Sporting events are pretty limited to minor-league baseball, a lot of folks enjoy going to see the Bananas play, but for me it's a nap that involves a hangover and a sunburn. Still, most of the time concerts and music festivals are going to be an out of town trip. More popular music/entertainment acts tend to bypass us for ATL or JAX on their tour schedules, we still get some though hopefully the new arena will change that. ![]() There's a lot of good stuff here.īut, in the vein of things you expect to find in a "city", we're sorely lacking in several areas. Lots of nature, social drinking, arts/culture, walking and looking at things. Oof, yeah Savannah is kind of a mixed bag. But it does mean that the first year or so here is disorienting as you have to just put yourself out there and figure out where and how to meet people. But we could tell some stories …Īnyway, Svh is a social place but it’s a personal place and is the better for it, I think. That’s usually how it works here, but that cousin will be an amazing person and will have a whole network of incredibly interesting friends who ride together every Saturday and one of the old guys you meet, who pulls up every week in a beat up old station wagon, will have a huge ranch in Wyoming and will fly everyone out in August in his gulfstream for a week to ride together. The activities will follow - I’m sure there are people who like all the things you mentioned, it’s just a question of meeting someone who knows someone who knows someone who has a cousin who rides western and is always looking for someone to ride with. Anyone who wants to stay busy in Savannah can start by looking not for things to do but for people to get to know. When you invite them, they invite you back. The reason this works is that people here know how to respond to that. So for example, when we moved here, we walked the neighborhood every evening and met our neighbors, started a supper club (so Savannah!), joined the Y and went at the same times every week, ate at a few small local restaurants several times a week and met the owners and other regulars, got involved w some local charities/community organizations and basically built relationships. Once you do, Savannah gets very busy because it’s designed to function on these lines. Savannah life takes place behind closed doors, with friends and family so those of us who moved here without those things have to create them. There’s still not the large entertainment business that other places have. What once happened organically had to become intentional, especially for newcomers, because while Svh is larger, it’s character is still essentially Svh, as you noted. ![]() Keep on moving to Orlando if you’re looking for that.īuilding this kind of community obviously got harder as the city grew. You went to Atlanta for that, got it out of your system and then came home and thanked the Lord you didn’t have to live in that Atlanta mess every day. Savannah never wanted stuff like TopGolf back in the day. ![]() It worked well when the city was smaller and everyone knew everyone. Here’s my take on this, as a non native who moved here 24 years ago and has had to figure this out too: Savannah has traditionally been a social town - as in, dinner with friends, day on the boat w friends, oyster roast w friends, sit on the deck and drink w friends, parties w friends, etc.
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