Top 10 WORST small towns in Washington. Most of them are in eastern Washington.
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- Top 10 WORST small towns in Washington. Most of them are in eastern Washington.
Have you ever wondered where not to move to in Washington? If you said yes, this video is for you.
Washington is a great state but like all states, it has some places you don't want to live.
Currently, a lot of organizations rank Washington as the best state to move to in the United States.
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Bruh. You’re from Oregon and pronouncing things as winochee?
Sean Lykken do you remember the burger joint by the Wal-Mart ? when I was little you could buy a chicken sandwich call cluck for a buck lol
Who care? I was once scolded by a local guy for not pronouncing Spokane properly...seriously...that's your issue? Get out of your well...and notice there's more out there.
People get upset over the Native American names being mispronounced.
LYKKEN is the Norwegian word for HAPPINESS...
Kinwick? Toushee? Winachee? Really... Did you go to school, dude? Obviously you didn't get off your butt to do any research. Kennewick, Richland and Pasco are also known as the Tri-Cities! It's the best place to live in the entire State! Rent is affordable and jobs are easy to get. You can grow anything! 5 cuttings of hay, 4 of alfalfa abundant fruits and veggies in the summer. We were never hungry in the 20+ yrs I lived there! I now live in Idaho but I would take Kennewick over Spokane anyday! Spokane is a sheet whole! Dirty, crime ridden and high priced, I won't drive my car in Spokane! You don't hear anything much about the Tri Cities because they are all busy working and having fun! You are an idiot liberal Portlander and I am done with your nonsense! Unsubbed!!!
You tell about “bad” towns in Washington but you illustrate with pictures that are not even remotely the town described. Very confusing.
Moses lake looked a little swampier than I remember 😂
Granger didn't look like the granger I Remember
@@sandwichj3568 For whatever reason, half the footage on the Granger segment was from the fissure in the hillside near Union Gap, a good 20 miles away from Granger.
Soap Lake was pretty accurate. That stone building I used to hangout there with a friend whose mom was the head housekeeper. It is an Inn.
So true, the only green in eastern WA. Is the Spokane
Area , and by the way that is not Spocane, it is Spocan
This man obviously has never been to Washington. Get your facts, arrows and pictures right. Ugh
He says he loves the pacific north west in several of his videos
I think he lives there now maybe I know he is from California but he might have moved to Oregon or Washington.
@Freddie Hankins lmao nice
I agree with you
@@margiehendricks6044 He does have videos out that trash California.
For someone who has such a strong opinion on small towns in Washington you should really learn how to pronounce them correctly
Right?! Omg.
I once got a bit drunk one Friday night at home in England and booked a trip to see my Mariners. Went to a small town called Republic in Eastern Washington while I was there. It was great. Nice people. Go Mariners.
that’s a hilarious story i love it
I live in WA. I did some research on other states and i found that this state really has everything. " There is no place like home"
I’m a travel nurse & I’ve been in Wenatchee since November of 2021. It’s small, and if you don’t enjoy small towns, you won’t love it, but it’s so beautiful here & I’ve never felt unsafe. The people are also so nice!
Wenatchee is not very small.
@@bnorvs5929 I think it depends on where you come from. To me, Wenatchee is a smaller town.
If you think Wenatchee is small, move further East and avoid Spokane.
I grew up in a REAL small town (Gem, Indiana), but less than 3 miles from the edge of a city (Indianapolis) - Wenatchee is not SMALL, more medium.
There been idk how many muders and shooting on the south side in 2022 and 2021 and homelessness is getting out of control for a only haven't 35k people about 50k including east
We get plenty of Travel RN's here who to choose to stay permanently, or at least extend their contracts.
You are so wrong about Desert Aire. You forgot to mention that it's an amazing place to have a vacation home that's 2.5 hours away from Seattle and the sun shines nearly all the time. There are a ton of things to do including boating, fishing, golfing, motorsports. The Gorge ampitheatre is about 1 hour away. Actually all of eastern washington is very beautiful.
Get out of Desert Aire ya coasty
Desert Aire isn't THAT sunny...it's pretty typical for Eastern WA, ie much better than Western WA but still cloudier than average for most of the country during the winters.
You will get cancer eating the fish from radiation
Desert Aire has really grown. I was surprised to see that when I last visited.
@@smokeyangelav you’ll get cancer from Hanford
Just fyi: You mispronounced Kennewick and Wenatchee.
Margie Hendricks why are y’all so pressed? It’s not like they contain normal English patterns.
