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You keep saying "US state of..." and you say it like it's a good thing. US(aka DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA) is a foreign corporation which has assumed jurisdiction over The United States of America, the country. "state of" is what the invaders use in their unlawful kangaroo courts. Please learn about this. It's very important, because you sound like a traitor how you talk.
Do more homework.... you current statements concerning Georgia, indicate your extreme lack of knowledge.... The divide you are discussing is relative to manufacturing/Shipping/Distribution (North) and Farming (South).... One of the largest sea ports in the world is Savannah Ga. And where do you think all of those goods are warehoused and distributed? In Savannah? Is that where I-20 (East West) and I-75/85 (North South) intersect? Nope... they intersect in Atlanta .... Starting to get the picture?
@@InjectBleach-em9tgThen you have absolutely no idea what a small town is. We're you stuck in NYC or Tokyo your whole life? When I first went to Savannah, it felt like a huge city to me, I was amazed 😂
Enjoyed the video but as an Atlanta native, I think you missed an opportunity to discuss geography in relation to why Atlanta became a railroad hub in the first place. It costs money to run railroads through the mountains. The rail network in the early 19th century went down the eastern slope of the Appalachians. The railroads coming in from the west and northeast met in Atlanta. There were only indigenous Indians here when the rail arrived. The rail came first and was here because it was the place the railroads happened to meet to avoid the mountains. The presence of the Chattahoochee River as a water source was also helpful.
I don't know where the travel rail network went along the eastern appalachians back then, but I do know any serious commercial trade was still predominantly by boat, and savannah/charleston were the 2 heavy hitters and already had rail to macon and augusta, respectively. The state wanted a hub to consolidate all that commerce before shipping it to "chattanooga" and beyond. the key was owning the route from "atlanta" to "chattanooga" as that would be the primary route for rail commerce from the south to the mid-west (west back then). The state had already decided on the general location based on equidistant travel time from the fall line cities, with a western bias to dodge the blue ridge mountains and minimize the tunnels required during rail construction. they had an army engineer go out and do actual surveys to make sure their assumptions were right, and he picked a spot that was elevated, flat, and easily packable to support a huge rail yard. I'm pretty sure the only consideration the chattahoochee had was to stay on the eastern side of it so they could build fewer bridges. I'm not touching the "only indigenous indians" comment. it would be the longest comment in youtube history.
Whatchu talking about, Willis? The entire state is buggy! I live in Barrow County, and I'm constantly bombarded with ants, wasps, bees, spiders, stink bugs, katydids, cockroaches, and more.
the people in south Ga below the fall line are some of the sweetest people i have ever met. i'm from north ga but i always feel at home when i visit my brothers and sisters in dougherty, grady, thomas, muscogee countys
I live in south Georgia and it is a different kind of place. As humid and bug infested as any other place I’ve ever been. Also if you want to know what southern hospitality really is just come to south ga. These are some of the nicest and helpful people you could ask for.
Let me fix that for you. If you're wyte and want to know southern hospitality, come to South GA. If you look like me, middle GA up to Atl is your spot.
I don't know how this video is going to spend 14+ minutes to explaining that the southern part of Georgia is even hotter and more humid than the northern part of Georgia. I mean one of the biggest swamps in this hemisphere is in southern Georgia.
The northern part of Georgia cools off after September 1. Southern Ga. the heat lasts until some time in October. And at least the eastern part of S. Ga is extremely humid - a lot of that comes from the Okefenokee swamp I assume.
It might be more in the summer, but just barely. Mean-wise, you're talking about an average of 3-4% more humidity and 3-4 more degrees - except when factoring in that if you live in the ATL metro around all the traffic, asphalt and industrial/commercial activity, the localized increase in temps and humidity will cancel out all of that. The big deviation in humidity and dew points between North and South GA actually occurs during the winter months and early spring, when it's a lot more welcome.
Oh my gosh, you have to experience the heat & humidity to understand. It drains your energy while you sweat non stop. It’s so difficult to stay hydrated consistently during all but maybe 4 months. November, December, January, & February are pretty reliably cooler. March is 1/2 hot, then get ready…
The simple two cent answer is south Georgia is and has always been rural and farms and flat. They plant Cotton, Peach trees, Pecan trees, Peanuts to Pine trees. Atlanta as pointed out is or was a major rail hub so everything went to Atlanta on it's way to parts North and West. Georgia is a major lumber producing state and it takes up to twenty years for good size pine trees to grow for house building. They cut in twenty year cycles and replant. Lots of old time farms still planting cotton and peanuts, for Planters Peanuts. Go to Macon Georgia and drive by endless Peach trees. Don't need lots of people messing up the farming.
Actually, there’s not much peaches grown out here hasn’t been for years. Most of them come from South Carolina same with the rice he mentioned that the only thing I see growing out here is cotton and soybeans.
I moved to Atlanta from Virginia and I cannot imagine myself living anywhere else. And I grew up in Queens. It has a lot to offer and I love the weather and greenery. I am very happy here.
The Okefenokee is one of the most unique places in the US. it's absolutely amazing to visit in the fall or early spring. A company wants to start mining titanium only a few miles from the refuge boundary, which will forever change the hydrology of the swamp; it'll most likely cause it to dry up! There's a big fight between conserving the swamp & forever changing it for 8 years worth of titanium mining. I spent a year as artist in residence at the Okefenokee & fell in love with it.
This is a fact I hope GA don’t mess up thier natural wildlife area like FL did. It’s ok to have natural beaches with no on them. Natural swamps that filter the water.
I Know Chemours Recently Continued their commitment to not support Twin Pines in their crap down there. Saw an update in my paper about it just this week. A Twin Pines Exec was even quoted as saying that it poses no ecological danger to the swamp whatsoever. Little hard to believe given the circumstances. Glad Chemours Isn't partnering with them in this, but it is an obvious choice given their base around South GA would pull the rug out from under their own feet if they helped in that.
The risk of getting hit by a tornado goes way up below peach tree city and also in the western slice from Rome down. Lived in northern Fulton my whole life and have constant anxiety during spring as the severe weather can be real bad. Plus it often happens at night and there are so many hills and trees you can’t see a tornado coming like you can out west.
We just got torn up by a tornado here in Tallahassee. When I lived out West in Idaho we had a small earthquake one time, and some blizzards. No tornadoes.
As someone from southeast GA who now lives in Cobb County, I not only agree with you but I also want to add mosquitos and horseflies as the other two reasons. We had an abundance of them alongside the gnats. Summers down there had me wondering if we were getting hit with one of the plagues of Egypt during Moses' years. 😆
@@shifty1558 hey, just wanted to say I’m also from statesboro (originally from glennville (south of Claxton)). I think the Hyundai plant is going to bring a ton of jobs to the area and hopefully be a net positive. It’s always crazy to look at how big it is when you drive by it going to Savannah or Pooler.
@@ts109 Yep. Right here up the road. Good location for buying land and doing whatever you want with it. Close enough to town, Brunswick and yet far enough out not to be noticed.
I live in southern GA, born here. The most annoying part is how far away everything is, you put some serious milage on your car. But it's really pretty, and the emptiness is kinda nice. Atlanta is the hellhole you avoid as much as possible, just for the traffic alone 😂. People from Atlanta will often drive the highways at night with no headlights on, because they are so used to the streetlights and evidently don't know how to turn their headlights on. I'm baffled as well, but that's Atlanta for you. Savannah on the other hand is absolutely lovely, especially compared to Atlanta.
People in Phoenix often drive at night without headlights too. There's an epidemic of stupid overcoming the cities in this country, yet the government lets people too stupid to use headlights operate motor vehicles. No surprise pedestrian deaths from car accidents are sharply on the rise.
Because it is the arm pit of hell and has the biggest yellow flies… mosquitoes and horse flies. Summer lasts 8 months… the humidity and heat are beyond ridiculous and relentless. What winter we have is my reward for surviving summer.
And the rural areas pride themselves on their ignorance and lack of diversity. Although in fairness, they don't mind having diverse folk to kick around so they can imagine themselves superior. But those diversity folk better know their place.
Georgia is pretty densely populated compared to where I live out west. I guess rural is different on the east coast. And yes I have been there... 4 years at Benning.
Another native Georgian here. Savannah was NOT destroyed by Sherman during the Civil War. He ordered his men to burn Atlanta but said Savannah was too beautiful to destroy. Us Atlantans would LOVE to spread some of the growth around the state. Metro atlanta traffic is soul crushing but I love it other than that part. Good video
Mhmm. That's why Savannah still has its older architecture. And even though General Sherman did not march there, Charleston, South Carolina has similar architectural styles.
Atlanta is a massive railway hub and Savannah is a deep water port. Atlanta is within a 2.5 hour flight of 85% of the entire US population, the rest of Georgia is not. Atlanta is home to several large companies-Coca Cola, Delta, Home Depot, UPS, Chick-fil-A, Arby's, CNN, Invesco, Mercedes-Benz USA, Novelis, Orkin, etc. The list goes on. But Atlanta has to Georgia what New York City is to New York. It's such a dominant economic draw that there is little reason to live in the rest of the state for job opportunities. It isn't like Florida, where the population is more spreadout across Orlando, Miami, Tampa, and Jacksonville and it isn't like Texas, which has oil in the interior to prop up DFW all the time. The central hub has been Atlanta. Much the same like Chicago in the Midwest, it is the largest and most dominant economic drawer of activity until you get into the Appalachian Mountains and it is geographically favorable for rail and air traffic as well.
@@tadlambert1493 ein Beitrag des Mittwoches, 26. März 2024 (die Karwoche) "Joseph Stalin´s revenche" The Republic of Georgia (~ Sakartwelo), has reached a spot of the UEFA European Champion for Gentlemen ° Association Football Happy Easter!
I grew up in Tifton and live on the South Carolina side of Augusta now. I love South Georgia. It’s the perfect place to live if you want to slow down a little bit
Empty is relative for southern Georgia terms. A lot of towns down in South Georgia are still relatively large with hubs like Valdosta, Tifton, Albany, and Brunswick
Yea I am going to have to call BS on that. Savannah is my second home. I find it a shithole. Been trying to get my son to leave it practically ever since he moved there. The traffic is maddening anytime of the day, one can't swing a cat without hitting a panhandler, People that work in public service have attitudes, working class property owners are treated as cash cows by the local government to support all the people that just can't be bothered working God bless them. The same people that hang out in the public parks and raise hell all hours of the day an night.
@@randolphkersey5155 I thought you were describing Atlanta which is a bigger shithole. Seems like it also applies to most of Florida, NC, Va & La. Lived in big cities in all of those places & all seem to be the same.
He's also off about GA population. It's now 11 million. Savannah is the biggest coastal city in the state but even Brunswick and it's metro area is over 100K further south of Savannah.
He's counting the metro area in that 600K figure, I checked. Augusta/Hephzibah/Fort Eisenhower (aka the base formerly known as Fort Gordon ) / Martinez / Evans / Aiken / Edgefield all get rolled into that number, and it's still only around 600-700K max depending whether you include the base.
One word…Jobs. I was born and raised in southwest GA. Moved to Atlanta for work. The majority of factories have closed in rural GA. My dad was one of those casualties. That only leaves agriculture as primary employer. Other major cities are Savannah, Macon, and Columbus. These all benefit because of interstate proximity.
@@FidelAlt 3 hours if you're driving a slant6 '72 Dodge Van with no overdrive towing a trailer full of roadrace bikes. I used to DREAD having to drive to Savannah to race back then. Leaving Macon used to feel like I left civilization. ....then there was the drive home after being beat up all weekend.
It's not exactly empty with 4 million people. But once you get into GA and SC, there is a fourth geographic area, the lowlands. This area is markedly different from coastal plains.
Yeah, but those 4 million aren't equally distributed. Take Clinch county, third largest county in the state by area (2,137 km2), has a population of about 6800, with about a third of them (2,300) living in the county seat of Homerville (9 km2), leaving about 4,500 people and an average density of about 2 people per square kilometer, or about 5.2 per square mile for the rest of the county. If you look at satellite photos the most dominant feature are clearcuts from forestry with nothing else around.
Geoff, you left out Saint Marys with Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay. We have approximately 1/4 of the strategic nuclear weapons of the nation. As such, we are critical to the nation's defense. In the far southeast corner of the state, Saint Marys is as far as you can get from Atlanta and stay in Georgia. We like it that way.
@@GheeRook Georia's coast is fortunate to have a lot of shallow sea floor next to it and thus most hurricanes bounce off or weaken when the come up north
Another reason why Savannah isn't as big as people would expect is because there is a conservation effort to preserve the historical significance of the city and its surroundings, so much so that their are policies and standards that the city has passed to actually prevent certain types of growth. For example, you have to get very special permission to build a structure past a certain height near other tall structures. So as to not disrupt the skyline in such a way that it would interfere with the ability to see a a tall structure of historical significance. like a church steeple.
