VOLO is awesome thanks!! We did lots of rec sports in college and have really been missing it these past few years.

How do you really go about getting to know a neighborhoods vibe without really living in the area?

How do you really go about getting to know a neighborhoods vibe without really living in the area?

Thanks! Wasn't really familiar with this area til today. We will definitely check it out!

How'd you go about getting a vibe? We had the exact same plan, Airbnb to eventually buy, before deciding to rent with the insane mortgage rates now. But I also wasn't sure how we'd even really get a vibe for a neighborhood anyways without living there? Drive to a new one each weekend and spend a day walking around I guess....?

That's awesome! Definitely what I miss about the ol' college days too. Being in suburbia can be pretty isolating especially without kids to help meet other people. Maybe that's an us problem though

We've definitely considered it. It's our plan B if we feel really unsure/can't find anything we like.

I've gotten really good at grocery pickup/online orders so i never spend more than 5 minutes at a grocery store on my way home from work lol. We have a good system and not something I expect small city grocers to have, unfortunately. I hate shopping lol

Yeah this resonates a lot with me. Also why we're renting. If we hate the city we can always move. Burbs are boring but also safe, and if we start there idk if we will ever find the motivation to leave lol

Thank you! So maybe in a few years with a kid or two around Cockeysville/etc will feel more like home

>Yeah Cockeysville is like families and people in their 50s-70s.

Yeah this is kinda exactly what we don't want. It starting to sound like we'd be better off putting our best effort into trying out the city. I think we'd come around to it, just growing pains/foreign

Haha thank you for correcting me/educating me. See I don't even really know what it's like to live in a city! But I'm warming up to it. Sounds like we'd have a lot of fun and we're coming around on the idea. Thanks.

Our budget is pretty high. Or soft ceiling is 3k probably, but hoping for a 3 bed w parking which can be limiting regardless of budget...

Is Mt Washington a suburb? 😅 Boy i have a lot to learn still haha

Yeah this is kind of our fear. For the past few years we've been smothered by people a decade + older than us just because of where we've needed to live and we're SICK of it lol.

>The suburban apartment complexes are like the worst of all worlds, trapped with people and their noise through the walls while lacking any kind of street life, community feeling or conveniences at the same time.

You've pretty much exactly described everything we've disliked about suburbs/apartments over these last few years haha. Thanks for taking the time to respond and giving some great suggestions

What makes you think that's the best option?

Edit: Sorry mixed up Towson/Timonium lol.

If we did go for Timonium, do you think we'd be missing out on out on a lot of the benefits of living in Baltimore? Like how different really would life be in Towson vs Timonium vs Inner Harbor/etc?

We definitely have a diamond in the rough kind of place now that we think the landlord would want us for (has had a lot of interest), and we have family who've checked it out. What is it that you don't like about Cockeysville?

We will have to look. Currently they don't really have anything that fits what we're hoping for, but these definitely weren't on our radar before! Thanks.