I put something out there once and they left it behind, maybe a month ago. Was it just leaves and sticks? My residual was a broken bread box (un bagged) ... I bagged it and they took it the next week.

I used to go to the one in Owings Mills. I liked it a lot. I eventually quit and went to Lifebridge, but I do miss a women-only gym. Seems like there is a market for it, too. 🤷🏿‍♀️

Naked, lights on pretty much all day, and nothing to do. Yes, that is pretty bad. Not to absolve him of anything he has done, but that is not OK. And assuming this is true.

The request to go home with a GPS, however, is also not reasonable.

Chain saws are more for murderers in Texas. Maybe a bone saw.

And my guess, they probably cremate them.

I agree, downtown is ok on the weekend... Just do not move on a race day. Like Charles Street 12, or Baltimore Running Festival, for example.

#italmosthappenedtome

Agree that this is key. Any time during normal business hours midweek will do. No weekends... Leave that for the students and the amateurs.

Congrats. This was me several months ago.

You are supposed to get a permit to block a street for moving. I got one. Still haven't received the 75 dollar bill though, so waiting for it to just pop up sometime.

With the permit, you're supposed to get signs to post in the temporary no parking zone. I got mine from the Southeastern district police outpost (or whatever it is called). It was easy getting the signs, but you have to attach them with your own zip ties or whatever.

Then just hope no one removes the signs on moving day, as one of my lovely neighbors did. 🥴

The permit office said I could either have the cars towed from the temporary no parking zone (in front of my house) but it would be a wait. I was told that in the meantime I could unload. The movers unloaded in 20 minutes. The tow truck never arrived.

Neighbors were a bit inconvenienced because the temporary parking zone was blocked on a one way street so, they just had to wait or squeeze by.

I moved on a Tuesday and it was scheduled for 1 to 4, or 2 to 4, the duration of the permit. They finished just before 4, even with the parking issue. But had I moved on a weekend, I think it would have been a nightmare.

Edit: take photos of the signage when you place them, in case someone decides to remove them and act like they were never there.

Rest well, Willow. Hopefully on a wide open savannah somewhere on the astral plane.

Imo, the suburbs have some of the most aggressive drivers I have experienced in this state. Owings Mills is definitely in the top 5. I think it's the long boulevards there with very few breaks for pedestrians, and all the double and triple one-ways. Also rare street parking. People treat them like race tracks.

It's a weird hybrid. I knew it was southern when I got here from New York because it was easier to find grits and randoms will say hello to you on the street, but it has a brusque-ness that is distinctly northern. And accents that are very foreign to a southern ear.

I dunno... I like it now? Always shocks me, because it was a very subtle adaptation and assimilation. I hated Baltimore for the first two or three years, initially. Such a strange, but lovely and sometimes unforgiving place. 🤷🏿‍♀️ Eudora Welty might have liked it, but she would have most definitely lived in Keswick or Evergreen.

I lived near there, my address was Pikesville, but I think it was also technically Garrison, but it felt like Owings Mills?

The Courts of Avalon off of Reisterstown Road was a convenient location because you didn't have to deal with as much traffic as there was up the road a ways. Now, with the Wegmans up the road (I lived at The Courts of Avalon before the Wegmans and that entire shopping plaza were there), I am sure it is worse, and The Courts of Avalon could be even more desirable due to the comparably low traffic volume. Plus there are multiple ways out of that community (to Reisterstown Rd or McDonough Rd)... This came in handy, too. Living there, it was the first time in my adult life I had a private garage for my car. And ngl, it was kinda bomb. The rent was high though!

I was going to move closer to the subway terminus because it did feel quite suburban (plus they had the newly-built library in the new transit-oriented development in literal Owings Mills) and it would have made it easier to get to Baltimore, but I got a job transfer and moved to Columbia instead. There are a lot of nice apartments near the library and also off Lakeside between Painter's Mill and Owings Mills Blvd. I looked at places farther down Lakeside by Owings Mills High but it was too suburban for me. If you want a more dense feel with improved walkability to things, maybe stick to Reisterstown Road and Painters Mill or the transit-oriented development near the library/Costco.

I used to run all over that area, from the high school/Red Run Road all the way through Pikesville to the city line. Not all in the same day though! Lots of running memories, good and bad. Anyway, it's a generally nice suburb with a lot of traffic. All of the apartments I looked at over there had the same to me. When I go back to that area now, it feels the same, just more traffic.

