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Snoo-Snoo2 t1_j8svc1u wrote

Mount Vernon seems like this to me? You can light rail to the airport, it's super easy to get to Fells, downtown, Fed hill, Hampden. There are some bigger buildings although Baltimore's downtown skyscrapers are gorgeous so that should hardly be a negative. And Mt Vernon itself is beautiful: old mansions and churches, the Washington monument etc.

The only downside is that it just has that one grocery store which seems... ok-ish? You have Streets in downtown not too far away and a Safeway just a bit north. And sure, you can buy houses for 360k in Baltimore.

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BilgeWalker OP t1_j8szvdz wrote

I've looked at Mount Vernon but I've had trouble finding detached homes that I could afford.

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PuebloEsNoBueno t1_j8t231r wrote

You’ll be hard pressed to find too many detached homes (come to think of it, I don’t know if I’ve ever actually seen a detached home in Mount Vernon) in that neighborhood. It’s a very dense urban neighborhood. It’s “very city”.

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someguyontheintrnet t1_j8tcp10 wrote

Baltimore is a city of row homes. There are really only detached homes far from downtown. Those areas tend to have less ‘amenities’ like rail transit, and the ones that do are more expensive. Public transportation in most places will be bus-centric.

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Snoo-Snoo2 t1_j8t1z1d wrote

There might be less stock but I think if you are looking at a 360k house in Cleveland you will find things: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/924-Stubblefield-Ln-Baltimore-MD-21202/36470655_zpid/

Another possibility is around Patterson park. I don't know what the grocery store situation is over there but you can walk to lots of great restaurants.

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ChampagneandAlpacas t1_j8u8s5k wrote

I'm a half block south of the park. Safeway is walkable for small shops, and there are at least 4 other options for groceries within a 5 min drive from my place (sprouts, harris teeter, target, whole foods). Not many detached homes here, but lots of large rowhome options!

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mobtown_misanthrope t1_j8tzfbl wrote

There are no detached homes in Mt. Vernon save a few carriage houses that definitely aren't for sale, or if they are, they're like 800sqf and half a mil.

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