I’ve lived in threes of these cities (Honolulu, Tacoma and Spokane). I never felt in any danger in Honolulu but the crime in Spokane shocked me.

I live in Vegas. Dont move here unless you have a job lined up or a transfer. They post that there are jobs, but good luck getting hired. We moved here 6 mos ago and still haven't been hired anywhere. Thank god at least for my husbands pension! Nick Johnson rocks! Love his channel too!

Eugene resident here. It was a decent place when I moved here in 2018. In 2020 it really went down the drain though. Homelessness, drugs,crime, and a rising cost of living ruined it. I drove around town yesterday, saw tents and garbage everywhere, and thought "this city looks like shit right now" 🤦

I live in Tacoma, WA... I have for 50 years. there are areas that are bad - the Hosmer area is the worst- there are also areas that aren't quite as bad. Or maybe I'm just numb to it...

Stunned that Bakersfield didn’t make the list.

I moved to Vegas from the east coast and really like it. In Florida and NY where I lived, everyone talked about how they did not like it. In Vegas, everyone I know talks about how amazing it is. It’s very underrated- lots of outdoors like Colorado without the crowds. The weather is great 50s, 60s, and 70s year round October - April. It is hot June-August, but dry heat and much better than Florida. Of course it matters which part of town you live in. Because the strip distracts everyone away from all the nature, it is one of the few places you can still get 5-star views without crowds. You have almost everything you want within a 5 minute drive. Great dining. No traffic like other places. The city is growing faster than you can think, so will be interesting to see how the stats change!

Many people are moving out of Anchorage to the Mat Su Valley because land and taxes are less expensive. The Mat Su has grown by over 6,000 people in the last few years.

I live in vegas and today it’s a beautiful sunny 60 degrees with not a chance of a tornado, hurricane, mudslide, blizzard or any natural disasters. 😘 I’ll be in my pool during the hot months. No humidity and mosquitoes is pretty sweet too.

I live in Eugene. You're right this used to be a great city. We call west Eugene felony flats.

I'm from Stockton. I had to look up the Kennedy neighborhood. It's the area that I would have called Sierra Vista. Maybe they changed the name. It was the ghetto. I went to college at SDSU and ended up working and retiring in the Silicon Valley. I've been back to Stockton to visit friends once in a while. My parents stayed in their home. Stockton was a divided city politically and economically.

I nominate Vallejo, California for this list

Born and raised in Stockton. Graduated from the University of the Pacific, beautiful campus in Stockton. I taught in Stockton Unified School District for over 32 years. We have our problems like any city. We also have a wonderful museum, the symphony, live theatre, waterways that take you to the Pacific Ocean. A great university and community college. We are one of the most diverse cities in the U.S. I’ve traveled to far worse places around the United States and the world.

I love when people go to Fresno and hang out in fig gardens and say wow it’s really nice here.

Regardless of any other problems, Vegas is *not* running out of water anytime soon. It's actually one of the most water-efficient cities in the US, and does not even use all of its' minuscule allotment of 1.8% of water from the Colorado River (most of which goes to SoCal and Arizona). Las Vegas has a water intake below the deadpool level at Lake Mead - i.e., if the water dropped so low it stopped flowing over the Hoover Dam, Vegas would still get water. SoCal residents and farmers lose water (and power) before Vegas does.

My aunt moved to Honolulu back in the late 70's. She always held down a job & managed to support herself until the mid 2000's. Her last job was working as a live-in caregiver for an elderly man for about 10+ years. When he passed away, his son saw how much home prices were skyrocketing so instead of renting out the house (& allowing my aunt to stay in her rented room as she was promised by his dad), he kicked her out & sold the place for a ridiculous amount. He didn't give her any sort of severance pay, bonus, or just a small monetary gift to say thanks for taking care of his dad (which he refused to do himself). So at the age of 65, she ended up homeless. We tried to intervene by sending her money & have her move into my parents' place in Monterey, CA but she refused to leave "her home". She cut all contact, lasted about 5 years longer, & died after being physically assaulted by another homeless person in January 2018. The police suspected that it was a robbery & she put up a fight to defend the few possessions she carried around in a suitcase. We didn't find out until months later, after she had already been cremated... It still upsets me to know that she lived there her entire adult life, worked, paid taxes, & ended up dying on the streets instead of in her own house or even a rented apartment.

