I moved to a smaller town probably about 20 days ago roughly. I like it better in the smaller town. No shootings, no police chases nice quiet and peaceful. I love this smaller town.
I'm 67, born in Seattle, looking to leave. I understand the desperation of homeless people; I've been there. Now that I have a place, just getting tired of petty theft.
@@monetschannel5773 no, the powers that be there are the problem. Not stopping Antifa and BLM from destroying it. Not stopping the homeless problem. Biden can’t even take care of his own self
@@robinmartz9052 Seattle was an awesome city. It started changing 10 years ago. I love Seattle, minus the ridiculous traffic but something has to change up there.
@@noahhowellstone1264 Good for you. Unless you spent your whole life voting Blue no Matter Who, and then dicthed out after wrecking the place, like so many in Hollywood are also doing...because they are financially able to do so. Funny how there is a Hollywood trend to buy a ranch home in Wyoming, which they will live at just long enough to get residency (and lower taxes), and then support garbage candidates with garbage policies in CA.
My family is from West Virginia. I don't about Charleston but the people in the rural areas don't find it boring. They are outdoor people and have hiking, fishing, hunting, ATX driving the dirt roads, and seeing the natural beauty along with peaceful life. And a big one since family and relatives are usually not far away, time with family and friends.
@@r.pres.4121 , I have lived in the mountains, I have lived on farms, I have lived in small towns and I have lived in cities. Cities suck. The country life is ten times better than every city I have lived in and I have lived in a lot of them.
@@kristinebailey2804 , I didn't enjoy the constant traffic, road rage, rude people, smell of garbage, drunk neighbor's fighting or knocking on my door at 3 am, which was all associated with city life. It was just disgusting. I have never had to deal with any of that drama out here in the sticks.
@@paulstellwag1215 Paul, I spent my young years commercial fishing in Kodiak started set netting at 13 and was fishing seiners by 16, skiffman! I love Kodiak but just for the summers. Yes, it a glorious place.
@@eugenschauman5599 ???? No. Pandemic related. The pandemic doesn’t have a party affiliation. It happened under Trumps watch if that’s where you are going with this
We aren’t supposed to be living in artificial and fake units known as gated communities and contributing to over population and pollution. It’s not a healthy way to live.
Especially for children. No wonder they come up missing. When you live among 2 million people "everybody knows everybody" would become a joke. A dangerous joke.
@Peter Russell I live on a dirt road. We have a community that comes together to keep the roads usable. We have local swap meets and farmers markets to sell locally grown produce. If you enjoy feeling superior living in a city, that’s normal. Cities stimulate the ego. We enjoy the peace and quiet of nature, which usually doesn’t stimulate the ego. But it enriches the heart and dare I say soul. To each his own, but please be aware the pioneers did not have big city taxes as they headed into the wilderness.
Even though Austin is supposedly the“hip” place to be, I got the heck out of there last month. Not gonna tell u where I moved to cause isolation is paramount! :)
@@kellysaunooke740 Practically all major cities in Texas are Democrat shitheaps, with the exception of Lubbock. At least it wasn't when I lived there 17 years ago. Now I'm not sure.
It's overcrowded, it's NYC west in N. Jersey, over 17,000 ppl per sq. mi in the city. The city is a total of 21.13 square miles with only 14.74 square miles of that being land unaffordable enough for everyone to live on. I remember many years ago when JC was nothing like it is today within those very same boundaries. What do you expect when the real people that make up a city are priced out by high-ri$e land value$. It eventually makes the city less affordable and desirable for the people with roots there and those who are moving into in. Gentrification works like a thorn in a city's backend due to the lack of proper urban planning and opportunistic developers. This will continue happening all across America while losing many of the precious cultural jems that many of our city's have produced along the way. This all reminds me of the my favorite 90's cartoon, "Pinky and the Brain."
@@jairousparker2311 I know what you're talking about. I used to go crabbing in Jersey City and the waterfront was beautiful opened land. Recently I went back there to visit my mom and was shocked to see so much change. I literally didn't recognize the city.
@Jill OfAllArts There are lots of places where not everyone is carrying a gun lol. Not sure why you would feel unsafe if everyone is carrying a gun? But ok. Lots of places is the Midwest, smaller towns outside big cities. Towns and cities with huge new developments and industries and companies moving in. Super cheap housing and very safe.
@@jonlouis2582 We spent 22 years retired in NW Florida. I was thinking how poor and run down some small Florida towns were ...... until I watched videos of southern Illinois. Not only that, most states of run down slum areas with nothing to do except trash others' property.
History does not repeat, it rhymes and NYC is getting back to the 70's and they don't even know what changed the city back then. Hint it was an orange man that the media keep saying is very bad, he encouraged stores to move to 5'th avenue, refurbished old buildings and built new ones, because he actually has a vision of what prosperity looks like and was correct. I'm sure De'blasio knows what to do, or he will do what he says and buy what the city wants at cheap prices and house the homeless.
Well, not enough people are moving out in SF and Silicon valley. I wish people would move out so I can buy a nice home without paying millions of dollars for it.
Exactly, these people in big cities have seen the massive decline in quality of life, massive increase in cost of living, yet they keep voting for the same Democratic politicans that got them into the mess.. they never learn
@Hispanic American Republican states are poor... quality of life is a joke...democratic cities are not so good as well... compared to the world the US doesn't rank in the top 20 for quality of life... compared to the 1st world the USA is a dangerous place (Republican and Democratic cities) Compared to the world the US education isn't the best nor the cheapest... compared to the world the US healthcare is expensive... so yea ...Republicans and Democrats are at fault) ... it's not just cities... it's the quality of life and policies that they have and follow
@@Simbecile What a typical elitist thing to say, only your stats are worthy? Real estate, jobs, education-they're all local issues, so yes cities will be judged, not states. There's a reason why migration patterns show people fleeing blue cities-Covid just expedited what was occurring already. Enjoy your blue elitist attitude, Im sure you're in a gated community with armed security guards...must be nice.
Is there a middle option for the question at the end? I've been lookin at both cities with a population of 100-300k and small towns of about 5-10k. Though the riots over the past year have pushed me towards the later. I get the anger, but I just don't want to run the risk of my business being destroyed (if I get to that point) or losing a paycheck because the place I work at has to be closed down for two weeks over repairs every time a cop shoots someone regardless of who attacked who first.
Moved from podunk Texas to Raleigh NC and I'm quietly freaking out inside. I have this in my head (( when shtf I'm going to die here! )). Ready for the country and a victory garden with chickens and guns. LOL
These places started to sink long before 2021. The statement made at the beginning, saying people didn’t moved move during Trump era isn’t true. There are a lot of remarks in this video that aren’t actual facts!
@@michaelmerck7576 giving false information is a problem, he needs to provide correct information without politicizing. The county is already divided Personally I think these channels are better off not taking any political side.
@@stephenc2481 finishing school, finding a new place to live, several other things, it was just coincidence we were cruising 90 over downtown at the time.
left Akron in 81 for TX, sorry i didn't leave earlier, parents are buried in Cleveland, cemetary is not safe to visit alone, really sad. good luck and glad you got out
It is such heartache about Detroit. A drive through shows that there was once money there. They had such pretty houses at one time, now all falling down.
I hear that. I grew up there in the 60s before the '67 riots. Downtown was awesome, the neighborhoods were well kept and safe. It's like going to another planet when I go back now and drive around. Downtown district isn't half bad and they are trying to rebuild but no doubt it'll never see those glory days again.