He also mispronounced touchet
@@sheilagrunhurd8332 No, he pronounced Touchet correctly.
lol Washington resident here. I agree most of eastern Washington really sucks but the eastern side thinks the western side sucks. Lol politics welcome to Washington
the farther you go up north the worse it gets in western Washington
So although most of the population lives in western Washington ALL of the worst towns are in eastern Washington??? Evidently you've never seen Sea-Tac
Aberdeen and Centralia are bad too.
Or Tukwilla, or Parkland (where I got mugged at gunpoint years ago).
White Center
Don't forget about all the little meth towns in Lewis county!
Was unaware those were SMALL towns.
Please keep posting about how bad the eastern side of the state is. We can't keep people from moving from Oregon, California, western Washington, etc.!
Lol I know right, it’s actually a great thing that these guys look down at us! It keeps our hunting grounds actually alive.
you should see idaho
I can't believe how expensive the east side has gotten. I understand why west side is expensive, but I don't feel like the greater Spokane area has the kinds of salaries to justify median home price of 500(k)
I love the east side, currently live on the west side, (have lived on the east side many times) but going to travel the east side soon, possibly buy a lot in the central-eastern part some day.
That's kinda funny. Have all your previous relatives been from your area? Somebody, at some time had to relocate to where you are. My siblings and three cousins are first generation Southern California products. This area has grown incredibly during my lifetime. I used to travel around Quincy, George, Yakima and surrounding areas. I loved it. Beautiful region.
You MIGHT want to include pictures of the actual towns you're talking about! I have visited every single one of the towns you've mentioned and every single description is wrong except for the population numbers. In fact, I grew up 5 miles from Loon Lake WA and it's a nice town 30 minutes from hospitals and a much larger town. In my opinion, the 10 worst towns in WA are all on the West side, where most of the crime is; start from Seattle and work down from there.
I can only speak from experience so I will only comment on touchet because I live near it and yeah it's not the nicest place i've seen I dont think it's one of the worst towns in Washington but its nowhere near the best either
Exactly
??? Someone’s never heard of Yakima lmao. First town in Washington to get its own Police Gang Unit.
Totally agree. My dad doesn't live very far from Loon Lake, and I personally love it out that way. I'm in Thurston Co. WA (been here all my life) and I can assure everyone, that there are some really crappy small towns on this side of the mountains. Infact, I can think of more than 10 off the top of my head, as far as high crime & being rundown. Fort Lewis (which is very nearby) brings in a lot of riff-raff from all over the country. Not saying that all military are riff-raff of course, but most outsiders don't have the same respect or love of the area.
@@hiphop2u absolutely Yakima, never liked it there
We sure do appreciate this video, here in small town WA. Keeps out the riffraff with their latte cups and their wifi hotspots. I can't wait to retire to a place that has no access to a Walmart. You kids get off my (very brown) lawn!
Good luck finding ANY place more than perhaps 40 miles from a Wal Mart in Washington.
Perhaps the far north-east corner MIGHT manage it.
The worst place in Washington is Seattle by far the worst
Matt Patterson Y’all really in your feelings about a little video 🙄😂 He said TOWNS not cities.
@@ready40111 MAGA feelings are the most fragile! 😂😂😂
I ❤️ Seattle. Once all the Maga types leave for Northern Idaho it will be paradise.
@@scottlaux6934 if you want to live on your knees and be in one of the worst ranked places in Washington have no rights and crime through the roof and call it paradise then have at it
@@alexandersupertramp7353 bowl cut
Oh sis, you've obviously never been on a hike in eastern Washington
Yes, it's beautiful! But those of us that live here, wouldn't have minded if most of it had stayed undiscovered from the rest of the world. Unfortunately, it hasn't.
@@ccco8639
Is the person exageratting about these places?
I was born and grew up in Washington, mostly in eastern WA. Yakima was my favorite town as a teenager, lots to do for a teenager back in the late 50s and early 60s. Now it is the drug capital of eastern WA. Moved to CA in my Junior HS year, hated CA, quit HS and joined the Navy....retired 22 years later.
*crackima
I lived in Yakima for awhile too. During the 90s. It was HORRIBLE. I swear it's the absolute worst place to live in Washington.
and then where did you go?
Allowing the benefit of the doubt, nearly all these small towns are far better as places for someone to grow up compared to the urban shitholes along the Pacific coast and elsewhere. Yes Seattle was once nice, but even a crummy small town can provide a place where a young person has a better opportunity to choose independent thinking. Those small town schools btw are still mostly controlled by the big "educational" mafia. Shitcan the state control over the schools; replace them with private and charter schools, and they will almost all out perform the city schools with less expense.