Spent a couple of weeks in Yuma years ago. It was summer and I must declare that Yuma is not a city, at least not in summer. There was just about nobody there.

Briggs the reason why home prices are still rising in these cities is the housing shortage! What’s causing the housing shortage is people that have homes with interest rates 4 percent or below are not selling their homes even if they relocate with their job they’re just renting them out cause interest rates are too high! That’s what is causing the housing shortage!

Picking on me today Briggs. All the cities in Cali Ihave been through multiple times or lived next to and grew up there. I can confirm, Oakland, SF, San Jose, Fresno, Stockton,Bakersfield, Modesto are all places I avoid now. IDK how Imade it out in one piece after 50 years, maybe I didn't cause I have some mild pstd and anxiety for sure. Listen to abriggs on this one folks.

I've been living in Las Vegas for 2 years now. It's so bad here I plan on staying :)

Most of the suburbs of Spokane are safe with great schools, but downtown has gotten downright scary with homelessness and rampant drug use. The Hillyard neighborhood used to be the worst and may still be the poorest zip code in the U.S. but it's not as scary as downtown.

I kind of thought that Bakersfield was going to make the list... Like Fresno Bakersfield is where people live who want to live in California but can't afford to live in California. I've lived in Bakersfield all my life and I hate it here, lol.

Re Eugene: You pretty much nailed it. What you did not convey is that the city, and many of its citizens, actively promote homelessness. We have one of the highest per capita homeless rates in the nation.

There are reasons so many cops episodes are filmed in Spokane. Born and raised there, so glad to get out.

We lived in Honolulu for over nine years. Technically, the entire island of Oahu is a consolidated city and county of Honolulu. When new people were moving there, we always told them not to live anywhere that starts with a “W” - includes Waikiki, Waipahu, Wahiawa, Waimanalo, Waianae, Waipio, and so on.

@14:57 *San BERDOO* (most dont enunciate the second 'r' = Bernadino)

A major problem with Tacoma is there police are apathetic. A crime could be happening in front of the cops and they just don't care, as they don't want to get involved. But heaven forbid if there is a black news paper delivery person, then the cops go full rambo on the black guy.

Tacoma is on the upswing as prosperous Seattle-ites are being pushed out.

I had my windows on my truck only smashed out twice last year in Denver, and there is a bum on every street corner.

these videos always make me laugh, great sense of humor included in them (the worst place to live in Tacoma is Tacoma). Was surprised to see Honolulu on this list. I know there is crime, but I always felt fairly safe in Waikiki, but haven't been there in a dozen years, so maybe things have changed.

Albuquerque nm

"If you're demented and want to live in Fresno.." TRUTHHHHH

I lived in Henderson in 2013-14...it was nice...safe.

Are ANY cities in the U.S. improving their homeless problems? (without just putting them on a bus and passing the buck to another city, of course.)

When I lived in Spokane, the worst neighborhoods were either parts of Hilliard and West Central area which was known as felony flats

I lived in Spokane Valley growing up, brother is still there. I loved it! Wonderful for outdoor activities

I live in Vegas and love it. We have crime, but who doesn't

I lived in Eugene in the late 70’s. It was a great place then. The economy took a hit, serious inflation. The construction industry collapsed so the timber industry, which was big in Eugene/Springfield followed. The city though was really nice. Sorry to hear it’s fallen so far..

The average home price in my hometown,Morgan Hill CA is 2.2 million.I am thrilled to see these low home prices

My dad's family has a long history in Spokane (and Colville, but that is hardly a city). My grandfather inherited a rooming house near downtown from his sister that we nicked named the Empty Arms, lots of good memories about that. My sister currently lives in Spokane, and they get by well enough, but I'm always surprised food/restaurants cost as much as Seattle without Seattle salaries. The hill is pretty nice to live on, however, if you can afford it.

Briggs, you rock! Love the channel and content. Peace ✌️

Moved from Portland OR to Spokane. It felt like a definite move up. The only thing bad about Spokane is if you compare it to Portland the restaurants here suck!

I lived in the Shadle / Hillyard neighborhoods in Spokane growing up. I now live in the Hilltop neighborhood of Tacoma. This data definitely makes sense now! In the past year we’ve had a house burn down, two people shot, and a police standoff in the past year on just my Hilltop block.

