Which neighborhood would suit us? (Baltimore, Takoma Park: new home, neighborhoods, schools)

[zericha]

Hi! We are Washington DC natives who moved to San Diego, CA for a few years, and are now relocating back to the East Coast to be close to family.

While we were gone, DC prices went up 300% (not even exaggerating), and so we can only afford to live in Baltimore, which is a city I've always loved for its neighborhood-iness.

We used to live in Takoma Park and in Mt. Pleasant DC which are very liberal, "crunchy" or "granola" parts of DC/MD with lots of families with small children, health food stores, yoga studios, etc.

We'd like to move to an equivalently "crunchy" liberal neighborhood in Baltimore, but first and foremost, it needs to be safe and quiet with freestanding homes and nearby parks for my child. We want to know our neighbors, have other families with small children to play with, get involved in block parties, cleanups, and such... Schools are a non-issue since my daughter will attend the Arts and Ideas Sudbury school in Baltimore no matter where we live.

We are looking at Mayfield, Lauraville, Arcadia or maybe even Hampden, but I honestly don't know anything about these neighborhoods other than what is on livebaltimore.com

Can anyone suggest a good neighborhood for us to look for our new home in?

[remstone]

That's almost the exact list I would give, with a bit more around Lauraville. Someone I knew who came from DC and lived in Beverly Hills was fond of describing the area as the most like Takoma Park they could find up here.

[jonjj]

I second that. I lived in Arcadia and loved it. Another possibility: Dickeyville. Charles Village also sounds up your alley although they are not freestanding homes.

[KLynch10]

Check out Mt. Washington, Wyman Park and Woodberry too.

[nurider2002]

Mt. Washington, Beverly Hills, Arcadia (stay close to Walther), Lauraville. Dickeyville is a nice enclave but not much around except the park.

[The Notorious DGD]

Mount Washington and Wyman Park.

[KLynch10]

I recently discovered more about Wyman Park when visiting a friend. What a beautiful neighborhood with great porches, architecture, greenery and parking, yet just a 10 minute walk to the Hampden Avenue and probably a pretty easy walk over to Charles Village.

[numbers101]

Baltimore in general is a pathetic, politically and morally corrupt, underachieving, years behind, uneducated, diversity lacking (just white and black trash), ignorant, and dirty city...and so are it's people. Just visit cities like DC, Boston, San Francisco, even Charlotte NC. Baltimore is years behind because of the people that live here, and the institutions that run it. A total failure of a city. The sad thing is it has so much potential, history, and beauty... and a fair amount of people that want to see it succeed. However, the elites running the city and the lower class scum that is their support base (believe me, the lower class scum is the majority in this town by far) are doing everything in their power to prevent it from happening. If an investor could improve a neighborhood in 1-3 years, Baltimore would make sure it took 8-10 years.

[sobo16]

I also recommend Mount Washington. I lived there for 5 years and it is a great community with everything you are looking for.

[Infinite_heights77]

Numbers, can we talk for a minute?