This is making me choke up, what a mensch.

You know you can mini ones right?

Fantastic work, have always agreed Don’t Know reigns king. Any consideration for Shottis Point? There Zippycana flavor is like no other and i imagine would put up some good numbers

You can exchange your big ‘un for your little ‘un

Seems like a nice time to listen to podcasts or read!

So glad to hear about the commute. Sounds easy enough to do once or twice a week. Let’s hope for the express train.

So as long as I keep my wits about me, it seems the risk of crime there isn’t disastrous. Thank you.

We should really make an /r/baltimorefood that's similar to /r/chicagofood. Chicago is definitely the better food city by miles don't get me wrong, but that subreddit is one of the best on the site. Just people talking about how much they love food. Doesn't get the negativity that even the food posts here bring out.

Edit: Just realized it apparently exists.

I’m glad to hear this. While I know it’s not Disney world, I imagine the crime is much more overplayed than the reality of daily life in BH. I’d love to be by the Meyerhoff! BSO is excellent, even as Marin leaves.

I’m not sure why you thought this would be a helpful reply.

I can say I regularly walk around my neighborhood past midnight on weekends and have been doing so for years. And I’ve never encountered an issue. Sometimes I’ll see a homeless person minding their business but I’ve never been mugged or feared for my safety. I’m not as delusional as you seem to think.

It’s also not the flex that you think it is to have Yemen (a relatively safe and rural country)/“or whatever [implied danger]” be your baseline of safety. I’m positive I’ve been to more countries than you, so you can dial back your condescension.

I’ve done routine international travel in past work - including places that are much less safe than my affluent westernized bubble.

I’m curious what you define as the “real” world, but some place being dangerous does not make it anymore “real” than someplace safe. I just prefer to live in a place where danger is limited! I don’t think being mugged or burglarized is a badge of honor. It’s actually just a pain! It’s happened to me several times.

If that’s true then this wouldn’t be a big enough deal to write this article about it.

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Ah that’s a good frame of reference. I’ve lived in nyc before and had to adjust to the quiet of DC. I suppose Baltimore would be the next adjustment down. Im sure I’d come to prefer it, just like I have to DC!

I know dc is an area that’s changed dramatically! I can’t imagine the shifts you’ve seen. I’m sorry if my post came off that way - but I definitely don’t expect where I live to be a perfect Disney world. I think I’ve just been spoiled by the ease of where I live now.

I live close enough to the Capitol now that I regularly leave neighbors apartments/homes at 1am after parties on weekends and have never encountered an issue. This is nice! But I know not everywhere is like this so I’m trying to wrap my mind around what to expect if I moved to Bolton Hill.

Trust that I wouldn’t consider even looking at Baltimore if I only watched the news/headlines!

Because no one but Christians feel the need to loudly force their holidays on everyone else.

Thank you for your detailed response! It helps a lot to hear your first hand experience with the area.

Don't sleep on Angeli's Pizza in Little Italy. Excellent wings. Excellent.

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Glad to see you hitting up LP's joints. I'm a big fan of both WG and City Limits and glad to see them stacking up decently against the likes of the just-a-little-far Don't Know wings

Ya know. I’ve often wondered why with Maryland, especially Baltimore having such a large Jew(ish) population - why there isn’t more holiday decorations/festive things like this in places like Pikesville, Reisterstown, Owings Mills, Potomac, etc for Hanukkah?

In the 80s back when we ran around Fells we called them BOO alleys, cuz someone jumped outta one and yelled boo at us once

Way way back, a cousin worked for AP and did a story on the primitive version of all that stuff. He tested himself, his father and our grandfather.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna13756086

Years later, when 23andMe became a thing, that cousin's brother hit the books and found documentation on our great-grandfather. He determined that his last name was not the one he was born with. It wasn't an Ellis Island situation. The change was first documented when he fraudulently claimed birthright citizenship. He had a history of dubious claims. He claimed to be employed as a seaman when he was 6. He claimed to be from Liverpool. He was actually born in Switzerland with family in France and Germany and met his wife in Liverpool a year after he gained American citizenship. They moved to New York and had kids etc etc.

We tracked down one of our distant relatives and she helped us fill the hole in the family tree. Whatever the means, I sure am glad he got out of there. We learned in the process that a number of distant relatives were killed in the Holocaust.

Similarly, I'm glad my grandfather was 4F during the war, or else I may never have been born.

Same! It was a surprise to our family after my sister recently did 23 & Me.

It kinda made sense though, because all my friends growing up were Jewish, some of the most influential and important people in my life are Jews, and I’ve always felt a kindred connection to the religion and its values.

I'm mostly Ashkenazi--a good chunk of that was a surprise to us a few years back--but not religiously anything and I love a Hanukkah house.

I’m a little Azkenashi (ethnically) but was raised as a Protestant and this was my favorite house.

If a mugger is staking out an alley theoretically used only by you and your neighbor, you have some serious problems