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Originally Posted by Joakim3
It’s ubiquitous with DC. It’s not for Baltimore because it’s simply not as prevalent at parity or absolute figures.
That doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist but it’s not omnipresent in the way it is in DC.
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You misunderstood my point. Education and healthcare employ a lot of people everywhere (i.e., they are ubiquitous), not just in metro Baltimore. That's simply a given; those two sectors are required for any place to function in the most basic sense. In that sense they "dominate" pretty much everywhere.
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Fort Meade is not “white collar” in the convention sense like an Amazon HQ2 or Pentagon.. it’s first and foremost an Army installation. Yes the NSA is HQ’d there and it’s estimated to employ +30k people but how many of whom work on site is classified so take those figures with a *heavy* grain of salt (I go on the base all the time)
The Port for example only directly employees ~15k but indirectly connects almost ~140k jobs.
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Fort Meade is an Army installation, but it's definitely more than your run-of-the-mill Army base. It directly employs over 64K people (about 75% or so are civilian employee) and is arguably the nation's most important hub for defense intelligence, information, and cybersecurity. And then there are the contractors and other firms in the area that are there because of that concentration of expertise, and so on.
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