There is nothing so nice as living away from people. For me the more desolate the better. I have never had a dog, cat, or horse steal from me, report me to the town officials for my weeds being two tall, or cause any other problems. This is my main reason for loving this country, it's big and you can live alone in peace and quiet if you choose. And of course, for those who like crowds, they are there too.
I hear you! I am a country boy at heart. Where I live it is bearable. I have one close neighbor, and across the road is one more. I live 6 miles out of town. 20,000 people live in the one closest to me, and then a larger town (50,000) is next to the small one. Basically, if you don't see the city limit sign, you do not know where the first town ends and the second town begins. There are a lot of mountains around here, and a lot of quad trails to ride on. All in all, a great place to retire. I could not live in a place that dictated how high my grass was. Sadly, 2 years ago, thieves took a couple thousand dollars worth of my stuff out of my shop. I had not locked that shop for 15 years. I would like to introduce the thief to my 12 gauge. The world would one a better place without thieves in it.
I’ve lived in Alaska 45 years and had a blast. The golden years were the 1980s when the state had more money than they knew what to do with and most oil field jobs started over $50,000 a year.
If you exclude urban counties it changes how empty some places are. Low rural density is Alaska, Nevada, Montana, Wyoming. Some places, no one even lives in rural areas.
A lot of things change when you exculde urban counties. Like crime rate, taxes, friendliness, etc. Most everything gets better when you exclude urban areas. If only we could fence them off or something.
@@happilybakedand yet the urban areas would eat … what(?) … if it wasn’t for the rural areas … personally I’ll take the food and freedom of the rural spaces …
California will always have a high population. Coastal state with beautiful weather and every type of climate you could want. You are just an extreme right winger and blame California for all our problems.
Aloha Kakahiaka or good morning! In Hawaii there’s too much people for such small group of islands. I live on the main island O’ahu in Honolulu where majority of the jobs are. Way too many people per square mile which means no privacy in Honolulu. I could buy a house in one of those states and live in the middle of nowhere. Only the driving to get to the nearest city would be the sacrifice. For medical, dental, food and other services. You sacrifice something to gain something. Mahalo nui loa Briggs!!!
How much of all the land by percentage is "owned & controlled" by the government, private businesses, insanely wealthy people, protected lands, condemned, and available to the rest of us civilians?
It’s sort of mentioned in each state, but for both KS and NE most of the people in each state live in the handful of big cities. In NE I believe @ 85% of the pop lives in either the Omaha or Lincoln metro areas, and in KS it’s about 85% live in either the KC ‘burbs or Wichita metro. The population in Omaha and the KC ‘burbs in particular are booming. But leave those 4 metro areas and it is very very empty
A comment on the Federal Government owning most of Nevada. Southern Nevada was one of the last places in the lower 48, that could be homesteaded. The requirements were the loosest ever in the homestead program, build a residence and live in it. You had to develop a septic system, but you could haul water. They still couldn’t give it away.
Rural aread aren't known for job opportunities. Nowadays ,if u have computer skills, u can work remotely. I feel sorry for young people now, because there Is alot more competition for work. We have a hugh problem with immigration now
North Dakota is the coldest state...yes, colder than Maine.....Also, Idaho is extremely mountainous and has five national forests...man it is one wilderness area.
I watched it all the way to the end and then it said something about Alaska only has 1.3 people per square mile I don't understand how you have a third of a person????
Kansas isn't all flat. The way you figure this out is most all of these states are rural, so if you don't want to live in that or are a farmer or rancher then people grow up and move from them. I grew up in Kansas with red dirt and canyons so no, not flat, think looking more like Oklahoma. Factory farming has killed the midwest. Most of the boomers went to school and got careers and then left because they didn't want to be ranchers/farmers. Plenty of smallish towns with colleges and fun places to go to. Yes, Wichita and Kansas City are the main cities, but so are Hays, Topeka, Manhattan, Low Rents, Garden City and Dodge City. The midwest is your farm belt and provide the food for a lot of Americans compared to Texas which is big and has around 30 million people, nicer weather and no state taxes. The one thing Kansas has going for it is they are the middle of the US. Also New Mexico has Area 51 and lots of crap going on underground if you know. New Mexico is beautiful and a nice vacation spot as is South Dakota. Your scenes of South Dakota look like where I grew up in Kansas. The weather impacts the Dakotas on people wanting to live there. Maybe once they get the natives off the stinking reservations they'll move into some of these areas they used to exist in. It depends on if you like a long winter in some of these places.
What did he say about North Dakota? It sounded like "unless it's for work or your dodging some pee-nis".... what did he actually say? 😂😅😮 i listened four times!
I absolutely love “empty” and desolate States. Keep your cities of crime, inflated prices, traffic, and over pop. The peace and quiet of country living is amazing.
I love these so called “ empty” states. I love driving through, looking at the farms, staying in the small towns, not fighting heavy traffic, watching the animals, etc. I see these as comforting and quiet….I hate the big cities and big city states. I also love the history of these states, and constantly think of the pioneers who came before, and what they had to deal with. I’d rather drive than fly….and driving through these “ flat” states relaxes me. This, to me, is real America.
Been in all of the states mentioned. Kansas trip was usually in August when we were kids because of Dad's vacation schedule. It's actually a beautiful state if you go in the right season. He was born and raised in/around Stockton and his parents lived in Lincoln, but they usually bailed for the kids living on the west coast when winter hit. I think if you look into South Dakota, you might find that a fair number of citizens are registered there but live on the road. The state makes it very easy to do that. I could probably find a spot in each one of these states to set up house with the hardest one being Alaska due to travel requirements. Nebraska would come in last on my list, lol, I got chased through that state by a tornado and I'm still holding a grudge..
I live in Omaha. There are many beautiful spots in Nebraska; I-80 is through the boring part, and I like to say, that’s on purpose, so people will keep going and not move to here. 😁
Don't hate tornadoes cause they're swirly. 😄 I was almost engulfed in a tornado in Kansas a little more than 50 years ago. Scared the living bejeebers out of me. When I was a kid, we'd visit my grandmother in the middle of the summer. Coming from Colorado, Kansas was like a hair shirt to be withstood. We'd spend all day at the neighbor's house because they had ice-cold air conditioning. Then we'd have to come back to my nana's house for dinner. She had one large but useless floor fan, and she'd serve a steaming hot dinner every night. Still, I adored her and I loved Kansas.
I heard people describe Kansas as flat and mind-numbingly boring. Maybe along the interstate; but I rode a Honda Helix 250cc scooter across Kansas along US-36 and found the endless rolling hills beautiful and calming. Hills rolling east to west and streams zigzagging through what looked like interlocking fingers north to south. Lovely nature. Enjoyed perfectly clear weather with no distractions, radio, music or anything.
I've lived in Kansas the past 30 years, it's common for people to complain "Kansas it flat", that's an outright myth. I've been to plenty of other states that are far flatter and boring for huge swaths of the state. In my area it's tough to find flat ground outside of the Kansas River valley.
Lived and worked in Skagway, Alaska for a long summer. The country around there for hundreds of miles is pretty much straight up and straight down. It is also pretty much impenetrable forest. Spectacular, but hard to get into. The huge valley just to the south is, as are all of the valleys on the inlet, accessible by boat but very hard to get to on foot. I climbed way up above Skagway and walked crosscountry to that valley in the hope of seeing a way down into it. Steep forested walls going down into dark impenetrable forest. Spectacular, foreboding and empty.
This was an interesting video. For some reason , I didn't know that our government owned that much land in Nevada. I find that a bit spooky for some reason.
It's not. A lot of it is BLM land. For other states a lot was released so people could farm or ranch on that land, that isn't really possible in large areas of Nevada due to lack of water, so the BLM still owns that land. Water rights is a serious issue in many parts. Other land is owned by the military (Air Force, Navy, and the Army has an ammo depot), or the nuclear test site, and of course that one particular Area. Other land is wildlife refuges, a National Park, and National Forests.
