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Are you looking for a rural
town to buy some real estate,
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wanna get a mortgage and
live the American dream?
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Are you just looking and retire away from
the big city who doesn't right today?
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We're looking at great rural towns
in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Yes.
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It's Commonwealth, not a state.
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There's not much of a difference
unless you're in the Commonwealth.
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They seem to take some kind of
pride in it. And they'll correct.
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You Virginia is a very historic state
or Commonwealth. And in my opinion,
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it's very different depending on what
side of the state you happen to be
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standing on.
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Most states are sort of like that Virginia
seems to be a little more noticeable
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than most states. Like I said, in the
other videos, I normally do top 10 lists,
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but not all states have
10 good rural towns.
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And I don't wanna waste your time with
a bunch of places that are reach just to
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get to 10. Virginia has some crime
issues in their small rural towns,
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and they seem to be lacking when
it comes to decent internet.
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Those two things knocked a whole bunch
of great small towns off this list.
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And for those of you,
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who've been commenting lately
about you don't need internet.
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If you're moving out to the country,
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that's part of the reason you
wanna disconnect. Congratulations.
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You are a rarity these days.
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I'd also like to talk to you and find
out what it's like still living in 19 90,
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22 years later. People
need internet these days,
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especially if you're working from home.
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But the focus of this series is rural
towns that normally implies a good
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distance outside of Metro area. When
it comes to towns in this video,
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we are looking for that sweet spot,
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a decent place to live that
isn't too close to a major city.
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It's easy on the crime.
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It's not five hours away from a hospital
and it's not so far out in the sticks
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that you get horrible internet. Those
are the requirements. Get it. Got it.
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Good. Let's take a
look. Number six, Floyd,
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Virginia Floyd sits about 45 minutes
west of Rocky mountain, Virginia.
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The town of Floyd was
originally called Jacksonville,
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the named it after president Andrew
accent. And he was, you know,
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the man in the white house when
the town kind of came to be,
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the name was subsequently changed to
Floyd for Virginia, governor John Floyd.
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Now he was pretty interesting guy.
He was the governor of Virginia,
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but he's the one that actually started
pushing for the United States to kind of
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claim Oregon as part of the United
States. After the war of 1812,
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by both Britain and the United
States had claimed Oregon,
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but nobody was really pressing the issue
and there were no outposts or anything
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like that out there at the time. He's
the one that pushed for it to happen.
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They named the town after him these
days. It's a small rural town.
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That's got a population of about
600. It's a nice looking place.
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The countryside here is amazing. It's
nice. It is a great place to live.
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They got a crime rate that sits
14% below the national average,
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which is outstanding. When
it comes to healthcare,
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they have some health clinics in town,
nothing big, and a few doctors, office,
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family practice, things like
that. If you need a hospital,
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they have the Carilion new
river valley medical center,
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which is about 25 minutes to the north.
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So they get a thumbs up for both
healthcare and crime rate when it comes to
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internet, not a problem.
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Now keep in mind the internet numbers
they give you are mostly for the downtown
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and surrounding area. The further you
get out into the world portions, eh,
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you got some, you know,
you gotta question them.
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If they're gonna be able to deliver
internet to your place before you buy
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someplace, always keep that
in mind. And as time goes on,
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that will become less
and less of an issue,
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especially with things like what Elon
Musk is doing with his new satellite
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internet thing. It's
supposed to be pretty good.
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We'll see how it pans
out in the next years.
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But right now you have a few choices.
You have citizens, internet broadband,
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whatever you wanna call it,
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they offer one gig and they
say they cover 90% of Floyd.
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They also have one called all points
broadband. It only gives you 25 MVP.
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And that covers about 25% of the town.
So they get a thumbs up for internet,
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which to be perfectly honest,
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I was surprised that they had
as good a coverage in Floyd,
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cuz Floyd is not a big place. Uh,
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there's only 600 people that live
here and they got decent internet.
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Floyd also gets big thumbs
up for their real estate.
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They have a lot of things for sale,
both in town and the outskirts.
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And it's a wide range of prices too.
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I've seen some decent ones here just going
by Zillow that are under 200,000 that
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are in town, four bedroom, three bath,
$189,000. Older home looks decent.
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They got some other ones, four 50,
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but three 50 to four 50 is what you're
probably looking for to find something
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nice in and around town. If
you wanna go outside of town,
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you could find some older
homes that need a little work.
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That'll probably come with a couple
acres and those go for about 200,000 as
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well. Here's something to keep
in mind about all Virginia towns.
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They're really close to nature. Almost
always. That means hiking trails,
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fishing, whatever you wanna
do, you're gonna find it here.
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Virginia's just that way. Sure.
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When you get over into the cities
like Richmond and stuff like that,
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you're not gonna find as much,
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but most of the stuff we're talking
about on this list is rural.
