sara, I added a link to a house. Wasbash on the Eastern border, Callaway on the Western.

Those Minka houses are cool, but $500K+ for 900 sqft? nah.

What are people's favorite sites for grabbing audio from a YouTube video? All of the ones I used to use no longer exist, and the artist doesn't have the song available on their site or Bandcamp.

I think this is what I have done Jilli

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Oh, I think that's Ashburton [link]

Don't know it well, just know nice big houses and that it's a place a lotta the rising upper and middle classes of black folk put down roots in 50s and 60s , leveraging what they could of blockbusting & white flight. Used to share a USPS, ran into former mayor a lot. Some pretty little neighborhoods tucked next to sadly abandoned former grand ones.

Baltimore is tough and merciless and demanding.

Also (and I've just heard this said, so take with a grain of salt) is that the primary issue facing it is the aging population and not a lot of replacing generations to keep it up. Lakeside, my sister community, compares itself a lot to Ashburton (the AfAm middle class community established itself there because proximity to Morgan) and one of the big tensions is between older homeowners and crappy landlords who come in as older established residents move out/die. Being Morgan is so close, turns into college housing and a whole other ball of fusses.

Well I love the house I linked to and then this semi-detached has the whole basement thing I want as a studio apt. [link]

Oh hahaha I was thinking of the houses around FEDERAL HILL park, not DRUID HILL park. So not AT ALL the same.

Oh yeah, no. Federal Hill is late gentrification yuppie/wypipl central.

Honestly, wish I'd gotten to know Ashburton better when I lived near, but it's all residential and off my routes. Ten Hills is another place that was near me I'd never heard of.

Until the schools get unfucked up, not sure how some of these inburbs will flourish. They're built for families, but even at those prices, schools are such a crapshoot, if you have barely the money, people take the county over the private tuition and uncertainty of the city.

(Been reading a lot that make me angry and hopeless and still buoyed by Baltimore resilience, but Christ, for how long? I'm staying because my calculus is easy and not daily trampled. That's privilege.)

The neighborhoods with struggling schools are perfect for me to buy in, stability, tax revenue, and no kids. I think that is where retirees and near retirees should look to live to stabilize at risk neighborhoods.