My sister lived in San Francisco and her friends car got stolen and the police refused to investigate even when the car was actively being tracked. So he went and took it back himself from the thief’s driveway. SF has really embraced lawlessness.

Glad to see Honolulu on this list! The cost of housing has skyrocketed recently, as well as the rents (from what I've heard). Many local families have gotten priced out, but people keep coming trying to make it in paradise, and sadly end up houseless.

10-Memphis TN 9-Jacksonville FL 8-Oklahoma City OK 7-San Francisco CA 6-Honolulu 5-Fresno CA 4-Miami FL 3-Tulsa OK 2-Riverside CA 1-Anchorage AK

My daughter and her husband, both medical professionals, were sent to Fresno in 2020 for Covid relief. They were warned not to leave the hotel after dark. Scary $hit.

I was born and raised in Miami and I think you hit the nail on the head. Apart from being increasingly overcrowded, Miami has an identity crisis. On one hand you have the locals and immigrants that have lived in the city for years and are now being either priced out or forced to cut serious costs to afford living in Miami, and on the other you have the extremely weathly out of state transplants that come to live their Miami Vice fantasies. The result is a culture that promotes wealth even if you don't have it. You need to peacock to get someone's attention and that just isn't who I am so I decided to move in 2020 with my girlfriend (now wife) to Denver.

Gotta love the picture of the cougar. Comedy gold. 🙂

Lived in Anchorage for 10 years and yes if you are not used to the cold and dark winters where you typically have sunlight from 10 AM to 3 PM then it is an issue and it can get real depressing

This video needs a part 2. Because there are a lot of crappy cities people regret moving to.

Wow, Plano, TX came up on this list (well honorable mention). Been here 20 of the last 26 years....and I agree, it's getting too crowded and too expensive.

Love the education and the sense of humor! Thank you!

The picture of the "Cougar" though 🤣🤣🤣

I was born and raised in San Francisco I can definitely tell you that the parking situation is really bad. I am very privileged to have the ability to reserve my own parking in my apartment building but I know many don’t have that ability. I am also in the pacific heights neighborhood so because of that I am able to walk to a lot of places but it would be nice to take my car too. 😅😅

This was really interesting, and insightful. l wouldn't have thought of Honolulu or San Francisco. I grew up in South Florida and a lot of people regret moving there because they visited as Tourists and fell in love with the beaches and weather, but then after moving they have to deal with every day life, traffic, crime and housing, high insurance, as well as the daily grind. That was not their expectation, so disappointment ensues. The same is probably somewhat true of Honolulu and San Francisco.

Visiting Tulsa for work opened my eyes to the fact that real America looks very different from what's represented in media.

Mon Frere: I was born and raised in Jacksonville, Flurda. There also wasa Dupont plant in the northside in the 70s whose emissions truly burned one's nose and throat. I'm only 53 surprised no one mentioned this factoid. Keep up the great work!

I love your sense of humor and all the knowledge of your wonderful videos! Thank you for all you do!

I used to work with a woman who was from Tulsa. I asked her about the city and her reply was "Tulsa, spelled backward, pretty much sums the entire city up."

How about cities and States that people loved moving to or regret not moving to sooner?

Great video, informative and entertaining. Loved that bit about the Miami education.

I really enjoy that growly voice you use to accentuate certain words. Great content and information . Keep up the good work!

Loved the "cougars".......As you were going down the list for Memphis, I couldn't help but think you were talking about SF. I used to live there and most of my ex-neighbors have joined me in moving out of the city.

I live in a small town in rural WA that once had a paper mill. The smell is truly something else, no way to describe it beyond chemicals and rotting wood.

Thank you for the video!

Thanks so much for these information. It's giving us total awareness about these places and help us to avoid going or visiting them 👍

I moved from San Diego county to Tulsa in April of this year. Cheapest real estate in the country with legal weed

My city of San Diego has become a tough place to live in. Rents are ridiculous. Practically no affordable housing available. The downtown area is sketchy. Lots of experience high rise apartments in downtown which has displaced the scores of people who were able to find reasonably priced apartments there. San Diego Unified School District isn't bad, but it ain't that good.

