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Well, twentysomethings become parents sooner or later, most of the time.
by Kluny 12y ago
Well, twentysomethings become parents sooner or later, most of the time.
- rayiner 12y agoAt which point they move to the suburbs. My wife and I live in downtown Baltimore. At one point we seriously considered renting a house and moving her mom and teenage brother from the west coast. But the school/safety situation was just a deal-breaker. We've got a nice little bubble for a few blocks in each direction from where we live, but beyond that it's just miles of abysmal schools and gang violence. Twenty-somethings will put up with that. Parents will not.
- lbotos 12y agoIn reality though, isn't it not going to change because the people that care/are in a position to care leave? I get that parents want the best for their children and I don't fault them for that, but I don't see it changing if people are like "Yeah it's bad, so I left, I wish I could help from over here."
- rhino369 12y agoGentrification will solve the crime problem eventually. But the bigger problem is schooling. I'd recommend the city going the school voucher route.
- bmelton 12y agoConsidering how hard it is to establish charter schools in Maryland (at least, pending the outcome of a bill), that could be tricky.
- mrgordon 12y agoit would be a travesty to yank the remaining funds from the public schools in order to subsidize private schools that are less accountable, typically religious, and usually much more expensive than the value of the vouchers. It would likely increase inequality and delay reform of the public schools. https://www.au.org/church-state/february-2011-church-state/featured/10-reasons-why-private-school-vouchers-should-be https://www.au.org/church-state/february-2011-church-state/f...
- rayiner 12y agoIf there's one thing that brings out the classism in people, it's kids. Even hyperliberal San Francisco had to give up on randomized school assignment. Wealthier parents just won't send their kids to the public schools in places like Baltimore. If you don't make it an option to have vouchers or "enclave" schools in wealthy neighborhoods, they'll just leave for the suburbs. And your tax base will go with them, and then you'll be Detroit.
- bmelton 12y ago"We've got a nice little bubble for a few blocks in each direction from where we live, but beyond that it's just miles of abysmal schools and gang violence" So, you're in Canton then?
- rayiner 12y agoI'm in Mt Vernon by Penn Station. Bolton Hill to the West is great, so is historic my Vernon to the south. But man wander north of North Ave...
- bmelton 12y agoI thought that, for certain, the bay was going to factor into the bubble. Statistically, the water is the safest part of Baltimore.
- irishcoffee 12y agoCanton, Fells, Fed Hill, Actual Downtown, Bolton Hill/Mt. Vernon, Pigtown, Hampden, I could keep going. Baltimore is a checkerboard. Turn down the wrong street and you're fucked. Canton is no exception.
- bmelton 12y agoYeah. I was trying to think of anywhere in Baltimore that gave a 2-mile buffer, and Canton was the best I could come up with.
- irishcoffee 12y agoI do not think that is a trend that will perpetuate. I fully support equality. I do no deserve more or less pay, more or less rights, more or less consideration, or more or less anything that someone of the opposite gender of myself. N=1 anecdotal experience from friends, the feminist movement (again, I support) seems to have had the effect it had in japan [0] in that men are no longer interested in marriage, at least not at the rates they were before now. [0]http://www.japantoday.com/category/lifestyle/view/increasing-number-of-japanese-men-opting-for-bachelorhood http://www.japantoday.com/category/lifestyle/view/increasing...