“Antigo” Is Wisconsin’s WORST Small Town?

Many claim this is a really bad small town!

[TheNNutthowse]

Not even close to the worst just boring and a little farm town. Worst if ur ranking on boredom. I'll give it that. But nah I sell fertilizer to the farmers there. Just a farm town.

[quishantacary]

I'm not seeing how bad the city is. All y'all is talking and driving

[vernonvoss]

Go down Memorial Drive in Racine. Lock your doors.
Antigo is just boring. I would imagine there isn't a lot of work but its a nice boring town.
Worst is the Northside of Milwaukee, 2nd is Racine and then Kenosha. I hear Beloit is bad as well.

[twisantigo]

I grew up in Antigo in the 80s and 90s...it was a GREAT town for a kid to grow up in back then. I haven't been back in over 20 years...not sure how much has changed.

[dvferyance]

It was the home of Ray Smazda famously known as the Menards guy.

[ItsMeTracy]

Love Antigo!! Spent every summer there. Great times in the woods with my family.

[RedditHiddenGems]

I lived there for a month and I'll never look back. Dead economy, nothing to do, terrible drug problem

[brunoprimas]

I've lived in different places in my life. "Boring" is good.

[loanokaharbor]

Hey Guys!.. at least they have sidewalks, fast food and some stores...but you are correct, it looks like Alabama. The American car companies failure (of quality) and the off shoring of industry, and the outsourcing of jobs has caused the decay of many of America's small towns. Bring back industry to America, Americans will benefit. Thank you Jose & Katie!! Marathon Drivers! 👍

[ANDREA-gfsx]

Been here before just an average town. Not much there but the people are friendly. Most towns have several vacancies in their Main Street areas now, but it don't seem like it's being neglected and that's my opinion thanks for making this video :)

[Herbert]

This town used to be nice. But Democrat rule has this town gone down hill. The school is ranked one of the worst in Wisconsin. The down town is mostly empty buildings. And if a business wants to open and pay real wages the city councel will not let them. They need people to work for low wages picking potatoes so they can't allow good paying jobs. Also the county gets very little money from the state. Every county around it is a lot nicer because they get more money. Most of our roads are falling apart. So what does the City Councel want to do. They want to open up more low income housing. Which we don't need. They will bring them from other places. Some company buys the land and builds them. Antigo gets some points with the state. What it's good for I don't know. And then to fill them they bring people form the cities. And then our crime goes up. You don't think they bring in good people do you. Good people don't need to move. And then our county has to increase our taxes to pay for all the crap for people on drugs and alchol and programs for the needy. See I'm a tax payer in this county. I don't live in Antigo. And what they do raises my taxes. Although they will argue that fact. But I know people on the county board. And they will tell you what Antigo does effects the whole county. They are trying to stop them. But the last county board already approved this crap. Needless to say we voted them out. But we have no say so on Antigo. The slum.

[Lilmickcrocodiledundee]

Definitely not a horrible place, has it's issues like every town. It's more outdoor recreation, boating, four wheeling, snowmobiling bar hopping hunting and fishing

[adventuresofscottandmichel]

Probably the worst town is Beloit. The west side is pretty bad. Antigo is still better than the worst towns in Illinois and Florida! The town does look boring. Thanks for showing us around!

[angelbless-tftz]

IF U dont like Wis the towns GET THE HELL OUT DONT COME BACK

[jjp]

Audio is awful. Man’s voice is hard to hear. Muffled sound. And I disagree. But then my family is from Antigo.

[Jared.mp]

My girlfriend was a teacher here for a year and made her reconsider teaching as a whole. Police are constantly at the school due to weapons, drugs, and general junk. On of her coworkers would touch their students (rubbing their shoulders and back rubs) also took a nap while one of her students was OD'ing. And get this, that teacher STILL WORKS THERE. A car crashed into the side of my girlfriend's apartment while running from the cops. People broke into the apartment to pull the fire alarm and set off the extinguishers. There was an active crack den in the basement that people would break into to get their stash after they were arrested. So many buildings/houses look abandoned but are actually active. Oh and the fire department takes 30 mins to respond when the station is like two blocks away. Overall the school system is going down the drain, crime is stupid high for such a small place, and it's a ghost town for stores. The only reason why I think it's still around is because it's one of the last big towns/cities as you're heading north. Oh and as a side note the community is super toxic when it comes to trying to control the school/police

[willbygosh]

You might want to visit the depressed coal mining towns of Eastern Kentucky and Western Kentucky, some of the poorest regions of the country Harlan, Pikeville Kentucky, Logan, Welch, Matewan West Virginia some of these areas lost around 80 of their population, they're just waiting for coal to come back but the people are super friendly

[jeffaulik]

We had relatives in Antigo--it was a railroad town that probably peaked about 1950. I believe population was near 10, 000 at most and is 8, 000 or so now. Stores have moved to the outskirts of town--not unusual--and winters are cold and long. Sometimes the creek dividing the town would flood, separating the east side from the downtown stores when we were kids. Have not been there since 2017 and it seemed pretty quiet in early February--but 18 inches of snow came along a week later. Sorry we missed that...

[joeygray]

Anyone else see the illegal turn he did lol

[Topknot]

I’ve seen far worse towns than that. That looks like an average town in Ohio.