British Couple Reacts to 10 Worst Towns in the United States

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[@revtoyota]

As someone that has lived and worked in Nome he was wrong about 99% of that. Nome AK is a gold mining town and the amount of outsiders that come up here is what the crime rate comes from. They fail at mining then get stuck because they drank their profit away and just become a problem for the community. Just one family (2 sons above 30 and their father from Hawaii) had the cops called for DV (domestic violence) at least ounce a week for 5-6 months a year. Add the hundreds of wanna be gold miners every summer and the crime rate spikes. The guy who made the video was very rude and ignorant about what happens up here. Please stop assuming anything from his videos they are very flawed.

[@blanketstarry7725]

It's probably safe to say, then, that most of the towns talked about in this vid are equally misrepresented. That's easy to do when looking at stats without context and information sources that are probably biased.

[@TheEWFX29]

@@blanketstarry7725 Especially when all he cares about if you click on and subscribe. He doesn't care who is affected. Just another "joke" and on to the next one. I don't even think he does much more than Wikipedia info anyway. We are watching it because of the Beasley's probably wouldn't have watched it without that.

[@philjohnson3217]

I've visited a few of these towns in my lifetime. They are full of wonderful people and things to do. Some of the most humble towns have made the greatest memories. I remember going to a community and being told about the weekly breakfast at a town hall - Grange, and it cost me $3 for all the bacon and pancakes I could eat. You meet the locals, get insight into things to do, fishing holes, history. I wonder if the person who made this video is an introvert and doesn't get out much.

[@TheBubbaClemson]

Been to several of these towns. Broke down in Selma Alabama and found folks friendly and helpful, even pushing my car to a shop. The national average of income is inflated due to the cost of living in NY, California, Chicago etc. You can live quite well, but not extravagantly in most rural places on $36k. Granted, you might want to have a veggie garden and hunt to supplement your food... But that's what we do, and it's freeing to not depend on a store for all your needs!

[@Salvation4DJews]

Wise words. It's never a good thing to be trapped in a gated community or HOA. There are going to be a lot of people wishing they could grow a garden and hunt for food, and very soon. You can't eat money, Crypto, gold and silver.

[@ronclark9724]

Don't forget fishing. In rural areas fishing for your meals is very viable... Too many city slickers paying five times in rent and taxes can live very cheaply in a rural community with enough land to grown a good vegetable garden not far from a fishing hole. Either working local jobs or creating and selling crafts can earn enough to provide for necessities besides food.

[@Salvation4DJews]

@@ronclark9724 My neighbor dumped on my porch 75 pounds of fresh fish caught from the lake this morning. FOR FREE! He does this about once every two weeks. I don't even need a boat or a fishing pole. Reason? He can get as much food as his heart desires out of my garden. He just cleaned out his freezers because he knows my very large garden is going to fill all of his freezers up. I don't need all that fish, so what do I do? I trade some of the fish for ground meat, or a Goose, chickens, or whatever. The country life can be a good life.

[@newwavetay9250]

My family roots actually started in Americus, GA. I was born and raised in Cleveland, OH but I’ve been down there a few times and still have family down there. One cool fact is that my Great Grandmother and her siblings were actually childhood friends with former president Jimmy Carter who’s from neighboring Plains, GA. One cool thing I was able to do while down there was go and visit the farm he grew up on. You can walk through his childhood home and everything. They’ve turned it into a nice little attraction

[@frankieleal5682]

Millie with the quick math converting dollars to pounds 😂

[@wykedwryter]

I have grown up and lived 10 miles from the city of Benton Harbor, MI. The city was once beautiful, but over time has lost many businesses and factories. There are people fighting to build BH back up and there are businesses there.

[@burtviile]

I grew up about 300 feet from Benton Harbor. I go back twice a year, I guess there are parts of downtown that are okay. The huevos rancheros at Mason Jar are outstanding!

[@robertahrendt67]

Globe,Az- I'm not from there, but wife's family is. The biggest part of Globe/Miami and Superior fall was in late 80's, when Phelps-Dodge and copper mining shut down. They were copper mining towns. As were a lot of Arizona's small mountain towns at the time. However other towns are on road to somewhere(Grand Canyon, California, or Mexico) so they had a little tourism money coming in. When copper industry collapsed so did Globe. It could be an awesome place for retirees. Great weather beautiful mountains, but snowbirds want to live in Phoenix or Tucson so they can walk or golf cart to stores. Globe will someday be a tourist attraction as a ghost town, same as Jerome. Sad.

