The Worst City In Every Single State
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- Опубликовано: 12 окт 2020
- Which city is the worst in each state? These are.
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Is it a coincidence that in the 5 states surrounding Illinois, the worst city is on the Illinois border?
As someone from Illinois, the moment you go so much as near the state you become worse as a person
@@viracocha6093 can confirm
Source: SE Wisconsin
Even the worst city in Illinois is in the Illinois border
That is pretty funny but to be fair I would say Gary and maybe Beloit are the only ones that are a direct result of Illinois shittyness
I think not.
Everyone waiting for their state to see what he picked
I am sooo glad he said "state line" I've been cringing since 1976 because they started to call them "borders" that year. Borders within a single country? Mann, what they thinking to do here?
Nope lol I’m from Belfast I don’t even know why I am here
Robin Friess lo
I'm going to take a guess and feel glad he forgot murder capital Jacksonville FL. Buttt I love my city
Lived near Mckeesport, PA. It's an unimaginable shithole. It's a ghost town during the day, and a third world country at night.
Me, from Indiana: Gary.
Video: It’s Gary
Me: *nods solemnly*
@DeAndre DeAndre I live in indianapolis
YeH Indiana people whoop whoop
Hello fellow cornman.
Yeahhhhh.... we may all have different opinions on the world but every Hoosier can agree Gary indiana... is the worst place in the state
😂😂😂😂I not laughing cause your state on there but the way you said it and its just I'm from Detroit Michigan and I knew it was going to be on there but he said flint Michigan instead ohhh we must be doing good I luv my State and City!!!!SMH
Hey florida whats the worst city:
Florida : yes
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@shanequiett u are so childish that you wish to kill people just because YOU think it is a bad state. Probably a 12 year old commenting on random videos, grow up lil kid
California*
@Dr Haris I lived in florida and florida is its own country entirely😂
@shanequiett someones parents divorce recently?
“Pueblo” in Spanish literally translates to ‘town’ or ‘city’. They literally named themselves ‘city’.
True
Nobody said Pueblo had the most brains in the state 🤣🤣🤣
Not as bad as new york, new york
Hula in hawaiian means dance so when people say hula dance it translates to dance dance lol
"Pueblo" means more like "Village" tho.
"Town" or "city" can be better translated as "Ciudad"
8 murders in one town in maine should be a red alert for the entire state
since 2005
Not in Ohio
*when one of murders was in your house* before I moved in I didn’t kill someone lol
Chicago has 300 a year
Lol those are small numbers for Tulsa
lmao was expecting some obscure small town for oregon and then man just came right out with the whole largest city in the state
Definitely an evaluation from someone who was not in Oregon this year.
@Ethan Tobias That's not saying much.
Yea it’s bullshit Portland is really not that bad. Go to any backwoods podunk east Oregon town and try interacting with the locals and then go to Portland (if you’re still alive) and tell me Portland is a worse city.
😂 damn Seattle is the worst in my state of Washington, I know there is way more skechy small towns on the east side where I live. They are just sad. Heck even my city of Spokane has a bad reputation for the homeless, still not close to Portland thou, I've seen the homeless problem there, its BAD
im from oregon and i came to this video for that, now i know lmao
This is honestly sad and upsetting. How many people must be suffering in these towns
The conservative ones no because they are voting against help I hope they die mean less conservative would be better
They don’t have to suffer
They can change their life and society if they unite
Yet they have money for illegal drugs, tattoos, booze, $150 shoes and $1000 phones. Go figure!
I dont even have to watch the video to know that Gary Indiana is here
Don’t disrespect my city
@@dxviljin Listen I live in indiana too and I hate this place lmao and if I lived in Gary? good god
Indiana in general is one of the worst states. And I live here
@@morganschulz3067 confirmed
@@morganschulz3067 it’s only a bad state if you make it a bad state. Indiana is what you make it. If you walk around like “I hate it here I wanna be in Florida,Cali etc” you’re gonna hate it here but if you’re someone like me who enjoys not being hella crowded and enjoy only traveling to bigger places instead of living there because of tourism then you’ll like Indiana.
Once broke down in a project in Portsmouth, VA at night, and decided to keep driving causing $1,000 in additional damage to my car. Probably worth it
Yes
Haha
Don't come at ptown like that, best city in the world prolly the country
@@swankyluchador Provincetown MA? Ya lots of gays there you'd like it.
As someone who used to live in the Shenandoah Valley, I was mildly surprised Clifton Forge was never mentioned at all
then again, there's probably a lot more places down further southwest that are just as bad.
Damn, nice way to not do any research on Washington LMAO
The problem is that all our cities suck in different ways. Seattle is just really expensive and a little dirty and absurdly haunted.
Tacoma is... Tacoma.
