy small towns and are happy with that. Im just not the type of person who does. I live in Denver, CO which is a pretty good sized city with a lot of stuff to do. Thats how I like it. I mean....its no New York or Chicago, but its big enough to have all the big city ammentities
OKC is better
I went here back in '07. It was a nice place.
Awesome video, when you coming to Oregon?
No
Noooooo we don’t want more people in Oregon! All these damn transplants are driving up prices and changing our values! It’s sad seeing all our old open land being ruined to build McMansions. 😢
Nice keep exploring!
I was lucky enough to grow up in a small town in NE Iowa. I love Minnesota and Iowa! Notice as Nick drives around, little towns don't have fences throughout the neighborhoods. As kids, we loved playing hide and seek and we got to hide anywhere on our neighborhood block! No fences to separate families and it was normal to see kids running through your yard. No damage was done, just kids playing outside and having fun!
At dinner time, our parents either whistled, rang a bell, or yelled out names! 😂 Everybody knew when my family was ready to eat!
The Midwest is such a wonderful place! ❤️ Thanks for covering these small towns!
I always heard Iowans and Minnesotans feuded with each other and loved to make jokes about each other’s states? 🤔 Has that changed?
South Dakota is a great state to live. If you’re reading this don’t move here 😅
Yeah stay away
Don't worry. I live in Sioux City and I love to visit.
Moved here 4 years ago and it's changed a lot... hope we don't have to move in another 5 years
Bought a home outside of SF. Schools are great. Love our neighbors and community. Everything is very pleasant, long as you aren't a Lib. Liberal folks are not welcomed, so beware.
Another Gem Nick
I was in a Scheels in Billings, Montana and it was great, very friendly and polite people there
Do they have Scheels in Idaho or Utah???
If not, what is the popular Gunstore Chains in Idaho or Utah???
Nick, you are a hoot!
7:00min in. I’m from Shreveport, LA, and currently live in a 3k size town in South Dakota. These people here say Sioux Falls has crime and is dangerous. I’m like…you have no idea what dangerous is. Sioux Falls is a thousand times cleaner and safer than my hometown. They are spoiled up here, let me tell ya.
I LOVE hearing you learn, react to, and teach city folks about my everyday life! Hilarious! And YES! F150 before BMW. I’d be embarrassed to drive a beemer. Can’t wait to see Iowa pop up! -signed, small-town Midwest gal 😊
Iowa is coming up eventually!
Hecc naw 😂 I call it "east Omaha" myself. Can't remember what the town name is there 😂😂
Kidding, Iowa is nice, I lived in Omaha, unfortunately I didn't venture into Iowa much. Wish I had though.
Rapid City is cool too, but way more touristy than Sioux Falls come summer.
how is the state conservative if they legalized weed? that's a very liberal thing..
How long is the Winter season in this state?
11 months
Could start in October and last til march/April but usually December-March
@@skylermummert24 OK, thanks. I'm on my way up there with my taco food truck. 🌮
@@Carlos-nq7up tacos? Count me in
@@skylermummert24 🤣🤣🤣
Definitely enjoyed you narrating this video. I’m Asian and counted for like 1% of the population there in the late 80’s. Last time I visited was in 99 and I must say. It sure looks different. Thank u for the entertainment