In Baltimore City north of Cold Spring rd between Falls rd and York rd. Towson is technically the suburbs but has undeegone a lot of development in the past several years, so it would be a nice compromise of the 2.

Cockeysville is fine, too. Geographically, Baltimore is a small city, and when you consider the actual areas you'd never want to set foot in, it gets much smaller so it's very easy to drive into the city