Posted on 06/08/2009 5:08:47 PM PDT by FromLori
If anything, The Wire makes it seem better than it is.
We recently had the chance to visit Baltimore, Maryland to see a baseball game. And though the stadium is very nice, we came off thinking that in a sense the HBO show The Wire, actually makes Baltimore seem better than it really is. Because if you watched The Wire, you might conclude that all the messed up parts were confined to some section of the city, rather than the whole thing itself. But it's really all pretty miserable. We regret not putting it on our list of depressing cities.
Even downtown by day is pretty sad, given the prominence of once-glorious money manager Legg Mason (LM). And then at night it's just kind of miserable.
Anyway, we're not the only ones with no interest in The Charm City.
peHUB posts a copy of a letter to the editor from New Enterprise Ventures, a VC firm that's moving out of Baltimore. This part is particularly rich:
Our decision was a result of the high level of crime in our neighborhood. Over the last several years, many of our cars have been broken into resulting in very expensive repairs, our employees have been robbed at gun point, drug needles and used condoms have been left on our front stoop, and psychotic homeless people have menaced our employees and threatened to kill them. We have voiced our frustrations to the local community leaders and police, but the environment has only worsened. The recent local beatings by roving teenagers during the day in this neighborhood, the raucous club in the basement of the Belvedere, and other gang violence throughout the city reinforces the appropriateness of New Enterprise Associates’ decision to move in order to protect its employees.
Yeesh!
All joking aside, it really is tragic, since on the surface there's no reason the city needed to be that bad. It's got a beautiful spot on the water, in what should be a successful Eastern Seaboard state. And unlike Detroit, it wasn't married to a single industry that got absolutely gutted over the past several years. Why do we keep losing our cities? It's an embarrassment.
Wow—the correct answer in just one post. Well done!
We keep losing our cities to barbarians because we as a country have lost our will to address the isues of crime and violence and have made it an issue of race rather than an issue of criminality.
Portland Maine a beautiful city on the water just hired a new police chief who said he wanted to help contain the gangs. CONTAIN. Why would Portland Maine want to give any sort of residence to this sort of criminal infestation is beyond my comprehension. One eradicates criminals and their behaviors. One makes them want to leave the state. In this way one protects one’s citizens. In thirty years Portland will become like all the other cities in the country...overrun with barbarians.
I’m a bit stunned to learn he is the Dean of a law school especially since he called for the legalization of marijuana while mayor.
I now live in Alabama but thoroughly enjoyed my time in Ft. Worth. I lived for a short time in Austin and did not like it. It was much too liberal for me.
You’ll take a ribbing over your “Bawlmer” accent but I ‘spect you’ll come to love Texas. Lots to see and do there.
Thanks. I’m not surprised he is still a topic of conversation.
I have only been to Baltimore once and that was for a week 50 years ago. It didn’t look very good to me then, I’d hate to think how it must look now.
I know that Austin is very liberal. I frequent a tavern by BWI and have met many Southwest Airline flight attendants from Texas. I hear Dallas/Ft. Worth is nice and have heard good things about Amarillo and Lubbock. One of the F.A's I met is from Amarillo and she makes fun of my accent, but I don't get mad at her - she's just way too cute!
Too bad...when I first went to Baltimore in 1976 the Convention Center was being patrolled by two man police teams with dogs and leaving you hotel was a scary experience. When I came back in the mid 1980s the Inner Harbor area was a show place although just outside that area was still a combat zone. Apparently the hoodlums have again taken over.
I agree criminality is the point. However as long as we can not address race this will not change. The fact that certain races commit proportionally way more crime either is addressed head on or we just sit back and continue down this path to national suicide and let the country be destroyed. Race IS an issue and not just with crime. 40-50 years of pretending it is not has brought us to today.
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.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
You don't have a clue..where do you live...Portland Maine...lol..is that right?
Come to Detriot, Baltimore, Jackson MS, Birmingham, Miami, Memphis, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Chicago, Philly, parts of NYC, Wash DC, New Orleans, Houston, Dallas, Nashville, Charlotte, Richmond, St Louis, Denver etc etc and stay a while and get and get a dose of the real world and then try to tell us living this crap of anti-white crime that the large presence of certain folks that are not non-hispanic white don't matter....and then try to tell it's poverty's fault too
and for God's sake on a conservative forum
I’m not familiar with that particular town. My Mom lives in Ocean Pines (Berlin) and I visit there from Nashville whenever possible.
And the current populace of Baltimore is what put them all in charge at the top all over, this time. Never mind it’s what they keep voting in all the time everywhere.
Come to Detriot, Baltimore, Jackson MS, Birmingham, Miami, Memphis, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Chicago, Philly, parts of NYC, Wash DC, New Orleans, Houston, Dallas, Nashville, Charlotte, Richmond, St Louis, Denver etc etc and stay a while and get and get a dose of the real world and then try to tell us living this crap of anti-white crime that the large presence of certain folks that are not non-hispanic white don’t matter....and then try to tell it’s poverty’s fault too
and for God’s sake on a conservative forum
What on earth are you talk ing about. I am saying that we have let the barbarians take over. I said nothing about poverty. We are not allowed to discuss the race and the hate. We are not allowd to talk about the gangs except in general terms. I have lost my hometown city to gangs years ago. It is our fault as a people black and white for the barbarian takeover of our city. The black on white crime is terrible and the black on black crime is alsor horrific. At some point in every city, the barbarians have to be stopped or they win.
You made the claim it’s about crime and not race. I beg to differ.
Those of us living it know better.
Whites are not preying on anyone in any numbers that matter.
Heh. Fells Point was a little seedy 25 years ago, too. Lived once on St. Paul about that time. Beer was .25 a glass at the North Side Bar & Lounge.
Why do we keep losing our cities?
Because the PC mindset has empowered Racist blacks and put them in power instead of in Prison.
<<< ...it wasn’t married to a single industry that got absolutely gutted over the past several years. >>>
the author does not know baltimore that well. the BK of bethlehem steel at sparrows point probably put 10,000 out of work.
the gm plant that made gm minivans closed because gm got out of the minivan business.
So if you were staying in the Inner Harbor area, it would not be advisable to walk to Camden Yard for a baseball game?
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