🥴 Um... It's much less paranoid than what has actually occurred in the last several days over water treatment that folks apparently do not actually understand, but ok.

I didn't even say people feared Ohioans... It's clear people feared the water and the process of treating it.

It has been really interesting to watch this play out. It's kinda like banning Tiktok while Facebook/Meta and Google/Alphabet chug along doing the absolute most. Hysteria from a foreign invader/scapegoat. 🤷🏿‍♀️

The question and the response are what make you truly Baltimore enough, imo.

I am joking. A little.

We can't have Havoc in the streets, get this baby home! Hopefully Havoc is nearby.

I just really, really love that the cat's name is Havoc.

Stick to neighborhoods west of 83/President Street, south of Maryland Avenue, and closer to the water.

You can get a city and harbor view living in some buildings downtown for less than say in Federal Hill, but Downtown does not have bars and restaurants on every corner.

There are plenty of apartments buildings to choose from. The Standard would not be my first choice, but I have heard it is nice.

Lake Roland Park and Druid Hill Park are both nice and have parking. Former has quite a narrow driving route compared to the latter.

What do you consider to be a livable and average wage?

What are the relevant, subjective reasons an offered salary may not meet that metric?

Are all positions bonus earning? And what is a fair bonus, in addition to (all?) cash in hand (because I believe bonuses are taxed at around 20 percent)?

Personal anecdote : I recall on this subreddit someone saying they want to move to Baltimore, and they wanted to know how much they should make to live comfortably in Baltimore. My response then (maybe 2019 or 2020) was I struggled here Baltimore region in the low $70,000s in one apartment with a mouse problem: that number is roughly what I made when I first moved here. All I know is the consensus on this subreddit was that was an entirely inflated number and multiple folks told their own anecdotes of wonderful, pest free apartments in popular neighborhoods making much less than that. For me, personally, I would struggle at that pay now: I have student debt still, and at that time (when I was making low $70,000s) I had a dog and credit card debt and was not living exciting neighborhoods with lots of amenities out on the edge of the city and Baltimore County.

Those are more current, possibly more relevant-to-you anecdotes, in addition to the recent salary thread (last week or thereabout) which you are free to search for. So again, I am curious to hear what your wage metric is.

Most people that post on Reddit are high earners. For various reasons and circumstances. As someone who has not always been a high earner, I am pointing out that what is a good deal, specifically in capitalism and in federalism? Is highly relative. I know plenty of people that work for nonprofits for pennies because they enjoy the work: some aren't the only earners in their households and many (MANY) have inherited money to fall back on or parents who help them and they are happy to work for those pennies. And then there are also people who are the only earners in their households and the rent is perpetually too damn high.

Circumstances vary.

Yeah but when you consider many people get zero bonuses? It's not that bad.

My first bonus as a nurse was 5k pre-tax with a 1 year service agreement. And a threat to be on the hook for the full 5 if I didn't keep up my side of the bargain. Yes, the work conditions were bad. My salary as a FT RN in a southern state working night shift was like 33k.

Another year my bonus was a 25 dollar gift card. Another year it was a turkey at Thanksgiving. 9 years ago, I got a bonus of $250. You get the idea. 🙃

I know... I'm saying do one thing plus do something else, not necessarily in the order listed. The bridge is literally right there, but it would not be exactly educational (or interesting frankly) to drive some kids over a bridge and back. Let me reword this:

Could be fun to go visit state government in Annapolis and while you're out that way, drive over the Bay Bridge. Driving over the bridge, they will either be scared straight or thrilled. Then they can say they have been to the Eastern Shore if they haven't already.

Could be fun to go drive over the Bay Bridge and visit state government in Annapolis. Driving over the bridge they will either be scared straight or thrilled. Then they can say they have been to the Eastern Shore if they haven't already.

Maybe he had someone make him a fake passport.

But yeah, maybe he is hiding in some rural area with a mustache, trench coat, some sunglasses on.

From the article:

"McGrath, who now lives in Florida, was due in U.S. District Court in Baltimore at 9 a.m. The appointed time came and went with no sign of him. As of 10 a.m., he had not appeared.

“We all just hope he is safe and there’s some mix-up,” said Judge Deborah L. Boardman. She paused before continuing: “And I suppose we just wait.”

Prosecutors and McGrath’s defense attorney, Joseph Murtha, were present and ready to proceed. Murtha told the judge he sent repeated text messages to McGrath and McGrath’s wife and had received no response."