Always enjoyable watching your vids Mr. Briggs.

First video. Subscribed when you said "TN should just give Memphis to AK." I literally laughed so loud my neighbors knocked. :D

I live in Anchorage and I'd say it's a great place to live. The crime in Anchorage comes in two varieties: domestic violence and disputes during drug sales. Not a lot of crime otherwise. But it's a fun place to live. We got moose walking around downtown!

Greetings from the pprc (Redding) great video as usual.🍺🍺

Thanks for these videos, love the geography!

Another great video, always love the topics and content. Just curious why Grand Junction, CO is on the list. Just recently spent a week there and loved it. Thought it was way better than Colorado Springs and Denver. I guess maybe what you don't know, you don't know. Keep up the great content.

Solid video Briggs.

I was stationed in Mayport, Florida back in the late 80's. It sucked so bad in Jacksonville, we went to Daytona Beach every night.

I live in Fresno, CA and I was both surprised and not surprised that this city ended up on the list. I’ve lived here my whole life and I hate it. It’s boring, it’s hot, the people here are drug addicts, the crime is very high, the streets are filled with trash, and the air pollution sucks

can confirm the problem in Anchorage..and I think its most of Alaska. I moved to the southeast area of Alaska a few years ago and while I do regret it in many ways I am greatful in others. Lots of job opportunities for those willing to work and learn, even if you've never been in that field before. so good work expirence can be taken elsewhere when its time to move. Even when the weather is good it can be boring up here if you're not an outdoors type of person. Most the state has had a big crime influx the past or so years and when the put in a catch and release type of program in the court system it got worse. suprising amount of homeless and massive drug problems too. in many ways its like FL and HI....great place to visit, its breath takingly beautiful here...but not really a good place to live (plus like Hi we have to have most our stuff shipped too)

I wonder if there's data on cities or states people regret leaving, or cities people leave then come back to. That might be an interesting video.

No, we don't want Memphis. We've already got Pine Bluff.

Dude just want to say I really enjoy the vids and thanks for education as well, blessings .

Love your humor on the Big Cat Country!

Lol. We moved to Bowling Green Kentucky 4 years ago and we love it here. Best move ever. Love your videos.

Great commentator , quick and to the point…good voice!

I was born in Riverside. Parents moved us out in the 90s, the crime was already starting to get bad. Sad though. There were some nice areas, and I have fond memories of a storybook backyard with tangerine trees. My elementary school was great. And yeah, smog alerts are common to the inland empire. It used to be worse in the 80s.

I feel like right now every major metropolitan city fits in this list. The inflated price of living has really kicked out ass.

Honolulu has had a horrible homeless problems since at least when I was stationed at Pearl Harbor in the late ‘80s. When I was a kid my aunt told us she was going to Miami and my little brother said “I want to go to your ami too.”

It is not just wealth disparity, it is that the way low income people build wealth have disappeared. Earning interest on saving, entry level housing, expensive higher education and health care. This leads to homelessness... Not every homeless person lives on a sidewalk in a cardboard box... I have seen people changing clothes out of the trunk of their car in the Camarillo library parking lot. When you get homeless, you life begins to fall apart. You mentioned homelessness 12 times in the course of you excellent video but it's a symptom not the cause and it is about to get a lot worse...

As someone who has lived in Tulsa for roughly 8 years now, I can confirm that the people are idiots here. Drivers are consistently ranked as some of the worst in the country and crime is out of hand. In the past several years we’ve had someone arrested for home burglary who was identified and arrested not just because they fit the description, but because the Cheeto dust fingerprints left at the crime scene matched the Cheeto dust still left on their fingers as well as another person who decided to throw a snowball at a moving vehicle and the driver didn’t take too well to that and turned around in the middle of the street, rolled down their window and shot them in the foot. I need to get out of this place 😂

Not going to lie. Very surprised Seattle isn’t on the list. I was born and raised here, but I feel like most people I talked to who moved here as adults tell me regret it in some way.