@@Daserilpretty sure he only left it because Lincoln's wife's sister had tons of cotton stored there, so he was given orders to spare the city. Thank goodness, Savannah is one of my favorite American cities. I appreciate how they've tried to maintain it over the years...
Not to mention that whenever one is developing an area and one accidentally discovers remains of people/artifacts in Savannah - which is basically EVERYWHERE - work comes to a screeching halt until the proper authorities, historians, archeologists, and WTOC reporters appear on scene to carefully supervise activity, document every movement, and recover the tiniest bone fragment! (Not complaining - just throwing this fact in!)
Speaking for those of us in the south east corner of Georgia, we like it not being so populated! When my former high school students used to complain about “nothing to do” in Jesup… I told them they live 40 miles from the beach, about 80-90 miles from Jacksonville, and 70 miles from Savannah. There will come a day (if they are still around) you will love our location that has fewer problems found in cities. That’s probably not as true today as it was 30-40 years ago 😢.
As someone who has lived in the northwest region in Georgia his whole life, can we send some of our population down there? It’s way too crowded up here. We’re just minutes outside of Chattanooga and people are moving here in droves. lol we need y’all to take some of these guys off our hands…. 🤣
@@tangofett4065 🥴No thank you! Seriously, every time we are in the “above the knat line” traffic… the comment regularly is, “so glad we don’t live in this!” Bless you🙏
@@jesse76th96 Not the case here! Our student parking lot is full of trucks and cars. You are right that many do not drive to school. But the lack of transportation was not a factor in that analogy and at the time, did not mess with their understanding 🤔
You can add East Point, Riverdale, Forest Park as a suburb too. With all the growth anything 60 miles outside of 285 could be considered a suburb. It is getting crowded in Henry County now. The northeastern side of Atlanta seems to be booming too!
Forest Park, Jonesboro, Riverdale, Fayetteville, Fairburn, Palmetto, Union City, College Park, East point, and on and on and on.......... And by the way, MARTA runs to every single one of those places now. It's solid city from Atlanta to Newnan. There is no separation. I left that hell hole 5 years ago, and will never go back. Keep it. It's the worst city I've ever lived in and it's filled to the brim with black people that absolutely hate white people.
Good video. I have to laugh a little at the way you said Oglethorpe's name though just because I'm from Georgia hehe. The "O" is pronounced more like the "o" in "oath" not "off"
@@neox9369 I have been all over this planet, and have watched hundreds die in other countries when the heat and humidity reached levels that are common in the southeast U.S. I once heard a woman in Arizona complain about it being 110 plus F. I suggested she should spend a week in southern Mississippi then consider how lucky she was to have cool weather in Arizona in the summer.
@@DraggonCanoe I agree. 110f and dry is nothing on 105f and humid which It can be that way all day and night. No escape from it until a thunderstorm and expect it to be worse which is why I believe Savannah takes the cake with the heat.
@@User78813 One thing is for certain, the southeast U.S. isn't for the faint of heart when it comes to weather. I grew up without air conditioning, and remember very well those sweatbox nights.
I have family that’s lives in Thomasville. Great city, but housing is shockingly expensive relative to what you get. Over half the single family homes are rental properties.
Right! I'm south Georgia, waycross. I've looked for land to buy many times.. the prices are insane! But Tennessee has good land deals... I just can't get nothing here in south ga thata reasonable. What the hell is down here? Nothing. So why is it so expensive?
@@brightmooninthenight2111 I'm in Carrollton GA close to the university of west georgia and the prices here are outrageous and the only way you can survive here is if your place is paid for
My oldest brother lives in Thomasville and we went to the famous spook bridge between quitman and valdosta, I live around 300 miles from Thomasville and way above the fault line so there's plenty of dirt aka Red georgia clay here
I came from Europe 1997, i loooove ❤❤ South, everything from TX to NC. People, food, culture, weather. Georgia is sooo nice and romantic state. I drive semi truck , i know all places.
I will drive 2 hrs out of the way to go around Atlanta. 129 to 441 goes through some of the most beautiful areas of Ga. Now the traffic on the 2 lane parts of the highway can be a nightmare. The area around FDR National Park, Warm Springs, Callaway Gardens is nice as well. Just don't "let the bed bugs bite!" Oh, am I steering you away from where I live, uhm, maybe.
I thought he was going to mention that Georgia small towns are disappearing. I have relatives in Vidalia, a town of ten thousand, but it hasn’t grown since 1980. There a lots of static towns in S. Ga. They screamed when Walmart came to town but if a Walmart closes they are devastated. These rural areas have trouble sustaining doctors, hospitals and basic services.
Well Vidalia is one of the few towns in south ga growing. It’s bigger than the town next door which is the county seat. I was surprised how much it’s grown
Southwest Georgia around Albany, Tifton , Moultrie , and Valdosta has been growing. Towns that size and bigger have anyway. Some of the really small towns have been shrinking and disappearing as all the offices, retail etc. have been consolidated into the larger towns.
The main issue with traffic that I see in Atlanta is caused by Atlanta not having a true bypass. All traffic must go through Atlanta. (Stright through or the loop) What our capital needs is a true bypass for I75, 85 and 20 for everyone, NOT stopping in Atlanta. A bypass without exits, every mile. Or maybe just build a new road from Chattanooga to Macon, etc.
Here in Detroit we have local and express interstates. Express only has a few off ramps where it's intended to get you to and from the airport as fast as possible. the local has an off ramp for each major street.
I guess nobody on the GA coast never heard of Savannah. There's also this little town just south of my called Columbus. It's kinda big because the largest army base in the world, Ft Benning, is right below it.
You're not making a very good argument for the sophistication of that region; three sentences, all with poor grammar and/or punctuation. Really, if three coherent sentences are too much to ask, you've demonstrated why it's not a hub of business.
@@TheAureliac If you think a short comment from one person is 100% indicative of an entire region, you're an idiot. Not to mention Savannah and Ft. Benning not only exit,but they've existed since before I was born. That kinda takes my opinion (and grammar) out of the context. Basically, the current existence of these large groups completely nullify your "fact" you just posted attempting to belittle me. I recommend you put the phone down and go outside in the sun. Bonus points if you can leave your elitist dickish attitude behind with your phone. Oh, and if my poor southern grammar is too much for you to comprehend, a simple "fuck off" will do.
Savannahs port is getting enlarged by a huge margin. Also. The “gnat line” is huge for differences in climate and where people live. Valdosta and Albany being the only outliers
And now because of the Hyundai vehicle factory going up 15 miles away off I 16 real estate has gone up over a 40 mile circle. Savannah will be the new Austin.
Omg Savannah is so beautiful. I just wish there were better beaches in GA. I do also enjoy all the beautiful pine trees in the Atlanta area. I think one of its nicknames is “the city in the forest”
The Atlanta area is primarily broadleaf, deciduous trees, as is most of the northern third of the state. Sure, we do have some pines and areas where the soil has been disturbed you tend to see more of them, but they'll eventually all be choked out by deciduous trees if the area is allowed to become forest. Southern Georgia is really where pines thrive as the dominant tree species, except near the coast and coastal marshlands.
Being from the Ohio valley, my military career was in Columbia, SC and Augusta Ga. I found the climate better that the Cincinnati area all around. So I decided to make Georgia my home, and never looked back at Ohio. Only place close to rural Ga is southwest Arkansas about 50 miles northeast of Texarkana, Ark.
@@RebelCowboysRVs I don’t live in Georgia by the way. Cities are expensive and countryside is cheaper (I don’t know why younger generations don’t like the countryside these days other than jobs). I heard about Atlanta’s horrible traffic and more people flocking there make it worse. Savannah doesn’t look like a cheap place since it is a mini Charleston. Augusta looks like an affordable place to live in.
And now Atlanta doesn't have the infrastructure to support all those people. It has become a sprawling mess with terrible traffic, and you would hardly believe it developed as a transportation hub given its lack of high speed rail and its mediocre transit system.
As opposed to LA (sprawling mess with terrible traffic plus California government), NYC (sprawling mess with terrible traffic and subways where people push you in front of trains), or Chicago (sprawling mess with terrible traffic, insane crime, and Cubs fans)?
It’s crazy how a lot of people think anything outside of the big cities don’t matter. To be honest, the friendliest, best parts of the south are the small towns and rural areas… I know, I’ve lived in the rural south east for 22 years.
The other reason i heard from another video is, the Atlanta area has a slightly higher elevation, around 1500 ft i think, which makes it slightly cooler.
Now that the port of Baltimore is closed Savannah should see a big boost in their economy because that’s where they are possibly going to relocate all the business to.
It's already the 3rd largest port in America and was already growing faster than any other port in the country before the FSK bridge was sabotaged. If i recall correctly, Baltimore is the 6th largest port.
The population of Georgia outside Atlanta is comparable to the population of Ireland or Scotland or Wales. Does that mean Ireland, Scotland, and Wales are "empty" and "nobody" lives there?
Relatively yes the population of Scotland and Ireland is low in comparison to an American context. Also keep in mind its the population density of the area which makes it empty or not. If 4 million people live in one city versus on millions of acres it makes a clear difference.
As someone who drives up and down the Eastern seaboard a lot, the southern Georgia coast actually has a lot of vacation spots -- Brunswick, for example. Also, the idea of the "simple" lives of the Eastern indigenous American tribes is purely a product of Rousseau-influenced modernity. The Cherokee, for example, were known even in the Antebellum days as one of the "Five Civilized Tribes" respected by the settlers & their descendants for their sophisticated culture. The saying among whites was that the best way to tell a Cherokee home from a white American home was by checking how many books they had -- because the Cherokee could be expected to have more literature than the whites. It's part of why there was never any stigma about having Cherokee ancestry in the U.S. and why many will falsely claim it to try and gain clout in American society (eg: Elizabeth Warren).
As someone who has lived in the Atlanta area his whole life, I enjoyed hearing stuff I already knew about the state and even learning some new things I didn’t know. Great video!
S. Ga. here (Douglas/Coffee Co.). This reminds me of my roommate who said "to get to anywhere, you have to drive!". I always smiled & said "not my fault Ga. is 11X BIGGER than CT". 😅
You explained why so many folks live in the Atlanta Metro area, but you didn’t really cover why southern Georgia’s is sparsely populated! The sandy soil is not good for much but peanuts and pine tree plantations, both of which require a lot of acreage, as does quail hunting, with some Pecan trees to sweeten the deal. After that there’s just the heat, the rattlesnakes, water moccasins, fire ants, and mosquitoes that can bite you through your jeans.
Lived in southwestern Michigan for almost half my life. Lived in Atlanta suburbs for 30 years. Live in rural Georgia now. I'm done with cities. Don't even enjoy driving into the suburbs anymore. Please be quiet and keep the secret of rural Georgia. We wouldn't want to be over run with newcomers!
I was actually thinking that the more people talked about how much better Atlanta was than South Georgia, the more I thought, "Hmmm. Sounds perfect for me". But I live in an area that's pretty equivalent in the northern half of Alabama, so I'm happy. I used to be a people person til people ruined it for me.
You'll get a few anyway as climate refugees from Florida, though most will try to head to the piedmont areas. South Florida will have to be evacuated well before actual submersion because of saltwater intrusion to aquifers and property being uninsurable from too many disasters.
@@myfriendgoo2816i agree and with the way everyone talks about Augusta, they'll skip right over and head to Savannah, Atlanta, Charlotte, maybe even Columbia
Augusta isn’t just Richmond county. The Augusta metropolitan area includes aiken county in SC and has a total population close to 700k. Decent size and economy.
I grew up in south GA and live in Atlanta. Basically south GA is so hot and “buggy” that it’s essentially hell on earth from May until October. They weren’t sending debtors prisons to prime real estate. Most of the year is beautiful, but summer in South GA will deter most people no matter how pleasant the lifestyle and cost of living are.
@@aldenshaycap , it’s no different from any coastal plain region from the mid Atlantic to north Florida. I’m originally from the DC area and it gets the same their during warmer months. GA is no special butterfly with the elements you mentioned
@@neox9369Major cap, I'm from Valdosta Georgia and I currently live in the DC area. It does not in anyway get as hot as Valdosta in DC. DC has a very mild summer compared to any city in South Georgia. You do realize Florida is walking distance from Valdosta and a lot of cities in South Georgia. I'm moving back home very soon bc I love the heat. It doesn't even get hot in DC until late June. Right now its in the 60s in DC and we are at the end of May ...
I love south Georgia especially the sweet onions, pecans, peanuts, blueberries peaches and all that this beautiful South Georgia land gives us. Also the rivers the pine trees the ocean.
I was born in SW Georgia and have lived in the Atlanta area for over 30 years. It never felt empty to me. Nobody moves away because of the weather or the gnats. If that was the case, nobody would live in Florida except for the beach towns. They move for the economic opportunities and the abundance of things to do. However, as I get older I am having less patience for the crowds and the Atlanta traffic and am seriously considering building a second home in my hometown.
