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I live in Baltimore. Is this on hacker news because of Trump? Baltimore is great. It has rats, sure, but I just went to a synchronized swimming exhibition at a public pool in Druid Hill park (of Dru Hill fame) that involved a segment about allergies with a man dressed as Gluten in a bread costume doing coordinated swim moves with others dressed in pollen costumes. It's a weird place. Come visit.

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I lived in Baltimore for a few years in college. There are definitely some nice things about it, like the aquarium, and a decent choice of restaurants (however this should come with the caveat that the inner harbor has lots of police standing around, so its level of safety is not that organic). It also has a good selection of sports teams for a city its size.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...

It still has one of the highest crime rates in the US, so I don't think criticism of the city is necessarily ill-informed.

I was bored and looking at property costs in random cities, and it had shockingly cheap house / condos / apartments for sale in the urban core under $200k. I'm not sure how great some of the areas downtown are, but I live in a very low COL, but you normally only see prices like that in suburbs

I don’t know when you went to college, but this is pretty out of date now. Baltimore has developed enormously in just the past ten years (and it was the pits, relatively speaking, fifteen years ago). The Inner Harbor is nice to visit but it’s like Times Square in NY, only tourists go there. There has been massive development everywhere, but particularly in Harbor East, Locust Point, and up north in places like Remington and Hampden. It’s worth visiting again just to see how rapidly things have changed, and how many new restaurants have opened.

I used to live in Baltimore. It’s a neat place to be a rich ORM. Between bad schools and high crime, it’s not a great place for middle class people to raise a family. There’s a reason Baltimore has experienced a net African-American outmigration of 40,000 (10% of the black population) since 1990. People who have the means are heading to greener pastures.

ORM?

Over represented minority. Asian people, mostly from Hopkins. Along with white people, they disproportionately live in the few “nice” neighborhoods; they either don’t have kids yet or can afford to avoid the awful public school system; they don’t get randomly harassed by police.

It’s here because I saw it in /r/Baltimore and found it interesting and, as a Baltimore resident, encouraging.

Ok, what's interesting about it?

I'm sure Baltimore is great if you have the money to live in one of the nice areas like Inner Harbor or Locust Point (where this office is being built). Not so much otherwise.

I find it amazing that the president is so powerful that he can move tech companies all over America (the world probably) just by issuing a morning tweet.

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