Today I'm going to tell you the five things I love and the five things I hate
about living in Savannah, Georgia and we are starting right now.
Hey everyone, welcome back to my channel. I'm Karin Carr with Georgia Coast Homes
and Keller Williams in Savannah Georgia. If you are new here consider subscribing
to my channel by clicking that little bell notification down below because I
talk about a lot of really cool stuff related to Savannah and if you're gonna
be living here ,I'm sure you want to know about it. You may have seen a previous
video I did - I'll link to it right up here - called "Moving to Savannah - 10
reasons why you should." That video has had five thousand views. I can't even
wrap my head around it. And I've done no promotion of that video so you guys are
just finding it because you're googling it, which is so exciting to me!
So I love the fact that so many people are interested in moving to my little
neck of the woods. Well today I'm gonna talk about five
reasons I love living here... and five things I'm not so excited about by living
here. So let's get started. Let's start with the bad ones first. Number one - the
heat. There's no way to pussyfoot around this issue. July and August are
insanely hot, it's just how it is. Luckily there's this beautiful invention
called air conditioning! So everyone spends the time in their air-conditioned
house, they get in their air-conditioned car, they go to their air-conditioned
office, and the minute they get home from work they need to go to the pool or the
beach. So if it's only for two months of the year it's tolerable. Number two - the
humidity. My hair looks like this because I have not yet like left the
house. Once I go outside I will look like Roseanne Rosannadanna, so hair goes up in
a bun. Yes if you are someone whose hair does not love humidity you're going
to become very, very familiar with pulling your hair back in a ponytail or
a bun or hats. Again it's only during the real heat of the summer. I figure if it's
glorious the rest of the year I could tolerate it for a couple of months.
Number three - the bugs. We are in a subtropical climate which means we get
some pretty scary-looking bugs here. Gnats in particular... they are the tiniest
little flies. They're also called noseeums. You pretty much can barely see
them. They're barely visible to the naked eye but they
bite you like mosquitoes. They're not fun. Depending on what area you live in if
you are closer to the water you're gonna have a lot more gnats so you're gonna
have to load up on bug spray. There's something called No Natz that they sell
at all of the gas stations that is an all-natural spray. So get some No Natz,
get some bug spray, citronella, Avon Skin So Soft, anything
that's real good and stinky that can deter the bugs. We also have these things
that I like to call palmetto bugs. Essentially they are giant cockroaches.
They don't come in your house because your house is dirty, they just are here
because it's a hot hot humid climate. So if you live in Savannah most people
realize the need to have a pest control service and we have somebody come once
every three months, spray the outside of the house, and that does the trick. We don't
end up having palmetto bugs or spiders so yeah...
just something you got to deal with living in the south. Number four is
parking downtown. Oh it's hard to park downtown and nothing is free anymore. So
if you're lucky enough to find a parking spot at the curb, you always have to pay
for it unless it's on a Sunday. Sundays are free, or you have to go park in a
parking garage. Sometimes when you're gonna go out to dinner it can be a bit
of a challenge to find parking. There's a great app that you can download to your
phone where you can find a parking spot, pay for it on the app on your phone so
you don't have to carry quarters with you. And you don't have to pay with a
credit card at the meter itself. You just type all your information into the app
and you say, "I am in parking spot 12345," boom, here's 10 bucks. And then you're
done with it. And number 5 of the things that I don't love about living in
Savannah is the need for flood insurance. We live in a hurricane prone area. Not a
lot, it's not like living in New Orleans or the Gulf Coast of Florida, but
Savannah... we do get some hurricanes. We've only had a couple in the last 20 years
but when they come... So anybody who lives close to a body of water
may need to have additional flood insurance on their home. If you're going
to be moving to Savannah and you're buying a house or you're even renting a
house, I'm gonna link this down below. It's called Sagis.org. If you are
in Chatham County you put in the street address of the house that you are
considering and it will tell you which flood zone it is in. If it is in an
X zone it's ver,y very, very low risk. It does not require flood insurance. And if
you're buying a house in an A or a AE zone your lender is going to require
that you get flood insurance if you're getting a mortgage. So just something to
keep in mind if you're gonna be buying a house and it's in a flood zone. That's
going to be added on to the cost of your monthly mortgage payments so you kind of
have to adjust your budget accordingly. So now let's move on to the five things
that I love about living in Savannah. Number one has to be the architecture. I
love walking around downtown. These buildings are so old... I mean you're
walking around buildings that can be 200-300 years old on a
cobblestone street. They just have so much charm and so much architectural history
I love i.t I love to walk around downtown and see the squares and the trees that
are dripping with Spanish moss looking out over the river. It's pretty scenic
and it's just... it's gorgeous. Number two - Savannah is a very artsy town.
