I would not transfer just for a meh social life. If the academics will offer you more or the networking or job placement is better then that adds more reason to it.
It is usually harder socially when you transfer and is hard at a small school where everyone has already made friends. Don’t go into a transfer for a social life unless you already have a good friend at the school because there is definitely no guarantee that you will be able to make better friends there than you can at your current school.
Don’t buy that “college is the best four years of your life” BS. What a depressing thought! It’s all downhill after that huh? Gonna just completely suck for the rest of your life. That is such nonsense. As a grown ass person I can tell you that college was definitely not the best four years of my life. I had some fun. Made a few friends. But honestly I did not make the best friends of my life in college. I did not meet my spouse in college. These are things that happened after college for me.
I do not keep in close touch with any of my college friends. I see one on Facebook. That’s it. The other friends I had in college that I still keep up with on Facebook were friends I had in high school, too. I did make good friends after college who have since gone on to live all over the country that I still keep up with and see in person, but not most of the people I met in college.
I think it’s a much healthier attitude to think that every coming year is going to be your best year than when you graduate college thinking, “oh well, there goes my best years. All downhill from here. “