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West Chatham County

West Chatham County, anchored by Pooler, Bloomingdale, Garden City, and Port Wentworth, is home to much of Savannah’s heavy industry and manufacturing. The Port of Savannah is a primary driver of economic activity in the region, as the port’s Garden City Terminal is the largest and fastest growing container terminal in North America and Savannah’s Ocean Terminal is just a short distance away. The nearby warehouses for Target, Ikea, and Heineken, which serve as distribution centers for most of the South, are just a few of the major companies that depend on the port. Garden City, like much of Savannah, is also a popular filming location for tv and film. Like Pooler, the most well-known of the area’s cities, the other towns in West Chatham County also offer a mix of planned communities and non-planned neighborhoods, many with affordable houses.

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Living in Savannah

Gorgeous and welcoming, Savannah is lovely to behold and even lovelier to live in. The lifeblood of this city, founded in 1733, is the Savannah River, flowing around and through the entire metropolis. And its heart? That’s Savannah’s legendary urban planning, created by town founder James Oglethorpe. A visionary town planner, Oglethorpe incorporated parks and gardens throughout, with pedestrian-scaled streets. Replicable and non-hierarchical, Savannah’s town plan remained the guiding light for the city’s new developments through the twentieth century. As a result, Savannah is a place that feels utterly livable, whether you’re relaxing on the beach, drinking and strolling on River Street, or just enjoying a delicious seafood meal, surrounded by moss-covered oak trees.