@@funkyducky8751 You're right! It sucks here. But Yakimaniacs take a perverse pride in the city's bleakness and charmlessness, acres of asphalt, and of course in being the drug distribution center for the whole state.
Being from Washington and mispronouncing Wenatchee
Also mispronounced Kennewick and misspelled it 😂
Im guessing Wen-a-tchee, with the emphasis on the first syllable?
Amber Davenport, Kenn-e-wick, emphasis on the Kenn? 😂
He also says Coulee Dam instead of Grand Coulee Dam
Good luck pronouncing all the names in Washington lived her my whole life and still struggle
I grew up in Entiat, and move to a house on Rock Island Road in 1993 - crime rate’s a true story. Driving along once and somebody just randomly shot out the rear-cab window in our truck, at night. But it’s right next to East Wenatchee, so you’ll never figure out who’s doing what......
At least people in eastern Washington don't have to deal with rain,traffic and over population which has caused housing prices to skyrocket.
You guys must really love your snow in the east too haha
As 4 out door hobbys u can't do much better than over east but it does suck in the winter
On par with the West side's junkie/homeless shooting up in public (#1 growth in that & illegal population in the country), feckless leaders who are driving business out and taxes & costs up, spiraling crime (and inability to recruit LEO's) stats, general Seattle mentality of PC/apologist/socialist leanings under the guise of "Superiority/enlightenment." Have my east side (as in just east of Seattle) house going into closure, taking my tidy chunk and moving to the Carolina's where I can watch & laugh at this state S itself from the comfort of my paid off, custom-built home. Western Washington is full of self-righteous a-holes...but I'll take your money
@@freewaygodzilla6024 My dad was military, so lived in many states & countries. Always loved the SE...especially NC
Gregory Whitaker yes snow is great. Also the rain is. And the warm times in summer
Pretty much every town you mentioned would be considered migrant worker towns. That is what the vast populations of these towns consist of. All of the farmers have homes out of town in the country. That is why test scores and income stats are so low. Majority don't speak English and go to migrant worker schools that probably don't report to agencies that track things like test scores or grades. Also most of the workers probably don't have reportable income so that skews the numbers quite a bit as well I'm sure.
STOP BASHING WASHINGTON . ITS THE DAMN CALIFORNIAS MOVIN IN. STAY THE HELL AWAY.
Maybe you should build a wall.
@@barbaraconner2920 💩
Thank god someone is so true
@KJ Stewart - Echoing my sentiments regarding my beloved Colorado.
KJ Stewart he's bashing Washington, because he is from Oregon... and Jealous. Haha.
Lived in WA my whole life and I never heard of some of these towns
Lol me either.
You must both be from the west side-pretty sure I’ve at least passed through all of them…
30 yrs self and 3 these myself never heard of and I was certain been to every town and city not to mention live in area where mountains 2 dams within 50 miles and basically nothing else but small no good towns so thats bullshit especially rock island are u fucking kidding me you must never heard of nespelem omak Bridgeport Tonasket Entiat orondo Oroville twisp jus name few lmao
We are here🥰
@@brittneywalls2746 I was thinking Loomis and Nighthawk.. lol..
Hum... I grew up in loon lake and I'm unsure where you get your info but it's way off!! Also that was not a picture of loon lake 😂! Probably should do more research huh..
Yeah 😊
@@elisethepilot383 😉
Not even close to loon lake. Loon lake doesn’t even have the trees he showed.
Yeah this guy is definitely a Jack*ss who has no idea what he's talking about. But what should we expect from a Californian moron.
im from springdale and i was thinking the same thing
Most of these towns are just little farm towns where the low income laborers live. The people with the money are the farmers who live outside of town. Desert Aire is not even a town. It’s a little resort community on the Columbia River. Built around a small golf course that tends to stay open longer in the winter then the other golf courses in the area. Summertime is when Desert Aire is booming with water sports on the river and hot weather so it is popular with Westside residents (Seattle) escaping their cooler summer weather. Wenatchee is pronounced Wa gnat (like Nat King Cole) chee. It is really pretty easy to say
People don’t know how to pronounce Wenatchee? So simple for me it was hell in high school so many people pronounced Okanogan like they were trying to patronize me
There might be high drug use and poverty but Eastern Washington has beautiful scenery
Endings rolling desert hills is beautiful?
Tony Is The Type Of Guy compared to other flat, muggy, dull U.S states; E. Washington is very easy on the eyes
@@dirk5598 The eastern slopes of the Cascades, Wenatchee, Ellensburg, Winthrop, Okanagan can't be beat for scenery.