I have no idea what’s going on in Yakima but whatever it is it can’t be good
Tri Cites only exists cause of nuclear weaponry so I can’t imagine things are going super great out there
Kent is a cesspool that infected the 7 towns near it, poor Auburn used to be nice apparently according to my mom, Kent sure ruined that, and Pyuallup, ,
and Everything east of the mountains is like, “Yeehaw, I’m gonna deny you your most basic human rights”
except Ellensburg but that’s cause Ellensburg is populated almost exclusively by lower middle class west side kids who couldn’t afford to go to a bigger college, so of course things are chill there.
God I love Ellensburg. It’s so nice there. Most pedestrian friendly town ive ever had the pleasure of inhabiting, great places to eat, everyone is super nice and helpful and there’s always fun things going on.
@@paigey-poo4235 Everything west of Tacoma is pretty good imo
Most of our towns are terrible in their own way and good in others. I would have probably guessed yakama beacuse of the rampant gang violence but Seattle’s homelessness and drug problems could be why it was placed higher
@@paigey-poo4235 I'm gonna have to disagree hard with your assessment of the east. It is more conservative and some areas/people definitely think that way but it's really nice (why else would so many people from the west be moving over?) We just don't like west siders much. Ellensburg is only the way you described it in the college area, outside of that it's much more yee-haw. It is a bunch of farming after all.
Great place to visit after you get used to tripping over homeless spikes, but you have a better chance of driving through Washington without seeing an evergreen, than finding a finantailly stable person (let alone someone who doesn't hate their life) living in Seattle. Inslee can pour all the funding he wants into Seattle, he can shamelessly ignore and underfund red counties (im literally not a republican, but i can see his blatant disregard for anyone but his voter base) to try and fix the Seattle area, but when you get down to it, you just cant fix Seattle without changing leadership. Just a basic scenario here, to solve homelessness do you A: spend $20 a foot in labor and materials installing spikes in the ground so homeless people cant sit, or god forbid, lie down? B: Arrest homeless people and cart them across the state to a less crowded jail, releasing them in an unfamiliar town? or C: make a logical choice to solve homelessness? If you guessed A and b, you just might be in Seattle's city council. Even their re-homing plan is a joke. Imagine building a few "apartment complex" like buildings, capable of housing 100 people for the same price of building 10 tiny homes (10 is generous considering land costs, dont even get me started on skyrocketing lumber prices). I like the people in Seattle, but the people running it have the collective iq of a single 3rd grader who just downed an entire gallon of glue. I may be surrounded by people deepthroating "MAGA" flags in public, but when i was on minimum wage, i could afford an apartment and food with a few hundred leftover.
I was a community organizer in St. Louis, in 93/93, when crack was hitting hard. Rough town, but some great things there too.
@robert reeves Get some damn sleep
Yeah WASHU is a great school and the arch is kind of cool I guess
Just say what it is - crime is rampant in north St. Louis and north county and basically anywhere with “north” in its name
@@thedeathstar420 The best thing about the town is the Missouri botanical gardens among the best in the world.
Yanny sure does have a lot of potato houses
Oh, hi, Zyphon!
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I was going to be really upset if someone didn't make this joke.
Why hello there
And laurel as well
I took a tour of Mark Twain's house in Hartford eight years ago, and the tour guide told us that Hartford was the richest city in the United States at the time Twain lived there in the 1870s. Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" lived down the street from him.
Yup, it’s true. Sad to see how far it’s gotten from that
They Aldo have The Wadsworth Atheneum, which is a great art museum, Hartford Stage Company, a great theater, and the best looking state Capitol in the country, but Hartford is ghetto. I lived there in the 80s. It was iffy ba k then, bur has been in steady decline. The state had pumped over a billion dollars into downtown. But the schools remain bad. Housing is run down. I wouldn't want to live there again.
I once knew a girl in high school whose family used to live in Pahrump. Both her and the math teacher agreed that Pahrump was a dump. I didn't mean to rhyme, but still.
Nevada?.wife's mother and Sept dad retired there on the golf course. Just hot.
Pahrump is known mostly for its legal brothels.
Lived in Adelanto, Ca. The footage he showed was of the old air force base. Most of it abandoned now. Currently used as a mass graveyard for airplanes
Lived in Hesperia and I can confirm although for a short while my high school had a young Marines program there
Yeah theres jobs there and a big 7up bottle plant.but it's well known over 50 percent of the folks are in state aid.
Pete Holmes: I was in a bad part of Atlanta...called Atlanta.
Good 1.
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Bankhead/ West End type beat
Agreed. I wasn't aware that there was a "bad" part of Atlanta.
The BEST CITY in EVERY SINGLE STATE
yeeah
Detroit
Ok
I'm gonna guess right now that the best city in Michigan is in the UP
@@franzv3035 I said in the UP. Quite shockingly cities do exist up there even though Wyoming has 200,000 more people than the UP.
Thank you for sharing your experience with us all together
Thank You For Your Videos.........Your Entertaining and Educational
This is depressing, however extremely informative. One of your best works yet Nick.
Hey Dave :)
Agree. ✌️
Can you do the opposite and show the best?
Yep
Thanks for all the wonderful work you do Nick! Keep it up!!
Haha ok :)
why did this man just say “get a job” after naming off poverty stricken cities with the highest unemployment rates ??
