Weather is personal preference. If you like cooler weather and snow sports Boston is vastly better. If you hate snow Baltimore is vastly better.

Racism is everywhere. There’s plenty here in Baltimore and MD at large.

Lobster vs. crab. Six of one, half dozen of another. Both can be great, both can be meh.

I will give you that BWI is a much better airport. I probably wouldn’t factor that into my decision as a student. If OP had a job with tons of travel it would be a consideration.

I prefer Baltimore to Boston but there are a lot of similarities between the two cities. Safety, fun things to do all depend on what neighborhood you choose to live in, I’m sure for either city.

Both cities have great food scenes. Bostons coffee scene is atrocious though whereas Baltimore’s is really great if you’re into cafes. Boston is really weirdly into Dunkin Donuts and great local cafes are harder to come by. The one I found had no idea what a pour over was. I know I spent a lot of my college years studying in cafes so hopefully that’s worth something.

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>Pretty much everything else is better in Boston.

Not the weather. Not the extreme racism. Not their garbage food. Not their baseball team. Not the accent. Not their cursed airport. etc. etc.

Don’t waste money on a bar crawl. There will be plenty of people out drinking and having a good time on 17 and 18. And you don’t need to pay money to be part of it

Parade and Bar Crawl are the biggest events.

Cost of living is better in Baltimore. Pretty much everything else is better in Boston.

Weather is going to be personal preference. Proximity to stuff will also be personal preference. Both places have seafood and it will also boil down to personal preference.

Friends is going to be luck plus your ability to put yourself out there. If you’re going to school that’ll likely be a non-issue wherever you go.

I’d recommend Boston. (Living in Baltimore.)

Which schools? It doesn't help when you don't give us any detail, OP.

Cost of living in Baltimore will be lower than Boston, but public transport will be significantly worse.

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FWIW I have a wall full of Best of Baltimore awards in the lobby of my office. I don't think they have ever even approached us to advertise let alone pay to play. I typically just get a random voicemail in the spring saying we won.

Good points and also he’s being used as a pawn by the NFLPA who wants all of the guys to only accept fully guaranteed contracts. Professional representation would’ve helped navigate that landmine as well.

Betting on yourself is immature?! He's consistently ranked in the top half of QBs, and who on the market comes close? Carson Wetz? haha

OK, you were partially right in that convo, but also wrong, just as you are here (accelerationism is a tactic that can be used by anyone, not an 'ideology' unto itself).

But it was your refusal to listen to others and your doubling down that this sub and it's users are part of some "democratic party media apparatus" and you were the victim of it and your instance to argue over the 'left' on a thread about nazis brought on your downvotes.

But more importantly, downvotes and disagreement are no reason to delete your post history. Shit I'm on a 10yo account, I have some massive downvotes on it but I don't care because reddit 'karma' is all just made up crap that means nothing and I stand by what I say. And that's the red flag I mentioned, deleting your comment history is a tactic used by certain people on reddit who do not stand by what they say and are being purposefully disingenuous. Now I'm not saying you are doing that, but maybe next time just take the L and move on rather than trying to hide the exchange.

Michael Vick who was in the league 13 seasons, or a different Michael Vick?

My guilty pleasure…. I actually like Fox45’s Project Baltimore even though its a Sinclair puppet.

This is a dumb ass take. Neither of them won MVP and had to deal with a shit WR corps like Lamar has. Yall fake fans don't deserve Lamar.

Exactly. Fuck em.

He’s leaving so much money on the table by not having an agent. He could have used the past several years to really build his brand and segue that into endorsements. He should have been appearing in commercials, have an expansive line of apparel of some kind, etc. This would have all been easy to get going after the MVP season. And all of it is easier money than playing football. Instead he’s trying to make his money through potentially unrealistic contract asks. In his quest to save 3% he’s probably passing up on 50%.

You know who doesnt skip their bond payments? Baltimore City.

Agree with most of what you said. I guess I'm wondering why the motivation for the ballot measure even matters. If it passes and a recall election occurs at some point, then the people got exactly what they wanted.

It seems to me that the criticism of these ballot measures is a veiled admittance that the electorate is inherently dumb and will vote against their own self interest. I happen to agree with this, but let's hear the Ryan Dorseys of the world say that. They won't even though that's exactly why we have a representative democracy, and not a direct democracy, in the first place.

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As others have pointed out, there’s nothing wrong with recall votes inherently. The issue arises and seems to be the case here when the mechanism for these kinds of tools for democracy is abused and used for purely selfish political reasons, not any kind of specific reform or interest.

A recall vote suddenly creates the need for campaigning by any of the incumbent candidates in the government, which means less time to be spent towards actually trying to do any work for the sake of the city. Now, this could certainly be as malicious as trying to stop the government from doing work to help the city and be popular, or it could be as self-serving as to prevent the government from pushing forward with politics that certain groups disagree with.

Again, a recall vote isn’t necessarily bad, it’s just important that we look at the incentives that any one group may have to drive their actions and ask if it’s for the good of many or for the benefit of those with money and interest in causing trouble.