I moved from Orange County to Fresno 17 years ago. Fresno has some bad areas, but a lot of it is really nice. I disagree with it being the worst.

Tacoma sucks. It's hilarious that people that live in Federal Way, Burien, Tacoma, Kent, Renton, Auburn and Spanaway say they live in Seattle. They have done that forever. I grew up in Bellevue, 4 miles from Downtown Seattle and have never claimed to be from Seattle.

Eugene is beautiful (primarily lived here since the 70's). Just like Pdx (if you go to old town, yeah it's going to suck) there are a few crappy areas, but overall it's a safe city with access to the beach or the mountain hiking in an hour's drive. Lived in Pdx, too, back in the 90's/2000's (about a decade). Eugene has done a lot in dealing with homeless, you ought to have visited during the pandemic - it's in far better shape now.

Portland, Oregon should be high on this list. Wow Briggs, I'm impressed. You actually acknowledge other cities than Seattle exist in Washington State. All you usually do is mention Seattle. Good job. Tacoma has good and bad parts. The North End of Tacoma is beautiful. Nice waterfront. The Hilltop area and Lakewood sucks. Spokane has good and bad areas as well. My uncle has a beautiful home with The Spokane River running right off his back porch. Boating and fishing in the summer. Not too bad. Browne's Addition and some of the areas around downtown Spokane are not good. That said I have never felt particularly unsafe in Downtown Spokane at night. Yes, there are homeless. But it's nothing compared to my old home town of Portland. Now that is a shithole.

Stockton is horrible (I grew up close by) because it is a failed social experiment. They took lower income people and put them in middle income neighborhoods to show they could raise the quality of life of those from the lower income demographic but the opposite happened. They brought down the neighborhood. That's why you don't have nice area and poor areas, instead you have nice streets and poor streets right next to each other. As real estate broker, I rarely take listings in Stockton because the comps are very difficult due to how overlapping the areas are.

Stockton, Anchorage they always seem to come out in the gutter... and still either side of $400k for a house... and what's that house look like? Often that's a near tenement.

Moved to Spokane from San Jose 2 years ago, grew up in western NC. We love it here and could actually afford a house unlike many of the other outdoor adjacent cities in the west. Spokane’s crime rate is terrible, but the issues are definitely concentrated in a few places around the city (east central being one of them). We walk downtown for dinner all the time and walk back late at night, never feel unsafe, there are usually a lot of people out on Friday and Saturday nights even in winter. Plus we can bike from our door to trails in 3 different directions, have great parks, and have lots of good skiing very close.

As a nearly lifelong native Californian with family and friends all over the state, I could not agree more with these choices though I will admit I haven't been through Spokane in about six years. With friends in AZ, Yuma has only been good for two things in my experience: stopping for gas on the way to/from the Phoenix area or 1970-1993 when the Padres called it home for Spring Training games.

I moved out of Anchorage in 2020, and it was sadly getting worse there. Though oddly I wouldn't have guessed Sand Lake to be the hotspot for crime. Fairview and Mountain View always seemed like the place I didn't want to be around.

Yes, it is terrible on the west coast. So bad and too full of those scary people. And the weather and nature are not the most beautiful in the country. Did i accomplish my goal of keeping people from moving here?

Did you leave Oakland CA out of the list on purpose?

I’ve lived near a couple of the places. With respect to heat in San Bernardino, imagine adding at least 5-10 degrees from the temperature in Los Angeles. And yes, the smog is bad, although probably not as bad as it was in the 80’s and 90’s when “red flag” warnings were more common. A couple areas I would recommend avoiding in that area are Muscoy and Colton . For the Tacoma area and city itself, it’s not all bad, it has a lot of gems like Point Defiiance Park with Owen Beach, Point Ruston, and some good entertainment options like the Grand Cinema and Museum of Glass, and pretty wide variety of food options. There are some nicer areas (and yes, more expensive) like the Proctor District, DuPont, Steilacoom, and University Place, but I recommend to definitely stay away from Lakewood, WA.

I'm originally from Detroit... And now I live in Washington on the Seattle side and I wouldn't even buy in Tacoma I don't care how many houses are for sale.