@@lawrencefox563 Right on Laurence, i watched our small towns turn from prosperous little businesses, to what they have become, second hand stores. I walked through the streets of south Korea on dirt roads in the early seventies and saw hovels, now all their little towns are flourishing with nice stores and beautiful paved roads and new homes. What the hell happened?
@@baileysmith7086 yeah dont get me wrong, I loved growing up in Shreveport/bossier.. but I know what I was exposed to growing up in the heart of the city and I dont necessarily want my kids exposed to it if possible.. its just getting worse as time goes on.
Hawaii has 8 Islands and they are all very different. You showed a photo of the City of Honolulu, which is the Island of Oahu, then you mentioned if people are leaving because of the Volcano. The Kilauea Volcano has been erupting for 40 years on the Big Island of Hawaii (different Island then Oahu) so people that live on the Big Island are use to the Volcano. Anytime anyone mentions Hawaii, they need to specify which Hawaiian Island they are talking about. They are ALL different in land size, infrastructure, population and economy.
@@BorninVirginia Idk man with all the riots and whatnot, many right-leaning people probs are like “good riddance” hey where in VA are you from? Love a fellow Virginian 🥰
@@JLea3 And it's not coming back. At the start of COVID, when you couldn't find a new bicycle to purchase anywhere, I saw an interview with the woman who is the CEO of Giant Bicycle Co. She explained in the interview how Giant shifts it's production around between mainland China, Tiawan, and the EU as required. The interviewer asked her if Giant would ever consider making bikes in US Murica. The CEO of Giant looked at him like he was insane.
It wasn't like this even 25 years ago. It's declining yearly. I'm so thankful i knew what it was like from the 60s through the late 90s. Now it just depresses me to see what is happening here.
I was very surprised that Buffalo NY wasn't on this list.. The population of Buffalo has declined every year since the 1950's.. In 1950 the population was about 580,132.. In 2016 the population was 256,902.. That's about a 44.3% drop over a 66 year period with the biggest drop between 1970 and 1980, which is when I left.. lol
All the ones who can AND are smart. There will be a move towards something very socialistic that will fester and rot ( like California ) until the coastline falls into the Pacific. After that there will be a boom in growth across the whole west coast that will be memorable.
Detroit has ugly patches, but it’s actually not bad. The media just LOVES to portray it like a Mad Max film. Many of the nearby suburbs are really quiet beautiful.
Living in a big liberal city is great. All the homeless , needles , car break ins , having peaceful protests burn down buildings and overtaking police precincts , the shootings , lack of police , expensive rent , companies leaving / job loss , sanctuary city , oh yeah and crazy high taxes.
We are retired living in Central New Jersey. We want to leave. But to where? Affordable Housing, safety, and healthcare are our main concerns. Most of our family are dead now and those who are still here moved South because New Jersey is too Liberal and taxes are too high. New Jersey is run like a prison at times. Nobody can stand being under house arrest forever. All our freedom is gone! Our stores, restaurants and fun places have disappeared. Only the richest and the politicians are free and enjoying life.
We are from Ohio. We moved in our mid 20s in the early 80s.We moved to Southweat, Florida. Wasn't bad when we first moved there, but over the time we were there, it was just to crowded. Beaches crowded, restaurants crowded, stores crowded. In 2006 we moved back to Ohio. Small rural town of 3,000 something people in Southern Ohio. I'll take a small rural community with less people any day. Even though Ohio has a state income tax, it's still cheaper to live here.
Left Santa Rosa, Ca, moved to small town 12 miles from Roseburg, Oregon. Roseburg is crowded with cars, and busy, much like where I left. And there’s a homeless shelter so they’re seen walking around talking or yelling at cars or power poles. But there is only about 8000 here where I live. I retired so it was a pretty good choice, except everyone else is retired also, which means it is quiet, too quiet.
They will be back after the slandering of the “arsenal of democracy”, and it’s black population is duped to move to a warmer climate, where natural disasters, pandemics, and the divesting of corporate raiders, move back to fresh water and the straits that connects the world to commerce✊🏽🤫
Medicated, you`re right: New Census Bureau estimates, released in late December, reveal that California actually saw a population loss in the year that ended on July 1 of about 69,000 residents, which translates into just a 5.7% gain since the 2010 census, much lower than the nation as a whole. California’s demographers don’t agree. A few days earlier, the state Department of Finance released its own numbers for the year ending on July 1, showing a gain of 21,200.
Everyone i know that moved out of Los Angeles are dying to come back but can't afford to come back. My house is fully pay for and my taxes is only 6k a year.
People...you want to get out of populated areas...RUN! Do not follow the crowd. So use this video to the best of your ability. Yiu want to go RURAL IF YOU CAN.⚘
Years ago I was in Hampton, just driving through, missed my turn, and cut through a small neighborhood within a minute a cop stopped me, not because I did anything wrong he was just telling me I looked like I should not be in that area and should find my way out
I love where I live. About 45 minutes north of Charlotte, NC. I enjoy it because I’m less than an hour from a major city, but I can always escape to the small town or country.
For 22 years we lived on 5 acres with nothing across the road except a pine forest. At the end of the 1/2 mile dirt road was an 80 acre woods never lived in. At the beginning of the dead end road is a large game preserve. All lots on the north side of that road are five acres and wooded. We lived in a double wide but people thought it was heaven, as we did. A large garage, out buildings, a large deck with a large above ground pool, herds of deer, ferel hogs, turtles, and every other north Florida critter wandered thru our board fenced yard every day. It's called the Nature Coast, just south of the Big Bend area, walking distance to the Suwannee river. Between the two largest natural cold water springs in No America. Other springs, rivers, and parks around. A short ride to the Gulf, Gainesville, and small towns north and south. We'd leave to go RV camping for months and never needed to worry about home invasion. After all, the riff raff robs their city neighbors and liquer stores. Where shop keepers, teachers, and strangers called me Mr and my wife MsDollie. Where, rich, poor, black, white, and others didn't judge and would give what they had if you needed help. Why do people have to move to the big over crowded cities? There are many 5 to 10 acre plots for sale away from the tourist traps and over crowded cities. We were in the boonies, yet a short drive to restaurants, grocery stores, and yes Walmart, Target, and others. Some of the best hospitals in America were 50 miles away.
@@servraghgiorsal7382 yes, I dread to think about the next recession. No jobs in my town last time. Had to move into my van and live in a town with really low paying retail jobs. No safety net then. Thinking the Fed with just keep printing more and more money next time to prevent riots.
That’s bunk. Lived here my whole life with exception of 6 post collegiate years in Austin, TX. Met real shady people there. I think you aren’t a native, but rest assured, we won’t miss you!
The cops steal an average of $2 billion per year in the United States from the citizenry through civil asset forfeiture. This is compared to a total of $3.4 billion in assets stolen by non-government criminals in 2018. To be fair, I'm comparing an average to a specific year, but its still sufficient to get a general idea of the issue. Per capita, the cops are by far the biggest criminal class in the US. All other things being equal, defunding the police would actually reduce crime, especially the crime committed by agents of the government that are never punished. Of course, actually defunding the police would require a huge expansion of 2A rights in the US to compensate, which will never happen, especially not with Kamala Har... I mean Joe Biden in office.
Nick please keep telling Mappy that Cleveland is nothing but pure ghetto. I was born and raised in ghetto public housing on the East Side...if he wants to be 'hard', Chicago South Side is the place to be!
Funny story, we lived over five miles from the closest neighbor on a 3640 acre ranch we owned. So we have a little guest cottage not far from the house for when company comes. So our guest from the city has dinner with us and then goes to the guest cottage and asks if he can borrow one of our guns to take out because he's scared of wild animals, he came from the most crime infested place on earth EAST L.A.! so funny!
