SHOCKING Truths of Why People Won't Move to Missouri
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SHOCKING Truths of Why People Won't Move to Missouri
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You should travel and talk with the people throughout our whole State before you run us down like that It's very rude and must be if it is false.
In the next year, we will move to Missouri🎉!
Missouri is a great state. Know a lot of wealthy people coming here from the coasts to raise their children. The best mixture of all 4 seasons with onsistent weather , enough rain - with hot summers and cold winters. I am not one to enjoy any season more than another, so it fits.
I moved farther down south and had to move back because Missouri. My family lives in the woods and you’d be surprised how much people actually desire this land , just sold 20 acres at 15k a piece. Lots of caves , springs , different faults , hunting land . Not a lot of people 🙂 Low prices on everything plus you are never very far from a gas station or store…very rural and very easy to obtain quality foods and goods. Kansas City Missouri is said to be one of the best places to work from home. Missouri can be a gold mine for new business owners. Each state is unique.
Florida is #1 for education. Not New Jersey.
I watched this video because I am considering moving there. What are called reasons not to move, are the very reasons I would move there. Low taxes, slow population growth, rural life, 4 seasons, low cost of living. According to my priorities and outlook on life, Missouri looks good to me!
That’s exactly why I moved to the Ozarks when I retired.
Many nice places in Missouri. Most people don't want to live in downtown St. Louis. Understood. However, there are many great suburbs and rural areas. Whoever made this video has probably never lived here. The crime? Your stats are in the city of St. Louis. No one is moving to the city. Take a look at a Missouri map and stop focusing on one or two places. We live in Jefferson county---very low taxes, very safe area with great police force, and every type of store you can think of is about 10 minutes or less from our front door. What's not to like?
Us too...gotta "Get out of Denver, baby". Congested and getting worse, sanctuary city and much worse..the video says 20 degrees like that's bad. I flourish most when it's 45 degrees...best wishes, hope you find what your looking for..
I've been here all my life. Missouri seems like the place for you
Just don't go to st louis! KC and Springfield are much nicer. STL suburbs are boring and expensive. Springfield is cheap and the city is suprisingly vibrant with events. KC is just a nicer version of stl imo.
As someone who has lived in MO all their life, Im fine with people not wanting to move here since many would just come here and vote for the same policies they are moving away from.
I like living in a safe, quiet, small town. We never had a lockdown, never had a mask mandate during 'Rona. Worst thing was our movie theater closed for about 5 months during the worst of it. Clean air, clean water, forest and farms everywhere, constitutional carry, never had a problem finding a good job, low costs/housing/etc. Cops are super chill since they aren't on edge dealing with dangerous idiots all day. Plenty of decent public schools that actually teach kids, plenty of private schools if that's what you want. I did move here from a larger town and it took me about a year to get adjusted, now I'd never move back.
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Never having a mask mandate is not a plus for me as I'm compromised immune
Low sperm count from agricultural runoff in ground water.
@@westwardthinking6403what do you consider a small town?
@@ericrivera8410I have health issues as well but I knew that masks didn't protect against the rona well and I didn't wear one unless the establishment had a fit if I didn't and I didn't have the option to go elsewhere. If someone believes that they are effective, they can wear one but expecting everyone to conform means that they are not effective. The rona can enter through the eyes but no one wore eye protection. I was more concerned about touching things like door handles and change, etc which I used a barrier. For my change, I received it in a glove and then pulled the glove off trapping the change inside. When I got home, I put them in the sun to sterilize them. Three times I felt a flu coming on and took ivermecin and I was fine the next day.
I’m inclined to think you’ve never been to Missouri and picked everything negative you could find for the sake of views. If people from NY and CA are fleeing the disasters they’ve made I’d personally prefer they fly right over us anyway. KC and St. Louis are entirely different worlds than the actual state in between. St. Louis earns its reputation. As far as diversity.. people live where they live. We’re as diverse as people choose to be. We seem boring because we don’t really become embroiled in the silliness the rest of the country appears to thrive on. There’s a general sense of decency that somehow manages to survive. And crime? Leave out the KC and St. Louis numbers and see what your statistics read then. I live in central Mo. born and raised here. I’m 47, and where I live nobody locks anything. I haven’t had they keys out of my ignition in a year. Not sure where my house keys are. Because people just don’t go and steal stuff or mess with other’s stuff. Period. Even the tweakers have lines they don’t cross. Not to mention breaking into someone’s house, especially if they’re home is downright suicidal.. we have the castle doctrine. Look it up. Our small towns are very much like communities of extended family. If you break down on the road. Someone will help. If your house burns down, the community will rally for you. If your kids are out doing stupid shit, you WILL find out. And everyone notices strangers. Our rural communities provide a sense of worth and belonging and identity that is severely lacking in American young people today. We handle what needs handled, and teach our kids to think for themselves. And that personal accountability is fundamental. I was almost offended until I realized the laziness in actual research and that the narrator doesn’t even realize he’s saying anything rude.. typical.
Sounds like the way we live in our dreams! I'm so happy for you -- honestly! 🤠
Well said.
In addition to this main comment, the "narrator" sounds suspiciously like AI!!! 🤨
Your video was very disappointing. You completely misrepresented Missouri and cherry picked your facts. I’m sort of glad though. I’d rather people not move to this amazing state…. I’ve lived in Florida, Virginia and Hawaii. I’d rather live in Missouri and moved back here after living in those states. 😊
I agree. I'm Californian and the guy who made this video is clearly a New York snob.
I agree, this state is awesome. This video is horrible
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I’ll go now grab cherry from this state but pls Missouri is nice state . Pls
@lettucetomato1823 but we are in the business of misery, let's take it from the top.