You said Rabbit Creek and Hillside East in Anchorage are bad?? I think you meant to say Fairview, Muldoon, and Mountain View. I lived in Fairview for awhile growing up and it was bad then and still sucks to this day. I like ypur videos Briggs but you were way off on this on. Rabbit Creek and anywhere in Hillside are nice.

We call Tacoma and Spokane Tacompton and Spokompton here in Washington, respectively

Keep in mind.. this video is produced by a guy who chooses to live in Portland. He refers to many cities “like Portland” but he fails to put Portland on this list. Portland is SCARY!

After 13 states I can’t imagine living somewhere worse than Portland Oregon. The people the weather the government it’s all the worst.

I grew in San Bernardino my entire entire childhood until I moved to Perris when I was 14. When I was watching Nick Johnson's and I went there for meeting with a judge or to go the Pick-a-part on Waterman everywhere has gone worse. Nick Johnson has covered everywhere except for everything across the West of the 5th street highway bridge. So everything from Mt. Vernon Avenue where the MetroLink train station to Medical Center Drive is where the second hospital is, and Muscoy. It is all crap in San Bernardino, it is sad because I had good memories living there.

I am sorry to hear about Portland and Eugene!!

All cities have good and bad areas. I grew up in Spokane and it has some great outdoors opportunities.

i moved to philadelphia (okay the suburbs of philly) last year because my parents live in eastern PA and i need to live in a city to make money. It's awful. There's really nothing good I can say about living in the philly metrio area except I suppose the food. For a large city, there's simply not much to do. It's crowded with people who are rude and unintelligent. Everyone is obnoxious about the eagles. Expensive. Weather is awful. Don't move to philly or its surroundings.

I've lived in and around Spokane since 2001. It has been shocking to see the lack of regard for some of these beautiful and historic old neighborhoods that the city holds. The homeless crisis I have seen here is worse than what I ever saw in Portland Oregon simply due to a lack of facilities or amenities for these people to access. The suburbs and small towns around the area are wonderful and for the most part the violent crime is concentrated in the concentrated in the East central, West Central and areas around downtown which statistically are where the homeless population tend to congregate. The north side of town is still relatively town is still benign and middle-class and there are lots of and there are lots of great walkable neighborhoods as you get farther up into the South Hill for farther north in the areas around Colbert. Spokane Valley has a lot of wonderful areas and still a very family-centric vibe as does our Northern more rural areas such as Deer Park. There has been a dedicated effort to assist the local law enforcement in helping the crime rate particularly in the downtown area and to bring more arts and culture activities back to downtown in the aftermath of covid. Thank you for having such a wonderful Channel and for highlighting both the benefits and the drawbacks of so many of our lesser known cities!

When you mentioned St.Louis you said bulldoze East St.Louis unfortunately you did not differentiate between St.Louis, Missouri & East St.Louis Illinois 2 different states...Keep the videos coming Mr.Briggs

I had a friend that lived in Tacoma and she loved it, she came from a good sound middle class family, not all Of Tacoma is bad

I think Vallejo, CA should be near the top of this list. All you have to do is look up information about our crime rates and our police department. The unhoused population continues to grow and take over various areas.

The problem isn't the cities, it's the people who move into the cities that brings their politics and problems with them changing the city into the very thing that they said they were moving away from. You want a better city than start at the top. Change the leadership, change the city. Eventually all cities will become bad unless the leadership at the top is changed within the city itself.

Hey Briggs, you are doing a great job man with your channel, keep it coming.

you should do best midwest cities

Wow Briggs you are brutal. I like that.

I'm here in Stockton!! Oh boy, I need to leave REAL soon!!

We've lived in Eugene for a few years now and never thought it was as bad as people make it out to be. Maybe because we moved from Phila?

As a California resident, Stockton does Suck!

I wonder how Albuquerque NM didn't make this list. Its crime rate is 170.9% higher than the national average, and the average home price is 370k.

I grew up on O'ahu and have seen it gone downhill over years. Waikiki's crime is out of control. Some guy got his hand cutoff by a samurai sword during an argument. Just today, a woman had acid thrown on her just for kicks. The Aloha Spirit is on life support and fading fast.

Fresno looks nice in the video. Surprised it's considered the worst.

