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Re: Baltimore Museum of Art will host an exhibition curated by the museum's guards

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Post by leetcrew »

throwaway6734 wrote: post #66
leetcrew wrote: post #64

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I'm a lifelong resident, but I can't say I share your optimism. the per capita murder rate is still well above the worst years in the 90s, with 2019 setting an all time high. the population is still falling, rapidly in poorer neighborhoods but offset somewhat by growth in the wealthier ones. our current mayor has not been convicted of any crimes committed while in office (a low bar in other cities), but otherwise doe…

I thought trowe was moving to harbor east? My optimism is based on the consistent development in the L and it's expansion outwards. Hopkins medical will soon be connected to harbor east with the Perkins development. Station north continues to fill out. There's also been lots of development in federal hill and locust point. The murder rate is indeed ridiculously high, but I think it will subside as more development ha…

you're right about t rowe, I confused the story about them moving their main office (to harbor east) with the fact they've opened an office in owings mills. apparently the reason for the move is safety concerns downtown, which is still not a great look for the city, but whatever.

I'm not entirely sure how to feel about the expansion of the L. it's definitely good if you already live there (I do) and plan to stay (I hope to), and some of the areas being annexed are/were fairly close to hell on earth. it's not clear to me that the butterfly residents will benefit from the increased opportunities like you suggest; I think it's more likely they get gradually pushed out to less desirable parts of the county. but we'll see, and I'd rather be wrong!

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Post by rattray »

doom2 wrote: post #78
crispyambulance wrote: post #41

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Johns Hopkins APL is not far south on 95 from Baltimore. It does MIC stuff, but is also involved with various space programs. There are a bunch of small and large tech companies in and around Baltimore and Baltimore county. I've worked in Columbia, Linthicum, and Rockville MD. (Rockville commute was insane before the new highway, now it would doable for folks who don't mind driving a lot). I lived there for 12 years.…

> The TV shows "The Wire" and especially "The Corner" capture the flavor of the rough parts of Baltimore more than residents would like to admit. I think The Wire was pretty accurate and a lot of Baltimoreans aren't in denial about what kind of city it was/is. However, if you're only hanging out and working with folks who don't leave the White L[1], you'd think the rest of Baltimore is pretty awful and if it wasn't f…

> Yet somehow there doesn't seem to be the same level of negativity about the city here.

Baltimore has its merits… but Philly has a lot more going for it.

(Source: currently in Balto, went to college in Philly).

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Post by couchridr »

alistairSH wrote: post #70
alexjplant wrote: post #28

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If you (OP of the parent's parent) do interview in the area be sure to dig in to find what the company's lines of business are. CloudTamer, for instance, is ostensibly a commercial product-based company but does business with federal agencies and contractors (per their web site) and was at the AWS Public Sector Summit a few years ago. A different company that I interviewed at in an adjacent space (security vs CloudTa…

Maryland/Northern Virginia are _not_ the places to be if you want career options outside of government [contracting] work. While it's true that .gov work is huge in DC metro (and extending to Baltimore), there are MANY companies completely outside, or on the periphery, and even more if you just want to eliminate military jobs. Amazon has large AWS offices, plus HQ2 is spinning up. Google and Microsoft both have subst…

I would add that there are financial technical jobs at T Rowe Price, Legg Mason, Morgan Stanley etc. Not to mention that there are computer security jobs at those places where the stakes are high.

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Post by wishinghand »

biztos wrote: post #119
willis936 wrote: post #11

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Quirky diners are one of the biggest things I miss from seacoast NH. What is there to do for tech work in Baltimore? All jobs I've seen are in the MIC, which I dislike.

Sorry but what is the MIC? Google has given me many music venues… Thanks — left coaster

I’m not sure but I think it stands for military industrial complex.

Re: Baltimore Museum of Art will host an exhibition curated by the museum's guards

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Post by rattray »

biztos wrote: post #119
willis936 wrote: post #11

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Quirky diners are one of the biggest things I miss from seacoast NH. What is there to do for tech work in Baltimore? All jobs I've seen are in the MIC, which I dislike.

Sorry but what is the MIC? Google has given me many music venues… Thanks — left coaster

Military Industrial Complex

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Post by couchridr »

noduerme wrote: post #112
germinalphrase wrote: post #80

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Certainly, there is a media component to it. I live in Minneapolis. If you ask my relatives in wisconsin, they’d say that ‘Murder’apolis has been, and continues to be, a flaming hellhole of constant arson and carjackings ever since George Floyd was murdered. They watch local television news (with a sprinkling of Facebook garbage newsfeed) and don’t know enough to realize their entire mental model of the place is wild…

Portland, Oregon here. For a few years now if I'm out in the suburbs or conservative exurbs and tell people I live in the city, I hear, "sorry for you. Portland's a shithole." That view went national over the summer of 2020, with a lot of help from Fox news. (The president declaring our city an anarchy zone and sending in unmarked humvees with DC plates to black bag protesters didn't help). And yet it's an incredibly…

New idea for a t-shirt. “Baltimore: Trump hates it.”

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Post by rattray »

neutronicus wrote: post #34
whimsicalism wrote: post #32

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The county or the city? Do you take the MARC? I am curious why someone would do this commute, it seems like there are lots of cheaper options closer to DC with their own semi-urban area.

A lot of times the answer is a domestic partner working at one of the Baltimore hospitals

Yep, that's the case for me. The plausible choices for me personally are basically remote work, commuting to DC on MARC, or starting a company with a remote cofounder.

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Post by Thorrez »

whimsicalism wrote: post #81
crispyambulance wrote: post #41

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Johns Hopkins APL is not far south on 95 from Baltimore. It does MIC stuff, but is also involved with various space programs. There are a bunch of small and large tech companies in and around Baltimore and Baltimore county. I've worked in Columbia, Linthicum, and Rockville MD. (Rockville commute was insane before the new highway, now it would doable for folks who don't mind driving a lot). I lived there for 12 years.…

> Public schooling is a hard no-go unless you really get involved and enroll your kids in a carefully selected charter or magnet school You can go to these schools, ultimately it is about whether you are okay with your child being a racial minority. BCC is one such example of a school (maybe you would put that in the carefully selected magnet category).

>You can go to these schools, ultimately it is about whether you are okay with your child being a racial minority.

You're assuming crispyambulance is white. If crispyambulance is black then crispyambulance wouldn't be a racial minority in these schools (I think that's what you're saying). If crispyambulance is Indian then crispyambulance has no choice and will be a racial minority at every school.

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