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DfcukinLite t1_jdoynab wrote

Reply to Moving to/living in Baltimore as a disabled person by theshakespeares

As you’re disabled you get to use MTA’s mobility bus. You call them and schedule pick up. Also the regular busses are ADA accessible. My cousin who has Lupus and in a wheelchair gets around solely via public transportation and gets around independently. Hopkins spent millions over the last several years improving the accessibly around its Charles village homewood campus.

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Animanialmanac t1_jdoxen9 wrote

Reply to Moving to/living in Baltimore as a disabled person by theshakespeares

Baltimore City sidewalks fail ADA requirements, a group of disabled residents had to file a lawsuit to get the city to repair the sidewalks, only a small portion of the sidewalks have been repaired so far.

I’m a physical therapist, most of my patients are in what’s called the Black Butterfly, lower income areas of the city. The sidewalks there are unusable by wheelchair or other mobility device users. The city inspectors don’t enforce the ADA requirements on the smaller businesses, stores, restaurants.

The area around JHU is in better shape, still not completely accessible due to uneven and broken sidewalks that have not been repaired yet.

The state offers a supplemental public transit service for certified disabled users. The service is helpful but not reliable, my patients report delays and no show problems. Not all standard buses have working ramps. If you can find living space very close to campus you’d be better off.

There is a large, very welcoming disabled community in Baltimore. You will find a lot of support here. I’m not on Facebook, I’ve heard there are accessibility groups on Facebook that could help with finding housing.

https://www.mta.maryland.gov/mobility

https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-disability-class-action-lawsuit-20210616-fskw36o4xvarhbrzfbmdpnmu2e-story.html

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Few_Society5388 t1_jdowe2w wrote

Reply to Moving to/living in Baltimore as a disabled person by theshakespeares

Public transportation is not great. However if you live in CV by the campus you’ll find pretty much everything you need within a few blocks-under a mile. Most of the stores and restaurants in the immediate area are accessible (thinking about Saint Paul between 31-33 streets). The CV Safeway and Waverly Giant are nearby as well. Accessible housing might be hard to come by, a lot of the apartments around campus are in renovated row homes. If your budget allows I’d look at newer buildings in the area. Additionally, JHU has shuttles, though I’m not sure if they’re accessible or reliable.

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dopkick t1_jdow368 wrote

Reply to Best quality/ lowest price Wifi Providers by Sufficient-Impress-9

So, Wi-Fi is not internet. You could have a rock solid home network but a terrible connection to your ISP. And vice versa.

I currently have Xfinity and have had cable for nearly three decades in quite a few locations. I’ve always owned my own equipment, if possible, and knew what I was doing with network setup. I’ve never had serious issues. Yes sometimes there were issues that were resolved in a reasonable time and sometimes equipment started to die.

Yet, others have plenty of problems with Xfinity. I’m sure some of it, probably a majority, is user error. Some of it might be bad luck with the local infrastructure. It’s not unreasonable that you could have a terrible experience while someone the next block over has a great one.

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dopkick t1_jdou5xz wrote

Reply to Moving to/living in Baltimore as a disabled person by theshakespeares

Regardless of disability, the public transportation system here is not great. I would suggest you minimize your reliance on it as much as possible by being able to take single lines to your most common destinations. This will save you many headaches.

I can’t say I’ve paid close attention to how prevalent ramps are. But I feel like the city as a whole could be doing a lot better. Lots of businesses have stairs or thresholds of some kind.

Strangely, the city itself is making improvements by replacing nasty sidewalk sections. There used to be some pretty extreme sidewalks that were a hazard but many of those have been tamed. And sidewalks by intersections are much better with the ramps to street level. I say this is strange because normally the city is dogshit terrible at everything it does, but not here. I won’t say that it’s the most friendly city for you but progress seems steadily moving in the right direction.

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