Because we have the Savannah College of Art and Design (also called SCAD) there
are a ton of students here. And they are art students so they are artsy. I like that
even though we are in the south, which is in general a fairly conservative area,
we've got this really artsy, cool, hip, fun downtown area thanks to all of the
college students. There are lots of events going on that are sponsored by
SCAD. There are festivals all the time, tons of great restaurants... it's just a
really cool place to go and hang out whether you're just coming down for
dinner or spending the day on Saturday. Or if you live downtown all the time.
Number three - I bet you thought this is gonna be number one didn't you?
The beach! I love the beach. I'm not gonna lie - I ride a mean boogie board. All the
kids are completely mortified by the fact that I'm out there showing them up
on my boogie board. But I love the beach and Tybee is only,
what, 15-20 minutes away from downtown? It's really easy to just say, "Hey let's
go to the beach for the day," hit the road, go over to Tybee Island, spend
the day either soaking up the sun or out surfing in the waves, leave everything on
the sand, and hit one of the restaurants to go get some lunch or go in all the
little knick-knacky shops and buy the touristy stuff like seashells and pails
and shovels and t-shirts and stuff. But I love living in a beach community that
doesn't cost an arm and a leg to go for the day.
Number four is seafood!o you already know that I am a huge huge huge lover of
shrimp and grits, low Country boil too - that's going to be a future video - oh my gosh, low
country boil!!! So we've got a million restaurants around that have killer
seafood. If you've never had the pleasure of trying Georgia white shrimp you need
to RIGHT NOW. And the number five reason that I love living in Savannah is it is
affordable. I've moved a lot in my life. I've lived in nine different states. I
have lived in New York and San Francisco, I've lived in Salt Lake City, I've lived
in Georgia, I've lived in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut... I've lived all
over the place so I've gotten to experience a lot of different areas over
the course of my life. What I love about Savannah is it's really affordable. You
are in a city so you're not in the middle of nowhere where you feel like
you don't have anything to do or you've got to drive for hours to go to the mall
because you need to buy a dress for your best friend's wedding. We are a city. It's
a small city and we've got more suburbs than city I would say, so there's a
really diverse living environment here. Do you want to live in a little cottage
by the ocean? Do you want to live in a brownstone downtown where
you can walk everywhere? Do you want to live in a big fancy gated community and
never have to deal with solicitors because they can't get into your
neighborhood? Do you want to live in the suburbs where you get a nice big backyard
and kids and dogs can run around and you feel safe letting your kids run up and
down the street because you're not worried that they're gonna get hit by
a car? We've got all these different areas in Savannah and they're all really
affordable. Even if you bought a mansion on the beach I guarantee you it's gonna
cost a lot less than it would in Fort Lauderdale or Miami or
San Diego, or any of these other places where it's just a total pipe dream. You
can buy a condo on Tybee that faces the ocean for probably two or three hundred
thousand dollars. It won't be a mansion, it won't be huge but it's definitely
affordable. So now you know all the reasons that I love Savannah and a few
things that are not perfect about Savannah but come on - every place has its
pros and cons. Are you thinking of moving to Savannah? If you click down below you
can head on over to my website and search for all of the homes that are
currently for sale in your own price range. I promise I'm not gonna bug you
and hound you. You just let me know if there's anything that I can assist you
with. Thank you so much for watching and we'll see you on the next one.

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