He's probably a conservative, not even remotely taking into consideration the leaps and bounds it would take to get out of these poverty stricken places while that person is also poverty stricken. It's a vicious cycle, and those without empathy simply see it as the marginalized communities being lazy bums.
Man you put out a lot of content but never lose the quality. I need to catch up sheesh 😁
Hurry up and catch up man.
Yeah lots to catch up on man ❤️
@Victor Holland amen my fellow brethren.
@Victor Holland what
Same dude
The worst place in Maryland is Baltimore. Poor elk ton is just dealing with the spillover from Baltimore.
As a Baltimorean, I agree.
He's right. It's not Baltimore. The area around Hopkins would disqualify it.
I grew up in Brooklyn Park and migrated to Glen Burnie. Much safer than most of downtown Baltimore. Served as a Baltimore City Fire Department chaplain for 3 years in the early 1990's. Some parts of the city, after dark, resembled war zones. And that was before all of the recent rioting and skyrocketing murder rates. It's sad when your birthplace evolves into something so depressing. When I left for college in 1976, the Inner Harbor had just been built, and the place was much higher thought of. Not any more. Makes me want to cry.
@@JDM66762 I would really love if the government used its money to improve its cities and towns, and not in such amount of bullshit. I feel you
@@pascualsmithvaldes9038 Thank you. I used to be proud to say that I was born/raised in Baltimore. Now, other than following the Ravens and Orioles, I am embarrassed to mention that I'm from Baltimore. It is sad.
If you think Portland is worse than Medford, I have a hard time believing you've been to Portland.
I came here to see if anyone else had said it. METHFORD USA
Medford is depressing and banal, and yeah, it's got a huge drug problem. But Portland has always had a major drug scene too, and now it's also in serious decline overall, with skyrocketing crime rates, homelessness and a dangerous extremist underground, and it's a much more influential and important place than Medford. As Portland goes, so the state goes. Already many people and businesses are selling and getting out--ironically, this may result in some improvements to Medford and similar blighted smaller towns, unless of course everybody just heads for more appealing coastal spots and trendy towns like Florence, Astoria, Eugene or Bend--or, of course, to Idaho.
I thought it would be Gresham.
No idea how they could say Portland when Rogue River/Central Point/Klamath Falls/Cave Junction/Eagle Point exists.
You forgot to mention that Pahrump NV has legalized prostitution in the bordello on its main street. So thats an upside
Say less booking my ticket now
I may visit when I'm done with this president thing
One of my first high school crushes was a guy from pahrump lol
I’ve been to both Seattle and Portland several times and thought they were really great cities. Obviously all the protests and stuff is a lot going on but there are definitely a lot worse places to be in those states.
@@zacherymccann491 Don’t forget Yakima.
they are great cities, protests tend to happen at night in different areas and there is a significant amount of homeless people, but other than that it’s great
Yea, those entries are written by someone who watches Fox News and hasn't actually been to many (any?) other places in Oregon or Washington.
@@pha_q_the_unflushable1351 as a person that live in selah Washington I can say I’m surprised that Yakima isn’t on the list. I’ve seen a few people dead on the sidewalk on north first street.
Yeah Portland is actually quite pretty
My mom used to live in a bad part of Hartford CT when she was in her early 20's. She told me stories about how the radio in her car got stolen so many times that she gave up on having one, crack heads would steal the battery out of her car, her house was broken into multiple times, etc. She bought a hand gun because she felt unsafe. It seems not much has changed in 40 years. On the plus side, she renovated the 3 unit apartment house she owned and sold it when she married my dad.
Man your mom sounds tough!
I would of booby trapped my car at that point lol
I remember when New England states were Conservative states and safe to live in, with the exception of Massachusetts, because of the Kennedy family. But JFK would probably be considered a Conservative by today's standards.
@@vantastic9367 no kidding...the libtards are killing us.
@@danielplainview3003 Stfu
Texan here, I'm surprised Bellmead even gets to be counted on the list, it's honestly closer to a neighborhood consumed by the blob that is Waco at this point.
@@moxygamesss From the few times I've been there, the only thing I have to say is: I don't think you'll find a more tangled clusterfuck of streets in all of Central Texas, if not the entire state.
I would say "KILL"een is worse then bellmead *from waco*
Binging your videos here! Thanks
Must be raining?
As a resident of the pacific northwest Seattle and Portland are absolutely NOT the worst places to live here. If you're going exclusively off of a couple of protests that hardly demonstrate a city's character I urge you to rethink your methods.
I know right I was like wtf
id say spokane would be a much better candidate for washington, worse education and infrastructure, in addition to much higher crime rate at a smaller population
@@itsyourguyskye There are plenty of very small cities that are bad places to live in. Most of the other states mentioned had cities I had never heard of, so it doesn't necessarily have to be a big city.
(But I agree, Spokane would be a better choice)
@@randomcontentgenerator2331 what are some smaller cities you would pick? im a WA resident so im curious
@@itsyourguyskye I too am a WA resident. I think I would go for Lind, a small town near Moses Lake.