@@thomasnelson6161 I'm very familiar with Blackshear. And Waycross and Nahunta. Jerry J's in Nahunta is wonderful country cooking. We do go back to Hoboken several times a year.
I'm a Savannahian although I live in Atlanta. I like Atlanta, but I'm more proud of my Savannah. Savannah is pretty big place and has a lot going for it, one of which is that it's in the top 5 most beautiful cities in the United States!!! I appreciate your work. You do Georgia proud!
I can comment here because I grew up in that area. In a small town called Cordele, the watermelon capital of the world! Number one producer of melons in the country I think. Many migrants workers every year, along with a big watermelon festival now at Lake Blackshear, which is the only good thing the county has to offer. My grandfather here was Cherokee. The weather is super humid and gets very hot in the summer along with swarms of gnats and mosquitoes. It gets hit by tornadoes and hurricanes all the time, along with flooding as a result. No snow though, maybe an inch in 10 years. Most of the area is rural, with little business. But as in any rural areas, hunting, fishing, and general outdoor sports are very popular here. Especially fishing. Most land is private, but the few stage parks, public fishing areas, and wildlife management areas, are flooded in the summer. Fishing is my favorite, I'm addicted to it, I just went to a PFA yesterday and caught the biggest fish of my life, a 15lb grass carp. The economy is mostly driven by agriculture I assume, which is obvious. I grew up by cotton fields. My dad works in the pine fields, the pine industry here is big. The rivers and creeks don't have as much current because ti's mostly flat. But that also means that there's lots of swamps, like the Okefenokee Swamp, which I'm hoping to go kayaking, fishing and camping in one day. That's all I got to say, yall can ask me any question yall might have. Currently I live in Statesboro, going to Georgia Southern University, which many Southern Georgians do, and I go to Savannah occasionally too. Both cites are currently growing rapidly.
@@BMWE90HQ Just saying, that's the nickname, and the fields will all be full of it in the summer, and there's a big festival. So that's the theme there
Could be worse. There's Claxton, GA known as the "Fruitcake Capital of the World" and host an annual Rattlesnake Roundup. I think they have a Chicken Plant there as well.
Eastern Oklahoma has some "American Indians´ Reserves"! There could be a "State of East Oklahoma", or so! I worked at an Asian Indian tea shop in Germany.
Savannah did not grow into a major city because, Its haunted lol. Actually the port in Savannah does not have a channel deep enough to support a cruise terminal. The Corps of Engineers dredges it once in a while so the shipping container barges can make it down the channel. There is some problem with keeping it deep enough for the cruise terminals which I have yet to understand.
Maybe because of that hydrogen bomb that was accidentally dropped off Tybee Island in 1958. Maybe the dredge boats are afraid of hitting it and setting off an explosion. It could ruin their whole day. 😒😐
Our City Council considered the addition of a cruise terminal several years ago. It became obvious there isn’t a good place to put one and our tourism industry already brings in piles of money every year without one. Aside from that, Savannahians could clearly see the severe buyer’s remorse among Charlestonians about their cruise terminal, and local opposition to building one here was strong. The depth of the river was not a factor. Savannah is the fourth busiest container port in the US and container ships are way more massive than cruise ships. Rest assured, lack of a cruise terminal has not hampered the city’s growth. Probably a major reason none of our coastal cites are especially large is because the State of Georgia has done a surprisingly good job of preserving our coast line, rather than letting developers build wherever they want and turn everything into another Miami.
@@Bonniebluetours2010 I don't get why he went by tonnage for ports. Like technically that does put Savannah at 13th but it's just a weird way of measuring it. And We don't need to be a bunch of booming Metro Centers to be considered "Good". Maybe lower pop. densities and developer restrictions are preferable to Atlanta traffic. Just don't pull a whatever the Long County Development Authority did.
@@macaroniwithoutcheese175 I agree. I really don’t think growth for growth’s sake is to be desired. It’s ok to be a manageable size and grow slowly or just maintain.
The GA coast also lacks a major, navigable river leading deep inland. Yes it has creeks and streams, but nothing like a Hudson or Columbia or Mississippi etc.
When I read into the Mississippi River and its cities founded near it, transportation seems OP and simply godly. Wonder how many other locations on earth have a set up as such
I don't blame you. Up North traffic has become unbearable, a commute that used to take 20 min fifteen years ago now takes two or three times as long. And it will only get worse unfortunately.
Large pieces of terrain in southern Georgia are occupied by military bases, specifically Robins and Moody Air Force Bases, Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base, Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany, and Army Forts Moore/Benning and Stewart, and Hunter Army Airfield. By definition, the Army bases offer room for training by not having high population density so Joe has room to run around. The Moore/Benning effect is somewhat offset by the 3rd biggest city, Columbus, located right next door, and Savannah -- 5th biggest -- is right next to Fort Stewart/Hunter AAF.
I agree with the humid summer part. Years ago I went of a job interview which would be a relocation to the south coast of Georgia..I could hardly breath and the heat was unreal.
I was born and grew up on the Georgia coast and loved it. There was so much history, the beach was great and uncrowded and there were plenty of things to do. I moved to the metro Atlanta area after I graduated from school in Athens and didn't like it as much as Athens. I moved because job opportunities were better and I have stayed in the northwest metro area since 1990. Since then I have seen the Atlanta and surrounding areas explode in population, new business, and never ending construction. There is always road construction which makes the traffic even worse. The traffic here is incredible! Sometimes I do think about moving to a place with less traffic and people when I retire. One reason the Georgia coast does not have major cities is because so much of it (especially the barrier islands) is protected. That is a good thing especially for the wildlife like sea turtles and so many kinds of birds and fish. Yeah I am not surprised some south Georgians don't want people to move there.
South Georgia is below the "gnat line". Its very agricultural, there is a large swamp there too that touches parts of 4 counties. The prosperous southern business cities generally developed above the Fall Line, the point which rivers were not navigable. Except for South Florida, this is true for Atlanta, Birmingham, Charlotte and Nashville. Huntsville in Northern Alabama is booming. There is nothing inherently bad about South Georgia, but for historic reasons North Georgia will remain dominant. New Orleans has been in decline for a century. Houston is an exception of the coastal cities.
Savannah's geography is a living work of art, where the winding curves of the Savannah River weave through centuries-old oak trees draped in Spanish moss, and cobblestone streets lead to hidden squares bursting with flowers. Unlike Atlanta's sprawling urban skyline and rolling hills, Savannah sits on a flat coastal plain, where marshes shimmer in the golden light of sunrise, and every corner reveals a glimpse of water - whether it's a serene lagoon, the vast ocean, or the whispering river. The salty breeze carries the scent of magnolias and the hum of cicadas, creating a sense of calm that's hard to find in the hustle of Atlanta. Here, life moves with the rhythm of the tides, offering a slower, more soulful pace where beauty and history meet. Savannah isn't just a place to live; it's a place to savor every single moment.
He forgot to mention one thing which I have experienced firsthand visiting my grandparents lived in South Georgia growing up. If you're not used to heat...and I'm talking 90+ Degree Temps with high humidity and anything that flies wanting to land on your skin, you probably aren't going to enjoy being there for at least 6 months out of the year. I literally got sick every time I went down there until I was 13 years old because of all the allergens which my immune system had never encountered. Eventually, it was fine but it took time to acclimate. However, if you can deal with heat, the people there are very nice,friendly, and helpful.
@@willp.8120 Not really. There is less geographical and cultural distance between Macon and Warner Robins than there is between one side of Atlanta and the other. People circulate through Macon and Warner Robins from home to work to play and back home again all the time.
@@johnmurphy9385 According to the US Census Bureau, Warner Robins and Macon are separate metropolitan areas. They, however, belong to the same consolidated statistical area. I can see your reasoning, however for thinking them one metro area, as only a few miles of undeveloped land really separates them.
Atlanta Metro's main problem is traffic. Depending on the issue, it might take two hours to take a trip that should only take thirty minutes. smh. I saw these issues coming in the early 2000s. Too many people relocating to an area that is not ready for the growth or has the room for it. Too crowded.
When Terminus was founded (later renamed Marthasville then Atlanta) it was basically a failing ghost town of a railroad stop. Later it was burned to the ground by Sherman. The fact that Atlanta exists and has become such a big metropolitan area is kind of a miracle
Douglas Georgia 1963-1965 wonderful town, moved to Athens Georgia in 1965-1968 fine town and some great football games there. Visit Atlanta and be prepared for traffic. I went back in 2020 and visited all three cities. All have gotten bigger and much more traffic!!! If you want to shop, support the local stores and if they do not have it; don’t drive, it’s completely computer time!! A great large glass of tea and browse for the things you want!!! Try to shop local for anything and enjoy the tall pines.
I wouldn't really call Georgia outside of Atlanta empty. It has a population of 4.5 million while Alabama has a population of 5 million right next to Georgia and at a similar size. It's moreso that Atlanta is an outlier here.
One's growing a LOT faster than the other. That's also changing state politics, despite all the gerrymandering and vote-suppression attempts. Cobb and Gwinnett used to be ruby red. Now they're both blue and Cherokee is the most populous red county. Really mind-blowing.
@@myfriendgoo2816Nonwhites who moved into Gwinnett and Cobb are the reason for the shift from red to blue. It has nothing to do with changing ideologies of the long time residents of those counties.
@@myfriendgoo2816The moveins leave bad places and bring their bad politics with them; then sit and wonder why the new place is going downhill. Gwinnett is a perfect example of destruction by urbanization. 2020 to 2050 should be watched closely, because 2010 to 2020 was already terrible.
@@myfriendgoo2816 one the fastest growing counties in the state is Bryan (outside of Chatham... where Savannah is located) and Chatham is growing rapidly as well. And state politics are pretty much the same... more evidence points to 2020 being the outlier. Georgia is bright red except that the state has 2 Democratic Senators. We will see in 2024 but people have wanted Georgia to become purple since it flipped in 2000.
@@myfriendgoo2816 one more thing... it seems that people vote Blue when they move to Georgia and over time shift to voting purple then red. You have STRONG democratic enclaves (Dekalb and Fulton Counties for example) and a few places that have changed (Cobb and Gwinnett) but for the most part the internal politics statewide have been pretty consistent since 2000.
As some who is born and raised in Georgia now currently live in Atlanta, I found this video interesting and the reason why few people live in South Georgia is because its home to farming for peaches, peanuts, and onions. Not to mention its gets very hot and humid around the swamp lands. Atlanta on the other hand is the crown jewel of the South when it comes to sports and entertainment while continuing to be a cultural hub to this day.
I grew up in SE GA and now live in Atlanta. There's a significant difference in weather and climate. Although, there's not much snow around Atlanta, there's what we call love bugs and many other insects in the southern part of the state that when I drive home quickly cover my windshield around south of Macon. Also, the humidity is often 100% and suffocating in the summer with temps around 100 degrees.
@@duckducknight problem with that, I'm over near Savannah and we had a tornado watch literally yesterday, and almost 2 years ago my house had a near miss.
@@LillyGamesx I know the feeling . Tornado yesterday in Rockdale County not far from my house. Pollen is terrible almost a 7000 count & we still have love bugs, not quite as bad as down home (south Ga). now we can deal with the Cicadas.
8:37 As of the 2023 census Atlanta now has over 6.3 million people making it the 6th largest metro in the United States...Only New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, and Houston are bigger than Atlanta.
Gotta point out a few discrepancies. I grew up in Northeast Georgia on the SC coast on the shores of Lake Hartwell. I lived in Augusta for 4 years - med school at Medical College of Georgia. I lived in Savannah for 5 years - 3 years Internal medical residency and 2 years of private practice. You are missing several large cities - Columbus in WSW Georgia; Macon in middle Georgia has Mercer Medical School. Bainbridge in SSW Georgia - home to Taurus Firearms. If you study the fall line. South of the fall line was underwater before the oceans receded in prehistoric times. OK, yeah, I currently live on the Alabama line in the Metro Atlanta region. I was recruited here out of residency but the remainder of my family still live near Lake Hartwell. Our three kids, all raised in Metro Atlanta all live in different states. One stayed in Georgia, one went to Louisiana and one is in SC.
@@MrCountrycuz Nope. Not talking Anderson. Although the wife was born there, I and all my immediate family (before marriage) were born in Athens. It seems strange that each of our kids was born in a different Georgia city.
Great summary, thanks! Although the Atlanta metro represents over half the population of Georgia, there's a LOT to see and explore throughout the rest of the Peach State! Atlantans often travel to Columbus for a nice relaxing getaway from Atlanta's big city stresses and hassles. Columbus also now has a new Mercer Medical School, the largest urban whitewater rafting course in the world, and the National Infantry Museum that's repeatedly been rated the No. 1 free museum in America (no military ID required) by USA Today readers.
