Do you live in a nice small town?

I grew up east of Wolfeboro. It has never lost its charm. The Wright Museum is a must visit.

Anyone that wants to keep that small town vibe I'd shut up about your towns

I live about about 20 minutes from Natchitoches. Like Briggs stated the Red River is nearby. The Cane River runs through the historic downtown. There is a kayak rental there on the riverfront. They also have carriage rides in the downtown area. For Christmas the whole downtown is lit up with lights.

You should visit Quincy, CA. I think it's around a population is about 5000. This is a mountain town and it's really pretty. They even has a small plane airport and no Starbucks. There are no fast food chain stores there. They have all the small town stores. I worked there as a nurse. It's gorgeous. It's also a logging town

Thank you so much for this, Briggs. We need more positivity on the tube, even if it doesn't get as many clicks, unfortunately. These lists are even more helpful than the negative lists. I've never heard of any of these towns and might consider moving to one of them down the line! More please 🙏

I appreciate your content… I think it would be helpful if you could include a map with city highlighted within the state to help visualize the location…. I always enjoy watching your videos… thank you for all the energy you invest in entertaining all of us… ☺️

We occasionally go to Shipshewana for the Blue Gate restaurant, and last year we saw Styx here

Briggs, love these shorter, concise small town hidden gems. They are so informative. Please keep them around 15 minutes. Those hour or longer ones are too long. You are the Master of fitting in pertinent info. in a short time, frame. Please keep them coming.

My home town in south Spain is nowadays 23 habitants…. I love goin there on the weekends and enjoy nature and silence.

I love hearing about hidden gems you never hear of Keep making these

I don't know how you do it! I very much appreciate and enjoy your videos. Thank you.

I live in Wessington Springs South Dakota, very small POP 760. It's great, I love it, likely too small for most but perfect for my Wife and I..

I've heard of Marietta, OH, it's close to Athens, OH where Ohio University is located

I nearly fell out of my chair when Briggs actually had something good to say about Louisiana but then I did fall out of my chair when Davis, Oklahoma was #1! I’m an Oklahoma resident and go through Davis frequently. It isn’t nearly as picturesque as New Hampshire or Virginia but if you like laidback and minding your own business, it could be the place.

Born, raised and still living in New England, I know the places you listed quite well. Use to go to Wolfboro for Off Shore Boat Racing on lake Wini, I go thru Compton on my way to Newport to hang out with Jay Leno (not really, but he has a home there now), attended college in VT hanging out with friends in Shelburne boating on Lake Champlain. Where else can you live and have a total change in scenery in 1.5 hrs? From beautiful Beaches, ski mountains, lakes, hiking trails, snowmobiling, fishing inland or ocean, to having a true 4 season year (5th season up north, Mud season) and having Boston as a major sports hub city?! Born here, will die here. Love my little corner of the US.

Shipshewana - The bedroom community outside the Goshen, Nappanee, Wakarusa Metroplex.😊

Shipshy or Shipshewana is nice. Lived nearby for a couple of years. Plenty of Amish!

Several truly worthwhile small towns: Russell, Kansas….Hays, Kansas and Lawrence , Kansas. Been there. Loved it. Terrific people, laid back lifestyle, beautiful wide open spaces.

Thanks for the terrific video. I live with the Amish in Crossville Tennessee in the mountain's & love it! The nicest people live here!🫡🙏❤️🤍💙

Nice list! Being from New England I of course knew Wolfeboro, Little Compton and Shelburne. Beautiful cities, glad to see them mentioned.

Shipshewana is a neat little place...Went to the Amish flee market there and an Amish market called Yodders....Even had my very first Woopie Pie there....Being from the west coast its a nice different kind of experience....

You should include state maps to show us what part of the state, and what county these towns are in.

The Damascus, VA area is a great little area. I've been researching retiring there. Thank you for this video.

I don’t live in shipshewana, but my partner’s paternal side of the family is from Middlebury which isn’t far from shipshewana and very similar, and I absolutely love it. We might retire there 40 years from now. I would HIGHLY recommend the essenhaus

We have visited Shipshewana IN twice. Very charming. The first time we went was on Flea Market day and too crowded so the second time we made sure to go on a non-flea market day.

I love your takes on places. I am thinking of Ohio. I attended Ohio Uninversity in the early 1980's. There was Marrietta and Nelsonville. Logan, Ohio, too. The highways came and that SE corner of Ohio tried to die. I think you may have answered my question of returning to Ohio. I want to so badly leave Jacksonville, FL. I do not want to die in my car.

Ferndale, CA. I drove through it last summer and it was love at first sight. As odd as it may sound, they have one of the greatest cemeteries you will find on the West Coast.

I live in a small University town in Eastern OK. Lovely! Lakes, rivers, cultural festivals, restaurants and shops/cafes, live music, too!!