They offered me a job in Deming, NM paying $110,000 plus a 15% bonus but I didn't take it because the town looked so depressing.
I honestly find that hard to believe, you can 'liven' stuff up quite nicely with 110 grand a year...
With 110K, you could OWN Deming NM.
@James Johnson it looked so depressing, like OMG, the despair is palpable.
i live an hour away, i agree with you
You should of took it for that amount. That extra hr to drive to work would of been worth it. Work there but no need to live there.
why am I just finding this channel? I love his commentary
The sensationalism of oregon through journalism is quite amazing too me. Portland is portrayed as a city under constant duress and riots. Yet those partake at one square block during a certain time at night. The rest of the city is literally Normal. It's crazy how far journalism can effect ones perspective. Especially on places they have never experienced
Idk man. I live in Portland and it’s kind of rough. You drive down major highways and see nothing but homeless camps and trash everywhere. Any bit of bushes could be a homeless camp with people methed out. My parents were living in an old part of town and moved because of the gang violence that came into the area. Went by my grandparents old house and the neighborhood had trash everywhere. Then there’s the whole antifa problem. Which isn’t as bad as journalism portrays but is still trashy. I think everyone in my family has seen a naked homeless meth head at least once. Which shouldn’t be a thing.
@@thedarudecactus3179 that’s every city tho my guy. You ever been to New York? It’s a problem in America that we need to fix as a country. But the higher elites don’t give af and you being poor and homeless helps them keep money in their pocket.
@@thedarudecactus3179 nah bro I live in Portland too, and it’s a good city if you ignore the stuff that the media puts up front
@@thedarudecactus3179 That's pretty much what my Portland friends say as well.
Then why are all my friends in Portland (I have many) upset, uneasy and considering moving--at least way out to the sticks? Most of them are stone liberals who used to support Antifa. Not anymore. I think they know what they're talking about. I should add that most of them are native Oregonians/Portlanders; I only know one imported Portlander at present.
I really enjoy how quickly your video moves, you keep it moving with humor! I agree on your take of South Tucson! We live in Tucson and make videos of this area but are much more careful around South Tucson 👍😃
“What’s the worst place you could live in Florida?”
“Florida”
florida is crackhead kingdom
Florida is great in 2020. Not locked down and one of the free states.
@@JesusChrist2000BC yeah and covid cases are rising like crazy in florida
@@JV-jf8ck Not really. But I'll keep you in mind as I enjoy my Margarita on the beach and freedom ✌
Ah yeah, the state with the third highest amount of COVID cases. They sure blew New York out of the water a couple months ago, along with Texas and California. It was like the state, who did the lockdowns early, was standing still when they blew right past them. New York's still got over 300k less cases than Florida. I'm not sure on California other than it has the highest population in the country. Not to mention, lockdown or no lockdown, it depends on the people and how they respond. Having COVID parties as some call them don't really help the efforts in containing the virus.
I would say New York was the closest of any of the US states in doing the lockdowns right. While they're gaining more cases during the second, third, or whatever spike, New York's still well below the new big three and got passed by Illinois a few days ago. Georgia may follow Illinois and boot them out of the top 5 if this keeps up. If the early front runner ends up getting booted out of the Top 5 by year's end, you know something's wrong. (and they may have done something right)
I couldn’t tell if I was getting more depressed for the sad places or less depressed for being where I am.
I’m from one of the cities on this lol. And at least half these “cities” shouldn’t count as cities.
But the largest city in my state has only 288,00-odd people.
@@flickcentergaming680 We ain't even hit 200k in ours
@Human Peeing if you're asking me, Des Moines.
@Human Peeing overall, Des Moines isn't too bad, but there are certain neighborhoods that are best avoided. Lots of shootings.
@Human Peeing I don't live in Des Moines, but I appreciate your concern.
"Sadly, without Hormel, this place would be even sadder."
Are you describing Beloit or Austin, Minnesota?
Haha both maybe?
At least Beloit has a new amazon fulfillment center that just opened lol. I don't live there thankfully.
Beloit still has Frito Lay...
My friend, you need to revisit some of the crappiest towns in Oregon, especially Medford and Grants Pass. And those "cities" are just the tip of the Oregon backwaters. Portland is a jewel compared to these places. Still loving your schtick, though. :)
Email me I need to do a video about Oregon Liz.
Same with Washington. Even with downtown Riots, Seattle isn't anywhere near as bad as Tacome or Yakima. I get the feeling homeboy doesn't know much about the Northwest.
Yeah i was pretty surprised about Portland and Seattle??!!
Omg yeah I grew up in Medford! I actually just moved to Hawaii 🤭 (I live in a wonderful town now.) medford is a trash bucket and a half. Although I’ve gotten some good stories out of the tweakers.
@@NickJohnson used to be local Oregonian here as well!! ☺️
every person that lives in Wisconsin knew Beloit was gonna be on the list.
