Rowanoke sucks. Yeah Hey everyone my name is Kyle Sharples with the Jesser Realty Group We are local realtors who love Rowanoke and want to make a bunch of videos to show you what effect to work live and play in our favorite city We get messages all the time about people moving here within the city and we absolutely love it So if you're even thinking about moving to Rowanoke give us a call shoot us a text send us an email Heck even send an owl if you want we have your back when you're moving to Rowanoke So reason number one that everybody says Rowanoke sucks Is because there's a lot homeless people here It's a little skewed Rowanoke has a mission program that helps homeless people get back on their feet It's really successful. It works 90% of the time But unfortunately there are people who take advantage of that system people who it doesn't work for and those are the people that you tend to see It's really isolated around public transportation where they can move around real easy and It's really also localized to certain parts of downtown in the rougher neighborhoods Which brings us to number two Everybody says that Rowanoke has a high crime rate Let me start with this I have never felt unsafe here ever not even once not even like half a time I don't feel any less safe here than I have felt anywhere else I've been and I've been lucky enough to travel a little bit more than most people That being said the national average is at a four on the index scale and Rowanoke is at a 4.1 4.2 so it's right there at the national average like I said I don't feel any less safe than I do anywhere else and the types of crimes here are like anywhere else most of it is petty theft people get in fights somebody stealing an iPhone and the violent stuff happens typically because of drugs or gangs so kids Dr. Drugs and you can avoid that number three Sorry, I know it's Number three is that people say there is nothing to do I hear this one This is probably the most common thing people complain about in Rowanoke is that there's nothing to do here And to them I say get out of your house You're not gonna find anything to do sitting in your living room pondering what there is to do It just doesn't work you gotta go out and find stuff to do Just a few things that we have to do here are we have hiking we have fishing we have movies bowling Ice skating in the winter we have outside ice skating rink we have outdoor venue for music We have a bunch of indoor venues for music. We have bars. We have clubs. We have restaurants We have more hikes than you can imagine we have public parks we have kayaking and you can drive a couple hours You can snowboard during the winter only Actually I lied there's a there's a year-round snowboarding place like an hour and a half away from here You can I've probably said bowling already hockey games We even have what's it called like the card game magic but they have like a magic and Pokemon clubs and What's the other one Dungeons and Dragons computer game clubs Anyway, there's a lot to do so now that's been handled appropriately next would be low income and Yes Ronoque Has a lower average income than a national average Very easy to find that information If the national average income is 36 Ronoq is about 32 That being said It's not that big of a deal here because the cost of living is so low on the Index scale national average is a hundred and we're 16 points below at 84 so it is very Very affordable to live here housing is cheaper food cheaper gas cheaper everything is just a little bit cheaper than normal So it really makes that for that that income gap so yeah The last one I put this on here because I hear a lot of people complain about This one as well people say there's no good jobs left. There are no jobs nobody's hiring But if I had decided tomorrow that I did not want to make YouTube videos and be part of the coolest real estate team in Ronoque I'd be crazy, but I could probably have a job this week I just pulled up indeed And at this point in time when I'm making this video, which is January 11th 2020 the I could probably have a job this week all of these jobs Provide on the job training and pay over $30,000 a year and if you remember from previous section that I just covered $30,000 goes a long way here because the cost of living is so low so there's 300 what I say 387 jobs sorry And I mean all you guys do is go fly talk to them Get off your butt walk in there demand a job You can have it. I hope this video provided a little bit more insight on what it's like to live in Ronoque and We get questions all the time about moving here and what it's like to be here and we love it So please reach out to us give us a call shoot us a text send us an email heck send the owl Whatever you need we have your back when you're moving into Ronoque You