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Rural always has hiking.
Virginia has really good hiking.
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Number five, Abington, Virginia
Abdon is a nice rural town,
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about 20 minutes north
of the Tennessee border.
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And about two hours Southwest
of Roanoke, Virginia. Again,
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this is a great place. If you like
the outdoors. As a matter of fact,
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you could find a trail head for the
Virginia creeper trail in Abington,
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where you outdoor types.
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This offers the possibility of seeing
some amazing wildlife and some awesome
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landscapes and kind of big for rural town,
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but just outside of a great downtown,
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you have wilderness and farms everywhere.
This is a great place to live.
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If you do wanna be away from big cities,
I mean Bristol's right down the road,
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but Bristol's really not that
big. It has a population of 8,000.
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That's pretty good size.
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And they have a crime rate that is 39%
lower than the national average that
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outstanding. Now, when it
comes to internet, you can
get one gig from Xfinity,
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which covers 90% of the town.
They also have point broadband,
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which offers one gig and they
also offer 60% of the town.
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So both crime and internet get a thumbs
up. It's a big thumbs up for healthcare,
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right outside of town. They have Johnston
Memorial hospital emergency room.
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The bit it's also a great
place. If you wanna buy a house,
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they have a wide range of prices and
property sizes and all that good stuff.
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Currently they have
homes as low as 200,000,
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but go up to about 550,000.
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I would say a majority of the good
ones you'll find between 250 and
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325,000. And I'm talking
really nice homes, big lots.
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You're not right on top of each
other. Just nice homes. So yeah,
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they definitely get a thumbs up for
real estate. Number four, Coburn,
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Virginia Coburn is a mountain
town on the west side of Virginia,
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about an hour north of Kingsport
NSE on the guest river.
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This is a great place for
hiking, fishing and camping.
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And it's also a great place
to get lost in the woods.
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Apparently this happens a handful
of times annually in these parts,
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the town of Coburn was originally named
guest station after an Explorer and
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surveyor Christopher guest. If you've
ever played the game assassins,
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creed he's there, but he was a
real man Explorer and surveyor.
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And they named the town after him, even
though his last name spelled GI S T,
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they went with guest and then they
changed it to Coburn after a railroad
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chief engineer. You know,
when I do these things, it's,
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I'm always amazed how often rail
lines have shaped this country,
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whether it's the name of a place,
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whether there's a town
someplace because of the rail.
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I just don't think people these days
realize how important trains were to this
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country. So many of these little towns
named different things after rail people,
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because there was really nothing to the
town and the rail was like a godsend
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that now they can get supplies.
The town will grow. More.
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People will come to the area. It's really
interesting when it comes to internet,
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they're doing really good here.
Now I'll tell you right now,
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more often than not mountain towns are
the ones that have horrible internet.
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It's just hard to get the line out
to a lot of these different places,
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especially when they're up the Hills
off the road. It's kind of hard,
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but they're doing pretty good here.
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They get one gig from Xfinity in
Xfinity covers 85% of the town.
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You also have mountain net, which gets
one gig. They cover 35% of the town.
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You got a couple other ones called
point broadband, 10% of the town.
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And then you always have
the satellite internets.
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So they get a thumbs up for internet.
Now, when it comes to healthcare,
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they're doing pretty good. They
have like a doctor's office in town,
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nothing major, but down the road,
about 15 minutes away in Norton,
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you have the Norton community hospital.
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That's a good size place has just about
everything you need. Anything past that,
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you're gonna probably have to go down
to Knoxville or something like that.
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So they get a thumbs up for
healthcare. Number three, Strausberg,
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Virginia, or Strausberg Strausberg.
I've actually heard people call it both.
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They kind of put this owl on there like
Strausberg, but it's really Strausberg.
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And I'm sure a bunch of people are gonna
comment in the comment section. So, uh,
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buckle up for that one.
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Strasburg sits about an hour
and a half west of Washington,
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DC on the north fork
of the Chan Doah river.
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This is a beautiful town of about 6,500
residents besides having great stats
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all the way around. I included
this one for the veterans.
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They have some great VA hospital that
are within an hour away, hour and a half.
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If you want to go into
DC for everyone else,
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they get a thumbs up for
healthcare because they have
a few family practices in
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town, along with their urgent care.
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Beyond that you have
Warren Memorial hospital,
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about 20 minutes away in front Royal.
So they got plenty of healthcare.
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They're doing great. They
get a thumbs up for crime.
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Two it's 51% lower than the national
average, which is outstanding.
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Now their internet.
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I'm gonna give it a faded thumbs up
because they have a company called
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Chantelle. They have one gig, but
it only covers 85% of the town.
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They also offer 100 megabytes per second.
And that cover about 90% of the town.
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I'm sure some people in the neighborhood
or in this town are getting hosed.
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So they get a faded thumbs up.
