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For the record, except for their ridiculous stance on firearms (and a friend being mugged there, in his hotel room), I happen to think that Baltimore is one of the more wonderful cities on the East Coast.
Of course, my experience is limited to the Inner Harbor, and a walk back to my hotel/conference site in the badlands, including admonishments by hotel staff NOT to go outside of sight of the front doors after dark.
Philadelphia needs to do something like the harbor area. Open plazas, good shopping, decent police presence, couple nice family tourist attractions, open later than 6pm. I've been saying this for a long time, but don't ever expect to see it happen.
I have noticed recently that the Baltimore PD are not as effective at chasing the homeless beggars away from the tourists as they were say, about 10 years ago.
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