“Another more debatable explanation would be that millionaires have simply fled the Free State.”
....my wife and I have a solid 7 figure net worth and fled Howard County in 1995...we felt it would only get worse because of the path Baltimore was on...that city will leech prosperity from the rest of the state...
I am very conflicted about Maryland. I'm a Frederick County native from the northwest corner of the county, about as redneck as it gets. My father still owns the house he was born in, and I will one day inherit it. I will have the chance to see one of my sons (and, God willing, some of my grandchildren) living on the same patch of ground and in the same house that the family will have owned for five generations...
...and it's in !*$&%* Maryland.
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