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- [Briggs] What is going on, everyone?
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Welcome back to The World
According to Briggs.
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Are you tired of the concrete jungle?
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Do you wanna find a rural town
to buy a home, settle down?
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Who doesn't, right?
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Today, we're looking at great
rural towns in Tennessee.
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We did a video a couple weeks back
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about great rural towns to retire
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or live as a remote worker
in the United States.
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We had a bunch of people ask
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if we could expand this
and do it by state.
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So here we are.
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A couple things about
rural Tennessee towns.
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They rarely have jobs.
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Really, that kind of goes
for most rural towns.
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So you gotta bring one in
with you, or not need one,
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like you're retired.
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The second thing is you gotta
have good car insurance,
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because if you aren't
familiar with the area
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you're moving to, you'll
eventually run into something,
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run into the ditch,
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whatever, so get online,
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get a good auto insurance quote,
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or walk into a local insurance office,
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and get a quote there.
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Wait, do people even do that anymore?
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It's been so long.
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I honestly don't think I've
been in an insurance office
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for over 20 years.
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With the towns in this video,
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we are looking for that sweet spot.
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It's a decent place to live
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that is isn't very close to a major city,
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and it's not five hours away
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from a hospital or something like that.
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You also don't want it to be too far out
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to where you're getting horrible internet.
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Those last two things, hospital, internet,
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they knocked a lot of really
nice small towns off this list,
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because if you're working from home,
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obviously you're gonna need internet.
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And if you're retired or older,
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you're gonna need a hospital.
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That's just a sad fact.
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As we get older, we need more doctors
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and gotta go see specialists,
things like that.
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In the last video, I explained
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that not all states have
10 good rural towns,
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and I don't wanna waste
your time with a bunch
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of just thrown-in ones that
aren't worthy of this list.
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Tennessee has some really great cities
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and some great suburbs.
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But when you look
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at the rural towns that
fit our requirements here,
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they only got five.
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Actually they have six,
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but Thompson Station, Tennessee,
was on our first video,
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the one where we looked at
the entire United States.
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So yeah, we're only looking
at five on this one.
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Let's take a look.
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Number five: Parsons, Tennessee.
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Parsons is a small town
of about 2300 residents
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that sits right between
Nashville and Memphis.
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It's like right in the middle.
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If you move here and need
to go to the big city,
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always choose Nashville.
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If someone asks you if you'd like to go
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to Nashville or Memphis for the weekend,
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it's about the equivalent
of them asking someone.
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If they'd like a hug
or a punch in the junk,
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Nashville being the hug.
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There isn't a lot to do here.
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It seems like a really
quiet place to live.
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So if that's what you're looking for,
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Parsons may be the town for you.
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You know, when I say there's
not a lot to do here,
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they don't have some lake or some river
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in town that normally leads
to crowds in the summer.
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It's just a nice place to live.
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While researching this one,
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I found a lot of people seem
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to love Bailey's Pizza in Parsons.
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Parsons is the largest town
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by population in Decatur
County, Tennessee.
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When it comes to healthcare,
they're not doing that bad.
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They got Decatur County General Hospital
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on the south side of town.
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Anything past that,
you're gonna have an hour
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and a half drive to Nashville.
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They get a thumbs up
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when it comes to healthcare.
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When you're looking at
internet, they have Spectrum.
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That covers about 75% of the town.
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That'll get you a gig.
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They also have TDS, which gives you a gig,
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and they cover about 80% of the town.
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So they get a thumbs up for that one.
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They also get a thumbs
up for their crime rate.
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It's actually 66% lower
than the national average.
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If you wanna buy a house here,
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they got a couple houses for sale,
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and most seem to go for under $250,000.
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And I mean, they look decent.
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They look like they're ready to go,
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livable, nice houses
to have under 250,000.
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I even researched last year.
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Most of the houses stay
below 250,000, not bad.
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So they get a thumbs up there too.
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On top of cheap housing,
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their overall cost living is 24% lower
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than the national average.
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Their only real knocks
are they don't have a lot
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to do around here.
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I mean, the Tennessee River's
not too far away, but in town,
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there's really not a lot to
do, and they don't have jobs,
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but since we're really
not focusing on that,
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we're focusing on where
retirees and people
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that work from home can go,
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Parsons is a great option.
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Number four: Collinwood, Tennessee.
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Collinwood was established
in 1913 as a stop
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on the Tennessee Western Railroad,
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a rail line that was constructed
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to serve the area's iron industry.