I was born in the St. Louis area and still live here. Free attractions, nice parks, relatively low cost of living. Yeah I might not have moved here, but I'm definitely not leaving.
Every time I return home to St. Louis I’m like a child. There are so many attractions including parks and restaurants downtown I love it. Our city has come such a long way and Downtown St. Louis can compete with any downtown of a city its side. Plus the Metro Area is just dope to me from the architecture the nature.
I moved to Missouri last year. I lived in Wisconsin, Texas, Arizona, Illinois and Montana previously. Sorry for all you who "think" they know about Missouri. but Missouri is the best state ever. I'm in a small city of 1,600 and life here is great. We have all the amenities. The people in Montana are friendly (Western Montana) but the Missouri folks make most Montanans appear hostile (maybe it because so many California morons are moving there, right Boezangeles?) . Please, stay out of Missouri. We're a red state and we expect to keep it that way!
MAGA!!
We moved to the Camdenton area near the 31st mile marker in the wake of permanent remote work becoming a reality. We are boating and outdoors type people, so it was always a natural draw to live in a large lakefront community. Me personally, I don't want millions of people and every big box store imaginable. I like having 5 acres and nobody that is within earshot of my house. So it all really depends on what you are after in a living arrangement. .
The Ozarks are beautiful. We love it here. Every place has its issues.
My two adult cousins ( brothers) moved, with their families to Iberia, Mo. in the'
1990's & haven't left! So, it can't be that bad!
I grew up there and loved my childhood. We were poor, but loved and cared for. The Ozarks are beautiful. I did have to move to make money and eventually ended up in the USAF.
Ozarks is like a vacation area not great land but a man made lake turned national forest. Definitely the oddest national forest on the main continent
@@FilterfinderWe have national forests areas all through the state, not just near the lake.
@@tomlewis28 there are two national forest in Missouri
There is absolutely nothing wrong with Missouri and there is no such thing as cool and hip people! There is crime, poverty and suicide everywhere ya'll are in denial. I love my state and am proud to live here
I have been to other states and I promise you Missouri is by far better than any other
There are cool and hip people we live in new York
You are in complete denial if you think there is nothing wrong here. Missouri treats it's citizens like complete trash. Trash. I cannot understand why people refuse to look at the policy and laws and recognize that this state literally does not care of it's people live or die. Letting people die is cheaper so that is literally what they do. Mother and infant mortality rates are the highest in the country, especially in rural areas. Access to dental care in 50th. State wages, 50th. And on and on. The people at the bottom half of the income, which is the vast majority of the state population, are left behind to suffer without the most. Why is that something to be proud of? Give me a single thing, other than MDC, that Missouri DOES as a state that we should be proud of.
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Cool and hip people is just a matter of opinion. Really who fucking cares?
This guy is correct, nobody should move to Missouri.
If they're like this guy then I agree. Stay outta my state lol
I just decide to retire in missouri. I was able to get decent chunk of land and a huge house. Absolutely love how quite and awesome my neighbors are. Now i dont like the personal property taxes but the cheap property was definitely a win. Tell me where eles you can grab 9 acres, 2700sqft house, 1500sqft shop, 800sqft shed, 1 acre stocked pond and river access, just walking distance from the house. All for under 200k. Now i am in the woods but its so quite. So win
That is awesome! So glad you're happy there. Would you mind sharing what city/county/area of MO you moved to?
@@travelooo I live 10 mins or so south of ft leonard wood.
You won!
It’s nearly impossible to critique a state or community until you live there. You adapt to your surroundings. Also, one man’s “boredom” is another man’s paradise. One man’s exciting, thriving city is another man’s stressful, concrete jungle. So….the biggest issue for me is the heat and humidity, but I’m used to cooler climates, so it’s all about where your family and work is. The rest of it is adaptation.
Heck, shoot and darn. You say Missouri is in the middle of the country. Well you are off a smidge because Kansas is smack damn in the middle because I know as I've have lived in Kansas my whole life. I've been in Missouri lots of times as my family and I used to camp there when I was a youngster on vacation every year. Heck one time we went to see Branson when it was first being built and afterwards. My niece and her children lived in Branson for years. I visited them several times and the my brother lived there too so I went to visit him. I would move to Missouri if I could but right now it's not possible. God bless.
I have Family in Ozark Mo. for 39 years now and have visited many times over the years Summer and Winter and saw a actual zero degrees one Christmas , but I live on the Texas Gulf Coast 64 years now and the heat and humidity here are much worse than Mo. and the Hurricanes are another weather problem and spin off a lot of tornados , which isn't well known , so I would take any Mo. weather anomaly over the Texas Gulf Coast and the real problem here is uncontrolled illegal Immigration by the current Administration in the District of Criminals !
@@MrSymbolic7 Maybe you should consider moving back. Yes it's humid but I'd rather have it than to be where illegal aliens are coming in from 160 countries. I've lived in Kansas all my life (74 yrs) and would rsther put up with humidity than to worry about some illegal thug coming into my house. Although I did come across a man who I think was an illegal alien at the Walmart I shop at. It was a couple of months ago and he asked me for money to pay for his groceries. I told him I hardly had enough for my own. I left and saw an asst manager and told her about him. She told me that they didn't allow that and that earlier some woman was doing the same outside. When my brother and I left there was a man with a sign wanting money with a couple of children. Bad that a woman can't shop without someone from another country asking for money. God bless.
I grew up in Flat River (Park Hills) and if I had a million dollars, I’d move between Farmington and St. Genevieve (near Weingarten).