It is land people can't live on anyway: barren with no water. If you've never been to Nevada (outside Las Vegas) it's like walking on an alien world---all rocks, dust, and seemingly lifeless.
Montana, just a heads up on anyone wanting to move here. -20 temps this weekend... -55 wind-chill. And be sure to look up how smokey it gets here in fire season in the summer.
@anthonykyle2429 Yep, I've bicycled across MT from east to west via the Cabinet Mtns over Glacier, across the Plains via Browning, MT; and north to south on the Divide Route off road. Talking with a bar tender outside of Wolfpoint in late June, myself fighting a head wind all day, he said, "Every summer people from the southern states come up here on vacation and hit a nice sunny day, light wind, and purchase a piece of property". "Two years later, that same piece of property is up for sale again". He also said, "The wind always blows up here, one direction or another, the wind always blows here". Smart bartender. Temps in Northern CO today are a balmy 15 deg. 🙂
Back in the 70's I was a mail delivery person in Helena, MT. One year it stayed below 0 for the entire month of December. I was so bundled up when I went out on my walking route, wearing a knitted face masks, ski pants and parka that I once had a boy say to me," I can't tell if you are a boy or a girl"! I am a girl and grew up in Alaska as a kid and teenager. If you live in these places you just need to dress for the weather and keep your car and house weather proofed. I live in a small town in Western WA now and I love the weather here along with the trees and waterways. Unfortunately places like this start growing and then get overpopulated. But for now I am happy here.
I think we all knew Alaska by far had the lowest population density. But a fun fact about that, so in Alaska, their counties are called Boroughs, and the borough with the lowest population density, aka the lowest population density county-equivalent in the US, the Koyukuk borough, covers 147,000 square miles through central Alaska, which is about the same size as Montana, and only has 5,179 residents in that whole area. That is crazy to think about. Even Alaska’s North Slope borough that covers the state’s arctic tundra, has a bigger population density than the Koyukuk, albeit not by much. I just happened to do research on this randomly one night back around Thanksgiving time, and it stuck in my head. Figured I’d share it here. And gee, I’ve always felt like many of the counties in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula felt so remote and sparsely populated when I’ve visited them, an example being Luce County, of which I’ve been on road trips where we drove through Luce County from the small town of Newberry 30ish miles up to the Lake Superior shoreline, with that entire 30 mile distance being remote wilderness. But I bet even Luce County would be like a metropolis compared to many of Alaska’s boroughs, which are much bigger in size. I haven’t looked up the stats for Luce County to compare with, but it’s personally one of the most remote areas I’ve personally been to, and to think there are places out there that are far more remote and sparsely populated is crazy
I worked there over six years along the Dalton. Most of the villages are pretty small. The Mat Su has grown. It is about 25,000 square miles and in 1980 there were about 17,000 people, now there are about 113,000 people.
My grandfather was from Nebraska, enlisted in the Navy after WWI was well over and took a train to San Diego CA for boot camp. He had never ridden a train before that. His youngest brother also enlisted and served during WWII, was in the battle at guadal canal. Crazy to think about how much different it used to be. I mean think about it, he was raised by the Civil war generation and I was lucky enough to be partially raised by him since my Dad skipped out. Strict and religious but fair values.
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I have lived in 4 states. Oregon, (born there), Washington, Nevada, and California. I am not a people person, so I was only able to stay in Cali for 4 years. I use to like Oregon, but not so much any more. I loved Nevada. I could ride my ATVs until the wheels fell off. I then put them back on and rode some more. Then I moved to Idaho. This by far my favorite state. Lots of mountains, and I love mountains. I drove through Kansas once, and you could not pay me to live there! I have found that the people in all 4 states to be nice for the most part. Portland Oregon was always a crap hole. I thanked my lucky stars that I never had to live there. In Cali, I lived in San Diego, and as far as southern Cali is concerned, San Diego is the crown jewel, but there were just too many people for this country boy. I will most likely stay in Idaho until I die, and that is ok. I have no desire to go anywhere else. The winters are cold, but the spring and fall are gorgeous. If the summer gets too hot, all I need to do is go to the mountains.
If you love mountains, you need to at least take a vacation to Alaska. Just moved from WA to AK May 2023. Video doesn't do justice for the mountains here. It puts the PNW mountains to shame. Nothing compares to the beauty here. Not even CO can beat the mountains here.
@@Dwayne-mb2uj Ok. I am just lazy and don't want to type the whole word out. I did live there for 4 long years. As far as making them cringe, I don't care. They will get over it. If they don't get over it, I guess that they will die unhappy. AND, I still won't care. Would you prefer me to call it Commiefornia? That is pretty much what millions of Americans call it, me included!
Heh, I’m the opposite. I was raised in Shanghai for the first few years of my life, so I can’t stand rural areas. Much as I like exploring state and national parks, I can’t live in an empty place with so few people for very long. I’m definitely a city boy at heart, but I get where you’re coming from. Hard disagree with you on California’s politics, but no need to get so fussed up about a place you no longer live in.
@@BuilderofRat California is the 6th largest economy in the world with less than 40M people. Its economy is built upon intellect and creativity (hint: Hollywood and Silicon Valley). If you don't have the intellect or competitive juices you move elsewhere.
It didn't have much to start with the dust bowl was shortly after they forced all the native off the land they forced them on in the first place also known as the land run. Also oklahoma has a pretty big population especially around okc and Tulsa as those areas (at least okc) are part of the top half of population by county I believe and it isn't far from texas
Then again, it was also in the 1930s when they discovered the (now-quickly-depleting!) Ogalalla Aquifer, which gave a lot of that region a new chance to increase crop productivity and draw more population. Nebraska does have the semi-arid Sandhills area in its northwestern region, which helps to explain why it's less-populated than nearby farming states like Kansas and Iowa
@@Zalis116 the Sand Hills are also in the center of the state. Broken Bow is in the Sand Hills. The Ogalalla aquifer actually underlies the Sand Hills, and is right there on the surface of the soil in many places, in moist times of year. Some farmers in the Sand Hills use center pivot irrigation to grow corn or soybeans, but more east and fewer west. The Sand Hills are actually more suited to being cattle range than growing any crops. (I’m a Nebraskan, and I love the Sand Hills! 💝)
Great video (as usual!) but I was expecting my beloved adopted state of Maine to be on this list. We have way more trees and lakes than people, and you could fit all the other New England states inside our borders w/room left over. It's one of the things I love about it. Where did Maine fall on your list? Or Vermont (another sparsely populated state), for that matter? Thank you. LOVE these videos!
When I was younger I lived in Alaska, Montana, and South Dakota and Idaho. It was in the 60's nd 70's and all were a great place to live. Now these states have grown quite a bit. I actually loved life back then because people were way more friendlier and trusting. I used to hitchhike across the country and even though I was an attractive girl in my 20's I never had a bad experience and always got rides with very nice people. It is a different country now and I would not want my daughter doing some of the things I did back then. Sigh....
@@Leftists_are_Losers I can see the great lake from my window, the weather changes fast on Gitche Gumee! We're expecting a storm today but that's supposed to be further inland
@@FinnSwede906 I can throw a frisbee from my front yard and have it land in Lake Superior.. so I too deal with lake effect snow. And we are about to get slammed by the same storm. I think. Good luck!
How is Idaho preventing woman from getting health care or life saving health care? If your talking about abortion a woman can still get abortion in Idaho
Kansas farms are largely one man and a very large piece of equipment. I disagree with you when you call it flat though. Traveling east to west across Kansas, you gradually ascend over 3000 feet. And if you've ever tried to ride a bicycle through the Flint hills, you'd know that Kansas is NOT all flat.
