O M GGGGGGGGGGi live in mt vernon but i wanna buy a house within the year not in mt vernon. you will definitely find a good place under 1000/month.
― kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Friday, 20 July 2012 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
you will have a good reverse commute to the county too
http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/Glen-Burnie_MD
― am0n, Friday, 20 July 2012 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
i would also consider hampdeni would not consider glen burnie
― kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Friday, 20 July 2012 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
Glen Burnie, MarylandNickname(s): Chrome City
― am0n, Friday, 20 July 2012 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
Glen Burnie, capital of Merle-land.
― how's life, Friday, 20 July 2012 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
glemburny, merland
― kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Friday, 20 July 2012 22:45 (eleven years ago) link
moving from buffalo, al
― horseshoe, Friday, July 20, 2012 2:52 PM
just now realized this didn't mean 'buffalo, alabama'
― am0n, Friday, 20 July 2012 22:50 (eleven years ago) link
buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo
― kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Friday, 20 July 2012 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
haha. oh yeah buffalo, i do remember you mentioning that! i wasn't sure if you lived there now or was just from there.
i love mount vernon, used to work there. my fav place to live that i actually lived was butchers hill/upper fells point, which is prob pricier now, we kind of lucked into really low rent there. but yeah public trans is weak, not a great city to get around in w/o a car.
― Barack 2 Chainz Obama (some dude), Friday, 20 July 2012 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
we have a great water taxi btw
― kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Friday, 20 July 2012 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
Hampden's a good choice if you're looking for something a little more colorful. Mix of white blue collar and younger, hipper folks. Lots of neat shops, bars, restaurants all clustered together around "The Avenue". John Waters' part of town.
― circa1916, Friday, 20 July 2012 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
haha harbl i was trying so hard not to bump this thread all HARBL BE MY FRIEND I'M MOVING TO BALTIMORE. but, HARBLE BE MY FRIEND I'M MOVING TO BALTIMORE.
― horseshoe, Friday, 20 July 2012 23:17 (eleven years ago) link
i meant harbl, not harble of course.
mt vernon, hampden and charles village are all good affordable places to start with. i second the butchers hill/upper fells love but for car owners parking there seems to be insane
― am0n, Friday, 20 July 2012 23:19 (eleven years ago) link
i will have a car but i would like to try to be virtuous, especially because it's impossible to be virtuous in buffalo. however bad baltimore public transportation system is, buffalo's is worse.
― horseshoe, Friday, 20 July 2012 23:21 (eleven years ago) link
my friend told me about a place where actors live during the winter or something but that the landlord leases out as cheap, single-person living space that's right across from a courthouse or something?
anyway baltimore is p swell I visited a friend there last year or two years ago and we went to a science museum and they had this thing where you could speak into a big funnel and a person standing 10 feet away could hear you like you were standing right next to them p.s. it wasn't a telephone
― dayo, Saturday, 21 July 2012 00:12 (eleven years ago) link
lol dayo i went to the maryland science center a billion times as a kid and was obsessed with that thing
― Barack 2 Chainz Obama (some dude), Saturday, 21 July 2012 00:28 (eleven years ago) link
if you want more space, a slightly more suburban setting still close to downtown and some allright neighborhood bars and restaurants etc check out hamilton/ lauraville. big houses probably some cheap rents for like a floor of a divided house or something.
― dsb, Saturday, 21 July 2012 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
I miss Baltimore, loved Hampden! Had an awesome liquor store. It seemed like it had curators, not buyers. I think it was called Wine Source.
― *tera, Saturday, 21 July 2012 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
yes i love the wine source
― kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Saturday, 21 July 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
^^^this is a good place
I think Baltimore is DC's Williamsburg. Or maybe DC's Philly.
― quincie, Sunday, 22 July 2012 00:32 (eleven years ago) link
I like it very much, I should say, and would be happy to live there if I worked there. I do not like it so much that I am willing to endure a daily B'more to DC commute.
― quincie, Sunday, 22 July 2012 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
I am commuting here to Baltimore from Silver Spring (but not like Downtown Silver Spring--I am right next to the Intercounty Connector) and it has been reasonable thus far. I have partaken in very little Baltimore but it'll take a lil while before I am a) not so sad about leaving DC and b) not viewing my job as a place to escape as quickly as possible.