Years ago I was hauling carpet from Columbus, Georgia to St. Louis, Missouri twice a week, I grew to love South Georgia, the country side and the people
Geoff.... Ever heard of Savannah Georgia? You know that massive city where most of the ships doc at the PORT of SAVANNAH, to discharge their contents.... Maybe you should go there, its on the COSTAL WATERWAY... I noticed you included Carroll County in the Atlanta area on your map... Carroll County however, is not part of the Atlanta area, its considered rural. As for the Southern parts of the state, there are large cities South of Atlanta (Macon, Albany, Valdosta for instance) The reason the Southern parts of the state are not as populated as the Atlanta area... is because those area is mostly Farming lands, as they have been historically. If you ever wear cotton clothes, or eat peanuts or pecans, or peaches, they are likely grown in that area of the state. Play less games and study more...
Savannah is actually the fourth largest port in america, not the thirteenth. Savannah is also the largest single terminal port in america; for example , of the larger ports are New York/ New Jersey, which is a joint port. Savannah has always been a city. It has never been a mean agricultural hub, but in the time of the Civil War, where cotton was king, the cotton zone, which perpetuated The cotton business, was actually invited by Eli Whitney in Savannah The majority of the cotton that was bought and sold was at the Savannah cotton exchange. The port of Savannah has been an economic power house since the founding of the state. It was key to the Confederacy.That's why I share why sherman presented it to lincoln as a christmas present. The problem with why the rest of the state is so underdeveloped is because all of the politicians live in Atlanta and all of the money goes to Atlanta from all over the state and all the roads that get developed are built-in Atlanta only now that it seems like none of the other economic engines of the. State can even compete with the port. Are they trying to for excessive amounts of money into the Savannah area. But prior to that, no money went anywhere but Atlanta. The problem is now that the corporate eyes are on savannah they're trying to build roads in Savannah. They've neglected it for 40 or 50 years, and the infrastructure sucks. Hyundai ev is currently building a car plant in Savannah.And the rumor is ford is also coming to build an e v car plant in savannah. All the major corporations want access to the port of Savannah. Because they have the fastest turnaround time in the nation. In south georgia has more empty land to build warehouses and other infrastructure to support the business
I do agree with certain things you say here but I don't agree with you about it all. Going to Atlanta, if that was the case, why is Marta not being funded by the state? Do you know who funds? Marta mostly atlanteans. Due to the demands of Atlanta's regional growth Savannah's ports were modernized. Another reason for Savannah's smaller growth is due to the lack of rail investment in the country. Both the federal and the state do not see the reason to invest in rail instead they let many of it languish. United States rail is mostly privately owned. While other parts of the world were modernizing their rail. (Impact both freight and passenger)the United States focused only on the highway system. Amtrak shut down. It's passenger rail from Atlanta and Savannah. Basically limiting its potential growth. There's only now going to be a route from Atlanta and Savannah. Amtrak only focused on pretty much its northeast corridor, due to it being the most economically beneficial and with a lack of federal funds. United States currently has no high-speed rail anywhere in this country. The federal government needs to seriously invest in the infrastructure. * Also want to add that many of the suburbs did not want the expanse of Marta and the state did not want to fund it.
H55 Marta is public transportation, and Cat (chatham area transit) has the same problem. It doesn't serve the whole of chatham County either. Some of the smaller municipalities like pooler or bloomingdale don't want the bus. The reason all the money goes to Atlanta is because the port is funded by the GA Dot
😊I'm from Savannah and yes it always consider a city and the city infrastructure always was a key component since I can remember from side walks, city roads, fiber optics, to dredging the Savannah River or building a bigger bridge. Which there's already a plan in motion to replace the existing bridge. In the past, we lose the bidding of having several car plants in Savannah. Chrysler, Sprinter, and Hyundai, all came close to supplanting in the Coastal Empire but they wanted a lot of tax breaks which the politicians revoked. But the politicians and citizens love their trees and beautification is key when it comes development.
@@patrickevans1057it's evil what's happening giving Hyundai and others these massive tax breaks. The burden has been put on us, the locals, to pay for the infrastructure for these corporations. And it's costing many millions to do just that. Not to mention the threat they pose on our natural water supply, and most of us live off of wells which are now under threat of running dry and facing salt water intrusion, both situations leaving us without drinkable water... all for the corporatocracy. 🤬
My mother is from the Savanah area. I love visiting the area. All of the small towns in the area. The small city my mom is from has a population of just over 2100 citizens.
@@kennethparker573 I lived in Savannah for 6 years. It's not a major city. I've lived in major cities and visited countless others. Don't get me wrong, I loved Savannah. But it's very limited with regard to diverse culture, shopping, entertainment, etc.
@@kennethparker573 It’s more of a tourist attraction and an oceanic shipping port. There’s no skyscrapers, subways, or a large CBD as characteristics of a major city.
And this is one of the reasons we love this area and people like move here. I actually live in North GA on the Border currently but have lived all over GA and since it is such a larfe state you can go from the beautiful mountains of the north or the flat wet swamps and marshes in the Chatahoochee swamp, been there on a field trip in Middle school. I love my state. 🎉
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GEORGIA = "STALINLAND"
You keep saying "US state of..." and you say it like it's a good thing.
US(aka DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA) is a foreign corporation which has assumed jurisdiction over The United States of America, the country.
"state of" is what the invaders use in their unlawful kangaroo courts.
Please learn about this. It's very important, because you sound like a traitor how you talk.
Not AHglethorpe ... OHglethorpe.
@@killercuddles7051 "you sound like a traitor." I assume you are often told "you sound like a lunatic."
Where is the corporate charter recorded?
Do more homework.... you current statements concerning Georgia, indicate your extreme lack of knowledge....
The divide you are discussing is relative to manufacturing/Shipping/Distribution (North) and Farming (South)....
One of the largest sea ports in the world is Savannah Ga. And where do you think all of those goods are warehoused and distributed? In Savannah? Is that where I-20 (East West) and I-75/85 (North South) intersect? Nope... they intersect in Atlanta .... Starting to get the picture?
Augusta and Savannah may not be big metros like Atlanta but they’re still pretty decently sized cities
I was gonna say - Savannah isn't exactly a small town (and has it's own shipping port with massive cargo ships) and Augusta is also pretty sprawling
@@InjectBleach-em9tg Savannah has around 150,000 it's not a small town.
@@InjectBleach-em9tgThen you have absolutely no idea what a small town is. We're you stuck in NYC or Tokyo your whole life? When I first went to Savannah, it felt like a huge city to me, I was amazed 😂
@@ThisAintMyGithubWho in the world would even think of it as a small town? 400,000 in the metro area, and the fastest growing city in Georgia.
Ctown in the comments. Yeah both those cities are growing rapidly
Enjoyed the video but as an Atlanta native, I think you missed an opportunity to discuss geography in relation to why Atlanta became a railroad hub in the first place. It costs money to run railroads through the mountains. The rail network in the early 19th century went down the eastern slope of the Appalachians. The railroads coming in from the west and northeast met in Atlanta. There were only indigenous Indians here when the rail arrived. The rail came first and was here because it was the place the railroads happened to meet to avoid the mountains. The presence of the Chattahoochee River as a water source was also helpful.
I don't know where the travel rail network went along the eastern appalachians back then, but I do know any serious commercial trade was still predominantly by boat, and savannah/charleston were the 2 heavy hitters and already had rail to macon and augusta, respectively. The state wanted a hub to consolidate all that commerce before shipping it to "chattanooga" and beyond. the key was owning the route from "atlanta" to "chattanooga" as that would be the primary route for rail commerce from the south to the mid-west (west back then). The state had already decided on the general location based on equidistant travel time from the fall line cities, with a western bias to dodge the blue ridge mountains and minimize the tunnels required during rail construction. they had an army engineer go out and do actual surveys to make sure their assumptions were right, and he picked a spot that was elevated, flat, and easily packable to support a huge rail yard. I'm pretty sure the only consideration the chattahoochee had was to stay on the eastern side of it so they could build fewer bridges.
I'm not touching the "only indigenous indians" comment. it would be the longest comment in youtube history.
Always good stuff on this channel! 🎉😊
Thanks I always wondered why they built Atlanta where they did, when you look it on a map it seems really random...
TERMINUS!
Atlanta was originally named TERMINUS. We should have kept that name....
To answer your title, we refer to the fall line as the gnat line. Go below that line and it is hotter and buggy.
I’m Georgian and we call it the fall line
Completely agree I’ve always heard it called the gnat line! And I’d so much prefer to live below the gnat line the where I do now
Whatchu talking about, Willis? The entire state is buggy! I live in Barrow County, and I'm constantly bombarded with ants, wasps, bees, spiders, stink bugs, katydids, cockroaches, and more.
And we have a muggy meter on the news and pollen count.
the people in south Ga below the fall line are some of the sweetest people i have ever met. i'm from north ga but i always feel at home when i visit my brothers and sisters in dougherty, grady, thomas, muscogee countys
I live in south Georgia and it is a different kind of place. As humid and bug infested as any other place I’ve ever been. Also if you want to know what southern hospitality really is just come to south ga. These are some of the nicest and helpful people you could ask for.
Lol. There are amazing people in south ga. But it doesn't seem like those people tell there super racist neighbors that that's messed up.
Let me fix that for you. If you're wyte and want to know southern hospitality, come to South GA. If you look like me, middle GA up to Atl is your spot.
@@tomdawg8913 Yes, there are some nice people there. There's also those that give Southern hospitality a bad name.
@@tomdawg8913 that’s been my lifelong experience.
I don't know how this video is going to spend 14+ minutes to explaining that the southern part of Georgia is even hotter and more humid than the northern part of Georgia. I mean one of the biggest swamps in this hemisphere is in southern Georgia.
The northern part of Georgia cools off after September 1. Southern Ga. the heat lasts until some time in October. And at least the eastern part of S. Ga is extremely humid - a lot of that comes from the Okefenokee swamp I assume.
I was thinking the SAME THING. Like how does anyone need 14 mins to explain something that takes 30 seconds to explain🤣🤣🤣🤣. ITS HOT AF IN GEORGIA
It might be more in the summer, but just barely. Mean-wise, you're talking about an average of 3-4% more humidity and 3-4 more degrees - except when factoring in that if you live in the ATL metro around all the traffic, asphalt and industrial/commercial activity, the localized increase in temps and humidity will cancel out all of that. The big deviation in humidity and dew points between North and South GA actually occurs during the winter months and early spring, when it's a lot more welcome.
Oh my gosh, you have to experience the heat & humidity to understand. It drains your energy while you sweat non stop. It’s so difficult to stay hydrated consistently during all but maybe 4 months. November, December, January, & February are pretty reliably cooler. March is 1/2 hot, then get ready…
Smelling the swamp daily is too much
The simple two cent answer is south Georgia is and has always been rural and farms and flat. They plant Cotton, Peach trees, Pecan trees, Peanuts to Pine trees. Atlanta as pointed out is or was a major rail hub so everything went to Atlanta on it's way to parts North and West. Georgia is a major lumber producing state and it takes up to twenty years for good size pine trees to grow for house building. They cut in twenty year cycles and replant. Lots of old time farms still planting cotton and peanuts, for Planters Peanuts. Go to Macon Georgia and drive by endless Peach trees. Don't need lots of people messing up the farming.
You are correct. Folks don't sell their farms easily down here, hence less areas for development.
@@jaynix4408 I know right, I'm just south of Benning and it's all Pine trees and peanuts with cotton as you cross the river to Alabama.
Peaches are actually grown predominantly in Ft. Valley, Ga. Not Macon.
I live in SE GA and you are spot on. Most of our county's acreage are tree farms.
Actually, there’s not much peaches grown out here hasn’t been for years. Most of them come from South Carolina same with the rice he mentioned that the only thing I see growing out here is cotton and soybeans.
He forgot to mention the state bird , the
Mosquitoes 🦟
No, Minnesota already recognizes mosquitos as the State Bird.
And the state plant
Pollen🌸
@@hayzeeea can’t forget the yellow snow fall
I'm dead 💀 accurate af
😂😂😂
I moved to Atlanta from Virginia and I cannot imagine myself living anywhere else. And I grew up in Queens. It has a lot to offer and I love the weather and greenery. I am very happy here.
Peace sister. We're glad u like our Georgia.
The Okefenokee is one of the most unique places in the US. it's absolutely amazing to visit in the fall or early spring. A company wants to start mining titanium only a few miles from the refuge boundary, which will forever change the hydrology of the swamp; it'll most likely cause it to dry up! There's a big fight between conserving the swamp & forever changing it for 8 years worth of titanium mining. I spent a year as artist in residence at the Okefenokee & fell in love with it.
Yes I live close to where they want to mine. The Okefenokee is too unique to ruin.
A paddling paradise
There’s an absolute beauty to swamp country.
This is a fact I hope GA don’t mess up thier natural wildlife area like FL did. It’s ok to have natural beaches with no on them. Natural swamps that filter the water.