If one thinks about it (not many people think of course anymore...they're the ones wearing masks), boredom is an intelligence issue. I think I stopped using that word when I was seven.
Ugh, hands up dont shoot was a lie dude. That's been known for a decade now
Sadly this is correct. That whole situation was a mess all around.
@@FortheBudgies It was propaganda. Just like George Floyd. Is it an election year? Yer racist!
I came to say exactly this!!
I almost bought a 44 acre small farm in Northern Missouri once. It had one huge pond and two smaller ones, a beautiful newer 2 story house, a 4 car garage, and an outbuilding with room for 4 more cars. It was set way back from the highway with a long private road that could easily have a security gate added. The price was under $300K, and I couldn't find anything anywhere that was even remotely comparable, so what was the catch? I finally figured it out when I looked it up on Google Earth... there was a big hog slaughterhouse 1/4 mile away. I figured it must stink to high heaven. Of course the listing agent said he never noticed it when _he_ was there. I'm sure glad I noticed that before I flew all the way out there.
I've lived in Missouri my entire life. Apparently the person who made this video is clueless on who lives in Missouri. After high school I've found most people I've met actually moved to Missouri from other states. My first response is always, Why? Turns out there's hundreds of reasons why they did, as opposed to the few this person came up with for a few like clicks
I feel like everyone forgets about us in Missouri
@@lucastanner548 I'm from Bay Area California. What do you like the most about living in Missouri?
@@standforhumanitariancauses4756 would you like to trade places? Lol Missouri is okay, if you don't mind being a few decades behind the rest of the country. Cost of living is really low. Makes sense, nobody would pay more to stay. But seriously, we've got hillbillies. They'd be amusing if not so damned embarrassing
@standforhumanitariancauses basically everyone’s nice to each other, no matter what it is
@@standforhumanitariancauses4756not having Californios around...
I lived in Missouri and grew up there. I am not native to Missouri and I think your perspective is incorrect. Using a single factor such as color to assert that is the reason for income disparity is intellectually dishonest as there are several to many factors that determine income parity. As for earthquakes, yes but the New Madrid fault only runs in the Southeast corner, you've made it sound like the San Andreas in CA. As for the humidity, I hated it, and it is a good State to live in.
My only complaint about mo is the humid and hot nights but I came here to farm and that’s what’s good for the crops
Color plays a big part in it but sorry you don't like that
@@Filterfinder My 1st wife was from MO (Mountain Grove...and, I was married to her for 44 years) Once, while on a visit in the mid 60's, I asked her uncle if MO was part of the "Bible Belt"....(It is)....He had NO idea of what I was talking about and thought a 'bible belt' would be a special kind of belt one would wear so they could tote their bible around with them everywhere!
@@blackholeentry3489 may not be the brightest ppl in mo but they’ll out work most the nation if sober
@@Filterfinder I would never claim they weren't hard workers....and which ALL of my ex's relatives were....and also, they were good people.
I'm no stranger to work myself....grew up in rural OR, started picking strawberries when I was 9 years old, and was still picking them (and a host of other crops) including working the weekends, when I was 20 to help put myself through college. Then, I landed a job in a company which extracted magnesium from seawater, the plant ran 365 days a year....and somebody had to be there to run it, so, for 35 years, I worked three out of four weekends...had only one weekend a month off. I ran huge kilns 120' long, which ran for like 15 months without ever shutting down...holidays, Christmas and all, and someone had to be there to run them. And, even if one kiln shut down for maintenance, there were still seven others which were running. Then, in 2001, the entire plant shut down and, at 60 years old, found myself looking for another job. I ended up working in a plant which made communication satellites.....some of the satellites, which I built, are in orbit....and, I ended up working there until I was 70...every time I mentioned I was going to retire, my former boss would offer me a big raise....but, at 70, I finally did quit...so two years later, I could ride my motorcycle around the entire USA on a mission to 'bag' the 13 states I had never previously been in before.....ALL of them east of the MS River....and did. I can now say I've been in ALL 50 states. Because I've chased total solar eclipses all around the world (Have now seen10) I've been on all of the continents except Antarctica. Once had a chance to do that too(for $69), but for reaslons too long to go into here, passed....and have kicked myself ever since....I could have slept on the plane!
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Brown was not shot in the back. Nothing you said was correct . I don't like saying it , but there is very little of what you said that is correct. Check your facts
Obviously, Missouri is NOT the place for liberals... Thank God.. Y'all can stay where ya are!
I bought land, built a house, and moved to the St. Francois Mountains in southeast Missouri when I retired. It’s beautiful, inexpensive, and peaceful. I love it.
I have a house and land north of Springfield. I grew up in Warsaw and love the ozark area. This guys a total dick. Terrible video. With that said, I do prefer Colorado because I love snow and mountains. I keep a house in both places.
10:22 None of this is true. Your take makes Wikipedia seem unbiased....He was not shot in the back, and the supposed "hands up" saying is a well known hoax.....
The delinquent kid who reached into the police car to take the officers gun.
Why is there a photo of Glacier National Park if the video is about Missouri? Clickbait alert
The blood of Michael Brown was found on Brown's hand, clothing and the door of officer Darren Wilson's police cruiser. It was impossible for Brown to have his hands in the air when he was shot. This video was poorly researched
So glad you put this video out. That way people will stop coming here.
Missouri is a cesspool, smart people leave the state as fast as they can over time.
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@@xenafaegolden3019 100% the case
exactly what i was thinking😂 judging by the comments its working😂😂
@@Tarantulas118 Most of rural Missouri is a complete mess, even homers admit that is the case. Low wage jobs are the norm and lots of drug problems everywhere.
