SCAD rated Biggest Rip off in America?

RainingAgain
Tue, 10 Jul 2012 20:33:40 +0000

You’re being disingenuous describing Savannah as a lower class, beat-up, ghetto. The fringes around the downtown area, to the south and to the west are, but not the core. The core–the mass of the city–is breathtaking.

What were you doing wandering up and down Montgomery Street anyway? Montgomery Hall has a large parking area and if I recall, a security gate. Students can ride the shuttle buses. SCAD tours are also on the shuttles.

Here’s an image of Montgomery Hall taken from Google Maps at 3515 Montgomery.
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People can judge the neighborhood for themselves if they are curious.

You should have come to Savannah twenty-five years ago when the entire downtown area looked that way except for Bull, Gaston, Guyton, Jones and River streets. My guess is that 80% of all structures downtown were vacant and/or very dilapidated–from where you were at Montgomery all the way to the Savannah River and Bay Street. Broughton Street (the main street) on which SCAD’s Jen Library sits – was a ghost town. There was a wig shop, a couple of bars, a pawn shop, a used furniture store, and maybe a few others.

Be real? Unfortunately, poor people exist in the real world. What should we do with them, ignore them? Pretend they don’t exist? Run away from them?

By the way, where is your review of your trip to Savannah and SCAD? In which thread was it written and on what date? I would really like to read it.