[@kholdford]

Hey guys just watched the video. I just wanted to let you know that even though I don't live in the South Carolina cities mentioned I do live in a city 25 to 30 min away from each one. These towns are all agricultural centers that had been hit very hard over the past 50 years, plus they only showed some of the bad areas in each town. Some of the areas do have nicer neighborhoods. just a couple insights. On the financial front they are very poor areas though.

[@walkerlocker6126]

I definitely feel like most of the US's crappy towns are a result of industry changes. Even up north, the towns that boomed from textiles, trains, lock making and steam powered factories, are the ones that experience the most poverty and crime. Back when these industries were huge (much like agriculture in the south), these towns made bank and blew up rather quickly, so that when newer technology inevitably replaced them, the towns could no longer support so many people and businesses (less spending money). When that happens, a town can either change what they rely on, which is difficult and sometimes impossible, or they got poor and crime ridden.

[@dibutler9151]

Alabama native here. Selma. HOW TF IS IT NOT #!??? Fun fact-if you go, it's like a ghost town. You hardly run into people. The nature around Americus, GA is lovely. The rest is a tragedy. Sadly, a lot of towns that were great in the 70s and 80s when I was a kid, have died violent deaths. When we lost manufacturing in this country. a huge part of rural areas and small towns died. Very sad. I think Nome is the worst because the weather plus crime is what makes it untolerable.

[@alossett16]

Swear Selma should be #1

[@rhoetusochten4211]

NAFTA is a dirty word in the areas where we used to make stuff.

[@darcy8333]

I live in the rust belt and it's so sad to see all of the old buildings that aren't being taken care of. There's a lot of history in these towns from the industrial revolution but it's expensive and impractical to maintain. In my town we have an old mill that used to be the center of town. Now it's a place where kids dare each other to explore in. There are literally bricks falling from the roof onto the sidewalk and street below. there have been two attempts to restore it but the first one ended in a worker falling off the roof and dying and the second ended in a massive fire that destroyed the roof. Another old mill in the area was turned into a mall in the 60s but was abandoned. The homeless started to live there and it became a massive hazard. The official story is that it accidentally burned down but most people believe that the town burned it down because the owners refused to tear it down.

[@ronclark9724]

Its like British coal mining and industrial towns. Once the mine or the factory closes, the town dies a slow death. Unlike large cites that can recover from a closure as an other factory business opens to replace the closed one. That doesn't happen in small towns...

[@felixdelabarara494]

The 2 major types of impoverished areas in the U.S. are urban areas where industry left in the 50s-90s and rural areas where farming jobs were once plentiful but have been replaced by machines. The common problems for both areas are #1 depopulation and # 2 the way social services are funded here. When the jobs leave those who can afford to leave do and it leaves mostly only poor people left who have little money to attract investment or start businesses. Complicating this is that most schools are funded locally through taxes on property value and most social services are funded at the state level. Poor towns with low property values thus have awful schools, underfunded police, and youth have nothing to do that's constructive. Poor states have no money to invest into struggling communities to build them back up. It's kind of a viscious cycle, poverty begets poverty here. The boomtowns of 100 years ago are the ruins of today and the boomtowns of today will be the "top 10 worst cities" in 100 years. We have a bad habit in the U.S. of letting industry make all the money it can, leave pollution as a parting gift, and pick up and leave for greener pastures when the sorry saps of the community aren't needed for profit anymore. Sorry to rant a bit but I'd imagine it's hard to understand how some of these places got to be the way they are and why they stay that way decade after decade.

[@Jamie-dz8dg]

alas, social services are pretty pitiful here in the US. I will leave it at that

[@derred723]

to add the vicious cycles mentioned in the above comment there are situations in parts of rural America where you have conservative governments who are anti-tax and pro low tax so you don't have a tax base needed to fund schools that are neglected. Keep in mind, 60 years ago the tax rate was higher and there were less loopholes for corporations. And with lower tax revenue it means less police, fire, hospitals are underfunded (revealed during Covid), less services for suicide prevention, opiod addiction, etc. In many cities you have a problems that urban areas don't have of the need for far more sidewalks, roads, water, and power infrastructure that you don't have in rural areas making them more expensive to run. having all that means an expense in maintaining them. You also have to maintain a larger force of fire, police, hospitals, etc. You've more people so in a concentrated area so you have to pay for public transit where rural areas don't. All adding to the expense and point is parts of the cities will eventually get neglected as things get cut. Also 60 years ago there was a larger social safety net for people that fell through the cracks. In the 70s an 80s those were drastically cut. And in both areas you have politicians which will use every trick from racial to gender to age to divide or distract the population. Trust me for different reasons you see corruption in all the places.