Sparta Missouri represent, we are a poor state, but there ate good people and the country is quiet and peaceful while not being too far from moderm compforts
Love little Sparta on the way to Ozark (lived out between Fordland and Sparta on the Finley river). Whenever i'd go thru the town, i'd always shout out to myself "This is Sparta!!" ala 300
As a Rocheport, MO resident I'd never leave Missouri.
Missouri is wonderful. Glad we're not flooded with people who don't appreciate its natural beauty.
Ranking 49th on diversity, equity and inclusion sounds pretty good to me
Lifelong Missourian here
1) (Location) Yes, our two biggest cities are on the east and the west borders, but we have plenty of things in the middle to do. Columbia, Missouri is one of the best college towns in the nation and is rapidly expanding. Springfield is southwest of Columbia and is a great place to raise a family. Lots of money and huge, sprawling suburbs. Tons of small German towns known for their wineries(Hermann). Columbia isn't quite the urban environment you described but it's coming very close. Rapidly expanding, it will soon be the hub of Missouri. It is 45 minutes away from our capitol.
2) (Climate) Absolutely correct. The weather is horrible in Missouri. it gets very hot in the summer(100+) and very cold in the winter(-0).
I have never felt an earthquake in Missouri. In St. Louis I have never witnessed an earthquake or a flood. Tornados come close.
3) (Crime) Correct. Rural areas of missouri have higher-than-usual areas of crime because of a rural drug problem and our lack of resources going towards law enforcement. Kansas City and St. Louis have crime problems because of horrible city management in the past and currently because of prosecutors who don't prosecute crimes and let repeat offenders run rampant.
4) ($$$$) Gas, food, tobacco, alcohol are all cheaper in Missouri than our bordering states. I'm not an economist so I can't say whether or not we're better overall, but prices for everything have been rapidly rising during the past 2-3 years.
Things are getting more expensive in MO and wages are not increasing to match. Housing, food, gas, utilities, everything has gone up in the 8 months I've lived here and I am lucky to have a job that ALMOST pays for it all. There are many people that are not as blessed.
The local governments here are atrocious as well. And sex offenders/rapists are everywhere. Crime is rampant and far too many people live in poverty. Of all the people I've met here, only 3% of them are actually good people.
If you want to be taken advantage of, lied to, scammed, or forced into poverty you should move to Misery. Otherwise, I highly suggest you move somewhere else because this place is like Hotel California. Once you get here it is too easy to get trapped.
@@auston246😢
Sure if you're a white christian it's great as the state panders to your every whim. If you're anything else it's a dangerous state as it hates.
@@__foam very good assessment!
I agree, all of you in California, Illinois, and New York should definitely listen to this and not come here.
fact check: There was NO 'hands up dont shoot'.......repeating a lie over & over, does not make it factual.
For some reason growth is seen as a positive thing, but it isn’t always. My state of Georgia is getting too big. Especially the Northern Part.
Indeed! Growth is almost *never* a good thing, and is encouraged by those who put money above the *real* quality of life, which comes with lack of crowding, ruin of the land, and "diversity."
I say we give kansas city to the state of kansas. Give st. Louis to illinois. Then missouri would be perfect!
I am from Europe. I stumbled recently over statistics on the surprisingly crazy low percentages of non-US citizen in many MO counties. Is it not an area where you can feel welcome as foreigner? Are people very religious? Mostly republican voters driving around in pickups and carrying weapon?
Missouri is a lot like my home state of Pennsylvania. A big city on each side of the state, and practically nothing in between them.
Except good schools, medical care, dental care, solid human rights enforcement.
I was just in central Pennsylvania. It's beautiful there. Raystown lake is something lol. Missouri has a lot as well. It's a Midwest state. It's a plains state its even a little southern in places. It's the real crossroads.
Nothing? You naive...Cows, horses, pigs, chickens, timber, aquifers, corn , soybeans, clover, alfalfa, wheat, black dirt, caves, lakes, rivers, creeks, turkeys, deer, geese, catfish, bass, muscians etc etc etc get it got it god.
its heartlands south @@tonymorrell2353
Columbia is the best place to live in Missouri, but that bar is low.
Yes, yes. It's just awful here. Do not move here. Come spend your money in STL, Branson or other tourist area and then leave 😁We have enough people and like it that way.
I've lived in St Louis COUNTY (you could never get me anywhere in the city) for almost 11 years to help take care of my mil. No complaints, although the entire state allows concealed carry without a permit. St Louis is the only place in the state where this is a problem.
Heads up, though. I'm seeing a lot of New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island license plates around here. Be grateful the state has a strict voter ID law and no early voting. Counties around St Louis are doubling and tripling. Hopefully all these people who are moving in from New York won't vote New York.
Those of you who want to caterwaul about our strict abortion laws, just cross the river into Illinois; leave us the hell alone.
Hands up, don’t shoot is a proven lie.
It’s a great place for witness protection
Why do you keep the lie about Micheal Brown! He was not shot in the back and did not have his hands up saying do not shoot! That is a lie and was proven in court! When you make a video like this you should at least know something about what you say. If nothing else you could have just left that out and not help the Lie!!
How wrong on entertainment, St Louis is chock full of things to do...
Yes it is. You can stay away or get into many forms of entertainment
I agree that the cities have more to offer than this have credit for. Great zoos, museums, food, sports, history, etc. I have no idea about clubs because it's not my scene.
Yup. Lots of free attractions and it doesn't take long to get into more remote areas into nature too.
