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TurboKinny
08-30-2009, 07:04 PM
Next semester for school.

Any COGers live there than can give me the real info on where to live/where to avoid? Or even just anybody that has visited there that will tell me how awesome the city is and how much I'll love it? :)
Sandman
08-30-2009, 07:10 PM
Watch The Wire. :)
Aggort
08-30-2009, 07:14 PM
Seconding of Watching of the Wire!
TurboKinny
08-30-2009, 07:14 PM
No! I refuse to watch The Wire! I don't want to get scared off before I even move :p
Jason
08-30-2009, 07:15 PM
I've only been to Baltimore once and didn't get to see much of it. Good luck and I hope you enjoy it.
diablopath
08-30-2009, 07:19 PM
Graduate school, TK?
What is your pursuit!?
Mike Kelehan
08-30-2009, 07:20 PM
I've lived here all my life and can't think of anything you NEED to try.
TurboKinny
08-30-2009, 07:22 PM
Graduate school, TK?
What is your pursuit!?I'm working on my Masters in History, Public History track, emphasis on 20th century American history, women and marginalized cultures. I'm at WSU right now but will be transferring to UMBC :)
diablopath
08-30-2009, 07:24 PM
Sounds awesome. I imagine it's a pretty nice offer for you to up and move across the country.

...again.
TurboKinny
08-30-2009, 07:32 PM
Sounds awesome. I imagine it's a pretty nice offer for you to up and move across the country.

...again.You have no idea :p

Without going into much detail (you never know who is looking around the internets!) with my end goal being to work in museums, it makes much more sense geographically to be in Baltimore than middle-of-nowhere Pullman. I'm not looking forward to moving, though, nor leaving the awesome people I've already met in just the two weeks I've been here :(
wyeast
08-30-2009, 07:43 PM
But.... you just got here? :confused: :(

I have a friend who lived in B-more for years. I can ask her if you need ideas for neighborhoods. :)
divinechaos
08-30-2009, 07:54 PM
Next semester for school.

Any COGers live there than can give me the real info on where to live/where to avoid? Or even just anybody that has visited there that will tell me how awesome the city is and how much I'll love it? :)

Definitely visit the Aquarium, kind of pricey but it's got some nice water-animal-things. Also, if you're into that kind of thing, the Baltimore Warehouse parties are "the shit" or so I'm told.

I've only been there once to see Bang Camaro so I don't know enough to give you a tour but I CAN tell you that there is a yearly gathering of GoGers in the DC/VA/MD area and that you should be there because now you can.
CappinCanuck
08-30-2009, 08:08 PM
Go visit Duff at Charm City Cakes :D. I totally would heh.
TurboKinny
08-30-2009, 08:15 PM
Go visit Duff at Charm City Cakes :D. I totally would heh.Dude, I want to be best friends with Mary-Alice! hehe
Shadowstorm
08-30-2009, 08:25 PM
Thirding the suggestion to watch The Wire. One of the best shows ever to hit television.

Good luck and have fun moving :).
zarathstra
08-30-2009, 08:29 PM
Watch the Wire, fourthed.

I haven't lived in Baltimore for years and years, so I don't have much advice. I can tell you this: some neighborhoods are really, really, really bad. Be careful.
Psykoboy2
08-30-2009, 08:37 PM
Make it five...

Watch the Wire. I don't know what that would have to do with anything you are asking, but watch it anyway.
cp#
08-30-2009, 09:02 PM
Got dem red tops!

2 for 1
Generation ABXY
08-30-2009, 09:07 PM
I've lived here all my life and can't think of anything you NEED to try.

I'm with him. I've lived in Maryland almost my entire life, and I can only think of a few things worth seeing in the whole blasted state. If you're into that sort of thing, you likely won't regret a trip to the aquarium. But, apart from that, I try to stay out of Baltimore as much as possible – as someone else said, there are some pretty bad areas.

Still, good luck and I hope you enjoy your time here. :)
civil
08-30-2009, 09:16 PM
Sweet mother of Jeebus TK, what the hell? I know you've got some creepy internet stalkers (I'm looking at you wyeast!) but to have to move so often because of them?

You must have some serious mojo. ;)

So is this a permanent move or for the semester? Wait, on second thought don't answer that. You never know who's reading this (still look at you wyeast!).
TurboKinny
08-30-2009, 09:22 PM
So is this a permanent move or for the semester? Wait, on second thought don't answer that. You never know who's reading this (still look at you wyeast!).For the next year and a half, at least. Maybe longer if I find a job there after I'm done :) I'd like to end up back on the west coast eventually, though.
BrassGecko
08-30-2009, 09:27 PM
Find and eat Berger Cookies!
civil
08-30-2009, 09:33 PM
Yeow, so it is a "real" move. Damn, you're doing your best to confound the FBI. That makes sense though. In the US, if you're serious about museum work the DC area is the place to be.