[@michaelschemlab]

James: “Bish-hop-ville” Me: “You mean Bishop-ville?”

[@edwardmclaughlin719]

Me: Who cares?

[@CancerKicker98]

I say Bish-up-ville

[@sikksotoo]

The British do have an adoration for their haitches

[@NarwahlGaming]

Me, an athiest, visiting an old church (for some reason): "Excuse me, Bish-hop?"_ Bishop: _"What did you just call me?"_

[@evak6162]

I started laughing uncontrollably at #5. My husband was born and raised there and let me tell you something... everything they say about it is absolutely 100% true! His parent moved from CA to Maryland when he was in high school and he has never looked back! We all refer to it as the "Potty stop between Vegas and LA". I've seen pictures of their family home and truth be told, it's all dirt and dust.

[@civilwarguy4740]

The McDonald’s there is cool though

[@smyelin1328]

Barstow had the closest In N Out to Vegas when i was in HS so we always stopped there. (Before In N Out came to Vegas)They also had a McDonalds in a train, that was cool at first. Then just creepy

[@felixdelabarara494]

A note about crime rates in small communities. Just 50 or 100 extra violent crimes a year can dramatically increase a community of 5000 or 7000's crime rate. Thousands of extra people have to comitt more crimes to increase NYC's crime rate.

[@rhiahlMT]

Not when it's per capita.

[@Jamie-dz8dg]

@@rhiahlMT - totally agree. A crime rate 400+% over the national average puts someone at a greater risk of being a victim (per capita)

[@pollyduron674]

Nome violent crimes have a lot to do with alcohol. When you live in the cold and six months of daylight, it leads to depression and drinking. I saw a special where they talked about the high level of alcoholism because of those factors...fights happen.

[@jamesradcliffe2496]

I wouldn't put a lot of stock in the crime rate statistics. It has been both my experience and my observation that police in small towns will set up speed traps and generally enforce crazy laws so that they can fund the towns operations.

[@NarwahlGaming]

Yeah! Did you know it's illegal to keep my pet alligator tied to a fire hydrant in St. Joseph, Michigan? The man is keeping me down! 😂

[@jamesradcliffe2496]

@@NarwahlGaming I feel your pain...

[@jamesreilly9195]

Go Detrit my home town once upon a time !! The steel and Automotive industry hurt a lot of places

[@MrCowboyjim]

Nome is expensive, for sure. My wife and I were there for a week in 2000. Breakfast for four was around $75.00 and we went to a buffet for dinner, which was around $60.00. We felt pretty safe while we were there and the people were friendly. We were told that when the native Alaskans receive their oil royalty checks, many from the outlying villages come to Nome and drink until the money's all gone. We were there in May. When we arrived there was ice as far as we could on the Bering Sea. The day before we left, the ice started breaking up and very little was still there the next day.

[@wolfe6220]

The thing is with Alaska: it has the most serial killers of any state. Probably because of Nome.

[@hannabertrand4460]

Is Nome Alaska where they were supposed to be in 30 Days of Night? That's the most terrifying vampire movie I've ever seen.

[@vjtonelli]

Benton Harbor reminds me of North St. Louis. Rows of boarded up homes, completely blighted out. Beautiful brick buildings. 3 stories. All red tagged for demo.

[@onen0zednine753]

lol @ "bish hop ville"..the jokes we can make out of that one 8:41 its like the new "bye Felicia" (bishop-ville btw)

[@lindacarroll6896]

Barstow has "always" been the place you go through going and coming from California. It's the gas stop, food stop, etc.

[@seantodd8875]

Immortalized in the Sheryl Crow song "Leaving Las Vegas". "Used to be I could drive up to Barstow for the night, find some cross-roads trucker to demonstrate his might".

[@sikksotoo]

@@seantodd8875 For me, it was immortalized being mentioned in the intro of Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas 😅

[@johnbeckozz214]

But they do have the original del taco and it's the best one

[@seantodd8875]

@@johnbeckozz214 not sure if calling any Del Taco or Taco Bell the "best one" is really much of a compliment.

[@sikksotoo]

@@johnbeckozz214 That's like saying the prettiest girl in the whole trailer park 😅

[@hoopdude]

The crime rate numbers sound worse than they really are. If you have 100's of thousands or millions, the numbers will always look smaller than the small towns they were talking about.

