Living in a wilderness is a LOT of work. You have to be self-sufficient much of the time and it is a long trip to anywhere. The silence can be very calming but it can also remind you of how vulnerable and alone you are. You have to be very strong mentally and physically or mother nature will beat you down and find your weak spot quickly.
Yeah, Louis CK has a funny bit about going to stay in a cabin in the woods and freaking out over every little noise because it's so quiet and as someone used to living in New York, the quiet unnerved him. Lol. Humans are also social creatures, so being so isolated can be hard on outgoing individuals. I love quiet and solitude, but it's not for everyone.
I’m in Wyoming, and it can be a bummer to be far from the energy of a big city, for sure. But, we have our own sort of diversity. Our own ebb and flow. Those of us who love it here can sound like codependent spouses, “I know he seems cruel and discomfiting, but he can be so sweet sometimes.” But that’s kind of how I feel. I live ten minutes away from campsites at 8,000 feet with nothing but the smell of pines and a campfire. (And the campsite is within a stone’s throw of a cell tower, so I can take all the civilization I need.) Am I frustrated that I need to order things online because local stores don’t carry what I need? Sure. But I can’t remember the last time I was in traffic driving around town. And the big city is much more fun (not to mention affordable) when you get to visit and then leave without paying rent! (Love the channel, friend.)
Really? A distribution center? Other than Amazon employees who are you going to distribute to? They could just pick it up while they are at work. Water is a big problem in many of these places too.
Montana property from a low of $77,700 for 40 acres to $1,399,900 for 10,971 acres. The $77,700 for 40 acres is at Davis Rd, Miles City, Montana is listed as 40 acres of varied terrain, with open grass, mix of trees, hill-top views and several great building site options. Approx. 3.5 miles from maintained public road. Off-grid. The $1,399,900 for 10,971 acres is at Cottonwood Road, Bridger, Montana listed as a high desert ranch is operated with Deeded and Bureau of Land Management lands being checker boarded and fenced together. There are 3,848 deeded acres with additional leased acres making the total size. You got me interested to research.
I was stationed in the military in Alaska for 5 years. Been through just about everywhere you can drive. Love the state. Yes, limited opportunities unless you work for the government. Cost of living is about 20% higher than Seattle so that's saying a lot.
People can forget that it can snow in the desert in the winter. I've driven through the Mojave Desert in the winter, snow from outside of Needles, CA, all the way through Hesperia, CA. ..
I've lived in New Mexico all my life. I'm 46. I've never really encountered a traffic jam here. (Not like in Denver or Phoenix, for example.) Never really been a victim of crime, and I've lived in both of the state's two largest cities. I've been to NYC, and I loved it. But, after a few days, I was ready to come home. Everything just seems to move so fast.
The weather is a factor in all these states, and with sustainability concerns that will only get worse. Snow people and desert people are not like the average.
America outside of the cities is vast in almost every state. I've lived in Alaska, Nevada, and 9 other states. I like the NE US the best, personally. I don't do city living.
I’ve been to all those states except Alaska. So big and wide open for the most part. Not a lot of industry. Sometimes I think I’d like to live in those states for the land and being away from people but then it might take an hour or more to get to a store and you can’t see a professional game like football or hockey or baseball and I think….no, just too isolating. Or having someone visit…do they have an airport nearby? That’s why people live near cities…more jobs and things to do. Nature though is beautiful so there’s that.
Kabir, these small towns are really small. And are remote. If you live in western Kansas, the biggest city near you is in Denver, Colorado, the next State. 4+ hours away.
I lived in South Dakota for a few years and this guy is right about the cold winters. I lived in an apartment and when people came home from work everyone put extension cords out of a window to hookup their cars. You had to attach a heater to your radiator and plug it in because you wouldn’t be able to start your car in the morning. Very very cold.
I’m going on 23 years of living in Alaska and love it here . I live on a 5 acre farm on the edge of Palmer a town of 6 thousand thats 34 miles from Anchorage . I love hardly ever hearing sirens and its very quiet most of the time . The winters are tough ( presently there is 30 mph winds driving the wind chill to 31 below zero ) and lots of snow .