The kind of people who think these reasons are downsides are not the people we would want cluttering up the place. When I was little we moved to Independence and the time we lived there were probably some of the best of my childhood. Most of my teens/early 20s were spent in Arkansas and was absolutely miserable and was the main reason my family jumped at the chance to move to Missouri because it was the only place that was actually affordable and had job opportunities when compared to Arkansas and Oklahoma.
Yes there is quite a bit of poverty but there is also a much higher concentration of assistance for those who are in need through private and not state run organizations. Also because of the lower cost of living it is much easier to get back on your feet if you do find yourself in poverty. Ironically most of the kinds of help for those in poverty is either banned or heavily regulated(aka technically allowed but the city government will do it's best to shut it down because it competes with their inadequate programs that essentially do nothing but make them look good) in the more liberal cites like St Louis and Ferguson where most of the issues like gun violence are also more prominent. Outside of those areas gun violence and gangs are actually pretty uncommon, at least in the area I live in and have been to with maybe the exception of Kansas City. But even then Kansas City was far better than the majority of large cites I have visited as far as feeling safe.
For outdoor people there are an abundance of trails, parks, and rivers. Basically it is a nature lovers dream. And if you actually look there is always more stuff to find even in the smallest towns.
Yes, State taxes are low but that is because the State gives more freedom and responsibility to the individual cities/towns to see to what they need specifically and to tax their citizens accordingly. So things that need to get done, especially in smaller cities, are more likely to actually get done in a reasonable timeframe.
Much of the same also goes for medical care which does mean much of the general statistics for state comparisons are very skewed. Yes, we have very few large hospitals that are run by the state but there are an abundance of smaller privately operated clinics and hospitals that honestly are much easier to get appointments at and are honestly probably cleaner and more sanitary than large hospitals, it is just most people who aren't from an area like this don't know about them and thus don't utilize them. You might not be able to use your insurance at some of the smaller clinics but honestly they are still cheaper than paying the co-pay at an ER for minor illness or injuries(for example with the insurance a get at work I have to pay a minimum of $150 just to go to the ER and that doesn't include the actual cost of any treatment, just the fee to go).
As for natural disasters about the only really severe one you have to worry about is tornadoes and mainly if you live near the Oklahoma border, you go more to the east or north and those drastically reduce in frequency (probably about 80% of all tornadoes in Missouri are in the southwest corner of the state). Even then most tornadoes that are in Missouri are definitely weaker and smaller on average than say Oklahoma, Kansas, or even Arkansas. The last truly devastating one was the Joplin tornado about a decade ago and that was kind of a once in a lifetime tornado in any case.
Blizzards and ice storms really are only a major concern in the northern half of the state and are generally the norm for that region in the states surrounding Missouri's northern half, where I live we are *lucky* for it to snow at all, maybe get a single snowstorm with over two inches of snow if we get any at all. Then Ice storms really aren't all that bad as long as your city is on the ball with prep (aka making sure trees are suitably trimmed and roads are preped), more annoying than anything.
Temperature shifts aren't anything novel. It is pretty common in a lot of places to have dramatic shifts in temperatures from day and night, especially in the spring and Fall. But hell, Arizona and New Mexico can shift from almost 100° during the day and then almost hit freezing temperatures at night in a 24-hour period but no one who lives there complains about that because that is normal for arid regions. That phenomenon is fairly common in pretty much all of the states in the great plains region.
Even the earthquakes are very limited to the southeastern edge of the state and generally are very uncommon. There was a period of frequent tremors and one minor earthquake not too long ago but that only happens something like every 100 years or more so it will probably be a while before we get that level of activity again.
Basically yes, we do have all those forms of natural disasters but they are all constrained to pretty small portions of the state and the overlap is minimal, you will probably only have to ever really worry about one. The only big issue *might* be the that is honestly an issue in any state that has large rivers, honestly the flooding is far worse in Arkansas than Missouri.
In essence, at least half a dozen states have at least one or more of these issues if not half the country with Missouri definitely not being the worst in any of those categories. If anything most of those do apply to Arkansas worse than Missouri which also is one of the worst states when it comes to road accidents and has high taxes with little return for what those taxes are supposed to do. Yeah Missouri might not be the best but it is far from the worst, mainly because it doesn't try to hide it's faults like many other states do and actually does mostly try to improve.
All I can say is if anyone doesn't like it here stay out. That's how you take care of that as most of that does live here loves it here and was raised in Missouri. I had worked here all the way from when I was just 13 and I could not work anymore because of bad health that started around my late 30's now in my 40s. But you know even with that dirt pay that I earn over time I word my ASS off for still managing for the month and helping others. I even put others before me but that's how most of our in the small towns as I live in just a small town just 35 miles south of Sedalia called Warsaw Look it up it's a nice town. If anything goes wrong with any of the towns close by we help each other. As for education that also falls on the parents. But I will agree that education is not good no I did most of my learning on the outside. But it's not hard to learn just have to want to learn and most kids today do not. You can't teach if the ear is not listening. And people like you just go by what other Youtubs say and have never really been there or taken a real trip through the State before you judge.
Jayson, your wisdom is showing! 😇
STOP IT!! WER'RE TRYING TO KEEP THE IDIOTS OUT!!!!!!!
Born and raised in Misery and he's right, you DO NOT WANT TO LIVE IN MISSOURI.
