We lived in the University area of a big town for 14 years and I do not remember any of this hostility.
We did have one year when unknowingly the university granted places to an intake with a higher than normal proportion of vandals, who damaged gates and fences, sh*t on people's front paths, played games running down a street using the roofs and bonnets of parked cars and as a final gesture as their presence at the university ended, knifed all the tyres on DD's car, she too being a university student but elsewhere.
But once they graduated, life returned to normal. Noisy on weekend evenings, but otherwise quite enjoyable. I cannot remember ever objecting to anything, nor of the residents in the area as a whole objectingto anything - except for three years, the excessive vandalism.
Anger management!!! Help needed.