[@macusermdm]

The guy in the video is making up what makes a village, town, and a city. Population usually comes into play, but it's more about the government structure.

[@sheilameagher3675]

No. He is not. This is how village, town and city are defined.

[@macusermdm]

@@sheilameagher3675 it's not. I know of many villages that are larger than towns. In the Chicago suburbs alone, there are plenty of examples to choose from. For cities and towns, each state has different rules that define the difference. In some cases, it's size, population, special governing rules. Cities and towns are definitely more closely related than villages where they generally have an established government with a mayor. Villages tend to have boards with no elected head. Villages tend to share resources, police, fire, library, refuse, and roads where cities tend to have their own. It's not as simple as looking at the population.

[@sheilameagher3675]

@@macusermdm Usually these definitions are set by the Federal Government.

[@macusermdm]

@@sheilameagher3675 they are not set by the feds. Each state manages their own laws, districts, roads, education, voting, etc.

[@Antonio-wh3oq]

@@macusermdm The Federal Government has its own rigid standard for determining what it considers a city, town, or village, and it is indeed pretty much entirely about population because it mainly keeps track for census reasons. State and local governments are free to use their own metrics and call things whatever they want, but that will not change how it is seen in the eyes of the Federal Government. The video is clearly leaning on Federal census data, so obviously it will abide by the distinctions set by the federal government (which I’m pretty sure was explained early on in the video as well). An area with a relatively tiny population can freely call itself a city if it so pleases, but it still will not receive the same treatment or level of federal funding as an area that the federal government considers a city.

[@justintrefney1083]

The problem with measuring the crime rate by percentage per capita is in a small town ONE extra crime can increase the rate by orders of magnitudes. One bad family could double or triple the total crimes.

[@NarwahlGaming]

And, you get situations where all 3 cops will respond to a call of kids riding double on a bicycle. High crimes, indeed!

[@patrickmosier3674]

i live in a very small town with almost no crime....i think its cause everyone sorta knows everyon but i love it here

[@HBC423]

There are small towns like that with tons of crime.. like most in Tennessee

[@kevinlee6003]

@@HBC423 I'd say there's an overwhelming majority of small towns with little to no crime compared to towns with a crime problem.... across the US. I've been all over the US, and most of the small towns had little to no crime at all.

[@HBC423]

@@kevinlee6003 not around the south. The drugs have made everywhere around here dangerous

[@Justaguyuguys]

I always find it funny that I live in the 2nd largest "city" in West Virginia and its got a population of 46000 so really its a medium sized town. WV doesn't have any cities, if you add my town with the largest "city" in the state the total population still isn't a city, it's only like 94000

[@TheBubbaClemson]

Did some time in Clarksburg WV. 😂. Went to Fairmont State built WVU's football locker room when Rich Rod got the job. But I rescued my WV wife and brought her home to Clemson SC. Just kidding. Love West By God!!!

[@Justaguyuguys]

@@TheBubbaClemson lol. I used to say I rescued my wife from down here when she moved to PA, but then she got me to move down here and I wouldn't live anywhere else.

[@Liethen]

The definition of city used in this video isn't the actual legal or colloquial definition.

[@phillipanderson8067]

I wonder how many of these places listed are run by Democrats?

[@TheBubbaClemson]

@@phillipanderson8067 90%

[@RichardOlsonar15]

The US Marine Corps has a Logistics Base in Barstow. Note that the narrator (presenter) never mentioned that

[@natemalnaa1]

Nome Alaska is also one of the places where ufo sightings are so high and where everything happened to that one doctors family, it was made into a movie/documentary called "The Forth Kind"

[@tristantknight]

I've lived on about 11k a year... it's low but not impossible to survive on. the major downside is I've never had extra money to do anything fun. it's weird to me that he says the definition of a large town is 50 to 90k, when all the signs around here say "welcome to the city" ... population here is about 52,000.. perhaps my county's definition of city differs from the state/US.

[@Liethen]

That's because the definition of city isn't X number of people. It's organizational structure. The state of Ohio requires 5,000 people to gain a city charter from the state. Others states vary. Historically definitions varied. The idea that a city requires huge populations is new, dreamed up by people from ultra-metropolises who think any place with fewer than 1,000,000 is a town.

[@lucasw24]

What were you paying in rent? I’d think there would be almost nothing left after that. Even in the Midwest rent has gotten very high.

[@billthompson1759]

Barstow is next to the US Army's desert training center.

[@larryhunter7368]

There is Somewhere, Everywhere, that you’d rather not find yourself on a hot summers night.