I lived in the East Arlington area of Jacksonville for about 2 years. I really enjoyed it - mainly because I would make a habit of running on the beach or bodyboarding every week for about half the year. My wife had extended family (good terms) in the area, so that made living there a lot more enjoyable. But yeah, the closer to downtown you got (away from the beach), the more run down stuff appeared. Also, Jacksonville is more culturally similar to south Georgia than the rest of Florida - for some that is a good thing and others that is the kiss of death. If you are looking to move to Jacksonville, stay to the east of Downtown - and get as close to the beaches as you can afford. I currently live in Orlando, which has its own issues (just like everywhere else).

I am shocked that Portland Oregon didn't make the list. I actually expected it to be #1.

I moved to Cincinnati almost 8 years ago. I love this City. It’s highly underrated. There is so much to see and do here, plus your smack dab in the Center of the Eastern United States! I also love the fact that it’s in 3 states(Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana).

Back when I lived in Florida, I made a number of drives from Tampa to Jacksonville to take my friend to the Mayo Clinic. Never noticed the odors, but the traffic was horrendous. Getting lost there at night with pouring rain was a white-knuckle driving experience! Not to mention, Jacksonville seems to have no shortage of questionable neighborhoods. (Glad to live in a small college town in Mississippi now, about 75 miles from Memphis.)

Super awesome video!!

Loved this series about cities Briggs

Lived in Fresno for 14 years, left for Jacksonville, left there too, and I don't regret the moves! Jacksonville from 2011-2017, was not at all expensive, however, glad I moved away. Where I am now, Pretty satisfied.

I have never lived in Alaska but I can understand why some people might not like the weather. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a real thing that a lack of sunlight can cause people. I live in SW Idaho and I get SAD in the winter time especially if the inversion is really bad and we don't see the sun for days at a time. For me, SAD is like depression is on speed dial and dialed up to 13 on a scale of 1-10, not a pleasant experience. Most likely there are a few people that move to Alaska that don't realize that SAD could affect them and when it does, their enjoyment of their new hometown/state is affected.

The Alaska problem isn't so much about the weather but the limited sunshine. Michigan is another place that has less sunshine (due to cloud cover) that is hard to deal with in the winter.

Love your advice

I lived in Tulsa about 10 years ago but I loved it! I would move back there in a heartbeat

Riverside is no picnic but San Berdu is even worse. I live nearby in Upland minutes NW so I know this for sure.

my friend from back in highschool was a coastie after we graduated and was stationed in alaska, he said it was the most depressing place he had ever seen.

I’m really enjoying your content! New sub! I only mention this because of Aloha, Oregon. I was born in Florence after my parents relocated from Paris. My mother never left the United States. 😂😂😂

Great Video as always

I live in South Tulsa and love it here. It is like a big, small town, not a big city. Folks are very friendly, but everything is very slow and old fashioned

12:40 I worked on the Tim Burton film version of Planet of the Apes. At one point, the production had located to a huge warehouse just Southeast of downtown Los Angeles, as much of the filming was happening at L.A. Center Studios right in the heart of downtown, which is right next to the Harbor Freeway (a.k.a. 110 Fwy). Anyway, this humongous warehouse just Southeast of downtown was literally right next door to a Farmer John's meat processing factory. Not only that though, but it was directly downwind of the factory. I can't even describe the smell. But it made everyone in our warehouse I'll. The production never relocated because the cost would have been astronomical. So, we stayed there for about four months and everyone just had to work with one hand, since their other hand was being used to hold their noses closed. Honestly, it was HORRIBLE!

Couldn't agree more with #1 Anchorage. Lived there one year and it was one year I wish I could get back.

My sister used to live in Anchorage and the thing that really got to her was the days were mostly dark during the winter especially the first time she lived there. I was surprised that wasn’t mentioned.

