I really want to like Baltimore: my parents fell in love when they were Hopkins students, and as such, it should be special to me.
But there are all of these things about it that give one pause. There have been roughly 270 murders in Baltimore this year, in a city of 640,000. In Toronto, it's something closer to 60 murders, in a city of 2.5 million, and that's a scandal. When we were deciding not to live in Baltimore, in 2000, the statistic that struck me as most worrisome was that Baltimore has the highest syphillis rate in the US. That is the case because there are a lot of people selling sex for drugs.
Parts of it really are pretty. Charles Village (by Hopkins) is cute. The art museum is great. And at its best, the food is superb. But I see more burned out people per capita in Baltimore than in any other American city. I find it amazingly depressing to be in.
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Date: Sunday, 12 December 2004 04:18 pm (UTC)But there are all of these things about it that give one pause. There have been roughly 270 murders in Baltimore this year, in a city of 640,000. In Toronto, it's something closer to 60 murders, in a city of 2.5 million, and that's a scandal. When we were deciding not to live in Baltimore, in 2000, the statistic that struck me as most worrisome was that Baltimore has the highest syphillis rate in the US. That is the case because there are a lot of people selling sex for drugs.
Parts of it really are pretty. Charles Village (by Hopkins) is cute. The art museum is great. And at its best, the food is superb. But I see more burned out people per capita in Baltimore than in any other American city. I find it amazingly depressing to be in.