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Generally it does not offer even close to what DC does. You would be too far from VA, and if you are living outside of the city that is where you want to live. Maryland doesn’t compare, including the people. Both cities have crime, that’s evident in many cities. But the parts of Baltimore that don’t are small..DC has a lot more to offer. And environment wise, DC is just beautiful. Definitely one of the nicest looking cities. Baltimore will just be a smaller crappier version of Boston.
One thing I do have to note...DC is by far more intellectual. While you can get away with not really being up there, you might feel kinda lost depending on what your job/lifestyle is. The overall group average of the people of the city way exceeds that of both Boston and Baltimore. But what also comes with this is more competition.
There's nothing that you can do in DC that you can't do in Baltimore, metropolitan wise, or city limits.
The population Baltimore vs. Portland is 9x, but to me, it feels more like 2x. Portland is packed with bars, restaraunts, usable waterfront, etc, and punches well above it's weight. Adversely, I think Baltimore is limited/constrained to a select few neighborhoods, and doesn't feel like a major city (which is why I said it's more like a Portland in it's offerings than a DC/Boston).
Either way, and back to the premise of my initial post- OP, if you don't like Boston, I wouldn't move to DC..
How about we compare neighbors of Portland and Baltimore.
In terms of types of things to do, DC and Baltimore essentially offer the same things--tourist attractions, museums, performing arts, visual arts, fine dining, major league professional sports, parks, etc. But since it's a bigger city/metro and the nation's capital, DC simply offers more within those categories and generally they tend to be of a higher quality (but that's not to say that Baltimore's offerings are low quality because that wouldn't be true). But as the older and more industrial city, Baltimore offers a couple of specific things that aren't found in DC.
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