@The Internet is Always Crying have you ever been there
More like staring at some nice hills before dust being pushed into ur eyes
You said 48% of Granger is under 18 but 45% percent of residents (including minors) didn't graduate high school.
Yeah Washington is such a beautiful state!
Is great and hella beautiful but the weather is ass
Dubai Yes North Korea No AKA Austin Stitzel yes very true except it’s starting to become one of the more expensive states
no it’s terrible 💀💀 i live close to tac tho so idk how eastern is.
Kendra Anaya-Guzman ? Eastern and Western Washington are very different
@@kendraanaya-guzman1909 eastern washington is dry as hell and snows more and is Colder in the winter
"Most of them are in eastern Washington"
According to this video, ALL of them are ;-)
Would be curious if you did the same ranking of worst Washington small towns west of the Cascades. For example I grew up in Olympia and there are a bunch of shitty little nowhere towns within an hours drive, like Yelm, Tenino, Elma, etc. Basically the whole way out to Hoquiam/Aberdeen is just a series of hopeless nothing towns with awful weather. At least Eastern Washington doesn't rain 9/12 months. ;-)
I live in hoquiam and it don't rain that much.
No wonder so many are on drugs out there. Godless places.
@@ganymeade5151 you're describing Seattle.
Foxhound Mulder yes lmao
I live in Olympia but what you have against Yelm?
During my 30 yr of trucking I been thru most of these towns and completely agree.
Pictures of the large crack in the side of the mountain range is actually located in (Union gap Washington)
Someone from Oregon judging Washington seems like a terrible idea. It'd be like if someone from New Jersey started judging New York. It's all negatives. Gotta say, though, id take Washington over any state any day (especially Florida)
Washington is practically the opposite of Florida. Unfortunately Alaska beat us out on that one by a few thousand miles.
@@rifewithpotatoes I currently live in Florida and it's basically hell
@@McNaBir I've only visited. Had nice, reasonable weather in March 9 years ago, but tbh was not impressed with much north of the Everglades. I think I'll stick with the PNW, see how legislating the f out of homelessness and drug problems goes. At the very least it's pretty everywhere that isn't city.
I’d move to Utah or Idaho
@that'420'dude same, actually! Happily in WA right now, have been almost two years
I lived really close to Granger growing up and it's an alright place. It has a town-wide dinosaur theme going which was pretty cool. Had a really good pizza place too.
Hi I grew up in Kennewick, (Tri-Cities) WA
Thank you for discouraging people from even thinking of checking out eastern Washington.
North Moses Lake isn't a 'town' but a suburb of Moses Lake referred to as The Base(WW2 base houses). I don't know of any retirement center near there. As far as age goes, Moses Lake doesn't have the specialists that are needed for advanced ages so that alone may discourage the older generation from wanting to live here, hence the stats.
Also we are a desert and not a land rich of any forest growth 2:42 and the image at 2:34 is not North, more southwestern. 2:37 is potholes reservoir which is south(image from Wikipedia under potholes reservoir) and a small portion of moses lake Southwest.
In the end, no city is perfect.
I've lived in Spokane, Portland, Chicago, Grand Rapids, New York City, Brooklyn, and Los Angeles. Eastern Washington may not have the 'cool' factor that Seattle and PDX believe they have, but the people in EW are MUCH more humble and sane. At this point, I'd rather move to Spokane than go to PDX or SEA.
Was it the drugs, the liberal propaganda, or just how shit people are in Portland?
There is a reason Spokane is the hottest housing market in the USA right now.
Amen brother!
Spokane? 🤣 enjoy dodging shit on the sidewalks and random murders and gang violence daily
i live in spokane
I thought this sh**was hilarious and I’m from eastern Washington!! LOL...I even grew up in one of the top ten worst places to live!! Love the narrative too!! I’ll be subscribing after watching this wonderful and hilarious video!! 👍♥️
Wow, nothing like running our small towns through the muck.
I live in Dayton now by the way.
I have lived near some of the 1st places. You have no idea. You should actually visit the 1st few places.
I know it. Not bad.
I have a house on Loon Lake, bought it about 12 yrs ago. Love it there. I was born and raised in Tacoma, out in the north end by the Narrows bridge. I could walk to it in about 15 minutes. Now, i'll take Eastern Wa over Western any time.
Whats the cost of housing ?
@Jessica Velardi
Prices in eastern Washington or Washington (including Seattle) in general?
