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Baltimore residents have a skewed perspective.  When your baseline for crime is Baltimore, you'll think neighborhoods like Canton, CV, Hamden, Roland Park are fine, yet they still have very high levels of crime. There is a reason. Baltimore is cheap, so many homes are for sale in Baltimore, and nothing appreciates.  Everyone leaves the city when they get older and have kids. [b] It is rare in Baltimore to see many people pushing around strollers and having school aged kids because everyone leaves when they start families[/b] when taxes, schools, and safety start to matter.  [/quote]

:lol:  :lol:  :lol: 
Spoken as someone who has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

It is far from rare to see families in Baltimore. From the older families in Roland Park to the young ones in Canton and Hampden, it's absolutely false. My kid is in a RP private school and a solid third of his classmates are from the city.  There are a LOT of high-end strollers being pushed around within city limits (and even more not-high-end-strollers, but I suspect you think those families don't count).

Also patently false to say that crime is high in Hampden and Roland Park etc. There was a murder in Roland Park in 2016, every freaked out, and people still talk about it. Your car might get broken into, sure. But I lived in a neighborhood approximately 100000x seedier than any of the neighborhoods you've mentioned, and nobody I knew there experienced violent crime. Crime tends to be concentrated and that's not where it's concentrated.

But don't take my word for it. Crime statistics are readily available. All the maps show the same thing: the "white L" is pretty darn safe, and the "black butterfly" is not.  :cry:  We absolutely need to fight for a safer city for ALL Baltimore residents -- but don't pretend that the pain is equally spread throughout the city. It plainly is not.[/quote]

This is pretty true. You can get an idea on this by how many families are leaving Baltimore. City's population is less than 600K which is below it was in 1950s. City is in horrible state with high crime, bad schools and public services and high taxes. Take out a couple of neighborhoods and you don't have a good place in Baltimore to raise kids. People should be paid to live there instead of high taxes. [/quote]

I see the anti-Baltimore trolls are back.

The vast majority of white flight in Baltimore occurred prior to 2000.

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Is it possible to dislike Baltimore and not be a troll? I lived in Baltimore many years and although it has a few charming neighborhoods, and I like a few bits of it, it's objectively got more problems than the vast majority of communities in the United States.[/quote]

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