10 Places in NORTH CAROLINA You Should NEVER Move To

quick name the fastest growing states in the country florida texas colorado yes yes yes but would you guess north carolina it's true due to a moderate climate a relatively low cost of living and tons of jobs in many areas the state is booming fella lots of people are thinking about moving here or already have moved here if you're one of them places like the raleigh metro area in charlotte and places along the coast are great picks although jobs near the coast are very limited but there are lots of places in the state where you should not move that's what we're going to talk about today north carolina is a great state but just like any other place it's going to have problems with poverty and crime and drugs a lot of the places that are troubled the most share similar characteristics ghetto welfare shootings and they're just not good places to raise families nor are they great places to retire 10 of those are what we're going to discuss in this video let's begin damn this was filmed ages ago we're not going to be driving through the scenic places where people are all smiles and where folks are headed for a sense of adventure unless you count scoring drugs and getting robbed adventurous no we're going to the bad places places like durham now durham used to be super bad back in the 90s things were rough here like many of the larger inner cities in america crack cocaine surged here which brought lots of drug-related violence things were so bad here that there are still a hundred unsolved murders from that decade alone today durham's improved crime wise but it's still really bad here especially more recently cops say an uptick in guns on the streets and street gangs have resulted in shootings murders and assaults 190 people got shot here last year its police chief says any more cops on the streets but the city council keeps voting that down if you compare durham's crime to the rest of the state it's twice as bad here there's bad areas all over town where things are still really rough and the racial and economic division here means the new relatively wealthy tech nerds that are showing up don't mingle with the old-school poverty-stricken durhamites who've been here forever of course durham's put a lot of effort into fixing itself up downtown used to be a ghost town but now it's booming and being gentrified all over but there's still a vibe here that still lingers it's almost like you can't scrub the history of depression out of the brick way down in the southern part of the state where routes 74 and 701 meet in columbus county is the teeny tiny little community of whiteville the population here is only 5 400 people but it's the most dangerous place in the state according to the fbi people have a one in 10 chance of being the victim of a property crime which is just off the charts high like you don't find much higher property crime rates in the whole country what is going on in whitefield folks in town say it's horrible and there's nothing to do here but drugs and raw people outside of working for the government there aren't any jobs that pay more than minimum wage for an hour in every direction it's mostly fast food and farmland way out here and a third of people out here live in poverty as one long time resident put it it's a great town for late night high stakes gambling cheap hookers and gun running that's not nice now they're trying to fix things up here in waiful downtown projects have had mixed success as grants have helped small businesses open up and some remodeling has been done though hurricanes have set back plants this struggling community up completely but anything is better than the empty storefronts which have plagued this community for a long time all of this gets you a home for eighty nine thousand dollars the fifth lowest home prices in the state if you're from out of town you might be like yeah cheap small town living no don't move there like most of america smallish rural communities in north carolina struggle with drugs albermarle a town about 45 minutes outside of the charlotte metro area is located in stanley county and stanley county has the highest drug overdose rate in the state historically smaller impoverished communities like albemarle have struggled to contain drug use because of a lack of resources i mean when they arrested the head honcho drug dealer here not too long ago he got out on bond and was dealing the next day this is also the fourth most dangerous place in the state where you have a 1 in 16 chance of being attacked or robbed every year a quarter of the community lives in poverty and the number of folks out of work here is three times higher than the national average crime gets an f employment gets an f housing gets a d and schools get a d minus not a place you want to live in indeed average home price 132 thousand dollars here's one for far cheaper than that not too far away only about 30 miles north is salisbury up in rowan county it's halfway between charlotte and winston-salem think lexington but a little bit worse if you can believe it there's about 33 000 people here many of them are in danger they call this place shotsberry for a reason it ranks 10th in the state for crime rates salisbury is a poster child for medium-sized challenged communities in this state high poverty extremely high violence regular gang violence no mountains no beach an overweight population lots of drugs drunks and very little culture on a bright note there are a few big companies with salisbury ties soft drink company cheerwine is headquartered here this is also home to regional budget supermarket chain food lion rackroom shoes a budget shoe outlet was founded here too but because it's centrally located home prices are going up by 11 a year here why ask folks buying the homes up but it's bad news for people trying to rent here we have a tie rocky mountain and high point they are both struggling in many ways rocky mountain is kind of a raleigh suburb they call it murder mount locals do anyways it's the same kind of thing we've heard here before high crime drug use nothing to do they do have a target here though which makes it somewhat tolerable for moms the schools are underfunded and overcrowded even the food lions have security guards at the door what is going on in rocky mount but the somewhat high poverty levels are no excuse there are plenty of blue collar jobs here just clean up the violent crime and create things for families to do and it wouldn't be so bad here you don't want to be in the wrong part of high point after the sun goes down either this city is also a pretty dangerous place where shootings happen all the time local news reported high point is the 25th deadliest city in the whole country with a murder rate of 16 per 100 000 people apparently there's more guns on the street now than ever before at least according to one city official like a lot of places on this list it's a segregated town where the black community lives in one part and the white folks live in another the downtown area doesn't really have much going on but the annual furniture market brings in 100 000 people from all over the country so at least there's that it's too bad a lot of the furniture companies have shut down here though due to cheap overseas alternatives but you can always commute into nearby greensboro or winston-salem for a job but that's 30 minutes away and then you have to come home to high point every day that brings us to winston-salem now this city of nearly 250 000 people is the fifth biggest in the state and well known across the country for its history in tobacco manufacturing rj reynolds was here and this is where they made camel cigarettes as well as winston salem and doral but the number of people employed in