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boneholio t1_iuckb9g wrote

the county/city pissing contest is a contrived cultural circlejerk that only exists on reddit

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AreWeCowabunga t1_iucpsfx wrote

The concerned look county people give me when they learn I live in the city says otherwise.

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good_fox_bad_wolf t1_iud12nt wrote

Literally this is all my coworkers anytime I mention doing something fun (i.e. in the city).

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NewrytStarcommander t1_iud1oy2 wrote

Haha this was my county co-workers when I told them they should come to the Lantern Parade with me- after dark? Patterson Park? In the city? OMG!

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good_fox_bad_wolf t1_iud3a7m wrote

I told my friend's dad I was going to run the Baltimore marathon and he asked if I needed a bullet proof vest. I think it was only half joking.

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NerdyOutdoors t1_iucst20 wrote

Just had a chat with an otherwise enlightened, smart, respectable county resident who refuses to go into the city… she thinks she’ll end up a squeegee victim or get robbed and tossed in the harbor, or run over by a dirt bike…. Her reaction was just VISCERAL and the opposite of a reasoned response. So the city/county divide is 100% real, at very least on the county side.

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rental_car_fast t1_iud1do8 wrote

I live in the County and Its pretty real. That said, I’m in the city all the time!! We’re not all like that.

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boneholio t1_iujwp6i wrote

> at very least on the country side

that's basically what i'm getting at, it's one-sided as all hell

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boneholio t1_iujuw97 wrote

i get that a lot when i talk about moving into the city, but it has always seemed pretty common sense and self-evident to disregard the emphatic pearl-clutching you get from the sheltered middle-class non-identity who espouse fear and repression as a form of virtue

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DonBoy30 t1_iudfc99 wrote

what were not around for the red line debacle? Or whenever crime happens near Cromwell, towson, or hunt valley LR station? Or literally every state election cycle? Find a local news facebook page about any given murder of any white person in the city and read the comments.

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boneholio t1_iujue32 wrote

on general principle i expressly try not to pay attention to whatever racial fear-mongering that insecure suburbanites / upper class well-to-dos try to stir up

and 'contrived' is precisely the word to describe the attitude and imperative of people who create facebook groups about black-on-white murder conspiracies

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todareistobmore t1_iudr4ly wrote

Growing up, my dad's mom lived in Parkville, my mom's family lived in AAco. Coming up 295 or down Harford, we had to make sure our windows were up and doors locked going into the city.

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boneholio t1_iujsnuj wrote

fair enough, i’m familiar with this suburbanite fear-culture where they use the city as a scapegoat for their own insecure aversion to nuanced morality, racial diversity, and alternative culture.

my original sentiment comes from this place of like - if you’re part of the bmore subreddit, i place it in good faith that you’re a fan of Baltimore, right?

and that’s a position where it’s impossible to ignore the city. like, who actually reps bmore because of the county, you know what i’m saying?

maybe i’m blind, or i just don’t pop out on the subreddit so often, but i don’t really see a lot of die-hard county mouthpieces on here, so i assumed the subreddit was localized from the city perspective in the first place, which makes it feel contrived to even want to talk about the county

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