I Know Chemours Recently Continued their commitment to not support Twin Pines in their crap down there. Saw an update in my paper about it just this week. A Twin Pines Exec was even quoted as saying that it poses no ecological danger to the swamp whatsoever. Little hard to believe given the circumstances. Glad Chemours Isn't partnering with them in this, but it is an obvious choice given their base around South GA would pull the rug out from under their own feet if they helped in that.
The risk of getting hit by a tornado goes way up below peach tree city and also in the western slice from Rome down. Lived in northern Fulton my whole life and have constant anxiety during spring as the severe weather can be real bad. Plus it often happens at night and there are so many hills and trees you can’t see a tornado coming like you can out west.
We just got torn up by a tornado here in Tallahassee. When I lived out West in Idaho we had a small earthquake one time, and some blizzards. No tornadoes.
As a former Georgian, now Floridian, I laugh at your "the severe weather can be real bad" comment.
@@palebeachbum were talkin bout georgia not florida bro
As someone from Atlanta with family in South Georgia, I can confirm the real reason fewer people live there is gnats. Those damn gnats.
As someone from southeast GA who now lives in Cobb County, I not only agree with you but I also want to add mosquitos and horseflies as the other two reasons. We had an abundance of them alongside the gnats. Summers down there had me wondering if we were getting hit with one of the plagues of Egypt during Moses' years. 😆
As someone who lived in southeast, southwest Ga, and Atlanta. I would rather deal with the gnats over the cost of living in Atlanta.
That's why SkinSoSoft was REALLY invented.
The sand gnats are the devil. It was in savannah that I learned that mosquitos can bit you through your clothes
You said Atlanta has good soil. WRONG! ‘Red Georgia Clay’
I feel like Statesboro Ga. Is growing every year. And now with the Hyundai plant, towns are forced to grow with subdivision after subdivision
It’s terrible
I'm actually in statesboro georgia right now for 3 months work sent me for training and it's pretty meh I'm from Ohio tho and you don't beat ohio
@@shifty1558 yeah it’s happening all around south eastern Georgia now, even all the way in Vidalia, so much traffic and out of state tags now
@@shifty1558 hey, just wanted to say I’m also from statesboro (originally from glennville (south of Claxton)). I think the Hyundai plant is going to bring a ton of jobs to the area and hopefully be a net positive. It’s always crazy to look at how big it is when you drive by it going to Savannah or Pooler.
Did my four years in statesboro and hated every minute of it outside school related things personally
As someone born and raised in South Georgia, please don't come here. We are full.
and stay out!
Im moving there from Boston in three months, you ever heard of Townsend?
@@ts109 Yep. Right here up the road. Good location for buying land and doing whatever you want with it. Close enough to town, Brunswick and yet far enough out not to be noticed.
Only full on March 17th
Hahaha, same with the area of Charleston, SC. We FULL
You forgot about vidalia, georgia. Several metric tons of onions are grown there and shipped all over the US
I live Vidalia sweet onions....I live in Laurens county so getting access to those wonderful sweet onions are a great perk....:)
@@eh4236 Hello neighbor from Houston County
I lived in Valdosta before I ever heard of it. People there were all excited like it was famous...
Thank you from a Vidalia native.
And the famous Claxton Fruit Cakes
I live in southern GA, born here. The most annoying part is how far away everything is, you put some serious milage on your car. But it's really pretty, and the emptiness is kinda nice. Atlanta is the hellhole you avoid as much as possible, just for the traffic alone 😂. People from Atlanta will often drive the highways at night with no headlights on, because they are so used to the streetlights and evidently don't know how to turn their headlights on. I'm baffled as well, but that's Atlanta for you. Savannah on the other hand is absolutely lovely, especially compared to Atlanta.
So true 😂
You guys came a long way… We’re shocked some of you guys outside of Metro Atlanta can actually form a sentence nowadays. #kudos
@@augustbaby8254 😂😂☠️☠️
People in Phoenix often drive at night without headlights too. There's an epidemic of stupid overcoming the cities in this country, yet the government lets people too stupid to use headlights operate motor vehicles. No surprise pedestrian deaths from car accidents are sharply on the rise.
why waste a light bulb when you dont need it
Because it is the arm pit of hell and has the biggest yellow flies… mosquitoes and horse flies. Summer lasts 8 months… the humidity and heat are beyond ridiculous and relentless. What winter we have is my reward for surviving summer.
That’s what I’ve heard too, God bless you.
@@cassiusdio6048 I love Savannah!!! Don't dis on my home area, it's so much better than NY!
And the rural areas pride themselves on their ignorance and lack of diversity. Although in fairness, they don't mind having diverse folk to kick around so they can imagine themselves superior. But those diversity folk better know their place.
We need more responses like this
I live in S Ga
Wonderful to go to the Golden Isles with minimal traffic
So please more negative comments needed
Georgia is pretty densely populated compared to where I live out west. I guess rural is different on the east coast. And yes I have been there... 4 years at Benning.
Another native Georgian here. Savannah was NOT destroyed by Sherman during the Civil War. He ordered his men to burn Atlanta but said Savannah was too beautiful to destroy. Us Atlantans would LOVE to spread some of the growth around the state. Metro atlanta traffic is soul crushing but I love it other than that part. Good video
He instead burned Darien which is where I’m from
Na, were good! Keep that shit in Atlanta
Mhmm. That's why Savannah still has its older architecture. And even though General Sherman did not march there, Charleston, South Carolina has similar architectural styles.
Yeah I believe Gen. Sherman presented Savannah as a gift to Pres. Lincoln, or so the story goes.
He burned everything between Atlanta and Savannah... He probably ran out of Kerosene.
Atlanta is a massive railway hub and Savannah is a deep water port. Atlanta is within a 2.5 hour flight of 85% of the entire US population, the rest of Georgia is not. Atlanta is home to several large companies-Coca Cola, Delta, Home Depot, UPS, Chick-fil-A, Arby's, CNN, Invesco, Mercedes-Benz USA, Novelis, Orkin, etc. The list goes on. But Atlanta has to Georgia what New York City is to New York. It's such a dominant economic draw that there is little reason to live in the rest of the state for job opportunities. It isn't like Florida, where the population is more spreadout across Orlando, Miami, Tampa, and Jacksonville and it isn't like Texas, which has oil in the interior to prop up DFW all the time. The central hub has been Atlanta. Much the same like Chicago in the Midwest, it is the largest and most dominant economic drawer of activity until you get into the Appalachian Mountains and it is geographically favorable for rail and air traffic as well.
Also Atlanta is farther west than Detroit.
This is the correct answer. Source: someone who has lived on Georgia for 52 years. Lived in south Ga. central Ga, and now in N Georgia.
excellent analysis
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I grew up in Tifton and live on the South Carolina side of Augusta now. I love South Georgia. It’s the perfect place to live if you want to slow down a little bit
I live in Tifton
@@brandeetaylor5505 born and raised in T-Town Tifton Ga.
Tifton boy! Fitzgerald ain't too far away. Now you live in NA and I live in South Augusta. Are you following me?
My man my hometown
Born and raised in Tifton, live in Evans now. Small world!
Empty is relative for southern Georgia terms. A lot of towns down in South Georgia are still relatively large with hubs like Valdosta, Tifton, Albany, and Brunswick
I’m a savannah native. Great city, fantastic food, awesome parties 🎉 !
Like the one in the Borat movie?
Yea I am going to have to call BS on that. Savannah is my second home. I find it a shithole. Been trying to get my son to leave it practically ever since he moved there. The traffic is maddening anytime of the day, one can't swing a cat without hitting a panhandler, People that work in public service have attitudes, working class property owners are treated as cash cows by the local government to support all the people that just can't be bothered working God bless them. The same people that hang out in the public parks and raise hell all hours of the day an night.
I agree. You should tell people to NOT move there and preserve it.
Horrible trashy city.
@@randolphkersey5155 I thought you were describing Atlanta which is a bigger shithole. Seems like it also applies to most of Florida, NC, Va & La. Lived in big cities in all of those places & all seem to be the same.
You lying dawg ...Augusta Georgia has it's own metropolitan area and Savanah Georgia is our Costal City
I downvoted the video because of it.
@@nunyabeezwacks1408 Me too
He's also off about GA population. It's now 11 million. Savannah is the biggest coastal city in the state but even Brunswick and it's metro area is over 100K further south of Savannah.
Philly is the same distance from a beach as Savannah
He's counting the metro area in that 600K figure, I checked. Augusta/Hephzibah/Fort Eisenhower (aka the base formerly known as Fort Gordon ) / Martinez / Evans / Aiken / Edgefield all get rolled into that number, and it's still only around 600-700K max depending whether you include the base.
One word…Jobs. I was born and raised in southwest GA. Moved to Atlanta for work. The majority of factories have closed in rural GA. My dad was one of those casualties. That only leaves agriculture as primary employer. Other major cities are Savannah, Macon, and Columbus. These all benefit because of interstate proximity.
Savannah isn't big due to interstates. I-16 might be the worst, most boring piece of road in the universe.
@@earlbrown That going to end in the next few years. That's why All of the trees 🌳 have been cut.
Macon is an absolute shithole
@@earlbrownyes I dread driving to Savannah. It’s a 2 hour ride of nothingness.
@@FidelAlt 3 hours if you're driving a slant6 '72 Dodge Van with no overdrive towing a trailer full of roadrace bikes.
I used to DREAD having to drive to Savannah to race back then. Leaving Macon used to feel like I left civilization.
....then there was the drive home after being beat up all weekend.
I live in South Georgia and we want to keep it that way. We love wide open spaces with no crowds
Hot and Humid. Hot and Humid.
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Hot as balls.
True. But the summers are great!
So South Florida should be empty then too huh?
You mean the winter is great. Summer is terrible! @@LV4EVR
It's not exactly empty with 4 million people. But once you get into GA and SC, there is a fourth geographic area, the lowlands. This area is markedly different from coastal plains.
Yeah, but those 4 million aren't equally distributed. Take Clinch county, third largest county in the state by area (2,137 km2), has a population of about 6800, with about a third of them (2,300) living in the county seat of Homerville (9 km2), leaving about 4,500 people and an average density of about 2 people per square kilometer, or about 5.2 per square mile for the rest of the county. If you look at satellite photos the most dominant feature are clearcuts from forestry with nothing else around.
The lowlands he mentions are actually the Piedmont - or else what is he talking about?
@keith6706 I visit Clinch county for the Okefenokee, Suwanee river, dark skies and nature. 30 miles to the nearest supermarket though.
@@stephenpowstinger733 The Low country is different. It's the Coastal Empire and Low Country.
8:06 Now you’re talking, Coastal GA! Also, I guess it’s only fair that the 13th has the 13th biggest port. 😊
Geoff, you left out Saint Marys with Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay. We have approximately 1/4 of the strategic nuclear weapons of the nation. As such, we are critical to the nation's defense.
In the far southeast corner of the state, Saint Marys is as far as you can get from Atlanta and stay in Georgia. We like it that way.
st mary's very close to Florida's border...susceptible for hurricanes passing through or remnants by it.
@@GheeRook Georia's coast is fortunate to have a lot of shallow sea floor next to it and thus most hurricanes bounce off or weaken when the come up north
Imagine bragging you're closer to Jacksonville than Atlanta; Atlanta is a much better city lol
@@Droidman1231 I don't go to Jacksonville either. I don't even go up to Brunswick, much less Savannah. I'll still pass on Atlanta.
@@GheeRook The Gulf Stream generally keep the storms off shore. Fortunately we have a lot of marshland to soak up any storm surge.
Savannah is the 3rd largest port in the US, not 13th. Seems like an important coastal city
As a native Georgian everything below the Macon line is Gnat & Mosquito infested hell. It's mostly farm land.
This guy never mentions the "Gnat Line" even once. LOL
That’s one of the reasons I would not live there.
Love the farm land.
Any real Georgian has enough money for bug spray.
It's not that bad.
Another reason why Savannah isn't as big as people would expect is because there is a conservation effort to preserve the historical significance of the city and its surroundings, so much so that their are policies and standards that the city has passed to actually prevent certain types of growth.
For example, you have to get very special permission to build a structure past a certain height near other tall structures. So as to not disrupt the skyline in such a way that it would interfere with the ability to see a a tall structure of historical significance. like a church steeple.
Wait, General Sherman left buildings still standing?
@@chucklee8356 Yup, Savannah was the only city that I know of that Sherman accepted the surrender of and left the city unscathed.
And SCAD somehow finds a way to ruin the city regardless. I heard they built some luxury hotel looking dorm on the river! It's insanity.
@@Daserilpretty sure he only left it because Lincoln's wife's sister had tons of cotton stored there, so he was given orders to spare the city. Thank goodness, Savannah is one of my favorite American cities. I appreciate how they've tried to maintain it over the years...
