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Old 04-25-2009, 10:46 AM
 
Location: Wilmington Island...Savannah, GA.
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Look at the crime stats map that are issued by the city PD and also call them yourself and ask questions. Threads like this made me uneasy about coming to SAV. I'm glad I didn't take the alarmist approach and did my research. We've been here for almost 2 years now and crime is not an issue at all.
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Old 04-25-2009, 10:49 AM
 
Location: Wilmington Island...Savannah, GA.
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I am looking to move to the Savanah area. Does anyone have any advice about what would be the best section to live in? Im really wanting something outside of Savanah. I am a country boy from TN and you cant seem to get the country out of your blood when your raised that way.
I got bored.
Here ya go for a starting point...
https://www.city-data.com/forum/savan...bad-areas.html
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Old 04-25-2009, 05:57 PM
 
Location: Port Wentworth (North)
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I am looking to move to the Savanah area. Does anyone have any advice about what would be the best section to live in? Im really wanting something outside of Savanah. I am a country boy from TN and you cant seem to get the country out of your blood when your raised that way.
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Old 04-29-2009, 11:20 AM
 
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I was a tour guide in Savannah for about two years and I loved my job. However, while in training we were told "The main thing that will get you fired is telling the truth to the tourists about the crime." I managed to avoid being fired but eventually quit to do something else. I miss that job every day but I know I wasn't suited for it.

Savannah is probably the most beautiful city I have ever seen, right up there with Portland, OR and San Francisco, CA. And it is true that every city has crime, so Savannah isn't unique in that respect.

I can quote a famous visitor to Savannah in the 1920's; "Savannah is like a beautiful woman with a dirty face" and also refer to a book title, "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil". Savannah's crime is so unexpected...I think that is what is different about it. It's just this undercurrent that you can almost feel. And it is also very accepted. I have lived here 41 years and I just know that's the price you have to pay to be here. For those who have lived here and haven't experienced it or just live in denial and refuse to admit its existence, it's only because your number hasn't come up yet.
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Old 04-30-2009, 11:15 AM
 
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To comment on crime in Savannah, I would like to add that we visit often, and I have never felt like I was in danger at any time. It's just good common sense to stay away from areas that you are not familiar with and when out at night not to be alone. These days you can get robbed in "Mayberry".
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Old 04-30-2009, 11:29 AM
 
Location: Wilmington Island...Savannah, GA.
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To comment on crime in Savannah, I would like to add that we visit often, and I have never felt like I was in danger at any time. It's just good common sense to stay away from areas that you are not familiar with and when out at night not to be alone. These days you can get robbed in "Mayberry".
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Old 04-30-2009, 11:37 AM
 
Location: Wilmington Island...Savannah, GA.
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"I have lived here 41 years ..."
And I'm assuming nowhere else?
Nobody in this thread, or on this bored, has said that there is no crime in Savannah.
But compared to other places/cities, it ain't that bad.
I've been thru some deep **** in other places, and yet I don't disparage the whole place.
It was just my dumb luck.
Ain't it ain't gonna happen again.

Just my 26cents worth.
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Old 04-30-2009, 12:33 PM
 
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Savannah's crime is so unexpected...I think that is what is different about it.
Huh??? Just because a place has lovely old buildings and beautiful squares, it doesn't mean a random mugger or car thief isn't lurking about. I expect crime everywhere and use common sense everywhere I go. I avoid bad areas and I steer away from questionable looking people that stray into good areas.

I don't mean to pick on you Adam's mom but some people that have lived here for a very long time seem to have a very distorted sense of crime here and I think it could potentially dissuade someone from moving to Savannah if they read posts like this.

Sure there is crime in Savannah. There is crime everywhere though these days. I lived for 9 years in one of the wealthiest counties in the US and there was a shocking amount of crime there. It happens everywhere and unless you are going to isolate your self in a compound in the middle of nowhere, it is just a fact of life in modern times.

I just read a story yesterday about a couple that was robbed in their motel room here in Savannah. Seemed shocking at first until I read that it was nighttime and they were sitting in their room with the door to the outside opened because they wanted some fresh air. DUH!!! If you do incredibly dumb things like this the fact is that there are no-good people out there that will take advantage of your own foolishness and lack of common sense. I read this couple was from Alaska. Maybe they just didn't have any experience living in cities. I really don't know. Common sense dictates that you don't leave your door unlocked anywhere at anytime...let alone wide open at night.
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Old 04-30-2009, 05:18 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Default oh Al...

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Please look thru some of the old threads?
This didn't need to be bumped.
<Hey! I said please, didn't I?>

Reads one thread, and damns the city?
Thanks for the prayers, and glad we ain't on your short list.
L.A. is heaven compared to this.
Hahaha...
L.A. aint heaven...you lived in San Diego right??? Please tell me you are being sarcastic.
Im trying my best to get out of this town! I've lived in LA for six years and I think Savannah is fantastic. My husband is there..& I have visited many times. I have a hard time believing its 'dangerous'. Wherever there are poor helpless people there is crime. Name one city there isnt, big or small.
I cant wait to move!
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Old 04-30-2009, 05:40 PM
 
Location: Wilmington Island...Savannah, GA.
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L.A. aint heaven...you lived in San Diego right??? Please tell me you are being sarcastic.
Im trying my best to get out of this town! I've lived in LA for six years and I think Savannah is fantastic. My husband is there..& I have visited many times. I have a hard time believing its 'dangerous'. Wherever there are poor helpless people there is crime. Name one city there isnt, big or small.
I cant wait to move!
Total sarcasm.
It's my job.
It's what I do best.

Yup, San Diego was home for twenty years.
Spent some time up in L.A.
And now the two are almost one big city.
I been a "few" places/cities in my life, and this is the place I wanna be.
You will love it here.
Just bring the street smarts you developed in L.A. and you'll be alright.
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