We're okay with that. A bunch of weird outsiders only brings more crowding and trouble, causes housing costs and crime to rise, and brings in stupid ways of thinking that are not compatible with a Midwestern lifestyle. If you do come, leave your problems and goofy ideas behind and you'll fit in. You can be as educated and successful as you want to be here, it just requires hard work, which most people in this Country try to avoid these days. Crime, other than drug related crime and stealing, is generally confined to a few neighborhoods in the large cities, and the chances of being carjacked, robbed, or shot outside of those areas is almost non-existent, probably lower than most places despite most people carrying a firearm. Stay out of bad neighborhoods, hard drugs, out of others' business/property, and you'll live a long and healthy life. We have plenty of things to do, we have each other, we have family, that is our entertainment. Living near the ocean sucks, you're a lot more likely to be crowded, have bad traffic, high taxes, and to have your home blown away by a massive hurricane rather than damaged by a small tornado, and a tornado usually passes in moments, it doesn't torture your whole State for a week at a time. Really large ones are rare and may happen every 100 years or so. You're probably just as likely to be hit by lightning as you are to be killed by a normal tornado.
Thanks, you did an awesome job of promoting Missouri for me!
No one is living on the streets here my town... we have 20k people here
What is it let me guess Aurora
From a Missourian who appreciate my solitude I thank you!!!
This video is very misleading but I am ok with it because I don’t really want people moving here and adding to the traffic but will set a few things straight. 1) the weather. While we do get a couple days over 100 F a year we don’t get many and the same with winter below 0. Both are rare and the Spring and Fall are gorgeous. The summers can be humid in short stretches. 2) No oceans true so don’t move here if you are a surfer but if you fish or water ski there is an abundance of rivers, lakes and streams. No mountains but its very hilly if you’re a hiker. How many people actually mountain climb and how many snow ski every day? The crime? Overstated because of St Louis city but the city has only 300k residents or less while surrounding suburbs support well over 2 million and are extremely safe. Culture? Clearly, You have never been here. We have a world class zoo that is FREE, the Fox Theater is acoustic perfection, the art and history museums are first rate, Forest Park is gorgeous. The Muny and Powell Symphony Hall are historic and wonderful. St Louis is the birth place of Blues and Kansas City has arguably the world best BBQ. Economics? If you have in demand skills in IT, biology, engineering, chemistry you will do VERY well here AND your earnings will go much further with a low cost of living and lower taxes. If you don’t have any skills this state is NOT for you. Racism? Nonsense. No more so than anywhere else. People who don’t earn much its directly related to a lack of marketable skills. Education? Washington University is a top university. Top 10 in medicine. If you don’t want your children taught a lot of Marxist nonsense, this state is for you. Overall, I have been to nearly every state and I would rate Missouri very highly but please listen to this guy and don’t move here. :-)
Dont move here , we like it that way
I'm sure a lot of folks absolutely should not move to Missouri, and especially to the rural Ozarks region. If you're the kind of person who'd get pissed because your neighbor's dog pooped on your lawn, don't move to the rural Ozarks. Dogs get to run free here and they can poop wherever they want, it's the law. And there is a very good reason for that. Our dogs chase off coyotes, bears, mountain lions bobcats, and bigfoots.
If you get freaked out when you hear gunshots, don't move to the rural Ozarks. Lot's of folks hunt here and most own guns and they like to practice with them. If seeing a bloody deer in someones pickup truck bed or tied to the hood of a car would make you queasy, that's pretty common here. If you'd freak out over getting bit by a tick, don't move to the Ozarks, you are for sure going to get bit by ticks a lot here.
And it does get vicious hot here in the Summer. This year we had week long hot spells with 110º temps. And we have "Ice Storms" in the Winter. This year we had one that locked us down for about a week because we couldn't even get out of our driveways and the roads were covered with clear ice and all the roads are both hilly and curvy. We see newbies cars in the ditches every time that happens and it happens at least once most years. And when we see that in the weather forecast the local stores get bought out of stock very fast.
Finally, rural Missouri is politically very Red, and you're not going to change that. 78% of the locals where I live voted for Trump in 2020. Not a single Democrat has even ran for any of the local offices where I live for years now.
But... if you can be happy living on low wages and mind your own business and respect and embrace the Ozark culture you might love it here. You just need to be a "hillbilly" at heart.
Sounds pretty close to perfect to us!!! 🙂🙃😉
I’m in a weird spot of being a liberal hillbilly at heart, but I do love a culture based on mutual respect and enough sense to leave people alone when they wanna be. You really can’t take the South out of a man.
Gotta call BS on your food security stance - again you use govt stats not whats real in communities - communities look our for their own, that is a mid west trait that has never gone away
People needing to count on the charity of others means they have food insecurity. Seriously. Stop normalizing poverty.
And you missed the divorce rate among Missourians. Adultery is rampant throughout the state. Another is the rising occurrence of occult activities like animal sacrifices. But who wants to address either?
Missouri isn't smack dab in the middle of the US it's Kansas is in the smack dab in the middle of the US. Get your facts strait.
same as....KC, Witchita, Omaha are heartland cities
Well that's not true he was shot in the head he was charging the police officer
I get that people aren’t going here but it realy is a super cool place and in the smaller places / towns you can find hidden gems
I want to work from home and live in the most red neck trailer park in Missouri as a black man. I want to immerse my self in their culture, ways and traditions. I want to document their life style and preserve my writings for New Yorkers to read about like a Roman historian in Germany
@@ofHerWord hey do you know where Hannibal is
@@elijahnoteli2188 Ugh, no, didn't he die in Greece or something?
@@ofHerWord no Hannibal Missouri like mark Twain Hannibal
@@ofHerWord I'm from new York there's little in Missouri I need to know
Don't use the Spanish pronunciation of New Madrid, in Missouri it's pronounced locally as Mad*drid with 2 syllables not Madrid in one word as in Spanish. Locals will not like it. They'll get offended and say "We are not in Spain."
thats right with two D's also
Excellent video. Please don’t move here.
