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TaterTotz8 t1_jc4remf wrote

You can get basically everything you’re looking for in Hampden. Yard, parking, people your age, boring grocery stores, easy hosting parties, etc. not all the streets have yard and parking in the back, but lots have at least one! And there’s really only certain areas of Hampden that have difficult street parking.

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kl00 t1_jc4zmpf wrote

Housing is so small and so expensive I feel like everyone who just decides to live in hampden just doesn’t like having money

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scartonbot t1_jc6rced wrote

A lot of north Baltimore is like this (not just Hampden). There are actually lots of "suburban-type" neighborhoods (single-family houses, yards, off-street parking) all over Baltimore, just not near the downtown area.

I'd suggest picking some places and trying a "test commute" in the morning and the evening if at all possible. I live in north Baltimore now and when I went into an office (now about 95% remote) that was near Penn Station it took me maybe 15 minutes in the worst rush-hour traffic on 83 (normal, not apocalyptic accident/disaster traffic) to go about 5 miles. On the other hand, I lived in Catonsville years ago and was 8 miles from my office and it'd take me 40-50 minutes to get to work downtown because I had to take 40 the whole way. That being said, I also lived in Pasadena for a while and my commute could go as quickly as 20-25 minutes some days, probably averaging closer to 30 minutes even though I had to travel twice the distance I did from Catonsville. The lesson I learned is that you REALLY can't go by distance when estimating commuting time.

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