I thought it might be Superior, but I believe Beloit too
There's other bad places here but Beloit was definitely not a surprise. Probably because the name is close to "Detroit".
The one good thing about living in Beloit is I can say I'm from Wisconsin
I fw Beloit
Yes lmfao
Lived in Huntington, WV for four years in college, was a member of the cross country team too so i ran all over the city. I loved Huntington, in my first couple years there was some things that happened that were iffy but the last two years Huntington started to really change itself around by creating new businesses and helping the city out. I miss it and i'm hoping to move back.
Hunter Deem I think West Virginia has a lot to offer, in spite of its bad reputation. It's beautiful, it's cheap, and the population is lower in 2020 than it was in 1950. It is also close to metropolitan areas that offer great entertainment and shopping, such as Pittsburgh, if you live in the northern part of the state. One of these years, it is going to be the new Colorado.
Nick, give me a break, Portland is not the worst place to live in Oregon. You might consider Medford or some of the smaller towns in eastern Oregon.
Agreed. He's going by recent national headlines. There's a whole lot of cool to Portland the riots don't reflect.
Mmmmm
Look. I understand not liking the rioting and vandalism aspects of Portland and Seattle, but calling them the worst cities is absolutely asinine. I live in King county (Seattle) and Seattle is rich, clean, and pretty well off... If you named Seattle at least name a neighborhood like you did Kinsington in Philadelphia. (I would say Rainier beach or white center are the worst neighborhoods).... But hands down the worst metropolitan area in Washington is Tacoma and it has been for decades. Less money, worse crime, gangs, bad air quality, it goes on and on, do the research and compare zip codes... You'll see what I'm saying.
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I could name other towns in Oregon that are worse than Portland. Klamath Falls for one.
Nah. Seattle’s great, but Tacoma’s actually pretty great as well. If you had ever spent any time in Pt Defiance, Ruston, Proctor or Stadium, you might change your tune. South Tacoma is sketchy, but so are parts of Seattle. The worst cities to live in are in Eastern Washington...Yakima? The Tri-cities literally have toxic waste underneath them.
Seattle is pretty cultural for sure but its definitely on the downwards slope. I loved going there a couple of years ago when my girlfriend lived there. Now I'm glad to be back in Vancouver, and that's saying something
Maybe..but lots of folks will never visit Seattle now because it is run by dirtbags who let good people be hurt by losers for months.
@Nick, thank you for the time you took to do the research/work. I was born and raised in East St. Louis. When I saw the Spivey building, I cringed. But also remember when it was a great occupied space. The city is slowing tearing down condemned buildings. Thank you.
Seattle? really? have you ever been in eastern washington or Aberdeen..? have you been in Seattle? it's a really cool city, pikes place market, space needle, sculpture garden, come on man
Have you been there lately? It's out of control.
@@zachdorstad173 How is it "out of control" exactly?
@@bubberducky9225 homelessness, drugs, and mental illness. The city council doesn't seem to care, they won't allow police to do their jobs effectively. Most of the criminals that get arrested are immediately released back on to the streets, to reoffend again and again. Not to mention Antifa taking control of a few blocks, forcing the police to abandon their precinct last summer. It's really tragic. Makes me sad.
@@zachdorstad173 homelessness is a problem across america, as wealth inequality increases dramatically, same with drug addiction as a result to the predatory pharmaceutical companies, hardly anything any other city doesnt face. Cops are not trained or equipped to handle any of the issues you named so I hardly see how they're relevant. The chaz was honestly not a big deal, and hardly affected the city at all.
@@bubberducky9225 nothing wrong with admitting they have a problem though. A lot of these problems exist because the city council has enabled it by refusing to get tough on crime. Also, people died in the Chaz zone while the mayor refused to do anything about it. Businesses and residents were threatened, but police weren't even able to show up in many cases. That whole thing was an embarrassment. You don't seem concerned about any of this.
East St. Louis was once a bustling suburb where my grandparents used to live. I can tell they are still sad about how it slowly decayed.
My grandmother was from Detroit. Born there in 1903. It broke her heart to see what became of her once-gracious, wealthy and beautiful hometown.
Look out East St Louis, Springfield is a city on the . . . . . . grow.
I’m a Floridian, and I can think of several towns worse than Bel Glade. Bel Glade isn’t great, but Homestead and Immokalee are worse.
Doesn't Florida have a military (maybe Air Force) base at Homestead, or did they close it?
Considering he does live in the state seems like he got it pretty close if you only names 2 cities. 😉
@@danielfronc4304 it's an air force reserve base now
Immokalee prolly doesn't show up statistically because no one is tracking how many farmworkers are being paid under the table at far less than minimum wage. Also, if no one is looking for you when you go missing, the gators ain't exactly gonna say whether or not they came across any bodies.
In its own way, Orlando is quite possibly one of the worst cities in the world, but I grew up there, so I love it, anyway
@@MarcillaSmith Yes, 150 years ago in Everglade, Watson figured out that a “Watson payday” would save him a lot of money when he had to pay his hired sugarcane cutters. Only God knows how many bodies are in the Everglades.
