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I never totally understood the attraction to it. Come live here in Baltimore. Plenty of tech jobs and a nice home in the city will cost 300k.
by grubbs 4y ago
I never totally understood the attraction to it.
Come live here in Baltimore. Plenty of tech jobs and a nice home in the city will cost 300k.
- testfrequency 4y agoBaltimore? Tech jobs? Nice home? Don’t get me wrong, Baltimore has fun bars and Orioles games are fun..but I’ve never once heard anyone try to sell Baltimore as a great place for tech workers to live and work from
- slater 4y agoObligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1dUk8x2XkA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1dUk8x2XkA /s
- scythe 4y agoI've never heard Baltimore described as a place with a low crime rate! I guess it depends on what you're comparing it to. Just one recommendation. Don't move to Charleston. It's awful here, you'll hate it. ^^;
- zamalek 4y ago> It's awful here, you'll hate it. ^^; It's no surprise that SF, Portland, and Seattle are the worst of the worst. Tech workers exasperate inequality and vote in virtue signalers (to be clear, I agree with the goals, I don't agree with deciding to do nothing about these problems). If you have a good spot, seriously, keep it secret
- bmore1234 4y agoHe might be talking about Baltimore County. Though parts of Baltimore are fairly to pretty nice like Canton, Fells Point and Harbor East. These neighborhoods are mostly populated by professionals. These neighborhoods could see a murder cumulatively once every few months or less. One annoying thing in Baltimore is the squeege kids. Umm I have no need for you to come up to my car and wash my windows..I have windshield wipers. As for homeless, drug addicts, and the mentally ill ..they do not litter the streets along with their problems like they do in the wasteland that is San Francisco.
- topaz0 4y agoI'm sure it would be more expensive if they did.
- omot 4y agoFor me there's no city in the US as walkable as NYC or SF. NYC is super busy, but I just like how I could bike / walk / transit virtually anywhere within the city.
- skuhn 4y agoBoston is also pretty walkable, but I agree that there aren't a lot of options in the US.
- cwal37 4y agoI dunno, I think Chicago is certainly more walkable and less car-dependent than SF. Then you have DC, which probably is (substantially more public transit at least) as well, and even cities like Minneapolis which are probably more amenable to walking over a larger area than the actual core, downtown SF area. SF has ok public transit for the west coast I suppose. But overall it’s quite poor compared to the east coast from DC north, or a city like Chicago.
- thatfrenchguy 4y agoYou can walk and bike in the winter in SF though, and that's a real plus.
- mfkp 4y agoYeah but walking in Chicago in the winter weather?
- jcranmer 4y agoHonestly, it's not that bad. I find that once I'm properly bundled up, outdoor temps between 20° and 30° are downright comfortable. It's not until about 15° that you get the cold that just seeps in everywhere, and it rarely gets that low in Chicago (at least at any time of day I'd be walking outside).
- tptacek 4y agohttps://therealfitz.medium.com/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-chicago-winter-9d65ceaa2794 https://therealfitz.medium.com/how-i-learned-to-stop-worryin...
- throwntoday 4y agoNo thanks, I've lived in the DMV and it's worse than SF. A lot of us who were born and raised in Cali have roots too deep to abandon.
- symlinkk 4y agoIsn’t Baltimore one of the most violent cities in the United States?
- not2b 4y agoVery high murder rate, though some parts are much safer than others.
- not2b 4y agoBaltimore isn't a place to move to if the motivation is to avoid crime.