Oh yeah let's see AI taste a fuckin chicken wing and write a reddit guide without gunkin up its spokes Boston Dynamics can fuck right off!!!

I do not think this is accurate.

It wasn't covid bail out money: she allegedly made illegal withdrawals from her retirement account because she allegedly lied about being financially needy in order to make the withdrawals.

Baltimore city is where wife and I will be working. But still new to the area, so I’m exploring. My primary goal is a safe place to raise my kid and be able to walk my dog. We both will be working from home part time.

Sigh. You lazy and messy as hell for this:

She is a former civil servant who caught a federal case: Allegedly she committed mortgage fraud and/or perjury about some property she bought in Florida during the early covid years, when the rules to withdraw funds from certain retirement accounts were relaxed for people who could swear they were experiencing financial hardship. This happened during her tenure as Baltimore City SA.

She is married to a person who was a city council person, then a state legislative rep for Baltimore, and then became the head of that council, which could be perceived as a conflict of interest, since his heading the city council overlapped with her service as Baltimore City SA.

She ran against her old boss and won. Kept getting re-elected until she didn't last year. Now she is a private citizen in federal court.

That's pretty much it.

This isn't selling the conduit, it's more like setting up an escrow account. The city would still have the right to terminate the agreement and resume full control of the conduit system before any renewal.

I had an in-home patient in Maple Lawn development in Fulton last week, they built up the area nicely. The new homes where I was are varied in size from townhomes to large single family homes. There was a playground across the street, an outdoor pool, closed now of course. I saw some walking trails, didn’t explore because of the cold. I stopped in the shopping area for lunch, many restaurants to choose from.

It took me less than thirty minutes to get from my home office to the patient’s house. I live in Southwest Baltimore near Saint Agnes hospital.

I hadn’t toured that area since they developed, I was surprised. It’s not the typical bland suburban development I’ve seen. That area is Howard County, the school system is good.

Thank you so much for the comprehensive answer. Will check all the options above.

I am triggered.

I know this is the Baltimore City sudbreddit, but do you want to live in the city or not? If not, there are many, many suburbs within hour's drive of Baltimore to choose from. An hour is a very wide net to cast. You may have better responses on the Maryland subreddit.

Based on family friendly and schools and suburbs, just buy in Howard County and call it a day.

It would help to know what more you value than family friendly and schools and suburban. Do you want a shorter commute, for example.

Right. I don’t mind “we autograt parties of 6 or more so your server gets a big tip,” I’ve been that server. This reads to me more like “we don’t want to raise the price of our $45 chicken dish or $48 fish entree by 23% to cover basic labor and benefits, so here’s a non-tip fee”

If you're interested in living within Baltimore City limits, you could try to find something up in the Roland Park EMS district - there are some smaller SFHs with yards and spacious rowhouses in Keswick and Evergreen, and you would be sending your kid to one of the best elementary/middle schools in the city (and then hopefully on to City/Poly/BSA, which are all well-regarded citywide public high schools). Something like this. City houses tend to have lower purchase prices but higher property tax bills than comparable houses in Baltimore County.

I don't know as much about the county (and surrounding suburban counties) as some other folks on here will, but I have heard very good things about the family-friendliness of Catonsville, Rodgers Forge/Towson, Ellicott City, and Columbia. Hopefully others can fill you in on those.

I don’t have Twitter so I can’t respond there, but that would be the opposite direction this city needs to go. We need less car dependency. We can’t even afford to keep up or rebuild the car infrastructure we have now without drastically increasing taxes. We need sustainable infrastructure that can actually cover its costs. Car-centric infrastructure never has and never will do this.

Thank you for your service.

You summed it up perfectly for me. Not at all a Woodberry Kitchen fan.

Stay away from any home service business you see heavily advertising (Michael & Sons, Horizon, Len The Plumber, Blue Dot, etc.). Their business model relies on techs that are heavily incentivized to sell and not repair. The reason they advertise so much is that the business model does not support repeat customers. They want to take as much as they can and move on.

Good summary, I would add that she was responsible for trying one man four times due to a seemingly personal vendetta, and also in an effort to protect the police, who shot him. She was even held in contempt at one point for violating a gag order related to the case, ultimately spending extra money to prosecute and incarcerate him, while mismanaging her office. He was just released on 1/13/23, by the new States Attorney. There have been concerns about corruption, disguising source of campaign donations, (for her and her husband) misuse of campaign funds, etc…I heard the she won one case on Judge Judy one time tho…

No, but, I had them come out for an estimate on installing an outlet in an area that had never had an outlet. That visit cost 75 or 80 dollars, and the estimate was 2k, the highest of the estimates I received.

They did not get the job.

We’ve had very good luck with them upgrading our boiler system from oil to gas and doing annual service. We did have to wait for days for service one time, but that’s because there was a big snow and the plows skipped our street. As soon as we got plowed we called them and they came out the same day. We didn’t need a part so there was no further delay.

We’ve also called them for basic plumbing repairs, but I’d go to a different plumber for that stuff from now on.

Thanks! Didn’t even know!

I would prefer more suburban area, with a little space for kid and dog. Work remotely most of the time, with building near inner harbor a couple times a week. Budget would be preferable around 5-600k, but with some wiggle room for the right thing.

They did this to me and left me without heat for almost two months. Same exact story; except they kept parts shot-gunning my furnace without fixing it. Finally the last part they installed, I called and called and they kept saying part was ordered, they'd let me know. Finally after about 4 weeks of this, I called and said enough, we are ending this service agreement unless you can tell me exactly when that part is arriving, and they transferred me to a service manager who was like, oh your part is here, would you like it installed?. They are the absolute worst. If I were you I'd call them right now, tell them you are ending the agreement (read the fine print, there's some language in it on what you might owe) and immediately go with another company. I will never never never work with Michael and Sons again- I have very low tolerance for garbage client communication and theirs reeks.

Yes. The community outreach officer will be the best route to go.

Wow...sounds like San Francisco.

Funding a municipal fiber network probably shouldn’t be the goal. Incentivizing market entry for more providers would likely result in the same outcome for customers with very little stress to the city.

Example: Baltimore received $35m in ARPA funding earmarked for Digital Equity initiatives. So far, they’re looking at using these funds to connect rec centers to the city’s fiber ring and to deploy public Wi-Fi zones (which, let’s be honest- how useful will public Wi-Fi actually be?). To date, there’s been nothing earmarked for home broadband service. In addition, unlike almost every other municipality in Maryland, Baltimore does not have a fiber leasing program, so building fiber assets for the city will not result in increased connectivity to residential customers.

If Baltimore used some of this federal funding to establish something like a Conduit Fee Rebate Program through which qualified ISPs could more affordably build infrastructure in the conduit system in order to serve a set number of under-connected neighborhoods/households, they would essentially be unlocking restricted funding and paying themselves while encouraging a broader number of ISPs to deliver residential service.

The complete lack of competition in the internet market in Baltimore is a huge reason available service is so shitty.

Happy cake day!