I've seen that convo numerous times, it always devolves into suffering-porn. You're not from real Baltimore unless [insert increasingly bad things until Baltimore is defined as seen in The Wire].

Baltimore is many things, and different people will have different experiences here based on all sorts of variables.

Also, "belonging" to a City isn't a special thing. You can live somewhere your entire life and never feel like you belong there or culturally identify with that place.

Still plenty close to everything in Mt Vernon. We lived on St Paul and Read (one street down from Eager) and we loved it. Eddies on Read, the Indian bodega is just down St Paul, Charles is one street over and you've got stuff in both directions. And yeah, the monument and parks are a few blocks down, but it's like barely even 5 minute walk.

It falls under the "this is why we can't have nice things" corollary of human behavior.

If you've never worked in a public setting (esp food service) you might have never been the person who had to go clean the bathroom. And sometimes you get asked to go clean that bathroom after an inexplicable incident and you find yourself staring into the abyss, wondering how there can be both so much feces and how it got to all those places.

Everyone assumes it's because establishments are being 'anti-homeless' or some other exclusionary behavior. No. It's because some person or persons ruined it for everyone else. They could have just gone in, used the bathroom like you would expect any normal human to use it, but instead they decided that at that moment, HR Giger was their muse, and poop was their medium.

So if you're never opened the restroom door, and realized that you would have to start cleaning by the light switch, I can understand why you might not be familiar with why they lock the bathrooms in some places. And even worse is that it doesn't happen just the once, it happens multiple times before management finally listens to the employee complaints and installs the lock.

Put them on Charles street then, plenty of wind (esp when it's cold af). But solar panels sound good too.

Initial reaction is f-no, but sometimes what is thought of as an eyesore becomes part of the identity of a place. Eiffel tower, London Eye, both considered distasteful and terrible, now iconic parts of their respective cities. So maybe not a bad idea.

For the most part pedestrians are few and far between, but when I'm near them I slow down/go around. Some areas that have high foot traffic seem like terrible places to ride a scooter if there isn't a dedicated bike lane in the road.

Interestingly, I had a *very* short-lived blog in 2014 and I made a post about the value of information approaching zero due to hyperstimulation of communication. I wrote:

>It is because of this that we see the value of information itself
approaching zero. Wait, don’t react just yet! Information still holds
its original value, however, due to its accessibility and in the coming
case of hyperaccessibility you practically don’t even have to pursue it,
it is given to you. That is the role of all these media outlets. The
greatest value add of the future rests in packaging, and disseminating
information, not in the creation of the information.

And what you wrote reminded me of this, and that we're going to see what happened with communication/social media happen to art media. Essentially a spiral of simulacra and simulation and a degree of abandonment of individuality.

"Pay no attention to chatgpt, look over here it's quantum!"

Unless you do the labor yourself/have a company with skilled laborers, you're gonna get close to $200k.

But really tho, if you won billions in the lottery would you really be rehabbing homes in Baltimore or would you just leave and take care of your family and call it done?

Also, if you really wanted to help people, you could just go the crony capitalist route and get donations in gov, but instead of greasing up palms for your own benefit, you donate for the purpose of benevolence. You would get a lot more bang for your buck via lobbying than just fixing up houses.

Very walkable throughout mt Vernon and all the way down to the harbor.

What an idiotic idea. Leave the parklets alone. They generate economic activity by making it more appealing to eat out and be out and about. Talk about shortsighted, cutting your nose off to spite your face.

tbf if the old lexington market was half as nice as reading terminal it probably wouldn't have been revamped.

Brd? Idk if people consider their jumbo tenders to be chicken fingers, but they are really good.

Well fwiw I’m sorry it happened and I’m also sorry for contributing to making you feel horrible - wasn’t my intention.

Had me in the first 99% ngl.

I've never been to Merritt, but I will say that people are much much much more suspicious and cautious late at night in the city (for good reason), but the whole story is weird. Passport? At the gym? Also, can't tell if this is a #racism, actual racism, or "muh reverse racism" post.

Go during the daytime and hopefully you'll have a better experience. Are you new to Baltimore or America by chance (hence passport)?

This is a great way to get yourself shot.

Next time, OP, don't assume it's a group of well-meaning young kids. Go in another direction and avoid them.

Yes, I use reddit, why do you ask?

Noona’s

Believe it or not, rat.

"No loud music or machinery before 10am (that means the lawnmower too Steve!) or after 6pm."

Respectfully, your HOA President

Most of the time it's 0%. This past year was a merit + cola and the last time was a few years ago.