@Jessica Velardi
Does it snow alot in eastern Washington ? Any cities you recommend to visit ?
@@MM-yb2fy It does snow there and gets cold in the winter. The west side of the mountains will be wet 35 degrees but Spokane might be 10 degrees and have a foot of snow. Nice cities? I like North Bend, Bellingham, Issaquah, Enumclaw, Poulsbo. There's quite a few.
I live, work, and play in Eastern Washington. I love it here !
I live in basin city and that is not true!
@@amairany9853 I mean you live in basin city that’s your own fault for living in a trash pile poor small ag city lol
I live in Eastern WA & I hate it! Too much crime going on all of the time! To each their own I guess!
Lol I moved from an exotic, touristy area in Puerto Rico to Yakima, WA during my first job after college. Most of my job involved driving between Yakima, Moxie, Granger, Othello and Olympia. I was scared shi*$ess and nothing seemed familiar. One time stopped by an authentic Mexican food joint in Othello, WA and had like twenty eyes and ears brutally staring at me. Fun story to tell my grandchildren lol
Wow!! Puerto Rico to Yakima???? Must have felt like moving from Heaven to Hell, hahahahahahaha
I grew up in Othello! You gotta admit that Mexican food was great though!
Camping and Fishing are awesome in Eastern Washington so it is still a reason to go. I mean, we need to help our fellow citizens out.
As a resident of soap lake i can agree. Our town is poor and over run with drugs. Our nickname is dope lake... kinda sad because as a seattle transplant it is a beautiful laid back place.
Moses Lake is not true! I work at a store where the clientele is 75% elderly people. There's not that much crime and we get an enormous amount of tourists in the summer. People from the coast come here for the summer. Wow dude.
You look like the type..part of the PROBLEM
The elderly part is true. The not much crime part is a lie.
You're probably near Cascade Valley.
Quite a few retired out there.
You're too funny! Thanks for the info. Informative and entertaining. 🙂
Great video. Love love the scenery. Eastern Washington is very unique.
Places on the coast-Aberdeen, Raymond
LOL!!! I live in Malden WA. Figured we'd make your list
You're pretty darn accurate on all your towns... I have family or have been in most of these places. A little sad huh.... Good video. :)
I'm from Wenatchee, Best town in Washington. And famous"apple capital of the world.".. Which is where I live now... And it's literally pronounced the way it's spelled.. wen-AT-chee. And, yes, the Wenachii Tribe after whom we are named, would be very offended at the debauchery of the word.
Even the places you posted though are still gorgeous! And you had to REALLY REACH to insinuate any of these are bad places to live. Better than ALL of Oregon.
Dude. "Some kind of damn there..." You obviously have never been here. The Rock Island damn (and the Rocky Reach damn north of Wenatchee, are two of the largest dams in the world, spanning one of the largest rivers on the continent, and producing most of the hydro-electricity in the PNW. Seriously, even an inebriated 11 year old knows that.
"What's going on in Washington" is that we produce about 1/4 of the food that this country eats. But if you knew anything about geography, that would be obvious to you.
While Rock Island and Rocky Reach are both large dams, they're producing perhaps 15% AT MOST of the Hydropower from the Columbia River.
Don't forget the Grant Coulee (produces about 3x as much power as RI and RR COMBINED), and all the OTHER large dams on the Columbia.
The Grant Coulee barely makes the world's Top 10 list (by power production), RI and RR are perhaps Top 50 at best but IIRC more like "barely Top 100" in the world.
P.S. - most of my power comes from the Priest Rapids and Wanapum dams, which are collectively HIGHER power production (though not by a lot) than the combined production of the Rocky Reach and Rock Island dams, and also on the Columbia.
@@bricefleckenstein9666 ooookay. That's nice and all, but completely irrelevant. The video was slamming on Rock Island, which is only about 8 miles from Wenatchee. My entire point was that Rock island isn't just "some dam".
@@lindakay9552 I grant that the video was very dismissive of a major power dam - but YOU stated the pair of dams near Wenatchee were "producing most of the PNW hydro electricity" which was about as WRONG of a statement as theirs in the OVER direction. So NOT completely irrelevant as you say.
Everyone should check out Whidbey Island! It's part of the San Juan Islands. North of Seattle. It's the most beautiful place I've ever lived in Washington State.
Why did you refer to Seattle after mentioning Whidbey?
Cannot explain the intense 2009 nostalgia that is Intro by The Xx
Around Tacoma has become the best place to get your car stolen. The last three weeks five of my friends have had their cars stolen. Three in and around Tacoma and two in Gig Harbor. 😢 I grew up in GigHarbor and it breaks my heart what has happen to my town.
