My dad was from Baltimore, and my mom’s two younger brothers moved from Brooklyn to Baltimore and settled there, even though my dad wound up dragging my mom to Miami....so all my extended family was in Baltimore DC area, save for some loony 2nd cousins in Brooklyn!.....Funny, my dad hated Baltimore but still rooted passionately for their teams, and he left there only 3 years after the Orioles made their debut..... I’ve spent my whole adult life in Queens....still root for the Orioles, but luv the Mets too
I was born and lived on Manhattan's Lower East Side until my father bought us a 3-bedroom house in the South Richmond Hill area of Queens in Oct 1970. AS I grew older I more hung out in nearby Ozone Park. As of 2019, I've been back in Manhattan. He paid $19,000 for it. At one point in the decades that followed it was estimated at close to $400,000! After my parents had passed we sold it for around $240k. Needed lots of TLC by that time.