Why does this town suck so bad?

[Last Conformist]

The town sucks because God hates you.

[DanS]

Re: Why does this town suck so bad?

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
In the last neighbourhood I was living there was a botched burglary turned murder 40 feet from my doorstep. Then there was another murder 2 blocks from my house (both victims were Hopkins undergrads)

Then two days before I moved there was a murder (would have been a double but they managed to save one of the victims) on the street 2 blocks from my new house on a Thursday night at 10 pm (which means that the street was full of people, given the preponderance of bars around here)

Tonight I looked outside and saw 3 police cars at a house across the street from mine dusting for fingerprints etc. in what appeared to be a burglary investigation

Either your city leaders are corrupt or incompetent. Probably just a kleptocracy. The attitude from the top flows down to the police. There's really no excuse, given how good the economy has been for a decade.

Washington is being cleaned up. Competent and incorruptible mayor. A city council with a majority that is keen to do business. The city used to have as many murders as Baltimore, but is much lower nowadays.

[Guynemer]

Homicide: Life On The Street was the best network TV show, ever.

Baltimore, however, makes Detroit look like Shangri-La. A couple of my friends went to Hopkins for med school or nursing school... they had a number of experiences similar to yours.

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Dis


My relatives live in a farm south of Baltimore. It's along the patuxant river. Crime is almost non existant out in the middle of no where. For the longest time they never locked their doors. But recently they've had problems with homeless entering homes, so they do lock their doors now I believe.

Wow-- I've never experienced homelss "in the middle of nowhere"-- heck in Calgary they don't even come out to the suburbs as it is too far to walk to a liquor store or methadone clinic plus all the shelters and good outdoor places to hunker down are in the downtown.

Is rural homelessness common? I grew up in a very small and pretty poor town but EVERYONE had a roof over their head

[Provost Harrison]

And I thought Hull was bad

[Boris Godunov]

Sadly, Baltimore is better off than it was 8-10 years ago. O'Malley has had a herculean task of cleaning up the 16 years of mess left to him by Kurt Schmoke, one of history's most corrupt politicians.

[Sava]

i have no use for baltimore... nuke it for all i care

[KrazyHorse]

You should visit the Bay Cafe on Boston street next time you're in town, lotm (during any reasonably warm day)

Don't know about the food in the restaurant section, but there's a "beach" bar there that has to be seen to be believed (facing the water)

Unbelievable. Palm trees, sand, tiki torches.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Sadly, Baltimore is better off than it was 8-10 years ago. O'Malley has had a herculean task of cleaning up the 16 years of mess left to him by Kurt Schmoke, one of history's most corrupt politicians.

Yup.

O'Malley seems like a nice enough fellow, but I get the feeling that he's an ant trying to move a mountain.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
You should visit the Bay Cafe on Boston street next time you're in town, lotm (during any reasonably warm day)

Don't know about the food in the restaurant section, but there's a "beach" bar there that has to be seen to be believed (facing the water)

Unbelievable. Palm trees, sand, tiki torches.

I was there when the bay cafe opened. I even attended a protest meeting of Tindeco renters and Canton cove owners about the noise (which was reduced, a little) ive eaten there many times - its pricey for the food, but it was an easy place to take an infant, and we didnt have to get in the car. I met the owner, and heard the story about his trip to the West Indies that inspired the palm trees.

Before they put in the beach bar, that was nice little garden.

They also used to deliver food to your chair, at the Tindeco pool.

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by Flubber
Is rural homelessness common? I grew up in a very small and pretty poor town but EVERYONE had a roof over their head

Seeing you're in Canada, maybe you have the same effect as we have; that homeless out of big cities with underground and the like tend to freeze in death in winter.

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Last Conformist

Seeing you're in Canada, maybe you have the same effect as we have; that homeless out of big cities with underground and the like tend to freeze in death in winter.

Well true-- a homeless person in the countyside would die without some shelter. But we don't have such deaths in rural areas.

As I said, I don't think there are very many rural homeless at all. Maybe its because housing is cheaper and more available so they get provided a roof

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by lord of the mark


I was there when the bay cafe opened. I even attended a protest meeting of Tindeco renters and Canton cove owners about the noise (which was reduced, a little) ive eaten there many times - its pricey for the food, but it was an easy place to take an infant, and we didnt have to get in the car. I met the owner, and heard the story about his trip to the West Indies that inspired the palm trees.

Before they put in the beach bar, that was nice little garden.

They also used to deliver food to your chair, at the Tindeco pool.

Nice.

EDIT: Knew where Tindeco was, but was unsure if Bay Cafe had opened before you moved

[chequita guevara]

I was completely unimpressed by Baltimore when driving through it last month. It looked like the South Side of Chicago.

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Sadly, Baltimore is better off than it was 8-10 years ago. O'Malley has had a herculean task of cleaning up the 16 years of mess left to him by Kurt Schmoke, one of history's most corrupt politicians.

At least you could get good weed when Mayor Schmoke ran Baltimore.