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Greetings from Baltimore MD
« on: January 24, 2005, 02:14:32 PM »
Hi gang! I'm in the research stage of all this...still in the US. In love with a guy in Southampton! Learning everything I can before I make the jump across the pond. He and I just started brand new jobs, so we're hoping for our next visit to be sometime this summer. But I would feel better now that we've decided we're totally commited to each other, if I knew everything I needed to know before the fact. I've been reading alot already and am learning some. Thanks for the helpful hints. As I scrapbook, I've already kept several plane ticket stubs and am in the process of organizing pictures of the two of us. I'll keep at it, along with saving everything else from here on out! I'm so glad I found this site. Thanks!
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Re: Greetings from Baltimore MD
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2005, 02:27:15 PM »
Welcome to UKY!  The scrapbook sounds like a good idea to me especially as it will provide a history of your relationship...

I hope you enjoy the site!
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Re: Greetings from Baltimore MD
« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2005, 06:48:05 PM »
Hello and welcome!
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Re: Greetings from Baltimore MD
« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2005, 06:58:11 PM »
Welcome from another Marylander.  I'm from the other side of the Bridge and have been in the UK for 6 years.

How much snow did you get?
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Re: Greetings from Baltimore MD
« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2005, 02:19:31 PM »
hiya and welcome from yet another ex-marylander!!  (ok, i was born and raised in PA. but always considered MD more of a home!)

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Re: Greetings from Baltimore MD
« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2005, 03:54:29 PM »
Greetings,
I'm a Baltimoron.  I'm hoping to make it back to Maryland in the Spring.
It sounds like you won't be making it over to Southamption for a little while as you've got the brand new job?  I hope you enjoy your Summer visit.

Matt
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Re: Greetings from Baltimore MD
« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2005, 03:59:06 PM »
More belated greeting from another Baltimoron!  8)
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Re: Greetings from Baltimore MD
« Reply #7 on: February 01, 2005, 06:47:44 PM »
Uh guys ... don't you miss beautiful Baltimore??? [mouth wide open in utter incomprehension!]
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Re: Greetings from Baltimore MD
« Reply #8 on: February 01, 2005, 07:27:32 PM »
I don't think teutonica is being sarcastic.  Let me just point out that the redeveloped Inner Harbor area (where our other home is) can be quite pleasant, but Baltimore can be a very difficult place to live.  Baltimore with a population of about 600,000 had 278 murders last year; all of England and Wales (population 55 million?) had 878.  The TV show "Homicide" was shot (no pun) in Baltimore.  Baltimore has about 60,000 drug addicts.  The police don't have time for things like smash-and-grab crime and car theft, they devote their time to handgun crime and the chess game of the open-air drug markets.  And property taxes just went up.

I'd better stop there.  Yes, I'm fed up with Baltimore, and I'm pulling out this summer.

Good luck with your move, cdmkbm!

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Re: Greetings from Baltimore MD
« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2005, 07:36:08 PM »
nope! I wasn't! Who said so? ...  ???


When I lived in rural PA, I used to make trips to Baltimore and I really liked the city with its inner harbor area (plus you get to see one of the sister ships that took part in the Boston Tea Party, or is my memory failing me?). Yup, and I knew about the "Homicide" show too  :)
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Re: Greetings from Baltimore MD
« Reply #10 on: February 01, 2005, 11:33:58 PM »
Hi to ckmkbm from another Maryland resident-moved-to-UK!

JimH is right.  Baltimore is a touristically(is that a word?)  lovely small city, with neat history, but with very big city problems!  I worked in the public school system there for 2 years and in the Johns Hopkins ER for 5 years, and I can't go to Baltimore anymore without seeing a dying city. 
I am sorry to be negative,  there are some really beautiful areas.  and the atmosphere there is more friendly than DC.

It's definitely a different world  than Leigh-on-sea, Essex!
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Re: Greetings from Baltimore MD
« Reply #11 on: February 04, 2005, 01:29:16 PM »
Hi!  I'm in Baltimore as well.  I'm hoping to move to London this summer.

I have lived in Baltimore for 14.5 years, since I came here to attend Johns Hopkins, and I love it here.  Whereabouts in Baltimore are you?
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Re: Greetings from Baltimore MD
« Reply #12 on: February 04, 2005, 03:23:31 PM »
Baltimore is great!  Yeah, there're quite a few homicides, arson incidents, crime, but lots of cities have these problems.  DC's just as bad for homicides I believe.

I wouldn't call Baltimore a small city, nor would I call it a very large city.  It's more medium sized.
Coastal cities are the best anyway.  Imagine living in a city thousands of miles from the Ocean - couldn't do it!

Matt
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Re: Greetings from Baltimore MD
« Reply #13 on: February 04, 2005, 07:24:41 PM »
MattJ--when I first saw your username, I thought you might be my brother!  He is Matt J. and was born in '74.  And he's an American expat in the UK.  Weird, huh?  Further coincidence that you are from Baltimore, like me (but my brother is not).
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Re: Greetings from Baltimore MD
« Reply #14 on: February 04, 2005, 08:46:11 PM »
Could we not turn this into a Baltimore bashing session please? For pete's sake. Most large American cities have big crime problems. And frankly I felt safer walking at night in B'more than I do in, say, Newcastle city centre. The binge drinking culture is out of hand. The crime in B'more is usually confined to certain areas. In England, you can get physically assaulted, puked on, or verbally harrassed just going out for dinner on a Saturday night in the 'touristy' area.

My point? All places have their problems and I don't think Welcome Wagon is the place to discuss them.
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