The 10 Worst Cities in Maine Explained

I mean beauty sunshine and lots of wide-open spaces most of America doesn't know about how special the Pine Tree State really is while lots of places in Maine are truly fabulous there's also cities here that have some major issues the worst parts of Maine you know when you see them they're the parts of Maine where you want to be from but not live in the goal today is to highlight the cities in Maine that are the worst of them all how do we do it well we measure the things most bad cities have you know where people are broke or lots of people don't have a job where crime is much higher than average we even measured the public school education levels and let's be honest lots of the worst cities in Maine are probably all on par with some of the best cities in Massachusetts and everything but number of jobs so let's keep that into perspective let's get started shall we begin our first stop on our unfavourable journey through Maine starts in Sanford in York County south of Portland sure it's a pretty place but the lack of decent jobs and high crime means it's a crummy place to live 9 percent of residents in Sanford are out of work which is the third highest rate in the state and crime is the eighth highest in the state where you have a one in 25 chance of being robbed every year however we have to mention that for entertainment options there are a ton of red box rental machines in town where Mainers can check out all the latest movies about halfway between Portland and Augusta along i-85 is the city of Lewiston you know when you get there when you see a car up on blocks Lewiston is far below average in every category but the main problem comes with the public schools now the seventh most crowded and the least funded in the state of Maine however why the kids might be getting shafted in the classroom they're kicking butt in athletics Lewiston high school is at hockey powerhouse winning 16 state Hockey title since 1929 go Blue Devils just a few X's for what the bagel Roe long I 95 is the smallish city of Old Town there's a reason home values and the city's population have dropped 3% over the last 10 years everything about old town is well below average home prices are some of the lowest in the state which is a sign people don't want to live in whole town and what about fun well if you look at the city's upcoming events calendar it looks like there's nothing but city council meetings planned until next July continue into our worst tour of Maine we come to Waterville another City along i-95 most Mainers know Waterville as home to Colby college but people in Kennebec County know it for what it really is krummy the schools are rated low homes are pretty cheap and drug use is rising it's just sort of drab and boring here but it can't be that bad in Waterville cannon after all someone selling these attractive I love Waterville t-shirts online for $43.99 holy guacamole if you took your beat-up car 45 minutes west of Portland before it overheated you come to Waterboro you just might want to keep driving the main issues here with poverty and lack of jobs Waterboro has the state's eighth highest unemployment rate and the fifth poorest residents plus not here Waterboro has some of the least number of sunny days in maine - we built this city we built this city and now it sucks welcome to Presque Isle the fifth worst place to live in Maine lots of folks have a hard time finding work homes are cheap as a result and crime is fairly high for Maine well on the bright side since there's so much meth use in Aroostook County you can probably make some extra money on the weekends just be sure to save some for your friends and family they're always ready to buy and just up the road from Presque Isle is the city of caribou these two places have very similar numbers except caribou has more out-of-work residents and cheaper homes Plus Caribous public schools are a little worse but on the bright side the people in caribou make more money than the people in Rockland so they can brag about that if they want to where's the third worst place to live in Maine the people in Paris might not be too happy to hear it but it you sure lots of people in Maine choose to live out in the Willy Wax but Paris is pretty far removed from society Paris certainly doesn't have the same downtown field at a place like nearby Norway house or a Walmart you'd have to drive all the way to Oxford to get your cheap groceries here and for a decent job you'd have to drive all the way to a gust step back and forth for work every day yep ska Hagen is right along Route two in Somerset County if you're a hard-working individual then you'd hate it here most of the reason this place has the highest unemployment rate in Maine is it about 3,000 people in town work and about 5,000 people or lay about welfare loafers it's a depressing place where lots of people are broke on drugs or both and relatively speaking for me the crime here is really high where's worse city to live in Maine that would be a gusta hands down Augusta ranks in the worst ten for number two people out of work for income levels and home prices and has the state's worst crime rate there's a reason people call it disgust uh in fact if you go down the wrong part of Augusta on the wrong day of the week you're going to have a bad time when you're in some of the worst Maine communities some parts might be hard to tell apart but you can tell who's from Augusta though they're the ones with the forty the pistol a beat-up car and a pit bull if you don't live in Augusta or any of the other main cities we mentioned you don't have it too badly and if you do live in one of these cities maybe this will help keep the annoying flatland of tourists away congratulations you

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Length: 5min 44sec (344 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 03 2016