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- [Briggs] Hate is a strong word,
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but is there a major
city in the United States
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that you actually hate?
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A lot of people say
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that they have a city or two that they do.
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They hate it.
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What is going on, everyone?
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Welcome back the "World
According to Briggs"
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in a video about cities people hate.
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Over the years,
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there've been a lot of
surveys and research
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on how people feel about
different cities and states
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in the United States
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and actually the world.
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Today, we're just looking at the US.
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Gallup and Pew Research
have done different studies
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on this subject.
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US census has looked at different aspects
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of how people feel about cities.
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Some travel websites have done polls.
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And one company actually asked truckers
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what cities they hate.
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Last week, I asked the
question on this channel
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and I got some good information from that.
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We took all the different studies
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and looked for the cities
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that showed up most frequently.
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My favorite survey asked people
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to name three cities they hate
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and came up with what percentage
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of the respondents had each
city in their top three,
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and the reason most often given
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for why they hate that city.
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Keep in mind, we're looking
at the negative side
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of the subject.
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So when you wanna leave your comment,
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understand that all cities on this list
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are not 100% bad.
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Like any location,
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whether it's a city, state,
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town or country,
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it has some good as well.
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We're just looking at
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the negative side of it on this video.
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We'll do a second video
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where we look at cities people love.
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Even the ones that people love,
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I could tell you this,
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the greatest city and
everyone seems to love it,
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but there's got to be things in there
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that some people don't like.
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Maybe it's the greatest
city in the world low taxes,
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low houses,
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great jobs,
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but they got horrible traffic.
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There's always a negative.
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There's always a positive.
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Today's list is ranked on
the percentage of people
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that listed these 10 cities
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in their most hated three.
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All right, let's see who sucks.
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Number 10, Louisville, Kentucky.
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This one caught me a little off guard.
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I've been to Louisville a
few times over the years
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and I really liked it.
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The only problem I had
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is I just didn't fit in.
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It wasn't my crowd.
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I did comedy there once for three nights
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and they just didn't like me,
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or maybe they were jealous
I had all my teeth.
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Who knows?
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But Louisville, in my opinion,
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is a beautiful city.
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As I did the research for this,
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I found out that's not everyone's opinion.
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Louisville is the 16,973rd
ranked city in the USA.
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It's kind of far down on the food chain,
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if you ask me.
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Crime is 88% above the national average.
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And 38% of the people surveyed
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had Louisville in their
top three most hated.
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The biggest reasons they give,
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crime, schools and politics.
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Number nine, Miami, Florida.
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This isn't the first time
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that I've seen reports or surveys,
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where people say that they hate Miami.
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Miami has a lot of good food,
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a diverse population,
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and warm weather.
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It also has high crime,
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bad schools, brutal traffic,
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high cost of living,
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and housing prices that are 35% higher
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than the national average.
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Miami is 21,552nd ranked
city in the United States.
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41% of the people had Miami
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in their three most hated.
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The reasons they give,
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most often, crime,
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housing and poverty.
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Number eight, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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We don't talk about Philadelphia
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that much on this channel,
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unless we're talking about historic stuff.
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That's one of the best
things about Philly.
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Their history is just outstanding.
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You could spend a week there
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and still not see everything.
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You can't beat it for
its history, tourism,
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and it's no slouch when
it comes to sports either.
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A butt load of people
don't care about that stuff
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because they show the
city of brotherly love
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no love.
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Philadelphia is the 24,702nd ranked city
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in the United States.
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24,000, that's weird.
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It's one of our best
cities too, in my opinion.
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44% of the people
surveyed had Philadelphia
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in their three most hated cities.
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The reasons they gave,
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it's too crowded,
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crime, unemployment,
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and schools.
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Number seven, Riverside, California.
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Now, I was on the fence with this one.
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Riverside has never seemed
like a major city to me,
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but I guess some people
do see it that way.
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It fits the over 300,000
threshold, barely.
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So technically I guess it is a major city.
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It's not a mega city like Chicago,
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New York or Los Angeles,
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but it's a major city.
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If you ever visit Riverside,
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you'll agree that this place does blow.
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You'll probably reflect back on this list
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and wonder why more people
didn't say they hated it.
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It's the 21,748th ranked
city in the United States.
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Kind of low on the totem pole.
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Not as low as Philadelphia,
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but still, they have high crime,
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bad schools,
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poverty.
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And 47% of the people had Riverside
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on their three most hated list.
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The reasons they gave,
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crime, traffic,
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air quality,
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pollution,
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and schools.
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Number six, New York city, New York.
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This isn't a surprise,
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probably not to anyone.
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New York city is an acquired taste.
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Most people that do visit,
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realize that that's really
all they wanna do is visit.
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And if you look at the
cost of living and housing,
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most realize that
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a visit is all they can afford to do.
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People started flooding
out in New York city
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a few years back
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and it's not slowing down
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probably anytime soon.
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New York city is ranked
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as the 18,097th city in the United States.
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52% of the people surveyed
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had them in their top three.
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And the things they listed,
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cost of living,
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cost of housing,
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traffic,
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and crime.
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Number five, St. Louis, Missouri.
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St. Louis is a nightmare,
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even more so if you add east
St. Louis into that mix,
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which is in Illinois, not Missouri.
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I read a tweet once
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that described east St.
Louis Saturday night
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like the D-Day invasion with better music.
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Yeah, they got some serious violent crime
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going on over there.
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But St. Louis doesn't have
the best stats either.
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They're the 26,126th ranked
city in the United States
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and the 900th best place
to live in Missouri.
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They are knocking it out
of the park in suckage.
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53% of the people had St.
