ugh a lot of the cities that can grow rapidly right now are able to start developing on top of underused transit -- that redline would have paid off massively

Fuck him too!

You can pay your city water bill online…

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I attended a fundraiser for House of Ruth and she sat at my table. I could forgive the constant phone usage (it was during the day and she may have had messages to respond to) but I could not forgive her for 1) not using her napkin (it sat folded up on the table and not in her lap) 2) chewing with her mouth open, and 3) holding her fork with a fist like a toddler would, All that money she made from her job and her fake travel agency, and the homes she bought to "live in" but rented in Florida and she doesn't know how to eat like a grownup.

I saw her at Artifact one time wearing a shirt with her name plastered all over it, as if we didn't know who she was already...

We can agree here. I think in general you could replace "City Mayors" with “most city leaders.”

They definitely play the game fairly well. Not as well as some politicians that will go much further, but well enough.

This is really similar to FL. By land mass it is largely wasteland with insane politics. However, there are some islands of sanity in that wasteland as well as a few bastions of hope.

I think a large part of it is that the elderly are often retired with too much time on their hands so they look for drama. I’ve seen some shit go down at dog parks among old people and the level of gossip makes middle school seem tame. And the ones still working are bitter they didn’t make their millions that was promised to them.

Agree on all of this. I moved here from Michigan most recently and I got enough Ohio hate there, let me live Baltimore sub!

Columbus is nice...especially the German neighborhood

I think it’s a lot of Midwest transplants, Ohio inclusive. It’s also the seventh most populous state so the statistics favor a lot of Ohio transplants

Sure, we'd all love to flee to the Cleve and clubhop down at the flats.

Man you ain't never lie just moved to Columbia, I swear they can't drive💯

😂 nah that's real! had to stay in York at a Marriott and literally said , damn, how they get Baltimore streets out here!

Just not in the city 😢

(Seems like some are getting better though, must be that infrastructure bill money from last year. Thanks Biden!)

Yep, the counties all have roads of silk, the city you'll bend a rim with-in 3 blocks. Between that and traffic sometimes the scooter is the better option for around town.

County people love to talk shit about the city, but it’s where they go out. They just don’t want to live here because then they’d have to actually pay taxes and contribute. They like to use city resources and benefit from the city then leave and whine about how awful the city is

No, that's only old people from the county.

Plenty of others go to the city and have fun (and don't even complain like others suggest).

It depends where exactly you are because it's not accessible to some parts of Baltimore, but the MARC train leaves from Camden Yards and will get you to college park in about 45 minutes. From there you can take the green line 2 or 3 stops to ft Totten, transfer to the red line and you'll be in silver spring after a few stops. Probably take you about an hour and fifteen minutes when all is said and done.

Bethesda would probably take longer as you would have to take the Penn Station marc to union Station and then hop on the red line and go all the way through DC.

Honestly, I would just be ecstatic if there was reliable transit that could get me downtown, which there isn't unless you live right along the light rail line or the subway line. The busses here are so chaotic.

Yes lunch and dinner rush for me. Usually breakfast is pretty smooth. The issue for them is just taking the orders. They always have enough employees but you can’t predict what a customer will order.

New York is good for a 3 day visit once every 4 or five years. I can’t stand being there longer. Baltimore is far better.

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

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.

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

on general principle i expressly try not to pay attention to whatever racial fear-mongering that insecure suburbanites / upper class well-to-dos try to stir up

and 'contrived' is precisely the word to describe the attitude and imperative of people who create facebook groups about black-on-white murder conspiracies

fair enough, i’m familiar with this suburbanite fear-culture where they use the city as a scapegoat for their own insecure aversion to nuanced morality, racial diversity, and alternative culture.

my original sentiment comes from this place of like - if you’re part of the bmore subreddit, i place it in good faith that you’re a fan of Baltimore, right?

and that’s a position where it’s impossible to ignore the city. like, who actually reps bmore because of the county, you know what i’m saying?

maybe i’m blind, or i just don’t pop out on the subreddit so often, but i don’t really see a lot of die-hard county mouthpieces on here, so i assumed the subreddit was localized from the city perspective in the first place, which makes it feel contrived to even want to talk about the county