“While Baltimore is a mess, downtown is not sad if you stay out of the bad areas. The food options are fun; but then I try to leave once it gets dark.”
The federal hill area, the inner harbor, fells point, canton, and joppa road in the north, and around Johns Hopkins Homewood campus, and Hopkins hospital, and Bolton Hill, are all pretty liveable.
Not anymore. There has been a rising wave of completely random violence against whites and Asians by roving gangs of black youths -- people getting their heads bashed in, women with baby carriages assaulted in Mount Vernon, Charles Village, Otterbien, Federal Hill -- all over the downtown. It is unlivable.