I live in Pittsburgh. All hype no action, and everyone is stuck in 1984 to 1992. Hairstyles, clothing, everything.

My wife and I moved from the Midwest to Florida a couple of years ago and I absolutely hate it. I hate the right-wing fringe lunatic political environment, the huge number of mosquitoes, the high humidity, and the annual influx of "snow birds" with the resultant traffic problems. I don't miss having to contend with ice-covered streets and sidewalks or having to shovel tons of heavy wet snow out of my driveway, but I do absolutely miss crisp fall weather and beautiful fall foliage, and a good hard freeze that will kill those damned mosquitoes. And snow can be really beautiful if someone else does the shoveling. The recent hurricane didn't impact us, since we live inland (my wife refuses to live on either coast and I don't blame her), but for all the reasons I just stated I would move instantly, probably head back north and look for a condo, preferably in a sane blue state. (All you right-wing fanatics, go right ahead and insult me.)

Traffic is terrible in OKC. Just drove through over the holiday. Got a nice chip in my rental car's windshield on the busy highway.

Moved to Oklahoma/ OKC march of 2020 from DC and definitely regrets for all those reasons. Also while they are redeveloping things. Not much to do around here either especially with families.

I grew up in Grand Junction CO and man this place has gone down hill fast. Prices are jumping up for pos properties and the drug problem here is disgusting. I’m moving to New Hampshire here in a few days and I couldn’t be more excited to finally leave this place.

I went to Miami University in Ohio. I always have to explain to everyone that it was NOT in Florida (Miami University in FL is considered a major party school).

7:23 "A great place to visit but not to live in" ==> pretty much sums up my experience of many bigger cities. Though I've never been yet to the US (Miami is one of the places I really wish to visit ironically).

this list was on point, FRESNO sucks TULSA, Miami i could only handle 3 months before i was ready to head back up north

San Francisco has always had its issues, but over the last 25 years it has really degraded. Also, I believe the Anchorage ranking. My wife and I went to Alaska for vacation in 2005 and stayed at a B&B for a night when we flew in. The area seemed nice but as we pulled up to where we were staying we saw police cars all over the place down the block. Saw on the news the next day it was a gang related shooting, maybe a drive by, but ai think at least 2 people were killed. I did a little research and found that they had a big problem with crime and gangs there. The city itself didn't look like it would have a problem, there were no telltale signs that you get from most bigger cities.

Can you please make a video for the best countries, states, and cities to move to if you're a Healthcare worker? Measuring the level of demand vs their normal negatives.

I lived in the Central Valley in California for ten years. It is a crazy place. I lived in Fresno for one of those. You totally nailed the experience.

Jacksonville, FL really does smell! I visited there a few years back and I thought it was just me! Lol

I had to go to Pearl Harbour shipyard for work last spring. Honolulu and the island of Oahu are awesomely beautiful. It's easy to see why everyone wants to live there, but the cost of living is insane. And, to make things worse, wages aren't really any much better there than on most places on the mainland. But the homeless problem there is really heartbreaking.

I own property downtown in both OKC and Tulsa. OKC is positioned to be a great place to live as the Texan urban areas become unaffordable. Their regional transit plan is comprehensive and the MAPS intuitive has proven to be a huge success. Tulsa's government however, stifles investment downtown and limits development progress significantly compared to OKC. Although they are both good for investment, OKC is more stable and offers better returns.

My son lived in grand junction Colorado and I loved it when I visited it!

Love the drone video 😊

I recall two other really smelly cities: "Smell" Segundo near LAX, and Martinez...everytime I went to Martinez, my eyes would water and I would feel like I was going to hurl...oil refineries, I think. It was bad...but Fresno just sucks in general. My ex used to describe really awful places as "Fresno without the charm"....love it!

There is a Miami in Oklahoma. They pronounce it differently. There is a luxury RV manufacturer there.