STATES AND TERRITORIES OF THE USA RANKED BY POPULATION DENSITY [per sq. km] District of Columbia 4,297 New Jersey 488 Rhode Island 409 Puerto Rico [territory] 361 Massachusetts 347 Guam [territory] 319 Connecticut 288 U.S. Virgin Islands [territory] 284 Maryland 246 American Samoa [territory] 222 Delaware 204 Florida 163 New York 160 Pennsylvania 112 Ohio 111 Northern Mariana Islands [territory] 106 California 97 Illinois 87 Hawaii 86 North Carolina 86 Virginia 85 Georgia 74 Indiana 74 South Carolina 69 Michigan 69 Tennessee 67 New Hampshire 60 Washington 45 Texas 45 Kentucky 44 Wisconsin 42 Louisiana 41 Alabama 39 Missouri 35 West Virginia 28 Minnesota 28 Vermont 27 Arizona 25 Mississippi 24 Oklahoma 23 Arkansas 23 Iowa 22 Colorado 22 Maine 17 Oregon 17 Utah 16 Kansas 14 Nevada 11 Nebraska 10 Idaho 9.2 New Mexico 6.7 South Dakota 4.7 North Dakota 4.4 Montana 3.0 Wyoming 2.3 Alaska 0.50
Warren Buffett, one of the wealthiest men on the planet, lives in and does business in Omaha, Nebraska. He's a regular at one particular local steakhouse there. Just as a side note, just my home *county* in Georgia has more residents than the six least-populated American states. And we have over 150 counties.
So i was born and raised in Roswell New Mexico, went to college in Las Cruces NM, lived a long while in Albuquerque NM and now live in Denver Colorado. Much of the state is not as empty as it looks, there is a lot of farm and ranch land. Much of the empty area is pasture land, NM has a long history in the cattle trade. There is also quite a bit of forest land with recreation access, ie: hiking, skiing, snowboarding etc. The government also owns quite a bit of land, White Sands Missile Range takes up quite a bit of land in the southwest of the state. As for crowds and traffic, on the roads between the cities, not always horrible, sometimes empty, sometimes very well traveled. The cities and smaller towns do still have traffic issues, though not as horrible as in Denver. (in Abq i would sometimes get stuck in traffic for 25ish minutes not moving, in Denver i've been stuck a few times for 2 hours not moving.)
One thing that you need to consider is infrastructure. You cannot work "remotely" if you do not have access to good internet. The other thing to remember is that for many of the states on this list - over half of their population lives in the handful of cities he mentioned. once you are past those cities, people become very thin on the ground - public water, public power, cell phone, internet? Those may - or may not exist. How many miles is it to a grocery store - or a doctor, or even a paved road? My wife's grandparents lived most of their lives in a small town in western Kansas, even though it was the "County Seat" and had the largest population of any town in the county, we are talking about a community of approximately 1,500 people with the city's area being about 2 square miles. The entire county comprises 680 square miles and has a total population of about 2000! If you include all other "population centers" in the county (both of them) you've accounted for all but abount 300 people living within 4 square miles leaving the other 676 square miles to just 300 people. This is what much of Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas are like.
I think of Kansas and think of Tornadoes, Nevada-hotter than hell and not a lot of water. Montana is not called big sky country for nothing (average per acre price of $4,000).
I am very content living in California. But I was born in Indiana and I kind of miss it and that life style. Ok, I DO NOT MISS THE SNOW! Many amazing places to visit in the world.
The heat in Vegas is not bad because it's a dry heat. I loved it when I visited there. Even though it was HOT, I didn't sweat, because as soon as you sweat the sweat evaporates, so you're always dry, and being from the east coast that was a rather pleasant and surprising fact.
I'd love to live in some of the states on this list if I could afford it. I currently live in Southern Illinois, which isn't bad since we have things like Garden of the Gods and Giant City, but more people are starting to come to the area which is bringing more crime.
Google can answer ALL! The average price of a home in Kansas is $215k. I had a friend in Vegas for a few years. It's a regular city now. Most people have regular jobs not related to entertainment or hospitality. You could live there and totally ignore the mega hotels and gambling. I live in Albuq., NM, so I get a taste of city traffic, but I like knowing that I could drive for 30-40 minutes and be in the middle of nowhere. If I'm willing to driver farther, I could be in White Sands or Los Alamos or Taos, or whatnot. The winters are mild in Albuq., but we have world class snow and skiing just a couple hours away. We have the Rocky Mountains up north, the open plains to the east, and desert everywhere else. (Btw, I live next door to a Better Call Saul location.)
