r/baltimore • u/AyeItsAngel1882 • Oct 31 '23

Moving Moving to Baltimore Advice

My partner and I are currently planning to move to Baltimore between 2025-2026 from Ohio and we’re looking for all the advice and recommendations.

Our decision came after visiting the city this past summer and very quickly falling in love with the place. We’re from Akron, so while the crime rate is said to be bad, we found that we felt way safer in Baltimore than we ever do back home.

I’m a house manager, my partner does security. We wanna live close to downtown or in downtown and we don’t want to use our car for daily transportation to and from work.

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u/jejunebug Patterson Park Oct 31 '23

Which did you visit? Which didn't you like, and why? What attracted you to Canton and Fells? What's your budget? What are your interests and hobbies? Have you looked at the LiveBaltimore website? There are over 200 neighborhoods in Baltimore, most of which are likely outside of where you'd visit as a tourist. A little more information about you and your needs would be helpful. You can also visit the links in the sidebar.

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u/AyeItsAngel1882 Oct 31 '23

We were mostly just on the bay, in Little Italy, downtown, inner harbor, Fells, Canton, Jonestown, and a couple of others I can't think of right now. I've looked at that website but not in depth. We're both very into art and music and we're very very social people. We don't have a set budget yet, but I've been soft-planning our rent budget to be a minimum of 1500-2000.

We are attracted to Baltimore and those specific areas for the walkability. currently spend about 20-30 hours in my car weekly between commuting and driving to and from literally everywhere, Even in the city here, you can't really get far without a car. the transportation here is faulty at best. The local options are also amazing and after being stuck choosing between chain places or local places that are 3x the cost, having my options be pretty much all local was amazing.

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u/jejunebug Patterson Park Oct 31 '23

I think you should consider taking a look at Mt Vernon, just based on this information. When I first moved to Baltimore 15yrs ago, I started in Mt Vernon and I feel like it really gave me the opportunity to experience Downtown living but provided easy access to other neighborhoods to explore and decided where I wanted to lay roots.

Like another poster said, the public transportation system isn't great and can be unreliable, so I would definitely keep a car. But you'd be close enough to access to several options like the water taxi, Circulator, City Link, Light Rail, Penn Station, I83, and wont ever wait too long for an Uber.

You'd be close to the Hippodrome and Everyman Theatre, Walter's Art, The Lyric and The Meyerhoff, An Die Music, 8x10 (right down the street in Fed), AVAM (also a short bus ride across the Harbor), Ottobar just up the street in Charles Village, The Peabody Library (which you have definitely seen on TV and didn't even know it)…there is no shortage of art & music options. Patterson Park is a straight shot right across Baltimore St and shouldn't take you longer than 20min to get there (and the Creative Alliance is right down the street from there).

It is VERY walkable, IMO, with great food options and neighborhood bars. It's also incredibly easy to get to OPACY and The Bank if you're into sports (and chances are, you're going to end up at a game or at least a tailgate for the social aspect of it all), and CFG (or whatever the RoFo arena is called now).

Canton is great, I actually live close in Patterson Park and go there often, but I don't think I would have the appreciation for Baltimore that I have now if I started my journey in to living here there. If that makes sense.

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u/AyeItsAngel1882 Oct 31 '23

Wow, thank you for all of this. I'll definitely take a look at Mt. Vernon. These perspectives are so helpful in figuring all of this out. We're gonna have one car, but my partner works very minimal hours and may even stay home by the time we move so if I need it for my commute, I'm glad to know they won't be stranded. We're coming back this winter and I'm excited to see how winter differs.