Living in Baltimore Area

[hookaman]

Can anyone give me the inside scoop on living in and around baltimore?

Thanks

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[Winged Scapula]

Lots of previous threads in this forum which might help you...

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=268533&highlight=Living+baltimore

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=258215&highlight=Living+baltimore

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=121547&highlight=Living+baltimore

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=62881&highlight=Living+baltimore

 

[hookaman]

Thanks for the links

 

[Winged Scapula]

Sure...there are more, but these had the most posts. Since I'm interviewing for an attending job there I wanted to refresh my memory as well.

 

[sirus_virus]

Can anyone give me the inside scoop on living in and around baltimore?

Thanks

goodluck.

 

[Colinator]

all I can say is boring.

okay, i'll give you the people are nice (very friendly blue-collar city), but there's not much to do. i like hopkins but won't rank it highly b/c of baltimore. i live there (here?) now and am excited to be moving. the restaurants here are sub-par at best, good luck if you like anything flavorful (indian, vietnamese, etc). i've never been in a place where there isn't at least one restaurant i occasionally crave. the only young professional around tend to be hopkins affiliated and from what i can tell, they don't "go out" much.

if you're set on baltimore and looking for areas to live:
canton: okay bar scene, an area of places to go out and eat
fells point: kind of a lower brow canton . . . pretty at first, but not so happening
mt. vernon: the best food options i've found along charles st., museums, monuments, etc

shopping and movies . . . the burbs (towson, columbia, etc).

best wishes

 

[Tater]

As a transplant from Texas to Baaaaahl-de-mer, I live in the downtown area and walk to work every day. I live in one of the nicer apartment buildings (and as a consequence my rent is nigh on outrageous, said the Texan who has never paid more than $350 a month for rent before). But there are many other more affordable options.

Since there are a lot of professional students in the area, I used the University of Maryland's Residence Life website: http://www.housing.umaryland.edu/ads/index.cfm

Many of the people looking for roommates are medical students, law students, residents, etc.

Federal Hill, Fell's Point, Canton, etc. are neighborhoods most will mention if you are interested in Baltimore City. They are fairly pricey, though.

Unfortunately I'm not from Baltimore and I wasn't interested in the housing market, so I cannot really comment with any sort of intelligence. (Other than it was personally cost prohibitive.)

 

[Tater]

Considering the last couple of comments...

The most striking characteristic is how the city can go from fairly nice to ridiculously ghetto in the span of two blocks. Baltimore is almost famous for this. But I, for one, have walked all over Baltimore by myself and have not felt any undue sense of danger. You have to be aware of your surroundings, but that is not isolated to Baltimore.

Baltimore is very much a "local pub" sort of town. If you are looking for crazy night clubs, you end up in D.C.

I've enjoyed my time here in Baltimore, because I think it has a certain charm about it. The people who are from here are (for the most part) proud to be from here.
It can be a cultural city, unfortunately you have to look a little harder for it. I get my chicken souvlaki from little Greek ladies with too much eye makeup near Maryland Street, but I never would have found them had I not happened on them by accident.

Baltimore is not New York City by any stretch of the imagination. Its just an overgrown southern city, really. It makes it a less difficult place to live, in my opinion. The natives just don't have NYC sort of expectations of themselves. I personally don't mind the lack of pretention. Baltimoreans are who they are.