What kind of jobs there are in small towns? It depends on the environment. You asked during the Kansas and Nebraska portions and those jobs would be the same basic jobs found anywhere except on a much smaller scale. Those towns are there to support the farmers in the area. Grocery stores, gas stations, bars, feed stores, restaurants, etc. If you're a prosperous small town there's a Wal-Mart, maybe one or two fast food joints and if you're very prosperous a one screen movie theater or maybe a bolling alley attached to a bar. Some things are cheaper but some are more expensive because they have to be trucked in over greater distances. Yes, most of Kansas is as boring as he said, although the southern part of the state has some pretty scenery. The majority of the people who enter Kansas do so on the I-70 corridor from Kansas City, MISSOURI to Denver and it is 5 -6 hours of tall grass and short trees. You can see the same billboard coming for over a mile. Complete snooze-fest.
Nebraska has Principal Finance, which deals mainly with life insurance and 401k. They used to also deal with health and dental insurance. I worked for them for several years out of Utah,
Hey there Kabir, I live in South Dakota and would love to share a few facts about the state, and the upper Midwest in general. In South Dakota 65% of the population live in 2 cities - Sioux Falls in the east, and Rapid City in the west. Most of the rest of the state is small towns, farms, ranches, Indian Reservations or Hutterite Communities. Real Estate in these "Empty States" is NOT cheap for the most part. Several were affordable prior to Covid, but all those tech workers that were sent home and could work from anywhere have moved in; and have not only changed the politics for the worst wanting bringing the same crap ideas that killed San Francisco with them, home prices have tripled - in 2019 you could buy a home most any place in SD for under $200K; now you can buy some really old homes for that price, but while there is a lot of new development taking place the average new home prices is $450K+ for 1200 sq ft. Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho are growing rapidly but real estate in these states has been quite expensive for more than 25 years because the Rich are buying up the land for their outdoor playgrounds. Places like Jackson Hole Wyoming and Big Sky Montana are pretty much cost prohibitive unless you are a multi-millionaire. Honestly, the people who grew up in these states really don't want them to change, and they certainly don't want progressive values brought to the states; They tend towards being hardy rugged individualists; but are also the salt of the earth - they will generally, happily, be inconvenienced to help out a neighbor. So, for you Kabir - who loves to have fast food at least once a week - you would need to live in one of the bigger cities in these states.
To my dismay, when I went looking for a remote / work from home job, I found that most companies here in the US require their employees who are working remotely to still live in the city where their office is located so that they can call you into the office if they ever want to do so. I am working from home now, and my current employer has this requirement, and also requires a face-to-face once every three months (I guess to prove you're still alive and someone hasn't taken over your job remotely? Lol. No clue why this is required. Every time I ask, they just say "it's our policy".) Those who don't have this rule usually still require you live in the same state as their headquarters for tax purposes. So it'd be very difficult to get a remote job that would allow you to live in Kansas or South Dakota when their offices are elsewhere. If you work for yourself, as you do Kabir doing RUclips, then sure, you could set up house in whichever state you wanted, but those of us who work for others are usually still stuck living near wherever our job is.
Kabir, a number of companies adjust the pay of remote workers downward if they physically reside in lower cost areas. I imagine they don't want employees moving out of state or far across the state to take advantage of lower costs of living; they'd be less willing to come in to the main physical workplace for in-person meetings. My father used to live in rural Nevada. It is very different than Las Vegas, which is much like other cities in the West once you get outside of The Strip and Downtown [the casino areas]. Rural Nevada has inexpensive land, but fuel and groceries are more expensive. You have to travel a good distance for medical services and to have good selection while shopping. OTOH, it is quieter and slower paced. Being self-sufficient in general is valuable out there. I've been to Idaho; it's a beautiful state. They do not appreciate people from out of state (particularly California) moving to their state. They drive up prices for the locals and they tend to vote for politicians similar to the ones that made them move out of their previous state. I have friends or family who are from most of the states on Kyle's list. People move out of those states for jobs or to escape the harsh weather. If there was a state that had perfect weather and excellent job opportunities, everyone would be living there. People have differing ideals of weather and jobs, so there's a place for most people...somewhere.