@alanbourne2332 Hmm, I don't understand why their political party would make them attractive, so I'm afraid you lost me there. I honestly don't think there are any attractive politicians. It's fine if you do, but I don't. I was referring to him saying he liked the governing bobies in the state. Hence, me saying, "I'm not sure about her political points" because I don't know where she stands on things. Maybe that clears up some confusion?
My brother love baseball so he travels everywhere to see games and also pre season called the "cactus league". He Hayes NM almost as much as LA California and ATL GA. He does like Durango in the north part of the state but who doesn't. I think he said there is nothing to do on Santa Fe, it's over priced, the weather sucks and it's people are boring.
@@vextract4662 I don't want to live in the major cities, just a small town. Been looking at Clayton. Looks nice and I like it's positioning, being close to 3 other states.
Texas is 4 or 5 states in itself. Most Texans live in a major metro. Outside of the big cities the Texas population density is low. Two million live in East Texas, but its huge and there is sufficient water to support a much larger population. Lots of trees. Being located between Dallas and Houston, parts of ET could grow significantly if infrastrucure can be built. The original Spanish settlement was in Nacogdoches in ET but the natives were basically cannibals so the Spanish relocated to San Antonio. If the panhandle and West Texas were separate states they would mostly be empty.
Vacant land doesn't equal suitability to support a larger population. In addition, overcrowding almost always leads to a lower standard of living. I can see the cost/challenges of living in rural areas becoming high enough in the future that only the wealthy will be able to do it.
Briggs, Please take a winter hands on field trip to all the northern states during the heart of winter. Then I would love to get your feedback of whether you will still rank them so high on you livability scale.
On my recent trip to Kansas from California. I thought the drive was beautiful and interesting. On the way back I stopped in Meade KS for some gas and thought I would head south to check out the Cadillac Ranch outside Amarillo. That drive south was pretty quiet but not as featureless as the drive from the Cadillac Ranch to Tucumcari New Mexico, we're talking boring, you can actually see the curvature of the Earth on that section of road.
I agree. The Oregon Trail went through the State. You can still see the wagon wheel ruts to this day!! Also, Western Nebraska is absolutely beautiful....the Sandhills are INSANE! I've traveled through there (Hwy 2) on my cycle...headed to the Black Hills several times! Beautiful State!
Also, makes no mention of the union pacific, sure St Louis was the gate way to the west for trails. But Omaha was the gateway to the west for trains and railroads. Omaha Union Pacific still basically controls half of all rails west of the mississippi and BNSF controls the other half. BNSF used to be headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska but moved to Dallas. But the BNSF company is a subsidiary of Omaha Berkshire Hathaway. So essentially Omaha has the primary influence of basically all the freight rail network west of the mississippi
I love how the opening shot for Alaska is the native village of Nenana. It’s located 60 miles south of Fairbanks. As for industry, we have oil & gas, lumber, mining, & fishing. We have the world’s largest Zinc mine, but you’d never know it from the air as it’s all underground. Fairbanks support 2 booming gold mines, as well as 2 military bases. Ally of Alaskas land is locked up by the Federal Government. Also, we have a lot of untapped oil wells that the current Presidential Administration won’t let us pull from.
I grew up in Anchorage , Alaska from 1961 to 1977. The main "C" street wasn't paved until after the 1964 earthquake when Federal assistance actually upgraded many roads. A small population made it so that the death toll was low for the amount of destruction that took place after a 9.2 quake along with a big Tsunami which destroyed many small towns and villages. In 1970 the population exploded along with much construction with the advent of the big oil pipeline construction starting. I had many friends who made big money then. The whole state grew and it was forever changing from then on. I haven't been there since 1991 when I helped my mom move down to Wahington state to be close to me. I loved living in Alaska and hope it is still the friendly and great place to live.
As an Arizona resident for most of my life, I can say that these things keep me from moving to another state: (1) Daylight Savings Time. We don't have it, and nobody else should, either. It's stupid. If you want "more time" in your day, get up earlier. Just don't try to make everybody else do it, too. (2) Not as bitterly cold as other states. If I want to see snow, I can drive north or east for an hour or so. (3) Gorgeous scenery. Superstition Mountain is the most beautiful mountain I have ever seen, and we have lots of mountains. We are also one of the few states that are part of the Sonoran Desert, so we have saguaro cacti throughout the state. Unfortunately, these same reasons are what keep more people moving here, along with the fact that the idiots in California have ruined their state, so they keep coming here, too, hoping to ruin ours as well. I really hate it when people complain about how hot it gets in the summer here. If it's too hot for you, move to some other state and thus decrease our surplus population!
As someone from portugal (a very small country in comparison lool) i've always been fascinated with how big america is with it's seemingly endless states like the ones mentioned etc... seems very peaceful! One could easily end his days there!
It is big enough to find any life style you choose. But I believe Portugal is a lovely place, too. As a matter of fact, this whole earth is a jewel in all of the universe.
You mention the ruggedness of Idaho....Sitting here in northern Idaho as I watch your video. It's been snowing for three days, we're now up to a couple feet. I've cleared the 1/2 mile drive down off the mountain twice since this storm started and need to go do it again. It's currently -4F and we'll be at these temps for a few days. We got out yesterday with the Jeep (4-wheel drive with studded snow tires) after I spent 3 hours clearing snow. If we take the 4-wheel drive Ford F-250 I have to put chains on the back to get out then put them back on when we come back in even if the road is snow blowed (snow blowed? snow blown?). Oh, and between the federal and state government right at 2/3rds of Idaho is owned by the government.
My dad would drive us around northern Idaho given family roots (mostly in Spokane, but it includes northern Idaho). They have...sandpoint, bonners ferry, priest lake, did I miss anything? Very beautiful up there. I remember going bear watching at night in priest lake when I was a kid.
@@seanmcdirmid We're a little bit south of that, in the Silver Valley area, about 30 minutes from Coeur D'alene. But, were at 3,000ft which is the same elevation as the pass so we get quite a bit of snow. Absolutely stunning in the winter with the snow covered cedar and douglas fir tree covered mountains. Like a scene from a calendar but it comes at a cost. We get a lot of precipitation, mostly as snow. Long winters (cabin fever is a real thing) but I just tell my wife, that's why we don't have all those ugly pine trees (pines require much less water) and 'all sun makes a desert'. :) We regularly have deer coming through. Occasional moose and elk and have had a mountain lion cruise right past our place twice. There's a black bear somewhere about 400 yards away but I haven't found the den. Just smelled it and the carrion. It's is a beautiful place to be and live but there's definitely a personal cost.
@@savannahsmiles1797 I have a friend that lives down that way (Meridian area). He told me a couple days ago the temp had plummeted....so I figured it was headed this way. I've been down there a couple times, the constant wind would drive me crazy.
I knew it as soon as the video started that Alaska would be ranked number one for the lowest population density. You should’ve mentioned that the population changes more radically with the seasons than any other state because of tourism. Skagway ‘s population grows something like 900% during the cruise season.
I live in downtown Omaha. It’s easy for me to get frustrated and claustrophobic with how disgusting and crowded the city is (came here from rural Idaho for school). Always surprises me. I can drive four minutes on the belt route (680) headed northeast into Iowa and be in desolate middle of nowhere before a song even finished playing. It’s wild. Problem is it’s farms not public land so still not a lot to do.
