What is Baltimore's most prestigious, exclusive suburb? (neighborhoods, living)

[vivo]

Originally Posted by ProgShred

Orange County, CA in itself is not prestigious, there are several suburbs of high and low economic class. Some cities in OC have ghettos, like Anaheim and Santa Ana. The most prestigous areas of OC would be from Laguna Beach to Mission Viejo, but parts of LA County like Rancho Palos Verdes are just as nice.

lol wrong thread.

[ProgShred]

Originally Posted by vivo

lol wrong thread.

I was responding to the OP.

[debzeppelin]

Thanks for all the replies !!! Used to work in Ellicot city in the 70s it must have changed alot since then.

[LogSS]

Originally Posted by Tom Lennox 70

This is actually just out of curiosity. Potomac and Bethesda are DC's most exclusive suburbs and you have Long Island in New York and Orange County in California. Where to the richest Baltimoreans live?

I know Ellicott City is very rich and Severna Park seems that way too. What's generally accepted as the best address in the Baltimore region?

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I would rephrase this to say Potomac and Bethesda are ONE OF DC's many exclusive suburbs on the Maryland side and Great Falls, Mclean, Vienna are ONE OF DC's exclusive suburbs on the Virginia Side.


Now lets get back to talking about Baltimore's suburb and lets not include DC. After all, they are completely different in terms of everything including demographics. Bmore will have a hard time comparing. It's like apples and orange.


In the Bmore area, I am not familiar with but have driven through and around to know what is prestigious and not and have studied and am currently studying the real estate in this area. There are lots of nice parts or Bmore but those areas could get even nicer if homeowners would do some touches to their doors, window or even a little landscaping would help.
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[ToneGrail]

Roland Park - Urban wealthy community with winding streets but small lots with big stately houses.

Ruxton -- Basically an outgrowth of the Roland Park area that spilled out over the city line into Baltimore County but way more suburban with 1-2 acre lots and big mansions. There are still some large estates with 6+ acres.

Greenspring Valley is beyond Ruxton and is home to multi-acre private estates. Cal Ripkin lives there.

[rudy_d]

Originally Posted by upinflamezzz

Growing up in Baltimore my whole life, I would say the neighborhoods directly north of the city because if you look south you start getting closer to DC. I've always been fond of the Hunt Valley, Hereford, Jarrettsville area. They have a country setting, excellent schools and directly off of I 83.

Those are nice areas with a lot of expensive houses, but I wouldn't consider them the most exclusive in the region. Except for maybe Ruxton, Greenspring Valley, and parts of Anne Arundel near the water, the most prestigious addresses in the region are in the northern part of the city in a broad area pretty much anywhere north of University Parkway between York Rd./Greenmount on the east and Falls Rd. on the west running up into Baltimore County. The ability to pay property taxes on some of those places--which are more than the average person's annual mortgage payments--send your kids to a private school that costs more than many colleges, and park a couple of luxury vehicle in the drive speaks old money. I'd wager that some of these folks regard the people who live in McMansions in places like Bel Air, Hunt Valley, and most of Howard County as the "nouveau riche," who can only afford their lifestyle due to low interest rates and a two-income household.

[Tom Lennox 70]

Originally Posted by debzeppelin

This will be my only post. I grew up in Middle River, and do not recall any smell, except the Back River area. We did not live there though. I suppose after time, things have changed, so I have heard. It used to be a nice place to live and grow up. Sad to hear it is not desirable. We had anything there, were close to perks in the city etc. But not the city itself. Oh well time marches on.

I work in Dundalk a few times a month and am there for errands sometimes too and have never noticed a smell. The one place I do notice a consistent smell is on I-95 just north of the toll plaza....I THINK it is from the Free State steel complex though I'm not totally sure, or perhaps its from the ships in the port though its more likely the steel plant since that smell is ALWAYS there at any time of day or night regardless of whether there are ships docked.

I've also heard Gibson Island and parts of Severna Park are very exclusive.

[myselfdotcom]

Edmondson Height baby!

[debzeppelin]

Ok so I lied, I keep seeing Ellicot City, I don't get it? I worked in Ellicot City from what I saw, back then I was not impressed. I was just a kid though, it musta changed alot since then. It was ok, but not what I would call exclusive. At the time I lived in Jessup in a house that was much more exclusive than what I saw there. Ah well, as I said before, or sorta said, time changes things.

[barante]

As I recall it, the OP asked about the most exclusive neighborhoods. That's been pretty much a misnomer since the Supreme Court ruled that restrictive convenants could not be legally enforced in neighborhoods that prohibited blacks , Jews and many other groups. That SCOTUS ruling was in 1948; certainly by 1970 Roland Park and Guilford had blacks and Jews living there.
Expensive does not mean exclusive (except for those who cannot afford a certain neighborhood). We have plenty of nice neighborhoods around in pretty much all price categories. As long as you are happy, who cares.
I live in Cheswolde, just north of Mount Washington. I It's not exclusive by any stretch of the imagination, but I love the place.