Naltimore is a hellhole toilet ghetto as bad as any area of Oakland or DC suburbs.
Baltimore is to Maryland as NYC is to upstate NY and Chicago is to downstate. Even Montgomery and PG counties are mostly pretty nice places to live but they are DC bedroom counties full of GSers and federal contractor types who cement the democrat lock in the legislature. The rest of the state is our kind of territory, or at least winnable in a good year, but it’s saddled with LeftWorld taxes, regulations and culture war nonsense driven by the politics of three counties.