If you had a choice of Baltimore or Haiti....that would be fairly hard choice to pick from the two.
I will say this...there are protected compounds with five-star hotels in Haiti. You fly in....the bus carries you by armed guard to the hotel, and you can do well for an entire week. Beyond that...you’d have to be crazy to spend more than two hours on the ground there.
Same thing in Mexico, Central America and South America.
Several evenings ago I spoke with a young man who vacationed there with his parents two years ago and he echoed you same statement.......it's a hole