One thing I noticed Joe about these small towns is that the main streets were very clean ! It seems they take pride in their main streets. I would have loved to see them when they were first settled & built up. I bet they were quite beautiful with the citizens eager to have them thrive ! Thank you for taking me along !! Your videos always make my day a GOOD day ! 😊😊
@@jefftrego8491 Most people in rural Kansas (western half) are all about water mining and destroying the water table (Ogallala Aquifer) to make more money by irrigating corn in a near desert climate. The height of arrogance and stupidity. If you do some research that would be called "The Tragedy of the Commons."
Born there. (Caney) It was a great place to grow up in the 60s and 70s. Hiway use to run thru downtown. Bowling Alley, Movie Theater, High School were all downtown. Drive In Theater just east of town..it was awesome. In the late 70s, things changed quickly and it has never recovered. Sad.
I really like your Videos because otherwise I would never be able to see and witness these scenes forever. Who would naturally go to places like this ? I will always encourage you two. I wish your ALWAYS happy, healthy, safe and lucky on every path your take. Thanks JOE & NIC 🍀
Another great video. Sedan Kansas is the birthplace of Emmett Kelly. Notable people born in these towns might be a fun fact to add to your narration. Very enjoyable, as always.
I always feel sad seeing abandoned houses, especially when they are older ones as they would have had a lot of memories associated with them. I do love how some of the down town areas have such lovely architecture, would love to have been born earlier and lived in one of these towns in it's heyday. Thank you again for a great video.
I never cease to be amazed by the beautiful architecture in these small towns. Those four beautiful, stately churches so close to each other are just wild!
I love how it opens with those two Silo's. 💛 I loved all of the towns. If I ever go by Sedan, I'll have to go to that theater. 🎭 If I go to any of those towns, I'll visit all of there businesses. 🤎
Just discovered your videos . Enjoy very much. You and wife be me and my wife favorite go to station on u-tube TV. We from Rockdale Texas . The food ya’ll order sure looks good and they or proud of it from the prices. You’re videos be best thing on TV these days . Thanks !
We have been watching your shows since you began. The question we always have, especially in almost dead towns is where do they work? It would be an interesting bit to add to your statistics.
I agree. He did that in the small town in Missouri which had an influx of Sudanese refugees. They worked in the Tyson plant.America needs immigrants to work.
No, not much wealth, most people stay poorer by buying expensive depreciating assets like overpriced cars. The severely depressed housing prices tell all you need to know about the demand to live in the area and how many people are leaving as fast as they can.
@@KS5040 I live in a very similar example of these areas in Australia. Same thing with ruins and empty shops and poverty however the surrounding farmers are very cashed up but invest nothing in the local towns while they drive around in brand new RAMs, F-250s and Land Cruisers moaning about how hard up they are. Guessing not much different in the US.
@@AnyoneSeenMikeHunt Yeah, same rural attitudes, and then the older people wonder why all the younger generations leave as fast as they can for better opportunities in the larger cities.
Thanks for sharing. Actually all 3 of these towns are nice. Yes, they have downfalls, but they seem quaint and neighborly. You have a great day and safe travels.
Great episode…have driven thru Kansas and took roads less traveled…was amazing those what ghosts towns have developed..interestingly enough very clean relatively speaking
You always do a great job of investigating these towns and cities. Very sad they can't be fixed up due to lack of money. We miss seeing Nic and you at the restaurants at the end. Hope she returns soon. Have not seen her in many moons! Miss her input. ❤
Thanks Joe for showing us mid-America. I live in Washington State and it is mind blowing to see such poverty. The mid-priced homes of $35,000 sure beats the mid-priced homes in the Seattle- Bellevue area of $1,500.000.
I really enjoy your videos and am amazed at some of the statistics for the towns. I can't figure out grocery category though and the fluctuations for that. The poverty rates for the elderly always interest me due to my retired age as well. The condition of some of the older homes is heart breaking when you see the beautiful architecture slowly rotting away. Thank you for sharing the information!!