I live in iowa. About 2 hours from Omaha and yeah to really have fun out here you gotta know somone who has land so you can do fun stuff like fourwheeler, dirt biking, fishing and so on
I've been through all the states mentioned except Alaska and have lived in Wyoming. Also been through a lot more states having grown up in the military and having family on the east coast. I love the serenity, sense of freedom and the people I've met. It is amazing to stand out on a prairie, a slight breeze blowing and seeing for miles and miles. Sometimes getting to see a herd of antelope running. I don't have to worry about being accosted, crime, seeing unfriendly people and the constant, non-stop noise like New York City, L.A., Boston. My "guard" isn't up 24/7. I remember back in the '70's Wyoming had a really bad blizzard. Bad as in snow up to the 2nd floor windows of our house. People were stranded out on the highway. After the snow stopped, ranchers from all around made their way to the highway - some in snow mobiles, some on horses..... and started rescuing stranded drivers. Pick them up and take them to their homes. It took several days to clear the snow off the roads. If the ranchers hadn't helped these people, they would have been frozen to death. Another time in Wyoming, word got out that a huge motorcycle gang - I think it was the Hell's Angels -was travelling to get to the east coast. They decided that they were going to stop in Cheyenne for a few days. Next thing we knew, the ranchers and other people, met the Hell's Angels at the border between Colorado and Wyoming and told them in no uncertain terms that they were not going to be laid up in Cheyenne for a few days. They escorted the gang straight through Wyoming to the Nebraska border. You can have the big cities and all the troubles that come with it.
Having space and having enough good land to grow food for its population are two different things. Developers like flat land which tends to be farmland because it's easy to build on. Putting buildings on farmland takes good land out of food production. Not good. So, don't say there's plenty of room for more people.
My family homesteaded in western Nebraska on the North Platte river, the Oregon Trail. I can show you places there that you would never think would be in the state.
Nicky Santoro would disagree about your synopsis of Nevada. You had to have the hole already dug. If not if someone showed up, you had to dig another hole. You could be there all fookin night.
That is true although I appreciate having public land to shoot on, hike, ride, and ect. Although there can be a happy medium and NV and UT has way too much land owned by the feds.
There is nothing so nice as living away from people. For me the more desolate the better. I have never had a dog, cat, or horse steal from me, report me to the town officials for my weeds being two tall, or cause any other problems. This is my main reason for loving this country, it's big and you can live alone in peace and quiet if you choose. And of course, for those who like crowds, they are there too.
Agreed!
I hear you! I am a country boy at heart. Where I live it is bearable. I have one close neighbor, and across the road is one more. I live 6 miles out of town. 20,000 people live in the one closest to me, and then a larger town (50,000) is next to the small one. Basically, if you don't see the city limit sign, you do not know where the first town ends and the second town begins. There are a lot of mountains around here, and a lot of quad trails to ride on. All in all, a great place to retire. I could not live in a place that dictated how high my grass was.
Sadly, 2 years ago, thieves took a couple thousand dollars worth of my stuff out of my shop. I had not locked that shop for 15 years. I would like to introduce the thief to my 12 gauge. The world would one a better place without thieves in it.
Something tells me that wherever you used to live, you were a shitty neighbor.
Yes but it's kind of scary.
Bro. All these middle states are in the fallout zone from the above ground nukes we tested from 1940s-1960s
I’ve lived in Alaska 45 years and had a blast. The golden years were the 1980s when the state had more money than they knew what to do with and most oil field jobs started over $50,000 a year.
I moved to South Dakota for 4 years of college in Sioux Falls (Augustana), then went back home to Nebraska after I graduated.
If you exclude urban counties it changes how empty some places are. Low rural density is Alaska, Nevada, Montana, Wyoming. Some places, no one even lives in rural areas.
A lot of things change when you exculde urban counties. Like crime rate, taxes, friendliness, etc. Most everything gets better when you exclude urban areas. If only we could fence them off or something.
I was thinking the same thing. If you take out Fargo in ND and Sioux Falls in SD what kind of population density do you have outstate?
@@TheCharleseye The rural areas wouldn’t get the money the cities generate. In most states that is around 80% of the states economy.
@@happilybaked Okay.
@@happilybakedand yet the urban areas would eat … what(?) … if it wasn’t for the rural areas … personally I’ll take the food and freedom of the rural spaces …
Pretty soon California's going to be on this list due to all the people leaving.
😂😂😂..
Oh, you're serious.
The illegals will make up for the ones leaving.
There's plenty more on their way to replace em afraid
Home prices up 14%, people are funny when they leave Home prices go down.
California will always have a high population. Coastal state with beautiful weather and every type of climate you could want. You are just an extreme right winger and blame California for all our problems.
Aloha Kakahiaka or good morning! In Hawaii there’s too much people for such small group of islands. I live on the main island O’ahu in Honolulu where majority of the jobs are. Way too many people per square mile which means no privacy in Honolulu. I could buy a house in one of those states and live in the middle of nowhere. Only the driving to get to the nearest city would be the sacrifice. For medical, dental, food and other services. You sacrifice something to gain something. Mahalo nui loa Briggs!!!
I live in Montana and we all do carry guns.
That is great 👍🏻
How much of all the land by percentage is "owned & controlled" by the government, private businesses, insanely wealthy people, protected lands, condemned, and available to the rest of us civilians?
If a place has no industry, it has no population.
I really liked the video and wish everyone would follow the advice given in closing- “Be Nice To Everyone”
I grew up in Nebraska. Lived in Chadron, Kearney, Lincoln, Omaha. Great place to be from.
I've lived in Lexington, Kearney, Ogallala, and Omaha; it's a great state, great people, never moving out of Nebraska
It’s sort of mentioned in each state, but for both KS and NE most of the people in each state live in the handful of big cities. In NE I believe @ 85% of the pop lives in either the Omaha or Lincoln metro areas, and in KS it’s about 85% live in either the KC ‘burbs or Wichita metro.
The population in Omaha and the KC ‘burbs in particular are booming. But leave those 4 metro areas and it is very very empty
These places look like absolute paradises.
Have not been in South Dakota for 18 years. Victim of speed trap in Custer.
A comment on the Federal Government owning most of Nevada. Southern Nevada was one of the last places in the lower 48, that could be homesteaded. The requirements were the loosest ever in the homestead program, build a residence and live in it. You had to develop a septic system, but you could haul water. They still couldn’t give it away.
Got land. Now find the money to get clean water and electricity for millions of more destitute people.
Over caffeinated high school chemistry teacher ! Sounds exciting and entertaining. SOLD!
Taking women's rights is decent politics? Interesting
Don't be promiscuous
Problem solved
State rights are fabulous. Don't agree then move
Really Good Topic!!
Eastern Oregon people want to be bart of Idaho . S.W. South Dakota is popular in the first week in August
The city of Boston has a greater population then the whole state of Wyoming, that’s insane.
Eastern Kansas is beautiful and green. Lot’s of rolling hills.
Not enough big post office you have to work to live there
Rural aread aren't known for job opportunities. Nowadays ,if u have computer skills, u can work remotely. I feel sorry for young people now, because there Is alot more competition for work. We have a hugh problem with immigration now
North Dakota is the coldest state...yes, colder than Maine.....Also, Idaho is extremely mountainous and has five national forests...man it is one wilderness area.
Australia has a population density of 3.5 persons per square kilometre.
Good job. Keep it up.
I watched it all the way to the end and then it said something about Alaska only has 1.3 people per square mile I don't understand how you have a third of a person????
Yeah but, a lot of that are is not habitable, like extreme mountainous areas desert or lack of resources
"Mount Rushmoore" LOL
Post office choice should be to the offset what are the most populous states?
Kansas isn't all flat. The way you figure this out is most all of these states are rural, so if you don't want to live in that or are a farmer or rancher then people grow up and move from them. I grew up in Kansas with red dirt and canyons so no, not flat, think looking more like Oklahoma. Factory farming has killed the midwest. Most of the boomers went to school and got careers and then left because they didn't want to be ranchers/farmers. Plenty of smallish towns with colleges and fun places to go to. Yes, Wichita and Kansas City are the main cities, but so are Hays, Topeka, Manhattan, Low Rents, Garden City and Dodge City. The midwest is your farm belt and provide the food for a lot of Americans compared to Texas which is big and has around 30 million people, nicer weather and no state taxes. The one thing Kansas has going for it is they are the middle of the US. Also New Mexico has Area 51 and lots of crap going on underground if you know. New Mexico is beautiful and a nice vacation spot as is South Dakota. Your scenes of South Dakota look like where I grew up in Kansas. The weather impacts the Dakotas on people wanting to live there. Maybe once they get the natives off the stinking reservations they'll move into some of these areas they used to exist in. It depends on if you like a long winter in some of these places.
