Michigander here. it doesn't surprise me that manufacturing jobs are returning from over seas. My dad worked for GM for 30 years and in the 80s when they tried to move jobs to Mexico, my dad said it would be short lived because there weren't enough guys willing to go there and the education system would keep the local work force out of management. He was right. The plants lasted less than ten years and the jobs came back to the US. Yeah, it's cheaper to make things elsewhere, but it comes at cost somewhere else in the long run.
Yes manufacturing will come back but much of it will be highly automated. So fewer employees, but they’ll be well paid. And the infill development possibilities are endless.
The US pays the most for Healthcare in the developed world. And has the shortest life expectancy. Many people declare bankruptcy because of Healthcare expenses even if they have insurance. Yeah, it's a big problem.
One major reason healthcare is so expensive: Malpractice insurance for just a M.D. general practitioner is well over $100,000/year. These costs are then passed to the patient. The USA is way too litigious and needs tort reform.
@@rhettdemille4404 Insurance is a scam. Years ago Drs in California brought in an insurance co. After a few years they jacked up the rates. Claimed too many payouts. The drs looked into it and started doing the math. The insurance co companies made planty. They just wanted more. Any place that passed any kind of tort reform didnt see any kind of real reduction in premiums.
Detroit! I agree. I was born & raised near there, but left in the 80's. I visited about 10 years ago and was sad to see how bad it was. I visited again last Sept. and could really see the turn around.
I moved from the Detroit metro area to the opposite side of the state. I occasionally go back to areas of downtown Detroit and I feel proud to show it off. I think strangers to Detroit will find the people to be friendly and business like restaurants and hotels have exceptional customer service.
Visited Detroit in July of 2022. Was only there for an hour or two, but took a short walk along the river, then drove around Downtown and Eastern Market. VERY vibrant and plenty of construction underway. Was more impressed with Detroit than I was with Columbus, Ohio, which I visited a few days later. Place wasn't bad, but it was very meh.
As a native Memphis resident I pray it gets better and that this turnaround happens cause it hurts/makes me mad to see how bad it’s become here. There is so much good and potential but the crime/poverty alone make it hard to overcome.
I hope it gets better as well. I visited Memphis about a week ago and met some cool people. Great food, music, culture, and the riverfront and its parks are just amazing. Visually speaking the city is really nice. It's just really sad that it has those issues with crime, violence, and homelessness because otherwise the city's a vibe for real.
I visited Detroit last summer and went to a Tigers game and I had a great time. Comerica Park was one of the nicest stadiums I’ve been to and I’ve been to several of them. Great food as well. I was pleasantly surprised with Detroit and I’m hoping they continue their rebound.
I was born and raised in the north suburbs of Detroit. I love your optimism for my city and am so proud of the strides that my city has made. Also, I have a buddy from St. Louis, and I just want to say that I'm rooting for STL.
Detroiter here. Born here, raised here, currently work here and live here. The resurgence is real. Still a TON of work to do but there no denying a serious change to our city over the past decade.
Great video! Indianapolis native here and it was definitely rough 6-7 years ago, but the economic development you mentioned is certainly true. Excited to see how the next decade shakes out.
Two observations. One, in 2006 we took our daughter to Pittsburgh to visit Carnegie-Mellon. As we approached the city from the bluff we could see the city below. Our son exclaimed “This is the coolest city I have ever seen.” I thought it was a cool city, too. Detroit suggestion: With so many abandoned properties, they should revive the Homestead Act and offer prospective residents a “Quarter acre and a Ford” to recruit residents who will improve the neighborhoods.
I have been to some of the cities you highlighted, and there isn't one that I would be afraid to visit now. We visited the Detroit area two years ago and I really liked it, particularly the suburbs (found a place that makes incredible shawarma sandwiches!). Detroit has some very beautiful older buildings, and the Detroit Museum of Art does the city proud. I am glad to hear Detroit and the rest of these cities are rebounding. There's a lot of history as well as possibilities in these places, and we shouldn't throw them away like we seem to do everything in this country. 😊
I went to MSU for law school and I visited Detroit 5 times: 1) for a Pistons game; 2) for a game when the Seahawks were playing the Lions; 3) for a Neil Degrasse Tyson speech; 4) for a Tool concert; 5) for a Last Podcast on the Left live show. Then I went to Detroit again this past September when the Seahawks were in town to play the Lions again (that same weekend, the Huskies were in East Lansing to play the Spartans, and I also went to UW for undergrad. I made a whole weekend out of it) and the difference was night and day. The downtown area was very hopping and they had a great night life that did not exist, especially that first time when I went to see the Pistons game.
Thanks for the nice words about Buffalo. I strongly believe that the Great Lakes region will become a population center again because of fresh water. Lad Vegas is great but it has serious water issues.