Montana is just as expensive as Florida and its got people moving here faster then they can build so everything is skyrocketing pushing people out of the state
Born and raised in Las Vegas, New Mexico. I will say as you get away from the biggest city which is Albuquerque it does become very rural. Most populated city’s/towns will be along the I-25 corridor. There is a bunch of farm lands down south closer to Texas. Like Roswell, Artesia, and Carlsbad. I will say New Mexico is a very beautiful state. Crime in Las Vegas is not that bad. At least I thought. As for Albuquerque it has its bad parts. But I will say moving from a small town to a big city Denver, Colorado. You sure do miss the landscape, people, culture, food, etc. Hopefully New Mexico catches up!
I don't know why Kabir keeps trying to "solve" the low population status in some states. They're not livable for many reasons, mostly environmental reasons. And that's how they should be sometimes. There's more land available in the heavily populated states than you think. I thought he figured that when he drove in California's national park for 3 hours lol.
Kabir comes from a combination of cultures and ethnicity in which being so remote and alone are alien concepts, almost. Places like the UK are hurting for housing for their population. Brits just aren't going to understand why we don't fill all the land we have as much as possible and why the federal government doesn't act to change things that would be done in basically every other first world nation without much thought or need for discussion.
Rhode Island's population as of July 2023 was approx 1,100,00 with a density of 1018 per sq mile. That's almost twice as many as Wyoming. It's February 29th. Happy Josiah S. Carberry Day. "Dulce et decorum est desipere in loco".
Hey Kabir! I'm from Reno Nevada and live in Fernley now (small town 30 miles east of reno) even though its a desert here, its a high desert so we get harsh winters and but warm sunny summers. i personally love the weather of northern nevada and its very different from the Las Vegas area, but it can definitely drive some people to leave the state especially if you aren't into the outdoors and if a metropolitan area of about 500,00 people is too small for you.
Kansas City MO is WAAAAYYYY bigger than Kansas City KS. The latter even joined with Wyandotte County to form "Unified Government", and it STILL can't carry our lunch! 319 square miles versus a front yard. (Mic drop)
A place like out there with lots of land would be nice for people that are retired, so they get there retirement payments each Month usealy strength into there bank account so they would not need to work but have a Monthly income into there bank account so they would not need to have a job. It might be very nice to feel free from big cities.
The average person living in a city or populated community that has amenities is not mentally equipped to live in these rural areas. He's really not using the right numbers for you to get an idea of how sparsely populated these places are. He should have subtracted the population of the largest cities to come up with the proper number of people per square mile. You could go a long time without seeing people if you got out in the boonies.
I live in Lincoln, Nebraska, a city of 300k people. We have a beautiful state with one of the best zoos in the world. Safe with a low cost of living. Some of the happiest people in the US. I work in industrial distribution. Lots of manufacturing and tech jobs. The content creator is very snobbish about my state.
I live in New Mexico and its a beautiful state. Not all flat, there are mountains here and the weather is great. Most New Mexicans don't want people rushing to move here. You can visit but don't move here.
Living in a wilderness is a LOT of work. You have to be self-sufficient much of the time and it is a long trip to anywhere. The silence can be very calming but it can also remind you of how vulnerable and alone you are. You have to be very strong mentally and physically or mother nature will beat you down and find your weak spot quickly.
Yeah, Louis CK has a funny bit about going to stay in a cabin in the woods and freaking out over every little noise because it's so quiet and as someone used to living in New York, the quiet unnerved him. Lol. Humans are also social creatures, so being so isolated can be hard on outgoing individuals. I love quiet and solitude, but it's not for everyone.
Idaho is amazing. The friendliest people. Nice schools safe and beautiful nature!
I’m in Wyoming, and it can be a bummer to be far from the energy of a big city, for sure.
But, we have our own sort of diversity. Our own ebb and flow.
Those of us who love it here can sound like codependent spouses, “I know he seems cruel and discomfiting, but he can be so sweet sometimes.”
But that’s kind of how I feel. I live ten minutes away from campsites at 8,000 feet with nothing but the smell of pines and a campfire. (And the campsite is within a stone’s throw of a cell tower, so I can take all the civilization I need.)
Am I frustrated that I need to order things online because local stores don’t carry what I need? Sure.