Granger people be like: BUT muh dinosaurs!!
What about yakima. ??😱
Yakistan is too big
Nachez or Nachos is next door and the right size.
Just having Miner's is enough to keep it above the ten on this list.
Yakima, is a great city, my family is from there. I personally wouldn't live there but visiting family, and getting good fruits..
Crackima is on another list of bigger, terrible cities
#7 Desert Aire is not anywhere near your arrow. You didn't even get the County right. Gonna put yourself out there for the "likes & attention"? Get it right.
Some of the photos when mentioned Granger wasnt even close to granger, Saw a pic of the cracked hill near Yakima and Parker, and saw the mill by toppenish near the old highway n a few others
Only about 60 mi off…
Also, you seem ignorant of the fact that Desert Aire was PLANNED as a retirement/resort community, with an airstrip, golf course, and easy water access to entice rich westsiders with private planes to use it as a weekend getaway. The landscape is dramatic (check out Brooks & Dunn’s “only in America” vid) and, little-known fact, it gets the least rainfall of even eastern WA, at ~4”/yr last I looked-Seattleites could hop in the plane, fly an hour and be almost guaranteed sunshine year-round…
That was the plan until it got surrounded by agriculture and the attendant influx of illegals…
PS-I’m pretty sure the developer didn’t build any of the housing-they sold the lots and people built what they wanted…
@@heymikeyh9577 me I'm one of the "illegals" lol. Arriba michoacan papa
@@heymikeyh9577 the “illegals” all live in the Wahluke area including Desert aire, Mattawa, and Beverly, don’t disrespect our community like that… you don’t know anything about this area
I enjoy all your videos
Funny stuff! Lovin it.
do a video please about best locations in the US where to spend the New Year! 10x!
Anyone from Yakima ?
Yup! Lived here most of my life. I'm 71.
I found your commentary highly entertaining and did not take it to heart. I would suggest you consider White Center, Battle Ground, and Medina if you consider editing your list
How you described the guy in the film about soap lake and the video just ends 😂😂😂 I love finding those types of videos. I never noticed that the first time I watched this video.
Fyi he's talking about Moses Lake North aka The Base.
When-natch-E. That’s how it’s pronounced. Washington has a ton of towns that are hard to pronounce if you aren’t from the state. I was born and raised in Longview, but I lived in Spokane for several years, and it was shocking how many people didn’t know how to pronounce that correctly. To me, it seems like it would be easy to pronounce, but boy was I wrong.
*Spokompton
@@dottiedottie9115 Ahahaha! You must live in or near Spokane! Aha haha! I lived in Medical Lake for a few years, and I lived in Brown’s Addition back in 2001 for a year or so. I've heard that Brown's Addition has gotten really bad. It's sad because I enjoyed living in that neighborhood 20-years-ago. I used to work at 2nd Look Books, and I had a 2nd job at Garden Grill on N. Division. My boss, Janet Maas, also owned The Wall Street Diner and Europa. I miss living in, or living close to, Spokane. Medical Lake was by far my favorite place to live on the Eastern side of the state. I don't know what it’s like there now, but when I lived there it was so awesome! I'd move there again in a heartbeat!❤️
@@catwhisperer2736 *Brown's Addiction (ive lived in washington too long 🤦🤣)
@@dottiedottie9115 Ahahaha! You and me both. I’ve spent my 45-years between Eastern Washington, SW Washington, and the Oregon Coast (Seaside). Seaside is by far my favorite, but I hear that they are having the same problems that Brown’s Addiction has.😂😑😲😳
Nice video have a good day my dude
I was selling heirloom melons from north of Moses Lake one year. An elderly woman bought one and made me promise it was going to be good. She came back the next week and confessed she grew up in a town in California known for the best melons in all the US. She informed me that mine were a whole notch higher than those and bought three more!
"Ken-wick" haha its kennewick pronounced kena-wick
@R R It's ok buddy you can be a tough guy and not censor yourself when you throw around those racial slurs.
There is a "Hammond" in Oregon
Off of hwy 104 and hwy 101 between Astoria and Warrenton
It's a small fishing village.
