Recent comments in /f/baltimore

TrhwWaya t1_ja5l2f4 wrote

Used horizon Roofing both times.

After purchase, had a new rubber roof but it needed light touch ups and ultimately a new redo of a section of my upper roof with some kind of resealing around my hvac unit. Then 10 years later needed this:

Clean Roof of all Debris. Repair & Reseal Front Eaves Elevations. Install New Metal at Front Eaves Detail. Repair & Seal all Roof Penetrations. Make Field & Seam Repairs with Roofing Cement & Tape Apply a Silver Aluminum Coating to all Horizontal and Vertical Roofing Surfaces at a rate of 1.5 gallons per 100 sq. ft Redo section of upper and lower Roof. (Sorry had this written out on another location and don't have specs handy) Seal and Secure Properly. Final job site clean-up.

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Smirkin2408 t1_ja5j83l wrote

My family just fled here from tallahassee, florida for a better place to raise our kids in terms of lgbt treatment, more liberal politics generally, and better attitude towards diversity.

Baltimore certainly has its issues but it also has lots of beauty, tons to do, it relatively cheap for the northeast, has lots of friendly people and is light years ahead of florida on the issues we care about.

for us its an enormous improvement from the southeast. Honestly we lived in Chicago for over a decade and it feels more liberal here to me (which may be because I’m originally from the northeast and always felt some cultural mismatch in the Midwest and a huge cultural alienation from the Deep South)

Ps feel free to message me if you want.

Edit: we have found it to be a more family friendly city than Chicago was. Lots of kids in the area we live.

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Ephesossh OP t1_ja5gl2t wrote

Yeah I definitely felt like "ah this is familiar" looking at the city. And for what it's worth, Missouri only legalized weed last year and we had to duke it out between three ballot provisions, one of which was literally "give this guy Brad control over all the weed"

Thanks! I know it ain't a liberal paradise, but we don't wanna move to Fire Country California or to some uppity rich northeastern enclave

Edit: someone reached out to me to say that "uppity" is a racially coded term? I just meant uptight NIMBY folks lol

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needleinacamelseye t1_ja5fyxa wrote

You'll find that St Louis and Baltimore have an awful lot in common - both are largely-poor, largely-black cities with declining populations that are politically separate from the suburban jurisdictions that surround them. I've never been to St Louis, but I've heard that it kinda feels like Baltimore - lots of brick houses from the 19th century, fairly low outside of the central business district, whole sections of town that are full of dilapidated buildings slowly reverting to empty lots, the highest rates of lead paint contamination in the country, a fair number of really nice neighborhoods that surprise out-of-town visitors expecting Fallujah-on-the-Mississippi/Patapsco, etc.

At the state level, the good news is that Maryland is overwhelmingly Democratic, meaning that abortion bans, book bans, etc generally don't fly here. That doesn't mean the rest of the state cares all that much more about Baltimore than Missouri does about St Louis, though. There is a fair amount of animosity towards Baltimore City from the surrounding counties - it's a popular whipping boy on subjects from policing to schools to crime to government corruption. Maryland is very, very blue, but it's not particularly progressive. Moderate Democrats are the order of the day around here, and liberal policy goals tend to lag here despite how overwhelmingly Democratic the vote is. (We only just legalized weed last year, for instance.) If you're looking for liberal paradise, this is not your state; if you're looking for a fairly well-governed state that leans left but not overwhelmingly so, Maryland will be a good fit.

edit: department of redundancy department calling

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HenriettaHiggins t1_ja5fpv0 wrote

You’re leaving Missouri because you feel unsafe and your best option is …Baltimore? Where the public schools can’t afford air conditioning? Not Portland or SF or Boston or Austin? I mean don’t get me wrong we are rounding a decade here and there’s plenty of good, but Baltimore has no infrastructure for protecting anyone because there’s such willfully inappropriate spending, and we are literally a case study of redlining with national attention for police corruption. I don’t think the specific issues you’re citing are better here. I mean I grew up riding the bus with the daughter of the local grand wizard. Maryland has some liberals, but we are palpably the northern most historically southern (as in south of the mason dixon line) state. Edit: “southern”

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Roasted_Butt t1_ja5cd09 wrote

21202 here. On Comcast. Wish I could switch to Verizon FIOS, but they won’t expand here. Tried T-mobile home 5G, but can’t get a strong signal in our rowhome. Stuck with Comcast’s crappy 40mbps down (on average).

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