I enjoy your work, Nick and have moved for my 21st time after much research. Now semi-retired, it's sad to see so many places that were awesome like Memphis or decent like Pittsburgh in such decline. I'm from the Chicago area, and living in other cities in the South, East and Midwest one thing is common, empty factories. Tech jobs alone will not save our dying middle class. I now live in a small town that has cheap housing, low crime with quality medical care nearby. Every town I researched over a population of 10,000 had issues with all of these factors.
Im an importer art items from Asia . Since 90s I watched American cities and town die and China go from 4th world to passed USA . Your politicians sold you out especially Clinton .
@@BrogeKilrain Oh yes !! Both parties are essentially worthless and traitors,too. No feelings for this country or the people. They are oligarchs. And they love the Chinese government, because sending our jobs and manufacturing overseas made THEM so,so rich !
@@yulyasevelova769 the Chinese were just smarter than you all. You took them for granted and saw them only as sources of cheap labour all the while they were learning, watching and dominating. Kudos to them. It was prophesied that China would rise.
I grew up in Hawaii most of my life. Unbelievable unaffordable cost of housing, electric bill, food 2-3 times the cost of food. Horrible traffic, epidemic of homeless everywhere on the island. Low wage jobs. Terrible public school. The airport has never been updated. I worked in a hospital for 28 years, then our politicians and governor slashed Medicaid and healthcare to barebones. My hours were cut drastically and many staff were laid off and fired. Cobra payment $600 a month. Insanely. Moved overseas 2.5 years ago
It doesn't even make sense. Rents should be in line with income. When functioning humans can not afford shelter and food then the system is not working and needs to be removed.
@@Dan_Casey That's sad. Kind of like Adam and Eve in the garden. Of course, this is all by design. A desired result of the cult that serves satan. Thank you, "war on drugs". Can you imagine what little drugs there'd be without government and the dea. Demoralize a society through pornography and drugs and etc...and next thing you know it's a world of muzzle wearers.
As a guy from a small city of barely 10k in east-central Pa, I can say that small cities have a lot of problems that make me want to bail out ASAP. I guess we don’t quite make the cutoff, but ever since the mid 90’s our population has gone down an average of 150 per year
@@dathip Basically there is a lot of inefficient management of our schools and utilities (stuff like parking meter increases and school tax increases are pushed right through, and there were a good 6 times in 2020 where we had dirty water issues), there isn’t a lot to do in the main city, especially since one of the only 3 malls in our city shut down completely back in 2017, and the other 2 malls have been dying for years outside of maybe 4 major stores in them. We no longer have a movie theater in a half hour radius of the city, it’s taken close to 4 years for them to finish a major road work project downtown, our downtown area struggles to have quality shops stay open for a long period of time, and there are definite poverty and substance abuse issues with the city’s population. Just the other day, in fact, we had a fiasco downtown where a guy got shot in the leg, although thankfully he survived and the attacker was arrested.
You know it's a good day when it's Friday, a new episode of BFB comes out, Second Thought uploads, and best of all Nick Johnson uploads on the same day.
I was so desperate to leave Cincinnati because of all the racism in neighborhoods surrounding the city. So much hate. But then I moved to Memphis to do a PhD...and I'm ao desperate to leave because I've never experienced so much sexism in my life. After this PhD I will never move to the south again.
I live in Warrenton, VA. Moved here from Dallas. Going to a small town is nice, less crowds and noise, and people know each other, but sometimes I miss the anonymity of the larger cities.
I was actually born and raised in Evansville. I always viewed it as a small town trying to act big and failing miserably. I moved away eight years ago. When I come back to visit family, I do see signs of life, such as eye sores being torn down, new businesses in newly built buildings, and roads getting some much needed repairs. So, hopefully, things will change.
Vicky and Casey white stayed in Evansville after Vicky sprung Casey from jail and also where they were captured. Vicky sadly killed herself to avoid facing the music 😔
I lived in Hampton, Virginia and Ft Monroe back in the 1970s. Such a wonderful place back then. My son was born there. IMO, when Hampton University started growing the place went to hell in a hand basket. I feel sorry for the people who bought condos on Ft Monroe. It's a shame. They certainly wasted their money 😞
I'm in Canada, but at the beginning of the pandemic we started looking for a place out in the country. Now my closest neighbor is a kilometer away, and our driveway is the almost length of a football field. It's been down right heavenly! I can't wait for spring to start growing a garden.
@@NickJohnson Thank you! It's just a little old farmhouse on a few acres. But it's more than enough for my little family & I'll be able to garden, & rescue animals to my heart's content. Which is my idea of heaven. Lol 💞
Informative, fact-based, compelling reports like those provided by Nick Johnson fill a void left by the mainstream media. I loved the phone calls in this episode - especially to Waterville, Washington. Keep up the good work, Mr. Johnson.
@@NickJohnson I have relocated several times in my life. The MOST DIFFICULT part was getting accurate information on how a NORMAL, somewhat poor and non-connected person like me would fare. All the “Best Places to Retire”, “Best Places to Whatever ... “ guides turned out to be mere parrots of the Chambers of Commerce in the areas they reviewed. And lots of places LIE about their crime rates, etc. as well. Folks like you who seem to thoroughly research these subjects do a tremendous service to the rest of us - THANK YOU!!!! Oh, by the way - SUBSCRIBED.
I worked in the city, cashed in and left. I haven't been back, my life is so much better now. Unfortunately, the jobs are in the urban areas. I don't regret my time in the city but I'm glad it wasn't permanent.
My son is in the Air Force, stationed in Great Falls, Mt. We visited last year. Went to Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center. It's abandoned, closed down.
The US is much more fluid than the UK. I am not saying the sheeple don't move about, they do move, but the economy is much more locked down, most sheeple can't actually see the benefits of moving. Properties are expensive to buy and rent, but the actually number of properties to buy and rent are limited, so the market is very narrow & it is set up this way to keep prices high. The reality is that if everyone could participate in the property market, prices would fall by 50%. That is how far the UK regime has propped up the property market.
Native New Yorker here, 46 years of age. Those damn Hipsters chased me out of the city with Gentrification . I had a lucrative career in Advertising and along with my Commission , I also Freelanced and made 40% of my salary on the side. My rent in 2003 was $816 dollars a month. In 2013 my rent skyrocketed to a whopping $1800 for a fucking studio apartment in Jamaica Queens. In 2014 when my lease was up, I moved to upstate NY. Now my rent for a 1 bedroom in a so so neighborhood is $575 a month
My dad was in the military. I actually loved moving. It was like an adventure and clean slate for me on the other end. Back in days when Pac Man and Donkey Kong were still current video games, California was an awesome place for a kid.
@@NickJohnson : I get that, but I just found your channel and was loving your take on things, isnt often we hear the truth these days but I respect your decision all the same.
Here is my entire America playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLq-_cmf3H6yoRYg-ZZSFNFo4dBKxg85JC
The entire world population is decreasing, and it is not all due to the pandemic. The birthrate is decreasing in all developed countries.
This is really good info. Thank you!
I moved to a smaller town probably about 20 days ago roughly. I like it better in the smaller town. No shootings, no police chases nice quiet and peaceful. I love this smaller town.
I recently moved to a small town in middle Tn love it !
Awesome 👌 I love peace and quiet myself..live long live free!!
No diversity, huh?
@@taxthesocialist2602 there is a college here in town so the diversity here is abundant.
