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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First off, it isn't oceanfront. But it is coastal in the same way DC is. Baltimore is like Philly - never going to be a city of 2+ million people again, but will do ok given proximity to other elite cities as a lower cost alternative. That's what kills St Louis/Detroit/flyiver nation.

They need to bulldoze a bunch of neighborhoods and revamp around education, distribution, and back office jobs. [/quote]

Philadelphia's population is actually growing. Just a FYI. Slow but it's growing.

Lots of people completely wrote off DC in the 1980s and early 1990s. So who knows what the future holds. I agree Baltimore is deeply troubled and has extremely entrenched dysfunctional problems that will be very difficult to overcome. Philadelphia is better positioned due to having a bigger critical mass of people and more resources and the city is rebounding in a way Baltimore is not. Not as rapidly as DC has but it's not all doom or gloom there either. If anything I'd predict Philadelphia as the next hot city on the East Coast, far more affordable than either DC and New York, but not far from either, and with many great resources.

But back to Baltimore. I really don't know. I grew up in Baltimore and love Baltimore and I just don't know what the future holds. It's a constant pattern of one step forward, one step backward.

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