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[quote=Anonymous]Well, Ho Co relies on Baltimore.  It has BG&E versus PEPCO, for example, and the news is from Baltimore.  I have friends who moved to Ho Co for the schools  but they commute to Balt. for work.

Ho Co is not DC-based at all.

And I can say from an educator's perspective that the school system is solid.  We would have moved there, but as a two-teacher HH in Mo Co, it's easier to stay on the same schedule as your kids.

[quote=Anonymous]I grew up in Baltimore and Columbia was never on anyone's radar. We never went to Columbia for the shopping or the mall (that would have been Towson or Owings Mills or even White Marsh). No one talked about Columbia. You occasionally met people who lived in Columbia but it was "out there" in a different land, quite unlike Cockeysville or Hunt Valley which were much more integrated with Baltimore itself. The other Baltimore suburbs in Baltimore County and even Anne Arundel and Harford Counties were always much more part of the metro area than Columbia. Even Ellicott City is somewhat accepted as a Baltimore suburb more than Columbia.

Part of the problem may have to do with the geographic isolation of Columbia. There's no direct road from Columbia to Baltimore (unlike I83 connecting the northern suburbs to downtown) and the Patapsco Valley State Park also buffers Howard County from Baltimore County with minimal linkage between the two. That helps fuel the sense that Columbia wasn't a proper part of Baltimore. Columbia, being a new master planned community, didn't attract many Baltimore families so few people in Baltimore had relatives or cousins who moved out to Columbia (unlike Towson, for example).

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Baltimore doesn't view Columbia as one of its suburbs.

It's a stepchild, unloved by both Baltimore and DC ;)[/b]

I did hear a HoCo planning professional say that roughly 1/3 of Columbia residents work in the DC area, another 1/3 in the Baltimore area and the remaining 1/3 in Columbia itself.

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That is entirely untrue. It is a Baltimore suburb and is well loved by many people from Baltimore (who cares about DC ;-)). Columbia and Howard County routinely make national lists on the best places to live. [/quote][/quote][/quote]

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