My family just fled here from tallahassee, florida for a better place to raise our kids in terms of lgbt treatment, more liberal politics generally, and better attitude towards diversity.

Baltimore certainly has its issues but it also has lots of beauty, tons to do, it relatively cheap for the northeast, has lots of friendly people and is light years ahead of florida on the issues we care about.

for us its an enormous improvement from the southeast. Honestly we lived in Chicago for over a decade and it feels more liberal here to me (which may be because I’m originally from the northeast and always felt some cultural mismatch in the Midwest and a huge cultural alienation from the Deep South)

Ps feel free to message me if you want.

Edit: we have found it to be a more family friendly city than Chicago was. Lots of kids in the area we live.