My wife and I moved our family from San Diego to Spokane in 1996. Never regretted the move. Great schools and amazing outdoor activities. Lots of culture and sporting events. Yes there is homeless like San Diego has but what you can get for your money in regards to homes. Lots of people moving here. People are down to earth and friendly.

Tacoma and Spokane have been the "don't go there" areas of Washington for 30 years. LOL. Neko Case was singing the blues about Tacoma almost 25 years ago: People, they laugh when they hear you're from my town They say it's a sour and used up ol' place I've defended its honor, I shrugged off the put-downs You know that you're poor, from Tacoma Buildings are empty like ghettos of ghost-towns It gives me a chill to think what was inside I can't seem to fathom the dark of my history I invented my own in Tacoma (Thrice All-American c.2000)

I’m surprised Salem Oregon didn’t make the list

When I lived in Tacoma just expected our car to be broken into or stuff stolen from our yard every now and then. We even had a baby carriage taken from our porch. Found it a week later in a nearby park covered in mud and broken. People in Tacoma commit crime for crime's sake.

@8:52 Spokane WA is right up against the Colorado Border.....uh......When did the 2 states move?

Yeah, Spokane has a bad homeless situation, especially in downtown where they gather. We have programs, but we need people to get help. I can't really do anything. I was born and raise here. it's bad could be better, but it is home.

I live in Rialto and we call it San Bernarghetto

Great video Mr.Briggs!, how about a video on the best/worst cities and states for the self employed or starting a business?, thank you!

I've been to Spokane once and I'd never, ever go back. There's nothing there except for Gonzaga. Everybody I saw looked like they belonged in King of the Hill.

I still love my Portland and I’m still very happy here, and so are most of the people I know!

Surprised you left out the traffic in Tacoma. Also wounder where Berkeley landed on this list.

Should put ‘western’ in title

I live in Tacoma, we are selling our home in May or June, moving to Port Ludlow Washington because we cannot stand to see our once beautiful city continue to decline. They stopped prosecuting crime, they allow the homeless to take over our city the drug deals on every corner .The powers that be don’t care about the average taxpayer, it’s unbelievable what Tacoma has turned into, we can’t take it anymore.☹️

The worst neighborhood in Spokane is Hillyard. It’s the northeast corner - where the developed area stops. While many hoods are gentrifying, this area never will. Tacoma was known in Western Washington as Tacompton, when I was a teenager. But you mentioned that Compton is improving, so that might be changing. The worst neighborhood there was Hilltop. Northeast Tacoma, which is kind of not integrated with the rest of the city, isn’t (or wasn’t) as bad as the rest of it.

Left the portland metro a year ago and will never return

I feel bad about Eugene Orygun. My wife and I lived there 40 years ago and it wasn't a bad place to be. We considered in years past that this might be a good place to retire, but the changes in the whole sense of place in the Eugene/Springfield area steered us away from that dream. SPOKANE, on the other hand (at least the central city area), is a place that I would have never considered living in my entire life growing up and living in the PAC NW. Even back in my early years and teens, it felt a bit dirty, grimy, and sketchy. In 1995, I was at a training session hosted at a hotel on the south side of the site of the 1974 World's Fair (Expo 74) and was SCOLDED by the hotel staff for exposing myself to danger by going on a solo evening stroll along the hiking paths that wander through the riverside park that the old Expo site had become....told me all I need to know about downtown Spokane...

North Tacoma is genuinely beautiful and full of hipster restaurants and pretty homes. North Tacoma has the great water views and looks more like Seattle. Downtown is pretty depressed but improving. South Tacoma is genuinely scary. One may not even want to stop at a gas station to fill up in South Tacoma if given the chance to stop elsewhere. The Tacoma Mall frequently has hooligans give a gun / shooting scare about every other month.

Cant believe Albuquerque didn't make the list.

Woodcrest is in Riverside not San Bernrdino

Heh, my family's from Tacoma and I went to HS there. No wonder everywhere else seems so wimpy to me.

In the seventies we use to call Fresno the arm pit of Ca

The best thing about Anchorage is it’s close to Alaska!

Mr. Briggs. Thank you for your honest assessment of Eugene. I lived for 15 total and it's quite the armpit. The city for some odd reason doesn't seem to do anything about the homeless and drug infestation.