Urban Discoveries Baltimore

That’s right, according to census estimates, according to the Sun, Baltimore City is getting smaller by the minute, and while Mayor Dixon is apparently challenging the numbers, this is a situation nobody’s happy about. Wondering what you can do to help out? Good:
1.    Spread the word. Let people know what Charm City living is like. We’ve written about lots of people who’ve told encouraging stories in many different media. Follow their various leads.
2.    Be the one who roams the streets at night. A city’s like a dance floor: if you want to feel comfortable rocking out there, then you have to get out there and make everyone else feel comfortable rocking. Infill construction and renovation are happening all over Dodge, as we’ve covered in our Development Spotlights, but making urban renewal really work will take regular human beings who want to live in a walkable part of town actually walking around the part of town where they already live.
3.    Sit, stay. Continue to live here. That is all.
4.    Get married, settle down, saddle up, start a life together. Baltimore’s a good place to be single, poor, and culturally engaged, as you well know if you’ve been keeping up with our City Living is Better posts, but you don’t stay twenty-two for long. Make a decision about who you want to team up with, because the 1:45 am scramble is no way to find a mate. Start (or continue) your grown-up life in Baltimore, and you’ll find that the edgy world of arty scenester bars blends well into a stimulating community of, you know, adults.
5.    Put down roots. Before it was short-hand for conformity and conspicuous consumption, the baby boom was an attempt by the WWII generation to frame the kind of world they wanted to live in. All the cynicism and rebellion in the world won’t relieve us of a comparable burden. We get to make the new rules. Let’s start making them. Baltimore’s been up and down and up and down before. Have kids, adopt kids, raise kids. Help decide what things will look like here tomorrow.
6.    Move here. Ha, ha––seriously. If you don’t already live in Baltimore, then it’s probably not an accident that you’re reading this, and that means you’ve considered calling Monument City home. Bust a move. This is somewhere it will be cool to say you lived before it was cool to live here. Things are happening. Just ask this guy.

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