Recommendations to live?? Will be working at caves valley golf club (future event to be held there), but after spending limited time here already I can tell this might not be the best place for a 25 year old male.

Just looking for any advice and/or suggestions. Thanks and gig em!

Chase '09

Obviously still gotta live here but just looking for additional areas then Owings Mills...thx

Hmmm...I don't know a whole heck of a lot about Baltimore, but I'd look into Hampden/Homewood(Johns Hopkins main campus)/Charles Village that's along I-83 to make your commute somewhat bearable.

Baltimore is an awesome city with a lot if great neighborhoods for young people. The best neighborhoods for young adults are mount vernon, fells point, federal hill, and to a lesser extent, hampden and Charles village. But don't underestimate traffic. They built the city for horse and buggy so its crazy. I'd go with hampben but look into Mount Vernon as well.

Lived in bmore for 3 years now. Love it.

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Thanks Craig..cost of living comparable? Actually went up to Towson to look at a few places as well...

I'd definitely go with Fells Point or several other neighborhoods down around the harbor if you could bare the commute...there is always a good time to be had down there when I've come up from DC.

I couldn't stand that commute. I'd cut it in half and commute to the pubs on the weekends.

Towson is nice, a little expensive relative to some other areas in my experience.

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Mount Vernon has the reputation as the rich part of town, but there's so many young professionals and grad students here that there are tons of affordable places and cheap stuff to do. Ridiculous socio-economic diversity with super wealthy and the city jail 5 blocks away on the other side of the freeway. It's the gay neighborhood as well - not in your face though and don't know if you care either way.

Fells & fed hill are cooler parts of the city. More bars, restaurants and right by the water. But not as classy or historic as mt vernon, the parking and traffic is a nightmare, and their public events and festivals suck comparatively (and there are tons of them like free concerts in mt vernon park every first thursday during spring and summer with a few thousand people). But if you like lots of restaurants bars and pretty girls - fells is the place. Just a hunch, but probably more expensive than mt vernon.

Hampden is nice but, its much less "urban" meaning there are more small homes and yards and stuff and less apartments - has a cool strip though. Far fewer places to walk to. Less options means that you might end up paying more. There are ridiculous deals on purchasing a home subsidized through the city if you commit to living for a certain number of years and you put a certain amt of money in improvement - true for the whole city but not available really in the other neighborhoods.

Towson...meh. It's a suburb. You may end up moving there eventually, but live in the city. There are Towsons around every city in America. Baltimore is too fun for a young person to live in Towson.

Outside of cost of living for rent, Baltimore's not that bad for the east coast and its the affordable option compared to DC. Expect your insurance to go up though because your car will be broken into. It's a Baltimore right of passage.

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