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The city was actually
named after W.W. Collins,
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president of Collinwood Land Company,
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which planted the city.
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It's about midway point between
Chattanooga and Memphis,
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and is about 30 minutes
from Insurance Bluff.
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I'm not even kidding.
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It's called Insurance Bluff.
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If I were the people at
Geico, I would jump on that,
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and pay to name it like
Geico Insurance Bluff.
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You know, they'd get some
great press out of that.
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Collinwood is another quiet
town with around 950 residents,
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and four churches in town,
and a couple outside of town.
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If you ask me, I think that's overkill.
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When it comes to healthcare,
they have an urgent care.
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That's about it in town.
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If you need to go to the hospital,
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Wayne Medical Center in
Waynesboro, about 15 minutes north,
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is right there,
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and Wayne's medical
center is pretty good size
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for such a rural area.
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And like in most towns in Tennessee,
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they don't have a lot
of dentists or anything.
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They get a thumbs up for their healthcare.
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If they didn't have the
urgent care in town,
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they'd probably get a faded thumbs up.
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But anyway, the crime here is really low.
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It's actually 68% lower
than the national average,
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so they get a thumbs up there.
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When it comes to internet,
it's not the greatest.
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They have TDS and it offers one gig,
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but it only covers about 74% of the town.
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Spectrum's there offering one gig also,
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but that's only 10% of the town,
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and they have another one called JTM,
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which I've never heard of.
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They offer fiber one gig.
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That only covers 5% of the town,
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so they get a faded
thumbs up for that one.
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When it comes to real estate,
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you don't have many options right now,
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but things turn up all the time.
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The ones they do have
currently are over 400,000.
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They look nice.
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They got some property, couple
acres, they're over 400,000.
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But at the beginning of the month,
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actually April 1st this year,
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they had a few decent homes
sell for about 200,000,
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actually a little under 200,000.
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And then back in February,
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they had a few others sell
for around the same area.
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So I'm guessing 200,000
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or less is what the
average home here is going.
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And like I always say,
prices change all the time.
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Don't gimme a bunch of grief
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three years down the line when
prices have jumped 40%, okay?
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But the area's beautiful. It's nice.
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And if you can get a
home here for 200,000,
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that's a solid deal.
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So they get a thumbs up for real estate.
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Number three: Blaine, Tennessee.
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Blaine, which used to be
called Blaine's Crossroad,
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is a town in Grainger County, Tennessee.
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It sits about 25 minutes
Northeast of Knoxville,
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not too far from the Holston
River, and some good fishing.
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They do, they have a lot of fishing videos
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for the Holston River.
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Now I was reading that the
North Fork in Virginia is known
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for excellent small mouth bass fishing,
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but due to the mercury contamination,
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fish caught in the North
Fork of the Holston River
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below Saltville, Virginia
may not be consumed.
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Too much mercury, but I guess
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if you catch it down near
Blaine, you're good to go.
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Blaine has just under
2000 residents spread out
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over almost 10 square miles.
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That's a lot of land between houses here.
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When it comes to buying some of that land,
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you wanna get a house there,
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the prices are all over the map.
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Currently, they only have
a couple houses for sale,
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and they're in the million dollar range.
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But early this year and
late last year, 2021,
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they had a handful sell for under 250,000,
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and a couple for less than 200,000.
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Like I said, they're all over the map.
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So they get a faded thumbs up.
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The cost of living
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in Blaine is 20% lower
than the national average,
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so that kind of makes it worth it,
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even if the housing prices
are a little up there,
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and crime here is outstanding.
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Their crime rate is 60% lower
than the national average.
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That's big thumbs up for that.
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When it comes to
internet, you got Xfinity.
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That offers gig internet there
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but only half the town gets it.
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They got a couple other
smaller internet companies
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that offer decent internet,
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but they only cover like 10% of the town.
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So they get a faded
thumbs up for internet.
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When it comes to healthcare,
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you got the Cumberland Gap
Medical Clinic or Center
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right there in town.
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They got a dentist next door,
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and a pharmacy on the other side.
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Anything else, you gotta go to Knoxville,
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and that's right down the road.
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Like I said, 20, 25 minutes away.
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So they get a thumbs
up for healthcare too.
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Number two: Mountain City, Tennessee.
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Don't let the name fool you on this one.
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Mountain City should really
be called Mountain Town,
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because it's kind of small.
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Whoever decided to call this place city
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was probably suffering
from some form of delusions
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of grandeur or something like that.
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They only got about 2,400 residents,
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and their population is shrinking.