Great video Briggs! One question: Why was Fairhope, AL excluded from this list?

I'm just impressed that you pronounced Natchitoches correctly. Not many can. I lived there in 1990 while the movie Steel Magnolias was being filmed. It was a quaint little town back then and it sounds like it hasn't lost that.

Congratulations on pronouncing Natchitoches correctly! It's a really fun town. Two of my cousins went to Northwestern U, and that's how I got to know it at first. Having the college there gives a good mix of young people. One of my cousins moved back there years after he graduated. Not that it's peculiar to the town, but one evening my brother and I had stopped by my cousin's house to visit while on the way to Baton Rouge. We left about 9:00pm and just outside of town we encountered the thickest fog I have ever seen. It was so bad that I couldn't even see the end of the car hood. We had to creep along at about 5 mph, with me hanging out of the passenger side window so I could see the edge of the road. Anyone familiar with Louisiana roads knows that they are often flanked by deep ditches and have almost no shoulder to pull off on. Luckily we only encountered 4 other vehicles in the 15 miles or so that we had to travel before the fog eased up.

My guess is these small towns would like to stay unheard of

I gave this video a thumbs up before even looking at it. His videos are that good!

Would love a video of states or cities with the largest number of alternative living communities, such as tiny homes, yurts, generational, Permaculture, etc.

I haven’t been to Shipshewana but you forgot to say they have a fantastic flea market huge in fact there in April through September

I just got home from visiting Honesdale Pennsylvania for the first time, and I love it.

HI shaved ice is different than a snow cone...

Keeping the name Little Compton would discourage people from moving there! Which is probably why they kept the towns name!

I went to school in Wolfeboro. Its beautiful😊

Haven't watched one of these marvelous vids in ages - I can see one of my trips from the UK doing a month of Jack Reacher style travel to some of these places. Oh for the dosh to be able to stay full time.

The smallest towns I really liked were: Lambertville, NJ, Frenchtown, NJ and Doylestown, PA

Wolfeboro, been there many times and love it but only in the summer, winters can be rough. Many great towns around Winniepesaukee. 😊

Love shaved ice!

Check out Spencer, Indiana for a very good small town. I grew up there and loved it, so peaceful. Very good school system . With a history going back to very early 1800's, it has a great deal to offer.

Thank you for the video!

You need to the small towns in the west because we do have small towns one I would recommend Ephraim Utah and Richfield Utah

Great job Briggs ❤❤❤😮😮😮😊😊😊

Salisbury, Maryland, Berlin, Md. Deal Island, Md., Lewes, Delaware(Beach town)Ocean city, Md.These are some great small towns. Some are Beach towns.❤❤❤ Very diverse and welcoming!

Thanks Briggs. I've never heard of these so super interesting.

What is the population range for a small town? I recommend wellsboro pa

You call these SMALL towns? Look at Parkston South Dakota pop 1500! No crime, hospital, and a city hall that puts live music in the park all summer. And an airport for private planes

My small town is on the Big island of Hawaii.🏝

One of the amazing things about museums is that there's an enormous amount of information that you would never know to seek out on the internet. As the old saying goes, you don't know what you don't know.

I currently live and am from Abingdon VA. You pronounced it right every time. Everyone here pronounces it different every time they say it. Either ending in 'don' or 'ton' works.

If you talk to anyone in the NW Indiana area and they all know about Shipshewana. It's a great little place to spend an afternoon or a weekend. They have a wonderful crafts festival there as well.

I live in upstate NY in a place called Knox in the Heldebergs but just down the mountain about 15 mins away is Altamont NY, a small town/village. I wouldn't expect it on a list like this because it lacks things like restaurants and shops, only a few to choose from but the village itself is very picturesque. The houses and properties are well kept and the people all seem so nice and family oriented. I love taking the family down there when the fair is in town or some event is going on. Its a beatiful place and your only 20 minutes from a city in every direction. It sits at the foot of the Heldebergs and is beautiful especially in Fall time. I hope it makes it on a list someday with some nice pics for folks to see. Great video as always Briggs!

Check out Delaware, Ohio. It's getting bigger due to proximity to Columbus, but it has a lot going on culturally.

Mr Briggs, it’s “shave” ice, not shaved ice. I still don’t know why it’s termed that way but I was corrected by a large Hawaiian man that I just didn’t want to mess with. Love this video.

Man you got cover Havre de Grace, MD. It’s a great little town, and it’s where Francis Scott Key got picked up by the British before he witnessed the Battle of Baltimore and wrote the star spangled banner. The whole town got burned in the War of 1812, it’s super haunted, and has tons of historic charm

Little Compton RI is beautiful but very expensive to live in. Shelburne VT is also a fun place to check out has Fiddlehead brewery and it's 5 min from Burlington

I passed through Shipshewana, Indiana on a bus going from Chicago to Cleveland

So glad to see Shelburne on this list. That’s where I’m from, right next to Burlington VT

Marietta Ohio, pronounce the A. Grew up in that area, though on the proper side of the Ohio river, ie the WV side. Lots of history in that general area to include the Blennerhasset island just south of Parkersburg. The Blennerhassets were tied in with a certain Arron Burr. Love my home area.

