most quiet / safe neighborhoods in Baltimore? (Columbia, Dundalk: home, living, dangerous)

[DistantSun]

I am in Arcadia near Herring Run Park and it is pin quiet, beautiful, and full of great people. The restaurants and shops in the Hamilton/Lauraville section of Harford Rd are awesome. I love my 'hood.

[sobo16]

Mount Washington would be a great choice.

[are you kidinme?]

Originally Posted by RL_in_DWG

I see lots and lots of people who work at Hopkins walking to work every morning. They walk from Upper Fells, Butchers Hill, & Patterson Park (& even farther probably). They are all nice, safe, & quiet neighborhoods. They're also convenient to both Hopkins campuses.

Yeah, ask the two Hopkins folks robbed at gunpoint walking from the JHHC a couple of weeks ago what they think about it.

[are you kidinme?]

Originally Posted by jonjj

Let's be realistic here. Quiet? It is a major city and quiet is not quite how I would call it. A former post incorrectly gave you the wrong information. The main campus of Hopkins is along Charles Street-certainly not the hood. There are plenty of neighborhoods north of it that are as quiet as a city can be. Look at Oakenshaw or Tuscany-Canterbury---not sure on the exact spelling. Charles Village is a nice area also which is surrounding the main campus. Parts of Hampden near the park would be quieter. The Bayview campus is also not in the "hood". It is along Eastern Avenue in the southeast quarter which is a working class neighborhood with a large Greek and Latino population although not solely that. Plenty of Hopkins employees live in Butchers Hill, Patterson Park, Upper Fells Point, and Canton all within walking distance of the large medical campus located north of them although you mentioned you will not be located there.

I'm making a pretty simple assumption that since he would be working at the "Bayview campus" as well, that he would not be working at the University campus, but the Hospital campus, which is definitely in the hood.

[are you kidinme?]

Originally Posted by redd1skng

HAHA. Are you kidin' me?

Wait...you're saying it's not? You don't get around much. Get out of your cocoon and take a little drive up North Patterson Park Drive, North Collington St. and then get out and walk around a little. Take walk down Eastern Ave. toward little Italy, but take a trash bag with you (better take several) and check out the job the city does keeping the streets clean. Then, while you are out in the real Baltimore, go on down to the dilapidated SE District police station and try to walk up the front steps to the the lobby. Oh wait, the lobby is closed and the handrails are rusting off of the steps. Better yet go around back and ask for a little tour.

Don't just write back and tell me I'm full of crap. Go do these things. Here's a picture of that neighborhood taken from Google maps.

[RL_in_DWG]

Originally Posted by are you kidinme?

Wait...you're saying it's not? You don't get around much. Get out of your cocoon and take a little drive up North Patterson Park Drive, North Collington St. and then get out and walk around a little. Take walk down Eastern Ave. toward little Italy, but take a trash bag with you (better take several) and check out the job the city does keeping the streets clean. Then, while you are out in the real Baltimore, go on down to the dilapidated SE District police station and try to walk up the front steps to the the lobby. Oh wait, the lobby is closed and the handrails are rusting off of the steps. Better yet go around back and ask for a little tour.

Don't just write back and tell me I'm full of crap. Go do these things. Here's a picture of that neighborhood taken from Google maps.

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Or you could go just south of the Hopkins campus and see the clean, beautiful, tree-lined streets that eventually lead straight to the water, like Wolfe or Washington. Plenty of young professionals (among others) live safely and happily in these areas.

[are you kidinme?]

Now I get it.

[are you kidinme?]

Originally Posted by RL_in_DWG

Or you could go just south of the Hopkins campus and see the clean, beautiful, tree-lined streets that eventually lead straight to the water, like Wolfe or Washington. Plenty of young professionals (among others) live safely and happily in these areas.

It appears the OP will not take up my suggestion, but will instead walk the tree lined streets of Butcher's Hill. That seems to often be the case with those who only acknowledge one side of Baltimore. Oh, and remember, don't walk those tree lined streets with a cell phone or ipod in your hands.

[james777]

Originally Posted by RL_in_DWG

Or you could go just south of the Hopkins campus and see the clean, beautiful, tree-lined streets that eventually lead straight to the water, like Wolfe or Washington. Plenty of young professionals (among others) live safely and happily in these areas.

You should google Zach Sowers. He and his wife (who was his high school sweetheart), both of whom were college grad Hopkins employees, were living safely and happily in that area until one day a gang of thugs accosted him on his front doorstep. He was so badly beaten that he was unrecognizable lying in a Johns Hopkins hospital bed to even his wife. After an extended period of time in a coma, he is now living safely and happily in heaven, while his widowed wife, a former medical professional, is studying hard in law school to try to understand how our justice system could be so screwed up.

[KLynch10]

Originally Posted by james777

You should google Zach Sowers. He and his wife (who was his high school sweetheart), both of whom were college grad Hopkins employees, were living safely and happily in that area until one day a gang of thugs accosted him on his front doorstep. He was so badly beaten that he was unrecognizable lying in a Johns Hopkins hospital bed to even his wife. After an extended period of time in a coma, he is now living safely and happily in heaven, while his widowed wife, a former medical professional, is studying hard in law school to try to understand how our justice system could be so screwed up.

I see we have a new poster who is going to make it their goal on here to keep everyone from moving to Baltimore, and instead commute from places like Philly and DC. Zach Sowers is a tragic story, no doubt about it, but it was more than 6 years ago and thousands and thousands of people have lived in that area and passed through and haven't been murdered. The story even was the main cog in getting the State's Attorney to lose re-election. So a terrible negative was turned into a small positive and a reason for change.

Since DC is so great, why don't you google some of the murders they've had in the last 12 months in great areas like Capitol Hill, Woodley Park, and Columbia Heights or a triple shooting they had in Georgetown two Halloweens ago.

I'm not trying to put down DC, but for you to hold an area accountable because of one incident six years ago is flat our ridiculous and absolute trolling. Take just about any are in the last 6 years, many considered as safe as anywhere, and you'll find some really tragic incidents.

It is a great area, and it is not perfect, but the chances of you getting murdered there are incredibly, incredibly low.