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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I used to live in Baltimore, on Charles St. 3 blocks up the street from the inner harbor.  Absolutely loved it.  Fells Point, Federal Hill, the harbor, etc...

But for college students - JHU and Loyola.  It is the crappy party of the city.  No thanks.

But the kids that go there don't socialize at all. [/quote]

Three blocks north of the Harbor on Charles means you lived in the traditional downtown core, near Lombard or Baltimore streets. While it's fine in the daytime it's sketchy at night. Of all the places to live in Baltimore, downtown is not where I'd want to live. It's certainly sketchier and crappier than anything near the Hopkins Homewood or Loyola's campuses. [/quote]

You don’t know Baltimore very well [/quote]

I don't think you're a new poster. I grew up in Baltimore. I grew up in Roland Park! In the bad, bad days of the 1980s and 1990s when Baltimore was even worse than today. I grew up surrounded by Hopkins faculty and administrators. I go back to Baltimore all the time. I have friends who live all over the city although most along the north central corridor from the harbor to Towson, in other words the "White L" and Hopkins is in this corridor.

Downtown Baltimore especially around Baltimore and Lombard streets three blocks north of the harbor is sketchy at night. It's not east or west Baltimore by any stretch of the imagination but it's certainly sketchy at a level you don't see in Charles Village, with homeless people and bums and the through traffic from east/west looking to prey on people. There's never many people on the streets and feels too empty for comfort. While I have no problems walking around Canton or Federal Hill late night with some sensible street smarts, I can't say that about downtown Baltimore, and even Mount Vernon is a bit sketchier late night than I'd like. Some areas are better than others, of course. [/quote]

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