[alexmlamb]

I lived in Baltimore for a few years in college. There are definitely some nice things about it, like the aquarium, and a decent choice of restaurants (however this should come with the caveat that the inner harbor has lots of police standing around, so its level of safety is not that organic). It also has a good selection of sports teams for a city its size.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...

It still has one of the highest crime rates in the US, so I don't think criticism of the city is necessarily ill-informed.

[matthewdgreen]

I don’t know when you went to college, but this is pretty out of date now. Baltimore has developed enormously in just the past ten years (and it was the pits, relatively speaking, fifteen years ago). The Inner Harbor is nice to visit but it’s like Times Square in NY, only tourists go there. There has been massive development everywhere, but particularly in Harbor East, Locust Point, and up north in places like Remington and Hampden. It’s worth visiting again just to see how rapidly things have changed, and how many new restaurants have opened.

[non-entity]

I was bored and looking at property costs in random cities, and it had shockingly cheap house / condos / apartments for sale in the urban core under $200k. I'm not sure how great some of the areas downtown are, but I live in a very low COL, but you normally only see prices like that in suburbs