What is going on everyone? How about we take another look at small towns in the
Lone Star State Texas I did a video on small towns in Texas for 2018 and I got
a heap of flack for getting my pictures mixed up I showed pictures of one town
while I was talking about another it was fiasco but because the way YouTube set
up I really couldn't take it down without losing all the stats and the
views and that's a nightmare so I just left it alone
I even got a boatload of emails and comments about towns that were way worse
than the ones I had listed I also had a ton of people calling me a Yankee for
some reason you know nothing says backwoods like calling someone a Yankee
you got to come up with something better that's not really an insult nobody gets
it anymore Texas is a great state with amazingly
loyal residents anyone from Texas will tell you it's the greatest state and the
United States is lucky to have her that a guy actually tell me that once those
were his exact words Texas does have some great cities Dallas
San Antonio Austin El Paso and Houston just to name a few
in past videos I've given you reasons not to move to some of those cities that
doesn't mean they aren't great city I mean any city is going to have ten
reasons not to move there they also have a hundred reasons to move there it's
just a matter of what do you prefer what are you looking for in a city Texas also
has great towns and some really crappy ones and that's what we're looking at in
today's video the crappy towns that subscribers suggested so why don't you
sit on back and watch my top 10 for small towns in Texas the subscriber
version
number ten doffing doffing is in Hidalgo County and is part of the McClellan
metro area and it sucks doffing is home to about 5,500 residents in the upper
panhandle of the state just kidding it's down here by the Rio Grande I promise
you a bunch of Texans spit out their Shiner Bock just now and dropped an
f-bomb and then started pounding out an angry comment with those two index
fingers only stopping is not a place you want to live if you have children and
care about their safety at all the crime rate here is about 32 percent
higher than the national average and is among one of the most crime infested
towns in Texas for its size the poverty level in dopping is 190 percent higher
than the national average here's a weird one though their schools are okay
normally when you have high crime and poverty rates like this the schools suck
- not in doffing and I might even be pronouncing doffing wrong I never heard
of it until I did the research for this video so sorry number nine
Corrigan Texas Corrigan has a population of about 1,700 residents and it's about
an hour and a half north of Houston the only reason you would ever end up here
is if someone told you to take interstate 45 north to Dallas and about
an hour and a half into the trip you realize you actually took interstate 69
and then got off in Corrigan to correct your mistake that is the only reason you
would ever end up here for a town this size the crime rate is insane and higher
than average the majority of the crimes committed here are property crimes
nonetheless it's dangerous for your stuff maybe not for you if your dream is
to live the good life in a small Texas town Corrigan is not for you but if your
dream is collecting cans to buy a single beer welcome home the poverty level in
Corrigan is 62 percent higher than the national average the good news about
Corrigan is that it's really close to the Davy Crockett National Forest and if
there's any dillweeds out there stop typing Davy Crockett was a real person
that some guys say he was a real person in the past video he said he was just a
character Disney created I'd done lighten this guy on how wrong he was
which was kind of fun I gotta admit Davy Crockett was a real
person he was actually a congressman from Tennessee and a frontiersman that
died at the Alamo who dillweed was thinking about was Daniel Boone the
thing is Disney didn't create Daniel Boone out of thin air he was in fact a
person a person who was a legendary frontiersman sight
Daniel Boone's cousin was married to Abraham Lincoln not the President
Abraham Lincoln but the president's great-grandfather who was also named
Abraham Lincoln and at one point Daniel Boone served at the same fort as future
President George Washington number eight Scotland Texas Scotland is about two and
a half hours from Oklahoma City in about an hour and a half outside of Fort Worth
this means if you can't get what you need at the country store or the wolf
pack in sac you'll need to make a hefty trip to where you need to go Scotland is
the type of place you move to if you really enjoy sitting on your back porch
and cry four out of five male residents in Scotland have at some point in their
life been referred to as Bubba the overall crime rate in Scotland is 41%
higher than the national average with only like 500 people in the town that
means there's like 490 law abiding citizens and ten jackholes in the whole
place they can't get a handle on the crime the median income for a household
in this town is thirty-seven thousand dollars a year number seven
troop Texas troop is a small town of about 1,600 residents between Tyler and
Jacksonville troop is not one of the most favorable places to live whether
it's because the crime rate schools are lack of entertainment the housing prices
really show how unfavorable this place really is as of the most recent data the
median home price is about 83,000 dollars this is up from eighty one
thousand back in 2017 while the housing prices are up by like you know two
thousand dollars they're still significantly lower than the state's
average of one hundred and fifty one thousand dollars you know that's usually
a really good indicator that things suck in a town when you get dirt cheap