To be fair Pahrump is the place to go to by Fireworks if you live in Las Vegas, so that is a plus.
I think you sir have done a political hit on Seattle Washington and Portland Oregon. There is major corporations in both cities and they're absolutely beautiful.
Yeahhhhh why not choose one of the crazy eastern Oregon or Washington towns?
I live in Portland, if the homeless were gotten rid of and the reputation of being homeless friendly was stopped, then cracked down on extremist groups like antifia which causes other extremists groups like the proud boys to come in and cause violence. And then finally worked on drugs then they would be fantastic cities in gorgeous locations.
@@thedarudecactus3179 You know what antifa is right?
@@thedarudecactus3179 yeah I live kinda near Portland and I’ve been there a few times and I think that it’s very pretty, but the homeless people bother me. It’s kinda sad that they’re homeless but it’s legit so annoying when crazy homeless people go around disturbing others. I think it would be really cool if there was a thing where we gathered up homeless people and got them in like homeless school where they get taken care of and get rid of their addictions. Then homeless people could make a life for themselves and we wouldn’t have to deal with crazies in the street lol.
I think his choices of Seattle and Portland reflected his sense of how much both have declined under their current feckless leadership--not that they are actually the worst places in their respective states, but that if current trends continue, they are certainly headed in that direction. And since both have gotten very expensive, it's way more of a gamble right now to buy a house in Portland or Seattle for which you'll pay a pretty penny, than to just rent a flat in one of WA or OR's less obviously prosperous small towns. At least if you do that you can get out easily without losing a lot of money.
Honestly, this video was a life saver for those seeking smaller towns. Thanks
Quickly becoming my favorite channel. You rank things I’ve never thought of. The research time has to be insane. Love it buddy
Hey Matt ❤️
Your videos are brilliantly produced, and I enjoy them all! My question though is when these folks leave their state where do they go to start over? Thanks Nick!
Weird thing here. I think someone mislabeled b-roll footage for Hartford at 4:13. It looks like a well known suburb of Cleveland?
Spokane is worse than Seattle in crime and three times smaller.
Tacoma is worse
Until 2020 crime statistics come out
The OP is jealous.
Fife
exactly
Lifelong Arizonan here; can vouch for South Tucson, a place where there was a meth lab found across the street from a school only a few years ago.
My late grandfather was a Tucson police officer back in the 1970s, and even then, he dreaded of having to patrol South Tucson.
Ajo az.
@@rickmorrow4156 Ajo is more of a town, not a city, so I wouldn't count that for this list.
@Joe Curry Those are big cities. A city can be classified as having a population of about 20,000. To say that places like Phoenix, Houston, and Seattle aren't cities is idiotic.
Brian, what area of town would E. 3rd St and Speedway be considered? That is where my dad lived.
@@bitchyeyebrows Speedway and 3rd Street don't connect. But Speedway and N. 3rd Avenue do. That area is north of Downtown, so that is within the City of Tucson.
When I was a child, I lived in Camino de Vista. That is off of Silverbell between Goret and Sweetwater.
As someone who lives next to McKeesport, PA, I feel like this area has some of the most photogenic urban blight around. You can really *feel* the despair oozing out of the cracks in that street. It's some kind of accomplishment at least.
Honestly it just feels like that’s all of southwest PA at this point, I was honestly expecting Johnstown to be the worst.
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He says “you would think Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dayton or Portsmouth would be the worst city in Ohio” no, people in Ohio would expect it to be Youngstown, but Middletown does suck too but probably not the worst in Ohio
I was guessing Youngstown or maybe even Lima. Cleveland and Dayton have their issues but there are also a lot of nice places in both cities.
I was actually guessing Toledo w the human trafficking issues
I was definitely thinking Youngstown, it’s definitely not Middletown. Middletown is all the same problems as Dayton just as a smaller city
Yeah Lima is worse than Middletown. I live near Middletown. I have family in Lima. Not even close.
Youngstown is definitely the worst, no doubt
4:32it’s pronounced “yanny”
Thanks for the video
Good video and interesting list. but I have to point out that was a picture of Harper's Ferry, West Virginia when you got to WV. I'd recognize it anywhere
I'm surprised Seattle is ranked among the worst city in WA, I thought Yakima or Longview would make the list instead.
I think it's just a opinion piece. Seattle is a very beautiful city
Yakama has a lot of gang violence but Seattle ranks higher in homelessness and drug usage when compared to other metropolitan cities in the country only second to San Francisco. That’s why I think it was ranked higher than others
I literally live in a town right next to Yakima, I go there almost every month/two week. It really depends on where you go, one half is gang filled, while the other half is pretty nice.
Yeah it’s homelessness and heroin, unfortunately.
Agreed- I expected somewhere in Kitsap or Mason county.
I live in Colorado, and yeah, Pueblo sucks. Canon City is a pit too.
How are the fires doing? Hope you are safe friend. I visited your state last year sad to hear what's happening.