But I can’t remember the last time I was in traffic driving around town.
And the big city is much more fun (not to mention affordable) when you get to visit and then leave without paying rent!
(Love the channel, friend.)
I have some relatives that moved to Wyoming a couple decades ago. First to Lusk then to Ft. Laramie. I'm like nah, not for me.
Really? A distribution center? Other than Amazon employees who are you going to distribute to? They could just pick it up while they are at work.
Water is a big problem in many of these places too.
Montana property from a low of $77,700 for 40 acres to $1,399,900 for 10,971 acres. The $77,700 for 40 acres is at Davis Rd, Miles City, Montana is listed as 40 acres of varied terrain, with open grass, mix of trees, hill-top views and several great building site options. Approx. 3.5 miles from maintained public road. Off-grid.
The $1,399,900 for 10,971 acres is at Cottonwood Road, Bridger, Montana listed as a high desert ranch is operated with Deeded and Bureau of Land Management lands being checker boarded and fenced together. There are 3,848 deeded acres with additional leased acres making the total size.
You got me interested to research.
I was stationed in the military in Alaska for 5 years. Been through just about everywhere you can drive. Love the state. Yes, limited opportunities unless you work for the government. Cost of living is about 20% higher than Seattle so that's saying a lot.
People can forget that it can snow in the desert in the winter. I've driven through the Mojave Desert in the winter, snow from outside of Needles, CA, all the way through Hesperia, CA. ..
I've lived in New Mexico all my life. I'm 46. I've never really encountered a traffic jam here. (Not like in Denver or Phoenix, for example.) Never really been a victim of crime, and I've lived in both of the state's two largest cities. I've been to NYC, and I loved it. But, after a few days, I was ready to come home. Everything just seems to move so fast.
The weather is a factor in all these states, and with sustainability concerns that will only get worse. Snow people and desert people are not like the average.
America outside of the cities is vast in almost every state. I've lived in Alaska, Nevada, and 9 other states. I like the NE US the best, personally. I don't do city living.
I’ve been to all those states except Alaska. So big and wide open for the most part. Not a lot of industry. Sometimes I think I’d like to live in those states for the land and being away from people but then it might take an hour or more to get to a store and you can’t see a professional game like football or hockey or baseball and I think….no, just too isolating. Or having someone visit…do they have an airport nearby? That’s why people live near cities…more jobs and things to do. Nature though is beautiful so there’s that.
Kabir, these small towns are really small. And are remote. If you live in western Kansas, the biggest city near you is in Denver, Colorado, the next State. 4+ hours away.
I lived in South Dakota for a few years and this guy is right about the cold winters. I lived in an apartment and when people came home from work everyone put extension cords out of a window to hookup their cars. You had to attach a heater to your radiator and plug it in because you wouldn’t be able to start your car in the morning. Very very cold.
I’m going on 23 years of living in Alaska and love it here . I live on a 5 acre farm on the edge of Palmer a town of 6 thousand thats 34 miles from Anchorage . I love hardly ever hearing sirens and its very quiet most of the time . The winters are tough ( presently there is 30 mph winds driving the wind chill to 31 below zero ) and lots of snow .
STATES AND TERRITORIES OF THE USA RANKED BY POPULATION DENSITY [per sq. km]
District of Columbia 4,297
New Jersey 488
Rhode Island 409
Puerto Rico [territory] 361
Massachusetts 347
Guam [territory] 319
Connecticut 288
U.S. Virgin Islands [territory] 284
Maryland 246
American Samoa [territory] 222
Delaware 204
Florida 163
New York 160
Pennsylvania 112
Ohio 111
Northern Mariana Islands [territory] 106
California 97
Illinois 87
Hawaii 86
North Carolina 86
Virginia 85
Georgia 74
Indiana 74
South Carolina 69
Michigan 69
Tennessee 67
New Hampshire 60
Washington 45
Texas 45
Kentucky 44
Wisconsin 42
Louisiana 41
Alabama 39
Missouri 35
West Virginia 28
Minnesota 28
Vermont 27
Arizona 25
Mississippi 24
Oklahoma 23
Arkansas 23
Iowa 22
Colorado 22
Maine 17
Oregon 17
Utah 16
Kansas 14
Nevada 11
Nebraska 10
Idaho 9.2
New Mexico 6.7
South Dakota 4.7
North Dakota 4.4
Montana 3.0
Wyoming 2.3
Alaska 0.50
Warren Buffett, one of the wealthiest men on the planet, lives in and does business in Omaha, Nebraska. He's a regular at one particular local steakhouse there.