Interesting and relaxing video as always. Can't imagine so many churches so close together. So much decay. Like you said, no money to tear things down, or fix them up.❤😊
A very nice, if overall depressing video. My sister-in-law because of becoming disabled and loosing the ability to work sold her house and bought a much much smaller, and much much older (over 100+ years) house in Weir KS. My son and I worked many months in 2024 to make it livable...it literally started out much like some of the "not quite" collapsing houses in your video. It is so sad seeing these structures fall apart. Such are the works of man... Have a safe trip to Oklahoma.
Caney mirrors Hominy Oklahoma. Peoples homes are run down but there's new vehicles in the driveway/yard. There's what could be beautiful homes only no one has the desire to put in an effort. It's frustrating. If you want to visit a thriving small town, visit Sterling Kansas ❤ (I'm very partial, grew up there) Sterling truly is part of the "Heartbeat of America". Oh and make sure you go to beautiful Wilson Lake then to Lucas Kansas and tour "The Garden of Eden!" (Lucas is another small town ❤ Hugs from Oklahoma ~Christy
Joe&NIC late happy new year 2025, I retire soon, so I started cleaning up my old hometown house that I inherited. I removed a lot of bamboo and seeds, vines. It will take 1-2 years to repair house DIY. I plan to spend time in my hometown when I turn 65. sad to see abandoned houses always but It must be the cycle of great nature . Have a good time ~
The old house at 1:40, is likely inhabited. Look at the clean recycling bin at the curb and the Halloween pumpkins and gourds on the front steps. If they were more than a few months old, they would have rotted and disappeared. Frightening indeed.
Not a lot going on in Cedar Vale, it's a one cat town 😊 Shame about some of the houses falling apart, I imagine there might be asbestos in some of them so they can't be refurbished.
12:14 wow that house is in the 100k to 200 k bracket. 200 k for that house is dirt cheap. It would cost well over a million in my country. Several million if it was located in the Amsterdam area, or Randstad in general ( most expensive part of the country)
I always wonder what it would be like to live in towns that small. Would it be nice and quiet, or too quiet? At least we get a look at such places through your captivating videos! ❤
If you watch the channel regularly, you’ll see that some of the small towns that Joe drives through are growing! Some are even at peak population. It probably all depends on location.
$39,000 thousand dollars a year that is poverty It's almost like $85,000 to $93,000 in Hawaii is not enough a year . 🐈 ? Did the little town of Caney have any cats ? Joe and Nick I'm over here in Springfield MO I enjoy your videos I'm not from Springfield I'm from St Louis originally Dexter Lombardo 🧔🤠👋👍🐈🛣️
I would love to renovate one of those old brick buildings and live upstairs and sell stuff downstairs, but it's kind of a pipedream I think. You'd basically have to set up a web store and hope to sell stuff there.
Sell to who? Notice near all the stores are closed? That is why these towns are the way they are. Nobody to sell anything to. You could set up a webstore and shipping will kill you.
I am always amazed at the high rate of child poverty in most places. We can do better. One of the reasons people leave their homes is because they grow up poor which affects them their whole life.
@@MarlinWilliams-ts5ul No, rural Kansas wages are bottom of the barrel. The median household incomes are generally inflated by some wealthy farmers and ranches that have huge land holdings. The towns themselves have next to no tax base, that's why population goes down 10-15% every 10 years, because everyone that can leave for better opportunities elsewhere moves away.
Sad that the economics of house renovation precludes fixing up these once beautiful, now decaying old houses. I spent $50,000 to renovate a modest townhouse, but it makes sense in high house valued Annapolis, Maryland. In these small towns, you can’t invest that kind of money in a house barely worth the cost of a new car.
1:58 Ain't no way that house is insured (if someone lives there.) Heck, our roof had some slight water stains (no leaking) and our insurance company was going to drop us unless we replaced it
Caney was the Dalton land. Coal country when it's all played out. Great vlog. Next door in Galena Don Johnson was a resident. Big Brutus is a symbol of caneys decline. Sedan is home to Emmett Kelley the template for circus clowns.
Por favor, In your a future episode, please try to include Macon, Missouri. An awesome farm-town north central Missouri at the junction of Hwy 36 & Hwy 63. An interesting tidbit, in 1872, a man named John Beaumont donated 10,000 maple trees in exchange for a payment of back taxes of $116.00. Because of these 10,000 trees, Macon has been also known as "The City of Maples".
