I mean, you would be missing out on a lot of the benefits of Baltimore, but just from your description, it doesn't sound like you'd really enjoy city living.

If you'd like to try it, maybe rent an air bnb in a neighborhood in baltimore for 2 weeks before you commit to a long-term rental. See how you do with the space, the parking, the walking, etc. before you commit.

You’ll never go to the inner harbor area/live there unless there’s a specific event going on. The in city areas “near” the harbor are fells point, federal hill, harbor East and further back Canton.

Not the person you replied to, but I recently moved from the city to Towson/Timonium. I like that my new house has more space, a garage, a big yard, and is handicap-accessible, which is the reason why we moved at all. It was impossible to find wheelchair- friendly homes in the city after looking for 6+ months. This area offered a compromise, where we are close (5-15m drive) to young people (given Towson U), restaurants, shopping, and parks, but there are no sidewalks or public transit, and few opportunities to meet new people organically. We have to be intentional about planning outings and activities.

We used to live in Butchers Hill (10+ years) and loved it and I miss it. Being next to Patterson Park was fantastic. Could walk to a ton of restaurants, a brewery, lots of cute, local shops, hopkins hospital, and conveniently located in between UMMC and Bayview hospital. I used to work at both and for years took the bus to work. Butchers Hill has a lot of young families and health care professionals and scientists. I had a kid while living there and made many friends with other families just by walking around, going to community events, and hanging out at the park. It was also MUCH easier to find full day, accredited, reliable childcare in the city than in the suburbs.

I suggest you give city life a try. The suburbs will be there later, if you'd like to reconsider or your life circumstances change, as it happened to us.

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