Date: November 5th, 2026 2:38 AM Author: Anglo living on the Rez
yeah i dont care about them, interested in the white areas. are they taken over by asians? hispanics? segregated? towson vs Hoco? leftist catholics or leftists and catholics? episcopalians?
underrated city. amazing seafood, great music scene, beautiful by the water, full of chill creative people much less douchey than their neighbors in DC
i don't remember people being annoyingly lib like speech policing or anything. very blue but not like NIMBY elitist types for the most part like you find in the northeast. actually Columbia was founded upon like YIMBY principles, it's a "planned community" where the goal is for diff incomes, races, etc to all live in harmony. the public schools were great.
Date: November 5th, 2026 2:50 AM Author: Junko Enoshima (JunkoEnoshima)
I went there once and I was like "This is it?" The show makes Baltimore seem like New York in scale, but I'm pretty sure you can see Camden Yards from Locust Point.
Date: November 5th, 2026 10:50 AM Author: Charles Tyrwhitt Dad
Grew up in Baltimore. Baltimore proper, not some far flung suburb like Columbia that no one in Baltimore considers part of Baltimore. I'll give a short overview.
Midsize, managed declining American city that carries above its weight cultural and professional institutions, meaning for the upper middle classes it can be genuinely a land of pleasant living with relatively affordable housing and good private schools at a fraction of the cost of DC or NYC or CA. And parts of Baltimore (city proper) is beautiful neighborhoods after beautiful neighborhoods. Small and compact metro area means getting around is easy, everywhere is seemingly no more than 20 minutes away.
Flip side is extensive decaying to outright post-apocalyptic areas that stretch for miles after miles, with entrenched urban poverty that never improves. The transformation of the city from 1950 to present is something to behold. Politics is dysfunctional, the politics of people who want no change and the city will be a Democratic fiefdom longer than cockroaches surviving a nuclear bomb. Maryland is weirdly Democratic state, it's dominated by the Democrats who talk the talk but govern moderately, it's no Massachusetts despite similar voting breakdowns. I attribute this to the black voters, who are the biggest bloc in Maryland politics. They just want their share of the grift and aren't interested in progressive issues, so ultimately it's not a bad state for Republicans to live.
Like many midsize cities, Baltimore is intensely local. People tend to be from Baltimore. Where you went to high school, public or private, is still asked of elderly people. Parochialism is intense. There is no energy or dynamism. People say Baltimore has the personality and culture lacking of Phoenix or Atlanta or Dallas, but Baltimore also has no growth, no real economy of any note. It's a place to live, it's not a place to achieve things. That may matter to you, it may not. The one exception is Hopkins.
Date: November 5th, 2026 11:03 AM Author: Charles Tyrwhitt Dad
BTW the poster above saying Towson is like Columbia tells you what you need to know. He knows nothing about Baltimore.
Towson is different. It's older, built around an existing county seat and commercial core, has a range neighborhoods from some of the most expensive in the region to more middle class 50s housing, altogether the classic east coast suburbs of an older city. Columbia is all post 1960s master planned cul-de-sacs and seemingly a long way from anywhere.