Moved to butchers hill 15 years ago from chicago. We were in our 20s, loved patterson park, and being walkable to fells point. Now 3 kids later happy to report our local public school is truly amazing (and about to go through a $48 million upgrade). If you’ve never done city life, Baltimore is a great place to try it out. Super friendly people and relatively affordable. Our area is very walkable with a ton of waterfront paths and many restaurants and bars between fells, canton, and highlandtown.

Yes

You’re missing the other solution: tax the rich and provide Nordic level of welfare to families. Current system is woefully inadequate and leaves poorest families out entirely in a number of programs. By the way, this is the same answer to the question of how to ameliorate food deserts.

The coffee shop in the four seasons - done in when the atlas thing metastasized - was the dopest.