Would you agree that Anne Arundel county is quintessential Maryland? (Baltimore: sales, real estate)

[Turnerbro]

I've heard it said before that everything Maryland is known for can be found in AAC. Crabs, Lacrosse, Chesapeake Bay, State Capital etc. I'm wondering how many people actually see it this way.

[MrRational]

Originally Posted by Turnerbro

I've heard it said before that everything Maryland is known for can be found in AAC. Crabs, Lacrosse, Chesapeake Bay, State Capital etc. I'm wondering how many people actually see it this way.

However many say yes... see how many also are in the real estate business.
iow, it sounds like RE sales pitch to me.

[Turnerbro]

Originally Posted by MrRational

However many say yes... see how many also are in the real estate business.
iow, it sounds like RE sales pitch to me.

[DaveinMtAiry]

One of the great things about Maryland is it's so diverse. You drive past Frederick and you are in Appalachia, 100 miles to the east you are in beach towns, just over the bridge the wide open flat lands of the eastern shore. It's like several different parts of the country all wrapped up in one little state.

So while AA county does have all of those things MD is more than lacrosse, crabs and the Bay. It's also mountain towns, beach towns, farming communities, unique places such as Tangier Island and urban burbs such as the new Silver Spring.

[westsideboy]

If I had to pick one MD county as quintessential MD, I would choose Anne Arundel. No, it doesn't have any mountain/hilly areas, but then again those parts of the state aren't quintessentially MD, they are the outliers.

[bande1102]

I've lived in Howard, PG, Montgomery, and Anne Arundel. Yeah, I think AA is quintessential MD, particularly downtown Annapolis and Naval Academy area.

[North Beach Person]

Y'all know you're going to hurt a lot of feelings in Montgomery County by not picking it. And the folks in Prince George's will just get their inferiority complex validated. Again.

[Turnerbro]

Originally Posted by North Beach Person

Y'all know you're going to hurt a lot of feelings in Montgomery County by not picking it. And the folks in Prince George's will just get their inferiority complex validated. Again.

This is irrelevant. It's hard to argue that PG county is quintessential Maryland. Montgomery maybe, although it arguably has more in common with NOVA than AAC.

[DaveinMtAiry]

As I said diversification is the unique thing about Maryland. But I guess I have to agree, if I took someone from Montana and could show them just one place it would probably be Annapolis with the qualifier that other parts of the state look and feel completely different. I'm from Montgomery County, spent a ton of time in Prince George's as well. Let's be honest, they are nothing more than burbs.

Now if we had a week I would start at Deep Creek, stop by the revitalized downtowns of Frederick and Silver Spring, visit Main Street Ellicott City, the Inner Harbor, Annapolis, a Chesapeake beach town such as North Beach, then over the bridge to witness the farmland of the Eastern Shore, a quick stop to Tangier to hear the local watermen and their dialect before seeing the ponies of Assateague and finally Ocean City.

[Cruzincat]

Originally Posted by DaveinMtAiry

As I said diversification is the unique thing about Maryland. But I guess I have to agree, if I took someone from Montana and could show them just one place it would probably be Annapolis with the qualifier that other parts of the state look and feel completely different. I'm from Montgomery County, spent a ton of time in Prince George's as well. Let's be honest, they are nothing more than burbs.

Now if we had a week I would start at Deep Creek, stop by the revitalized downtowns of Frederick and Silver Spring, visit Main Street Ellicott City, the Inner Harbor, Annapolis, a Chesapeake beach town such as North Beach, then over the bridge to witness the farmland of the Eastern Shore, a quick stop to Tangier to hear the local watermen and their dialect before seeing the ponies of Assateague and finally Ocean City.

I don't think you can consider Maryland unique in that respect. Look at a state like North Carolina. They have mountains, piedmont, and beach areas as well. I would liken what they call the piedmont to the western shore areas around the Chesapeake.

The only difference is in the size of the states. With a state as large as NC, you expect there to be more diversity in geography. Maryland is a relatively small state in comparison, so that diversity is more striking.

edit: You can also say the same thing about Virginia.

We do have a battle zone called Baltimore City that some of the other states don't have.