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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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. [b]There's no direct road from Columbia to Baltimore (unlike I83 connecting the northern suburbs to downtown) [/b]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).

I-95 is a straight shot from Columbia into Baltimore. That is how we sneak in without you noticing we are there.[/quote]

You have to get on 32 first before getting on 95 IIRC.[/quote]
Both 32 and 175 intersect 95 in Columbia. It's a short drive. What's your point?[/quote]

My point was it's not a straight-shot.  I agree with the originally quoted PP re the disconnect between Baltimore and Columbia.  I did k-12 in Columbia and it felt to me like a bubble in the middle of nowhere.   We got both the Sun and the Post.  YMMV.[/quote]

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