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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Marylander here who lived in Baltimore who lives in nova.

1). The tax rates are high but you do get a “homesteader” credit which makes the taxes less ridiculous.

2) Baltimore is affordable. But the city has been falling apart since 2012/Freddie Gray because it’s unable to attract high salaries to live there. And unless they get some magic tube into DC for commuters it will be very difficult to persuade people to move out there. (I also blame Hogan to a large extent too. He really effed up Baltimore.)

3) Raising a family is not as easy as say NOVA or HoCo.  I say this because the city lacks amenities for families (the sheer amount of sports and camps offered in FCPS compared to Baltimore comes to mind).  But it is a tough city to live in also because the city doesn’t have enough amenities to help those there.

We did it for 10 years in our 20s and the property we purchased there never recouped the money we spent on it. And this was after another 10 years of renting it out and selling it during the Covid boom.

Nova honestly has a better chance of a decent ROI than Baltimore.

And if anyone is going to defend Baltimore it’s me. I tried my best to try to get Baltimore to do year round school (not the weird ones in NC but school all year round with no more than a two week break here or there) because of the poverty and crime in that area. People kept complaining about how there is no money for it and yet: every summer crime goes up.

And so because of that dysfunction (and effed up racism which is another long rant) I left. [/quote]

I’m too tired to address the many fallacies in this paragraph, but there are abundant sports and camps for kids in North Baltimore, which might be expected in an area that supports 4 private k to 12 schools, a rotate k to 8 school, a Catholic k to 8, and a public k to 8.[/quote]

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