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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is amazing that we have the arbiter of truth on this thread.

If you look back over similar previous threads, this topic always elicits tons of defensive responses.

The actual former students always come across as most objective/realistic.

Makes me wonder if some posters are either parents who are paying through the nose for their kid's Hopkins education, and want to believe they made the right choice. Or they own property in Baltimore and don't want the real estate prices to tank.

It is amusing to watch every time. [/quote]

I think there is one defensive Baltimore poster.  He jumps on here every time Baltimore is mentioned lest anything less than positive is said about the city.

I went to Hopkins for undergrad and an MPH and my husband stayed for medical school and residency.  I lived there for 15 years and bought my first house there.

There is a ton of petty crime (mostly break-ins---houses and cars).  Violent crime (murder, attempted murder, rape) are all about the highest rates in the United States but are almost entirely contained within the drug community.  So if you are not dealing or using drugs you will be fine. 
There is about one death per 10 years that impacts the Hopkins community (e.g. a student who is harmed/killed by random city violence). 99.99999% of the time it is a safe place to live.  Baltimore is unique in that the million dollar homes and the boarded up shells are *almost* found block-by-block.  
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