You’ve been there 20 days…
I'm 67, born in Seattle, looking to leave. I understand the desperation of homeless people; I've been there. Now that I have a place, just getting tired of petty theft.
Aww I'm sorry you have to put up with that
You should have voted for joe biden
I lived on Whidbey Island in the late 70s early 80s and loved it. Seattle was fun to go visit and shop in. Boy has it ever dropped off!
@@monetschannel5773 no, the powers that be there are the problem. Not stopping Antifa and BLM from destroying it. Not stopping the homeless problem. Biden can’t even take care of his own self
@@robinmartz9052 Seattle was an awesome city. It started changing 10 years ago. I love Seattle, minus the ridiculous traffic but something has to change up there.
Me and my friend bought a plot of land and a rent to own trailer out away from everyone's bullshit. Paradise.
It sounds like paradise
That sounds like paradise
Amen. Good for you guys🙂
No clipboard people knocking with their endless list of complaints?
i would prefer less people and cheaper cost of living
@@ubself no jobs!!
Vote Democrat then, because what you are looking for is called "homelesssness," and they will get you there quicker than anyone else.
Lol I left California and moved to Evansville. Brought my 1.6 mil pension with me
@@noahhowellstone1264 Good for you. Unless you spent your whole life voting Blue no Matter Who, and then dicthed out after wrecking the place, like so many in Hollywood are also doing...because they are financially able to do so. Funny how there is a Hollywood trend to buy a ranch home in Wyoming, which they will live at just long enough to get residency (and lower taxes), and then support garbage candidates with garbage policies in CA.
@@remingtonsteel585 hell no I vote anyone but Dem because they don't care about US
2020 basically ripped the band aid off a lot of things.
Good. Now that you have a competent government back in power you can get to work.
2021 is picking at it
I like how you tell it how it is 😹. What’s your Facebook?
2020 is over?
@@MFRUclips683 lmao good luck with that. We all know how much higher taxes and higher minimum wage help to create jobs.
My family is from West Virginia. I don't about Charleston but the people in the rural areas don't find it boring. They are outdoor people and have hiking, fishing, hunting, ATX driving the dirt roads, and seeing the natural beauty along with peaceful life. And a big one since family and relatives are usually not far away, time with family and friends.
A place John Denver sung about!
Yeah that sounds boring af
Sounds like Pennsylvania where I live, the Altoona central pa area. Especially Northern PA is beautiful so is Wesr Virginia
Too many people
I like living in the sticks I can't handle concrete and crime
@@r.pres.4121 , I have lived in the mountains, I have lived on farms, I have lived in small towns and I have lived in cities. Cities suck. The country life is ten times better than every city I have lived in and I have lived in a lot of them.
@@tammycenter8757 Same here, just got the HELL away from Houston. No one enjoys a 45 minute traffic jam in 100 degree heat. NO ONE.
@@kristinebailey2804 , I didn't enjoy the constant traffic, road rage, rude people, smell of garbage, drunk neighbor's fighting or knocking on my door at 3 am, which was all associated with city life. It was just disgusting. I have never had to deal with any of that drama out here in the sticks.
I agree, I grew up in Alaska and part of me wishes I never left.
@@paulstellwag1215 Paul, I spent my young years commercial fishing in Kodiak started set netting at 13 and was fishing seiners by 16, skiffman! I love Kodiak but just for the summers. Yes, it a glorious place.
Give me a place in the woods with no neighbors...dream home!
I'd be scared and lonely actually
You'd find that in West Virginia lol
@@NickJohnson Nah,, living in the woods with scary animals Sashquatches , Zombies and Ghosts is still safer than any big city.
It is sad that we have been manipulated into this cluster.
One of my previous supervisors moved to a place like that. I was surprised that house could be found so far away from civilization.
My roommate left NYC when she lost her job and then couldn't afford the exorbitant rent. Pandemic related.
So Democrat related in other words .
@@eugenschauman5599 ???? No. Pandemic related. The pandemic doesn’t have a party affiliation. It happened under Trumps watch if that’s where you are going with this
@@montyollie Lol . And Fauchi and Biden are in bed for a stolen election with the Chinese. PS Trump won .
It had nothing to do with the communist mayor there?
I left Philadelphia after 12 yrs when my landlord/friend evicted all of us!
2 yr waiting list for affordable housing & waiting list for a studio apt!
First, I got out of California. Now, it’s time to leave Oregon.
Dont come to Texas
Yep, the Californians have ruined it with their liberal mindset.
Lol.😂😂😂
....do you see a pattern? Liberal run states...
@@hertzair1186 dude shut up. The whole country is corrupt.😑😕🤨
We actually aren't supposed to be living on top of each other crowded in like sardines in cities. That's not a healthy way to live.
We aren’t supposed to be living in artificial and fake units known as gated communities and contributing to over population and pollution. It’s not a healthy way to live.
Especially for children. No wonder they come up missing. When you live among 2 million people "everybody knows everybody" would become a joke. A dangerous joke.
You're confusing population with population density. A city can be populated, but not dense; e.g., most of LA.
@Peter Russell I live on a dirt road. We have a community that comes together to keep the roads usable. We have local swap meets and farmers markets to sell locally grown produce. If you enjoy feeling superior living in a city, that’s normal. Cities stimulate the ego. We enjoy the peace and quiet of nature, which usually doesn’t stimulate the ego. But it enriches the heart and dare I say soul. To each his own, but please be aware the pioneers did not have big city taxes as they headed into the wilderness.
Not to worry. We are headed toward communist government. Soon everyone will be equally poor 👌😄
Even though Austin is supposedly the“hip” place to be, I got the heck out of there last month. Not gonna tell u where I moved to cause isolation is paramount! :)
HIDE!
I live 2 hours from Austin, and I always do my utmost best to avoid it when traveling northeast.
People are leaving Los Angeles for Autism - and that'll spell the end for whatever Austin was prior to 2020.
Austin is as bad as Seattle with their leftist woke views.
@@kellysaunooke740 Practically all major cities in Texas are Democrat shitheaps, with the exception of Lubbock. At least it wasn't when I lived there 17 years ago. Now I'm not sure.
My mom lives in Jersey City and said there's not enough people leaving! LOL😂😂😂
@Andrew Roman your so funny dude.
Wonder what she will say when she has to travel 45 mins for groceries.
It's overcrowded, it's NYC west in N. Jersey, over 17,000 ppl per sq. mi in the city. The city is a total of 21.13 square miles with only 14.74 square miles of that being land unaffordable enough for everyone to live on. I remember many years ago when JC was nothing like it is today within those very same boundaries. What do you expect when the real people that make up a city are priced out by high-ri$e land value$. It eventually makes the city less affordable and desirable for the people with roots there and those who are moving into in. Gentrification works like a thorn in a city's backend due to the lack of proper urban planning and opportunistic developers. This will continue happening all across America while losing many of the precious cultural jems that many of our city's have produced along the way. This all reminds me of the my favorite 90's cartoon, "Pinky and the Brain."
@@jairousparker2311 I know what you're talking about. I used to go crabbing in Jersey City and the waterfront was beautiful opened land. Recently I went back there to visit my mom and was shocked to see so much change. I literally didn't recognize the city.
Warterville Wash it is. Out of Miami
And what’s really making population go down is jobs and taxes
@Jill OfAllArts There are tons of places that are safe, good schools, low taxes and affordable housing.
@Jill OfAllArts There are lots of places where not everyone is carrying a gun lol. Not sure why you would feel unsafe if everyone is carrying a gun? But ok. Lots of places is the Midwest, smaller towns outside big cities. Towns and cities with huge new developments and industries and companies moving in. Super cheap housing and very safe.