property you know it's bad if your real estate agent shows up in overalls that's
the type of stuff I think you'd get in troop the good news is troop does have a
sonic drive-in so in case you're ever in need for a footlong chili cheese dog and
a blue slushy of some sort it's there for you I get the feeling that this is
where a lot of dates go down and Throop buyers slushy next thing you know you
haven't an awkward makeout session in back by the dumpster good times and true
number six tie Texas tie has a population of a little over eleven
hundred residents less than half of these residents are working tie has a
lot of retirees and has an unemployment rate of about four percent which is
higher than the national average leaving about eighteen percent of the population
to live in poverty the median household income here's about thirty eight
thousand dollars a year only move here if you are a big fan of jet fumes since
it's in the direct path of incoming aircraft at the local air force base
it's a great place to take in those fumes
it's just west of Abilene and that's where you have to go for any sort of
entertainment either that or like the Flying J truck
stop I've been to Abilene twice maybe three times it sort of seemed like the
city was making some progress let's say in the 1950s and all of a sudden someone
said that's it we're staying here this is as far as we grow number five do we
build Texas do i bill is not the type of place you'd go to if you enjoyed things
like an income or food this is the type of place where people actually save up
for trips to the grocery store this isn't really a town as much as a county
area but it does have over a thousand residents schools and more churches than
businesses so it's on the list the median household income is only thirty
nine thousand dollars a year which breaks down to about nineteen thousand
dollars a year if two people are you know you know how to do math this is
significantly lower than the state average as well as the national average
luckily they have a river just sigh outside of town so you can go catch
yourself some dinner it is also right on the border with
Louisiana so the residents can walk over there and they can feel better about
their situation
number four Driscoll Texas Driscoll is a very small town right outside of Corpus
Christi with only about 700 residents to the residents of Driscoll this is home
to everyone else on the planet this is just a place just stop to take a whiz
before you get to Corpus Christi for such a small town they have such a high
crime rate it's kind of scary most of the crimes committed here are property
crimes but it's still dangerous be careful and aware whenever you go to a
small town that's got a bad crime rate besides all that crime rate good news
the poverty level in Driscoll's 51 percent higher than the national average
and the income per capita in Driscoll is 60% lower than the national average we
you know it just go on to Corpus Christi you know pee in a Gatorade bottle if you
got it don't stop and Driscoll number three
Wilson Texas Wilson is a tiny town about 30 minutes outside of Lubbock Wilson is
home to only about 500 residents and if these residents need almost anything
they'll have to look outside of town for it within Wilson you have one school
that serves all students from kindergarten to seniors in high schools
a church a tire service and a post office anything else you got to do some
traveling there's not even a mini-mart or gas station here if your baby has an
earache at 11 p.m. the closest CBS is in Lubbock they do also have an RV park
that has no trees called Twin Pines RV park I don't get that one well anyway
moving on the overall crime rate in Wilson is 68 percent higher than the
national average and that's easy to do when you only got like 500 residents you
know don't let that fact escape you that when you only have 500 residents and you
have an assault at a home or something like that or two neighbors hit each
other with shovels three days in a row you got a crime spree
anyway 60% higher than the national average the poverty level in Wilson is
119 percent higher than the national average that's not good end up living it
the Twin Pines RV park without an RV living in your car so I always say
paying rent to Geico
number two Marlin Texas Marlin is a town right outside of Waco Texas with a
pretty high crime rate just within the last month the police chief committed
some crimes and and ended badly I won't get into it because I'd want to monetize
so Google it if you're interested the poverty level in Marlin is a hundred and
seventy seven percent higher than the national average and because of all the
problems you can get a mortgage on a 68 acre ranch with a pond for about five
hundred thousand or the typical three hundred bedroom place in town goes for
about a hundred and thirty thousand dollars the good news is if you're a
lawyer you should move here you'll get tons of business especially if you're
like a criminal defense attorney
and number one el sonido Texas El cenizo is home to about 3,000 residents south
of Laredo on the Rio Grande River El cenizo has some of the worst education
rates in the state there's only one school for the town that serves all of
the students unfortunately that's still not enough to keep at least somewhat of
a decent rating the graduation rate here is an unbelievable 34 percent while the
national average is about 94 percent and that's as of 2019 El cenizo didn't make
the news while back because it adopted Spanish as the official language of the
town the poverty level in El cenizo is 268 percent higher than the national
average the rest of their stats pretty much suck - except for as you can
imagine cost livings pretty pretty cheap here yeah stay away from El cenizo all
right so that's my top 10 worst small towns in Texas the subscriber suggested
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