Hi Nic and Joe, loving your content - as always. If you’re going to Nebraska, can I put word in for Beatrice? I have family ties there, but I live in Canada and have never been. Anyway, that’s my request, but I’ll enjoy it no matter where you go. Cheers
Have a feeling Cedar Vale Is probably like many small towns with crime problems Probably drugs mixed with the associated Property crimes. Another great video!
Have you visited Quenemo? It's in Osage County, near Pomona Dam. I grew up there in the late 60's and early 70's. My folks grew up there too. Our Senior class had 18 students, the biggest class since my parents graduated in 1958. At the turn of the Century, it was a booming railroad town until the depression and severe drought and then flooding. The town's nickname, "Swamptown" derives from the old swamps that were drained by drought during the dustbowl days. The town was nearly destroyed in the 1951 flood. My mother was 11yrs old and had wished for 10" inches of rain to fill her horse trough/pool, that was the day before it started raining. The name "Quenemo" came from Chief Quenemo of the Sac and Fox Indians.
@@LikeBlowingintheWind Thanks, there's so much history in our small towns. It's a shame they're dying out. But as my Mother used to say "This too shall pass".
Cedar Vale is quite the sad town based on this video. Normally you get a handful of derelict structures in every town, but Cedar Vale seems to have more rundown shanties than well-maintained houses. And then you think that at least some of them are probably still inhabited. Makes you wonder how the disrepair can even get that bad, especially when it's endemic to the entire town. Goes with the high crime rate I suppose. I agree with Joe, that makes you really wonder what in the world is going on there. I wish it was easier to get all these answers. I, and I'm sure many others, have such a macabre fascination with the downtrodden and decrepit.
Cost of living is actually close to the national average as all the derelict and abandoned housing stock drives down the prices of many of the other houses To get anything decent in livable condition that doesn't need a massive amount of work will be at least $100-150K+ in these decayed out rural areas that have been losing population nonstop for 100 years or more.
I am really shocked to see such decaying towns in a rich country. Govt has to take some measures to retain rural population by creating job opportunities. Thanks for sharing.
How? As the Republicans say, government is not the answer. As Joe has repeatedly shown us, this country is littered with these decaying small towns. The government, try as it might, cannot wave a wand and create new job opportunities. For one, it would be prohibitively expensive. Nor can it force people to live where they don’t wish to. These small towns blossomed because of the economics of a different time. They are disappearing, primarily, because the farming economy has radically changed. Local governments are hard pressed just to knock down decaying houses let alone create job opportunities. Those who have unrivaled wealth, like Elon Musk, would rather invest their billions on creating living environments on Mars than rural Kansas.
Worst thing to hear, “ok everyone that’s the end of this one” 😕. Thanks for the video Joe! Makes my day every time.
Makes me sad too!😢 love their vlogs.
Went so fast. Thank you Joe and Nick for a wonderful video. Forever your fan, from Renton Washington State.
One thing I noticed Joe about these small towns is that the main streets were very clean ! It seems they take pride in their main streets. I would have loved to see them when they were first settled & built up. I bet they were quite beautiful with the citizens eager to have them thrive ! Thank you for taking me along !! Your videos always make my day a GOOD day ! 😊😊
Yes WE actually care about our environment here!! 😊
@@jefftrego8491 Most people in rural Kansas (western half) are all about water mining and destroying the water table (Ogallala Aquifer) to make more money by irrigating corn in a near desert climate. The height of arrogance and stupidity. If you do some research that would be called "The Tragedy of the Commons."
Once upon a time those houses had happy people living in them. Nothing is forever
I grew up in Caney in the 50’s and 60’s, it was a thriving town back then, sad to see it today
Thank you for letting us see these locations, true pioneers. Always excited for new locations
Hello Joe, I love seeing all the interesting old houses. All the architectural designs of days gone by. 🙂
Born there. (Caney) It was a great place to grow up in the 60s and 70s. Hiway use to run thru downtown. Bowling Alley, Movie Theater, High School were all downtown. Drive In Theater just east of town..it was awesome. In the late 70s, things changed quickly and it has never recovered. Sad.
Near to I35...
@@MM-ks7vs Was I35 the "culprit" for the towns decreasing population? btw G'day from Australia.
