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Old 04-07-2008, 07:50 PM
 
Location: Grand Rapids, Mi
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i am a single 27 y/o moving to the area alone. i will be working at an office in jesup, but i know i want to live in a bigger city. i will be visiting the area in may, but would like some advice as to where i should live. i thought i was going to want to live in baltimore - butcher's hill was attracting me - but now i'm wondering if anywhere in baltimore is decent. i have read a lot of negative attitudes towards the entire city on here. i was also considering columbia and annapolis. i really know nothing about any of these areas. please give me some insight. also, let me know how the commute to and from work (in jessup) will be with any of these area. thank you soooo much!
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Old 04-07-2008, 09:19 PM
 
Location: La Crescenta, CA
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Comments on this board frequently trend a bit toward the negative. Many of us live/lived in Baltimore for years without incident, though of course you have to exercise the common sense that come with living in any big city. There are plenty of good areas in Baltimore that are fun to live in, though in my personal opinion Butcher's Hill is a little on the edge (though I have plenty of friends who live there and like it). The areas that keep coming up -- Hampden, Charles Village, Fells Point, etc. -- are good ones to check out. Honestly, though, commuting from Baltimore to Jessup will be kind of a pain. Columbia is boring as hell (unless you like the mall and box stores), but it would be a much easier commute to Jessup. Although I guess if you lived in Federal Hill or Ridgely's Delight or Otterbein, those are good areas and you could be on 95 or 295 fairly quickly to commute down to Jessup, and you'd be going against the commuter traffic, so it might not be too bad...
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Old 04-08-2008, 05:55 AM
 
Location: 21231
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i am a single 27 y/o moving to the area alone. i will be working at an office in jesup, but i know i want to live in a bigger city. i will be visiting the area in may, but would like some advice as to where i should live. i thought i was going to want to live in baltimore - butcher's hill was attracting me - but now i'm wondering if anywhere in baltimore is decent. i have read a lot of negative attitudes towards the entire city on here. i was also considering columbia and annapolis. i really know nothing about any of these areas. please give me some insight. also, let me know how the commute to and from work (in jessup) will be with any of these area. thank you soooo much!
Annapolis is great. It's a young, outdoors (water sports and boating) oriented crowd with plenty of local shops and bars. Big old homes will rent a room or a floor and it's a safe area.
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Old 04-08-2008, 09:12 AM
 
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I would choose Annapolis. I spent a lot of weekends there to get away from Baltimore and loved it.
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Old 04-08-2008, 09:45 AM
 
Location: Grand Rapids, Mi
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thank you all! what do you think of the drive from annapolis to jessup daily?
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Old 04-08-2008, 09:53 AM
 
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It is about half an hour. You can jump right on 32 and make it there in about 20 to 30 minutes.
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Old 04-08-2008, 10:20 AM
 
Location: 21231
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thank you all! what do you think of the drive from annapolis to jessup daily?
That drive is not bad at all. Rt. 97 to 32 west.
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