CU_rak
July 22nd, 2006, 08:45 PM
Buying Into Baltimore
Washington Transplants Are Streaming North to Grab Budget Prices
By Eugene L. Meyer
Special to The Washington Post
Saturday, July 22, 2006; Page F01
To hear Falita Liles talk, you would think she had died and gone to heaven. But all the University of the District of Columbia librarian has done is move from Washington to Baltimore.
Thousands of Washingtonians each year are moving north from the Capital City to Charm City, attracted by cheaper housing, ethnic neighborhoods and urban amenities they say are lacking here. The ex-Washingtonians have leveraged the appreciation on their D.C. homes to buy larger and, they say, live better in Baltimore.
for the rest, see:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/21/AR2006072100663.html
This is a huge article in the WP that was stunningly PRO-BALTIMORE, showing how the city has turned the corner and how Washingtonians are moving here not only because it's cheap, but because it's a great city. Despite my usual misgivings about having Washingtonians moving to Baltimore en masse, this article gives me a lot of hope for the future of Baltimore and the entire Baltimore-Washington region. While there is usually a lot of animosity and prejudice against Baltimore published in the Washington press, this article does a lot to accurately portray the city's revival to those who still see Baltimore for what it was, not what it is becoming. Bravo to the author for giving Baltimore it's props!
I especially like the ending:
I love how colorful Baltimore is," said Vivian Campagna, 34, a former Joffrey ballet dancer, and mother of Lila, eight months. "I loved living in D.C., but people are very real here. We like that it's rough around the edges. I think it's great people still smoke in Baltimore and you see people with tattoos, not trendy kids but part of the culture."
There is, amid all the exultation over moving to Baltimore, not a sense of loss over leaving Washington but one of slight foreboding, a fear that the increasing presence of Washingtonians could cause a change for the worse. Said John Campagna, "I hope we don't ruin it by moving up here."
Washington Transplants Are Streaming North to Grab Budget Prices
By Eugene L. Meyer
Special to The Washington Post
Saturday, July 22, 2006; Page F01
To hear Falita Liles talk, you would think she had died and gone to heaven. But all the University of the District of Columbia librarian has done is move from Washington to Baltimore.
Thousands of Washingtonians each year are moving north from the Capital City to Charm City, attracted by cheaper housing, ethnic neighborhoods and urban amenities they say are lacking here. The ex-Washingtonians have leveraged the appreciation on their D.C. homes to buy larger and, they say, live better in Baltimore.
for the rest, see:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/21/AR2006072100663.html
This is a huge article in the WP that was stunningly PRO-BALTIMORE, showing how the city has turned the corner and how Washingtonians are moving here not only because it's cheap, but because it's a great city. Despite my usual misgivings about having Washingtonians moving to Baltimore en masse, this article gives me a lot of hope for the future of Baltimore and the entire Baltimore-Washington region. While there is usually a lot of animosity and prejudice against Baltimore published in the Washington press, this article does a lot to accurately portray the city's revival to those who still see Baltimore for what it was, not what it is becoming. Bravo to the author for giving Baltimore it's props!
I especially like the ending:
I love how colorful Baltimore is," said Vivian Campagna, 34, a former Joffrey ballet dancer, and mother of Lila, eight months. "I loved living in D.C., but people are very real here. We like that it's rough around the edges. I think it's great people still smoke in Baltimore and you see people with tattoos, not trendy kids but part of the culture."
There is, amid all the exultation over moving to Baltimore, not a sense of loss over leaving Washington but one of slight foreboding, a fear that the increasing presence of Washingtonians could cause a change for the worse. Said John Campagna, "I hope we don't ruin it by moving up here."