So many sunflowers in Kansas
Sone states are just too COLD COLD COLD.
Idaho and decent pilitics ? Never heard such a tall tale. Gross
What did he say about North Dakota? It sounded like "unless it's for work or your dodging some pee-nis".... what did he actually say? 😂😅😮 i listened four times!
Kansas. Am I parked? 🤣
1.3 people per square mile. That will change if warming continues. In 50 years, Alaska may see a population and industrial/tech boom.
I absolutely love “empty” and desolate States. Keep your cities of crime, inflated prices, traffic, and over pop. The peace and quiet of country living is amazing.
Some of those rural areas have a much higher rate of crime than small cities. Depends on the people
No they don’t.
Yeah everyone wants to live alone in the desert, or some featureless plains area, it’s just too depressing.
Good Luck with that when you need Medical Care. My mom almost died because she was far from a hospital. SMH at the ignorance.
I love these so called “ empty” states. I love driving through, looking at the farms, staying in the small towns, not fighting heavy traffic, watching the animals, etc. I see these as comforting and quiet….I hate the big cities and big city states. I also love the history of these states, and constantly think of the pioneers who came before, and what they had to deal with. I’d rather drive than fly….and driving through these “ flat” states relaxes me. This, to me, is real America.
Still traffic. 1 lane roads with drivers who go 5 under the limit is equal to gridlock interstate traffic.
Idaho politics are "nice"? Really?
He lost me there lol
Been in all of the states mentioned. Kansas trip was usually in August when we were kids because of Dad's vacation schedule. It's actually a beautiful state if you go in the right season. He was born and raised in/around Stockton and his parents lived in Lincoln, but they usually bailed for the kids living on the west coast when winter hit. I think if you look into South Dakota, you might find that a fair number of citizens are registered there but live on the road. The state makes it very easy to do that. I could probably find a spot in each one of these states to set up house with the hardest one being Alaska due to travel requirements. Nebraska would come in last on my list, lol, I got chased through that state by a tornado and I'm still holding a grudge..
I live in Omaha. There are many beautiful spots in Nebraska; I-80 is through the boring part, and I like to say, that’s on purpose, so people will keep going and not move to here. 😁
@@susangrande8142 lol, like us when they'd pan the money shot years ago of snow covered mountains against a beautiful blue sky during the Rose Parade!
Don't hate tornadoes cause they're swirly. 😄 I was almost engulfed in a tornado in Kansas a little more than 50 years ago. Scared the living bejeebers out of me. When I was a kid, we'd visit my grandmother in the middle of the summer. Coming from Colorado, Kansas was like a hair shirt to be withstood. We'd spend all day at the neighbor's house because they had ice-cold air conditioning. Then we'd have to come back to my nana's house for dinner. She had one large but useless floor fan, and she'd serve a steaming hot dinner every night. Still, I adored her and I loved Kansas.
I live in Nebraska. If my family wasn’t here, I wouldn’t be either.
As I tell people from the west coast, do your research before you decide on moving to the midwest! Freezing winters and Tornadoes in the summer.
I heard people describe Kansas as flat and mind-numbingly boring. Maybe along the interstate; but I rode a Honda Helix 250cc scooter across Kansas along US-36 and found the endless rolling hills beautiful and calming. Hills rolling east to west and streams zigzagging through what looked like interlocking fingers north to south. Lovely nature. Enjoyed perfectly clear weather with no distractions, radio, music or anything.
You are so lucky you got to do that. It really is a lovely state physically and it's so peaceful without people in it.
And the sunflowers
@@vel230 more like, “the land of the three suns: bright sunshine, big yellow sunflowers, and goddam sons of bi*ches…”
I've lived in Kansas the past 30 years, it's common for people to complain "Kansas it flat", that's an outright myth. I've been to plenty of other states that are far flatter and boring for huge swaths of the state. In my area it's tough to find flat ground outside of the Kansas River valley.
@@chuckhaggard1584 yeah, those soaring peaks and deep canyons are awe-inspiring…
Reminds of what someone told me about the flatlands of Canada. It is so flat here....I can watch my dog run away for days.
Lived and worked in Skagway, Alaska for a long summer. The country around there for hundreds of miles is pretty much straight up and straight down. It is also pretty much impenetrable forest. Spectacular, but hard to get into. The huge valley just to the south is, as are all of the valleys on the inlet, accessible by boat but very hard to get to on foot. I climbed way up above Skagway and walked crosscountry to that valley in the hope of seeing a way down into it. Steep forested walls going down into dark impenetrable forest. Spectacular, foreboding and empty.
We have been to Skagway like 6 times. The people are so nice.
That doesn't sound empty at all sounds like you don't know the wilderness
But they say earth is over populated. Still trying to get that one figured out
Let me make it easier for you: over-populated in terms of resource consumption, not land coverage.
Just too many dickheads in the same areas. Resources and economies are strained from it and people aren't spread out as much.
This was an interesting video. For some reason , I didn't know that our government owned that much land in Nevada. I find that a bit spooky for some reason.
As you should. They are always up to something…..
It's not. A lot of it is BLM land. For other states a lot was released so people could farm or ranch on that land, that isn't really possible in large areas of Nevada due to lack of water, so the BLM still owns that land. Water rights is a serious issue in many parts. Other land is owned by the military (Air Force, Navy, and the Army has an ammo depot), or the nuclear test site, and of course that one particular Area. Other land is wildlife refuges, a National Park, and National Forests.
Our government blew up so many bombs on Nevada soil, killing everything. Nothing will ever grow back.
Idaho same most land owned by state
It is land people can't live on anyway: barren with no water. If you've never been to Nevada (outside Las Vegas) it's like walking on an alien world---all rocks, dust, and seemingly lifeless.
Montana, just a heads up on anyone wanting to move here. -20 temps this weekend... -55 wind-chill. And be sure to look up how smokey it gets here in fire season in the summer.
Pretty much the entire country north of Kansas will be that cold this weekend
@anthonykyle2429 Yep, I've bicycled across MT from east to west via the Cabinet Mtns over Glacier, across the Plains via Browning, MT; and north to south on the Divide Route off road. Talking with a bar tender outside of Wolfpoint in late June, myself fighting a head wind all day, he said, "Every summer people from the southern states come up here on vacation and hit a nice sunny day, light wind, and purchase a piece of property". "Two years later, that same piece of property is up for sale again". He also said, "The wind always blows up here, one direction or another, the wind always blows here". Smart bartender. Temps in Northern CO today are a balmy 15 deg. 🙂
Yup I have friends there we only visit in the Summer and there is smoke from fires they complain about it sometimes.
I lived in Billings, Montana for 2 years. I left because I couldn't handle the cold, but have regretted it ever since.
Back in the 70's I was a mail delivery person in Helena, MT. One year it stayed below 0 for the entire month of December. I was so bundled up when I went out on my walking route, wearing a knitted face masks, ski pants and parka that I once had a boy say to me," I can't tell if you are a boy or a girl"! I am a girl and grew up in Alaska as a kid and teenager. If you live in these places you just need to dress for the weather and keep your car and house weather proofed. I live in a small town in Western WA now and I love the weather here along with the trees and waterways. Unfortunately places like this start growing and then get overpopulated. But for now I am happy here.
I think we all knew Alaska by far had the lowest population density. But a fun fact about that, so in Alaska, their counties are called Boroughs, and the borough with the lowest population density, aka the lowest population density county-equivalent in the US, the Koyukuk borough, covers 147,000 square miles through central Alaska, which is about the same size as Montana, and only has 5,179 residents in that whole area. That is crazy to think about. Even Alaska’s North Slope borough that covers the state’s arctic tundra, has a bigger population density than the Koyukuk, albeit not by much. I just happened to do research on this randomly one night back around Thanksgiving time, and it stuck in my head. Figured I’d share it here.