I'm moving there from Kansas, I understand what you mean.
lived here my entire life. if you dont like the weather just wait 5 minutes and it will change. bro is bringing up natural disasters like they dont happen everywhere
The last strong earthquake in New Madrid was in 1895.....
All the other "issues" are issues every state has.
The fact that we don't have the "big cities" like some other states is just a plus in my mind. It's probably why so many people that Do move here are from states like California
That's not how it happened in Fururson Mo...
There are Texans that retire up here in growing numbers in SW MO and they would greatly disagree with this video. They love it and are so happy they came!!!
SW Missouri has a dirt poor wage scale and is horrible job market for younger and middle aged people that are trying to save and invest.
@@KS5040The horror of it all, I hope that it didn’t permanently scar you.
@@richardeast3328 LOL, too bad you can't accept facts and reality like most people that live in Missouri. Most of Missouri has some of the worst wages in the country for many positions.
I@KS5040 I've lived all over the country and some foreign lands in a military family. Also worked and traveled out as an adult. Its true the wage scale here is lower, BUT the opportunity to grow is much higher. I started with nothing here after high-school in 1975, I ended up very . A lot of life is about your own attitudes.
LOL, nope lots more opportunity once people leave Missouri for jobs out in the real world.@@scottowensbyable
Your description of the Ferguson issue reveals the profound bias you have against the state of MO. According to the FBI and law enforcement "Hands Up" didn't happen -- "shot in the back" didn't happen. Except for St Louis City, nothing that you describe is accurate of the state. I wonder what you have against MO?
Exactly right. It was ONE street in a middle class mixed race neighborhood. The media pumped it up into something it wasn’t. Pure bullshit. I worked a couple miles away. I know what happened. I lost respect for the media after that. Micheal Brown rushed the officer and he was sadly shot and killed but the media fed a lie. People are now learning 2020 riots were based on a lie and selective and careful editing of video to feed a narrative. The man died from a drug overdose not police brutality.
You get excited if a city has public transportation. So you’re broke and can’t afford a car?
Lived here my whole 70 years, nothing to see here people, just keep moving along. I guess I'll just stick it out in this horrible state.
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I lived in Kansas City for 10 years. It was a great place to raise a family. Not great for singles, not so much action. Far from other major cities. I am planning on moving back to retire there. I am on the East Coast right now.
Kansas City is one of the worst place for single people around compared to other metro areas.
i moved here, found a great home in the country. People have been warm and welcoming. Taxes are low. Food and fuel are comparitively inexpensive. Of course I did not move to the city, especially St Louis. This is now my home.
People on the left, which this bozo clearly is, don't like normalcy or tradition. So they rail against states like Missouri that are extremely normal and traditional. As a black man who doesn't yet have a family of my own (wife and kids) and is still building my career and trying to secure my future financially; Missouri is the perfect place to do so. The cost of living is reasonably cheap still, despite inflation at all time highs, gas is very cheap compared to states that are exclusively "blue" (California), the weather is something you just deal with and it becomes a necessary burden once you settle into the state. Our summers are as hot as the summers in Phoenix and Nevada, our winters are cold but that happens well late into the season (January, February). In fact, the warm weather patterns last longer in Missouri than the cold stretches which only happen again, during the bulk of January and February. We have two major metropolitan areas that are in need of better leadership but Kim Gardener getting tossed by the governor was a great step in the right direction for Saint Louis. KC? Well, they've got a horrible mayor and a black population that accounts for a majority of the violent crimes and lawlessness; but that's literally every major city in America in 2023. All in all I'd rather have red state living with two moronic blue cities than the reverse. At least Missouri is so deeply red that it ultimately cancels out the insanity of the left wingers in STL and KC.
Hear hear!
The author of the video repeats EVERY single media narrative.
You need better info. Brown did not have his hands up, and the coos race had nothing to do with it, EXCEPT to make an issue of it. Disappointing.
As a Missourian, you didn’t say New Madrid right
I've lived in saint louis missouri my whole life And I still live in it
Me too and I'm 67 years old😊
Whuuut?
The best part of Missouri is the middle….
And if I had to guess probably has more total coastline than Florida, along hundreds of lakes and rivers, up in the ozark “mountains “
I had to live in Chicago for six months. Believe this…. I have no city envy. As a matter of fact scratch what I said earlier. He’s right, don’t move here.
All of these comments defending Missouri need to be ignored. It's a horrible state. The mosquitoes are awful. Everything is expensive. We're basically the next California. Don't waste your time here. We're full and I'm getting ready to move out soon.
Shush dammit! 🤫 They don't need to know 😂 don't say anything!
People may think all this, but if you actually live in Missouri, it's wonderful, besides why focus on what's bad, and if your scared of crime, just don't live in the cities, most Missourian from where I'm from don't like st Louis either, and besides crime here actually isn't that bad, Chicago and New York are WAY worse. And weather wise, we one ever really get tornadoes in April, and we only get about 2 at the most. And what place does get earthquakes, take a look at California, instead of describing Missouri, you just described California and New York,(no offense Cali and NY, those states have just really gone down hill lately.) And as I stated before Missouri is wonderful and anyone who has lived here long enough will agree. If you are from Missouri and you agree with me, like this comment, so people actually see what Missouri is like. And if I offended any one, I apologize.
Don’t apologize for offending someone, it’s on them to choose offense or not, especially if offense isn’t intended. You said nothing offensive
Meanwhile I'm constantly being surrounded by California license plates....