Just as a side note, just my home *county* in Georgia has more residents than the six least-populated American states. And we have over 150 counties.
get bent, scammer.
We have to grow food somewhere.
So i was born and raised in Roswell New Mexico, went to college in Las Cruces NM, lived a long while in Albuquerque NM and now live in Denver Colorado. Much of the state is not as empty as it looks, there is a lot of farm and ranch land. Much of the empty area is pasture land, NM has a long history in the cattle trade. There is also quite a bit of forest land with recreation access, ie: hiking, skiing, snowboarding etc. The government also owns quite a bit of land, White Sands Missile Range takes up quite a bit of land in the southwest of the state. As for crowds and traffic, on the roads between the cities, not always horrible, sometimes empty, sometimes very well traveled. The cities and smaller towns do still have traffic issues, though not as horrible as in Denver. (in Abq i would sometimes get stuck in traffic for 25ish minutes not moving, in Denver i've been stuck a few times for 2 hours not moving.)
Did you make methamphetamine though!? Heisenberg? Is that you?
One thing that you need to consider is infrastructure. You cannot work "remotely" if you do not have access to good internet.
The other thing to remember is that for many of the states on this list - over half of their population lives in the handful of cities he mentioned. once you are past those cities,
people become very thin on the ground - public water, public power, cell phone, internet?
Those may - or may not exist. How many miles is it to a grocery store - or a doctor, or even a paved road?
My wife's grandparents lived most of their lives in a small town in western Kansas,
even though it was the "County Seat" and had the largest population of any town in the county,
we are talking about a community of approximately 1,500 people with the city's area being about 2 square miles.
The entire county comprises 680 square miles and has a total population of about 2000!
If you include all other "population centers" in the county (both of them) you've accounted for all but abount 300 people
living within 4 square miles leaving the other 676 square miles to just 300 people.
This is what much of Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas are like.
I think of Kansas and think of Tornadoes, Nevada-hotter than hell and not a lot of water. Montana is not called big sky country for nothing (average per acre price of $4,000).
My Mother-in-law was born and raised in Alaska! Beautiful state!
Idaho was the most boring state I ever drove thru. Twin Falls was pretty, but still.
I am very content living in California.
But I was born in Indiana and I kind of miss it and that life style. Ok, I DO NOT MISS THE SNOW!
Many amazing places to visit in the world.
I lived in Vegas for 8 years and I loved it summer time can be hot but the spring fall and winter are prefect
The heat in Vegas is not bad because it's a dry heat. I loved it when I visited there. Even though it was HOT, I didn't sweat, because as soon as you sweat the sweat evaporates, so you're always dry, and being from the east coast that was a rather pleasant and surprising fact.
Places like North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, etc. Get COLD and extremely snow amounts of snow.
I'd love to live in some of the states on this list if I could afford it. I currently live in Southern Illinois, which isn't bad since we have things like Garden of the Gods and Giant City, but more people are starting to come to the area which is bringing more crime.
Nebraska has a lot of ranches, people raising livestock and horses.
Google can answer ALL! The average price of a home in Kansas is $215k.
I had a friend in Vegas for a few years. It's a regular city now. Most people have regular jobs not related to entertainment or hospitality. You could live there and totally ignore the mega hotels and gambling.
I live in Albuq., NM, so I get a taste of city traffic, but I like knowing that I could drive for 30-40 minutes and be in the middle of nowhere. If I'm willing to driver farther, I could be in White Sands or Los Alamos or Taos, or whatnot. The winters are mild in Albuq., but we have world class snow and skiing just a couple hours away. We have the Rocky Mountains up north, the open plains to the east, and desert everywhere else. (Btw, I live next door to a Better Call Saul location.)
Alaska is ENORMOUS compared to any other state. The government actually pays people that are willing to settle there.