― Dr. (C-L), Sunday, 22 July 2012 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
The ICC has changed my B'more commuting colleagues' lives, 'tis true.
― quincie, Sunday, 22 July 2012 01:00 (eleven years ago) link
― quincie, Saturday, July 21, 2012 8:32 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
lol you take that back right this instant
― nakhchi little van (some dude), Sunday, 22 July 2012 02:08 (eleven years ago) link
let's say that dc is baltimore's jersey city.
― how's life, Sunday, 22 July 2012 02:13 (eleven years ago) link
baltimore is dc's vatican city
― nakhchi little van (some dude), Sunday, 22 July 2012 02:26 (eleven years ago) link
Have friends that live in Silver Springs for work but on Fridays drive to their home in York, PA. I love how close everything is up there. Nothing like TX.
― *tera, Sunday, 22 July 2012 14:04 (eleven years ago) link
^^^^agree, having also lived in TX.
― quincie, Monday, 23 July 2012 00:02 (eleven years ago) link
i disagree never having been to texas because my baltannap commute is 10 billion times too long
― kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Monday, 23 July 2012 01:59 (eleven years ago) link
balt/d.c. area has some of the worst traffic in the country (ESPECIALLY around silver spring) but i totally appreciate being in a region where there's so much stuff clustered together compared the more spread out landscapes elsewhere
― nakhchi little van (some dude), Monday, 23 July 2012 02:39 (eleven years ago) link
are the apartments for rent in mt. vernon mostly high-rise? that's the impression i'm getting hunting online, but i wonder if it will be different when i actually get to town?
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 13:06 (eleven years ago) link
there are some high rises but rowhouses split up into apartments are more common. depends what listings you're looking at.
― am0n, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
yeah practically everything in mount vernon is a converted rowhouse, including most of the businesses
― nakhchi little van (some dude), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 02:41 (eleven years ago) link
finally looking at apartments for real, and planning to come down on Sunday. mostly looking in mt vernon but i found a listing for a four-bedroom house for rent in hampden that was $1400 a month. that is crazy! it's beyond my budget but i'm going to check it out anyway because it seems like such a good deal.
― horseshoe, Monday, 30 July 2012 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
what would i even do with four bedrooms. i could have a lounge and a library and a separate office jesus.
― horseshoe, Monday, 30 July 2012 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
omg one of them could be a closet
― horseshoe, Monday, 30 July 2012 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
i am not really this frivolous irl; y'all should still hang out with me when i come to town
― horseshoe, Monday, 30 July 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
come hang out with me, play in my bubble room, we can have a sleepover w/a separate room each
― , Blogger (schlump), Monday, 30 July 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
haha. btw i am not really going to get a 4-bedroom house because i am just one person.
this is a long-shot but has anyone had any dealings with WLM Properties? i am trying to figure out if it is for real--they offered to hook me up with a furnished room as soon as i get into town and then an apartment when one becomes available, but they want me to make a deposit to reserve the room and i am not really comfortable doing that without seeing the room.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
sorry i am making this thread so boring :(
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
isn't it great that it's only $1400 though! i'm going to take another opportunity to say why would anyone live in nyc. i have never heard of wlm properties but i am skeptical. do you have a craigslist link?
― kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 00:30 (eleven years ago) link
they do have 3 facebook likes
― kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 00:31 (eleven years ago) link
i am skeptical, too. i think i will stick to my no money until i'm actually there policy.
and yes that hampen house rent was unbelievable! it was beautiful, too.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 13:28 (eleven years ago) link
― horseshoe, Monday, July 30, 2012 1:14 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark
ya we should exchange contact info! does your ilx webmail link go to an active address? (mine doesn't)
― some random MC rappin' mcdude (some dude), Friday, 3 August 2012 11:01 (eleven years ago) link
Yes! I just have to remember to check it!
― horseshoe, Friday, 3 August 2012 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
tried sending you webmail but i have no idea if it actually worked, if not my address is shipley.al at gmail
― some random MC rappin' mcdude (some dude), Saturday, 4 August 2012 12:04 (eleven years ago) link
heard vanity 6 on the radio today, <3 baltimore
― horseshoe, Friday, 17 August 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
: D
― how's life, Friday, 17 August 2012 22:36 (eleven years ago) link