"St Louis does not have any weather", wrote Mark Twain, who lived there for many years, "it just gets everybody else's." St Louis is the birthplace of hotdogs (Chris Von Der Ahe, a beer garden owner who Knew nothing about baseball bought the team in 1885 known today as the Cardinals. Hired Charles Comisky to run the team. Charged 25 cents and made his money selling beer and hotdogs) and the ice cream cone (in 1904 the ice cream vendor ran out of cups, and the waffle vendor created the cone,). When I asked my New York girlfriend to marry me she replied" I guess I'm stuck in St Louis the rest of my life!" So far: 40 years 5 kids and 11 grandkids. "Best water in America!" President Teddy Roosevelt.
Harry S. Truman was from Kansas City
Far from the coasts...Perfect! Coasties suck.
Yup horrible state all the out of towners should stay away dont move here especially the small quiet town im at. No noise no crime beautiful woods all around yup its not for the weak at heart stay away
My mom left Misery years ago, and never came back!
Good riddance.
Good riddance.
We live on the IL side of the Mississippi (19 miles from downtown St Louis) and seldom return after working in STL for 5 years.
As a Missourian, someone who’s lived here all his life, I agree with *some* of the statements made here. I’m going to give my personal experience living here. Sure, it’s a boring place, apart from places like SDC in the fall and winter and White Water in the summer, which makes up the majority of Branson visits. School isn’t great, the public school I went to still uses common core teaching (you start to learn multiplying fractions and long division in 4th grade and what I can only assume is pre-algebra in the 5th), also the teachers do not care about students personal health issues either. But! There are some perks to living here. Other than these big cities like St.Louis or Kansas City, or even Jefferson City, you have places like Columbia (Mainly for the Mall of Columbia, which is pretty big, and even has a carousel in its food court!), Springfield (Albeit pretty dangerous, still has some great areas that you could walk in for hours if you find it interesting, like downtown or this one part that, while a hotspot for collage kids, is pretty fun to go to), Van Buren (Where I’m originally from, but didn’t grow up in. While it is a fairly small town with almost nothing to do, they have some of the best Ice cream I’ve ever had, and they have the Current River if you want to swim or go boating, though I’m not entirely sure if you can fish there), Fair Grove (Where I grew up, but if you come here, come here during the Fall Festival, but be sure to get there EARLY, otherwise you’ll be stuck in traffic), and probably a bunch of others that I’m missing, but these are the most notable ones for me!
This comment is pretty long, so sorry if there’s any spelling errors :)
Thanks so much for sharing your experiences!
I have lived in Missouri for over 25 years it is a great place to live yes sometimes we can have a bad winter or a hot summer. But so does most other states. I'm actually glad a lot of people are not moving to our state because when that happens housing prices go up in people can't afford to live so you're homeless population goes up. In the video it talks about crime is so bad have lived here for quite some time over 25 years crime is not as bad as this video is trying to make it sound. Missouri is just a state with a rich history lots of things to see and explore in my opinion just a great place to live or even vacation.
Looking at your channel, it seems you make way more negative videos about places than you do positive ones. Maybe you should do your research, you have a lot of inaccurate statements in this video.
Why in the absolute fuck is the "reason" at 10:00 even listed on here. This video is a horrible representation of Missouri. Alot of this isn't even true
Bub, the Ozarks are the camping capitol of the US. Brown did not get shot in the back, get that straight. Some of what you said is somewhat true but do a little more research next time. Thanks for the video, overall good job and thank you.
I don't like Missouri,I prefere Europe. Italy, France, England. Why do you live here?
I see you put in Ferguson..Brown charger the officer the quickly turned around..as far as I know.
Plus Brown was Twice the size of the Officer.
This guy knows nothing about my home state😄
This makes me want to move there even more! It's basically just Iowa where I live only a little prettier!
Theres so many holes in this story. I think he mixed us up with Florida
Ummm Michael Brown was not holding his hands up and never once said don't shoot. This has been proven false many many many times so I would suggest re editing this video and leave out your prejudiced political biases.
My former boss here in Phoenix , a highly educated professional who travels all over the west for her corporate job, told me she thought Missouri was one of the most beautiful states she had been too.
Missouri is one of the most polluted states in the country, many states are far better.
I live in MO, and I can honestly say it's NOT the best place to live.
This isn't Spain. New Madrid has the accent on the first syllable of Madrid. New MADrid.
mad-drid to true hillbilles
I live in Springfield Missouri and the only weather related thing here is the tornado warnings nothing else.
This racism, equity and inclusion stat is bogus. Interesting that you chose to compare the percentage of poor whites vs the percentage of poor blacks. In reality, 80% of the population in Missouri is white and only 11% is black. So 11% poor whites vs 26% poor blacks actually means nearly 5 times more white people are poor than black people or only 1 in 5 poor people are black.
Wow, I'm moving to Missouri side of Ozarks next summer and been watching tons of vids but you by far have the worst outlook at this place. That's OK though cuz actually most of what you see as negative, I see as positive and I'll roll with other Missourians and say "please keep bad mouthing, keeps people away"
Missouri Ozarks are nasty tick and mosquito infested areas with awful levels of heat and humidity that go on for a very long time.
@@KS5040troll much? You’re all over these comments with your ignorance. Don’t hate on the country because you come from an urban toilet.
My folks retired to Nixa, by Springfield. Originally from Callaway county. Beautiful area. Great people. Super low crime rates. KC and St. Louis are different worlds in comparison
I think there was more to the Michael Brown story than stated here.
This video is so off and inaccurate with its picture of missouri that i'm not even gonna finish half of the video!!!
It hits above 100 for consecutive weeks all the damn time