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- [Briggs] Do you like the heat,
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the humidity and saving money?
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Keep watching.
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What is going on, everyone?
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Welcome back to the "World
According to Briggs,"
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and another video on where you can live
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in the United States for
under $1,500 a month.
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This is the third video of the series.
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If this is your first time to the series
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I'll give you the rundown
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of why we settled on $1,500 a month.
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Plenty of Americans are
going into retirement
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where their only source of income
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is a monthly social security check,
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which is in the neighborhood
of $1,500 a month on average.
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The average worker in the United States
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makes about double that.
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If you retire from the
military after 20 years,
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you see about $2,500.
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If you were enlisted
and on the officer side,
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you see about $4,700 a month on average.
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So $1,500 being the lowest,
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if you slip into any of those categories,
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which most of you should
fall into one of them,
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living on $1,500 a month is doable.
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Today's list is decent towns
in the Southern United States
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where you only need about
$1,500 to live comfortably.
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Let's see what we found.
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Number 10, Kingston, Tennessee,
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Kingston has its roots in a
fort called Southwest Point,
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which was built just south
of present day Kingston
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in 1792 on the Clinch River.
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At the time, this was as far southwest
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legally the white man could go.
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And stop typing, I just said, white man.
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I could have said Euro
Americans, European settlers,
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blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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Everyone knows what I'm talking about.
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Being offended isn't a skill.
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I just had some jackaloon cry,
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because I said having to
wear a Chuck E. Cheese outfit
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and dance for minimum
wage was humiliating.
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He failed to understand
that is humiliating.
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Ask any 18-year old
whose friends found out
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that that's what they do for a living.
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It is humiliating.
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Coincidentally, there's no
Chuck E. Cheese in Kingston.
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You gotta go towards Knoxville
for that kind of action.
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Kingston has about 6,000 residents,
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low crime, good schools,
a livability score of 84,
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and a very low cost of living.
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Rent here for a one bedroom,
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there's not a bunch of apartments,
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but on average it's $702 a month
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for a one bedroom apartment.
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And you only need about $1,490
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on average to live comfortably here.
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Number nine, Frankfort, Kentucky.
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Frankfort is the capital of
the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
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Yes, they're a commonwealth, not a state.
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It's not much of a difference.
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If living around people
from your generation
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that remember black and white
television matters to you,
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I got good news.
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Almost 20% of the population
of Frankfort is over 65.
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Frankfort isn't just for retirees though.
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They have plenty to do,
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the crime isn't terrible,
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and neither are your job opportunities.
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They're not the best, but
they have some work there.
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Frankfort has about 25,000 residents.
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And rent on a one bedroom
apartment will run you about $697.
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That's not bad for a capital city.
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Your total monthly expenditures
on average is $1,470.
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That's not bad.
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Frankfort's a nice town.
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I was there years ago, but
it's been many years actually,
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probably over 20.
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But it was a nice town, I'm
sure not a lot has changed.
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Number eight, Englewood, Florida.
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Englewood is another city
that's heavy on retirees.
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It's in between Fort Myers
and Sarasota on Lemon Bay,
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which is on the west side of
Florida, on the Gulf side.
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Over half of the city's
residents are retirees.
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That's how a lot of the
towns in Florida are.
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They have a livability score of 77,
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and the rent on a one bedroom
apartment on average is $800.
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They have some that are
so much more expensive,
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but they have a lot that are
lower, so the average is $800.
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That's a little bit higher
than other rents on this list,
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but thanks to low taxes and other factors,
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you only need about $1,461 a month
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to live comfortably in Englewood.
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Now what's weird about this place,
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I wanna call it Inglewood.
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I grew up in Southern California.
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We have a place called Inglewood,
it's spelled with an I.
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I see this Englewood and it's weird.
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I've heard several
people call it Inglewood
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and I've also heard other
people call it Englewood.
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Yeah, I don't know if you
can tell the difference.
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There's a difference
there to some of them.
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Who knows? Moving on.
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Number seven, Benton, Louisiana.
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Benton is about 30 minutes
north of Shreveport, Louisiana.
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This is a nice, rural town
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with great stats other than employment.
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So if you're retired or you're
bringing a job with you,
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you know, work remotely,
this is a perfect place.
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If you're looking for a
job, probably not so much.
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There's no apartments in Benton,
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but this area on average a one bedroom
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goes for somewhere around $684 a month.
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They did get a good tornado
here about 20 years ago,
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so that's kind of scary.
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On April 3rd, 1999, a powerful F4 tornado
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made its way through town,
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killing six people and injuring 90.
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A mobile home park, located south of town,
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was hit pretty hard.
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I don't know what it is,
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but whenever you see a tornado
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it's always a mobile home
park just got trashed.
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They've got some kind of thing
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that draws in tornadoes, who knows?
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Anyway to live here comfortably
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you're gonna need about
$1,420 a month, not bad.
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Number six, Russellville, Arkansas.
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Okay, once you get past the
fact you're living in Arkansas,
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this is a nice option to
relocate and save some money.
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It doesn't have the best crime stats,
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but it's not crazy bad
and it's getting better.
