While I hope you grow to love the city over 4 years and choose to stay forever, why are you deciding to purchase a home, for the first time nonetheless, and not have the flexibility to rent for a little to get the feel for what your needs are and other personal tastes? Owning for just 4 years that someone is in school certaintly is a lot to handle, and don't expect to get your money back or even make a profit because most house make a profit after 5-7 years at least.

Just things to keep in mind.

Also, to go off of another comment, be sure that you mean University of Maryland, Baltimore, NOT the flagship College Park campus.

Lemme confirm it's in Arbutus? The website you link to shows a couple Instagram pics, but no menu, hours, etc. except a address for an Arbutus shopping center.

Why? I would suggest something closer to Baltimore Penn Station so he can take Amtrak right up.

OP, when did it end up arriving??

Sorry, don't know the info you are seeking, but kinda curious...

How much was the citation that it is worth the time and money to fight it in court?

This is accurate.

I think we are on the same page about this and making the same point in different language. I do think that because they are making profits, they should have to pay a fee, but the significance of that fee at this price point is attainable enough that it can be justified due to the generally tax liability of the public.

Sorry for the confusion. We are saying the same thing! 👍

IMO, given that you already pay taxes to support the infrastructure that makes up the right-of-way (i.e., the roadway, sidewalks, curbs) why should you have to pay that much more to "reserve" some of that PUBLIC area for your private use? I think of it just like reserving a pavilion at a park.

Excellent input. Came here to explain this as well.

But also the affects if the pandemic on bottom-line prices for food and difficulty getting labor

Just went to this place today, actually and their products are spectacular and reasonably priced!

Yes.

> mass improvement in certain small areas has a negative impact

This phrase doesn't make any sense. How can there be mass improvement in small areas? Also, how is this negative? Are you insinuating that improvement to these small areas is negatively affecting other areas? But how so?

<-- What this person said.

Good points. Maybe.

Not a good look for rideshare companies who pride themselves on saying their system is full proof and safe. Beyond an app on someone's phone, getting into a stranger's car requires A LOT of trust on a societal scale that isn't set up for such. Kinda crazy we've talked ourselves into thinking this is okay instead of just investing public transportation like we've been doing for almost 100 years prior.

Wouldn't you need the person's phone?

Lol that was me who posted that 😂 But you make a good point by highlighting it.

How is this legal, honestly?? Aren't there any federal regulators to prevent literal charlatans from pulling a fast one on cities across the country!?

>That fall, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan was standing at a fenced-off site affixed with Boring signs near Fort Meade and telling a videographer to “get ready” for a high-speed train from Baltimore to Washington. Mr. Hogan declined to comment.

>An aide to Mr. Hogan toured a parking-lot test site at the company’s then-headquarters near Los Angeles International Airport, getting a look at a tunnel-boring machine the company purchased secondhand. Boring named it Godot, the title character in Samuel Beckett’s play about a man who never shows up.

>The Republican Hogan administration sped up the bureaucratic process for Boring, granting a conditional permit in October 2017 and an environmental permit a few months later.

>All Boring had to do was bring its machine and start digging, former Maryland officials said. But months, and then years, passed. Maryland was waiting for Godot.

>Boring deleted the Maryland project from its website last year.

🤦🤦🤦 Larry and friends getting duped when it was staring them right in the face.

For everyone that thinks this is wrong and needs to be preserved, make sure you come out the CHAP meeting when it's date is finalized and make your voice heard!

You act like wanting to feel safe when a murder happened outside your building is a bad thing. I think we can all agree that BPD doesn't do shit, but don't hate on people's desire to feel safe in their homes.

Nobody is denying the reality of violence in the city just because we don't agree with what OP is describing as an encounter with a serial killer. OP's story had no details beyond a a couple minutes of interaction with a person in a park who they didn't even have a full conversation with.

Wow... That went from 0 to 100 very quickly. I was simply pointing out that not everyone is a murderer here, but YES there are murderers. You must live a very comfortable, sheltered life to think that any person acting strange is a killer. Or, maybe you just left a lot of info out of your story?? Don't have to be a dick about it.

I think you need to go to a dictionary and look up the definition of a serial killer, well even "killer" for that matter. A scary guy in a park hold some random objects while trying to engage you does not make him a serial killer, nor any killer for that matter. Oh, and that whole thing about the killer feeding his victims to others at his local butcher shop is just an urban legend. Good grief.