[@Teresia12]

I still forget to lock my doors at night. ❤ In my state I live in a small town with a lower wage but cost of living is also lower. Housing cost in particular. We are very safe as well. I'm not going to say where I am because I think the internet is not safe. Lol

[@shawn.m.schmidt]

I did some pretty deep research for a branding project on Jersey, Guernsey, and Alderney, mostly St. Anne - Alderney. You guys live in a pretty awesome place. Cheers.

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[@TruthTroubadour-xi9cc]

My dad was born and raised in Globe, AZ. It used to be a nice, sleepy copper mining town, but there is a big street drug addiction problem there. That's where the violent crime comes from. Other than the mine ( and some very good Mexican restaurants), there isn't much going on there. It's economic situation isn't great. I wouldn't want to live there, honestly.

[@stozov2]

Detroit here! We good 👍🏿

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

People keep saying don't go to Detroit. Pfft

[@stevensnk]

@@runrafarunthebestintheworld Let us keep the secret to ourselves!

[@pickleriiick7294]

I’ve gotten to where I just automatically like your videos at the beginning because I’ve yet to see one that wasn’t enjoyable. Keep up the good work.

[@johnscheunemann5630]

He’s right about Barstow. It’s where you stop to eat on the way to Las Vegas.

[@danadnauseam]

Americus, Georgia, is also the headquarters of Habitat for Humanity, which skews the income somewhat, as a large number of volunteers live there for one or two years at a time.

[@ChautonaHavig]

I live 90 miles from Barstow and go through there often. While I don't like it at all and I feel like this was reasonably accurate from an "outsider's" perspective, I know people who live there who like the community there. IT has a lovely church we've spent time at, and it used to have my all-time favorite restaurant, Idle Spurs. Great prime rib there.

[@tomlompa6598]

FYI, "Griggs" is severely out of touch with reality. So take that into account with his vids.

[@JStvnsn]

Never lived in Barstow, but have driven through a few times. It’s a pretty dumpy town, where you just get gas and get back to civilization

[@snowtigress7744]

Me and my family used to live about 30 to 45 minutes away from there in a place called the High Desert (mostly in Victorville) and we only went there for the strip mall they had which had the closest Old Navy. 😂😂😂

[@ronluk76]

James and Miliie, great video as always. Please react to Touropia - "Top 10 Places To Vist in California" and Geography King- "Northern California vs. Southern California: The Definitive Comparison".

[@markhine3232]

I like the world accoring to griggs. Hes pretty fair and hes not afraid to tell you the not so great things about the cities on the lists. The small town lists are the best. Thanks for posting this. You two rock.

[@mephistopheles19791]

I wanted to point something out about crime rates, they are based on national averages. So for example the town I live in is around 76% below the national average for violent crimes, but when you consider the total amount of violent crimes committed, which is 6, it really affected the percentage a lot because the population. Only 12 more violent crimes would put it 24% above the national average, and this is 0 murders, it's fights and so on. When you think about it, is 18 fights really enough to frighten someone so much with these numbers? Sure some of them are extremely high percentages, but it really depends on the population of the individual towns. Another way to look at it is that the towns with higher crime rates have a police force that is actually doing it's job. L.A. may have a lower percentage, but how many more unsolved crimes do they have compared to some of these high percentage towns? It's all because the police force simply cannot handle all that is going on there, so don't let these numbers fool you too much. I've always said a higher crime rate means a better police force making arrests. Love the channel by the way, I also like my home state of West Virginia being represented in the background!!!!!

[@derred723]

Police in LA don't solve crime because they often don't investigate violent crime thoroughly. And many parts of LA and Orange county have very low rates of crime, some of the lowest in the state. As for fights. It's not always two people in consensual fist fights. It's also someone beats up randoms or sucker punches an old man. The states with the highest homicide rate are 1. Louisiana, 2. Missouri, 3. Nevada, 4. Maryland, 5. Arkansas, 6. Alaska, 7.Alabama, 8. Mississippi. 9. Illinois, 10. South Carolina. For all the crap states like California get, it's not in the top ten for homicide rate. An interesting point too is people like to blame the liberals but i believe 7 of the top 10 states are run by Republican governors not liberal democrat governors. Also one thing to keep in mind is police forces report a "clearance rate" which they can do if they make an arrest and a charge. Not a conviction. So what happens is, police will arrest a guy and charge him, tag it as cleared. And their stats go up. But they don't have actual evidence or didn't do a good investigation. I bring this up because of your comment about "better police force making arrests." But in lots of cases lots of arrests don't mean they are actually catching criminals and stopping crime. They are just arresting people to fudge the crime stats so the department or mayor looks good. Then you have all these unsolved crimes cause people get let go for insufficient evidence.

