Recent transplant to Baltimore.

I’ve lived in two areas, outskirts of Baltimore 5 min from Catonsville and around Bolton Hill, a hip “up and coming” part of Baltimore.

This might be sacrilegious here, but unless you go to Hopkins or need immediate access to Penn Station, there’s no real need to live in Baltimore proper.

Near Catonsville I am 20 minutes away or less from anywhere worth visiting in Baltimore. Charles Village, Fells Point, Fed Hill, I am 20 minutes and in many cases only 15 away. In this case I was also only 40 away from DC, and 30ish from Rockville, and 20 from Columbia. I’m relatively free of any traffic in the morning or afternoon.

Now I live in Baltimore proper due to desire for proximity to Penn Station…. More expensive, more dangerous, worse schools, and I don’t go to Charles Village, Fells Point, or Fed Hill often enough to make its short commute worth it. Tbh Baltimore nightlife can’t hold a candle to DC’s.

As someone who LIKES living in Baltimore, it’s really a case of a suburb of a city being better than living in the city itself.