There is a Shipwreck called
'The Peter Iredale' at the end of the Penninsula there that is on a nice beach with functioning (flush toilet) bathrooms
Right there. Beautiful drive
Beautiful area
😁🤗
Love this
I personally like Spokane. It's close to Idaho and Montana so you have the entire Northern Rocky Mountains at your doorstep. It has 4 distinct seasons. Beautiful lakes for fishing and boating are everywhere near it. Spokane is also big enough to get some good concerts, restaraunts, breweries,etc.. Oh and the traffic is an absolute cakewalk compared to Portland or Seattle. It's manageable. Spokane isn't perect. But I like it's location. Only 4.5 hours to Seattle. 4 hours to Glacier National Park, Montana.
It also has river front park and the paved bike path to go to great restaurants and bars, fun place.
I used to live in Moses Lake. The lower part though. Lol it was actually nice there at least in the community I was in.
I spent a fair amount of time there. It wasn't bad. Compared to downtown Seattle it is very nice.
@@HungryH1951 ANYTHING’S nice compared to downtown Seattle… (or any other part of Seattle)
Seriously, north ML (if that’s what they’re calling it now) is pretty sketchy-used to be Air Force housing, then mostly older families; when they moved/died out, the crackheads and illegals moved in…
@@heymikeyh9577 I know that area. I used to visit my friends who lived there in the 80's. It wasn't bad then. But now I am sure it is a different story.
Bridgeport, Mabton, Mattawa, Nespelem, Wellpinit, it goes on and on
Bridgeport should have made the list for sure.
Nespelem representing.
What’s wrong with wellpinit?
Plus Mattawa smells bad. Always, not like a farm just some other unidentifiable bad smell. Plus all the dead bodies that show up during cherry harvest.
@@jaredsmith6323 dead bodies during the cherry harvest? I live in mattawa please tell me when this has ever happened?😂 also Mattawa doesn’t smell bad, have you ever been to Connell? That place smells like sewage water…
Moses lake north is literally a neighborhood in Moses lake not a small town
We need a follow-up video for the worst towns in Western Washington (west of the Cascades). I know a few we could add
You forgot Bilgewater, Washington!!!! Home of world famous, but somewhat weird, conventions. Last year, for instance, they hosted the now infamous Reformed Arsonists and Firebugs Convention, which had a main theme that read, "Just Remember, only YOU can prevent forests!" And there was that lovely theme song, 'Smoke Gets in Your Eyes..."
for your information keller has always had a gas station/ store! and some of the places you showed where not even from keller. you even showed a pic of the keller store so dont say its closest gas station is a half hr away. amd you failed to mention its on the colville reservation!
Talks about Granger, shows a photo of Zillah lol.
The map is a great addition 👍😃
Love your lists! Born and raised in Anaheim, moved to Moses lake when I was a sophomore. I was very sad to hear it was on your list. I always wanted to move back. Looks like I will be forever stuck in snoody small town CO. Happy Holidays!
Fishing is really good in Moses Lake. I used to go there a lot. Walleyes, bass, crappie, big trout, blue gills, yellow perch, catfish, lake whitefish. Hard to beat.
Moses lake is the worst place I have ever been in my entire life
@@bnorvs5929 Sorry to hear that. I can see how that happens, small town ideology doesn't work for everyone.
I was raised in Moses lake and I think by north Moses lake this creator means the base area. I moved out of Moses about 17 years ago and every time I go back it’s just a little bit worse. The whole town is just looking fun down and uncared for.
My buddy lives in Richland, I go out there often from Vancouver Wa. It's a Nice town. ( Tri Cities area ) I love the transition from Western Wa. To Eastern along the Columbia, Hwy. 14 East. I was watching wondering if Richland was gonna be on the list. Lol. 😄😄
Good, keep all the people from Western Washington, California and Oregon from moving to Eastern Washington. Driving up our housing costs and not respecting our communities and way of life. But my town is not on here, but doesn't surprise me since we have a wonderful community, low crime and great education system.
I live in this area, the majority of these crime ridden towns you mentioned are majority latino.
I love your videos man! Can't get enough of of the Pacfic Northwest related one's. But checked out many of your other videos, great stuff. Thanks for sharing your videos and thoughts!
Washington state is a beautiful place to go....🤗
Yeah as long as you stay away from The Peoples Republic of King County. Snohomish County isn't much better either.
This place sucks
In Kettle Falls they are currently running the "Ma and Pa Kettle Film Festival". And, no, I ain't kidding.
Wow. I loved watching ma n pa kettles. Had no idea
For everyone saying “why did my town, not this town make the list?” He’s talking about SMALL towns. Not mid size or large towns. Like those towns where everyone knows everybody and if you’re a minority in the town, everyone knows who you are.
First of all I want to start off by saying I love your channel and really appreciate the work you put into each video. And my sincere apologies for all the crap you're getting in the comments. You did great. I don't know why people always have to look for anything negative to pinpoint or make up.