Regardless of ones take on WHY we have climate change...we have it. And interestingly enough, the Great Lakes region has consistently ranked among the very best areas on Earth in terms of being ranked as relatively safe from the worse potential problems in that regard. Massive amounts of fresh water, really excellent infrastructure, far enough north and geographically positioned so that major drought and desertification is nearly impossible, and temperature profile will remain primarily in the "comfort zone" for humans(currently it;s on the low end, but that's changing). So yep...in 50 years, it's likely to be THE economic driver of North America.
Thanks Briggs for being professional and listening to us who commented about Detroits amazing comeback. Watch the NFL Draft in Detroit this weekend Briggs then you will see that you are right about Detroits amazing comeback. That city even shocked me.
I was asking my new hematologist about where he did his residency and he told me Camden, N.J. So I asked him if Camden was really the most dangerous city in the U.S. Being from Portland for the past 75 years, I thought he would agree with Jimmy Briggs. But he said, "It's not as dangerous as Portland. You don't see people living in boxes along the freeway and you don't see people urinating and pooping on the sidewalk." Touche!
People living in boxes along the freeway and urinating and pooping on the sidewalk does not make a city dangerous, being robbed at gunpoint or carjacked does...
I remember that in the late 50s and early 60s, Boston was a dying city. The waterfront along Atlantic Ave, looked like a bombed out city. Property was unbelievably cheap because everyone was moving to the suburbs. Look at Boston now.
I love the Reno area but the cost of housing is still pretty high for most. I remember reading that Reno ( on average ) is more expensive compared to Las Vegas. ( housing) That actually surprised me.!
It's about time you have something good to say about St. Louis.. (I am not the person Briggs mentions in this video). I have ties to Pittsburgh too. Both places are coming around.
Nothing Ironic about it at all ..Indy is growing much faster and is a much safer city than Baltimore. Indy has already built them 2 brand new domed stadiums in their first 24 years there..They would have never received that in Baltimore..In fact, Baltimore still doesn't have a dome.
I live in Tennessee and for my part Chattanooga has already had a comeback story. It's really fantastic. Downtown is really nice especially by the river and the aquarium. And there's a lot of fun stuff to do and a ton of good food. It still has crime but not as bad. And certainly nothing compared to Memphis (though only a hand full of places in the USA are as violent as Memphis.)
My daughter and her husband live in Wentzville a pretty city about an hour west from St. Louis, they have a good job and a pleasant life there ..they like where they live and plan to stay there. Sorry to say but I personally find life pretty boring there, people are nice though.
One town for consideration is Baltimore. I worked tv news in the 90’s and Charm City was a real mess far worse than today. Now when I go back, there’s lots of improvement; old slum neighborhoods being rebuilt, growing tech scene, and a great nightlife, food and beer scene, especially the beer. Plus, it’s way cheaper than living in the DC area. Sure there’s still heavy crime, but it’s getting much better!
As a Clevelander I can confirm that it’s gotten a lot better, East Cleveland is still pretty rough though. In the early 2000s someone broke into my moms Saturn Coupe to steal her radio and that’s when she decided it was best to move to the suburbs
Pittsburg is really tempting. If Amtrak really does improve service enough, I'd give it some serious thought. Philly takes a lot of crap, but I think it's slowly on the upswing, too.
I remember a few years ago there used to be a show on Discovery ID that followed homicide detectives in the Indianapolis area. At that time they had the highest percentage of solved homicides in the country. Not saying it was any safer just was interesting. Then I have a good friend who does stand up in and around the Detroit area. She's shown me pictures and videos showing how the downtown area is improving. As she said, it's amazing how things can turn around when citizens decide enough is enough and take their city back. It's slow going but they're getting there. If Detroit can do it, maybe there's hope for Gary, Indiana
Hey briggs yinzer here, just wanted to say I work with the city of Pittsburgh and 2024 is one of the best population growth are area has seen since the 1950s, keep on making the good videos Briggs
Hey Briggs! I watch your videos a LOT and I love them! I'm not at all surprised that Detroit was number one on this list. I'm also not surprised that Detroit was number one on your list with bad reputations. That being said, I feel that Detroit is doing an incredible job of working to eliminate (or at least soften) its bad reputation.
That Governor is horrible. You gotta feel sorry for NY with her running the state. That Eric Johnson isn't competent to flush a toilet, which is what parts of the city has become. The illegals have taken over and they've become the kiss of death for NYC.
