We literally spent 12.5k on a new roof for a single family home. 30k for a townhome is BONKERS

Thanks for that

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Yep, I go to slightly-upstate NY about 6x/year, always get my amtraks about a month in advance (or longer). Usually ends up being about 90$ round trip for BWI to Croton-Harmon.

I'm in the same zip code you mentioned, and my internet drops for a few hours every once in a while (I'd estimate once per month). And I don't even work from home, so it probably happens more often than that and I just don't notice

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The city's MBE/WBE office may be able to point you in the right direction.

https://mwbd.baltimorecity.gov/

https://www.baltimoredevelopment.com/doing-business/doing-business

Also, check out Baltimore EcoMap. It's a website/hub of resources for entrepreneurs.

https://baltimore.ecomap.tech/

I’m just saying that regardless of where the region was grouped 150-250+ years ago, that today is not the same.

> the enormous number of confederate flags in the schools in western maryland/Frederick co and on the shore

I grew up on the Shore and have zero clue what you’re talking about.

Also, you can find Confederate flags in NY. You can even find them in Canada - people who fly them aren’t always thinking about Southern pride…… And although biggest in the South, the Klan wasn’t just a Southern thing - like they had a big presence in the Midwest and failed in spreading more around Boston because they’re anti-Catholic (like, funding the Calles government in Mexico in a civil war because of laws against the Catholic Church, or their campaigns against Al Smith, JFK, and Biden).

> Our public high school vehemently referred to the civil war as a war of northern economic aggression, all the way through AP US history. That, to me, is a meaningful and modern reflection of values and ideals in the state that wouldn’t be common in most of the north east.

Yeah that wouldn’t be a thing in Maryland. You might hear some people say “the War of Northern Aggression” in certain places but, growing up on the Eastern Shore, it always sounded slightly unserious and we were never taught the Lost Cause narrative in school.

Hmm ok. At this point it may even be worth it to just get both for a month and cancel one or the other depending on how 5G goes. I just don't want to cancel comcast now only to find out 5G is no good for me.

Big same, I have nothing but praise for them.

Granted, I've only replaced my roof once, and it's a shingled roof on a cape cod in the county, but the whole process was easy, the pricing was transparent, the actual new roof was about six hours start to finish in one day, and I didn't find so much as a splinter in my yard afterward.

I'm slightly less impressed with the gutter team, but not so much I wouldn't contact them again, frankly.

It's ridiculous that it's legal and has been going on for so long.

I'm on the east end of Pigtown and switched to T-Mobile over a year ago. It's been stellar! I also work from home most days. I think I pay $50/mo all inclusive.

Oh, I agree. I should have just kept it short and said Comcast is scamming everyone. Easy to do when you're effectively the only game in town for the majority of the population.

Yeah it's just I don't know how it is in my specific location since it depends on proximity to a 5G tower. I'm asking around to see if anyone has it near me. I work from home 80% of the time so I need it to be reliable. One thing about comcast, as evil as they are with price gouging, I've literally never had an issue with outages or reliability. I know many other people have, so maybe I'm lucky I don't know.

Yeah, I don't know, it's not so much the equipment I'm worried about. I'm using the same modem I've used for years (at least 7?) and my speed is fine. I don't game or anything but I do stream netflix/whatever but I've never had an issue with speed or reliability (surprisingly). I wouldn't worry about getting the best modem. I think you may only have to worry about it if you need a ton of bandwidth, like you have many household members and/or gamers.

Find a BP gas station

I teach 5th grade in Baltimore City. Make sure you get advice on which schools to apply to/contact. I’ve been in the worst of the worst and now I’m in a good school in the city. It’s still tough on a daily basis. It isn’t for the faint of heart. I love my kids and the job, but it’s never an easy pursuit.

This is an excellent, well written answer.

I only have Comcast for internet service because in 2017 I stopped buying cable tv from anyone (had FIOS at the time I canceled cable tv for good). I supply my own equipment. I'm down to 70 dollars right now. I know. I have been considering getting more Comcast services to lower my fees a bit more, but I am hesitant because of the obvious and the following:

I only got my internet equipment brand new a year ago in March, selected it based on the list supplied by Comcast, and I got what was supposedly top of the line. Figured I would get at least three years out of it! Anyway, imagine my surprise when Comcast told me via email a month ago that my equipment was obsolete. I called and asked them to explain to me how that was true and to send me the list of equipment that is compatible. They couldn't and didn't. They said the email I received was some sort of promotional email, and they removed me from that mailing list?

Did I mention that I hate Comcast?

I’m not an expert here, so I didn’t post! Do you see how that works?

So you’re broke but you’re gonna spring for the cones instead of papers? Do you know how to roll?

Congrats on the move. But this question has been asked many times. There are lots of rant threads.

I think this is something we can all agree on lol

The American visionary arts museum here, while not free, I think was just named one of the top museums in the nation. It's a treasure - art by untrained artists.

Gloria Jean Coffee Bean. Nobody's frappes taste as good as theirs.

Disney store in there too, second floor?