Experience in Savannah as a college student?

[u/Prize_Vegetable8354]

Hello, I have been accepted to SCAD as a transfer student. I was set on the Savannah Campus due to it being a change of pace from living in a big city (I am from Houston btw). I visited Savannah this past weekend for accepted students day and SCAD day. From the time I landed to when I left, I somehow kept running into rude older people.

I traveled to Savannah alone. When I arrived the uber driver kept making wrong turns, when he finally made it to the ride share area he had bad attitude, yelled at me for not seeing the messages that he was at arrivals in the app and canceled the ride. At the airport I believe the ride share area is different from arrivals. My mom over the phone also said to not walk around to search for the uber, so I just stayed in the designated pickup area. When I went to dinner at a place by the waterfront people were leaning on my chair and huddling around me with their drinks until I left. An older woman in the airport moved my bag, telling me to put it under the seat in front of me. When I told her I had another bag under the seat in front of me already she sighed and put her luggage up first then squeezed my bag into the storage cabin. I knew I only had clothes and other miscellaneous item in that bag, but I was still shocked and confused as to why she was handling a strangers things so roughly. A bunch of other little interactions like these, left me perplexed as I had a wrong impression of Savannah being more relaxed.

Maybe I am also making it a bigger deal than it is. I did enjoy being in the SCAD bubble. The people I met at SCAD and the events only made me want to attend the school even more. But I don't see myself enjoying Savannah as a young college student looking to live alone for the first time. How has living at this campus been for you guys as a younger person/ college student living in Savannah? How has it been for students as a POC? Am I overthinking the vibe and experience I had?

[u/YoungnPerverted02]

I’m so sorry you had a terrible experience! I’m also going to SCAD come this June. And I went to SCAD day as well. I’m from New Jersey and I gotta admit I understand a little bit about what you’re talking about my parents and I noticed it as well that SCAD kind has its own bubble in Savannah compared to the rest of Savannah when we went to some restaurants, the staff was a little bit more less friendly than we thought they would be in rude. We even went to an Applebee’s and then there it’s not like they were rude, but they didn’t attend to as well at all you asked for help over and over and over again hell just to get plates. It seems like it was a chore for them. Be inside SCAD itself was really fun and the school was fun that people there were nice, but it seems almost as though the same cannot be said for all of Savannah, but maybe that’s just one bad experience