I really like your Videos because otherwise I would never be able to see and witness these scenes forever. Who would naturally go to places like this ? I will always encourage you two. I wish your ALWAYS happy, healthy, safe and lucky on every path your take. Thanks JOE & NIC 🍀
Thank you for the kind words!!
Another great video.
Sedan Kansas is the birthplace of Emmett Kelly.
Notable people born in these towns might be a fun fact to add to your narration.
Very enjoyable, as always.
14:08 is the Cedar Vale Nursing Center that closed down around the 2010s.
I was wondering if that is what it was.
Great video, as usual! You never cease to amaze.
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Wow, thank you! ☺️😀
Never cease to amaze. How?
I always feel sad seeing abandoned houses, especially when they are older ones as they would have had a lot of memories associated with them. I do love how some of the down town areas have such lovely architecture, would love to have been born earlier and lived in one of these towns in it's heyday. Thank you again for a great video.
You’re welcome!!!
Joe, would love to be in the rumble seat as you tour our magnificent country, town by town. I enjoy these videos very much. Blessings from Michigan.
Thanks for another interesting video, Joe. I love Kansas. It's such a beautiful and diverse state
Really enjoy your town tours Joe. Great narration, you have a radio voice sir.
I never cease to be amazed by the beautiful architecture in these small towns. Those four beautiful, stately churches so close to each other are just wild!
I love how it opens with those two Silo's. 💛 I loved all of the towns. If I ever go by Sedan, I'll have to go to that theater. 🎭 If I go to any of those towns, I'll visit all of there businesses. 🤎
Just discovered your videos . Enjoy very much. You and wife be me and my wife favorite go to station on u-tube TV. We from Rockdale Texas . The food ya’ll order sure looks good and they or proud of it from the prices. You’re videos be best thing on TV these days . Thanks !
Oh how exciting, you're close to Iola, Humboldt and chanute😊. All South east corner of kansas has quite a few super small run down towns.
About an hour North of where I grew up thanks Joe!
Came to show my support. Thanks for sharing and have a great day. 🌹☕👍
Thank you, Gregg!!
Creepy and lonely towns Can't wait to see next video. Thanks for the show Joe and Nic
Some nice old houses in Caney. Sedan looks nice. Love the courthouse. The house in Cedar Vale that burned is sad. Looking forward to your OK video!
We have been watching your shows since you began. The question we always have, especially in almost dead towns is where do they work? It would be an interesting bit to add to your statistics.
I agree. He did that in the small town in Missouri which had an influx of Sudanese refugees. They worked in the Tyson plant.America needs immigrants to work.
I to think about this question. In the hay days what was it that brought the population boom, too?
These towns must have more money than first impressions would allude given the amount of relatively expensive cars and trucks around the place.
There is a lot of wealth out there. I will guarantee you there are millionaires in these towns.
No, not much wealth, most people stay poorer by buying expensive depreciating assets like overpriced cars. The severely depressed housing prices tell all you need to know about the demand to live in the area and how many people are leaving as fast as they can.
@@KS5040 I live in a very similar example of these areas in Australia. Same thing with ruins and empty shops and poverty however the surrounding farmers are very cashed up but invest nothing in the local towns while they drive around in brand new RAMs, F-250s and Land Cruisers moaning about how hard up they are. Guessing not much different in the US.
@@AnyoneSeenMikeHunt Yeah, same rural attitudes, and then the older people wonder why all the younger generations leave as fast as they can for better opportunities in the larger cities.
@safepetproducts the older ones call themselves "land poor"
That old house with the right amount of money Could Be Amazing to rehab!
Kansas towns, with glow of past century, shadows lengthening at present, still with a cool look. Liked. Thanks.
Your video recordings from the moving car have a high documentary value. Thanks for the good work. Joe and Nic forever 🇺🇲
Wow, thanks!!
Another great video, thanks. I'm anxious to see your next one in OK, my Dad's family was from there.
The houses look pretty fancy. Good retirement prospect.
I missed that bit, Saw lots of thing crumbling. Which town was this?
Thanks for sharing. Actually all 3 of these towns are nice. Yes, they have downfalls, but they seem quaint and neighborly. You have a great day and safe travels.
I always look forward to your videos Joe and Nic.All the best from Albury NSW Australia.
