BALTIMORE.
I’ve written about this on this site before. Great natural harbor, beautiful architecture, public transit system, located in one of the world’s most prosperous economic zones (the corridor from Boston to Washington DC), proximity to multiple high volume international airports….
I could go on and on AND ON about the many ways in which Baltimore is blessed. However, it is a poor crime ridden shithole. Houses and townhouses in the inner neighborhoods are dirt cheap. Why? It’s not their charming brickwork, that’s for sure.
It drives me mad. No one committing crimes there has any reason to be living in Baltimore.
I know this is old, but..
I traveled to America to be a nanny for a family that lived in Baltimore.
One day I decided to take baby for a walk to the mall, about an hours walk away.
We walked through what were obviously poor black neighborhoods.
I waved at the oldies on their porches, said a cheerful "Good Morning, isn't it a lovely day!" to the groups of young black guys hanging around on the corner, and told barely teenage mothers how beautiful their babies were.
Did not occur to me to be afraid!
Looking back, I guess they either heard my accent, or were just so gobsmacked at my audacity, a white chick with a paper-white baby walking cheerfully through their No-go Neighborhood, that they just acted like this was an everyday occurrence. I
did notice there were zero white people around, but didnt think that that actually
meant something!
I now realise
Why those hood rats were hanging around there, and had even noticed they were armed, but this was America! I thought everyone carried guns...
When the parents got home and I told them what we'd been up to that day, the Mother actually fainted!

She tries to never drive that way, and locks her doors when she
has to drive through that particular neighborhood.

Dumb Kiwi from Safe Kiwiland greeting Armed gangbangers like they were her little brothers!