And gee, I’ve always felt like many of the counties in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula felt so remote and sparsely populated when I’ve visited them, an example being Luce County, of which I’ve been on road trips where we drove through Luce County from the small town of Newberry 30ish miles up to the Lake Superior shoreline, with that entire 30 mile distance being remote wilderness. But I bet even Luce County would be like a metropolis compared to many of Alaska’s boroughs, which are much bigger in size. I haven’t looked up the stats for Luce County to compare with, but it’s personally one of the most remote areas I’ve personally been to, and to think there are places out there that are far more remote and sparsely populated is crazy
I worked there over six years along the Dalton. Most of the villages are pretty small. The Mat Su has grown. It is about 25,000 square miles and in 1980 there were about 17,000 people, now there are about 113,000 people.
Lowest Population density does not mean lowest population
Koyukuk census area, not a borough. I live in Galena Alaska which is in the Koyukuk census area.
I have visited Luce County, specifically Muskallonge State Park. Beautiful area.
@@texanfournow What does that have to do with Alaska?
Most of these states have very cold winters.
My grandfather was from Nebraska, enlisted in the Navy after WWI was well over and took a train to San Diego CA for boot camp. He had never ridden a train before that. His youngest brother also enlisted and served during WWII, was in the battle at guadal canal. Crazy to think about how much different it used to be. I mean think about it, he was raised by the Civil war generation and I was lucky enough to be partially raised by him since my Dad skipped out. Strict and religious but fair values.
Hooah, sir, to your ancestors for serving. We should all have had a good upbringing as you did. Would love to check out Nebraska and Kansas.
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I wouldn’t be admitting your grandpa was from Nebraska boring 😴
Y'all have Great beef and buffalo. We have a cattle Ranch in Ozarks Neighbors are far enough away. Trump country 🇺🇸🦌
@@crodrc51ableY'all better to get Boots. You'll need them. Very rewarding though. Adios 🙏🐴🌄
@markwilliams WV is a very RED state! It is very poor, and has many drug addicts! Now they are addicted to 45! 🤔😳🤣😂🤣😂🌊♀️🌊♀️🌊♀️🌊♀️🌊♀️🌊♀️♀️♀️♀️♀️♀️♀️♀️♀️♀️♀️♀️
As soon as you hit the kansas state line, grab a 3 ft step ladder, climb up and you can spot the other state lines
I have lived in 4 states. Oregon, (born there), Washington, Nevada, and California. I am not a people person, so I was only able to stay in Cali for 4 years. I use to like Oregon, but not so much any more. I loved Nevada. I could ride my ATVs until the wheels fell off. I then put them back on and rode some more. Then I moved to Idaho. This by far my favorite state. Lots of mountains, and I love mountains. I drove through Kansas once, and you could not pay me to live there! I have found that the people in all 4 states to be nice for the most part. Portland Oregon was always a crap hole. I thanked my lucky stars that I never had to live there. In Cali, I lived in San Diego, and as far as southern Cali is concerned, San Diego is the crown jewel, but there were just too many people for this country boy.
I will most likely stay in Idaho until I die, and that is ok. I have no desire to go anywhere else. The winters are cold, but the spring and fall are gorgeous. If the summer gets too hot, all I need to do is go to the mountains.
If you love mountains, you need to at least take a vacation to Alaska. Just moved from WA to AK May 2023. Video doesn't do justice for the mountains here. It puts the PNW mountains to shame. Nothing compares to the beauty here. Not even CO can beat the mountains here.
People from California cringe when people say "Cali" and no one who lives there speaks that way .
@@Dwayne-mb2uj Ok. I am just lazy and don't want to type the whole word out. I did live there for 4 long years. As far as making them cringe, I don't care. They will get over it. If they don't get over it, I guess that they will die unhappy. AND, I still won't care.
Would you prefer me to call it Commiefornia? That is pretty much what millions of Americans call it, me included!
Heh, I’m the opposite. I was raised in Shanghai for the first few years of my life, so I can’t stand rural areas. Much as I like exploring state and national parks, I can’t live in an empty place with so few people for very long. I’m definitely a city boy at heart, but I get where you’re coming from. Hard disagree with you on California’s politics, but no need to get so fussed up about a place you no longer live in.
@@BuilderofRat California is the 6th largest economy in the world with less than 40M people. Its economy is built upon intellect and creativity (hint: Hollywood and Silicon Valley). If you don't have the intellect or competitive juices you move elsewhere.
I am surprised that the Dust Bowl wasn't mentioned in regard to Kansas or Nebraska. That entire region had to hit the reset button in the 1930s.
It didn't have much to start with the dust bowl was shortly after they forced all the native off the land they forced them on in the first place also known as the land run.
Also oklahoma has a pretty big population especially around okc and Tulsa as those areas (at least okc) are part of the top half of population by county I believe and it isn't far from texas
There were only 4 counties in extreme southern NE that were directly effected by the Dust Bowl.
The dust bowl affected states like Kansas and Oklahoma a lot more than Nebraska.
Then again, it was also in the 1930s when they discovered the (now-quickly-depleting!) Ogalalla Aquifer, which gave a lot of that region a new chance to increase crop productivity and draw more population. Nebraska does have the semi-arid Sandhills area in its northwestern region, which helps to explain why it's less-populated than nearby farming states like Kansas and Iowa
@@Zalis116 the Sand Hills are also in the center of the state. Broken Bow is in the Sand Hills. The Ogalalla aquifer actually underlies the Sand Hills, and is right there on the surface of the soil in many places, in moist times of year. Some farmers in the Sand Hills use center pivot irrigation to grow corn or soybeans, but more east and fewer west. The Sand Hills are actually more suited to being cattle range than growing any crops. (I’m a Nebraskan, and I love the Sand Hills! 💝)
Great video (as usual!) but I was expecting my beloved adopted state of Maine to be on this list. We have way more trees and lakes than people, and you could fit all the other New England states inside our borders w/room left over. It's one of the things I love about it. Where did Maine fall on your list? Or Vermont (another sparsely populated state), for that matter? Thank you. LOVE these videos!
Maine is the least densely populated state east of the Mississippi.
As a fellow Mainer I totally agree,my friend. Same with Arizona ( where my grandma used to live).
Maine yeah, loved, want to go back.
When I was younger I lived in Alaska, Montana, and South Dakota and Idaho. It was in the 60's nd 70's and all were a great place to live. Now these states have grown quite a bit. I actually loved life back then because people were way more friendlier and trusting. I used to hitchhike across the country and even though I was an attractive girl in my 20's I never had a bad experience and always got rides with very nice people. It is a different country now and I would not want my daughter doing some of the things I did back then. Sigh....
they may have been nice good people; but, you got lucky back than.
The 70s were actually the golden age of the serial killer so you definitely got lucky
Some of the rudest and more dangerous people live in those states now. Society has just changed for the worse in general
Elko, Nevada is a good-sized town in the eastern part of the state.
Is it safe to live there? I here it has a crime problem.
Couldn’t pay me to live there thx you have it
Here in da U.P. we are only 3% of michigan population but we have at least 30% of the states land.
And 150% of Michigan’s snowfall. Lake effect off of Lake Superior is a b*tch.
Hehehehehe
@@Leftists_are_Losers I can see the great lake from my window, the weather changes fast on Gitche Gumee! We're expecting a storm today but that's supposed to be further inland
@@FinnSwede906 I can throw a frisbee from my front yard and have it land in Lake Superior.. so I too deal with lake effect snow.
And we are about to get slammed by the same storm. I think.
Good luck!
Montana is still flying under the radar. They have some hidden gem places around that state and I personally like them.
Shh..don't tell em about Whitefish. Second most beautiful place outside Alaska imo.