At least Cañon City has the gorge and the cool bridge though
Cañon city didn’t seem that bad, but I was also only there for a few hours
Sterling seemed pretty desolate
Yeah Pueblo isn’t too bad if you avoid the east side and don’t walk alone downtown at night😂 Canon City isn’t great. I’m not sure why everyone rips Pueblo when there are cities like Cortez 😂
17:19 So I was on a vacation recently to Charleston, SC and came across a small town called Dillon, SC.
We wondered why there were countless billboards about churches, lmao.
Thank you for making this video.
19k incorporated towns in the us actually sounds surprisingly low
i see a comment worded exactly how this one is right next to yours and i can’t tell which one is the copy because they were both made 3 months ago
@@haniicross same
Michael Jackson and his family is really from Gary Indinia
Facts
There used to be jobs there
Yes duhhhh all the Jackson kids were born here... I live 2min from the Jackson house whis is located right behind Roosevelt High School
My bro was born there. Wow it's crazy small and bad!
Deniece Williams is too
Tell me I'm not the only one who feels the classism here? I grew up near East St. Louis and when he said "good riddance" I felt my heart sink. The people who live there need help. They do not need to be forgotten about and left to starve.
And then to end it with "I hope you aren't part of the problem. I mean go get a job, right" People who are poor particpate in crime to survive. Nobody does it for fun. That is why crime increases as an area poverty increase. That is why towns like East St. Louis were great beautiful places in the 1950s. Then the jobs left, people went with them. The people who remained had very little income or no income at all. They sell drugs to stay alive. And you tell them to get a job? Where? It is the rich that pay working class people for their labor because working class people only have labor to sell. They don't have assets. And then when the jobs are gone and there is no labor to sell, crime goes up and they blame the poor.
I see it too. He’s a sad, gross little man especially when he didn’t grow up in a wealthy place himself
You virtuous hero! Donate your salary at LEAST 90% to help.
@@schellvoges8249 "Nobody does it for fun." Oh sweetie...
I was born in the main area in the city of Tucson, you know the city with the volcanic hill that has the big A on it
Edit: I also was expecting Pueblo, CO to be on this list because it has the highest violent crime rate in the state and I live here, but in Pueblo West
Is Portland statistically the worst in Oregon? Choice seemed a bit arbitrary. Same for Seattle.
It's not. He's biased
I grew up in Spanish Lake. And in Black Jack Mo. after that. Both shiddy hoods now. People can't keep their homes in decent shape even if they live there for free. It's sad. Watch the documentary "Spanish Lake". It's an eye opener that was banned from theatres because it was set to premier about the time of the Ferguson riots.
Where are you from Nick? Sorry I’m new and am interested
Have things gotten any better in huntington west virginia this year. Such a beautiful area. Are most addicts from Kentucky and ohio?
Worked with some guys who were assigned to a road crew in East St Louis. The cops told them to leave town and not come back unless they were packing heat.
Yeah i dated a girl from actual St Louis and she said if you ever have to go through east st louis Illinois dont stop drive fast pray because its is like a nightmare there she said soon as you cross the bridge into east st louis you feel a shift in your spirit
@@sonn5574 probably your soul getting ready to leave your body.
Did you even bother to research Washington? Tukwilla is one of the worst cities in the country, and Yakima is significantly worse than Seattle.
I also was thinking Yakima.
Half of these "cities" shouldn't even be called cities. We really need to update our classification systems in the US
It depends on the population and housing. If it's over a certain amount it's considered a city.
10 years ago I was in St. Louis on business - I took my car across the river to see what a destroyed city looks like. I was not disappointed. I couldn’t figure out for the life of me why anyone still lives there.
I think Israel Kamakawiwo'ole (the late Hawaiian singer best known for his cover of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow") was from Makaha
Why doesnt a youtuber do a challenge of living in one of these cities if not all for a month to see what happens.
you could id watch it.
That's a good idea. You go and do that to show us how it's done the right way. If you can survive living in Crip-controlled San Bernardino, CA for a week, I'll pay you $100.
Because they don't want to die.
Nothing would happen 🤷🏾♀️ lol
Nothing bad would actually happen to you in any of these shitholes so long as you kept your head down. make sure you drive a shitty car and wear clothing that could come from a thrift store as well. Also only spend cash. After these percautions the only thing you'd have to deal with is the depression eminating from the cities themselves. That is unless you're into urban exploration and/or free-running if exploring the bigger shitholes like portland, then you're probably having a good time.
Hi Nick I live in Barre, VT. You say that it’s the worst place to live. Places close to work are Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream, Hood Dairy, Cabot Creamery, and VT Creamery. These are all quite good paying jobs and I feel glad to live here. The school system is good and has a great career training school.
