Upscale? I guess it coulda happened but The Corps gave me a bus tour from Baltimore thru DC to Quantico in 1961 and I don’t remember anything but krap. The most recurring scene was an unpainted house, TV sitting in the doorway, and all the folks sitting in a car in the yard watching it——mile after mile. I suppose now they sit in the cars to talk on the Obnamaphone and count up the EBT cards? No shootings at the time——there wasn’t anything worth hitting.
But I did ask the Captain if we were going to attack it? I think he said something like “they’ve already surrendered.”
It is not Baltimore — it is an upscale suburban county, though Columbia itself is ‘integrated’.
News flash: things have changed a lot since 1961. A lot. The average house in DC now, the kind my family lived in back in the day on working class wages, is now over $700,00, and upscale properties are in the millions and multi-millions.
Howard county is one of the top few wealthiest counties in the country.
$108,000 median income in howard county
Kolumbia started in 1967. It is all planned.
What you did was ride down infamous Rte US 1. Which is still mostly trailer trash but just a few miles from Columbia.