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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Read the thread on some poster inquiring about jogging around Johns Hopkins. It was unanimous to stay inside and use a treadmill!   Baltimore is run down, crime ridden, and depressing.     [/quote]

Sure, sure.You clearly have more insight than the posters who actually live in Baltimore. Well done.

OP, visit and talk to people who live in Baltimore, not terrified suburbanites who knew someone who heard about someone who got shot. The crime statistics are very much stratified by zip and demographics.  There are parts of the city that are beautiful, historic, safe, and affordable. There are people here who are absolutely insane on the subject of Baltimore. Not sure why Baltimore triggers DCUM so badly, but I would place a lot more weight on your own observations while visiting, and conversations with people who live there in particular location and demographics slice you would be in.[/quote]

Yeah I don't live in B'more, but see the same rhetoric re: DC and I have lived in the city for nearly 20 years never a victim of a crime, not even petty theft such as car broken window etc. so I always take the "THE CRIME IS SO SCARY!!!!!!!!!!!" people with a grain of salt especially if they don't actually live in the city they are claiming to know so much about it. Go see for yourself OP, check the police blotter, talk to people in the neighborhoods you are interested in and make your decision based on that information. [/quote]

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