[MontaniSemperLiberi]

Medical around Johns Hopkins. The company probably took advantage of a tax break offered to companies to move near JH in a run down neighborhood. I’m sure what they found is that a tax break isn’t worth a high cost of living and high crime south west of the hospital.

[Godwin1]

The problems of a one party liberal city. And there is the racial factor. Too many of the city's residents consciously embrace a dysfunctional way of life. Drugs, promiscuity, parental irresponsibility,municipal corruption, refusal to perform in school, tolerance for violent crime, blaming others for their failures. The decay happened in Detroit and Gary, Indiana. The subculture makes the south side of Chicago unlivable. No amount of money, no program of handouts, can solve this problem, which is essentially a sickness of the soul. So sad.

[EDINVA]

My sons spent a few months at Hopkins ... incredible institution in the most unfortunate location. The hospital staff warns patients’ visitors to have an escort when leaving the premises.

We stayed at a home for family of pediatric patients, half block from the main entrance .. you could literally see the place from that entrance... but they would not let us walk it alone, always had to have a uniformed escort. Just so sad.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Actually, not just Johns Hopkins. Baltimore is still the center of the medical universe. You can’t get better than being really ill here.

The good side to the crime is that I guess Hopkins and MD and all the others get lots of practice treating potentially mortal injuries.