[@Nismo331]

I've used the restroom in Barstow many times on the way to Vegas

[@scottgarner8270]

Not sure where this guy is getting his information, but according to the US Government the national average wage is OVER 55,000. National average has been over 40,000 since 2007. If he can't get that right...then I am not sure about all his other numbers either.

[@leethomas2901]

In my opinion all towns kind of suck. I live in colorado in the middle of nowhere , meaning its 12 miles to the closest gas station and about 50 miles to the closest walmart. Pizza delivery is out of the question and nothing is convenient however the chance of a human causing me problems are nonexistant. However deer, elk and bighorn sheep might eat my garden or coyotes, bear or foxes might eat my pets but animals are more predictable than humans so i chose animals. This list is pretty well thought out and although personal preferences may differ all 10 of these towns deserve a spot on this list.

[@sgiovanny39j]

I had a friend from Americus, Georgia. He seemed to love his hometown. He would regularly wear an I love Americus, Georgia shirt.

[@keithweaver7585]

Nome Alaska has got to have a high crime rate due to how rich it is with gold mining. If you get a chance, watch Bering sea gold on discovery channel or something. I'm surprised it's as high as it is, but then again, if your population of a town doubles or triples every summer and no one cares, sure, high crime makes sense. Especially if you lost everything trying to strike it rich with gold.

[@Oreana818]

Isn’t Barstow the last or first depending on which way your going to/from Vegas that you see an In-N-Out? Gotta get some points for that, right? Or is it Victorville?

[@HELMBREAKER47]

Down the road from where I live here leads to a town named Selma, Tx. Right here northeast of San Antonio 😅

[@richardsbrandon5027]

I've seen the signs & driven right be there, too!

[@hdanielnoble6572]

Barstow, California's high-school football field is gravel NOT astro-turf or grass

[@sikksotoo]

I grew up in Phoenix. We played a football game in *Globe* once, my teammate had to go to the hospital for stitches because of glass on the football field. My old boss graduated from their high school. It's a dump. To make things worse, there's a casino just outside of the city limits. So that's where folks actually go to spend their money. In another municipality 😅

[@SGlitz]

And Boyce Thompson. But I still don't go into Globe. :)

[@davidb.8769]

You guys are usually pretty dressed down on your videos, but you dress up really nice and you're such a cute couple. Next Christmas I think you should have one of those christmas post cards where you have a nice picture of yourselves maybe next to a tree and offer it either as a freebee to your fans or a cheap offer on your merch site. I think it would be sweet and if you made it a yearly tradition maybe someday it would include a baby? :)

[@PrettyDeadThings]

There isn't a lot to do in Nome Alaska but drink. Because of the amount of drinking, there tends to be a A LOT of spousal abuse. These acts are mainly done by men towards their wives and kids, and because of cultural aspects, many of the victims stay with the abuser. There are also a lot of rapes in the town... mostly due to... drinking and a general lack of respect some men have towards women. I've been to Nome several times and I feel very safe there, but I'm also not living there and married to an alcoholic.

[@jamesmcbridenyc730]

Nome Alaska has the alien owls and UFOs right lol has to be true, saw it in a movie 🤣

[@deeharris3164]

Americus Georgia is like a hour and fifteen minutes away from where I live.

[@ECLV3]

My friends family grew up in globe. Interested old mining town.

[@jessedaniel6330]

I'm just happy eastern Kentucky didn't make the list this time . We have crippling poverty but low violent crime rates .

[@JennNofficial]

Been to Barstow passing through to Vegas

[@jariemonah]

Sorry but most of the time this guy talks about New Jersey, it's like he's never been there. Sopranos and toxic waste dump? NJ's ranked the 5th safest state in the US because the few dangerous cities it actually has are very tiny compared to other states.

[@Jamie-dz8dg]

Briggs has some fun stuff. Maybe you two will be able to check out some other stuff from him if you and the audience enjoyed this one.

[@jamesmcbridenyc730]

Should have the Bronx NY , and east NY, Brooklyn on this list. Just like Chicago, it's like warzones.

[@pyrovania]

The main problem with Barstow is the weather. Can reach 50C in the summer.

[@klevver1981]

It is a sad thought but as someone who grew up in a city in the middle of teensy little towns. Because most of them, at least where I'm from, don't have their own police. They rely on county or state police. So when you see such high violent crime rates is because those are more likely to be the crimes being reported. So smaller crimes like theft(unarmed) narcotics,and prostitution get overlooked.

