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Channel: Georgia Coast Homes by Karin Carr
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Are you thinking about retiring in
Savannah Georgia? Well I'm going to give
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you my top seven reasons why you should definitely
consider Savannah.
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Hi there welcome to my channel. My name is Karin Carr and I'm a Realtor with Keller Williams
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Coastal Area Partners here in Savannah, GA.
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if you are thinking about retiring to
Savannah you really should click the
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subscribe button right down here because
I talk about all things Savannah related
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and I know you don't want to miss anything. If you are considering retiring to
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Georgia here are my top seven reasons
why Savannah should definitely be on the
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list of places to consider. Number one - we
have an International Airport. Now this
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may not seem like that big of a deal but
trust me, when you want to go to your
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cousin's wedding or you want to go visit
your children or your grandchildren you
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do not want to be driving all the way to
Atlanta to catch a flight. Atlanta is a
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good four hour drive from here so the
fact that we have the Savannah Hilton
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Head International Airport right outside
of Savannah
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(actually it's in Pooler, where my office is) it
is wonderful to have. Number two - we have
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the city and the beach. You can go to
downtown Savannah and we have tons of
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things to do. There is nightlife, there
are tours, there is shopping, there is
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dining out, there's all the things you
would expect to find in a city. But yet
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20 minutes away on Tybee Island we have
the beach. Tybee Island is probably only
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about 10 miles off the coast of Savannah
so it's a very short drive, but you're
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right there at the beach. You can leave
all your stuff on the sand go grab some
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lunch, you can go to the the wildlife
museum, you can go into the t-shirt shops
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and buy a boogie board... you know, it's a
typical beach community. And then be
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right back downtown half an hour later
when you're done at the end of the day.
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Number three - and one of my personal
favorites is eating out. There are so
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many killer restaurants in Savannah I
could probably eat out for dinner every
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single night for an entire year and
never hit the same restaurant twice.
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Paula Deen - we all know Paula Deen is
a Savannah native - has several
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restaurants here. There are tons of
seafood restaurants as I'm sure you can
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imagine. I mean we've got the Georgia
white shrimp and oysters and crabs that
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are all native to this area. So
if you like seafood you're definitely
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gonna get hooked up with seafood if you
live in the Savannah area. But then there are
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other places as well - typical steak places,
American Southern food,
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lots of new ethnic restaurants are
opening up on a regular basis in Savannah.
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Number four - road trips. So
when you retire somewhere now you've got
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lots of free time and maybe you don't
want to just sit in your house all day.
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You want to go explore places. Savannah
is wonderful because there are plenty of
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other cities that are just a few hours
drive away. Orlando takes about 4 to 5
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hours to get to, Jacksonville Florida
only two hours away.
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Charleston two hours away. You can go to
Myrtle Beach, you can go all types of
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different places and it's not a really
far drive. Like I said before Atlanta is
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about four to five hours depending on
traffic and you can go see other places
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without having to fly there. Number five -
and this could be a very big one for you -
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is hospitals. We've got lots of major
hospitals in Savannah. There is st.
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Joseph's Candler, Memorial, St. Joe's, the
VA Medical Center, plus lots of smaller
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individual hospitals, imaging centers, the
whole nine yards. So there is no shortage
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of health care in the Savannah area and
let's face it - as we get older we need
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access to good health care. Number six is
the cost of living. I think that Savannah
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is a very affordable place to live
compared to other major cities. Now
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Savannah's not a big city, it's a small
city. The population of Savannah itself
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is about a hundred thousand and the whole
tri-county area together is maybe three
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hundred thousand. So it's not a huge city.
It's nothing compared to Atlanta but to
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me that's a benefit because we get the
airport, we get the nightlife, we get the
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dining, we get the stuff to do without
the traffic of living in a major city,
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without the expense of living in a major
city. Our median home price is less than
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$250,000 for the
entire area and that means it's an
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affordable place to retire. Especially if
you're coming from up north. I have many
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many clients who are moving here from
New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana... they're
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able to sell their house and buy a
property here with the cash proceeds
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from the sale of their house up north
simply because of the difference in the
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property prices. And number seven of my
reasons why you should be retiring to
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Savannah Georgia is - your family you will
want to come visit you! Yes, that is right.
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Savannah is a huge tourist destination
and people love to come here on
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vacation because of all of the things
that I just mentioned. The beach, the
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nightlife, the things to do, the dining
out, all the things. So if you live in a
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wonderful tropical destination your kids
and grandkids are probably gonna want to
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come visit more frequently. Now depending
on your family hopefully that's a bonus
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and not a drawback! Just sayin'...
So I hope I have convinced you why
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Savannah is a pretty awesome place to
live. If you need more information about
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the various areas of Savannah I have a
free relocation guide for you. Just
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click the link below, you can go to my
website and download that free
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relocation guide. It's a PDF and you can
have it on your computer, on your iPad, or
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you can print it out if you really like
it. It's got some interactive maps and
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lots of really great information for
letting you get to know the Savannah
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area, so you can decide whether or not
this is a place where you'd like to
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retire. Don't just take my word for it -
my mom and dad retired here, which is how
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I ended up here in the first place!
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Thanks so much for watching and I will see you on the next one.
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