Nah not really ,, i know it’s sad but im black so i can say this .. stay outta those highly populated black areas until it’s fully gentrified and you’ll be good anywhere
Only when you believe in it... and take what it has told you seriously... what makes it even more confusing is when you take it up as an "identity" where it makes you pigheaddedly resist information others from the _actual_ world try letting you know and account inside for as a noble human, and instead start making it personal and ruin relationships. 👍🏽🇺🇸👍🏽
People who have not been here have no understanding of just how massive and diverse this place is. Just california by itself has more people living in it than Canada
Being a Western PA native now living in Phoenix, if I was to ever move back, Pittsburgh would definitely be on my radar. Word to the wise, many of these jobs actually require some skills and experience, so not everyone will qualify.
We live in downtown Detroit ,absolutely love it ,in the last five or seven years. The downtown midtown area have become absolutely beautiful and quite safe, so much to do restaurants stores the museums ,culture ,parks, bike/walk paths, riverfront was just awarded two years in a row best riverfront area in the United States byUSA today
I think 🤔 Philadelphia Pennsylvania should’ve made the top 5 list due to the cleaning up coming for Kensington the overall universities the culture food top rated restaurants and teams in Philly with a new basketball building coming in the city center along with the lower cost of living compared to other cities. I also agree with Memphis and Detroit top 5 due to the culture cost of living and things to do in the city just have to clean up crime.
Is there a reason you do not used the “chapters” features to time tag your videos? For these kind of lists, I think it would be a really cool addition. Love ya Briggs.
CLEVELAND IS AMAZING!!! world class art and culture, healthcare, architecture, Great Lake, national forest, new skyscrapers being built, revitalization is everywhere in the city! Its actually shocking how much it’s improving
As an indy resident, you’re about right. But like you said, crime is a problem. Gentrification is a problem too. The job market is meh. The only places hiring is warehouses
I work in Detroit everyday and man I tell you, the turn around that has been made is amazing and exciting. It still has it's problems for sure but things are definitely going in the right direction.
As a Las Vegas local I travel to Reno for work once every few months, and I freaking love this city. Its the opposite of Vegas in terms of weather, people/mentality, with beautiful scenery, along with an amazing location in the Sierra's. Midtown has all the bars, restaurants and shops with the downtown area revitalizing, and not to mention the area off of Plumb by the airport that's in constant construction (Red - Reno Entertainment District). Id so relocate to Northern NV.
Yes-I've said for years Chattanooga is underrated. I also see potential there as an alternative to Pigeon Forge/Smoky Mountain area. Lookout Mountain and surrounding hills are just north with a number of Lakes, great views and some attractions all without a zillion people smothering you
I would put Baltimore instead of Detroit on the first position. It is now almost as bad a Detroit, but since 2015 it shows a lot of positivity. Less houses are abandoned, more people are moving. Comparing to Detroit, Baltimore has much more opportunities. It has UMD and Johns Hopkins, so tech and biotech companies are moving there. The big port of Baltimore connects it to Atlantic ocean. The city is surrounded by state of Maryland with the highest salary in the country. It is close to DC, Phily, New York and still cheaper than all the surrounding metro areas. It has a lot of entertainment opportunities regarding to music from jazz to hip hop and death metal. Basically, I never understood why Baltimore has been in such a bad condition for so long
Detroit has its challenges. However, it is still a diamond in the rough. If they can get rid of foreclosures, poverty, and water shutoffs, then it would be rebounding. I will also say that there is a lot of political activism in Detroit (mainly around social/economic justice along with human rights) with potential of thousands of people in the streets.
I used to live in Reno. To me, the worst part about Reno was the winter weather. Then covid hit. Suddenly there was a flood of people coming in from California. Rentals got snapped up regardless of the cost. Rents doubled and everything else went up also. That's when I left. The Nevada charm has left Reno and it's become Eastern California.
Yeah he's not being fully honest here and that's dangerous I don't know if he's just misinformed or just doesn't know he even made it seem like OTR was a jolly cakewalk dude only half of it is gentrified and the other half remains in shambles. OTR was the worse neighborhood in the nation in the 2000's and this is actual documented facts and the top part is still something you'd see in a horror movie. Cincinnati has also been a top 15 murder capital in the country for way over a decade. Forewarning viewers take this video with a grain of salt Cincy is not like your other traditional segregated cities were you can avoid sketchy areas by a dividing line it's literally the definition of patchy one min you're in a million dollar neighborhood a few blocks down your in a drug infested/murder red zone.
Indianapolis... the roads, the degraded intestate beltways, the traffic, and pot holes or broken pavements .... endless complaints, it's been like this for decades ... I'm a retired truck driver, I-town is always horrible (especially Ft. Wayne)
I agree with Cleveland and Pittsburgh. I went to Cleveland for the solar eclipse and thought the city was actually really nice. They probably tried pretty hard to make that happen for the eclipse though. Pittsburgh is easy to fall in love with. Can’t wait to sit in the University part of the city this summer and eat lox and cream cheese by the fountain iced coffee in hand…. Ahhhhh.. yes :D
Sure would be hilarious if Detroit became like the most awesome city in all of America and then while we are so much older than the generation that enjoying it so much and like the joke about how awful Detroit is they'll just be so confused because they'll think it's never been bad there even though it was bad there for so long
I have been to Indianapolis once. It was beautiful. I have also been to St Louis, MO once. I did the Arch, watched a Boston concert. Never been to any of the others.