I've lived in Gold Bar, WA for the past 2 years but being that I've never lived in the same city for more that a about 2 years since I was born, I've lived almost everywhere from Bishop, CA to Lynnwood, WA.
So if you ever by chance end up reading this, just while I've got ur attention lol, I would absolutely love for you to do a video on the best small towns in WA. I know you've said your more positive uploads don't get as much attention as the negative ones, so I get it if you don't.. But I personally would love it, and I'm sure my buddies here in the valley would love to know more about any of the (good) options around. And/or maybe a video on the best places to live in a tiny house/rv/off-grid that type of thing? Just an idea I guess. Anyways I'll shut up now lol, thanks for doing what you do, and I hope ya have a great day today. Or night. (Or whatever point in time you ready this)
Those are not pictures of Loon lake. I think when you are talking about a place, it might be better if you used pictures that were taken at that place, not just some random pictures off of the internet.
Also, I have lived in this area for more than half my life, and I have never seen any crime. We do have a lot of bad accidents on 395 though, because of drugs. Just last Monday we had one right outside of Loon Lake. It was caused by a drugged person headed towards Spokane.
Nice touch having a map with the arrow showing where the town is.
Excellent video! %100 accurate.
Was genuinely curious until you said North Moses Lake was a town. Careful where you pull your stats from: you ended up with egg on your face.
I visited somebody in Soap Lake once. He owned his own landscaping business. I don't know who his customers were. I was born in Hood River, but lived in White Salmon until I was three. My aunt used to run the general store in Wahkiacus, near Klickitat. Then we moved to Portland, the city I grew up in until I left for college. I thought about moving back, but given what's happening there, not a chance.
He probably got a lot of business from Ephrata, Moses Lake, and especially Quincy.
Soap Lake itself isn't going to support him, but most businesses of that sort in Grant County will work anywhere in the county.
I know who he is
You’re list both positive and negative have showed me where not to visit and non- common places to visit. Keep both going.
Am I the only one that noticed his mistake at time 5:40? It shows #3 but he says #2 being Soap Lake. Just wondering if anyone else noticed it. :)
Used to work on Aberdeen area in the early eighties, loved it then. Sad to see all the comments of how bad it is.
aberdeen is right next to warshington's version of surf city westport
As a lifetime resident of Touchet I have got to ask where you get your statistics because there is hardly crime here. Literally it is a quiet town. And the pic of the shack on owl hollow is not from Touchet.
plus the Heinie Winery
jackie turner Jackie turner!
We that live in Eastern Washington love the diversity of each area. I don't like this idea of worst small towns being labeled. I have been in all this towns and each one have people that love there towns. High light the good.
I enjoy your vids very much both good and bad.
I live in Washington and had expected to see Aberdeen at the top of the list....
why. i live there and love it
I lived in touchet for about 3 years when I was a kid. I have only good memories so it was weird to hear you talk about the crime rate 😂
Its because its all BS. Everything he said was completely wrong. There hasnt been so much as a domestic dispute in Touchet. Crap when a car wreck happens on Highway 12 its a huge deal. This California transplant doesnt know anything.
I was in Touchet yesterday and the place is a dump.
There is no such place as North Moses Lake. That area used to be an Airforce Base and is referred to now as The Base. It is simply an area of Moses Lake. It is also mostly low income housing or first time home owners. That explains the ages. And many areas of The Base are just fine.
So before you tear apart these small towns I suggest you get off your couch, drive over the mountains and actually VIST them. "Some kind of dam", I wouldn't look at it so bad because the energy you used to make this video has a high likelihood of coming from there.
Moses lake is the worst place I have ever been in my entire life
@@bnorvs5929 Your opinion, seems to be posted in every Moses Lake referencing video I've seen.
I've lived in FAR WORSE places.
Haha, I remember in 2008 heading up to Dash Point driving in a barely moving parking lot on the interstate, and barely noticed the base since I was so curious as to what was causing the problems. Turns out, the freeway was on fire. Yep. All the trucks and cars just sitting there moving about 2 miles an hour north and southbound while the people at the base and a few police officers were trying to figure out what the hell to do to try and put the damn grass fires out haha. There was NO WAY in hell they'd ever be able to clear and move enough traffic out of the way for any fire trucks (not that it'd make any progress getting there anyway through all the cars), so they just were kind of sitting like, "Well damn..." haha. I just had to share this little memory of going by Lewis-McChord AFB since you mentioned it. I find it very amusing.
still my favorite channel