moderndukes t1_ja5xdwr wrote on February 27, 2023 at 2:04 AM

Reply to comment by TTTriad in Family hoping to move to Baltimore, what's the vibe? by Ephesossh

> I’m not sure exactly how you determined Baltimore would be any safer a place to raise your children

I believe they mean raise them in a place that doesn’t have book bans and a litany of other personal autonomy issues. The grander Balt-Wash area also has far more opportunities in it than St Louis has.

Also re: that park in St Louis, Patterson Park from end-to-end is just over half a mile; Forest Park in STL is around 2 miles wide. To be fair though, not a lot of cities have parks that massive, and places like Philly, Baltimore, and DC do have decent river-valley parks on their falls lines which are nice.

I think something that folks from other parts of the country might be surprised by is free museums here. Walters, BMA, and the Smithsonian museums in DC are all free, and as someone who grew up here I didn’t realize that was rare.

TTTriad t1_ja5ym8g wrote on February 27, 2023 at 2:13 AM

Thanks for that tip and the info. Definitely open to any more information you might have on the museums and uncommon knowledge you have gathered.

Capital_Cat21211 t1_ja62nbi wrote on February 27, 2023 at 2:46 AM

The American visionary arts museum here, while not free, I think was just named one of the top museums in the nation. It's a treasure - art by untrained artists.