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AreWeCowabunga t1_iucpsfx wrote

Reply to comment by boneholio in What is something Baltimore City and County residents can all agree on? by kreebob

The concerned look county people give me when they learn I live in the city says otherwise.

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good_fox_bad_wolf t1_iud12nt wrote

Literally this is all my coworkers anytime I mention doing something fun (i.e. in the city).

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NewrytStarcommander t1_iud1oy2 wrote

Haha this was my county co-workers when I told them they should come to the Lantern Parade with me- after dark? Patterson Park? In the city? OMG!

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good_fox_bad_wolf t1_iud3a7m wrote

I told my friend's dad I was going to run the Baltimore marathon and he asked if I needed a bullet proof vest. I think it was only half joking.

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NerdyOutdoors t1_iucst20 wrote

Just had a chat with an otherwise enlightened, smart, respectable county resident who refuses to go into the city… she thinks she’ll end up a squeegee victim or get robbed and tossed in the harbor, or run over by a dirt bike…. Her reaction was just VISCERAL and the opposite of a reasoned response. So the city/county divide is 100% real, at very least on the county side.

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rental_car_fast t1_iud1do8 wrote

I live in the County and Its pretty real. That said, I’m in the city all the time!! We’re not all like that.

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boneholio t1_iujwp6i wrote

> at very least on the country side

that's basically what i'm getting at, it's one-sided as all hell

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boneholio t1_iujuw97 wrote

i get that a lot when i talk about moving into the city, but it has always seemed pretty common sense and self-evident to disregard the emphatic pearl-clutching you get from the sheltered middle-class non-identity who espouse fear and repression as a form of virtue

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