Louis in their top three.
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And the reasons they gave,
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crime,
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employment,
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housing and schools.
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Number four, Los Angeles, California.
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LA is where I was born and raised.
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I grew up in a nicer area
called the South Bay,
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and it still sort of sucked.
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It wasn't that bad until I would say
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the early '90s,
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that's when it made a turn.
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It was like crime was going up
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and so were the home prices,
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which never makes sense.
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Crime goes up.
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Home prices are supposed to go down.
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That's the natural order.
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Not here.
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It's too close to the
beach for that to happen.
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Anyway, most of LA has sucked since,
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I don't know,
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before humans got there,
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really.
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They actually have an area called
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the The La Brea Tar Pits
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that used to trap all
kinds of creatures back
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way before people got here.
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Every so often some old
bones would rise to the top.
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It's always seems to be like
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a wooly mammoth or (indistinct),
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I don't know the difference
between the two of them.
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But it's always those furry elephants.
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It's their bones that are
always floating up to the top.
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I had to go like three field trips there
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when I was a kid.
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Everybody knows LA sucks
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so I don't need to explain that to you.
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What I will explain to you is that
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it is the 27,342nd best place to live
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in the United States.
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That's not a good number.
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56% of the people surveyed
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had Los Angeles on their
three most hated cities.
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Reasons given, more than anything,
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it was traffic.
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Cost of living,
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it's outrageously expensive there
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so you'd think it would
be the cost of living.
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No, traffic's number one there.
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It goes traffic,
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cost of living,
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cost of housing,
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crime.
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Number three, Baltimore, Maryland.
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Baltimore has crime, poverty,
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despair, bad schools,
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and a sliver of hope.
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Really, they might be turning the corner.
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I keep reading more
and more tech companies
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are moving to Baltimore
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or have plans to move to Baltimore.
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So maybe there's a future.
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Maybe it'll be better in years to come.
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But I wouldn't hold your breath.
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I think it's about two decades away.
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They got a giant hurdle to get over
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with their crime and poverty.
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Baltimore is the 25th
thousand best place to live
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in the United States.
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Yeah, 25,062 to be exact.
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Maryland's a pretty small state,
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and Baltimore is only the 400th
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best place to live in the entire state.
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400th.
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56% of the people had Baltimore
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in their three most hated list.
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The reason they give,
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crime, poverty.
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Number two, Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Yeah, I was kind of shocked at this one.
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Most people love Las Vegas.
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And I think a lot of the people
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that put it down as
their most hated places,
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probably had something to do with
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them not having a good time there.
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A lot of people go there
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and lose a lot of money.
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And that'll kind of
stick in someone's croft
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for quite some time.
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I've dropped some serious
coin there over the years
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and I don't feel good
about it to this day.
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The last time I probably
lost a good amount of money
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was over a decade ago,
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and it still burns like it was yesterday.
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So yeah, I got an axe to
grind against Las Vegas too
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as proof that it just
may be gambling losers
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that hate Las Vegas.
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They're ranked the 44th
best city to live in
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in Nevada.
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Now, Nevada doesn't have a ton of cities,
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but still, that's one
of the lowest numbers
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of anything on this list,
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by a good stretch too.
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And Las Vegas is the 10,852nd
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best place to live in the United States.
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Now keep in mind,
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some of these are like
bordering on the 30,000th area
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and 20,000.
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That is absolute the lowest
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we've had on this list.
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But that didn't stop.
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58% of the people surveyed
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to put down Las Vegas as
one of the three cities
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they hate the most.
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The reasons they listed
were crime and heat.
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That's it.
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They didn't have traffic or anything else.
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It was just crime and heat.
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All right, before we get to number one,
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let me give you a little update
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on the survey we did on my channel.
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I asked everyone, what
city do you hate the most?
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The three winners were
Dallas at number three,
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Portland, Oregon at number two,
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and San Francisco at number one.
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Oddly enough, I went back
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and looked at all the other research,
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and none of those were in the top 20.
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One other thing to tell you,
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we also have another
channel called "On This Day"
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There's a link below.
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We'd love it if you check it out.
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Maybe subscribe.
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All right, onto number one.
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And number one, Detroit, Michigan.
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Detroit has been in bad shape forever.
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We've talked about this many, many times
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on this channel.
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And I've also told you,
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there is a glimmer of hope.
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Some jobs have filtered back in
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over the last five, six years.
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The downtown area has kind
of turned itself around.
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It's just outside of downtown blows.
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And I just recently said,
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if you look at downtown,
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it looks nice.
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Looking at it from the satellite view,
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they've had to tear down
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so many abandoned homes around
the outside of downtown.
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It almost looks like there's farmland
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around Detroit in some areas.
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But no, it's just homes
that were abandoned.
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Homeless people were squatting in them,
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setting them on fire sometimes.
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So just to cut out some of the problems,
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they just decided to
start mowing them over.
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That's how bad Detroit has been,
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where they have homes
that are a complete loss.
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People have abandoned them,
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and the city's got to just mow them down
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because no one's taking care of them.
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Think about any other
city in the United States.
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Most of us would just love to have a home
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that we could move into for a good price.
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Detroit at one point
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was offering to sell homes for $1
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and they still couldn't unload them.
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I'm not even joking.
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A dollar.
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Detroit is the 655th
ranked city in Michigan.
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And in the United States,
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it's ranked 26,879th.
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Yeah, that blows.
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62% of the people surveyed
had Detroit down on their list
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as one of the three they hated the most.
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Reasons given,
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crime, poverty and unemployment.
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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 out of it.
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Everybody, have a great day.
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Be nice to each other.
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