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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I moved to Baltimore in 2018 and love it. I rented for a year in Station North, literally across the street from Penn Station, and then I bought a place in the same neighborhood when my lease was up.

I don't think I traded anything to live here actually. I also own a place in Silver Spring and when I lived there my commute to work on the Hill was like an hour or more give or take. It may sound odd, but my commute from Baltimore to Union Station on MARC was actually a little shorter and a much easier commute. Last fall I transitioned to a city govt gig so my commute is like 10 mins now tops.

I don't have any kids, so I can't comment on the schools.

Frankly, I'm baffled as to why more people, especially upwardly mobile people, but who are clearly priced out of the DC/MoCo/NoVa market don't take a hard look at Baltimore. Yes, the property taxes are staggering over a certain a price point, but you can get a moderately priced and nice home here for under $250k in a safe and walk-able community. You just can't do that anywhere near DC.

Honestly, my standard of living has increased tremendously living in Baltimore City. This place is great! I was able to purchase a second home up here and not feel stretched financially at all. In fact, my rental profit in silver spring more than covers my entire mortgage payment in Baltimore. I'd really encourage you to consider moving up here.

Good luck!
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This post makes so much sense to me. I’m signed up for the live Baltimore virtual neighborhood trolley. I can fully afford a beautiful row home with a 95 walk score and send my son to private. My business would offset the tax issue but I’m craving something that DC isn’t giving me. [/quote]

Give it time. The post has lived in Baltimore for two years or less only.  Baltimore slowly grinds you down. I lived in Baltimore for almost a decade. It didn't seem that bad at first.  Then the crime and quality of life issues slowly chop you down.  When I lived there, we had a home invasion.  You don't know what scary is until you live through one and you come.to the reality you may have to fight for your life at any moment. And no, it wasn't a bad neighborhood, but Canton. Another time when I was driving home late from work, a kid standing out in the street pointed a gun at me for no reason other than to get a scare out of random driver apparently for kicks. Not a bad neighborhood, but on a major artery road in the city.  Then I ha soooo, sooooo many co-workers and colleagues who had been robbed at gunpoint at least once over the course of several years. Both men and women.  It is truly mind warping how many people I know who have been robbed at gunpoint while living in Baltimore. And they lived in areas like Mt. Vernon and Butcher's Hill.  Quality of life issues ran the gamut from incessant package theft, constant tire slashings, and car break-ins to the annoying and super aggressive panhandlers and squeegee boys.  At one point, I think I counted almost 020 panhandlers bothering cars in less than a mile on Martin Luther King Blvd.

Baltimore just isn't safe.  There's a reason why the property values are at the prices they are in Baltimore.  Not even the 'good' areas are immune to crime. Roland Park/Guilford borders the Greenmount area which is SCARY.  My Vernon/Butcher's Hill border tough neighborhoods, and criminals come from the bad areas to prey on the better areas. Charles Village borders the same Greenmount area.

We just got tired of it all after a while and left.  Leaving the city was also like a huuuuuge salary raise after cutting my car insurance almost in half for not living in Baltimore, and for drastically reduced taxes. Property values also don't go up very fast or stay stagnant in Baltimore.  There always seems to be a huge glut of homes on the market. [/quote]

I had to laugh reading this post - I lived in Bogota, Colombia for several years and saw many of the same things (everybody got robbed at some point). Of course the upsides for living in Colombia are likely a lot higher than they are for Baltimore and Bogota is probably a little safer. Now I'm just incredibly bored in expensive, sterile DC. I do love visiting Baltimore on occassion though![/quote]

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