Great episode…have driven thru Kansas and took roads less traveled…was amazing those what ghosts towns have developed..interestingly enough very clean relatively speaking
Grew up in SE Nebraska. When 18, we drove down to Kansas to buy 3.2 beer. What an adventure!!
You always do a great job of investigating these towns and cities. Very sad they can't be fixed up due to lack of money. We miss seeing Nic and you at the restaurants at the end. Hope she returns soon. Have not seen her in many moons! Miss her input. ❤
Bud McClure was the Case dealer in Caney until 1985.
Thanks for the info. 🤎
thanks joe from scotland,uk.
A great video as always, fascinating towns! I love the old theatre! Thanks so much, Joe and Nic.😊💚
Hopefully someone else will take up the mantle when they're sick of travelling. I'd love to, just don't have the time or money .
Thank you for being awesome as usual, CL!!
Thanks Joe, always a good visit
Thanks, Rob!!
Great videos as usual ❤ thank you
Thanks for watching! 👍
You have nice videos, not just showing towns but History as well.
Would be cool to see you check out Council Grove KS, Cottonwood Falls KS. CG is on the Historic Registry.
I’ll put it on my list!
Francis Thompson my Aunt was from that area I loved visiting there as a child
Waverly,Lebo, Agricola where I grew up I miss there so much I miss the country life for sure
Hey Joe, thanx for sharing. Thought I saw peak pop in 1940.? Love these Vids, keep them coming. Best to You and Nic in 2025. 😃
Thanks Joe for showing us mid-America. I live in Washington State and it is mind blowing to see such poverty. The mid-priced homes of $35,000 sure beats the mid-priced homes in the Seattle- Bellevue area of $1,500.000.
It’s crazy, isn’t it? Thank you for the comment, Larry.
I played football and wrestled in these towns. I lived in Beaumont and attended Bluestem Leon school
as of the 2020 census there were 36 people living in Beaumont 😮
@ yes we moved there from Texas and turned it on its head if you could imagine. It was the last of the heydays
Love it when you say alot of stuff !!!!
living in kansas now i enjoy seeing other parts of the state
I really enjoy your videos and am amazed at some of the statistics for the towns. I can't figure out grocery category though and the fluctuations for that. The poverty rates for the elderly always interest me due to my retired age as well. The condition of some of the older homes is heart breaking when you see the beautiful architecture slowly rotting away. Thank you for sharing the information!!
Interesting and relaxing video as always. Can't imagine so many churches so close together. So much decay. Like you said, no money to tear things down, or fix them up.❤😊
Thumbs-up again for you, Joe.
A very nice, if overall depressing video. My sister-in-law because of becoming disabled and loosing the ability to work sold her house and bought a much much smaller, and much much older (over 100+ years) house in Weir KS. My son and I worked many months in 2024 to make it livable...it literally started out much like some of the "not quite" collapsing houses in your video. It is so sad seeing these structures fall apart. Such are the works of man... Have a safe trip to Oklahoma.
Caney mirrors Hominy Oklahoma. Peoples homes are run down but there's new vehicles in the driveway/yard. There's what could be beautiful homes only no one has the desire to put in an effort. It's frustrating.
If you want to visit a thriving small town, visit Sterling Kansas ❤ (I'm very partial, grew up there) Sterling truly is part of the "Heartbeat of America". Oh and make sure you go to beautiful Wilson Lake then to Lucas Kansas and tour "The Garden of Eden!" (Lucas is another small town ❤
Hugs from Oklahoma ~Christy
Joe&NIC late happy new year 2025, I retire soon, so I started cleaning up my old hometown house that I inherited. I removed a lot of bamboo and seeds, vines. It will take 1-2 years to repair house DIY. I plan to spend time in my hometown when I turn 65. sad to see abandoned houses always but It must be the cycle of great nature . Have a good time ~
Since I am from Oklahoma, eagerly awaiting your next videos.
I am as well. I always enjoy spending time in my home state. 😀👍
Missed you all doing a Christmas show this year…..I enjoyed last years . I am enjoying your travels😊
I have a friend that lives in Shaw Kansas which is east of these town. A spot in the road
Thank you very much
The old house at 1:40, is likely inhabited. Look at the clean recycling bin at the curb and the Halloween pumpkins and gourds on the front steps. If they were more than a few months old, they would have rotted and disappeared. Frightening indeed.
