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You may be thinking of JHU's medical school, which is indeed situated in a horrible neighborhood. But JHU's main campus abuts Charles Village, which is an increasingly popular and enjoyable neighborhood. Certainly not among Baltimore's worst.
I'm talking about the hospital. JHU by Charles village is a very nice neighborhood.
Terrible thread but in all reality Detroit is bad, even though I hate to shine a bad lit on either city especially bmore being my home,but honestly people bash Detroit and think its going to fold and disappear mark my words Detroit will revitalize and improve.
Detroit. Baltimore is not as bad as people make it out to be. And crime is going down
Baltimore has 16000 abandoned homes, 4000 of which are city owned and off the tax roll. There are 14000 abandoned lots- where houses used to be. Hopkins is doing its best to refurb the east side, which I have mixed feelings about. Last glance, Detroit has 33000 abandoned homes... Which if kept in perspective is pretty close to the same based on city size.
I'm from Michigan, and visit Detroit whenever I get back. The slums of Detroit aren't really slum slums. Most of them are abandoned buildings, and the population is getting smaller...everything is spread out. Large swaths of land everywhere.
When I think of slums, I think more of Baltimore. All of the rowhouses puts all the people right next to teach other, so you have large swaths of people hanging out with each other day and all night. It just adds a completely different more slum element to it.
Correct. The problem is habitable homes abutting abandoned dwellings that usually bring in rats. Large parts of Baltimore look bad, but it IS coming back. I left a decade ago and miss it terribly, so I'm leaving the relative comfort of Seattle to move back next year.
Baltimore has 16000 abandoned homes, 4000 of which are city owned and off the tax roll. There are 14000 abandoned lots- where houses used to be. Hopkins is doing its best to refurb the east side, which I have mixed feelings about. Last glance, Detroit has 33000 abandoned homes... Which if kept in perspective is pretty close to the same based on city size.
I don't wanna talk bad about Detroit, but their population is only around 100k more than Baltimore's.
I think Detroit has more abandoned buildings but Baltimore's are in a much denser area, so it looks worse when riding by. A lot of Detroit's abandoned buildings you can tell were quality built homes. Baltimore's was quickly constructed brick row homes that were very poorly and cheaply built on the inside.
However, Baltimore does have a sizable area of good neighborhoods also unlike Detroit.
For those wanting to view the "beauty" of Baltimore's abandoned rowhomes.
Location: Detroit's eastside, downtown Detroit in near future!
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I think Detroit has more abandoned buildings but Baltimore's are in a much denser area, so it looks worse when riding by. A lot of Detroit's abandoned buildings you can tell were quality built homes. Baltimore's was quickly constructed brick row homes that were very poorly and cheaply built on the inside.
However, Baltimore does have a sizable area of good neighborhoods also unlike Detroit.
For those wanting to view the "beauty" of Baltimore's abandoned rowhomes.
I've never been to Detroit, and I see that Detroit won the poll, but I'm sorry there's no way Baltimore doesn't have sadder, more blighted, downright scarier areas than maybe any city in the country. It's the affect of the vacant and decaying row houses. It gives it a feel of such a ghost town in certain neighborhoods, and those neighborhoods are all over. Especially in the West side from the looks of it. And again, there's more people compacted into a small area. So many of these people being drug dealers and drug fiends makes it more dangerous.
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Baltimore wins
