On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 21:53:08 -0500, you wrote: >Rosalie.. we have different experiences due to living in vastly different >areas of the city and county >Towson is not Baltimore City it is quite a ways out of the city proper, >though one would >not know that.. People like you would never live in the neighborhood I lived >in >...so yes, we have a different view of the city and vastly different >experiences..
Baltimore is more than just the harbor and inner city. I was born in Baltimore, one of my kids was born in Baltimore (in the old Woman's Hospital) I worked in Baltimore at various time, and my mom and dad worked in Baltimore, before and after we moved to Towson. We moved to Towson in 1950 because my mom did not want me to go to a single sex HS as I would have done had we stayed living in Roland Park. My husband grew up in Rogers Forge which is partly over the county line. My children went to school there for a couple of years. All big cities and some small towns have suburbs and outlying districts. My grandfather lived about 500 yards outside the Philadelphia City line. Did that disqualify my mom from knowing about Philadelphia. I don't think so. > >Washington is a lovely city.. despite your comments..I have noticed many >Baltimoreans have a dim view of DC...and vice versa. That's quite true that Baltimore and Washington are rivals. That's normal - they are quite different cities. And a lot of people don't care for what is 'Inside the Beltway'. The people in Virginia have quite deep differences and disagreements between those in the capitol in Richmond as to funding the suburbs around D.C. (which should have stayed as part of the District anyway). Most people in Arlington, Alexandria etc think they don't get enough funding from Richmond for roads etc,and most people in the rest of VA think they get too much. >I would reccomend The District to anyone.. there is lots and lots to see.. >I hope everone, at some time in thier life, take the time to wander around >the >Vast museums of the Smithsonian.. it is proof that someone is spending our >tax dollars wisley... >I also reccomend the FDR memorial at night.. as well as many of the >memorials >at that end of the The Mall.. the play of light and dark is simply >delightful. >Fair winds to all The Smithsonian started as a bequest from an Englishman who had never been to the US. It does get Federal funding now. But again - there's more to the District than just the Smithsonian. (DC even has an aquarium - never quite understood why they made Baltimore the "National" Aquarium.) _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list Liveaboard@liveaboardnow.org To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to liveaboard-j...@liveaboardnow.org To unsubscribe send an email to liveaboard-le...@liveaboardnow.org The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/liveaboard@liveaboardnow.org The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