I'll also throw in love for the Wire, easily the best drama I've ever come across - maybe even TV show period (though some British sitcoms steal my heart). Johns Hopkins was actually a school I was considering applying to for next fall...until we watched the Wire, oddly enough. :o So yeah, don't watch it. Yet.
cp#
08-30-2009, 09:38 PM
Got that WMD!
civil
08-30-2009, 09:41 PM
Oops. Sorry cp#, forgot to give you props for the references.

When Bodie died, a piece of me died with him.
TurboKinny
08-30-2009, 09:45 PM
Johns Hopkins was actually a school I was considering applying to for next fall...until we watched the Wire, oddly enough. :o So yeah, don't watch it. Yet.Don't go to John's Hopkins!! http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=649
wyeast
08-31-2009, 01:14 AM
Sweet mother of Jeebus TK, what the hell? I know you've got some creepy internet stalkers (I'm looking at you wyeast!) but to have to move so often because of them?

You must have some serious mojo. ;)

So is this a permanent move or for the semester? Wait, on second thought don't answer that. You never know who's reading this (still look at you wyeast!).

Oi! :mad:

:o
Kenturion
08-31-2009, 02:34 AM
Find and eat Berger Cookies!

Seconded! And so you know what to look for:

http://dcist.com/attachments/dcist_ari/2006_1119_BergerCookies.jpg
civil
08-31-2009, 05:09 AM
Don't go to John's Hopkins!! http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=649
Damn straight!
NotJeff
08-31-2009, 05:18 AM
Don't go to John's Hopkins!! http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=649

Aw, I went to Hopkins.

Kinny, if you have more specific questions, PM me, I did live there for 4 years and then visit frequently for a few more. I know much more about stuff around JHU Homewood than UMBC, though.
Shadowstorm
08-31-2009, 07:19 AM
When Bodie died, a piece of me died with him.

That scene was intense.
civil
08-31-2009, 07:35 AM
One of many deaths that struck like a motherfucker. Still, the one that got to me most - and probably ranks as my favorite scene in a television series ever - is Snoop's death.
cppcrusader
08-31-2009, 07:46 AM
I used to go to Baltimore every year for Games Day back in high school. I've got quite a few stories from those days, the majority of which are from the first trip in which we ended up spending the night stranded in the parking lot of a school in the middle of the ghetto.

I will say this about that town, they have the friendliest homeless population. One guy who asked us for some change ended up telling us where exactly not to go, that guy ended up getting roughly somewhere between $20-30 from us after that.
Voodoo
08-31-2009, 08:42 AM
Don't go to John's Hopkins!! http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=649
LOL! That comic is pretty awesome. Yeah, like NotJeff, I went to Johns Hopkins too. Baltimore - quite the experience - but pretty different from when I was there (1991-1995).
Mike Kelehan
08-31-2009, 02:56 PM
UMBC is a good school. I went to UMD's College Park campus (the one where muting the TV during a football game does you no good because the stadium is right outside the window), but I've got lots of friends who went to UMBC. Maryland has a good university system, and you'll be glad to be a part of it.
inmostlight
08-31-2009, 06:01 PM
I live in DC, but still travel up to Baltimore for various things and to visit friends. (It's like maybe a 40-minute drive, tops.) Many good suggestions already, so I'll just throw in some I haven't seen listed:

American Visionary Arts Museum (http://www.avam.org/) - coolest damn museum in the area. Outsider art, mechanical contraptions, sculptures by schizophrenics, etc. Wonderful and quirky, with an amazing gift shop too. They have many neat events, like a yearly "Kinetic Art Race" where teams build and race sculptures over both land and water. Photos I took from the 2008 race here (http://picasaweb.google.com/arixey/2008KineticArtRace)

Sound Garden (http://www.cdjoint.com/) in Fells Point. I can't go to Baltimore without stopping here (and it's usually the main reason I go). Massive, great selection of used and new music, dvds, video games, etc. There are lots of other neat little shops and restaurants in the Fells Point area, and sometimes you'll wander into something weird like a pirate festival, complete with naval battles.

That's all I can remember off the top of my head right now. I'm still not an expert on that city, only certain areas...