Top 10 Cheapest Beach Towns in the US. - YouTube

What is going on everyone? Have you ever heard the expression "it's

no day at the beach"? If you haven't it's normally part of a

conversation about something unpleasant like a tough day at work

dental work passing a kidney stone etc the reason we say that is to most of us

being at the beach is a good time so if it's a bad time

it's no day at the beach get it okay most people dream about living at the

beach and that's why having an ocean view home

costs double or more what the same house might cost

a mile or so inland but just living in a beach town is a dream for a lot of

people today's video is about beach towns that

some would consider affordable and might actually be an option now or

in the future for a lot of us on this video we look for towns that are

on the coast have somewhat of a low cost of living and

reasonable housing costs and i'll tell you up front that i'm sure we missed

some in a lot of people's opinion i would love to hear about it in the

comments section below as always if this list gets a good

amount of views we might do a viewer's version of your suggestions

one other thing i want to tell you is if you've come to this video looking for

affordable beach towns in southern california or let's say hawaii

forget it they don't exist alright let's see what we got

number 10 jacksonville north carolina yeah not the florida jacksonville this

one's in north carolina jacksonville is a military and a beach

town right outside of camp lejeune north carolina which is the largest

marine corps base on the east coast this one kind of

shouldn't be on the list because it's a little bit inland

but it has a bay called the new river and most people really consider this a

beach town the town is home to 73 000 people and

they aren't all marines or in the navy they say a median home price here goes

for about 160 thousand dollars now that's what they say and that's the

averages but realistically you can get a nice three-bedroom home

built in the last 10 years for under 250 thousand dollars

it's a good price they do have the marine corps air station new river right

outside of town and that can get a little loud so that

might help bring down the property value but it's a nice place to

live the crime isn't terrible and the cost of living is 15 percent

lower than the national average so it is a definitely good place to live

and buy a home rent's pretty cheap here too

number nine gulfport mississippi gulfport is mississippi's second largest

city after the capital city of jackson this is a beach town that's right on the

gulf of mexico and not too far from biloxi mississippi the beaches here are

really nice i've been there a couple times it's been years but i've been

there a couple times they still look great the waterfront district is always

a good time people get to stroll around with cocktails in their to-go cups and

wander up and down the beaches if you want and into the casinos

this is a tourist town sort of like vegas with cut off jeans

the median home price they say is 127 thousand dollars now realistically you

can get a nice three-bedroom home for between 220 and

300 000. keep in mind we got some nice ocean here

those are really good prices for what you're getting if you want to

go big you can get ocean view home for under 500 000

they have one right now that's just like 490

000 that is directly across beach boulevard from the sand

that's how close you are look out your front door you can see the ocean or the

gulf on top of all that good news the cost of

living here is 14 percent lower than the national average

this town has a lot of really good people too you'll notice that as soon as

you go there people are decent here a lot of the south is that way you got to

go into some really crappy neighborhoods to

find bad people in the south a lot of times

number eight aberdeen washington this one is one of my favorites

aberdeen is located at the mouth of grey's harbor if you like

water this place has more than enough it is on grey's harbor like i said

the pacific ocean is right there and they have three rivers that flow into

the harbor all around the town and of course

waterfalls from the sky on a regular basis like the rest of the pacific

northwest it rains a lot here it is also the

birthplace of kurt cobain yeah he was born here

they even have the kurt cobain memorial park named in the memory of the late

nirvana musician the median home price here is about 160

000. that's what they say but realistically you're looking at 220

to 300 000 to get something decent what really makes this place shine is

the state has no income tax that's always a good thing especially if

you're like retired a lot of states will tax your retirement income

no not here the cost of living is also about five percent lower than the

national average so it's all good this is a definitely

good place to live if you don't mind the gray skies in the rain really

number seven port arthur texas right on the border of louisiana you have

port arthur texas texas in general does a good job of keeping the cost of living

low port arthur takes it a step further some of the homes here would probably go

for about 20 percent higher anywhere else in texas but being so

close to louisiana the property values are a tad bit lower

probably because you got that bayou stank on it but realistically if you

want a nice livable home here you're looking at 150 000 to 200 000

that is still very low especially being so close to the ocean or the gulf

nice homes start around 300 000 here now here's where this place really gets good