That’s funny about the Jacksonville Papermill smell southern Georgia has the same issue around Saint Simons Island when my dad had a house there….there are a bunch of wood pulp plants and you get that stench all throughout the coast of Georgia

I lived in Jacksonville beach for 2 years and loved it. But downtown Jax is pretty dicey after dark.

"... cougars..." LOL!!! Also, why did you put a picture of Ketchikan in your report on Anchorage? Did the whole town of Ketchikan move?

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, and I always hate going into the city due to the parking situation. Regarding having a garage, honestly, so many people I know around here don't even park in their garages, as they tend to use them for storage. Some people even convert them into "apartments" and rent them out.

Stop typing! My favorite thing to hear you say sir! Every time. I always get a chuckle.

Live in and grew up in Jacksonville, FL. The smell was only bad at certain times and the coffee smell from Maxwell House always overpowered it. As someone who grew up here, crime def number 1 issue, number 2 is driving. The city is so big it takes 45 min to get anywhere, even with little to no traffic.

Moved to Providence RI for all of 6 weeks before getting tf out. Tiny old apartments with no amenities for like $1800 in a decent area

It’s so expensive in this country.

Plano has gotten pretty crowded, but I really liked it there and would certainly move back.

Regarding Jacksonville, I agree with you that roasting coffee is a good smell but there are a lot of people that hate that fragrance.

I live in Anchorage now, moved here a year ago. I'm a little surprised how high up on the list it is, but the responses weren't wrong. When the weather gets bad in the winter when it's cold, dark, and the few hours of daytime you do get is all socked in with low clouds that you can barely even tell you're surrounded by mountains and instead you are surrounded by grey-ness - the cabin fever/claustrophobia feeling that overtakes you is rough

I have been going to SF for 19 years and there is always a parking problem. So I bought small cars and own motorcycles. SF is much easier to travel if you have a motorcycle or scooter.

Snickering to myself about the "too hot in summer" comments about Fresno. I grew up in the LA basin. In 1979 my parents decided to move to a place they'd only visited in spring. Chico CA. We arrived there in fall. Now, in 1979 there weren't a lot of places to get information on the climate of a given area. We found out that next summer how very hot and dry it got. Almost low desert hot at times. I think it was 113 F (45 C) one year before I moved away; up in Redding it was 117.

Interesting to hear about smell in Jacksonville. We haven’t had a smell problem in a couple decades now. We tore down those awful paper mills. Also as far as cost of living we’re still lower than national average for a city. Problem is tons of people who live here don’t understand what a city is. Lol

As a resident of Miami I will tell you the many reasons not to live here. Number one is it really really expensive whether renting or buying. Apartments are tiny and houses are small with little to no yard plus you can almost literally reach out your window and touch your neighbors house. Houses crunched together(very little land). Number two there are not a lot of jobs that support cost of living so plan on several roommates or more wherever you live. Number three house prices here are outrageous for nothing more than oversized shacks. Unless you have a lot of money to put down or are one of the lucky small percentage that have a high paying job here, this isn’t place to find anything affordable. Number four traffic here is horrible and roads are designed/laid out horribly. There is only one east/west major expressway and that is a toll road therefore if you want to avoid tolls and go east or west than you are screwed with taking regular streets so going short distances can take a long time. If you want to north/south than you can choose I95 which is not recommended or you can take the turnpike, which is another toll road or can take palmetto which is always congested because of bad design and cannot be corrected because no space to do so. Number five this place is not friendly if you don’t speak or understand Spanish. There are a lot of bilingual people here however there are just as many if not certainly more that don’t speak or understand a word of English. This place is in a bubble so learning or knowing English isn’t encouraged. It is very alienating for non Spanish speakers. Number six people here are rude and shallow, too much money and not enough sense. Rich and snobby here have taken it to an art form here. Movies and TV shows show you the glamorous shiny side of city but in reality there are a lot of bad areas and most people live check to check or are just living marginally above poverty. Most of Miami outside of city is not shiny and new but old crumbling and beat up. I would recommend visiting only but never live here