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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]without kids, mt. vernon was awesome to live in. cool housing stock, great collection of restaurants all walkable, and my local pub was brewers art, walkable to the walters art museum..just cool.

What I think needs to happen is for baltimore to create tax incentives to house back office or lower value-added work for companies housed in DC given that real estate is cheaper.

Baltimore politics is really shitty and a lot of the ills have to do with very poor management of the city. The city has great bones but needs a wide variety of jobs (besides JHU/UMD/hospital jobs).

There is no reason for many 'lower level' jobs that are crammed in the DC area not to relocate to baltimore. Have execs, high value-added, and client-facing workers stay in dc area but move the rest to baltimore. This would bring in the type of middle-class and educated people baltimore needs to become a nice city. [/quote]

I worked in Mt. Vernon for a while, and I did not feel it was safe to walk around alone after dark.  It's fine if you are always with someone or in a group, but if you live there and have to walk around alone, it's a different story.  I also found the parking situation there to be a nightmare.  The city tickets often.  And the problem with city living in Baltimore is that you still need a car.  [/quote]

I just think different people have different comfort-levels or tolerances for what 'safe' is.

I had zero issues during the 2 years i lived in mt. vernon (this was in 5-6 years ago)...would walk around alone after dark all the time.

i'm a short skinny asian person though who spent time growning up in a majority black neighborhood during elementary school so my comfort levels are different than a petite young blonde from great falls. [/quote]

I think comfort level is a product of experience.  I'm not a petite blonde from great falls, but I was uncomfortable there.  That's because I had close calls.  I also worked in the area when one homeless person murdered another on the steps of the basilica.  Before that happened, I had sort of regarded the large population of panhandlers as relatively harmless.  After that, I felt differently.  (and I understand there's a lot of mental illness, et cetera, so I'm not trying to demonize the homeless.  I'm just saying that in that area there's a large presence at night of potentially dangerous people and the streets are otherwise empty -- no police, not a lot of passersby -- so it's a recipe for a problem).  Perhaps if I hadn't known about some of the incidents that happened around there, I would have felt fine, too.  And incidents like the one I mentioned above don't tend to get a lot of press.  Shootings get attention in the papers.  But stabbings and muggings don't.[/quote]

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