[@trailryder5813]

Drove through Selma 6 days ago. I understand looks can be deceiving but Selma certainly looks like a place you want to leave as fast as possible. I don't want to slam the people there so I will say I had no interactions with anyone due to the entire looks thing making me not want to stop so the people my very well be wonderful.

[@Sirge57]

You are going to do a series on Worst town and places in Europe, right?

[@johnalden5821]

I think this video (and others like it) probably come as a shock to many people in other countries. If you grow up thinking that the U.S. is a big Hollywood theme park, then the actual reality of places like this can be pretty sobering. The truth is, many small towns in rural areas are losing population as young people head to the cities and the coasts for jobs and opportunities. There has been a chronic lack of investment across much of the country, and wealth has become more concentrated in the upper classes. It isn't all bleak, but the U.S. is not the America you used to see in the movies -- not anymore.

[@jessbellis9510]

For the past two decades I've viewed the US as a 2nd world country - it's an outlier to all other 1st world/developed countries. There are many rich, but also many millions in extreme poverty. It's a result of the way the US is governed and run - not as a society, but a for-profit corporation where everyone is out for themselves. "Individualism" and "independence" as an ideal has turned into "self-interest before everyone else". The extreme divide between rich and poor gets wider every year, and instead of your government doing their actual job - which is to serve the public - they're so blatantly corrupt and self-serving that it's just accepted as something that can't be changed. You have the most millionaires of any country, yet have entire blocks of shanty towns where the homeless live. Practically no help is provided through government services, and you have the most expensive health system in the world, where many people avoid treatment because they can't afford it. The US has an ever-increasing % of their population living in poverty, who are relegated to either these rural towns or areas of cities where the rich don't have to look at them. The US education system is intentionally shit, so those who aren't born into wealthy families have almost no chance of improving their situation, and critical thinking isn't taught anywhere because people will realise just how much they're being screwed by the rich, and they might then fight against the corrupt system. The US has taken capitalism from being an economic system to the basis of all society - economy, government, legal system, health, ideology and even the value of people. It isn't run like any other 1st world country. The US system is basically this: Corruption of Power 🡩 Public service investment 🡫 Education 🡫 Jobs - opportunities and wages 🡫 Poverty 🡩 Mental Health 🡫 Alcohol & Drug Addiction 🡩 Homelessness 🡩 Crime 🡩

[@derred723]

It's like when someone from another country goes to LA and expects to see celebrities walking around. I'm like you know it's there's like 13 million+ people spread out over 35+ square miles? Most of those people are not celebrities. They work at like a loading dock or driving an uber.

[@johnalden5821]

@@jessbellis9510 I am starting to think of the U.S. as something closer to Brazil. In many ways, it is in reverse-development, politically, economically and socially. The one area where I would disagree with is that I don't think the education system is "intentionally" bad. There are excellent schools in the U.S., but they are either private prep schools for wealthy kids or they are in wealthy residential areas. The rest of the school systems are trying, but they are under-funded and badly managed. In the U.S., as you noted, it is all about money. The more you have, the better your life will be. And that starts in pre-school.

[@r.s.5431]

I think the problem with crime statistics is that they are determined by counting events per 100,000 people. This works fairly well for comparing large cities, but not so well for comparing towns to the national average. One or two events occurring in a town of 2000 people over a 10-year period can cause a significant perturbation in the crime rate.

[@Xiphos0311]

Worse towns? LA, NYC, San Fran, Dallas, Houston, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Detroit and Minneapolis.

[@livviebrentfun7794]

Big shout out from Mississippi!

[@chadlynch1551]

Philadelphia, Baltimore, south side of Chicago, Portland, New Orleans, parts of DC, New York ... pretty much every large city now has at least parts that is one part slum, one part drug house, and one part war zone.

[@jeremyvaughan6376]

I have lived by two of these places I lived next to ameris georgia for a few years. and I grew up in sumter south carolina which is right beside Bishopville. They both were bad but not to bad if your not involved in the crime there.

[@grannyof5and1baking]

It’s true about the border. I live in north Texas people are floating the state going north.

[@LoveMyMagMoreThanYou]

Those statistics on crime are always going to look horrendous for small communities. The statistical cushion that big cities enjoy always make smaller communities look bad. There are around 7 million people in NYC. There are 12000 in the town/city I live in. If 1 person is killed in my city, how many people would have to die in NYC to be at the same percentage?

