It is possible but depends on your age and what kind of neighborhood downtown you would enjoy.

A reverse commute from DC to Columbia would become a grind most days. The neighborhoods of federal hill or Canton or locust point in Baltimore would be doable. Federal hill is mostly younger 20 something's.

Love these no context click bait posts. Hcpss is overall pretty diverse.

If you are near route 40, there are a bunch. Goddard, celebree, la petit, Kiddie academy. If you don't want a chain, there is also little lighthouse off of St John's and Chevrolet drive. Dm me if you want more specific info.

The amount of lights on Snowden it can take 15 mins or more to go from broken land to 100. 40 has their fair share of idiots but the stretch of road from 29 to enchanted forest is pretty short.

Snowden river parkway is definitely worse than route 40 after work.

I would say the CPRA, schools are better in other parts of the county, and it is heavy on suburbia life ad nauseum (if that isnt your thing) are the only real cons. It is getting more crowded, but the traffic is still manageable compared to the rest of the dmv.

Jobs and schools will continue to make howard county desirable to the media and families.

You can try sac and soccer shots for indoor soccer leagues. I think sac plays in soccer domes and ss plays in school gyms.

Sams/BJs/Costco. No point in paying double for a sheet cake when it will be gobbled up.

I was tempted to vote for Newberger and Adler to watch it all burn.

How did that work out for Adler?

What is up with these low effort posts?

Since very little context...Columbia has Greene Turtle, Frisco tap house, Victoria gastro pub, pub dog, and nottinghams.

Ellicott City has judges bench, la palapa on main street.

Breweries include sapwood, black flag, hysteria, and manor hill.

If you just want to hang out and have a few pints, then I would go to a brewery. If you want more of a clubby atmosphere, the closest in hoco is nottinghams. If you want more of a party atmosphere then you have to go to Baltimore, dc, or Annapolis.

The only reasonable comment here.

Jailbreak, which was once quite good now stinks after their top brewers left.

Well I agree neo gets expensive fast. Neo has ok food and while the self serve beer is fun and allows you to try a lot of different beers, it gets pricey.

Not sure why people are endorsing pub dog so hard. Beer is very mediocre, but I like the pizza.

The local breweries black flag, hysteria, and sapwood are all solid.

Frisco tap house and Victoria gastro pub are good if you want a more traditional bar with lots of options.

Op you haven't given any commute parameters or pricing or whether schools are important.

Newberger is the only one worth voting for regardless of presumed partisanship by the candidates.

The transfer tax in itself is egregious.

25% increase is not significant?

What has Ball done again? Not saying Kittleman is any less useless than him, I just want to hear someone give an example?

Lol you must be confusing me with another poster. All I said he hasn't done anything besides raise taxes and no one can counter it.

Good luck buying and selling a home with transfer and recordation taxes raised during ball's administration.

I was simply countering your lazy high property taxes = good.

Raising property taxes is a short cut when you could just optimize the budget. No one could tell me what Ball has done?

This is a mostly democrat state, so really only harris deserves criticism on a state level.

Anywho, Ball and Kittleman are pretty uninteresting in terms of making hoco residents lives better. I assume Ball will win, but I have little inspiration to vote for either of them.

AA County step 4 base for teachers is actually higher than hoco. Hoco doesn't have step 1-3.

Are you going to tell me how a bill becomes a law next?

The property tax hike a few years ago supposedly went specifically to the county fire departments. Pretty significant for a recurring tax.

Baltimore city has some of the highest property taxes in the state so not sure of your point.

What has Calvin done besides raise property taxes?

I would say the ellicott city post flood process sank him 4 years ago.