Baltimore has turned apocalyptic. MoCo’s future?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You could always move to the five states with the highest age-adjusted death rates: Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and West Virginia. Maybe the folks that are elected there are more to your liking.

We’re talking about killings, bozo, not how many old people die.

[Anonymous]

This is part of the Kia/Hyundai theft epidemic that’s happening all over the country. It is not specific to Baltimore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is part of the Kia/Hyundai theft epidemic that’s happening all over the country. It is not specific to Baltimore.

This is becoming the new iT wAs wOrSe iN tHe 90s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is part of the Kia/Hyundai theft epidemic that’s happening all over the country. It is not specific to Baltimore.

This is becoming the new iT wAs wOrSe iN tHe 90s.

It was worse in the 80’s and 90’s.

Crime is still historically low.

The uptick is due to a pandemic, fentanyl and poverty. Those are not caused by “progressive “ policy.

It like the crack epidemic but it fentanyl , thanks China.

[Anonymous]

I looked very carefully at investing in Baltimore real estate. Loved the vibe, the charm, the waterfront. Regretfully chose not to invest because of questionable flips, the rats, the crime.

While I was looking, I learned that blacks were lured to Baltimore with the promise of safe neighborhoods in which to raise their families. Instead, they found themselves living in a declining city with increasing crime. Very sad story.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You could always move to the five states with the highest age-adjusted death rates: Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and West Virginia. Maybe the folks that are elected there are more to your liking.

What does highest age adjusted death rates mean

Death rates (deaths per 100,000 population per year) are age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population (19 age groups: <1, 1-4, 5-9, ... , 80-84, 85+). Rates calculated using SEER*Stat. Population counts for denominators are based on Census populations as modified by NCI. The US Population Data File is used for mortality data.

https://hdpulse.nimhd.nih.gov/data-portal/mortality/table?cod=247&cod_options=cod_15&race=00&race_options=race_6&sex=0&sex_options=sex_3&age=001&age_options=age_11&yeargroup=5&yeargroup_options=yearmort_2&statefips=00&statefips_options=area_states&ruralurban=0&ruralurban_options=ruralurban_3#notes

The 10 states with the highest age-adjusted death rates in this table are: Mississippi (985.6 deaths per 100,000 people), West Virginia (966.4), Kentucky (947.2), Alabama (941.7), Tennessee (916.2), Oklahoma (915.1), Arkansas (908.7), Louisiana (905.1), Indiana (863.5), Ohio (860.7).

[Anonymous]

^^^also, very odd thread. "Apocalyptic" can include a lot of things, in my mind, but ... auto thefts? Auto thefts are the apocalypse?

[Anonymous]

Maybe don’t hang out in the projects of Baltimore after midnight?

[Anonymous]

This is a totally spurious comparison. Baltimore and MoCo have little in common historically or economically. Baltimore is an industrial rust belt city that suffered enormous job loss from its blue collar economy and white flight when industry left starting the 1970s and through the 1980s and 1990s. MoCo's largest industry is professional and scientific services, much of which is government contracting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You could always move to the five states with the highest age-adjusted death rates: Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and West Virginia. Maybe the folks that are elected there are more to your liking.

I am always embarrassed and disgusted when follow members of the political left brush off crime that kills mostly young black men in the name of political correctness. Would you like to volunteer to raise your kids in inner city Baltimore? Also, FYI, the problems in those southern states you mention also have a lot to do with economics, poverty, and despair just as they do in Baltimore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a totally spurious comparison. Baltimore and MoCo have little in common historically or economically. Baltimore is an industrial rust belt city that suffered enormous job loss from its blue collar economy and white flight when industry left starting the 1970s and through the 1980s and 1990s. MoCo's largest industry is professional and scientific services, much of which is government contracting.

Modi’s poor population is immigrants since it’s a sanctuary county. In general, immigrants work hard and try to get ahead. Totally different from the generations of poverty raised in Baltimore.

[Anonymous]

Progressivism ruins everything.

[Anonymous]

It’s the only big coastal city that nobody wants to visit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^^^also, very odd thread. "Apocalyptic" can include a lot of things, in my mind, but ... auto thefts? Auto thefts are the apocalypse?

Grand Theft Armageddon

[Anonymous]

NP. Baltimore is my birthplace, and grew up in it's 'burbs. Lived in D.C. for a bit, but moved back in 2004. I finally moved out of Baltimore City in 2019. Moved out of Maryland in 2021. I saw the writing on the wall back in 2014/2015. There was a time when things were improving, incrementally, yes. That cannot be denied by anybody who were there during the early-00's. At the very least, the chaos and misery was confined to a handful of blocks and individuals/tiny neighborhood gangs.

I've lived in MoCo during the early influx of Central Americans and have been back there since the winding down of the pandemic drama too. I don't see another Baltimore in the making. Similarities in terms of shifts of socioeconomics and terrible attitudes/outcomes related to education in certain populations appear to be in spitting distance. The problems Baltimore contends with are stickier than antisocial souls taking the red line up to Gaithersburg or Central Americans bringing their struggles and social pathologies with them.

I know someone who considers living in Baltimore to be like peering into the future in terms of crime/social ills. I don't completely agree, but with the astronomical rise in homicide rates and the out of control drug trade nationwide, I wonder at times. It's frustrating that my birthplace is one that I have to make sure I mention that I grew up in "the surrounding area" because people will think differently of you. Or, if you're an adult choosing to live there that you have a death wish.

Anonymous wrote:... While I was looking, I learned that blacks were lured to Baltimore with the promise of safe neighborhoods in which to raise their families. Instead, they found themselves living in a declining city with increasing crime. Very sad story.

Baltimore has had a relatively large AfroAmerican population since easily the 19th century. Maryland as a whole has always been a very black state compared to most. I'm not sure where you got this information regarding black families being "lured" to the city. If you're referring to the ending of segregated neighborhoods; the sorts moving into 'hoods like Irvington, Ednor Gardens, etc. were mostly locals with deep roots.

It's more like they're being "lured" to the bedroom communities, currently. Many I've talked to back there seem to be under the impression that changing a few digits in their 212xx zip code or going clear up to York, PA will guarantee safety and prosperity.