Well it is said we have all the efficiency of the south with the friendliness of the north....but seriously this Baltimore Sun article from a while back paints a a good picture of Maryland's "Middle Temperament" https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/bs-xpm-2010-03-28-bal-md-backstory28mar28-story.html

Laurel should become a TOD. Create mixed use facility at Old Hilltop for year round horse racing, offices, and community use.

At the same time?

Further north, higher elevations so the weather was always dicier up that way. Flip side was back in the day it actually had to snow for schools to close and now just the threat of it closes the whole region.

The Walters Art Museum and Baltimore Museum of Art are both free and first rate.

UMB has a decent shuttle service to many areas. www.umaryland.edu/shuttlebus/routes/

Good recommendations here. I would add Stoneliegh to the list with that budget if you like more historic areas.Good schools with county taxes but just across the city line in Towson so close to lots of things.

Space, and the Soviets lost.

So is the National Museum of Dentistry on the UMB campus

Good answers. I’ll add Tuscany Canterbury.

I work by BWI and when rented in Otterbein it was a ten minute commute. Locust Point, Federal Hill are a quick shot to the airport area as well.

Thai Landing at Belvedere Square just inside the city .

I worked part time at UMB for twenty years snd the few raises I ever saw were eaten up by furloughs and the like whenever the economy was bad.