And black people unfortunately
@@felipe741 what do you mean black people black people stay in their zone so I don’t know what your talking about????
@@Aarontank24 higher crime
Work is the reason for a lot of leaving. No job, no livelihood.
Am I the only one that thinks that big city life is overrated
No
Yes. You are .
@Nut Master
Not just overrated, but highly overrated!
No
I love the city. Walk everywhere, lively, but theres problems too
When I was growing up a lot of people left NYC. The crime rate was very low in some neighborhoods..... because everyone was dead.
😆 😆 lol
Peoria, Illinois is second after NY for people leaving. Southern Illinois are already ghost towns. Might be the taxes and lack of jobs.
@@modeladenny1218 That is very sad.
@@jonlouis2582 We spent 22 years retired in NW Florida. I was thinking how poor and run down some small Florida towns were ...... until I watched videos of southern Illinois. Not only that, most states of run down slum areas with nothing to do except trash others' property.
History does not repeat, it rhymes and NYC is getting back to the 70's and they don't even know what changed the city back then. Hint it was an orange man that the media keep saying is very bad, he encouraged stores to move to 5'th avenue, refurbished old buildings and built new ones, because he actually has a vision of what prosperity looks like and was correct. I'm sure De'blasio knows what to do, or he will do what he says and buy what the city wants at cheap prices and house the homeless.
San Francisco, Silicon Valley are the top moving out cities.
Yeah, the new techno-riche is pricing everyone else out of there.
Well, not enough people are moving out in SF and Silicon valley. I wish people would move out so I can buy a nice home without paying millions of dollars for it.
SF is the most expensive city in US followed by NYC where I am.
People are leaving NYC
Probably because the Huntsville area is attracting residents from silicon valley
Tech there has been there before silicon valley even had 100k people
Liberals ruin everything!
2020 will be remembered as the turning point for cities in the US.
Exactly, these people in big cities have seen the massive decline in quality of life, massive increase in cost of living, yet they keep voting for the same Democratic politicans that got them into the mess.. they never learn
@Hispanic American this shows how simple minded you are
@Hispanic American uhm both Democrats and Republicans are fucking US cities... ur politics and political parties need to change
@Hispanic American Republican states are poor... quality of life is a joke...democratic cities are not so good as well... compared to the world the US doesn't rank in the top 20 for quality of life... compared to the 1st world the USA is a dangerous place (Republican and Democratic cities) Compared to the world the US education isn't the best nor the cheapest... compared to the world the US healthcare is expensive... so yea ...Republicans and Democrats are at fault) ... it's not just cities... it's the quality of life and policies that they have and follow
@@Simbecile What a typical elitist thing to say, only your stats are worthy? Real estate, jobs, education-they're all local issues, so yes cities will be judged, not states. There's a reason why migration patterns show people fleeing blue cities-Covid just expedited what was occurring already. Enjoy your blue elitist attitude, Im sure you're in a gated community with armed security guards...must be nice.
I'm not surprised to see Baltimore on this list.
Hot Spot it's on the list. Baltimore has less people now than it had 100 year ago!
Look at 10 minutes
@@timmartin723 the population is going to keep shrinking. This city is too far gone to be saved.
Same thing with St.Louis as well.
Cleveland had 387,000 people in 1920. In 2020 it's 380,000.
Is there a middle option for the question at the end? I've been lookin at both cities with a population of 100-300k and small towns of about 5-10k. Though the riots over the past year have pushed me towards the later. I get the anger, but I just don't want to run the risk of my business being destroyed (if I get to that point) or losing a paycheck because the place I work at has to be closed down for two weeks over repairs every time a cop shoots someone regardless of who attacked who first.
Move to Europe
Every time I go to a city I always think,” I need to get out of here ASAP”
I agree with you Though I was born in a big city I grew up in a small town and big cities just don't get it for me
I left a big city 18 months ago to live in a small town. So glad I moved.
Moved from podunk Texas to Raleigh NC and I'm quietly freaking out inside. I have this in my head (( when shtf I'm going to die here! )).
Ready for the country and a victory garden with chickens and guns. LOL
@@CORYJOHNM The SHTF 20 years ago. Things just seem calmer when viewed from the eye of the storm.
Me too. I've been wanting to get out of this hell hole for years. I wish I hadn't put it off so long because now it's harder to find housing anywhere.
Getting off the grid , sounds pretty good to me right now.
I just told my best friend this... I wanna go off the grid.
Truth brother!
Been OG for 25 years. Great way to go.
@@jimgraham6722 One Day!
Okay?
These places started to sink long before 2021. The statement made at the beginning, saying people didn’t moved move during Trump era isn’t true. There are a lot of remarks in this video that aren’t actual facts!
I can tell he's a Trump lover and is giving information as a MAGA cult follower...
@@leticialoza5791 so is that a problem for you
@@michaelmerck7576 giving false information is a problem, he needs to provide correct information without politicizing. The county is already divided Personally I think these channels are better off not taking any political side.
Wtf?? Everything has changed so much since trump left office?
Just left Cleveland in the spring, was literally driving the moving truck past downtown, as it was being destroyed by riots.
You got away Jason!!
Oh my gosh! How horrible! Thankfully you got away & good luck to you!
It's been going down hill. why wait till the last minute?
@@stephenc2481 finishing school, finding a new place to live, several other things, it was just coincidence we were cruising 90 over downtown at the time.
left Akron in 81 for TX, sorry i didn't leave earlier, parents are buried in Cleveland, cemetary is not safe to visit alone, really sad. good luck and glad you got out
De Blasio has destroyed NYC.
Killer Coumo also destroyed NY.
He's been part of it but the fault really lies with the people that voted for him. They have the power to make change but chose to be destroyed.
Bloomberg started it
I've looked a a number of those LIVE walks...NYC looks HORRIBLE NOW
@@dotsyjmaher unlike other cities, nyc doesn't rip these old homes down. They are old and ticking time bombs
Best phone conversation in Waterville, WA. Thank you for being a nice town.
It is such heartache about Detroit. A drive through shows that there was once money there. They had such pretty houses at one time, now all falling down.
I guess money don't last in certain parts so you must follow the money
It shows money MOVES, as time goes by.
...So people go where the money goes, nothing is forever.
I hear that. I grew up there in the 60s before the '67 riots. Downtown was awesome, the neighborhoods were well kept and safe. It's like going to another planet when I go back now and drive around. Downtown district isn't half bad and they are trying to rebuild but no doubt it'll never see those glory days again.
It's our future coming to town near you . national geographic had entire volume on Detroit.
@@lawrencefox563 Right on Laurence, i watched our small towns turn from prosperous little businesses, to what they have become, second hand stores. I walked through the streets of south Korea on dirt roads in the early seventies and saw hovels, now all their little towns are flourishing with nice stores and beautiful paved roads and new homes.
What the hell happened?
I'm one of those people who left shreveport. I just moved about 30 minutes outside the city, because crime mainly.
I too moved 30 minutes from Shreveport. Hoping in the future to move to North Carolina abandoning what I have called home my whole life!
@@baileysmith7086 yeah dont get me wrong, I loved growing up in Shreveport/bossier.. but I know what I was exposed to growing up in the heart of the city and I dont necessarily want my kids exposed to it if possible.. its just getting worse as time goes on.
I was born and raised in Shreveport. I absolutely hated it.
I thought Adrian Perkins was going to solve the crime problem and bring in high-tech industries to the city?
