[palmfacehn]

Baltimore has been in a steady state of decline as long as I can recall. Industry has constantly moved away.

https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/as-residents-leave-balti...

>“There’s a lot of people staying [in those cities] and we want to be sure they’re not left with an excess of infrastructure that’s impossible to maintain,” he said. “So what do we do about it?”

[robswc]

Don't know why this is controversial.

I lived in the NOVA area for more than a decade and each visit to Baltimore (every few years) was more depressing. Of course, that's anecdotal but I'll stand by it.

[palmfacehn]

Maybe they felt it was off-topic? Industry has been moving away since the 1950s. Today I read that container traffic has increased over the past couple of years.

It is hard not to feel a sense of tragedy if you know something about the place. It is written all over the city. The blocks and blocks of boarded up row houses speak for themselves. Now they are tearing them down. Maybe that is for the best, but it doesn't seem like a win.

[robswc]

I get the same impressions.