Baltimore VERY Dangerous. Do NOT live there (real estate, violent crime)

[NYMTman]

Detroit on the Chesapeake.

[HandsUpThumbsDown]

This thread should be renamed "Fear mongering by people who used to live here but don't anymore, or by those who have only seen the Wire."

[EdwardA]

Originally Posted by HandsUpThumbsDown

This thread should be renamed "Fear mongering by people who used to live here but don't anymore, or by those who have only seen the Wire."

Baltimore is a violent city, period.

[HandsUpThumbsDown]

Originally Posted by EdwardA

Baltimore is a violent city, period.

There is a lot of violence in this city. It's true. Not often encountered by those who aren't in the drug trade.

My point is that the people who are most likely to post about it don't live here.

[Be More]

Could not have said it better..Hands.

[KLynch10]

Stay away from Drugs and Baltimore is very safe. I've been here 12 years, never had anything close to a problem.

Baltimore has it's bad areas, tell me a city that doesn't. Baltimore also has nice areas that are not even close to bad areas. Don't judge NY by the Bronx, don't judge Dc by southeast, don't judge Philly by the north, and don't judge Baltimore by parts of the east or west. If you have problems here, you either act dumb, or chose a dumb place to live.

[NCOriolesfan]

Originally Posted by HandsUpThumbsDown

There is a lot of violence in this city. It's true. Not often encountered by those who aren't in the drug trade.

My point is that the people who are most likely to post about it don't live here.

So true.

If you are not involved with drugs and have a stable domestic life you should be fine. I would put money down that Baltimore has one of the lowest random murder rates in the country.

[westsideboy]

Originally Posted by NCOriolesfan

So true.

If you are not involved with drugs and have a stable domestic life you should be fine. I would put money down that Baltimore has one of the lowest random murder rates in the country.

I would take that bet in a heartbeat. I would even spot you 5-1 odds. The vast majority of murders are motivated (meaning victim and perp know each other personally or by "reputation",) but every year you are still going to get a handful that are random, wrong place, wrong time killings in Baltimore.

The motivated murders do happen everywhere, the random "I am a hopped up thug looking for a victim, Whoops! my gun went off in their face," murders do not. A single random, unmotivated, murder of that magnitude is enough to stop most communities in their tracks, in Baltimore (as I have witnessed on this board) those crimes are normally explained away as the victim being too naive for city life, or having bad luck, or the "what are they doing waiting for a bus at 2:00am anyway" type comments.

[dshawg1]

Originally Posted by HandsUpThumbsDown

This thread should be renamed "Fear mongering by people who used to live here but don't anymore, or by those who have only seen the Wire."

I love Baltimore. I grew up here and it will always be my town. Having said that, I have lived in 2 different major cities now and when I go back, it loses the "charm" each time.

I was getting a rita's italian ice last Sunday in Hampden. This large untidy woman with her son butted in front of me in line. When I said something, she loudly said "well, move up then". Charming. No doubt.

People from Baltimore, don't leave Baltimore. There is a lot of truth to that. Hard to make a comparison, isn't it?

[KLynch10]

I actually find it to be the opposite. Every time I go to another city it reminds me why I love Baltimore so much. Sorry someone almost butted in front of you, must have been scarring.