cigarette manufacturing has plummeted from thirty thousand to three thousand sure there's a lot of good jobs here and it's growing and they're gentrifying the place but twenty percent of the community here lives in poverty and there are really large parts of town that are completely run down where crime and drugs have taken hold 50 000 people in this city live in conditions that most would consider a ghetto for perspective there's only 21 cities in this whole state with more than 50 000 people last year marked winston's deadliest in the last 25 years and crime has increased here for five years in a row winston's trying hard to gentrify itself and people are moving in there's just so many bad spots that they outweigh most of the positive aspects of living here and like durham there's a dingy vibe that lingers that you can't really erase no matter how much gentrifying you do now a lot of people in north carolina haven't heard a little lorenberg located near the south carolina border in scotland county the lbg the berg a whopping one-third of this community of sixteen thousand people lives at or below the poverty line and it's super cheap to live here too meaning it's a very poor place with little opportunity it's really just churches and fast food outlets that's one reason why this city loses more than 100 people every year 15 of the population here is out of work and most of them chronically it's also the fifth most violent place in the state and it has the second highest burglary rate in the state too like every single day here there's a burglary for such a tiny community that's just so sad i mean everybody knows everybody here and they just clearly don't give a crap about each other the school taxes are high but they're still closing schools down here the county can't afford to build new ones or they say they can't a home is 76 000 which is bottom of the barrel for this state here's one for a lot less again small town north carolina folks you get what you pay for but hey laurenberg at least you don't have some weird leg sculpture like they do in henderson which is also a bad place to live in the state look at that sculpture what is that third on our list is the city of fayetteville or vietnam as they call it that's because this is the 10th most dangerous place in the whole state and by far the biggest city with the highest rate of violence in north carolina skybell road has all sorts of drama going on there's a reason the walmart supercenter on sky bow closes its doors at 11. there's even a rumor they tell his soldiers not to go there after dark twenty percent or more than forty thousand people here are chronically unemployed and living in poverty there's far more cons than pros living in fayetteville the schools are underfunded there's limited jobs here and there's lots of homelessness entertainment wise it's not small town life but for a city of 200 000 people there's not a lot to do except hang out in a small area along the historic district on hay street there's a lot of homeless and drug dealers down there too and recently they had ranked 15th highest in the nation for its std rate that sucks don't laugh spring lake you're not much better one somewhat reputable website said fayetteville's the worst city in the u.s for finding jobs another ranking put fayetteville is one of the 10 worst places to raise a family and this is despite being a big military town now we've come to our second worst place to live in the state lumberton is another struggling community along the south carolina border it's home to 20 000 people in robeson county they too are losing people every year folks who want a better life crime in lumberton's terrible it's so bad that the city actually stopped reporting its yearly crime rates to the fbi you can see here prime numbers are missing remember it's called robeson county there's a lot of robberies like many other places on this list much of the community is on government assistance 40 of lumberton lives in poverty where's the worst place to live in north carolina it's kinston way out in the middle of lenoir county surrounded by cotton tobacco corn and bean fields kinston's population is 20 000 and dropping by the week two neighborhoods in kinston ranked as the worst neighborhoods in the whole state they're both on the city's east side this report was based on poverty blight and jobless rates the report says there are some serious issues here that need to be addressed i'm not saying gangs created the drug problem but they do come hand in hand the guns are coming from somewhere and the only time the police usually catch somebody with a gun is after they've shot somebody the report also points out that these rundown areas should just be brought down so i thought since i live in north carolina i should probably go see kinston firsthand and check out what the worst city in the state looks like up close little kinston has the third highest rate of folks out of work in the whole state and is pretty much the most dangerous place in the state per capita too the crime index here is a one that's out of a hundred meaning it's safer than one percent of all u.s cities that's bad like nearly four times higher than the national average bad where people here have a one in 13 chance of being the victim of a crime every year that's like every third house on every block folks you can buy a home here for a hundred thousand dollars on average but this one's only twenty eight thousand dollars i bet if you offered them 10 grand they'd take your call they call it a good rental property i bet they do i'll put the entire segment of the worst neighborhood in north carolina in an upcoming video all right so that's pretty much the worst places you could live in north carolina now i know places like durham and fayetteville and winston-salem are working hard to improve their communities and bring in jobs and they're not doing a bad job but there's large parts of those cities that are ghetto and run down and dangerous and the other places we talked about are all out in the sticks they're all places that are poor and dangerous and well there's nothing to do there's a lot of other places i could have talked about too places like goldsboro and greensboro and rockingham and henderson those places are also pretty bad places to go as people continue to move to this state they're going to places in the raleigh metro area in the charlotte metro area and along the coast because those places are safe and not dangerous trust me if you're going to move to the state don't move to the areas i just talked about avoid them you'll thank me later carolina is a state where there's a lot of stuff to do carolina is a great place there's a lot of stuff for you if you move here don't go to the places that are bad cause you won't be happy you know you certainly won't you can find all the fun and the jobs and the areas where it's safe and good [Music] hey guys if you learned something new about america or what it's like to live in america great you should think about subscribing and turning on your notifications you can also click one of these videos or playlists for more you can also now buy 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Channel: Nick Johnson

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Length: 14min 48sec (888 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 05 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/Aironught]

Bro this video has mad racist undertones wtf

EDIT: fully and openly racist.

[u/_Kevin___]

Not surprised this guy is wearing a UNC hat.

[u/TraciTheRobot]

Every video this guy has ever made has been so offensive and backhanded. Never anything good to say.

Not surprised everything about this video just circulated around locals being “ghetto” and “poor”. Typical