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They went down by almost
4% in the last census.
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After doing some good gains.
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I mean, they had a long run there
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where they were gaining population.
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Mountain City is tucked
up in the northeast corner
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of Tennessee near the West Virginia,
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the Virginia, and North Carolina border.
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This is a beautiful part of the country,
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and there's a ton of
stuff to do outdoors here.
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When it comes to housing,
like most places in Tennessee,
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it's all over the map.
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I mean, right now, they got
a place going for $140,000.
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Looks like it needs a little work.
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Then they got some that
are going for 300,000,
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one for 440,000, and late
last year and early this year,
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they sold a few older
homes for under 200,000.
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So it's all over the map here.
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When it comes to real estate,
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Mountain City gets a thumbs up.
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When it comes to healthcare in
town, the south side of town,
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they got Johnson County
Community Hospital,
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which is pretty good sized
for such a small town.
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Obviously it covers a lot of the county,
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but it's right here for you.
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Anything beyond what they can offer,
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you gotta go up to Bristol,
which is about an hour away.
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If it's serious, they got a heli pad,
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so you don't have to worry
about too much there.
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So they get a thumbs up
when it comes to healthcare.
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They get a big thumbs up
when it comes to internet.
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They got Spectrum here,
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offers gig internet to 99% of the city.
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Now keep in mind, this is a rural town.
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I wouldn't say out in
the middle of nowhere,
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but it's kind of far from big cities,
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and they're offering Spectrum at one gig.
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The crime rate in
Mountain City is 58% lower
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than the national average.
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That is not bad.
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The only real knocks to Mountain City
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are that they don't really have any jobs.
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So I mean, you're retired
or you're working from home,
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this is a great place for you to move to.
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It can get a little cold.
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You're kind of up in the
hills here of Tennessee.
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All right, before we get to
number one, don't forget,
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we have another channel
called On This Day.
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There is a link down below.
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We'd love it if you went
over there and subscribe.
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All right, on to number one.
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And number one: Byrdstown, Tennessee.
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Byrdstown, Tennessee is right
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between Nashville and Knoxville,
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to the north, right there
on the border with Kentucky,
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not too far from Dale Hollow Lake.
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This is sort of a lake town.
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It's just not on the lake.
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Byrdstown was established in 1879
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as the county seat for the
newly formed Pickett County.
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The town was named after Colonel K. Byrd,
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a senator whose district
included the new county.
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If you're looking for a
small town, this is it.
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Not a lot of people live here.
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They have just under 800
residents as of the 2020 census.
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And it's got great stats across the board,
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until you get to employment,
like so many other small towns.
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The crime rate here is 33%
lower than the national average,
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so they get a thumbs up for that.
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When it comes to things to do
here, this place has it all.
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I mean, they have skydiving,
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they have fishing, they have boating.
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Anything you can think
of, this area has it,
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including really good internet.
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They got a company called Twin Lakes
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which offers 10 gigs, fiber internet,
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and it's a hundred percent
of the town is covered by it.
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Now I should tell you,
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whenever I tell you the
speed that they're hosting
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that they can get you,
that's not for everyone.
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That's what they can get up to.
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But most homes in any
given area usually see
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about 80% of what they are
advertising as their top speed.
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But they got a company out there
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called Twin Lakes Telephone,
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and they claim they can get 10 gigs,
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which is blazing fast, in
the outback of Tennessee.
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Who saw that one coming?
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So they get a big thumbs up for that.
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When it comes to buying a home here,
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like everyone on this list,
it is all over the place.
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Right now, they have a few
homes for about 200,000,
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and they're usually down by the lake.
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They have very few things
for sale in the town itself.
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But down by the lake, you have
a bunch of different things,
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from a million dollar homes to 200,000.
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And it looks like a really
great place to live.
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So their real estate gets
a big thumbs up as well.
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When it comes to healthcare,
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they do have a family practice in town,
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along with looks like a couple doctors,
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and a small medical center.
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None of them are open on the weekend.
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If you need anything big, you
got about a 30 minute drive
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at least to get to another hospital.
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So they just get a faded one.
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They got medical care.
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It's just, they don't have
any big hospital here,
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or anything like that.
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Not saying anything bad
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about what they got going on in town.
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I'm sure it's decent.
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I'm sure they do a wonderful job.
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They just don't have
any big hospitals there.
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All right. That's today's video.
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Hope you guys enjoyed it.
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Hope you got some information of it.
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Now go out, have a great day.
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Be nice to each other.
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