Not to mention that whenever one is developing an area and one accidentally discovers remains of people/artifacts in Savannah - which is basically EVERYWHERE - work comes to a screeching halt until the proper authorities, historians, archeologists, and WTOC reporters appear on scene to carefully supervise activity, document every movement, and recover the tiniest bone fragment! (Not complaining - just throwing this fact in!)
Speaking for those of us in the south east corner of Georgia, we like it not being so populated! When my former high school students used to complain about “nothing to do” in Jesup… I told them they live 40 miles from the beach, about 80-90 miles from Jacksonville, and 70 miles from Savannah. There will come a day (if they are still around) you will love our location that has fewer problems found in cities. That’s probably not as true today as it was 30-40 years ago 😢.
As someone who has lived in the northwest region in Georgia his whole life, can we send some of our population down there? It’s way too crowded up here. We’re just minutes outside of Chattanooga and people are moving here in droves. lol we need y’all to take some of these guys off our hands…. 🤣
@@tangofett4065 🥴No thank you! Seriously, every time we are in the “above the knat line” traffic… the comment regularly is, “so glad we don’t live in this!” Bless you🙏
Exactly..
You tell that to high school kids who most likely don't have a car or know how to drive
@@jesse76th96 Not the case here! Our student parking lot is full of trucks and cars. You are right that many do not drive to school. But the lack of transportation was not a factor in that analogy and at the time, did not mess with their understanding 🤔
Hey I use to live in GA, in a town called Kingsland. The down town area is one street and everyone knows everyone, I loved it.
Atlanta isn’t just Atlanta. Marietta, Roswell, Alpharetta, Decatur etc…are HUGE suburbs.
You can add East Point, Riverdale, Forest Park as a suburb too. With all the growth anything 60 miles outside of 285 could be considered a suburb. It is getting crowded in Henry County now. The northeastern side of Atlanta seems to be booming too!
Kennesaw, Lawrenceville, John’s Creek etc
Carrollton is part of Atlanta as well. I wish we were not but it is!
Forest Park, Jonesboro, Riverdale, Fayetteville, Fairburn, Palmetto, Union City, College Park, East point, and on and on and on.......... And by the way, MARTA runs to every single one of those places now. It's solid city from Atlanta to Newnan. There is no separation. I left that hell hole 5 years ago, and will never go back. Keep it. It's the worst city I've ever lived in and it's filled to the brim with black people that absolutely hate white people.
Metro Atl spans 10+ counties. Literally over a 100 municipalities
Good video. I have to laugh a little at the way you said Oglethorpe's name though just because I'm from Georgia hehe. The "O" is pronounced more like the "o" in "oath" not "off"
I always enjoyed saying "ogleethorpe"
Beat me to it.
What about when he said the OKAfenokee swamp...lol
@@frankmarsh1159 lol
This. Also, it's pronounced Oh-co-knee
Why is southern Georgia not largely populated? In a word,,,,, Summer.
The heat is nothing unique, travel more.
@@neox9369 I have been all over this planet, and have watched hundreds die in other countries when the heat and humidity reached levels that are common in the southeast U.S. I once heard a woman in Arizona complain about it being 110 plus F. I suggested she should spend a week in southern Mississippi then consider how lucky she was to have cool weather in Arizona in the summer.
@@DraggonCanoe I agree. 110f and dry is nothing on 105f and humid which It can be that way all day and night. No escape from it until a thunderstorm and expect it to be worse which is why I believe Savannah takes the cake with the heat.
@@User78813 One thing is for certain, the southeast U.S. isn't for the faint of heart when it comes to weather. I grew up without air conditioning, and remember very well those sweatbox nights.
@@User78813Valdosta is worse than Savannah.
Simple answer to the title: because it's hot, uncomfortable and riddled with bugs, half of which want to suck your blood.
I mean that’s most of FL. And FL is hotter.
Damn I’m from South Georgia 😭 Jesup
I just returned from South Georgia(Thomasville Area) and it's as populated as West Georgia and the houses & properties there are not cheap
Go to Fitzgerald Georgia and check out the home prices.
I have family that’s lives in Thomasville. Great city, but housing is shockingly expensive relative to what you get. Over half the single family homes are rental properties.
Right! I'm south Georgia, waycross. I've looked for land to buy many times.. the prices are insane! But Tennessee has good land deals... I just can't get nothing here in south ga thata reasonable. What the hell is down here? Nothing. So why is it so expensive?
@@brightmooninthenight2111 I'm in Carrollton GA close to the university of west georgia and the prices here are outrageous and the only way you can survive here is if your place is paid for
My oldest brother lives in Thomasville and we went to the famous spook bridge between quitman and valdosta, I live around 300 miles from Thomasville and way above the fault line so there's plenty of dirt aka Red georgia clay here
I live in South Georgia, and Orlando or Tampa are closer than Atlanta.
Valdosta?
Hi neighbor
Jacksonville is way closer to you than Tampa or Orlando
I came from Europe 1997, i loooove ❤❤ South, everything from TX to NC. People, food, culture, weather. Georgia is sooo nice and romantic state. I drive semi truck , i know all places.
I will drive 2 hrs out of the way to go around Atlanta. 129 to 441 goes through some of the most beautiful areas of Ga. Now the traffic on the 2 lane parts of the highway can be a nightmare. The area around FDR National Park, Warm Springs, Callaway Gardens is nice as well. Just don't "let the bed bugs bite!" Oh, am I steering you away from where I live, uhm, maybe.
Damn right atlanta sucks ass
I live in southwest GA and I love it mild winters and early springs and great riding weather year round I don't ever want to leave
I thought he was going to mention that Georgia small towns are disappearing. I have relatives in Vidalia, a town of ten thousand, but it hasn’t grown since 1980. There a lots of static towns in S. Ga. They screamed when Walmart came to town but if a Walmart closes they are devastated.
These rural areas have trouble sustaining doctors, hospitals and basic services.
Well Vidalia is one of the few towns in south ga growing. It’s bigger than the town next door which is the county seat. I was surprised how much it’s grown
Southwest Georgia around Albany, Tifton , Moultrie , and Valdosta has been growing. Towns that size and bigger have anyway. Some of the really small towns have been shrinking and disappearing as all the offices, retail etc. have been consolidated into the larger towns.
Racism is the key factor to their underdevelopment. Let’s not pretend..
@@gacaptain yes. Migrants.
@@talmadgewilliams8831 That too.
The main issue with traffic that I see in Atlanta is caused by Atlanta not having a true bypass. All traffic must go through Atlanta. (Stright through or the loop) What our capital needs is a true bypass for I75, 85 and 20 for everyone, NOT stopping in Atlanta. A bypass without exits, every mile. Or maybe just build a new road from Chattanooga to Macon, etc.
Probably the best comment I've read thus far..awesome insight.
285 is the supposed to be the bypass but they definitely need another one lol maybe a 220 or something.
There was discussion years ago about building a bypass about 50 miles further out than 285.
Here in Detroit we have local and express interstates. Express only has a few off ramps where it's intended to get you to and from the airport as fast as possible. the local has an off ramp for each major street.
It's called 285 and 675.
I guess nobody on the GA coast never heard of Savannah.
There's also this little town just south of my called Columbus. It's kinda big because the largest army base in the world, Ft Benning, is right below it.
You're not making a very good argument for the sophistication of that region; three sentences, all with poor grammar and/or punctuation. Really, if three coherent sentences are too much to ask, you've demonstrated why it's not a hub of business.
@@TheAureliac If you think a short comment from one person is 100% indicative of an entire region, you're an idiot.
Not to mention Savannah and Ft. Benning not only exit,but they've existed since before I was born. That kinda takes my opinion (and grammar) out of the context.
Basically, the current existence of these large groups completely nullify your "fact" you just posted attempting to belittle me.
I recommend you put the phone down and go outside in the sun. Bonus points if you can leave your elitist dickish attitude behind with your phone.
Oh, and if my poor southern grammar is too much for you to comprehend, a simple "fuck off" will do.
Savannahs port is getting enlarged by a huge margin. Also. The “gnat line” is huge for differences in climate and where people live. Valdosta and Albany being the only outliers
Dosta has a much different demographic than other non-coastal metro areas............
Albany is ghetto as shoes on a powerline
And now because of the Hyundai vehicle factory going up 15 miles away off I 16 real estate has gone up over a 40 mile circle. Savannah will be the new Austin.
@@chad78ismhow so? Im from Valdosta
Omg Savannah is so beautiful. I just wish there were better beaches in GA.
I do also enjoy all the beautiful pine trees in the Atlanta area. I think one of its nicknames is “the city in the forest”
St Simons island has decent beaches. Sea island has fabulous beaches but you better be a Multimillionaire
I'll vouch for Tybee Island as well. The barrier islands have Georgia's best beaches.
The Atlanta area is primarily broadleaf, deciduous trees, as is most of the northern third of the state. Sure, we do have some pines and areas where the soil has been disturbed you tend to see more of them, but they'll eventually all be choked out by deciduous trees if the area is allowed to become forest.
Southern Georgia is really where pines thrive as the dominant tree species, except near the coast and coastal marshlands.
Driftwood beach is considered one of the most beautiful in the world.
Better beaches....? So you've never been to Ga. huh ?
I live in West Palm Beach Florida so we got you beat. Summer can be tough, but you get used to it & there's AC everywhere
Love the video. Ive lived here in georgia most of my life and you taught me a few things
Being from the Ohio valley, my military career was in Columbia, SC and Augusta Ga. I found the climate better that the Cincinnati area all around. So I decided to make Georgia my home, and never looked back at Ohio. Only place close to rural Ga is southwest Arkansas about 50 miles northeast of Texarkana, Ark.
Climate is sooo much better than Ohio. I made the move about a year ago and love it in Augusta.
@@GabeHandleWhat’s cost of living like? I thought Georgia was one of the top 10 cheapest states to live in.
@@cmartinm98 Georgia is cheap if you stay out of the Atlanta region.
@@RebelCowboysRVs I don’t live in Georgia by the way. Cities are expensive and countryside is cheaper (I don’t know why younger generations don’t like the countryside these days other than jobs). I heard about Atlanta’s horrible traffic and more people flocking there make it worse. Savannah doesn’t look like a cheap place since it is a mini Charleston. Augusta looks like an affordable place to live in.
Shout out to the black belt region
Actually, Georgia's population is at more than 11 million
Missouri is bigger and only has 6 mil..Thank God.
Right, if you count the illegals
Yeah, I was wondering what outdated info was Geoff researching.
@@davehughesfarm7983Missouri state population is only 6 million
@@hoodboyzAtl Missouri is bigger in area and 6 mil..Re-read.
And now Atlanta doesn't have the infrastructure to support all those people. It has become a sprawling mess with terrible traffic, and you would hardly believe it developed as a transportation hub given its lack of high speed rail and its mediocre transit system.
Wait!? We have a transit system???
As opposed to LA (sprawling mess with terrible traffic plus California government), NYC (sprawling mess with terrible traffic and subways where people push you in front of trains), or Chicago (sprawling mess with terrible traffic, insane crime, and Cubs fans)?
High speed rail to where? The closest metro areas to Atlanta with at least 2 million people are Charlotte and Nashville which are both 250 miles away.
@@HeavyTopspin I can only comment on LA, whose traffic is much worse than Atlanta, in my experience
Atlanta is a miserable and Charlotte NC seems like they want to copy that plan.
It’s crazy how a lot of people think anything outside of the big cities don’t matter. To be honest, the friendliest, best parts of the south are the small towns and rural areas… I know, I’ve lived in the rural south east for 22 years.
The other reason i heard from another video is, the Atlanta area has a slightly higher elevation, around 1500 ft i think, which makes it slightly cooler.
Now that the port of Baltimore is closed Savannah should see a big boost in their economy because that’s where they are possibly going to relocate all the business to.
That plus the Hyundai plant that is coming in too.
@@DrJonLubinand we are NOT happy about that
It's already the 3rd largest port in America and was already growing faster than any other port in the country before the FSK bridge was sabotaged. If i recall correctly, Baltimore is the 6th largest port.
@@PatriotGinj why is that
@@PatriotGinj sabotaged very interesting 🤔
The population of Georgia outside Atlanta is comparable to the population of Ireland or Scotland or Wales. Does that mean Ireland, Scotland, and Wales are "empty" and "nobody" lives there?
Most Georgians are Scott-irish ancestry.
Georgia (59,425 sq. mi) is nearly 2x the size of Ireland (32,595) and Scotland (30,081) and is over 7x the size of Wales (8,023).
Damn didn't know that, but yes it does
Yes. Most of England is empty. They all in London.
Relatively yes the population of Scotland and Ireland is low in comparison to an American context. Also keep in mind its the population density of the area which makes it empty or not. If 4 million people live in one city versus on millions of acres it makes a clear difference.
Historic circumstances? That broom sure swept a lot of dust under the rug.