What kind of jobs there are in small towns? It depends on the environment. You asked during the Kansas and Nebraska portions and those jobs would be the same basic jobs found anywhere except on a much smaller scale. Those towns are there to support the farmers in the area. Grocery stores, gas stations, bars, feed stores, restaurants, etc. If you're a prosperous small town there's a Wal-Mart, maybe one or two fast food joints and if you're very prosperous a one screen movie theater or maybe a bolling alley attached to a bar. Some things are cheaper but some are more expensive because they have to be trucked in over greater distances.
Yes, most of Kansas is as boring as he said, although the southern part of the state has some pretty scenery. The majority of the people who enter Kansas do so on the I-70 corridor from Kansas City, MISSOURI to Denver and it is 5 -6 hours of tall grass and short trees. You can see the same billboard coming for over a mile. Complete snooze-fest.
The desert actually can get cold. I spent Christmas in Vegas a few years back. The wind was icy!
Yukon Territory in Canada is 0.18 per square MILE 0.07 per square KM
No work dude! You can build a home with lots of land, but if you don't have resources to support your self, it won't work.
Nebraska has Principal Finance, which deals mainly with life insurance and 401k. They used to also deal with health and dental insurance. I worked for them for several years out of Utah,
Hey there Kabir, I live in South Dakota and would love to share a few facts about the state, and the upper Midwest in general. In South Dakota 65% of the population live in 2 cities - Sioux Falls in the east, and Rapid City in the west. Most of the rest of the state is small towns, farms, ranches, Indian Reservations or Hutterite Communities. Real Estate in these "Empty States" is NOT cheap for the most part.
Several were affordable prior to Covid, but all those tech workers that were sent home and could work from anywhere have moved in; and have not only changed the politics for the worst wanting bringing the same crap ideas that killed San Francisco with them, home prices have tripled - in 2019 you could buy a home most any place in SD for under $200K; now you can buy some really old homes for that price, but while there is a lot of new development taking place the average new home prices is $450K+ for 1200 sq ft.
Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho are growing rapidly but real estate in these states has been quite expensive for more than 25 years because the Rich are buying up the land for their outdoor playgrounds. Places like Jackson Hole Wyoming and Big Sky Montana are pretty much cost prohibitive unless you are a multi-millionaire.
Honestly, the people who grew up in these states really don't want them to change, and they certainly don't want progressive values brought to the states; They tend towards being hardy rugged individualists; but are also the salt of the earth - they will generally, happily, be inconvenienced to help out a neighbor. So, for you Kabir - who loves to have fast food at least once a week - you would need to live in one of the bigger cities in these states.
You drive about 10 miles outside of Las Vegas in any direction and you have hours of pretty boring driving and a lot of dessert.
To my dismay, when I went looking for a remote / work from home job, I found that most companies here in the US require their employees who are working remotely to still live in the city where their office is located so that they can call you into the office if they ever want to do so. I am working from home now, and my current employer has this requirement, and also requires a face-to-face once every three months (I guess to prove you're still alive and someone hasn't taken over your job remotely? Lol. No clue why this is required. Every time I ask, they just say "it's our policy".) Those who don't have this rule usually still require you live in the same state as their headquarters for tax purposes. So it'd be very difficult to get a remote job that would allow you to live in Kansas or South Dakota when their offices are elsewhere. If you work for yourself, as you do Kabir doing RUclips, then sure, you could set up house in whichever state you wanted, but those of us who work for others are usually still stuck living near wherever our job is.
Kabir, remember "Viva, Blackpool"? The failed US remake was called "Viva, Laughlin", the town in Nevada.
Kabir, a number of companies adjust the pay of remote workers downward if they physically reside in lower cost areas. I imagine they don't want employees moving out of state or far across the state to take advantage of lower costs of living; they'd be less willing to come in to the main physical workplace for in-person meetings.
My father used to live in rural Nevada. It is very different than Las Vegas, which is much like other cities in the West once you get outside of The Strip and Downtown [the casino areas]. Rural Nevada has inexpensive land, but fuel and groceries are more expensive. You have to travel a good distance for medical services and to have good selection while shopping. OTOH, it is quieter and slower paced. Being self-sufficient in general is valuable out there.
I've been to Idaho; it's a beautiful state. They do not appreciate people from out of state (particularly California) moving to their state. They drive up prices for the locals and they tend to vote for politicians similar to the ones that made them move out of their previous state.
