Poverty and apathy.

Many unsavory behaviors can be linked back to poverty. Why would you give a fuck about anybody else when worrying about yourself is stressful enough?

Plus, everyone else is doing it so why shouldn’t I? Clearly no one gives a shit. This is the apathy part.

I don’t agree with this mentality at all, but this is my opinion on why people behave this way.

Why not rent for a year or two and get the feel for a neighborhood before committing on a home purchase?

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4230-Evans-Chapel-Rd-Baltimore-MD-21211/36479517_zpid/

This is in my neighborhood. Same housing stock, although the layout is a bit different in this one. We paid $235 for ours in 2021. This one seems like a bargain at $180.

Walking distance to the light rail, 95 bus. Either of those should get you to the MARC.

I love the neighborhood, too. Super quiet, yet close to a lot of things.

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If nextdoor has taught me anything certain people can live in the most remote part of the county and still never, ever feel safe if there's even so much as a rumor of a crime in the area.

I get the turn signals thing completely. Not sure why it's so hard to use.

Guilford

Here is a non-paywalled story.

>A report identifies 115 priests in MD diocese who were prosecuted for or have been credibly accused of sexually abusing more than 600 kids.

For those still a member of the catholic church, why? Do you actively support pedophiles or do you pretend your membership in the organization is somehow not doing that?

interesting, but i feel like it's incorporated too much trendy finishes into the work done on the interior. trends change and all of those severe tiles choices, over-the-top open plan, and quick-flip grey interior accents are going to date it terribly, and anyone looking in that price range is going to be critical of those choices

be very curious to see how close they come to the asking price

It pisses me off that the developers have had the thing since 2016 and just kinda refuse to actually you know, develop it.

In Olney MD three historic homes were burned after the developers were told they could not plow them down to build their housing project or strip shopping centers. Funny how mother nature seems to always favor crass commercialism.

Not far from this venerable old Baltimore building, the St Vincent Orphanage was demolished, one weekend by a developer. Naturally city hall was silent.

If people actually mean they'd prefer police reform when they say "defund" or "ACAB," then they can say that. Christ, that is such a cop-out (excuse the pun).

Because if I read between the lines, I personally look at the meaning behind them as, at best, wholly impractical, and at worst, an ideological purity test. This is why so little movement has been had in police reform... most people take this idea at face value. We don't need extremes to solve this problem. What's more is that these supposed slogans aren't really addressed to the people who need convincing. Just like conservatives, liberals and progressives do a whole shit-ton of ideological pandering.

Solidly $200 right now

This type of negative mindset comes from people who like a 6 lane raceway, with chain commercial box stores up against that roadway, and cardboard houses behind the commercial blight. No building in Lutherville, built in the last 110+ yrs has artistic merit. All those "educated people" and not an artistic one in the bunch.

Math music. Like using a bunch of random odd time signatures.

e.g. The Dillinger Escape Plan.

Ravage Deli on Bel Air rd is solid.

Good to know, thank you_

Magerks has the best cheesesteaks around these parts

>Comments about the “the transient nature” of apartment living are revealing, as is the exclusionary notion of trains and apartments bringing “riffraff” from the city

Ahh stay classy suburbanites stay classy.

Also that area is fucking filled with apartments already, but I guess the 'right' kind of people live in those...

> but rather reforming them to where they're virtually unrecognizable from who they are now. Even if you're ideologically lazy with all the "ACAB" nonsense,

It would be far less work just to internally read ACAB as 'all cops are badly in need of reform' than to try to parse a meaningful ideological difference between your stated position and the one you're trying to dunk on.

The fight I remember in DC was also over a bike lane installation. Though DC also has Sunday double parking privileges for the churches. Think of came out that Black Churches were filing a number of challenges across the city over street redesigns.

I think something similar happened in Atlanta, though it was a Black church in a poor black neighborhood. Their argument was 'This money would be better spent in targeted social services than removing street parking the neighborhood wants', which I think it's completely fair

I hadn't thought about congregation members moving out of neighborhoods local to their church but commuting back to it on Sundays - it would also explain the big fight here in Baltimore a few years back between Fountain Baptist Church and the city over a bike lane removing street parking spots in front of the church on Monument St.

What's funny is that both of these instances are in neighborhoods that aren't gentrifying. As far as I can tell, no major development is bringing more people (and cars) to Lafayette Square, and that stretch of E Monument St isn't being redeveloped at all.

If the democrats supported unions, then they would have let the collective bargaining process work out instead of basically forcing the workers to accept the owner's proposal. The pay bump was agreed on, but the workers wanted more time off, and they really didn't get that. But the politicians and news media played it as a win win.

FYI the fishmongers are back now at the new Lexington Market if you ever get the urge to DIY.

TIL “Count von Count” is an actual band out of Delaware.