@@billwilson3609 he did what most of our mayors did. Got paid and got a few of his friends some nice 6 digit salaries funded by the taxpayer
Hawaii has 8 Islands and they are all very different. You showed a photo of the City of Honolulu, which is the Island of Oahu, then you mentioned if people are leaving because of the Volcano. The Kilauea Volcano has been erupting for 40 years on the Big Island of Hawaii (different Island then Oahu) so people that live on the Big Island are use to the Volcano.
Anytime anyone mentions Hawaii, they need to specify which Hawaiian Island they are talking about. They are ALL different in land size, infrastructure, population and economy.
All democratic mentality
2020: the year Americans realized the city life wasn’t worth it
I doubt it. They may move for a year or two, then get bored of the country and move back
@@BorninVirginia And thus, the cycle continues
@@BorninVirginia Idk man with all the riots and whatnot, many right-leaning people probs are like “good riddance”
hey where in VA are you from? Love a fellow Virginian 🥰
@@shenanigans96 Lynchburg
@@BorninVirginia that’s close to me! I’m in Richmond 😌
I'm always amazed at how run down 🇺🇸 looks . Sad . I'm from UK
It is... Extremely run down. We lost so much Manufacturing.
@@JLea3 And it's not coming back. At the start of COVID, when you couldn't find a new bicycle to purchase anywhere, I saw an interview with the woman who is the CEO of Giant Bicycle Co. She explained in the interview how Giant shifts it's production around between mainland China, Tiawan, and the EU as required. The interviewer asked her if Giant would ever consider making bikes in US Murica. The CEO of Giant looked at him like he was insane.
L.A. has now caught up to what it looks like in _Blade Runner._
indy full Yep, the UK looks really bad on videos like this, too. That's the point: choosing the worst on a "worst of" listing.
It wasn't like this even 25 years ago. It's declining yearly. I'm so thankful i knew what it was like from the 60s through the late 90s. Now it just depresses me to see what is happening here.
I was very surprised that Buffalo NY wasn't on this list.. The population of Buffalo has declined every year since the 1950's.. In 1950 the population was about 580,132.. In 2016 the population was 256,902.. That's about a 44.3% drop over a 66 year period with the biggest drop between 1970 and 1980, which is when I left.. lol
i moved out of the urban centers in 2008 to a town of 13,000 then i moved from there to a city of 600 and i am much happier
With all the crime and riots in Portland, Oregon, I wonder how many people are moving out.
Lots
Portland residents are so cringeworthy
They voted for it.
@@slidenapps : Yep
All the ones who can AND are smart. There will be a move towards something very socialistic that will fester and rot ( like California ) until the coastline falls into the Pacific. After that there will be a boom in growth across the whole west coast that will be memorable.
Detroit has ugly patches, but it’s actually not bad. The media just LOVES to portray it like a Mad Max film. Many of the nearby suburbs are really quiet beautiful.
I agree.
Detroit is most definitely NOT worse than Cleveland imo. I was born and raised in Cleveland and left almost a year ago.
Being retired on a guaranteed income, I Would choose a declining city on good land in the south!
Land Kathy land!!
40 acres and a mule. That's what we all need!
@@mightykim5727 You have more than 40 acres and a mule. You took it all. That's a Black thing. And your point is.
@@vernicegibson2379 and you ain't Hebrew i bet.
@@slidenapps Again, and your point is?
Wow, you put a lot of work into this video. Nice list of cities to avoid.
It's like the longest video EVER
I 💖 it Nick!!! Mappy & SGC crossing paths...Don't 🔫 Mappy...Run SGC
I told SGC cop that!
I knew St.Louis Missouri would be on this list.
Living in a big liberal city is great. All the homeless , needles , car break ins , having peaceful protests burn down buildings and overtaking police precincts , the shootings , lack of police , expensive rent , companies leaving / job loss , sanctuary city , oh yeah and crazy high taxes.
We are retired living in Central New Jersey. We want to leave. But to where? Affordable Housing, safety, and healthcare are our main concerns. Most of our family are dead now and those who are still here moved South because New Jersey is too Liberal and taxes are too high. New Jersey is run like a prison at times. Nobody can stand being under house arrest forever. All our freedom is gone! Our stores, restaurants and fun places have disappeared. Only the richest and the politicians are free and enjoying life.
i’m 17 and i can’t wait to get out of this state.
We are from Ohio. We moved in our mid 20s in the early 80s.We moved to Southweat, Florida. Wasn't bad when we first moved there, but over the time we were there, it was just to crowded. Beaches crowded, restaurants crowded, stores crowded. In 2006 we moved back to Ohio. Small rural town of 3,000 something people in Southern Ohio. I'll take a small rural community with less people any day. Even though Ohio has a state income tax, it's still cheaper to live here.
Left Santa Rosa, Ca, moved to small town 12 miles from Roseburg, Oregon. Roseburg is crowded with cars, and busy, much like where I left. And there’s a homeless shelter so they’re seen walking around talking or yelling at cars or power poles. But there is only about 8000 here where I live. I retired so it was a pretty good choice, except everyone else is retired also, which means it is quiet, too quiet.
Already know Detroit is on the list
They will be back after the slandering of the “arsenal of democracy”, and it’s black population is duped to move to a warmer climate, where natural disasters, pandemics, and the divesting of corporate raiders, move back to fresh water and the straits that connects the world to commerce✊🏽🤫
Yep
@@lawrenceturner7695 Gentrification
Yup...
I'm leaving too!
GREAT VID NICK !! 😄😄👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I wish Arizona would have most of the towns on this list! I’m tired of people moving here running the housing market up! Taking jobs.
And bringing liberal ideas...
I'm one conservative s.o.b. and we're looking there for a winter place, won't vote there! Oregon North coast sucks in winter!
Right to work state.your not going to get rich there.
Share I just left there it’s beautiful. I’m thinking of moving there😀
@@tru2love610 If you like high rentals and housing? Lol
This is an amazing amount of research. Thank you for all the info!
Always for you ❤️
Great video..thank you Nick.
Ok!
I truly believe California could lose 60 million people and the population would still be 40 million
Medicated, you`re right: New Census Bureau estimates, released in late December, reveal that California actually saw a population loss in the year that ended on July 1 of about 69,000 residents, which translates into just a 5.7% gain since the 2010 census, much lower than the nation as a whole.
California’s demographers don’t agree. A few days earlier, the state Department of Finance released its own numbers for the year ending on July 1, showing a gain of 21,200.
Everyone i know that moved out of Los Angeles are dying to come back but can't afford to come back. My house is fully pay for and my taxes is only 6k a year.
@@patrickthomas467 I can't imagine it's easy getting an accurate census count in a state where millions are illegals.
@@covid19deltaextrarewardspr88 ONLY $6,000 a year? I think I can find better things to spend that on.
I just paid off for my house in San Diego America finest city so I will stay here for a long time to enjoy sun, sea, surf and perfect weather.
You can run, but you can’t hide.
I can hide but I can't run like I used to.😕
Sure you can. Don't be a quitter
@LawAbidingCitizen Gross
@@shazamkablam1420 😂
WANNA BET ?
People...you want to get out of populated areas...RUN! Do not follow the crowd. So use this video to the best of your ability. Yiu want to go RURAL IF YOU CAN.⚘
Lmaoooo that snoop dogg reference when you mentioned long beach fuckin killed me
People putting that glorified pimp-wannabe crap on a pedestal
shows the state where much of America's mind truly is... the gutter.
I saw Mappy and his family moving in next door. That's the last straw, time to get out of town.
Lol
Lol
WHAT?? He'd be a great neighbor except he'd want to talk your EAR off.