As someone who drives up and down the Eastern seaboard a lot, the southern Georgia coast actually has a lot of vacation spots -- Brunswick, for example.
Also, the idea of the "simple" lives of the Eastern indigenous American tribes is purely a product of Rousseau-influenced modernity. The Cherokee, for example, were known even in the Antebellum days as one of the "Five Civilized Tribes" respected by the settlers & their descendants for their sophisticated culture. The saying among whites was that the best way to tell a Cherokee home from a white American home was by checking how many books they had -- because the Cherokee could be expected to have more literature than the whites. It's part of why there was never any stigma about having Cherokee ancestry in the U.S. and why many will falsely claim it to try and gain clout in American society (eg: Elizabeth Warren).
she is 1032nd indian.
@@davehughesfarm7983 😂
The way they done those Native Americans, I wouldn't want that designation of "civilized".
Cherokee people have a copper/dark hue skin tone, its not hard to recognize the difference.
As someone who has lived in the Atlanta area his whole life, I enjoyed hearing stuff I already knew about the state and even learning some new things I didn’t know. Great video!
S. Ga. here (Douglas/Coffee Co.).
This reminds me of my roommate who said "to get to anywhere, you have to drive!". I always smiled & said "not my fault Ga. is 11X BIGGER than CT". 😅
Yo Finally some Douglas representation!
Douglas is the lamest place to live. Cost of living is to high to have nothing over there
@@Jmar_352 & you're from...?
@@waynebennett745 I just know Douglas is full of messy people and nothing to do‼️
@@Jmar_352 Care to tell me WHAT place DOESN'T have messy people & nothing to do?
You explained why so many folks live in the Atlanta Metro area, but you didn’t really cover why southern Georgia’s is sparsely populated! The sandy soil is not good for much but peanuts and pine tree plantations, both of which require a lot of acreage, as does quail hunting, with some Pecan trees to sweeten the deal. After that there’s just the heat, the rattlesnakes, water moccasins, fire ants, and mosquitoes that can bite you through your jeans.
Lived in southwestern Michigan for almost half my life. Lived in Atlanta suburbs for 30 years. Live in rural Georgia now. I'm done with cities. Don't even enjoy driving into the suburbs anymore. Please be quiet and keep the secret of rural Georgia. We wouldn't want to be over run with newcomers!
I was actually thinking that the more people talked about how much better Atlanta was than South Georgia, the more I thought, "Hmmm. Sounds perfect for me". But I live in an area that's pretty equivalent in the northern half of Alabama, so I'm happy. I used to be a people person til people ruined it for me.
You'll get a few anyway as climate refugees from Florida, though most will try to head to the piedmont areas. South Florida will have to be evacuated well before actual submersion because of saltwater intrusion to aquifers and property being uninsurable from too many disasters.
@@k.b.tidwell People will do that.
@@myfriendgoo2816i agree and with the way everyone talks about Augusta, they'll skip right over and head to Savannah, Atlanta, Charlotte, maybe even Columbia
Agree. It’s one of the best kept secrets that about 120 counties in Georgia are still rural. 🤫 shh.
Augusta isn’t just Richmond county. The Augusta metropolitan area includes aiken county in SC and has a total population close to 700k. Decent size and economy.
I grew up in south GA and live in Atlanta. Basically south GA is so hot and “buggy” that it’s essentially hell on earth from May until October. They weren’t sending debtors prisons to prime real estate. Most of the year is beautiful, but summer in South GA will deter most people no matter how pleasant the lifestyle and cost of living are.
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@@neox9369 lol where’s the lie? It’s so freakin hot and gnats are a plague sent from the devil 😂
@@aldenshaycap , it’s no different from any coastal plain region from the mid Atlantic to north Florida. I’m originally from the DC area and it gets the same their during warmer months. GA is no special butterfly with the elements you mentioned
@neox9369 Lies...I lived in Norfolk VA for 2 yrs..The summers are milder than GA.Hence, the winters are colder.
@@neox9369Major cap, I'm from Valdosta Georgia and I currently live in the DC area. It does not in anyway get as hot as Valdosta in DC. DC has a very mild summer compared to any city in South Georgia. You do realize Florida is walking distance from Valdosta and a lot of cities in South Georgia. I'm moving back home very soon bc I love the heat. It doesn't even get hot in DC until late June. Right now its in the 60s in DC and we are at the end of May ...
I love south Georgia especially the sweet onions, pecans, peanuts, blueberries peaches and all that this beautiful South Georgia land gives us. Also the rivers the pine trees the ocean.
I was born in SW Georgia and have lived in the Atlanta area for over 30 years. It never felt empty to me. Nobody moves away because of the weather or the gnats. If that was the case, nobody would live in Florida except for the beach towns. They move for the economic opportunities and the abundance of things to do. However, as I get older I am having less patience for the crowds and the Atlanta traffic and am seriously considering building a second home in my hometown.
thank you for making a video on our state.
I live 15 miles east of the okefenokee swamp, but in florida. The nearest town to mine is folkston, one of the entry points to the swamp.
I'm in Saint Marys. Wave.
@@HarryWHill-GA Hilliard 👋
My wife is originally from Hoboken. Ga, not NJ. She left as soon as she could.
@herman452 my grandmother was from Blackshear. That is a pretty poor area. It's not as bad in hilliard or callahan.
@@thomasnelson6161 I'm very familiar with Blackshear. And Waycross and Nahunta. Jerry J's in Nahunta is wonderful country cooking. We do go back to Hoboken several times a year.
I'm a Savannahian although I live in Atlanta. I like Atlanta, but I'm more proud of my Savannah. Savannah is pretty big place and has a lot going for it, one of which is that it's in the top 5 most beautiful cities in the United States!!! I appreciate your work. You do Georgia proud!
I can comment here because I grew up in that area. In a small town called Cordele, the watermelon capital of the world! Number one producer of melons in the country I think. Many migrants workers every year, along with a big watermelon festival now at Lake Blackshear, which is the only good thing the county has to offer. My grandfather here was Cherokee. The weather is super humid and gets very hot in the summer along with swarms of gnats and mosquitoes. It gets hit by tornadoes and hurricanes all the time, along with flooding as a result. No snow though, maybe an inch in 10 years. Most of the area is rural, with little business. But as in any rural areas, hunting, fishing, and general outdoor sports are very popular here. Especially fishing. Most land is private, but the few stage parks, public fishing areas, and wildlife management areas, are flooded in the summer. Fishing is my favorite, I'm addicted to it, I just went to a PFA yesterday and caught the biggest fish of my life, a 15lb grass carp. The economy is mostly driven by agriculture I assume, which is obvious. I grew up by cotton fields. My dad works in the pine fields, the pine industry here is big. The rivers and creeks don't have as much current because ti's mostly flat. But that also means that there's lots of swamps, like the Okefenokee Swamp, which I'm hoping to go kayaking, fishing and camping in one day. That's all I got to say, yall can ask me any question yall might have. Currently I live in Statesboro, going to Georgia Southern University, which many Southern Georgians do, and I go to Savannah occasionally too. Both cites are currently growing rapidly.
Pageland SC is the watermelon capital bro…
@@BMWE90HQ Just saying, that's the nickname, and the fields will all be full of it in the summer, and there's a big festival. So that's the theme there
Could be worse. There's Claxton, GA known as the "Fruitcake Capital of the World" and host an annual Rattlesnake Roundup. I think they have a Chicken Plant there as well.
Love the Cordele Missile Rocket.
Eastern Oklahoma has some "American Indians´ Reserves"!
There could be a "State of East Oklahoma", or so!
I worked at an Asian Indian tea shop in Germany.
Savannah did not grow into a major city because, Its haunted lol. Actually the port in Savannah does not have a channel deep enough to support a cruise terminal. The Corps of Engineers dredges it once in a while so the shipping container barges can make it down the channel. There is some problem with keeping it deep enough for the cruise terminals which I have yet to understand.
Maybe because of that hydrogen bomb that was accidentally dropped off Tybee Island in 1958. Maybe the dredge boats are afraid of hitting it and setting off an explosion. It could ruin their whole day. 😒😐
Our City Council considered the addition of a cruise terminal several years ago. It became obvious there isn’t a good place to put one and our tourism industry already brings in piles of money every year without one. Aside from that, Savannahians could clearly see the severe buyer’s remorse among Charlestonians about their cruise terminal, and local opposition to building one here was strong. The depth of the river was not a factor. Savannah is the fourth busiest container port in the US and container ships are way more massive than cruise ships. Rest assured, lack of a cruise terminal has not hampered the city’s growth.
Probably a major reason none of our coastal cites are especially large is because the State of Georgia has done a surprisingly good job of preserving our coast line, rather than letting developers build wherever they want and turn everything into another Miami.
@@Bonniebluetours2010 I don't get why he went by tonnage for ports. Like technically that does put Savannah at 13th but it's just a weird way of measuring it.
And We don't need to be a bunch of booming Metro Centers to be considered "Good". Maybe lower pop. densities and developer restrictions are preferable to Atlanta traffic. Just don't pull a whatever the Long County Development Authority did.
@@macaroniwithoutcheese175 I agree. I really don’t think growth for growth’s sake is to be desired. It’s ok to be a manageable size and grow slowly or just maintain.
The GA coast also lacks a major, navigable river leading deep inland. Yes it has creeks and streams, but nothing like a Hudson or Columbia or Mississippi etc.
Not a big deal
Brunswick has the best natural port South of New York. It also sits right off I-95.
You never heard of the Savannah river???
@@sophial.2438 was going to say the same thing.
When I read into the Mississippi River and its cities founded near it, transportation seems OP and simply godly. Wonder how many other locations on earth have a set up as such
Good, exacty how us south Georgia residents want it to be!
Der um. you tell him, Cleatus! Don't want those Uppitys coming down here taking our women/cousins..
I don't blame you.
Up North traffic has become unbearable, a commute that used to take 20 min fifteen years ago now takes two or three times as long. And it will only get worse unfortunately.
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Der um. You telldem, cleatus.
@jjwalkerjr5288 why you so mad that some people don't want to live around a ton of people
Large pieces of terrain in southern Georgia are occupied by military bases, specifically Robins and Moody Air Force Bases, Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base, Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany, and Army Forts Moore/Benning and Stewart, and Hunter Army Airfield. By definition, the Army bases offer room for training by not having high population density so Joe has room to run around. The Moore/Benning effect is somewhat offset by the 3rd biggest city, Columbus, located right next door, and Savannah -- 5th biggest -- is right next to Fort Stewart/Hunter AAF.
Add Ft Gordon near Augusta.
@@timjohnson4290, how do you feel about Fort Eisenhower?
Fort Gordon
I agree with the humid summer part. Years ago I went of a job interview which would be a relocation to the south coast of Georgia..I could hardly breath and the heat was unreal.
Move to Phoenix when its 115°😂
Its unreal
There's a huge difference between dry heat and swampy heat. Just my personal opinion.
@@jaredhardaway I was in Dallas visiting family a couple years ago and it was 110 outside….brutal..
Savannah is a major city on the coast
I was born and grew up on the Georgia coast and loved it. There was so much history, the beach was great and uncrowded and there were plenty of things to do. I moved to the metro Atlanta area after I graduated from school in Athens and didn't like it as much as Athens. I moved because job opportunities were better and I have stayed in the northwest metro area since 1990. Since then I have seen the Atlanta and surrounding areas explode in population, new business, and never ending construction. There is always road construction which makes the traffic even worse. The traffic here is incredible! Sometimes I do think about moving to a place with less traffic and people when I retire. One reason the Georgia coast does not have major cities is because so much of it (especially the barrier islands) is protected. That is a good thing especially for the wildlife like sea turtles and so many kinds of birds and fish. Yeah I am not surprised some south Georgians don't want people to move there.
I'm from Georgia. In spring, summer and fall it is baking hot and the nats will absolutely drive you insane.
I don't remember Fitzgerald being to bad for gnats. Bigotry and being run by a small group of old white men was the real problem and still is.
September is my favorite month in GA.
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@@MrCountrycuzwhich is why it’s fading to oblivion and stagnant
We don't don't have spring, autumn, or winter. We have pre-summer, summer, post-summer, and sick.
There is a big difference between "City of Atlanta" and "Metro Atlanta"
South Georgia is below the "gnat line". Its very agricultural, there is a large swamp there too that touches parts of 4 counties. The prosperous southern business cities generally developed above the Fall Line, the point which rivers were not navigable. Except for South Florida, this is true for Atlanta, Birmingham, Charlotte and Nashville. Huntsville in Northern Alabama is booming.
There is nothing inherently bad about South Georgia, but for historic reasons North Georgia will remain dominant. New Orleans has been in decline for a century. Houston is an exception of the coastal cities.
