Oregon's Worst Rural Towns.

What are Oregon's Worst Rural Towns? Or What are the towns in Oregon you don't want to buy real estate?

Oregon is a great state, but like all states, Oregon has some places that aren't great and you probably would want to buy a home there.
But, are you thinking about moving to Rural Oregon? Did you watch our best rural towns in Oregon video? If you did, today the judgmental pendulum swings back the other way. That is right we are looking at the worst Rural towns in Oregon. These days I try and keep a positive vibe on this channel, but this video has been requested a lot. Whenever I post the best rural town video I get a flood of emails that all start with “What about this town” and then they list some other random rural town that in most cases looks like a miserable place to live.
So, I thought I should start listing the towns you should probably avoid. Are these towns absolutely the worst places on earth? No, they just have bad stats, a bad location, things like that.
These towns have high crime, high unemployment numbers, and more than enough poverty to go around.

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[waynekraft]

I have lived in Oregon all my 70 years and so did my daddy and grand-daddy. My great and great great moved here long, long ago. I have visited all these horrible small towns, fished in these rivers and floated down them. Awful, awful experiences every one. Briggs is correct. Never even think of abandoning the wonders of California or New York or New Jersey to come here. Bad, bad mistake. Just stay where you are and leave us demented, unemployed methheads to take care of ourselves. Thanks.

[jonmarley_]

I’m from southern Oregon and maybe it is too big but Cave Junction is the real #1. Great example of when the people of the community vote out law enforcement. CJ is filled with trailers and people that don’t wanna be found.

[hitmc]

Thanks for putting this out! You’re right! People would absolutely HATE these small towns. They should stay in the cities, where everything is much better.

[GrumpyForester]

My relief at my town not making the list is tempered by the fact that I've been to all these towns and in a couple of instances said, "hmm, this might not be a bad place to live..."

[wintonhudelson]

Grew up in a small town in SW Oregon. Jokingly, my dad used to reference life in a small town as knowing who's checks are good and who's wives weren't.

[katebarker]

Oregon native, born here and raised. After traveling to many other places, I feel Oregon is not a bad place to live. It’s beautiful. We have somewhat mild weather. Where I live( A university town), the traffic is not awful. We have all types of landscape, and the crime is not over the top. Our worst problem in my town is that Housing is not cheap. It’s not exciting, unless you love the outdoors( Which I do).
I am surprised that Chiloquin didn’t make this list! Sweet Home is another small town that I’m shocked not to see on here.
Thank you Briggs!⭐️ Love your videos! Keep ‘em coming!😄

[mslif]

I was born and raised in Southern Oregon. My experience has been that there are a lot of really good people, and just a few creeps. {I just hope that not too many people think that I should fall into that creep list. Hmmm} Just like anywhere else a lot just depends on what you like or don't like. Some things are really important to some but not important to others. I'm now 63 and can honestly say that most of the kids that I went to school with back then I have a deep love in my heart for. That's one of the great things about growing up in a small rural town.

[cherrlyn]

High poverty levels seem to go hand-in-hand with high crime, low education levels, and high unemployment.

[greglikewhoa]

I was really surprised Sweet Home, Oregon didn’t make this list.

[thegrumpiestfox]

Was born and raised in falls city oregon. A majority of my life I have gone through that place and can assure you that everyone knows everyone and it is because we know who everyone is that if you lived there for awhile, you know who is capable of getting what for you. From an outsider's perspective, Falls city oregon is a place filled with undesirables. For me, I am confident enough to walk through my home town alone even as a 6 year old, knowing the people there were people who knew my parents and grandparents, and respected our space and in turn we respected others because of it. Everybody looks out for everybody for the most part, but like the video says, there is the 10% who do cause problems. It is not a town to cause problems in. Everybody wants to be left alone to do what they want to do. The rule of law is to mind your own business and everyone is happy.

Now im not saying its a town for everyone, and its not the town it used to be anymore. I am still confident enough to walk around falls city on my own, but for others? Just be smart about who you interact with and make friends with. If you aren't someone who is used to paying attention to people and being mindful about them, then it isn't a place for you to be in. If you are familiar with that kind of lifestyle then moving into the town shouldn't be an issue for you.

[fficialdregs]

Briggs is one of a few people who doesn't care too much to talk about politics on social media.
Number one youtuber in my eyes, any haters or doubters...stop typing

[walterwhitlock]

I’m very familiar with Maupin. While it is a bit isolated, the idea that it’s a bad place to live isn’t really accurate. It’s a cute small town with a lot of good community spirit, and increasingly good infrastructure. I like Briggs but he must not have been to Maupin in recent years

[texhunter]

My sister told about some friends in Fall City whose pickup wouldn't start one morning. Someone had stolen the battery during the night. About a week after replacing the battery, theywoke to find their old battery and an envelope with a note apologizing for stealing their battery. Included were a pair of tickets for a football game at Oregon State University in Corvallis against University of Oregon, offered to compensate for the inconvenience. They had a nice time at the game, but returned to a totally empty unfurnished house.

[tylrthdflr]

As someone born and raised in Oregon, you pronounced it correctly. That means you're video is worth watching.
Edit: judging by the accent (one of which is similar to mine). I can tell you're Oregonian.

[dynamicphotography_]

Falls City is spot on. It's sketchy. There's some things going on in that community that I'm not even going to mention here.
As far as the creek goes, I have fly fished it a couple times. I always have wierdos that stare at me just waiting for me to say something.
Last summer I had 3 knuckle draggers follow me as I was heading back to my truck. They were absolutely going to jump me. They were moving up closing the distance. It was on.

As soon as I got to my truck I pulled my sidearm out of my fly vest.
At that moment they asked me where I was from and where is my fish. Super odd.

I answered this creek is catch & release for trout.
They glanced at my sidearm and went back down the trail from where we walked out.
I left.
It's a hell hole with a nice little creek running through it.

[mwroach]

Burns needs to be on this list as well. Lived there for 12 years dealing with crappy people, tweakers, perverts, thieves and some of the most extreme weather conditions ever. Finally was able to leave but for most people, Burns is a tarpit that traps you there.

[deanfirnatine]

As a former cop I would love to dig into these "crime statistics" something does not seem right, I have been to many of these tiny towns on this list and they were always the kind of place you could leave your doors unlocked, granted if you smarted off to someone a rancher or logger may beat you within an inch of your life. I suspect these terrible crime stats are simply due to their extreme tiny populations, you get five property crimes in six months in a town of a 150 and all of a sudden your crime stats look awful when it may not even be locals as was pointed out likely with Maupin. I remember a small town a hour from me as a kid one year statistically was near being the countries murder capital just that one year because of its tiny population, you get three murders in a small town and your stats look crazy.

[Justagirlnamedshawn]

I have lived in California, Idaho, Washington & now Oregon. Sometimes you don't realize how disgusting a place is until you experience somewhere else.

[inkbanditperry]

I'm in Huntington Oregon. Pop..541 moved here from Phoenix..big time culture shock ...but I can honestly say I love it.. Boise and hour or so away and Ontario got everything I need ...

[russwoodward]

Even bad communities in Oregon can be better to live in than some good communities elsewhere. Thanks for the video!