I would love to live next to Mappy.... but his wife might try to seduce me.
Too funny
Good video. Happy new year.
You too Alexandria!
Years ago I was in Hampton, just driving through, missed my turn, and cut through a small neighborhood within a minute a cop stopped me, not because I did anything wrong he was just telling me I looked like I should not be in that area and should find my way out
That's funny.herd that same thing years ago in Burbank ca.
Tells u who they really serve ,private army, always was
I love where I live. About 45 minutes north of Charlotte, NC. I enjoy it because I’m less than an hour from a major city, but I can always escape to the small town or country.
Kannapolis?
@@kathleenking47 Newton, near Hickory
I live in South Charlotte NC... Moved here 10 yrs ago from Raleigh, but ready to move to SC in the boonies where its a whole lot cheaper...and calmer
I live in Raleigh right by the airport and I can see myself leaving here one day and moving to the boonies. Way too many people moving here.
“North Carolina”.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
For 22 years we lived on 5 acres with nothing across the road except a pine forest. At the end of the 1/2 mile dirt road was an 80 acre woods never lived in. At the beginning of the dead end road is a large game preserve. All lots on the north side of that road are five acres and wooded. We lived in a double wide but people thought it was heaven, as we did. A large garage, out buildings, a large deck with a large above ground pool, herds of deer, ferel hogs, turtles, and every other north Florida critter wandered thru our board fenced yard every day.
It's called the Nature Coast, just south of the Big Bend area, walking distance to the Suwannee river. Between the two largest natural cold water springs in No America. Other springs, rivers, and parks around. A short ride to the Gulf, Gainesville, and small towns north and south.
We'd leave to go RV camping for months and never needed to worry about home invasion. After all, the riff raff robs their city neighbors and liquer stores.
Where shop keepers, teachers, and strangers called me Mr and my wife MsDollie. Where, rich, poor, black, white, and others didn't judge and would give what they had if you needed help.
Why do people have to move to the big over crowded cities? There are many 5 to 10 acre plots for sale away from the tourist traps and over crowded cities.
We were in the boonies, yet a short drive to restaurants, grocery stores, and yes Walmart, Target, and others. Some of the best hospitals in America were 50 miles away.
Shifting from delhi, to chandigarh, kasauli. Had enough of big city's.
Thanks, sounds like a really lovely part of the country. I've driven through it.
People ultimately have to have Jobs and america has shipped too many jobs away
You don't want a lot of people moving there and ruining it though.
@@servraghgiorsal7382 yes, I dread to think about the next recession. No jobs in my town last time. Had to move into my van and live in a town with really low paying retail jobs. No safety net then. Thinking the Fed with just keep printing more and more money next time to prevent riots.
I will be abandoning Chicago this year! You have to act like a damn recon soldier just to avoid getting carjacked or murdered in this city.
Ewwww! RUN!
Pity the fools who want to immigrate to El Norte.
Not sure where you live in Chicago but that’s not true for my life in the Windy City. Ijs
😂🤣
That’s bunk. Lived here my whole life with exception of 6 post collegiate years in Austin, TX. Met real shady people there. I think you aren’t a native, but rest assured, we won’t miss you!
Why do ppl move? CRIME. But nevermind that lets defund the police.
Yes ,refund $$ differently, cause it’s not working
The cops steal an average of $2 billion per year in the United States from the citizenry through civil asset forfeiture. This is compared to a total of $3.4 billion in assets stolen by non-government criminals in 2018. To be fair, I'm comparing an average to a specific year, but its still sufficient to get a general idea of the issue. Per capita, the cops are by far the biggest criminal class in the US. All other things being equal, defunding the police would actually reduce crime, especially the crime committed by agents of the government that are never punished. Of course, actually defunding the police would require a huge expansion of 2A rights in the US to compensate, which will never happen, especially not with Kamala Har... I mean Joe Biden in office.
@@matrix3509 no that’s just wishful thinking and leftist wing terrorist propaganda
@@matrix3509 2A alone won’t help curve crime unless they allow we the people to be judge jury and executioner is
@@matrix3509 Sauce?
Hey Nick. I grew up in Pine Bluff. Its been one of the fastest-shrinking cities in the country for at least 20 years now.
my dad always says he wants to move to a place with less people then my mom says like hell we will then the conversation ends.
someone has to win.
@@NickJohnson 😊
So pick a spacious area not far from population
Mappy-don’t go to East Cleveland. If there’s a fire you’re up the creek without a firetruck or ambulance as they’re both broken.
Man I'll tell him John. Mappy wouldn't do that anyways but sometimes he thinks he's 'hard'
Nick please keep telling Mappy that Cleveland is nothing but pure ghetto. I was born and raised in ghetto public housing on the East Side...if he wants to be 'hard', Chicago South Side is the place to be!
I really like this channel. I live in the UK but find it fascinating to see and hear about all these places in America.
I would never ever live in a city I live way out in the woods and love it peace and quiet
Funny story, we lived over five miles from the closest neighbor on a 3640 acre ranch we owned. So we have a little guest cottage not far from the house for when company comes. So our guest from the city has dinner with us and then goes to the guest cottage and asks if he can borrow one of our guns to take out because he's scared of wild animals, he came from the most crime infested place on earth EAST L.A.! so funny!
I enjoy your work, Nick and have moved for my 21st time after much research. Now semi-retired, it's sad to see so many places that were awesome like Memphis or decent like Pittsburgh in such decline. I'm from the Chicago area, and living in other cities in the South, East and Midwest one thing is common, empty factories. Tech jobs alone will not save our dying middle class. I now live in a small town that has cheap housing, low crime with quality medical care nearby. Every town I researched over a population of 10,000 had issues with all of these factors.
Glenn good luck!
Yes. Very true.
Im an importer art items from Asia . Since 90s I watched American cities and town die and China go from 4th world to passed USA . Your politicians sold you out especially Clinton .
@@BrogeKilrain Oh yes !! Both parties are essentially worthless and traitors,too. No feelings for this country or the people. They are oligarchs. And they love the Chinese government, because sending our jobs and manufacturing overseas made THEM so,so rich !
@@yulyasevelova769 the Chinese were just smarter than you all. You took them for granted and saw them only as sources of cheap labour all the while they were learning, watching and dominating. Kudos to them. It was prophesied that China would rise.
Love your videos man.
hope you learn stuff!
@@NickJohnson I certainly do. Love your Georgia videos since it's my home state.
Happy Friday Nick & Mappy!!!
I grew up in Hawaii most of my life. Unbelievable unaffordable cost of housing, electric bill, food 2-3 times the cost of food. Horrible traffic, epidemic of homeless everywhere on the island. Low wage jobs. Terrible public school. The airport has never been updated. I worked in a hospital for 28 years, then our politicians and governor slashed Medicaid and healthcare to barebones. My hours were cut drastically and many staff were laid off and fired. Cobra payment $600 a month. Insanely. Moved overseas 2.5 years ago
Hawaii is expensive. I know some people who had to live in tents in Kakaako Park. It's sad how the place became the last few years.
@@herohero-fw1vc many , many rents of homeless in Kaakako and right across the street are luxury multimillion dollar apartments
It doesn't even make sense. Rents should be in line with income. When functioning humans can not afford shelter and food then the system is not working and needs to be removed.
Hawaii is just meth meth meth.
@@Dan_Casey That's sad. Kind of like Adam and Eve in the garden. Of course, this is all by design. A desired result of the cult that serves satan. Thank you, "war on drugs". Can you imagine what little drugs there'd be without government and the dea.