I have friends or family who are from most of the states on Kyle's list. People move out of those states for jobs or to escape the harsh weather. If there was a state that had perfect weather and excellent job opportunities, everyone would be living there. People have differing ideals of weather and jobs, so there's a place for most people...somewhere.
Most ranches lease their land from the bureau of land management (BLM) which owns a HUGE quantity of the land in the Western states.
I live in Southeast Alaska. Just the Southeast portion is the size of Florida, yet has 70,000 people, half of whom live in the Juneau area.
Montana is just as expensive as Florida and its got people moving here faster then they can build so everything is skyrocketing pushing people out of the state
Born and raised in Las Vegas, New Mexico. I will say as you get away from the biggest city which is Albuquerque it does become very rural. Most populated city’s/towns will be along the I-25 corridor. There is a bunch of farm lands down south closer to Texas. Like Roswell, Artesia, and Carlsbad. I will say New Mexico is a very beautiful state. Crime in Las Vegas is not that bad. At least I thought. As for Albuquerque it has its bad parts. But I will say moving from a small town to a big city Denver, Colorado. You sure do miss the landscape, people, culture, food, etc. Hopefully New Mexico catches up!
Yes, Alaska shares the profits from the oil business with its residents.
I don't know why Kabir keeps trying to "solve" the low population status in some states. They're not livable for many reasons, mostly environmental reasons. And that's how they should be sometimes. There's more land available in the heavily populated states than you think. I thought he figured that when he drove in California's national park for 3 hours lol.
More of the state is unpopulated than populated.
Kabir comes from a combination of cultures and ethnicity in which being so remote and alone are alien concepts, almost. Places like the UK are hurting for housing for their population. Brits just aren't going to understand why we don't fill all the land we have as much as possible and why the federal government doesn't act to change things that would be done in basically every other first world nation without much thought or need for discussion.
Rhode Island's population as of July 2023 was approx 1,100,00 with a density of 1018 per sq mile. That's almost twice as many as Wyoming.
It's February 29th. Happy Josiah S. Carberry Day. "Dulce et decorum est desipere in loco".
Hey Kabir! I'm from Reno Nevada and live in Fernley now (small town 30 miles east of reno) even though its a desert here, its a high desert so we get harsh winters and but warm sunny summers. i personally love the weather of northern nevada and its very different from the Las Vegas area, but it can definitely drive some people to leave the state especially if you aren't into the outdoors and if a metropolitan area of about 500,00 people is too small for you.
The best thing about is Wyoming is 4014. . .
Kansas City MO is WAAAAYYYY bigger than Kansas City KS. The latter even joined with Wyandotte County to form "Unified Government", and it STILL can't carry our lunch!
319 square miles versus a front yard. (Mic drop)
I should have moved more as a teacher. It would have been fun living in places like Nebraska, Idaho, Kansas,etc
I grew up in the Canyons. My tribe and land is the most peaceful in America. Montana is very hard to even buy a House. You must know someone
I live in Omaha Nebraska and the metro area is pretty big.😊
I'm going to Montana soon. Gonna be a big dental floss tycoon
A place like out there with lots of land would be nice for people that are retired, so they get there retirement payments each Month usealy strength into there bank account so they would not need to work but have a Monthly income into there bank account so they would not need to have a job. It might be very nice to feel free from big cities.
I recently watched a RUclips that showed what $500,000 would buy in different parts of the US. I think it was from Mr Wealth.
Dude Kansas is known for tornado Alley that's why there are no people there
Kabir, you know New Jersey can fit 13 times in the UK?
The average person living in a city or populated community that has amenities is not mentally equipped to live in these rural areas. He's really not using the right numbers for you to get an idea of how sparsely populated these places are. He should have subtracted the population of the largest cities to come up with the proper number of people per square mile. You could go a long time without seeing people if you got out in the boonies.
I live in Lincoln, Nebraska, a city of 300k people. We have a beautiful state with one of the best zoos in the world. Safe with a low cost of living. Some of the happiest people in the US. I work in industrial distribution. Lots of manufacturing and tech jobs. The content creator is very snobbish about my state.
I live in New Mexico and its a beautiful state. Not all flat, there are mountains here and the weather is great. Most New Mexicans don't want people rushing to move here. You can visit but don't move here.
I wish they’d stop coming to Arizona!