@@sean9448 Montana is one of my favorite states. Big Sky Country
@@sean9448,
I listen to a radio personality, here in Atlanta, that was born there.
until winter hits and the natives are the only ones that wanna be there
Lol as long as those gems aren't named Missoula, Bozeman or Whitefish. None of those are even remotely representative of what Montana is
Idaho is beautiful but the politics are repressive.
Right wing CATO INSTITUE ranks Idaho #2 for the least personal freedom of the states.
Nice video. Could you do a video for best places for seniors or people with disabilities to live? Thanks in advance.
You lost me for good on saying Idaho's politics are okay. They literally prevent women from getting life saving health care.
Fool
How is Idaho preventing woman from getting health care or life saving health care? If your talking about abortion a woman can still get abortion in Idaho
@@garymitchell7551 He’s trying to rebrand baby killing up to birth, as women’s health care
Brutal in MT?! Indeed. This weekend, the NW corner is experiencing wind chill of -60 to -75 degrees F. all weekend long!
They also tested nukes in Nevada. This is where they store nuclear waste.
they store nuclear waste in Texas as well.
@@johnnyrocket4357 Nuclear waste is how you can describe some parts of Texas and Nevada. That's funny
Yes, we have dangerous levels of nuclear waste here… stay away!
"The Court Jester", great movie. They said "get it, got it,good". Keep paying homage. Love it
The chalice with the palace has the brew that is true!
Weather is the theme. Tornadoes, brutal winters, or too hot summers, and WIND. So many of those states have too much wind.
Very true I hate the wind in Wyoming. Will be moving soon.
I think the lack of water is more of an issue.
@@nogames8982 If lack of water was the biggest problem, then why are some of them farming states? AZ isn't on this list despite water issues.
You mentioned too hot of weather. I’d argue Arizona and Texas have very hot climates but people still move there.
Kansas farms are largely one man and a very large piece of equipment. I disagree with you when you call it flat though. Traveling east to west across Kansas, you gradually ascend over 3000 feet. And if you've ever tried to ride a bicycle through the Flint hills, you'd know that Kansas is NOT all flat.
I live in Kansas I get it… it still sucks and is flat maybe u climb 3000 ft in elevation on a 4 inches per mile incline
Coming from Tennessee it looks flat to me
Plus I've been in Manhattan Kansas for a business meeting. City of 60k I live in Norman
@@oklahomasoonersfootball for a sec i thought you were talking about a very different manhattan
Kansas has 627 municipalities. Only 56 of them have populations of over 6,000.
Kansas population 2,911,641. are you saying they are nobody? nebraska has 1,978,379 nobodys, Wyoming has 584,057 nobodys.
I think I’m moving to South Dakota. The governor, Kristi Noem can be my governor anytime. Lol! 😊 😅
South Dakota Governor is not hot... I'm not sure about her political points, so can't say anything on that, but I lean more blue than red.
Pelosi and Waters 👍blue as can be AOC & Omar blue too 👍maybe Warren or Tlaib👍all should be hot to you
@alanbourne2332 Hmm, I don't understand why their political party would make them attractive, so I'm afraid you lost me there. I honestly don't think there are any attractive politicians. It's fine if you do, but I don't. I was referring to him saying he liked the governing bobies in the state. Hence, me saying, "I'm not sure about her political points" because I don't know where she stands on things. Maybe that clears up some confusion?
decent politics in Idaho? Not hardly,.
It's literally hard for me that San Diego has three times the entire population of Montana. It's a 3:1 rato!
Illegals need gov offices for welfare.
Of the states on this list I’ve only been to Idaho and New Mexico. I liked both. As a western Canadian I understand wide open spaces.
I love New Mexico ❤
Would love to live in a small town in New Mexico
Not a fan of New Mexico. Too much government sponsored poverty.
Lordsburg!!!! Check it out
My brother love baseball so he travels everywhere to see games and also pre season called the "cactus league". He Hayes NM almost as much as LA California and ATL GA. He does like Durango in the north part of the state but who doesn't. I think he said there is nothing to do on Santa Fe, it's over priced, the weather sucks and it's people are boring.
@@vextract4662 I don't want to live in the major cities, just a small town. Been looking at Clayton.
Looks nice and I like it's positioning, being close to 3 other states.
Unsubscribed. You've run out of ideas.
Texas is 4 or 5 states in itself. Most Texans live in a major metro. Outside of the big cities the Texas population density is low. Two million live in East Texas, but its huge and there is sufficient water to support a much larger population. Lots of trees. Being located between Dallas and Houston, parts of ET could grow significantly if infrastrucure can be built. The original Spanish settlement was in Nacogdoches in ET but the natives were basically cannibals so the Spanish relocated to San Antonio.
If the panhandle and West Texas were separate states they would mostly be empty.
It empty for a reason. Rough country and weather.
Idaho, decent politics? "Oooo Kay" (backing away slowly)
Yes, decent politics
@@chuckhaggard1584 are you any relation to Ken Haggard from Colorado?
@@allwinds3786 not that I know of
Montana would be my first choice if I thought I could survive the winters...
-20 temps this weekend. -55 wind-chill
@@anthonykyle2429 Ha ha. Someone doesn't want us moving there. Montana is the second most beautiful state outside Alaska.
@@anthonykyle2429-33 at my place this morning in northern Montana. -60s windchill until Monday.
Vacant land doesn't equal suitability to support a larger population. In addition, overcrowding almost always leads to a lower standard of living. I can see the cost/challenges of living in rural areas becoming high enough in the future that only the wealthy will be able to do it.
Briggs, Please take a winter hands on field trip to all the northern states during the heart of winter. Then I would love to get your feedback of whether you will still rank them so high on you livability scale.
The cold lets you know you're still alive.
We lived in Maine for years, we still miss having a "White Christmas." Although don't miss shoveling the driveway..... lol
Canada is liveable, we don't have much choice.
Wind chill was -40° in SD yesterday. That was the daytime high not the low.
Agree this is why the south is so populated now. Ppl love the sun ☀️
Alaska is truly the last untamed region in the United States.
Idaho has horrible politics, striping women of their rights and you call that decent? I'm disappointed. Are you also a trump supporter?
On my recent trip to Kansas from California. I thought the drive was beautiful and interesting. On the way back I stopped in Meade KS for some gas and thought I would head south to check out the Cadillac Ranch outside Amarillo. That drive south was pretty quiet but not as featureless as the drive from the Cadillac Ranch to Tucumcari New Mexico, we're talking boring, you can actually see the curvature of the Earth on that section of road.
Well no small town speed traps.
Very interesting videos, love watching them
Glad you like them!
Need to revise your comment about the Oregon trail not going through Nebraska. It followed the Platte in current Nebraska for hundreds of miles.
I don’t think I said Oregon Trail. There were a few trails west.
I agree. The Oregon Trail went through the State. You can still see the wagon wheel ruts to this day!! Also, Western Nebraska is absolutely beautiful....the Sandhills are INSANE! I've traveled through there (Hwy 2) on my cycle...headed to the Black Hills several times! Beautiful State!
Also, makes no mention of the union pacific, sure St Louis was the gate way to the west for trails. But Omaha was the gateway to the west for trains and railroads. Omaha Union Pacific still basically controls half of all rails west of the mississippi and BNSF controls the other half. BNSF used to be headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska but moved to Dallas. But the BNSF company is a subsidiary of Omaha Berkshire Hathaway. So essentially Omaha has the primary influence of basically all the freight rail network west of the mississippi
@richardalvarez2390 CN does has a smaller portion of Traffic going into Omaha.
I love how the opening shot for Alaska is the native village of Nenana. It’s located 60 miles south of Fairbanks. As for industry, we have oil & gas, lumber, mining, & fishing. We have the world’s largest Zinc mine, but you’d never know it from the air as it’s all underground. Fairbanks support 2 booming gold mines, as well as 2 military bases. Ally of Alaskas land is locked up by the Federal Government. Also, we have a lot of untapped oil wells that the current Presidential Administration won’t let us pull from.