St. Petersburg, FL. Mostly known as "Heaven's Waiting Room" for years, and the little stepbrother of Tampa. These days, St. Petersburg is a hot new trendy downtown with great amenities, such as bayfront parks, a redeveloped pier, museums/art galleries (and murals), shops/bars/restaurants, new dense high-rise development, a downtown university campus, two sports teams (one of which is trying to do a mega-development with the new baseball stadium), and some decent outdoor areas/trails.
Love this list! Before seeing your criteria, what first came to mind was Oakland, CA. It used to have an awful reputation. I suspect the cost of housing now makes it a tougher place to live though.
Having just moved to Cincinnati about a year and a half ago, it is absolutetly on the up swing. It has everything you could want in a place to live, short of a beach and an nba team. Traffic is minimal for a city of its size, weather is not nearly as bad as the reputation, its just erratic. Opportunities everywhere if you know where to look. And it is not expensive at all in most areas!
I've lived in St Louis my entire 67 years and you summed it up in a nutshell but just so you know people started leaving St Louis as early as the 1960s due to it being like a war zone even back then. People are quick to comment on Chicago but actually per capita we have far more murders in Chicago averaging I believe 69.7 per hundred thousand which is still the highest in the nation.😢
I moved away from Springfield, Ohio on July 4, 1984. I was a kid then, so I wanted to go back a see how things have changed in the last 40 years. I can't stress this enough when I say that this is ABSOLUTELY no doubt the worst city I've ever been to in my entire life! I rode down the street where my mom and step-dad used to live in the late 70's early 80's and I went back the 2nd time to take a picture to show my sister and mom. The 2nd time I went through, 2 black guys came running towards my truck and one of them said "why do you keep circling the block" ? Before I even had time to answer, he pulled a gun out and fired 2 shots at my truck! That whole street looked like a garbage dump now. I will NEVER go back to Springfield for any reason. I can see now why my grandparents moved me away from that shit hole. If you ever go to Springfield, Ohio stay as far away from Linden Ave as possible. Nothing but trash!
I was blessed to know Jill Kinmont/The Other Side of the Mountain. The Olympic skier who skied off a cliff and was paralyzed from the neck down. Taught herself how to print and became a teacher. Amazing story. Highly recommend it.
I would think cities in the states in the Great Lakes region would see a future renaissance even if only by being close to enormous amounts of fresh water.
Economically Indianapolis is getting better and growing, but the crime is where it’s getting a bit worse. Not as bad as say in the past but it’s still picking up and mass shootings have been more prevalent. Plus not much is being done to fix it. Indy would be doing a lot better as a city I feel if it just fixed its crime and took it seriously.
Thing about Reno is that all the jobs are warehouse jobs in the $20 range with housing being increasingly unaffordable for the majority of jobs in the area. It's extremely expensive to live here compared to what you get in terms of city amenities.
Omg we (Detroit) Has finally made it on a positive list of yours. #1 as well. It really has changed dramatically. Have some major developments going on. Check us out if you haven't yet.
All of these places are the types of cities that people would settle for because they can’t afford to live elsewhere. Memphis, for example, is perfect for someone who can’t afford nashville.
I was waiting for the "Okay, stop typing. - Who thought that I honestly forgot that I was talking about Chattanooga" line from Briggs. But, it appears that he did. 😁
Wow!!! My absolute shock when you said Detroit! I would love to see them have a revival. I visited once, not realizing it was a sketchier place, and still had a good time, aside from the air bnb with no heat or hot water and the host gone awol 😂
Really? One of my friends lived in Reno, moved to Las Vegas due to a career opportunity and eventually moved back to the Reno/Sparks area. Las Vegas is s bit of a ghost town since the pandemic and can't afford to keep the the casinos going 24/7 and since old Vegas has been wiped out by progress and ridiculous fees plague the hotels, not sure it will be back in its glory any time soon.
Disappointed that Baltimore isn't on this list. I hear y'all are coming to town this summer. Ignore the Inner Harbor - try Inner Harbor East, Fed Hill, Canton, Inner Harbor East, Hamden,....plenty of better places and neighborhoods here. We're coming back!
I visited Memphis recently and the people there have been EXTREMELY sweet around us! I was shocked! I have to appreciate the workers at restaurants man they really are some of the most kind I've seen!
