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kosherkenny t1_j5jay2i wrote

Hey there! My partner and I bought in Bolton Hill this past year and have been absolutely loving it! We made the move from fed hill, where we had lived for a couple of years. Fed became way too crazy for us, and we've been loving the quietness of BH. We're in the area you've been looking in, and honestly we haven't had any issues. We frequent the liquor store nearby in the bottom of the Marlboro, and we frequently walk to on the Hill cafe. We also attend various community activities that have us out at night with no problems.

The worst thing I've personally seen in the area is a very obviously high guy who was just kind of talking to himself/things, saw a cat and made pspspsp noises at it to say hi and kept walking.

As a woman, you already know the dangers of being basically anywhere. IME I've had less issues with street harassment in Baltimore than the suburbs I lived in previously, so take that as you will. Just be smart.

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CaptainObvious110 t1_j5mj13k wrote

How did Federal hill get too crazy?

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kosherkenny t1_j5nqvsx wrote

Little things that just added up, honestly. The shitty drunken antics of people in the area, the drivers, guys driving their motorcycles into the park blaring music, the BGE road construction that always seemed to be only in the road we lived on, the package thieves. My partner's car was sideswiped in a hit and run as it was parked right outside of the house. I was t-boned by someone doing close to 60 in a 25 right by the house after getting home from work. The day we were moving things out for donation pickup, kids in full masks and a golf club walked by that just so happened to be the ones that tried to carjack my partner a year prior. About 15 mins later they robbed someone and broke into a car a street away.

Just shit like that all the time. It became a "what shitty thing is going to happen today?" kind of area for us.

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