Another reason to like Barre is that when it snow’s here lots of snow goes on the roofs of houses and buildings. Someone needs to get up there and throw the snow off. About this time of the year all the Barre boys know to get a ladder and a snow shovel as it’s the best gig in town to make a lot of money in a short period of time. It’s a hundred here, a couple of hundred over there to get you threw to the spring. Every cowboy in town running around with a ladder on their car. After that the handyman, Mr. Fix it kicks in for a good long stint for the guy with a few tools and some services to offer some grateful homeowners. An ad in the World newspaper under business services and the customers will have the phone ringing until the 1st of November.
I am from KCK and hearing coffeyville made me laugh way too hard. I am kind of addicted to your videos now lol
kelley :) love ya! take care.
Back in July I had a stomach operation in a giant hospital located in McKeesport, Pa--the views out the window were so depressing, never been there before. NOW I KNOW WHY. Man did you cover a lot here!! Anyway I'm a big fan of ALL your videos, keep 'em coming :^)
Hey Doug ❤️
The dictionary was NOT invented in Springfield MA. Dictionaries were available since 2000 BC
You are correct, Nick misspoke. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary was published in Springfield about 200 years ago.
@@johnnh8646 Dr. Johnson compiled the first 'english' dictionary in the mid-1700's
Why did you use a shot of W.25th street in Cleveland, Ohio when talking about Hartford, CT?
that place you passed by in south Tucson on the bike literally a block away was where I used to live and my elementary school van Buskirk elementary school I used to walk there as a boy never got kidnapped or anything but I saw a bunch of needles and I thought it was just doctors putting needles there. i talked to a lot off homeless people when I was 7 they were nice damn i still wonder how I didn't die, crazy asf
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@@NickJohnson YESS I DID
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Jackson has to be the worst place in Mississippi. And east st.louis is the worst part of Illinois
And St. Louis worst place in Missouri
crazy
@@thomasgrabkowski8283 Missouri?? More like misery
There is a huge FBI office in Jackson for the Civil Rights investigations.
When your city gets a Doller General, is it on its way up or down?
Depends on how many there are
The more dollar generals, the worse it gets. Mayfield Kentucky somehow has 3 dollar generals in it and 2 more 5 minutes outside of town. I swear to god, every time i go there, theres a new one.
Depends on where you are.
@@jonathantanasi2557 Or where you think you are. Cleveland Ohio passed a law to stop any more dollar stores.
@@thepubliceye oh? That’s odd I guess haha
What is the background music
Nick that footage you just showed of Portland, Oregon looked like a scene out Terminator in the future after Skynet took over
It's not accurate to judge Portland based on this year's riots. I live here and it's usually a really cool city.
Shut up boy we all know the story
@T U L L Have you lived here? It's got a great food and arts culture. It's got one of the most active meetup scenes I have ever seen in a city. It's got an active and growing tech industry. It's exceptionally walkable and has good public transit. For a city on the west coast it's relatively affordable. It's not too big, not too small. I love it.
@T U L L
Good, way too many people moved to the West Coast in the past 20 years. Average home in Seattle is now $800K but mostly $1M or higher. Why? Because in a normal year, it's a great place to live. But a 1BR to 2 BR apartment goes for $2K - 3K/mo, that is why you see people living in tents on the sidewalks downtown Seattle. They're not tolerated in the suburbs. If there weren't such a shortage of affordable housing, there would be far fewer homeless people. And yes, a lot of the homeless are people who moved here to look for jobs but couldn't find housing because you can't get housing like this without a really decent job. By decent job I mean a household income of $150K/year.
@T U L L I don't live in Seattle. I couldn't find an affordable apartment in Seattle when I first moved here over 30 years ago. I've lived in several suburbs all around the greater Seattle area and love it here. So many beautiful places to explore all over the state with a mild climate. The quality of life where I live is very good, safe, quiet and peaceful and not crowded.
On a train ride to Chicago from Michigan City, Indiana, I passed by Gary and I vividly remember thinking that it looked hellish.
William Victor I have driven through Gary on the Interstate many times, and I always made certain to have a full tank of gas before I left Chicago. Anyone who gets off the expressway there is begging for trouble.
I'm from Gary u not lying but I love my home lol no doubt
Why are you talking about Hartford, Connecticut but showing a video at Cleveland, OH at 4:12
very educational--thanks buddy *
I always check what the demographic percentages are when I move for work, and pick accordingly.
actually putting seattle and portland as the worst cities in their perspective states is an L, i’ve seen some awfully rough places in eastern oregon and washington
Truth. Most people have no idea how rough the eastern sides of these states are.
I thought it was going to be Prineville or Redmond. Portland's a great place to live when riots aren't going on.
@@BasementBerean For me it's Plymouth, WA, hands down. But it's so bad it's not really fair to include it.
@@timelston4260 Well, Plymouth is technically an "unincorporated community." I've driven through there on the Interstate but never been there. I'll take your word for it.
@@BasementBerean Makes sense it's unincorporated; it's truly pathetic. I thought it had a ramshackle post office, but maybe not. I thought about moving there to be across the river from my family and Oregon taxes, but I just couldn't go that low.
Did you drive anywhere near Jackson, MS? You’d want to go to Forest after that.
You don't stop in Gary, you roll the stops in Gary.