I grew up in Anchorage , Alaska from 1961 to 1977. The main "C" street wasn't paved until after the 1964 earthquake when Federal assistance actually upgraded many roads. A small population made it so that the death toll was low for the amount of destruction that took place after a 9.2 quake along with a big Tsunami which destroyed many small towns and villages. In 1970 the population exploded along with much construction with the advent of the big oil pipeline construction starting. I had many friends who made big money then. The whole state grew and it was forever changing from then on. I haven't been there since 1991 when I helped my mom move down to Wahington state to be close to me. I loved living in Alaska and hope it is still the friendly and great place to live.
As an Arizona resident for most of my life, I can say that these things keep me from moving to another state: (1) Daylight Savings Time. We don't have it, and nobody else should, either. It's stupid. If you want "more time" in your day, get up earlier. Just don't try to make everybody else do it, too. (2) Not as bitterly cold as other states. If I want to see snow, I can drive north or east for an hour or so. (3) Gorgeous scenery. Superstition Mountain is the most beautiful mountain I have ever seen, and we have lots of mountains. We are also one of the few states that are part of the Sonoran Desert, so we have saguaro cacti throughout the state.
Unfortunately, these same reasons are what keep more people moving here, along with the fact that the idiots in California have ruined their state, so they keep coming here, too, hoping to ruin ours as well. I really hate it when people complain about how hot it gets in the summer here. If it's too hot for you, move to some other state and thus decrease our surplus population!
Yeah crazy. In the Netherlands we have to drain the sea to get some space. Imagine what we could do with, let's say Montana. Is it for sale?
No, but we will sell you California.
Wouldn't mind some friendly people moving in. Definitely not the people who are in most of the states now!
As someone from portugal (a very small country in comparison lool) i've always been fascinated with how big america is with it's seemingly endless states like the ones mentioned etc... seems very peaceful! One could easily end his days there!
It is big enough to find any life style you choose. But I believe Portugal is a lovely place, too. As a matter of fact, this whole earth is a jewel in all of the universe.
@FRODIII , Don't worry, our government is making sure all of us are ended real soon.
Fascinating video; brings a unique perspective to parts of the United States that many of us will never see.
No water is the big thing, even Kandas.
Use water net towers to catch the moisture and collect it.
You mention the ruggedness of Idaho....Sitting here in northern Idaho as I watch your video. It's been snowing for three days, we're now up to a couple feet. I've cleared the 1/2 mile drive down off the mountain twice since this storm started and need to go do it again. It's currently -4F and we'll be at these temps for a few days. We got out yesterday with the Jeep (4-wheel drive with studded snow tires) after I spent 3 hours clearing snow. If we take the 4-wheel drive Ford F-250 I have to put chains on the back to get out then put them back on when we come back in even if the road is snow blowed (snow blowed? snow blown?).
Oh, and between the federal and state government right at 2/3rds of Idaho is owned by the government.
My dad would drive us around northern Idaho given family roots (mostly in Spokane, but it includes northern Idaho). They have...sandpoint, bonners ferry, priest lake, did I miss anything? Very beautiful up there. I remember going bear watching at night in priest lake when I was a kid.
@@seanmcdirmid We're a little bit south of that, in the Silver Valley area, about 30 minutes from Coeur D'alene. But, were at 3,000ft which is the same elevation as the pass so we get quite a bit of snow. Absolutely stunning in the winter with the snow covered cedar and douglas fir tree covered mountains. Like a scene from a calendar but it comes at a cost. We get a lot of precipitation, mostly as snow. Long winters (cabin fever is a real thing) but I just tell my wife, that's why we don't have all those ugly pine trees (pines require much less water) and 'all sun makes a desert'. :)
We regularly have deer coming through. Occasional moose and elk and have had a mountain lion cruise right past our place twice. There's a black bear somewhere about 400 yards away but I haven't found the den. Just smelled it and the carrion. It's is a beautiful place to be and live but there's definitely a personal cost.
SE Idaho is snowy, cold, and WINDY...and has been for days and will continue for a few more.
@@savannahsmiles1797 I have a friend that lives down that way (Meridian area). He told me a couple days ago the temp had plummeted....so I figured it was headed this way. I've been down there a couple times, the constant wind would drive me crazy.
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This one's super early eh? Aloha from a Hawaiian citizen.
Hey, Abbot, send those illegals to Alaska.
I knew it as soon as the video started that Alaska would be ranked number one for the lowest population density. You should’ve mentioned that the population changes more radically with the seasons than any other state because of tourism. Skagway ‘s population grows something like 900% during the cruise season.
I live in downtown Omaha. It’s easy for me to get frustrated and claustrophobic with how disgusting and crowded the city is (came here from rural Idaho for school). Always surprises me. I can drive four minutes on the belt route (680) headed northeast into Iowa and be in desolate middle of nowhere before a song even finished playing. It’s wild.
Problem is it’s farms not public land so still not a lot to do.
I live in iowa. About 2 hours from Omaha and yeah to really have fun out here you gotta know somone who has land so you can do fun stuff like fourwheeler, dirt biking, fishing and so on
Yeah, all private farms. No fun for you people, unfortunately.
At least your zoo is super good.
Omaha isn't even that big. Imagine going to a city like Chicago, Dallas, NYC.
@@jeremiahallyn4603dallas isnt like those other 2
Puerto Rico has a population density of 910 persons per square mile. Population is 3,200,000 + or - divided by 3,515 square miles!!!
I've been through all the states mentioned except Alaska and have lived in Wyoming.
Also been through a lot more states having grown up in the military and having family on the east coast.
I love the serenity, sense of freedom and the people I've met.
It is amazing to stand out on a prairie, a slight breeze blowing and seeing for miles and miles. Sometimes getting to see a herd of antelope running.
I don't have to worry about being accosted, crime, seeing unfriendly people and the constant, non-stop noise like New York City, L.A., Boston. My "guard" isn't up 24/7.
I remember back in the '70's Wyoming had a really bad blizzard. Bad as in snow up to the 2nd floor windows of our house.
People were stranded out on the highway.
After the snow stopped, ranchers from all around made their way to the highway - some in snow mobiles, some on horses..... and started rescuing stranded drivers. Pick them up and take them to their homes. It took several days to clear the snow off the roads. If the ranchers hadn't helped these people, they would have been frozen to death.
Another time in Wyoming, word got out that a huge motorcycle gang - I think it was the Hell's Angels -was travelling to get to the east coast.
They decided that they were going to stop in Cheyenne for a few days.
Next thing we knew, the ranchers and other people, met the Hell's Angels at the border between Colorado and Wyoming and told them in no uncertain terms that they were not going to be laid up in Cheyenne for a few days.
They escorted the gang straight through Wyoming to the Nebraska border.
You can have the big cities and all the troubles that come with it.
'Anyone can love the mountains, but it takes a soul to love the prairie' Willa Cather.
Having space and having enough good land to grow food for its population are two different things. Developers like flat land which tends to be farmland because it's easy to build on. Putting buildings on farmland takes good land out of food production. Not good. So, don't say there's plenty of room for more people.
My family homesteaded in western Nebraska on the North Platte river, the Oregon Trail. I can show you places there that you would never think would be in the state.
Born and raised in western Nebraska, beautiful part of the state!
Indeed, and lots of history there as well!@@barbaraallen7164
Nicky Santoro would disagree about your synopsis of Nevada. You had to have the hole already dug. If not if someone showed up, you had to dig another hole. You could be there all fookin night.
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One problem these states have is too much federal land. We need to reconsider all the federal land reserves. Too many, too much, too mismanaged, etc.
That is true although I appreciate having public land to shoot on, hike, ride, and ect. Although there can be a happy medium and NV and UT has way too much land owned by the feds.