[@Thegrumpyoldmanf---it]

the wife and lived in benton harbor michigan for 10 years in the fairplain area we loved it! we watched the arts district being built and thrive. we spent a lot of time and money there. they host PGA tournaments at the Jack Nicklaus Signature Course. it's a very unique city!

[@mikegrantham7440]

I would still rather live in one of those towns than I would in New York City, Los Angeles, or Chicago which still has more crime on any given day than any of those towns do in a year.

[@vjtonelli]

You are wonderfully entertaining. Keep up the fun!

[@LE64SAM-IAM]

There's nothing like degrading a whole state because of how nominally informed about it you are. This is someone who I'd like to ask whether ignorance really is bliss.

[@hifijohn]

I have to say this every time some reacts to this video, the size of a city population has very little to do whether its classified as a town/city/village I live in a place of 7K and it is legally a city.

[@ntatenarin]

True for small areas, but I'm pretty sure people are using population to not call New York City, Chicago, and Houston, "villages" or "towns."

[@oldmanjimh3165]

Maine ranks first for Personal & Residential Safety, Road Safety, and Emergency Preparedness. Maine has the lowest number of assaults per capita of any state in the U.S. Maine has the lowest violent crime rate overall than any other state and has the fourth-lowest property crime rate as well. Live in beautiful Maine.

[@tofargone16]

and high numbers on the welfare dole.

[@oldmanjimh3165]

@@tofargone16 Can't have it all.

[@tofargone16]

@@oldmanjimh3165 spent a couple of years in Bangor and Presque Isle. really is a great state to live in. Maybe I shouldnt advertise so that it remains that way. take care.

[@4TwentyFour20]

nyc, chicago, detroit, los angeles, oakland, seattle, portland...should be top 7

[@aradek214]

My hometown isn't on that list, but it completely sucks ass!! LOL

[@sallyintucson]

Globe, Arizona is a former mining town. Remember: No jobs = High crime. It’s like that all over the USA.

[@slecht7867]

I live in a village with 2000 people and there and drug busts here all the time

[@rexfordhazelton7601]

The incomes listed do not seem modern. Inflation is always moving prices higher. These numbers sound right maybe 15 or 20 years ago.

[@phatman691]

I stayed in Lake City, SC for 4 months on a summer vacation. This was back in 2018 and it wasn't that bad. But who knows what could happen in a few years.

[@vntajones]

I’m from South Carolina 12 generation and I have family there. They’ve never had a problem there.

[@edwardhoward8485]

When these towns have a small population, crime percentages don't mean much. There may be only one crime per year.

[@derickbarajas1520]

My family lives in Barstow California

[@pyrovania]

Regarding Nome, native Americans have very poor alcohol tolerance and tend to get addicted.

[@landonmichelle]

I don't think crime rates in less populated areas can be compared accurately to the national average. Seems like it would definitely be skewed.

[@notme7090]

I guess he's comparing the crime rates to similarly sized towns and cities? I can't help but think of towns in West Virginia that grew up around some industry and then became like these because the industry dried up. Lack of money plus lack of things to do beyond minding everyone else's business tends to leads people to get into things they shouldn't. The high crime is probably stuff that in a bigger city would be considered small potatoes and the "violent" crimes are probably bar fights and family tailgating type stuff. I've never been to the towns in this video, though, so I guess it could be really bad. Usually you hear about it if there is something really vile being done in a small town like that, though.

[@Jamessmith-xk3fh]

I follow that KZbin channel and love that channel

[@brians2869]

If mine isn't on it, they surveyed it incorrectly...

[@marcjennings6267]

When they say 200% above the national average, you must keep in mind that their populations are much lower, he makes it sound like it’s horrendous crime , it’s really not…

[@TKDragon75]

When my Dad lived in Selma, his house got shot at.

[@heatheryoung8891]

Americus, Ga shouldn’t be on the list. It’s not that bad. I live not far away and Albany,ga which is also close by is way worse. The crime rate is considered worse than Atlanta.

[@RicardoRamirez-us7hf]

In new Mexico when I was a young man my friend and I would go through heading to a concert in Phenix we past little towns like lordsberg a side from the truck stop there was from what we could see nothing else. in truth I haven't gone through there in twenty years so I don't know now

[@kdm71291]

I've driven through Barstow......but never stopped, I don't think....but many years ago I had a girlfriend who lived there in her youth.....she said there was nothing to do there except meth and sex......she referred to it as "Bumf@#k Egypt", haha!