Wolfeboro Natchitoches shelburne marietta little Compton and mabye davis are large towns and there is no mayor for little Compton but these are all great towns

You could do one on Newport, Vermont. I lived there and it's gorgeous and a great place to live.

Anything east of the Mississippi River has something’s to consider: 1) high humidity, 2) lots of mosquitos, 3) cold snowy winters if in the northeast or MN. Otherwise, knock yourself out! Paia on Maui is good. The last town on the road to Hana on the eastern shore, with black sand beaches and over 65 different waterfalls on the way there. Hawaii is my favorite, but expensive.

No snakes in Hawaii. That's a plus for reptile phobics.

You're short-changing the west, Briggs. There are dozens (hundreds?) of amazing small towns in the west!!! And the plus, OPEN SPACE!!! Quincy, CA, Moab, Utah, Ashland, OR, Hood River, OR, Gardenville, NV - I could go on.....

I’m glad my small town of 5500 people in rural NY is not on your list…still a secret

Hawai'i! Interesting and cool video! Stars Hollow is the best small town, though!

Briggs, you could consider Gambier, Ohio - the home of Kenyon College. We lived there for 3 years while my father earned his master's degree at Bexley Hall (now closed down,)

I was hoping you'd do Henderson, NC or somewhere around there. That's on my short list of places to move to.

I like Pietown NM the best.

My town has a population of 265. Pretty small. 😅 the town i work in has around 3100.

Davis Ok is a pretty cool little town my mom's side of the family hailed from there. years back I stopped by there to lay flowers at the headstones of my great grandparents. We ate at the Sonic and hit the road to Texas.

I lived in Natchitoches, Louisiana in the 80's It was a nice area to raise kids in

Re. the comment about rhubarb, it makes a great pie. My mom used to make them all the time, as well as preserves, from the stuff growing in our back yard. Just the memories are making me hungry.

The Snoopy shaved ice kit!!! Blast from the past! 😂😂

Some of these towns have the most amazing names! The stuff that movies and stories are made of!

Wow man I know both of these places! Wanna get back there so bad lol..the second house is in the neighborhood where my grandparents and parents are from..actually down the road a bit ..good to see these again..

Can you imagine the jokes if there would be a school trip to D-Cup? xD

Could you do a more in depth of Wolfeboro like the crime rate and employment rate, please?

I grew up in Windsor Colorado.

I went to Turner falls summer camp, Methodist church... beautiful

The D cup pun was hilarious.

Turner Falls was great in the early '70s when I was up there from Big D. And we lived near Wolfeboro at Black Cat Island on Lake Winnepasaki in the 80's. Last year I traveled 19 states and really liked the small city college towns; Madison, WS, South Bend, IN, Tuscaloosa and Auburn AL. Nice video, Happy Trails to you!

Thank you for the last video. I live in Toledo, OH and the wife and I made reservations to visit Marietta, OH. Go figure! Also, making plans to visit Shipshewana, IN. and Damascus, VA. These are the videos we enjoy, going to visit small towns and give them some business.

As far as housing affordability is concerned,it really depends on where you live at and it varies greatly.Many of the homeless like in Southern California or the San Francisco area provided that they don't have a mental or substance abuse problem where the average home can cost a million dollars or so refuse to move to a much more affordable part of the country.I live in Florida and yes it's getting more expensive,unaffordable if you live at the beach go inland a little for more affordability.

Love these videos. My wife who's from Alabama and I are moving to Birmingham from NZ in 2 weeks, so those videos especially have been eye opening!!

Ship" amish town ... I live not far from there , it is a very clean and pleasant place...awsome local foods".

I don't live in Damascus but i live in the area and have been there several times working for amazon. Driving hwy 91N in mountain city tn onto US 58 in Damascus va is absolutely a beautiful drive. Just make sure you're not in a hurry because they seem to always be doing road work on it. 😂

Briggs it is Marietta with the a.

Abingdon, VA is such a cute town with a great downtown. You should check it out.

Aloha from Ma’ili Hawaii.

I like Davis OK as well, but the neighboring town of Sulphur was nearly destroyed by a tornado just a short time ago!

Excellent. I would love to see more of the Earth Wonder videos

You definitely need to find out what goes on in D-Cup 😂😂

I know Damascus. There’s a ton of shopping very close buy and easy access to I 81. I live about 15 min from Damascus. It’s Abingdon right next door to Damascus. I live in Lebanon.