Demoralize a society through pornography and drugs and etc...and next thing you know it's a world of muzzle wearers.
I don't think politicians don't care until the property tax goes down. Do a video on communities where their property tax is going down.
As a guy from a small city of barely 10k in east-central Pa, I can say that small cities have a lot of problems that make me want to bail out ASAP. I guess we don’t quite make the cutoff, but ever since the mid 90’s our population has gone down an average of 150 per year
what are some of those problems?
@@dathip Basically there is a lot of inefficient management of our schools and utilities (stuff like parking meter increases and school tax increases are pushed right through, and there were a good 6 times in 2020 where we had dirty water issues), there isn’t a lot to do in the main city, especially since one of the only 3 malls in our city shut down completely back in 2017, and the other 2 malls have been dying for years outside of maybe 4 major stores in them. We no longer have a movie theater in a half hour radius of the city, it’s taken close to 4 years for them to finish a major road work project downtown, our downtown area struggles to have quality shops stay open for a long period of time, and there are definite poverty and substance abuse issues with the city’s population. Just the other day, in fact, we had a fiasco downtown where a guy got shot in the leg, although thankfully he survived and the attacker was arrested.
These videos get better and better with their production value every day
I try
great info! Do one on places booming please!
You know it's a good day when it's Friday, a new episode of BFB comes out, Second Thought uploads, and best of all Nick Johnson uploads on the same day.
top three!
O wow
I'm leaving DC - now a fully Marxist/Communist state.
It's not a state, but it might be soon. Should be a lot of people leaving there.
Another American letting the media and news making them weak minded. I guess Geography of our own country was to much for you to handle.
You got that right!
I have family there but I wouldn't want to be there!
Communists Occupied America
B Bolshevik
L Lies
M Matter
I was so desperate to leave Cincinnati because of all the racism in neighborhoods surrounding the city. So much hate. But then I moved to Memphis to do a PhD...and I'm ao desperate to leave because I've never experienced so much sexism in my life. After this PhD I will never move to the south again.
I live in Warrenton, VA. Moved here from Dallas. Going to a small town is nice, less crowds and noise, and people know each other, but sometimes I miss the anonymity of the larger cities.
3am Taco Bell trips, not depending on a car... the city has its upsides.
MORE theaters, amusement parks, book publishing houses, and movie/TV production studios across the US, please.
@@hmpz36911 A 3am trip to Taco Hell is an upside?
I was actually born and raised in Evansville. I always viewed it as a small town trying to act big and failing miserably. I moved away eight years ago. When I come back to visit family, I do see signs of life, such as eye sores being torn down, new businesses in newly built buildings, and roads getting some much needed repairs. So, hopefully, things will change.
Evansville is now the 3rd worst city in Indiana for violent crime rates that's why people are leaving ...I don't live far from there
Vicky and Casey white stayed in Evansville after Vicky sprung Casey from jail and also where they were captured. Vicky sadly killed herself to avoid facing the music 😔
Be ready to jump in the moving van alot now. Youll be seeing drastic changes month after month.
For Virginia there are 4 metro areas growing; NOVA, Richmond, Charlottesville, and Lynchburg. Every were else has been shrinking.
Or staying the same
NOVA is definitely still growing.
@@shopece8807 Northern Virginia has been growing since 1960s non stop.
Yeah, I’m in NOVA. It’s getting too crowded. If it weren’t for the jobs, I’d be somewhere else. Hopefully this teleworking thing stays.
I lived in Hampton, Virginia and Ft Monroe back in the 1970s. Such a wonderful place back then. My son was born there. IMO, when Hampton University started growing the place went to hell in a hand basket. I feel sorry for the people who bought condos on Ft Monroe. It's a shame. They certainly wasted their money 😞
This was different lol. People are leaving NYC because of many problems that are not being shown on the media.
Great video thank you.
Very informative.
I'm in Canada, but at the beginning of the pandemic we started looking for a place out in the country. Now my closest neighbor is a kilometer away, and our driveway is the almost length of a football field. It's been down right heavenly! I can't wait for spring to start growing a garden.
nice!!!
@@NickJohnson Thank you! It's just a little old farmhouse on a few acres. But it's more than enough for my little family & I'll be able to garden, & rescue animals to my heart's content. Which is my idea of heaven. Lol 💞
Informative, fact-based, compelling reports like those provided by Nick Johnson fill a void left by the mainstream media. I loved the phone calls in this episode - especially to Waterville, Washington. Keep up the good work, Mr. Johnson.
Haha that sounds like a solid endorsement!
@@NickJohnson I have relocated several times in my life. The MOST DIFFICULT part was getting accurate information on how a NORMAL, somewhat poor and non-connected person like me would fare. All the “Best Places to Retire”, “Best Places to Whatever ... “ guides turned out to be mere parrots of the Chambers of Commerce in the areas they reviewed. And lots of places LIE about their crime rates, etc. as well. Folks like you who seem to thoroughly research these subjects do a tremendous service to the rest of us - THANK YOU!!!! Oh, by the way - SUBSCRIBED.
I worked in the city, cashed in and left. I haven't been back, my life is so much better now. Unfortunately, the jobs are in the urban areas. I don't regret my time in the city but I'm glad it wasn't permanent.
These videos are very fascinating
My son is in the Air Force, stationed in Great Falls, Mt. We visited last year. Went to Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center. It's abandoned, closed down.
great video thanks !!!!
Ok mark!
"...if you ask me, which you didn't!" hahaha
People are once again leaving New Orleans. The current mayor is not interested in the happiness of her citizens ( subjects)
I guess ya get what ya vote for🙄
Love your songs
The US is much more fluid than the UK. I am not saying the sheeple don't move about, they do move, but the economy is much more locked down, most sheeple can't actually see the benefits of moving. Properties are expensive to buy and rent, but the actually number of properties to buy and rent are limited, so the market is very narrow & it is set up this way to keep prices high. The reality is that if everyone could participate in the property market, prices would fall by 50%. That is how far the UK regime has propped up the property market.
Yep definitely “sheeple”.
At my age mid 50s and this crazy world and people I would rather be moving to somewhere where people are moving out from
Native New Yorker here, 46 years of age. Those damn Hipsters chased me out of the city with Gentrification . I had a lucrative career in Advertising and along with my Commission , I also Freelanced and made 40% of my salary on the side. My rent in 2003 was $816 dollars a month. In 2013 my rent skyrocketed to a whopping $1800 for a fucking studio apartment in Jamaica Queens. In 2014 when my lease was up, I moved to upstate NY. Now my rent for a 1 bedroom in a so so neighborhood is $575 a month
My dad was in the military. I actually loved moving. It was like an adventure and clean slate for me on the other end. Back in days when Pac Man and Donkey Kong were still current video games, California was an awesome place for a kid.
I remember those days
Back when California was still a red state.
It's so sad what has happened to California. It looked so beautiful when I was a little kid in the 80's.
It's funny when you say "anyways", REALLY fast. Ahahahah
Your commentary is cool and down to earth... great videos
Whats up with the "less negative" part about your new channel? Youre just speaking the truth and millions of us know it. Keep up the good work.
haha i want to say nice things too! you know - what's GOOD about everything??
@@NickJohnson : I get that, but I just found your channel and was loving your take on things, isnt often we hear the truth these days but I respect your decision all the same.
I feel for Arizona as the never ending drought is going to cause all sorts of problems.
A lack of water in a mostly desert state like Arizona? Imagine that!
Nick Johnson such great info and love your sense of humor. Truly unique. Thank you. It’s a lot of work.