When you're looking at real estate,
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they have quite a few
things to choose from.
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And they range right now from 200,000
up to about 700,000. Most of the time,
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you're lucky to see something
between 200 and 250,000 pop up.
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But what you're really looking
at is like 400 to 500,000.
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And that'll get you something decent
and something place nice to live.
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But this place gets high marks
because it is a beautiful little town.
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There's plenty of
fishing, hiking, camping.
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You're right there next to West Virginia,
which is an outdoor paradise. Overall,
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this is one of my favorites on the list
and we're not doing this in any special
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order. I just really like this one.
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Number two Cape Charles Virginia Cape
Charles is located close to the mouth
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of the Chesapeake bay on
Virginia's Eastern shore.
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This place was founded in
1884 as a planned community.
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By guess what a railroad company,
well ferry and railroad company.
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This is not a place for people that
are looking to retire are on a budget,
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or let's say you work from home and
you you're not killing it in the salary
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department. This is not your place.
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This place is pricey because
it sits on the Chesapeake bay.
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They have a golf course and they
have like a marina for your boat,
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but it is definitely
away from any Metro area.
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The closest Metro area is about 45
minutes away and you gotta cross the speak
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bay bridge tunnel. And that's
where you'd have to go.
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If you have to go to a big hospital,
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they do have a medical center in town
with some doctors and stuff like that,
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but anything big, you're gonna
have to head out to Virginia Beach,
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which is a little less than an hour away.
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This is a nice beach and rural community.
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I was watching a video about a guy that
lived there and he said that him and his
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girlfriend at the time they've
now been married like 30 years.
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They came out here for one
of her friend's weddings.
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And it was the first time he'd ever
been to Cape Charles. And he was like,
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we're moving here. And a few years later
they did. And they never left. I mean,
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how could you not wanna live in a place
that has an art thing on the coast that
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just says, love. Look at that. They only
have around a thousand people living.
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He here and they have a crime rate that's
54% lower than the national average
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and that's outstanding. So they
get a thumbs up for that one.
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When it comes to internet,
they're doing pretty good,
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especially being this
far away from everything.
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You can get one gig from Eastern
shore of Virginia broadband authority.
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And they say they cover 95% of the town.
So they get a thumbs up for that one.
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Now, like I said, it gets expensive.
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And one of the most expensive
things here is real estate.
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Currently they have three things for
sale and they're going $4 million.
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But back in February and March,
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they did have some homes that
were for 300 and 350,000.
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But in my opinion, you're gonna
need to spend at least 600,
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700,000 to get something decent here.
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You just gotta keep watching and hope
something pops up that you kind of like,
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so they get a faded
thumbs up for real estate,
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cuz they don't have a lot to choose from.
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And when they do have something to
choose, it's kind of expensive. All right,
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before we get to number one, don't forget.
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Have another channel called on this
day. There's a link down below.
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All right on to number one.
And number one, Amherst,
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Virginia Amherst is a town of about
2,500 that sits about 20 minutes north of
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Lynchburg, Virginia.
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This is a nice place to live if you're
into wine or antiques. Honestly,
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if you Google things to do in Amherst,
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seven of the top 10 things
are wine or antiques.
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This is a great place for retirees
that may need medical specialists.
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Amherst has a few doctors
in a medical clinic,
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but Lynchburg is 20 minutes down the road
and they'll have everything you need.
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They have some really good hospitals
that have very high marks. Yes,
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I looked it up. Amherst was
actually founded in 1807.
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Originally was known as the
Oaks and then seven Oaks.
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And it began as a stage coach station
for the Charlottesville Lynchburg road.
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Finally,
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a place that didn't start because of a
train Amherst like so many other places
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in Virginia, just it's great for
people that love the outdoors.
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If you know anything about
the Pacific Northwest,
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this part of Virginia kind of
reminds me of it, every things green.
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And it seems like there's a pond or a
Creek around every bend. But like I said,
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they got great healthcare. So they
get a thumbs up here for that.
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Their crime rate is 73% lower
than the national average.
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So they get a big thumbs up for that
one. When it comes to their internet, uh,
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they're getting a faded, thumbs
up. They have Xfinity one gig,
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but it only covers
about 58% into the town.
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They also have another one called
CS broadband. They offer one gig,
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but that only covers 25% of the town.
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They have some other ones
that give like 25 MVPs,
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but that's really not for the
greatest. When it comes to real estate,
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they get a big thumbs up
because they have everything.
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They have a few homes for 200,000.
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They've got a bunch for between
300 and 450,000. Of course,
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if you want to dump a million and
a half on a piece of property,
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you get 34 acres in a really nice
house. So they're all over the place.
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And they got a handful to choose from
in the last six months they've sold like
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eight or under 250,000.
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So they got a price range
for just about everyone.
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All right. That's today's video. Hope
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