Most young people relocating to Baltimore are only told that 3 neighborhoods exist:
Canton
Fells Point
Federal Hill
There are others!
Well, this is just not their fault. Many people move to Baltimore with only very cursory knowledge of the city or area. It is sad to see them relying on websites and talk forums in which the city boosters or haters are predominant.
Like most cities, Baltimore has a mix of good neighborhoods, bad neighborhoods, and in-betweens.
If you're moving to Baltimore, you kinda have to hook up with a native who knows their way around (someone like me!). Otherwise, you'll be spending a lot of time wandering abaout and being fooled
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For people who're concerned about security Locus Point is a great neighborhood to live in. It's got water on three sides and Federal Hill on the other, so the hoodlums from bad neighborhoods normally don't make it all the way down there. It also has the advantage of being relatively close to Fed Hill, but with enough distance between them that you don't have to deal with all the bar related nonsense.
Thanks, P!
I did assist one young couple who relocated here, and they ended up renting a house on Fort Avenue, right on the cusp of South Baltimore, Locust Point and Federal Hill. (Of course, until Locust Point got a cachet, everybody wanted to call everything down there "Federal Hill"). They were very close to Riverside Park, I95, and yet could still walk to the Federal Hill bars and restaurants. They were happy. She had a couple of horror stories to tell about attempts to find places on their own and ending up west of Hanover Street with some strange landlord.
All house-buying and renting is full of tradeoffs.
Locust Point is good for the reasons you cite, but traffic and location aren't real good for someone who works, in , say, Towson or JHU Homewood. And it's a fair walk to work downtown--unless you take the "safe and reliable" MTA bus.
Good point about traffic. It's probably going to become even worse once that huge condo building is complete, since as far as I can tell Fort Ave. will remain the only way to get in & out of there. Of course, if you work to the South of B'more and need easy access to I-95 then the location is awesome.
I agree; the couple I mentioned: one works in Annapolis, and the guy had to work at the Brandon Shores power plant in AA. So, it worked for them.
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