Savannah's geography is a living work of art, where the winding curves of the Savannah River weave through centuries-old oak trees draped in Spanish moss, and cobblestone streets lead to hidden squares bursting with flowers. Unlike Atlanta's sprawling urban skyline and rolling hills, Savannah sits on a flat coastal plain, where marshes shimmer in the golden light of sunrise, and every corner reveals a glimpse of water - whether it's a serene lagoon, the vast ocean, or the whispering river. The salty breeze carries the scent of magnolias and the hum of cicadas, creating a sense of calm that's hard to find in the hustle of Atlanta. Here, life moves with the rhythm of the tides, offering a slower, more soulful pace where beauty and history meet. Savannah isn't just a place to live; it's a place to savor every single moment.
He forgot to mention one thing which I have experienced firsthand visiting my grandparents lived in South Georgia growing up. If you're not used to heat...and I'm talking 90+ Degree Temps with high humidity and anything that flies wanting to land on your skin, you probably aren't going to enjoy being there for at least 6 months out of the year. I literally got sick every time I went down there until I was 13 years old because of all the allergens which my immune system had never encountered. Eventually, it was fine but it took time to acclimate. However, if you can deal with heat, the people there are very nice,friendly, and helpful.
Ignoring Warner Robins as a part of the Macon metro area eliminates almost 200,000 people from that metro.
Warner Robins is its own metro area
@@willp.8120 Not really. There is less geographical and cultural distance between Macon and Warner Robins than there is between one side of Atlanta and the other. People circulate through Macon and Warner Robins from home to work to play and back home again all the time.
I was at Warner Robbins. Had a good time
@@johnmurphy9385 According to the US Census Bureau, Warner Robins and Macon are separate metropolitan areas. They, however, belong to the same consolidated statistical area.
I can see your reasoning, however for thinking them one metro area, as only a few miles of undeveloped land really separates them.
I live in Warner Robins, but commute to Macon twice a week for work.
Atlanta Metro's main problem is traffic. Depending on the issue, it might take two hours to take a trip that should only take thirty minutes. smh. I saw these issues coming in the early 2000s. Too many people relocating to an area that is not ready for the growth or has the room for it. Too crowded.
When Terminus was founded (later renamed Marthasville then Atlanta) it was basically a failing ghost town of a railroad stop. Later it was burned to the ground by Sherman. The fact that Atlanta exists and has become such a big metropolitan area is kind of a miracle
Douglas Georgia 1963-1965 wonderful town, moved to Athens Georgia in 1965-1968 fine town and some great football games there. Visit Atlanta and be prepared for traffic. I went back in 2020 and visited all three cities. All have gotten bigger and much more traffic!!! If you want to shop, support the local stores and if they do not have it; don’t drive, it’s completely computer time!! A great large glass of tea and browse for the things you want!!! Try to shop local for anything and enjoy the tall pines.
I wouldn't really call Georgia outside of Atlanta empty. It has a population of 4.5 million while Alabama has a population of 5 million right next to Georgia and at a similar size. It's moreso that Atlanta is an outlier here.
One's growing a LOT faster than the other. That's also changing state politics, despite all the gerrymandering and vote-suppression attempts. Cobb and Gwinnett used to be ruby red. Now they're both blue and Cherokee is the most populous red county. Really mind-blowing.
@@myfriendgoo2816Nonwhites who moved into Gwinnett and Cobb are the reason for the shift from red to blue. It has nothing to do with changing ideologies of the long time residents of those counties.
@@myfriendgoo2816The moveins leave bad places and bring their bad politics with them; then sit and wonder why the new place is going downhill. Gwinnett is a perfect example of destruction by urbanization. 2020 to 2050 should be watched closely, because 2010 to 2020 was already terrible.
@@myfriendgoo2816 one the fastest growing counties in the state is Bryan (outside of Chatham... where Savannah is located) and Chatham is growing rapidly as well. And state politics are pretty much the same... more evidence points to 2020 being the outlier. Georgia is bright red except that the state has 2 Democratic Senators. We will see in 2024 but people have wanted Georgia to become purple since it flipped in 2000.
@@myfriendgoo2816 one more thing... it seems that people vote Blue when they move to Georgia and over time shift to voting purple then red. You have STRONG democratic enclaves (Dekalb and Fulton Counties for example) and a few places that have changed (Cobb and Gwinnett) but for the most part the internal politics statewide have been pretty consistent since 2000.
As some who is born and raised in Georgia now currently live in Atlanta, I found this video interesting and the reason why few people live in South Georgia is because its home to farming for peaches, peanuts, and onions. Not to mention its gets very hot and humid around the swamp lands. Atlanta on the other hand is the crown jewel of the South when it comes to sports and entertainment while continuing to be a cultural hub to this day.
I would never want to live in Atlanta or anywhere near it. It has nothing I want.
It’s the easiest major path around the Appalachian mountains
I grew up in SE GA and now live in Atlanta. There's a significant difference in weather and climate. Although, there's not much snow around Atlanta, there's what we call love bugs and many other insects in the southern part of the state that when I drive home quickly cover my windshield around south of Macon. Also, the humidity is often 100% and suffocating in the summer with temps around 100 degrees.
We trade the love bugs for the pollen & tornados.
@@duckducknight problem with that, I'm over near Savannah and we had a tornado watch literally yesterday, and almost 2 years ago my house had a near miss.
@@LillyGamesx I know the feeling . Tornado yesterday in Rockdale County not far from my house. Pollen is terrible almost a 7000 count & we still have love bugs, not quite as bad as down home (south Ga). now we can deal with the Cicadas.
8:37 As of the 2023 census Atlanta now has over 6.3 million people making it the 6th largest metro in the United States...Only New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, and Houston are bigger than Atlanta.
...& all of those places are total shite holes...not something to be proud of.
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Gotta point out a few discrepancies. I grew up in Northeast Georgia on the SC coast on the shores of Lake Hartwell. I lived in Augusta for 4 years - med school at Medical College of Georgia. I lived in Savannah for 5 years - 3 years Internal medical residency and 2 years of private practice.
You are missing several large cities - Columbus in WSW Georgia; Macon in middle Georgia has Mercer Medical School. Bainbridge in SSW Georgia - home to Taurus Firearms.
If you study the fall line. South of the fall line was underwater before the oceans receded in prehistoric times.
OK, yeah, I currently live on the Alabama line in the Metro Atlanta region. I was recruited here out of residency but the remainder of my family still live near Lake Hartwell. Our three kids, all raised in Metro Atlanta all live in different states. One stayed in Georgia, one went to Louisiana and one is in SC.
If your talking about the area near Anderson SC then you have a crime problem.
@@MrCountrycuz Nope. Not talking Anderson. Although the wife was born there, I and all my immediate family (before marriage) were born in Athens. It seems strange that each of our kids was born in a different Georgia city.
Great summary, thanks! Although the Atlanta metro represents over half the population of Georgia, there's a LOT to see and explore throughout the rest of the Peach State! Atlantans often travel to Columbus for a nice relaxing getaway from Atlanta's big city stresses and hassles. Columbus also now has a new Mercer Medical School, the largest urban whitewater rafting course in the world, and the National Infantry Museum that's repeatedly been rated the No. 1 free museum in America (no military ID required) by USA Today readers.
Years ago I was hauling carpet from Columbus, Georgia to St. Louis, Missouri twice a week, I grew to love South Georgia, the country side and the people
Geoff.... Ever heard of Savannah Georgia? You know that massive city where most of the ships doc at the PORT of SAVANNAH, to discharge their contents.... Maybe you should go there, its on the COSTAL WATERWAY...
I noticed you included Carroll County in the Atlanta area on your map... Carroll County however, is not part of the Atlanta area, its considered rural.
As for the Southern parts of the state, there are large cities South of Atlanta (Macon, Albany, Valdosta for instance)
The reason the Southern parts of the state are not as populated as the Atlanta area... is because those area is mostly Farming lands, as they have been historically. If you ever wear cotton clothes, or eat peanuts or pecans, or peaches, they are likely grown in that area of the state.
Play less games and study more...
Carroll county is suburban /exurban , not truly rural.
South of GA has many micropolitans like Thomasville, Warner Robins, Tifton, Adele, Perry, Cordell, Douglas , Moultrie etc and many others
Excellent video bro. Very informative.
Savannah is actually the fourth largest port in america, not the thirteenth. Savannah is also the largest single terminal port in america; for example , of the larger ports are New York/ New Jersey, which is a joint port. Savannah has always been a city. It has never been a mean agricultural hub, but in the time of the Civil War, where cotton was king, the cotton zone, which perpetuated The cotton business, was actually invited by Eli Whitney in Savannah
The majority of the cotton that was bought and sold was at the Savannah cotton exchange. The port of Savannah has been an economic power house since the founding of the state. It was key to the Confederacy.That's why I share why sherman presented it to lincoln as a christmas present. The problem with why the rest of the state is so underdeveloped is because all of the politicians live in Atlanta and all of the money goes to Atlanta from all over the state and all the roads that get developed are built-in Atlanta only now that it seems like none of the other economic engines of the. State can even compete with the port. Are they trying to for excessive amounts of money into the Savannah area. But prior to that, no money went anywhere but Atlanta. The problem is now that the corporate eyes are on savannah they're trying to build roads in Savannah. They've neglected it for 40 or 50 years, and the infrastructure sucks. Hyundai ev is currently building a car plant in Savannah.And the rumor is ford is also coming to build an e v car plant in savannah. All the major corporations want access to the port of Savannah.
Because they have the fastest turnaround time in the nation. In south georgia has more empty land to build warehouses and other infrastructure to support the business
I do agree with certain things you say here but I don't agree with you about it all. Going to Atlanta, if that was the case, why is Marta not being funded by the state? Do you know who funds? Marta mostly atlanteans.
Due to the demands of Atlanta's regional growth Savannah's ports were modernized.
Another reason for Savannah's smaller growth is due to the lack of rail investment in the country. Both the federal and the state do not see the reason to invest in rail instead they let many of it languish. United States rail is mostly privately owned.
While other parts of the world were modernizing their rail. (Impact both freight and passenger)the United States focused only on the highway system.
Amtrak shut down. It's passenger rail from Atlanta and Savannah. Basically limiting its potential growth. There's only now going to be a route from Atlanta and Savannah.
Amtrak only focused on pretty much its northeast corridor, due to it being the most economically beneficial and with a lack of federal funds.
United States currently has no high-speed rail anywhere in this country.
The federal government needs to seriously invest in the infrastructure.
* Also want to add that many of the suburbs did not want the expanse of Marta and the state did not want to fund it.
H55 Marta is public transportation, and Cat (chatham area transit) has the same problem. It doesn't serve the whole of chatham County either. Some of the smaller municipalities like pooler or bloomingdale don't want the bus. The reason all the money goes to Atlanta is because the port is funded by the GA Dot
😊I'm from Savannah and yes it always consider a city and the city infrastructure always was a key component since I can remember from side walks, city roads, fiber optics, to dredging the Savannah River or building a bigger bridge. Which there's already a plan in motion to replace the existing bridge. In the past, we lose the bidding of having several car plants in Savannah. Chrysler, Sprinter, and Hyundai, all came close to supplanting in the Coastal Empire but they wanted a lot of tax breaks which the politicians revoked. But the politicians and citizens love their trees and beautification is key when it comes development.
@@patrickevans1057it's evil what's happening giving Hyundai and others these massive tax breaks. The burden has been put on us, the locals, to pay for the infrastructure for these corporations. And it's costing many millions to do just that. Not to mention the threat they pose on our natural water supply, and most of us live off of wells which are now under threat of running dry and facing salt water intrusion, both situations leaving us without drinkable water... all for the corporatocracy. 🤬
My mother is from the Savanah area. I love visiting the area. All of the small towns in the area. The small city my mom is from has a population of just over 2100 citizens.
EVERYBODY skip to @5:24 to begin the video. Sheesh. What a load of gunk.
I haven't watched the video yet, but I live at the state line between Florida and Georgia. We have the Okefenokee Swamp and a lot of rural homesteads.
I lived in St. Mary's for 5 longgggg years!! Glad to be back out west with the beautiful mountains and the DRY heat & 4 seasons!!!😊
LOL at Savannah not being a major city. Let me just stop here 0:57
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@@kennethparker573 I lived in Savannah for 6 years. It's not a major city. I've lived in major cities and visited countless others. Don't get me wrong, I loved Savannah. But it's very limited with regard to diverse culture, shopping, entertainment, etc.
@@kennethparker573 It’s more of a tourist attraction and an oceanic shipping port. There’s no skyscrapers, subways, or a large CBD as characteristics of a major city.
@@taigewang3534There is restrictions on building skyscrapers and such as Savannah is doing it’s best to preserve its history
And this is one of the reasons we love this area and people like move here.
I actually live in North GA on the Border currently but have lived all over GA and since it is such a larfe state you can go from the beautiful mountains of the north or the flat wet swamps and marshes in the Chatahoochee swamp, been there on a field trip in Middle school.
I love my state. 🎉
It's the okeefanokee swamp