Caney looks pretty tolerable. When you go to western Kansas, check out Ellis, where Walter Chrysler grew up. Really beautiful in the summer.
GREAT VIDEO JOE HI NIC ❤
Not a lot going on in Cedar Vale, it's a one cat town 😊 Shame about some of the houses falling apart, I imagine there might be asbestos in some of them so they can't be refurbished.
As with me, those wrap around porches really catch your eye Joe!
I agree!
Thank you 😊
Both of my parents are from Cedar Vale been there many times to see the grandparents.
12:14 wow that house is in the 100k to 200 k bracket. 200 k for that house is dirt cheap. It would cost well over a million in my country. Several million if it was located in the Amsterdam area, or Randstad in general ( most expensive part of the country)
I always wonder what it would be like to live in towns that small. Would it be nice and quiet, or too quiet? At least we get a look at such places through your captivating videos! ❤
Do you think it’s by design all the small cities dry up, and everyone moves to the “big” cities ?
If you watch the channel regularly, you’ll see that some of the small towns that Joe drives through are growing! Some are even at peak population. It probably all depends on location.
@ I watch regularly . I was making a comment about society
Been there many times. My Wife has family that live there. But on the outside of town.
Hello Nic, it was a car in the driveway on the two-story house in Caney. You stated, "You guess no one lives there." 🤷🏾♀️
Nic is his wife. Joe is the narrator.😊
Nic did not say that. It was Joe. This was the JOE road trip it seems.
$39,000 thousand dollars a year that is poverty
It's almost like $85,000 to $93,000 in Hawaii is not enough a year .
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Did the little town of Caney have any cats ?
Joe and Nick I'm over here in Springfield MO
I enjoy your videos
I'm not from Springfield
I'm from St Louis originally
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Joe. Not sure when you shot this video, but Kansas just got hammered with a winter storm. Drive safely my friend. 👍🏻✌️
evening, we lived in Nebraska small town over towards east Brock my parents were married in hiawatha kansas , moved to Wasdhington st , Seahawks!
I would love to renovate one of those old brick buildings and live upstairs and sell stuff downstairs, but it's kind of a pipedream I think. You'd basically have to set up a web store and hope to sell stuff there.
Sell to who? Notice near all the stores are closed? That is why these towns are the way they are. Nobody to sell anything to. You could set up a webstore and shipping will kill you.
@ Ya ya, I get it. Pipedream. That said, you can buy a sweet old building dirt cheap and renovate it and live like a king.
I am always amazed at the high rate of child poverty in most places. We can do better. One of the reasons people leave their homes is because they grow up poor which affects them their whole life.
Poverty stats are relative. Looks like you can live a pretty good life in those towns, plenty of space and open sky.
@@MarlinWilliams-ts5ul No, rural Kansas wages are bottom of the barrel. The median household incomes are generally inflated by some wealthy farmers and ranches that have huge land holdings. The towns themselves have next to no tax base, that's why population goes down 10-15% every 10 years, because everyone that can leave for better opportunities elsewhere moves away.
@@KS5040 Thanks for the incite!
Sad that the economics of house renovation precludes fixing up these once beautiful, now decaying old houses. I spent $50,000 to renovate a modest townhouse, but it makes sense in high house valued Annapolis, Maryland. In these small towns, you can’t invest that kind of money in a house barely worth the cost of a new car.
Great video again!
How many miles on bronco keep up the good work I enjoy I have been to a lot of the places when I was younger
That one place at the last town looked like it was a nursing home.
1:58 Ain't no way that house is insured (if someone lives there.) Heck, our roof had some slight water stains (no leaking) and our insurance company was going to drop us unless we replaced it
Caney was the Dalton land. Coal country when it's all played out. Great vlog. Next door in Galena Don Johnson was a resident. Big Brutus is a symbol of caneys decline. Sedan is home to Emmett Kelley the template for circus clowns.
