What you really need to know about Baltimore, from a reporter who’s lived there for over 30 years

For the past 30 years I have called this hometown of this city. Baltimore is always a combination of poverty, crime and despair, anxiety and rich history, friendly people, outstanding facilities, and rich old money. The pockets are lining up.

Baltimore Airport BWI is about 15 minutes south of the city center. Everyone in the Mid-Atlantic region will be 15 minutes south of Baltimore and 30 minutes north of Washington DC. The two cities are surprisingly connected and are connected by an 8 dollar train known as the Mark. I often visit Marc and visit DC, and I began to notice how the two cities are intertwined. (Their relationship is very attractive - in many respects Baltimore defines itself as anti-DC; weathered buildings, cobbled roads, old yachts will definitely be "attractive" cities But charm quickly turns into abandoned community, sinful crime, abandoned alley, hole like France in 1917 unmanned land.

Harlan, owner of Clavel and W.C., is a 30 year old former soldier who stayed in Baltimore after attending Maryland University. Most of the people I met in the town seemed to know her and I thought she was materializing Baltimore's opportunity for young entrepreneurs. "If you are a creative person, you can achieve important accomplishments in the city by doing whatever you want," Harlin told me that her success is not a happy accident It interprets it as a series of calculations. . "We do not have to need investors or become investment bankers, we will not be attracted by anyone else."

Truly, I should not be surprised. My grandmother lived in a farm in the Mississippi Delta, but she told me that she does not need to see the city as the earth and animals taught me the life I should know. Later, my Hopi mother lived in Arizona Reserve for the rest of my life, after I moved, I lived for more than 8 years. I am not saying that they are all angels. In the first town where we lived, they were known for hitting Navajos, who worked in a power station, and they earned their hardship from their back pockets on Friday night I took some money. Coke machines blowing gas stations are full of ammunition when they are not giving changes or coke they pay

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