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Human_DumpsterFire t1_jecf7nr wrote

I live in Savannah, Georgia. We just got done with the St.Pats festivities which are akin to spring break in coastal Florida cities. It’s an absolute nightmare for the locals. Even worse for the restaurant industry workers who are regularly assaulted by drunks, left to deal with cleaning up EVERY kind of bodily fluid imaginable, and physically exhausted by the end of it. Schools close, most non-hospitality businesses close, roads blocked off, drunk people breaking everything in sight, puking everywhere, fighting; it’s horrible for those who are forced to live and work in it.

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8604 t1_jecirg8 wrote

Half of that is from the locals from what my friends in Savannah tell me..

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Human_DumpsterFire t1_jed9e6f wrote

By ‘locals’ I mean the people who live in the historic district who end up being super inconvenienced by the festivities every year. We’re just trying to go about our lives and everything gets totally upended for a week. Not being able to park on your own block, businesses being closed, having to leave for work an hour early to make sure you can get to your job two miles away on time, finding drunk strangers passed out naked on your porch, things being stolen or broken. The folks from the south side, the islands, richmond hill, garden city, and everywhere else around the city are the ones who really fuck shit up. Not to say the downtown crowd isn’t capable of the same debauchery but there aren’t that many of us compared to the thousands and thousands of people who come in from the surrounding areas.

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AboyNamedBort t1_jeepdwa wrote

If you are driving to a job two miles away then I don't feel bad for you. Check out these things called walking or biking.

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Chiggadup t1_ject4vq wrote

My wife and I had our first “away weekend” in Savannah when we were dating. We just celebrated a big anniversary so we decided to go back for a nice weekend.

Most of our plans included reservations at some nice restaurants, watching some basketball during the day, and generally just walking around the beautiful buildings.

Our anniversary is in mid March…..

We got out, saw the shamrocks and go, “oh these are up early, that’s kind of OH NOOOOOO!”

We lucking were there a week before it started, but even the week before was a total shit show at night. I feel for y’all.

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OMFGFlorida t1_jee9w8t wrote

St Pattys, Cinco de Mayo and NYE are amateur hour. I don't leave the house on those nights.

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