the cost of living is 17 lower than the national average in

port arthur not bad at all you just gotta deal with

being so close to louisiana number six hampton virginia most people

have never heard of hampton virginia i'm one of them

hampton is right next to newport news virginia which i have heard of

it's part of the whole hampton road metro area on the virginia peninsula

hampton is an independent city in the commonwealth of virginia it is a

commonwealth and they got about 140 000 residents hampton has three really

nice beaches with great views sure the occasional nuclear-powered

naval vessel cruises by but that's a small price to pay for such an amazing

view of the ocean what i like about this town is the cost

of living this is a very desirable place to live unlike some of the other towns

on this list and they still maintain a low-cost living they're actually three

percent lower than the national average if you know this area and you've seen

this area you'd think it should be you know

10 over the national average no it's still lower you could buy a older

livable home for around 200 000 here a decent one starts around 250 000 and

goes up it goes all the way up but this is a

nice place to live that's still relatively cheap

number five palm bay florida hey look at that florida made the list

unlike california they have nice beach towns that are still affordable

shockingly the cost living here is six percent lower than the national average

i didn't see that one coming i thought florida was gonna be up there but no

they have some nice places palm bay is in between vero

beach and cocoa beach on the atlantic side

it has a golf course and some killer mountain biking and you're not terribly

far from orlando in case you want to give disney all your money

the median home price here is 120 000. now i always

say but realistically because median means they take all the properties for

sale most expensive and the cheapest and the cheapest could be a lot someplace or

a vacant home that's been vacant for 20 years

and it's going for 20 000. well you average all that out and you come up

with a median home price which is really not realistic so really what you're

looking for here is nice homes start around 200 000

that's for nice livable home 250 starts the nicer homes

built sometime after duran duran was relevant palm bay is a

nice place to live especially if you're the

retirement age because everyone wants to move to florida when they're retired

it's nice it's warm hurricane season can get a little scary

but other than that it's a nice place to live

number four ocean springs mississippi ocean springs

is a town of about 17 000 and it's still able to keep that

small town mojo the magnolia state has a lot of problems being expensive isn't

one of them the cost of living is seven percent

lower than the national average the housing is 16 percent lower

and the town sits on the beach ocean springs is right across the biloxi bay

bridge from biloxi which isn't very expensive either there are

plenty livable homes for around 150 000 in ocean springs but you really want

to be looking somewhere around 225 250 000 for a nice one that you won't

need to do a bunch of work with it'll just be a nice house the downtown

area is great the architecture is amazing

has streets lined with old oak trees it just gives you that whole

old south feeling number three surfside beach texas surfside beach is

also known as surfside to you know the people that live there it

sits on the shores of the gulf of mexico near the city of freeport texas

the population is a little over 500 and it's a great place to live if you don't

mind climbing stairs all the homes here are

built on stilts the cost of living is three percent

lower than the national average and the housing is only one percent lower

that's not the lowest on this list but the best part about this place is how

close you are to the water it is so close that like i said

everything's built on stilts because the water likes to come ashore and visit the

locals apparently you could buy a house stilts and all for

under 200 thousand but the nicer ones start around three hundred thousand

and you go up from there surfside also has

lake jackson in the area it's almost a beach town but if you're looking for a

place close to the beach look at lake jackson this town has some

of the best stats i have ever seen and it still maintains a low cost living

and low housing prices so yeah lake jackson if you want this

area i'd pick lake jackson and drive to the

beach when i want to go number two lubick maine i bet you didn't

think anything in new england could possibly be

considered cheap well luckily lubic is so far away from

everything else it stays cheap lubic is one of the most northeastern towns in

the united states right across this bridge

is canada there are a bunch of places more north of here but

eastport lubic look like they're the furthest east

normally when a town is located near the canadian border i suggest it to retirees

as we all know prescription medications are normally

about two to three times more expensive in the united states than canada

but this island across from lubic is very rural and i couldn't find anything

that would look like a pharmacy if i'm wrong let me

know in the comment section below the cost of living in lubic is seven

percent lower than the national average and housing

is 47 percent lower you can get a nice house

with a view of the water or even on the water for less than two hundred thousand

lubic is a beautiful small town if you ever get a chance you're in the area

which most of us never will but if you are in the area

check it out and number one pensacola florida pensacola has some of

the whitest sand beaches i have ever seen i've been to a lot of beaches i

grew up in southern california and our sand was

sort of yellowish brown like a beige here you have

white soft sand it's amazing you have the city part which is on pensacola bay

the beaches the few that they have on there are okay

but you have pensacola beach where all the white sand and touristy things are

and that's right on the gulf you just gotta go over a couple bridges to get

there this is a great place to live great

weather most of the year and tons of outdoor stuff to do

sure you have to deal with the sound of naval aircraft every now and then but

it's also where the blue angels train so it makes it okay by the way they have a

really really good air show in pensacola every single year

almost every year it got cancelled this year like everything else

the cost of living in pensacola is seven percent lower than the national average

and housing is five percent lower they have a lot of homes here for sale for

under a hundred and fifty thousand dollars i'm not even kidding these are

livable homes probably not in the best neighborhood but under 150 000 if you

want something nice three bedrooms in a nice neighborhood you're looking at

220 to 260. that's it this is a great place to live

all right so that is my cheapest beach cities in the united states

like i said i'm sure there's a bunch of others that i missed

these are the ones that we found that were very attractive to most people i'd

love to hear if you know of a really good one

maybe we'll make another list like i said before but that's that

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