Por favor, In your a future episode, please try to include Macon, Missouri. An awesome farm-town north central Missouri at the junction of Hwy 36 & Hwy 63. An interesting tidbit, in 1872, a man named John Beaumont donated 10,000 maple trees in exchange for a payment of back taxes of $116.00. Because of these 10,000 trees, Macon has been also known as "The City of Maples".
I’ll put it on my list!
Great video❤❤❤
Appreciate it! 👍
In Texas they have a town called New Caney. Nice video. Good Evening from Nepal we had Earthquake here today.
Its a shame to see theses towns and homes in so poor condition some theses would building and homes would be worth restoring
Nothing like a mid week bonus video
Thanks!!
You guys eventually will deserve some kind of recognition from the Smithsonian for your travels.
good road trip
Hi Nic and Joe, loving your content - as always. If you’re going to Nebraska, can I put word in for Beatrice? I have family ties there, but I live in Canada and have never been. Anyway, that’s my request, but I’ll enjoy it no matter where you go. Cheers
Since you asked so nicely, yes, I will put it on my list! We’ll be stopping in Nebraska this summer on our way to, guess where….Canada!! 😀👍
@ fantastic! What regions of Canada are you looking at exploring?
Have a feeling Cedar Vale Is probably like many small towns with crime problems Probably drugs mixed with the associated Property crimes. Another great video!
Thank you!!
Joey, are looking for the most depressing places to see. I really wish there was a formula to revitalize these towns.
Too many tornados here; tornado alley!
In these small towns you should look for bowling alleys. Some of them might be of the 6 to 8 lanes houses
1 cat 🐈 😻
Some people do live in them boarded up homes 🏚🏘 I've sadly personally seen it. I liked that like house 🏠 though Joey 🧔🏼♂️.
Have you visited Quenemo? It's in Osage County, near Pomona Dam. I grew up there in the late 60's and early 70's. My folks grew up there too. Our Senior class had 18 students, the biggest class since my parents graduated in 1958. At the turn of the Century, it was a booming railroad town until the depression and severe drought and then flooding. The town's nickname, "Swamptown" derives from the old swamps that were drained by drought during the dustbowl days. The town was nearly destroyed in the 1951 flood. My mother was 11yrs old and had wished for 10" inches of rain to fill her horse trough/pool, that was the day before it started raining. The name "Quenemo" came from Chief Quenemo of the Sac and Fox Indians.
This is the information that I wish he would put in his videos for context.
@@LikeBlowingintheWind Thanks, there's so much history in our small towns. It's a shame they're dying out. But as my Mother used to say "This too shall pass".
Cedar Vale is quite the sad town based on this video. Normally you get a handful of derelict structures in every town, but Cedar Vale seems to have more rundown shanties than well-maintained houses. And then you think that at least some of them are probably still inhabited. Makes you wonder how the disrepair can even get that bad, especially when it's endemic to the entire town. Goes with the high crime rate I suppose. I agree with Joe, that makes you really wonder what in the world is going on there. I wish it was easier to get all these answers. I, and I'm sure many others, have such a macabre fascination with the downtrodden and decrepit.
Petticoat Junction , Green Acres territory . Or as Miss Gabor used to say Hooters--ville !
Cost of living is actually close to the national average as all the derelict and abandoned housing stock drives down the prices of many of the other houses To get anything decent in livable condition that doesn't need a massive amount of work will be at least $100-150K+ in these decayed out rural areas that have been losing population nonstop for 100 years or more.
Unoccupied or rental houses do not enter into the calculation of median home values. Those figures are for owner-occupied units only.
I am really shocked to see such decaying towns in a rich country. Govt has to take some measures to retain rural population by creating job opportunities. Thanks for sharing.
Government is the cause of our decay! More government, less liberty and less production…
How? As the Republicans say, government is not the answer. As Joe has repeatedly shown us, this country is littered with these decaying small towns. The government, try as it might, cannot wave a wand and create new job opportunities. For one, it would be prohibitively expensive. Nor can it force people to live where they don’t wish to. These small towns blossomed because of the economics of a different time. They are disappearing, primarily, because the farming economy has radically changed. Local governments are hard pressed just to knock down decaying houses let alone create job opportunities. Those who have unrivaled wealth, like Elon Musk, would rather invest their billions on creating living environments on Mars than rural Kansas.
American government is run by and for oligarchs. Why would they care?