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Their year-over-year numbers
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are trending in the right
direction with crime.
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This is one of the bigger cities
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you can live in for under $1,500 a month.
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They have almost 30,000 residents
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and Russellville is right
on the Arkansas River,
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not too far from the
Ozark National Forest.
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Rent here is only $672 a month on average,
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and you can live comfortably
on $1,400 a month.
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Number five, Dalton, Georgia.
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Dalton, Georgia is almost
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an hour and a half north of Atlanta
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and almost 30 minutes south
of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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So you have two good options
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if you wanna go to a bigger
city for some reason.
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Dalton is a good sized city
with almost 35,000 residents.
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And it's not a good place
to be looking for a job,
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that's one of their only knocks
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is they don't really have jobs.
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Their crime is decent.
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Schools are okay.
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Their cost of living is very low.
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And if you're looking for cheap rent,
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you've come to the right place.
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The average rent here for a
one bedroom is $647 a month.
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That's not bad.
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You only need $1,375 to
live here comfortably.
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Number four, Calhoun, Georgia.
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Staying in Georgia, we
have the town of Calhoun.
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Calhoun is home to about 17,000 residents
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and some well-preserved,
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turn of the century,
southern architecture.
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This is a nice looking place.
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They got some really nice
buildings on the main street.
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Calhoun has gained population
every single census
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since they showed up on the census count
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in 1880 with 510 people.
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Most of them were related
to a dude named Jebediah
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and he had a really cool beard.
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Calhoun is in between Dalton and Atlanta,
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and they have nice
middle of the road stats
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until you get to the cost
of living and housing.
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Those are both great rent.
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Here will run you about
$632 a month on average,
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and you'll need about $1,370
here to live comfortably
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and enjoy Calhoun and their
livability score of 73.
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Number three, Mocksville, North Carolina.
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Right off the bat, I gotta tell you
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both the Carolinas were
hard to get on this list.
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They have some really
cheap cities and towns,
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but almost all of them suck pretty bad.
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The good ones are too expensive
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and both states have some incredibly nice,
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but they're just a little
too spendy for this list.
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Mocksville, on the other
hand, is a solid choice.
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Stats are good across the board,
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nice American main street,
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and the standard issue old folks
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in front of the ice cream place, America.
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If you wanna live in this
Norman Rockwell type town,
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rent will run you about
$613 a month on average.
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And you're looking at about $1,350
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a month to live comfortably.
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Mocksville is about an
hour north of Charlotte.
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Mocksville has a livability score of 71.
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Number two, Decatur, Alabama.
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Decatur is one of those
cities that make you wonder
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where all those Alabama
stereotypes come from.
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Like if you just landed in Decatur
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and no place else in Alabama,
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you're all, "What is
everyone talking about?
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The people aren't hicks."
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Decatur's a nice southern town
that is growing and advancing
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while not getting too far
from its southern roots.
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In other words, this town
doesn't have many rednecks.
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If you do see 'em, they're
probably just in town
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to pick up some hog pellets.
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This is the first place on this list
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to get below $600 in rent.
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You can expect to pay around $590
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for a bedroom apartment in Decatur.
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Throw in very low grocery costs,
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and this could be a good
place to save some money.
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To live comfortably in Decatur, Alabama,
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you need about $1,340 a month.
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Rent is $590, like I'd said.
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And the livability scores?
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74, not a bad choice.
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And before we get to number one,
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All right, on to number one.
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And number one, Columbia, Mississippi.
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I'll wait for you to
get back into your chair
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and close your mouth.
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In case you think you misheard something,
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I did say Mississippi.
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The Magnolia State is
in the number one spot
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for a few reasons.
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Columbia's another nice southern town
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with the main street lined with old,
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well-kept brick buildings,
for the most part.
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They have some stinkers along main street,
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but for the most part
it looks pretty nice.
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Columbia was officially
incorporated on June 25th, 1819,
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becoming the fourth municipality
in the entire state.
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It served as the temporary
capital of Mississippi
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from November, 1821 until early 1822.
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This is also the birth place
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and where Walter Payton was raised.
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Sweetness, one of the
greatest running backs
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ever to play the game.
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Yeah, he was born and raised here.
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Columbia is about 45
minutes west of Hattiesburg
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and not too far from the
Louisiana border to the south.
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The average rent in
Columbia is $585 a month.
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And to live comfortably here,
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you only need $1,250, that's it.
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There's a lot of things
wrong with Mississippi.
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Being expensive isn't one of 'em.
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I mean, yeah, sure, down by the Gulf,
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you can get into some expensive places,
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but Mississippi is a very
inexpensive state to live in.
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All right, that's our list.
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I hope you guys enjoyed it.
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Hope you got some information out of it.
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This is number three of this list.
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We're gonna do at least
three more of these videos,
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so stay tuned for those.
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I really hope these videos
are helping some of you out.
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I mean, there's a chance this
country's gonna be heading
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into some tough financial times
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and this might help some of you,
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and I really hope it does.
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All right, everybody have a great day.
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Be nice to each other.
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